Carlisle Cullen is ruthless Don of the Cullen Crime Family, but his wife Esme doesn't want this life for their son Edward.  Running away and starting a new life and new identity, will they have a happy, safe life or will Carlisle find them?  E&B HEA

Isabella Marie Cullen the only child of Carlisle Cullen Don of the Cullen Crime family, born with an infinity symbol birthmark. Tragedy hits and Isabella and her mother are killed, or are they? How far will one brother go to take control of the family?

Meet Masen.

He is not just any thug growing up in a family of organized crime. He is a man who has changed the way families do business.

Masen is in line to be the next "Boss" for his well connected family, and in one night there is a massacre and all his rivals and their families are wiped out leaving no one left behind. The authorities have no clues as to who, why or how someone could pull off a mass murder of this scale. 

Meet Charlie.

A soldier turned businessman who will stop at nothing to give his little girl whatever her heart desires, and what she wants is something no mafia family has ever been able to stake a claim on...the city of Angels.  

Sometimes secrets aren’t meant to be hidden. Maybe it’s for the best that they are out in the open.

A chance encounter with a stranger on the ferry is the spark that sets off a chain of events. By the time Bella realizes what's happening, is it too late to change her mind? What happens when fate grabs you and won't let go? AU.

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I met Edward on a boat. A very large boat -- the morning ferry commute from Bremerton to Seattle.

Content with my life, I wasn't looking for anything...I was happy in my safe little rut. But that's the funny thing about Fate -- it often strikes when you least expect it. Mine came in the form of blazing toffee-colored eyes, a wicked smile, and a mane of unkempt golden and chestnut hair.

What I didn't realize at the time was that Edward is a paradox.

Edward is not the man of my dreams. It's sort of impossible when I can't have them anymore.

This isn't a love story. This is a seduction. A complete persuasion of mind, body, and soul. Of behavior and beliefs. And I wouldn't change it for the world...I think.

Emotionally distant investment banker Edward Cullen struggles with his attraction to the mysterious vampire who changed him. Angry and denying that they're mates, Edward must reconcile the pull he feels to her. When her past threatens the fragile equilibrium they've established, Edward must decide if he'll forgive her, or abandon her to the monster from her past. Dark, non-canon

New teacher and aspiring writer, Bella Swan, moves to Seattle. She finds fan-fiction-creation-inspiration in the enigmatic and surly playboy who lives in the upscale condo across from hers. As her newest on-line story develops, so does a correspondence with a mysterious reader/reviewer of that story. Is it a co-worker? Is it the hothead playboy? It's a case of art imitating life and life imitating art. A fan-fic story within a fan-fic story with all the canon usuals. Lemons, laughs and love.

“To say I was obsessed with Isabella Swan was an understatement. I dreamed of her, fantasized about her, would have gladly torn off my limbs to get the chance to kiss the hem of her apron.”

Eighteen-year-old Edward Cullen moves to London to attend culinary school, and get a taste of his long-time crush.  The mouth-watering, much older BBC star chef, Isabella Swan, is known for her string of romantic entanglements with younger men. Can Edward convince her to stop sampling and sink her teeth into him?

It is 1943 and WW II is devastating Europe. Edward Masen is a 23 years old American parachutist sent by the OSS on a secret mission, meant to help the partisans fighting the Nazis in Northern Italy. There he meets a girl concealing a terrible secret. They fall passionately in love and plan to marry as soon as Italy is liberated. However, while going back to the Allied lines and trying to reach Anzio, where the Anglo American forces are struggling to break through Germans’ opposition, Edward finds his nemesis, in the form of two Volturi warriors.

Edward becomes a newborn vampire, fierce, desperate and bloodthirsty. Will he succumb forever to his inner monster or will he be able to recover at least some of his lost humanity? Will he see his love again and resist the urge to kill her?

The Parachutist got second place in the Shimmer Awards 2011 as Outstanding Story

When thirteen year old Edward Cullen met sixteen year old Isabella Swan she became his "Older-Woman-Secret-Crush." Over the next ten years their lives drifted apart only to have Fate bring them back together again and again. Now at ages 26 and 23 they are reunited in Forks. Bella is preparing to marry the wrong man...in Edward's eyes. Bella is headed to the altar, and Edward is running out of time... Can he convince her that there is another choice? Maybe Fate will intervene just one more time.

Told through flashbacks from both BPOV and EPOV. Lemons later because it would just be sooooo inapropriate at their beginning! Humor, romance, angst and suspense...because I love it all!

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Taking place in 17th century Europe, Princess Isabella, only daughter of King Charles I of Spain, faces her fate as her arranged marriage to Prince Edward, future King of England, approaches.  The Prince is known for his indiscriminate cavorting with the ladies of his land, leading the Princess to fear that she will suffer the same fate as her mother and many other queens before and since, to be trapped in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful husband.  Will Princess Isabella ever find happiness while bound to the fate of her birth? AH/OC/Eventual Lemons

Warning: This will be an NC17 story for later chapters.