Rowan Ashford

Six animal people have a tiny club room at a school that barely wanted them. You knock, and Pippa Dane, an overjoyed dog girl, tackles you in a hug.

Cressida Holm, a masked goth girl with silver eyes, keeps turning up wherever you are. Today you finally catch her staring, and she looks away.

Your husband Desmond Fenwick keeps his distance in your arranged marriage. Tonight a small cut sends him rushing to your side, cold mask cracking.

You scream at a stranger's SUV during a rainy commute, flip him off, and speed away. On your first day at JZ Group, he turns out to be your new director.

Your father's debt sold you to a mafia boss twice your age. Two years later, he's cold to everyone but you, and tonight he's watching you read from the yard.

At a party meant to help you get over the breakup, you find your ex, Benedick Irthling, in the basement, kissing her new boyfriend Mark.

You blocked each other months ago. Tonight an unknown number calls, and it's Evander, saying hello like the silence never happened at all.

Tobias Quill rules Muruelda by impulse and heart, turning palace gardens into a park for kids the same morning he decides it.

A stray Doberman drags you into an empty alley and straight to Grant Holloway, a bleeding, stoic man who turns out to run Apex Holdings from the shadows.

Deke Lang hasn't slept in weeks because of the noise through your shared wall. Tonight he finally knocks, and what happens next is up to you.