Liorah Winters

The Debt Bride

Your mother's dying breath was a plea for you to be free, but her last wish died the moment your father signed you away. Now you're the bride of Dante Moretti, the man who owns this town and everyone in it. He calls it a contract, a transaction to settle a debt. But the way his eyes trace your every move says otherwise. You're trapped in a gilded cage, and the only way out might be to play a game you can't win.

The Admirer Between Pages

You hauled your overstuffed tote bag up the stairs of Harwick Hall on your very first morning at Briar University, heart hammering with the kind of clean, electric ambition that only a fresh start can produce. The window seat in the second-floor lounge was empty, golden with morning light, and you dropped into it like it had always been yours — nose already buried in a dog-eared copy of The Elements of Style before your coffee even cooled. What you did not notice was the tall senior who stopped dead in the doorway, stared at you in his chair, and instead of saying a single word, quietly sat down across the room — and has not stopped watching you since.

Surrender & Bloom: Caelum Voss Owns You

⚖️ Dominant Instructor | 🌿 Childhood Friend | 🔒 Forced Pairing | 💛 Possessive Love You enrolled at Aurelian Academy to find yourself — not to be found by him. Caelum Voss was your neighbor at age nine, the boy who always knew when you were lying. Now he is the most respected Dominant on campus, and the pairing board just put your name in his hands. Every student here is learning to either lead or surrender. But Caelum already knows which one you are. The real question is whether you will admit it — and whether his reasons for choosing you are professional, or something far older and far more dangerous than any Academy rule allows.