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Espresso in the Frosted Glass Rudra Malhotra-cold, untouchable CEO. Ayaan-soft, warm café owner. One lives in ice, the other carries sunshine. Rudra has never let anyone close. But Ayaan doesn't know fear-only kindness. Slowly, his gentle smiles, late-night texts, and quiet touches begin to melt the walls Rudra built around himself. A slow-burn BL romance where frost meets warmth, and love brews one cup at a time.

"I’m not gay," I choked out, my back pressed hard against the cold bathroom tile as his heavy, tattooed frame caged me in. "I just… I admire my stepbrother. That’s all." Damon leaned down, his lips brushing against my burning ear, his breath hot, wicked, and mocking. "Oh, yeah? Does 'admiration' usually involve you jerking off to his photos, Micah?" Before I could push him away, his fingers gripped my chin, forcing me to look into his dark, chaotic eyes. "From now on, you write about your filthy little stories about me instead. And if you want the inspiration… you’re going to have to earn it." *** The pastor’s house has three golden rules: No cursing. No dating. And absolutely no sinning. To the world, Micah is the perfect, obedient preacher's son. But behind his shy smile lies a mind full of filthy, unholy fantasies and a massive, forbidden craving for his stepbrother, Noah. Noah is the university’s golden-retriever hockey captain, entirely out of reach, and completely straight. Or so Micah thinks. Desperate to get closer to the brother he can never have, Micah takes a secret gig as the anonymous erotic writer for the campus journalism team, using the job as an excuse to steal glances and locker room photos of Noah. It was supposed to be the perfect crime. Until the hockey team's notorious bad boy, Damon, catches him red-handed. Damon is cocky, heavily tattooed, rich, and Noah's bitterest rival on the ice. Now, he holds Micah's entire life in his hands. The deal is simple: if Micah doesn't want his holy father or his stepbrother to find out his dirty secrets, he has to make Damon the star of his next spicy column. But Damon doesn't just want to be written about. He wants to give Micah the 'hands-on research' to write it. Trapped between a relentless rival who wants to break him, and a stepbrother whose hidden, possessive intensity is about to explode, Micah is playing a dangerous game. And on this ice, someone is bound to get wrecked. But what he doesn’t know is that Noah has been watching. And the possessive older stepbrother is done pretending he doesn’t want to claim what’s his. CONTENT WARNING!!! WARNING (18+): This story is a dark MM/BL sports romance intended for mature audiences. It contains explicit, unfiltered 18+ content, highly spicy scenes, religious guilt, stepbrother taboo themes, blackmail, intense possessiveness, and a toxic love triangle dynamic (two tops, one bottom). If you love high-heat, boundary-pushing drama, enter the locker room at your own risk. #MMRomance #DarkRomance #ForbiddenRomance #LoveTriangle #TwoTopsOneBottom #SpicyReads

"One shot," Knox said, gesturing toward the empty net. "You put a single puck in the net, and I'll cooperate." Nora Bennett doesn't have time for hockey, arrogant athletes, or Knox Sheridan. He's the campus's star forward, resident playboy, and the last person she'd choose to spend time with. Her only priorities are keeping her GPA spotless and sending every spare dollar home to save her mother's bakery from foreclosure. So when her work-study tutoring stipend gets cut to fund the athletic department, and Knox is the only job offer on the table, she had no choice but to take it. Knox on the other hand isn't planning to cooperate. He's already run off three tutors this semester, and Nora is supposed to be number four. But Nora isn't the type to be pushed out. She's dealt with worse than a cocky hockey star with a bad attitude, and she has every intention of getting paid. Then Knox blurts out a lie she never saw coming: "We're not just studying. We're also dating." Now Nora is stuck in a fake relationship with the campus's biggest trouble magnet. And the worst part? She's starting to think Knox might actually be playing for keeps.

“You want me to study, Tutor? Simple. Score a goal on me. If you miss, you leave and keep your mouth shut.” Roxy Brooks is the smartest student at Kingston Academy, a school for the ultra-rich. She isn’t there to make friends or find love. She is on a strict scholarship, working hard to save her family from heavy debt. Jaxon Montgomery is the school’s golden boy—the rich, wild captain of the hockey team who is about to ruin his own future. He is failing his classes, and his coach gives him a final warning: get a tutor, or get kicked off the team. Roxy needs the high-paying tutoring job, but Jaxon doesn’t want her help. To scare her off, he locks her on the cold, empty ice rink. He tells her she has to score a goal against him to make him study. She fails completely. But instead of letting her quit, Jaxon is excited by how she refuses to back down. So, he offers her a new, dangerous deal. Every time she fails to score a goal, she has to pretend to be his girlfriend to trick the school board and keep his strict family off his back. In return, he will let her tutor him so she can keep her paycheck. But as their fake public kisses start to feel very real, the game changes. They are supposed to be acting, but behind closed doors, things are getting fast, intense, and deeply personal. Roxy wanted to save her future—but she might just lose her heart to a rich jock who plays dirty on and off the ice.

WARNING 18+ A fake bond. A pink-haired Omega with idol dreams. An emotionally repressed Alpha who smells like espresso and regret. Welcome to Brewmates™, where the whipped cream is fake, but the scent sync is real. Jang Si-won only took the barista job to fund his skincare obsession and maybe flirt with a sugar daddy or two. He didn't expect to accidentally bond-spark with Kang Min-jae, a hoodie-wearing tech genius who talks in code and avoids eye contact like it's contagious. They're not in love. They're just pretending. Probably. But between fake cuddles for café marketing, pheromone mishaps, and one too many emotionally compromised lattes, this fake bond is starting to smell dangerously real.

Hockey was everything to Ian Kade until a scandal sent him crashing into the boards. Expelled, disgraced, and forced to transfer to his rival school, he's now wearing the wrong jersey, skating on enemy ice, and stuck on a team that wants nothing to do with him. Worst of all he's lining up next to Dominic Stryker, the rival he's spent years body-checking into the glass. Dominic takes it as an ultimate penalty and he's not about to let him forget his downfall. He takes cheap shots on and off the rink, pushing and taunting anything to remind Ian who really owns the ice. But the more they collide, the more Dominic starts to notice the cracks in the story, the fire in Ian's game and the way their fights are blurring the line between rivalry and something far more dangerous. Because hate is easy. Losing control? That's sudden death.

In the heart of Lumina City—where neon lights hum and dreams shimmer like stars—Aurora Vale, a quirky art student with a knack for sketching her dreams, stumbles into a quiet café called Starlight & Espresso. But this isn’t an ordinary coffee shop. The moment she steps in, time seems to blur. The coffee glows faintly gold. The air hums with magic. And the barista—Elias, with eyes like midnight and a smile that feels both new and familiar—seems to know her name before she says it. Aurora soon discovers that Starlight & Espresso is a crossroads between worlds—where lost wishes, forgotten memories, and flickers of destiny meet. And Elias? He’s not just a barista. He’s a guardian of starlight, trapped in a loop of time, serving coffee to those whose dreams are fading. When Aurora’s drawings begin to predict real events in the city, and shadows start hunting for the café’s light, she realizes her connection to Elias runs deeper than fate itself. Together, they must uncover the secret behind the café’s magic before time resets forever—taking their memories, love, and the city’s last bit of starlight with it.

Maya Lin is a genius physics major, the captain of the university’s cheer squad, and a girl who has her entire life planned out down to the second. She doesn't do distractions, and she definitely doesn't do hockey players. Carter Vance is Briarwood University’s star left-winger and its biggest headache. He’s one failed class away from losing his NHL draft eligibility, and his coach has just issued an ultimatum: pass Advanced Calculus, or sit out the championship season. When Maya is blackmailed by her advisor into tutoring the team's resident bad boy, she expects a lazy jock. Instead, she finds a stubborn, infuriatingly attractive rival who challenges her at every turn. On the ice, Carter is pure chaos. In the library, Maya is in absolute control. But when a fake-dating scheme is cooked up to keep the media off Carter's back, the math starts to get very complicated.

this is a work in progress novel that is about a child of the fairy queen, and his adventures in a fantasy world. let's see what shenanigans he gets up to.

[Irresistible MC + Farming & Entrepreneurship + Strong Female Lead + Cute Baby + Love Rivalry + Farming System + Male Competition] Deng Yuyuan wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a period novel about a "pampered group darling" — as the biological mother of the vicious female villain. The female villain has a biased grandmother, a mooching uncle and his family, a blindly filial father, and a spineless mother. She was a small-time thief as a child. As an adult, she committed every kind of evil — constantly framing the female lead — and ultimately met a miserable end. The female lead is the only daughter in another family, doted on by her older brothers. The villain targeted her out of pure jealousy. And now, Deng Yuyuan has become that villain's cowardly mother — and the villain herself is currently just an ugly, wrinkly-faced infant. The blindly filial father loves his wife, but gives all the good things to his own mother. He says to his starving wife and daughter: "Xiao Yuan, come drink some water. I specially heated it for you." Deng Yuyuan looks at her own bony frame and her tiny child — and decides to get a divorce. Goodbye, useless husband. She's going to raise this little cub with an abundance of money and love. No way she'll go astray this time. Lost one husband, gained a crowd of suitors. A beautiful sent-down youth coveted by many — she knows some self-defense and burns the midnight oil studying. With the reinstatement of the college entrance exams, she takes her child toward a much wider world. Riding the wave of the times, Deng Yuyuan works her way up to become a gaming tycoon and a cutting-edge scientist... Except — why are so many men fighting to be her cub's stepfather?