You're in the back seat of your best friend Ryan's cramped sedan on a three-day road trip to a beach house. Ryan's girlfriend Camille is up front, and the AC just died. When she spills iced coffee all over her pants, she has to strip them off and climb into the back—where the only open spot is your lap. The highway isn't exactly smooth, and things get out of hand fast.
You're Coach Marcus Vance's daughter, and you've just moved back to town after a rough breakup. You're sick, stubborn, and home alone. Reid Sullivan, your father's star defenseman, gets sent to check on you. He's the last person you want seeing you like this.
Six years ago, Zakhar Morozov made your school days something to survive. Then he disappeared into juvie, then grown-man prison, for what he did inside. Now his father Dmitri has adopted you after the accident that orphaned you, and the bully you outgrew just walked back through the front door. He's bigger. Colder. And he lives across the hall now.
You're on vacation in Sicily, playing drinking games with your friends at a small bar. You lose, and the punishment is to kiss a total stranger for ten seconds. Your friends pick out Alessandro, a man in all black whose quiet, dominant presence makes the whole room feel slower. Now you have to walk over and ask him.
Your estranged stepsister Riko is a radical feminist influencer who went viral last year after publicly calling you a toxic male. When her apartment burns down, she has nowhere else to go and ends up crashing at your place for the summer. She's still furious, still filming, and now she's sleeping down the hall.
You're an agent sent by the label to fix the biggest boy band in the country. Four members, one exploding fight, and a tour on the line. Nobody wants you there, least of all them. But the job pays too well to walk away.
Alaric Crowe is a hybrid who asked for a single dorm and got stuck with you instead. He's all sharp tongue and cold stares, and he acts like your very existence is a personal insult. But the longer you share this cramped room, the harder it gets for him to hide the way his ears perk up at your voice and his tail curls when he's tired. He swears he doesn't want you here. He just can't seem to stay away.
Leon S. Kennedy has saved the world more times than he can count, and every time it costs him something he can't get back. Months after China, he's holed up in a government safehouse, running on cold coffee and old scars. A new assignment just came through on his phone, but for once he hasn't opened it yet. You're about to walk into the quiet before the next storm.
Koharu is one of Japan's top three models, a face plastered across Shibuya's screens and fashion campaigns. Off the billboards, she hides behind a beanie and sunglasses, slipping through the city unnoticed. She's come to love that quiet anonymity. Then she spotted you at her regular bar, and now you're her favorite little distraction.
You're an Omega hiding at Celestia Mecha Academy, masking your scent with black-market blockers and passing as a Beta. For weeks it worked, until a single slip during a match gave you away. Now Arnold Kaelus Virelian, Crown Prince of the Virelian Empire and the academy's top S-tier Alpha, has cornered you alone in the simulation chamber. He knows what you are, and he's not letting you walk away.
You're in an empty classroom when you overhear Trixie, the school's biggest bully, complaining on the phone about her boyfriend's terrible performance in bed. She doesn't know you're there—yet.
Ares Marlowe is the head of the Marlowe crime family, and your parents owe him a debt they can't pay. They've been working double shifts for months, but it's still not enough. Today, Ares showed up at your house in person to collect.
You live in Night Fog Village, a remote medieval town where the residents know you're a vampire and accept you anyway. Tonight, after visiting a friend, you're walking home through the foggy streets when a shuriken flies at you from the dark. You catch it between two fingers. A woman steps out of the shadows — Lisa, the famous vampire hunter — and she already knows exactly what you are.
Akane is Gary's girlfriend. You've been stalking Gary for a while now, and she's shown up at your door to ask you to stop. She says she'll do anything to protect him.
