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Mystery / ThrillerThe Girl Who Vanished After Prom
One year ago, Avery Delaney walked out of prom wearing their dead mother's blue dress and vanished. No goodbye. No body. No answers. The town decided Avery had run away. Some decided her prom date, Ezra Kane, had killed her. But Wren Delaney never believed either story. Then, on the anniversary of Avery's disappearance, a postcard arrives from Baltimore. There are no words on it. Only a tiny drawing of a wren wearing a crooked crown, tilted left. A drawing only Avery could have made. Suddenly Wren knows one thing for certain. Her sister is alive. Finding her means reopening everything Linden Ridge buried, including their mother's suspicious death, a corrupt investigation, a powerful family's secrets, and the forty missing minutes Ezra Kane has refused to explain for an entire year. Ezra may be the boy everyone thinks destroyed Wren's family. He may also be the only person who tried to save it. And the closer Wren gets to the truth, the clearer one terrifying fact becomes. Avery did not simply vanish after prom. Someone made sure she had to.
New story 路 0 savedYoung Adult RomanceThe Summer Before Everything Changed
Tessa Quinlan has spent four years believing one reckless text killed her brother. Now the Blue Heron Inn is being sold, the boy whose family took the blame has returned to Sandpiper Key, and Luke鈥檚 old phone has surfaced with a summer list he never finished. Eli Barrow did not come back for Tessa. He came back for the evidence his father was blamed for losing. But the deeper they dig into the night Luke died, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because someone else was on that boat. Someone Tessa trusts. And the powerful family preparing to buy her home may have spent years making sure nobody ever discovers what really happened. Between a crumbling family inn, an unfinished summer list, a love triangle built on buried guilt, and a secret capable of destroying two families, Tessa must decide whether uncovering the truth is worth losing everything she thought her future would be. Because sometimes growing up means discovering that the life you planned was never really yours. And sometimes the only way forward is to stop living for the person who never got the chance.
New story 路 0 savedRomanceWe Were Never Just Friends
Nora Vale has spent years believing there is one rule that can keep the most important person in her life from ever becoming another person she loses. Never date your best friend. Cal Hayes agreed to that rule when they were children. He also broke it in his heart almost immediately. For years, Nora and Cal remain inseparable, hiding behind friendship, inside jokes, birthday floor plans, rooftop debriefs, and a Pact neither of them is brave enough to question. Nora believes Cal is the one person who has never left her. What she does not know is that he has also been keeping the secret that could destroy them. Letters from the mother Nora believes abandoned her. A mother who never stopped writing. A father who made choices Nora was never allowed to know about. And Cal, caught between love and loyalty, convinced that protecting Nora means deciding which truths she can survive. When the secrets finally come apart, friendship is no longer enough to save them. College separates what childhood kept tangled. New relationships begin. Trust fractures. Family lies surface. Ambition turns dangerous. And just when Nora and Cal finally learn that loving someone does not give you the right to control their choices, injury threatens the future Cal has spent his entire life building. They have loved each other for years. But loving each other was never their hardest problem. The hardest part is learning how to stay without holding too tightly, tell the truth before fear edits it, and choose each other without demanding a guarantee that neither of them will ever leave. Because the rule was always a lie. They were never just friends.
New story 路 0 savedMystery / CrimeThe Case My Father Never Solved
Thirty-one years ago, five people vanished from the quiet town of Ashenmoor鈥攊ncluding nine-year-old Ivy Merrit. Her father, Detective Chief Inspector Gethin Merrit, spent the rest of his life trying to solve the case. He died with nineteen boxes of evidence still stacked in his garage and a reputation built on never giving up. Now his surviving daughter, cold-case detective Calla Merrit, has only eleven months before the fen where the victims may be buried disappears beneath a new reservoir. She expects to finish the investigation that destroyed her family. Instead, she discovers something no one was ever supposed to notice. There are two versions of the case file. Statements are missing. Search maps have been altered. Evidence points in directions it never should have. And buried among her father鈥檚 papers is proof that he may have known exactly who the killer was decades ago. The deeper Calla digs, the more terrifying the question becomes鈥攏ot who took the victims, but why her father spent thirty-one years making sure the case could never be solved. Because only four people were taken. And the truth about the fifth victim begins inside Calla鈥檚 own family. To give four families the answers they have waited decades for, Calla may have to destroy her father鈥檚 legacy, expose the people she loves, and sacrifice the career she built trying to become everything she believed he was.
New story 路 0 savedRoyal / Aristocratic RomanceTHE CROWN WAS NEVER HIS
Six weeks before a royal coronation, junior Verifier Ines Sault discovers something impossible: the Crown Register鈥攖he record that legally decides what is true鈥攈as been altered. The man preparing to become King may not be the rightful heir. Buried beneath forged ink and a seventeen-year-old cover-up is the existence of an elder son whose place in history was erased with a single stroke of a pen. But restoring the truth could destroy a royal family, expose a murder, shake the kingdom鈥檚 stability鈥攁nd place the crown on the head of Aurel Sancery, a man who never knew it should have been his. As Ines follows the paper trail, she grows dangerously close to Aurel. And the nearer they come to proving who he really is, the more they uncover a crueler truth: if the Crown becomes his, the law may make it impossible for them to ever belong to each other. In a kingdom where a written line can create a King鈥攐r erase one鈥攕ome truths cost more than a crown.
New story 路 0 savedRomanceThe CEO Who Never Sleeps Alone
Every night, a different woman enters Adrian Vale's penthouse. By morning, she's gone. No woman stays twice. No woman talks. And the billionaire CEO has never cared what the world thinks happens behind his locked doors. Until Maya Bennett becomes the exception. One late night. One forbidden encounter. One glimpse of the man beneath Adrian Vale's ruthless reputation鈥攁nd suddenly Maya knows something she was never meant to know. She expects him to fire her. Instead, he offers her a contract worth more money than she has ever seen. Her only job? Spend every night with him. No questions. No feelings. And whatever happens after the bedroom door closes stays there. Maya knows she should walk away. She doesn't. But the deeper she enters Adrian's private world, the stranger his rules become鈥攁nd the more dangerous his secrets feel. Then one night, with Maya beside him, Adrian whispers a woman's name. Evelyn. Maya has never heard of her. Apparently, neither has the rest of the world. Because according to every record Maya can find... Evelyn never existed.
New story 路 0 savedMystery & ThrillerThe Man They Buried
Mira Voss loved her husband. Not perfectly. Not blindly. But truly. Elias made her coffee too strong, stole the blankets, remembered every small thing she forgot, and promised they would grow old arguing about the same harmless habits. Then Elias dies unexpectedly. His body is identified. His family mourns him. On Tuesday, Mira watches the man she expected to spend her life with lowered into the ground. On Friday night, her phone rings. ELIAS. She answers. At first there is only breathing. Then the dead man says her name. Mira tells herself grief can make the mind cruel. But the calls return - never on schedule, never often enough to become normal. The voice remembers private jokes, unfinished conversations, the side of the bed she sleeps on, and secrets nobody else should know. Then one call tells her not to go home. Hours later, someone breaks into the house. As Mira investigates, the husband she thought she knew begins splitting into two men: Elias, the man who loved her, and Elias, the man with a second phone, hidden transfers, a locked storage unit, an unknown woman, and a file on someone who had supposedly been dead for years. Elias is not alive. But before he died, he prepared for death. And someone is still following his instructions. The most dangerous question is no longer who is pretending to be Elias. It is which calls Elias planned - and which ones came from someone else.
New story 路 0 savedRomanceToo Late to Love You
For the first year of their marriage, Amelia Hart Vale believed she had found a home in Adrian Vale. He was gentle, protective, ambitious, and certain that providing for her was the same as loving her. But during their second year, work consumed him. He missed dinners, anniversaries, hospital visits, promises, and the small conversations that once made Amelia feel chosen. Adrian never cheated. He never struck her. He never stopped loving her. He simply stopped being present. Amelia fought for their marriage until waiting became more painful than being alone. By the time Adrian finally understood what his absence had done, she had already begun building a life that no longer depended on him coming home. When divorce is spoken aloud, lawyers enter their marriage and separation terms are placed before them. But leaving is not the only door Amelia wants to know how to open. As Adrian fights to rebuild what he neglected, buried Vale family secrets, forged documents, corporate manipulation, and generations of control turn their private pain into a public weapon. Now Amelia and Adrian must decide whether their marriage can become something neither of them has known before. A home where love is present, freedom is protected, and staying is a choice rather than a sentence.
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Gothic MysteryBlue Hour at Verity House
An art restorer arrives at Verity House to repair a portrait that ages whenever someone in the family lies.
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