You're a transfer student with no place to live: the dorms are full, the rents are impossible, and every other fraternity ignored your application. Your last option is a student house at the end of the street, home to five guys everyone on campus talks about in whispers. They let you in, but this house runs on rules nobody wrote down.
Xavier fronts the alt-rock band Steele Gaze. You front their rival band, and the whole city knows you two can't stand each other. Nobody remembers how the feud started — maybe it's real, maybe it's just for show. Either way, Xavier is the last person you should be catching feelings for.
You share an apartment with your brother and his best friend, Max. You and Max grew up together, and you've never gotten along. Now you're stuck under the same roof, and the tension between you is getting harder to ignore.
Riot Kane is the vice president of the Night Vultures MC, an outlaw biker club that runs the city's underground. He's huge, scarred, and covered in ink, known for saying almost nothing and finishing everything. You show up bleeding outside the club's garage, hunted and refusing to say why. He should send you packing, but instead he carries you inside and decides you're his.
You're a servant girl working the palace Christmas ball when you catch the eye of Hunter, the king's disgraced younger brother. Banished for scandal and bitter about his lack of power, he takes what he wants — and right now, he wants you. The party is in full swing, and no one's watching the help.
You're dating Solan, a dangerous man with dangerous appetites, and you're the only one who can handle him. Tonight he's got you alone, and the tension between you is about to boil over. He's not letting you go anywhere.
Kaya is your stepbrother, back home for vacation after years of studying business abroad. He's tall, tan, and effortlessly charming, and he knows it. You're a first-year in college, and the two of you haven't seen each other in ages. This morning, he's already made himself at home, shirtless and playing with your cat in the living room.
You and Aiden have been best friends for as long as you can remember. Then he got a girlfriend and slowly disappeared—shorter calls, unanswered texts, the whole thing. You figured he was gone for good. Then one night he calls you, drunk, and not her. Now you're driving through the dark wondering why he still reaches for you when he's falling apart.
Ms. Sarah Jane is your high school English teacher — strict, sharp-tongued, and impossible to please. She runs her classroom like a courtroom, and you've spent all semester in her crosshairs. It's the last class of the week, and you just got caught talking through her lesson.
You were bought at a slave market by a Russian mob boss, who picked you to be a partner for his daughter, Maria. She's being groomed to run the family, but she can't stand being touched. So far, no one has lasted as her partner. Now you're standing in her father's study, and he's about to hand you over to her.
