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Maya Bennet came to college with one goal: survive. Keep her scholarship. Work enough hours to pay her bills. Graduate. Don’t make mistakes. Especially not the kind that come with a charming smile and a football jersey. The last thing Maya needs is Cole Ryder. The star quarterback has a reputation for breaking hearts, avoiding commitment, and never taking anything too seriously. He’s exactly the kind of guy Maya has spent years avoiding. But somewhere between late-night study sessions, stolen moments, and Cole showing up whenever her world starts falling apart, he becomes impossible to ignore. For Cole, it starts as curiosity. Then concern. Then something much more dangerous. Before he realizes what’s happening, the girl who never believed she’d be chosen becomes the center of his entire world. But falling in love doesn’t magically fix real life. Maya is still carrying the weight of family problems, financial stress, and years of believing she’s only worth what she can accomplish. As old wounds reopen and painful family secrets come to light, she’s forced to decide whether she can finally stop carrying everything alone. Because Cole isn’t the only one falling. The real question is whether Maya can believe she deserves the kind of love that’s willing to stay. Filled with laugh-out-loud banter, found family, emotional healing, college chaos, and a swoon-worthy quarterback who falls first and falls hard, The Rogue Next Door is a heartwarming slow-burn romance about learning that sometimes the strongest thing you can do is let someone love you.

You know those days when you're absolutely certain you hate someone's guts? Every little thing about them drives you crazy the way they scrunch their nose at your cooking, the critical tone when they point out dust on a shelf, the cold indifference in their eyes when they walk past you like you're invisible. That's how I feel about him. Julian Blackwood. My boss. The billionaire who treats me like I'm beneath his notice unless I'm doing something wrong. And then I found out someone wanted him dead. I should have let it happen. I should have kept my mouth shut and watched the empire crumble around the man who made my life miserable. But here's the thing about hate it's dangerously close to something else. Something I refuse to admit even to myself. When I stumbled onto that security footage, when I heard the guard's plan to take everything from Julian and bury him six feet under, I had a choice to make. Walk away and let karma do its work, or warn the man who couldn't stand the sight of me. I made the choice I never expected. And now I'm trapped in his penthouse, under his protection, forced to spend every waking moment with the man who makes my blood boil and my heart race in equal measure. I didn't save him because I wanted something. But now he's looking at me differently, and I'm starting to wonder if the real danger wasn't the guard with the gun but the billionaire with the piercing eyes who's decided I'm worth keeping.

On what should have been the happiest day of her life, Cleopatra Sander watched her perfect wedding collapse in front of hundreds of guests. Just as she was about to say, "I do," the church doors swung open, and billionaire tech mogul Desmond Walton walked down the aisle with enough confidence to silence the entire room. Before anyone could stop him, he exposed her groom as a fraud, a man who had stolen millions from Walton Global and spent years living a double life with another woman. Humiliated, betrayed, and left drowning in debt after her family's savings vanished with the wedding, Cleopatra swore she would never forgive the arrogant billionaire who destroyed everything she had. Then Desmond offered her a job. Working as his financial manager was supposed to be temporary. Strictly professional. Just long enough to rebuild her life. But behind Desmond's icy reputation was a man carrying secrets deeper than the headlines ever revealed, and behind Cleopatra's gentle smile was a fearless woman who refused to be intimidated by his wealth or power. Their constant battles ignite an attraction neither of them can control. As dangerous rivals target Desmond's empire, Cleopatra becomes the unexpected weakness his enemies are desperate to exploit. At the same time, shocking secrets surrounding her late father's past begin to surface, secrets that reveal her family has been connected to Desmond's for years in ways neither of them could have imagined. But in a world where betrayal wears an expensive suit and love comes with a devastating price, can two broken hearts survive the truth or will the same man who ruined her wedding become the one who shatters her forever?