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Young Adult Mystery / ThrillerOur School Has One Secret Rule
At Wrenhollow, there is one rule every student learns quickly: when the bell rings thirteen times, stay inside and pretend you heard nothing. Maren Cole did not come to the isolated boarding school to obey. Two years earlier, her sister Josie left Wrenhollow terrified, silent, and unable to explain what happened the night she nearly drowned. Now Maren has earned a place at the same school, determined to uncover the truth. But Wrenhollow protects its secrets carefully. Black feathers appear as warnings. Students disappear after midnight. A hidden society called the Wrens controls reputations, scholarships, families, and futures through a mysterious Book of Names. And Rhys Harrow, the powerful boy who keeps appearing whenever the tide turns dangerous, seems to know far more about Josie's past than he will admit. The deeper Maren investigates, the harder it becomes to tell who is protecting her and who is preparing her for the same fate as her sister. Because at Wrenhollow, secrets are not simply kept. They are enforced. And when Maren finally learns why Rhys was standing on the sandbar the night Josie almost died, the truth will change everything she thought she knew about him, the school, and the rule nobody has dared to break.
New story · 0 savedYoung Adult RomanceMy Tutor Is My Childhood Enemy
Seven years ago, June Marlowe froze on live television. Theo Ashby laughed. At least, that is what June remembers. The humiliating clip turned her worst moment into a town joke, destroyed the friendship she once had with Theo, and made mathematics something she could barely face without remembering that stage. Now seventeen, June has built a new life around art. She has even earned a conditional place at the Calloway Institute of Art and Design in New York. There is just one problem. She needs a B or better in AP Calculus to keep it. And she is failing. Then her mother announces that she has hired the best student tutor in Port Calder. Theo Ashby. The boy June has hated for seven years. Their tutoring sessions begin with insults, rules written on graph paper, and a contract designed to keep everything painfully simple. No talking about Brain Bowl. No touching her sketchbook. Sessions are strictly math. And absolutely no feelings. But the more time June spends across the kitchen table from Theo, the harder it becomes to fit him into the villain she remembers. He notices when she is about to panic. He teaches her mathematics through animation instead of making her feel stupid. He protects her when no one is supposed to notice. And every honest answer between them creates another crack in the story June has believed since she was ten. Because Theo has secrets. He volunteered to become her tutor. He has spent years carrying the truth about what really happened on that television stage. And the anonymous reader who has faithfully supported June's secret webcomic for three years may be much closer to her than she ever imagined. As old footage resurfaces, buried family guilt comes to light, and someone begins manipulating their past for personal gain, June must decide whether she is brave enough to confront the moment that changed her life. Not only to save her future. But to discover whether the boy she spent seven years hating was ever really her enemy at all.
New story · 0 savedMystery / 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 · 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’s 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 · 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 · 0 savedYoung Adult RomanceThe Boy I Was Never Supposed to Notice
Hazel Adeyemi has spent most of her life knowing exactly how to survive around the Ashfords. See nothing. Hear nothing. And never, ever notice the boy. Theo Ashford is everything Hazel has been taught to avoid. He is rich, reckless, infamous, and suspected of pushing his own mother from the balcony of Ashford House. Hazel knows the story everyone at Ashgrove Academy believes. She also knows it is not the whole truth. Nine months ago, hidden inside the servants’ staircase, Hazel witnessed the moment before Celeste Ashford fell. She saw a man’s hand gripping Celeste’s arm. And on that hand was the Ashford signet ring. Now Theo has returned for senior year, and Hazel has been chosen as the peer mentor responsible for keeping him out of trouble. The closer she gets to the boy everyone calls guilty, the harder it becomes to believe he is the monster they say he is. But Theo is searching for the truth too. And Hazel is hiding the one thing that could change everything. Because in the Ashford family, secrets do not stay buried without a price. And falling for the boy she was never supposed to notice may cost Hazel everything she has spent her whole life trying to protect.
New story · 0 savedBillionaire RomanceONE NIGHT WITH MY BILLIONAIRE ENEMY
Maya Stone and Evan Hale have spent years trying to destroy each other. She is the brilliant CEO of StoneBridge. He is the ruthless billionaire behind Hale Capital. Every deal is a battlefield, every meeting another chance to win, and neither of them has ever considered surrender. Until one reckless night changes everything. By morning, the attraction they refused to acknowledge has become something far more dangerous—because confidential information from both of their companies has been leaked. Maya believes Evan used their night together to steal from her. Evan believes she did exactly the same. They return to war determined to expose each other, only to discover a disturbing truth: the sabotage began long before they ever shared a bed. Someone has been watching them. Manipulating their companies. Feeding their rivalry. And profiting every time Maya and Evan tear each other apart. Forced into a secret alliance, two enemies who trust almost no one must begin trusting each other. But late-night investigations become personal conversations. Arguments become jealousy. Protection becomes instinct. And the night they both swore was a mistake begins to feel like the first moment they ever truly saw each other. Then they uncover something worse. Some of the betrayals that made them enemies in the first place may never have been accidents. Someone has been building their war for years. Now Maya and Evan must decide what matters more: winning the battle that made them enemies… or protecting the person who became impossible to lose. Because this time, destroying her billionaire enemy might mean destroying the man she loves.
New story · 0 savedMystery / CrimeThe Case My Father Never Solved
Thirty-one years ago, five people vanished from the quiet town of Ashenmoor—including 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’s 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—not 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’s own family. To give four families the answers they have waited decades for, Calla may have to destroy her father’s legacy, expose the people she loves, and sacrifice the career she built trying to become everything she believed he was.
New story · 0 savedFantasy RomanceThe Queen Without a Kingdom
In Orsanne, power belongs only to those who lawfully own the ground—and every use of magic destroys part of it forever. Eleven days after her coronation, Queen Ilva Adarre is stripped of nine million spans by a perfectly legal deed and exiled to a wasteland where she is powerless. But her father’s grave still belongs to her. With only a few feet of earth and the reluctant protection of Kell Sarrowe, a border lord ordered to let her die, Ilva begins uncovering why her father willingly gave away the kingdom. The truth could return her crown—or reveal that Orsanne was never meant to survive another queen.
New story · 0 savedFantasy Romance / RomantasyThe King Who Fell From Heaven
When a naked stranger falls from the sky, Idra Vell plans to sell him before anyone discovers what he is. Then he tells her his name. Oriel—the vanished King of Heaven. He knows the secrets of the world above, but almost nothing about surviving below. Idra knows exactly how cruel heaven can be: it took her sister and never gave her back. Their bargain should be simple. Idra will return the fallen king to the Stair. In exchange, Oriel will bring her sister home. But the closer they get to heaven, the uglier its miracles become. Every blessing has a price. Every year of immortality belonged to someone first. And the kingdom Oriel once ruled may have survived for centuries by consuming the lives of the people who worshipped it. Now heaven wants its king back. Idra wants her sister. And Oriel must decide whether to reclaim the throne he lost—or help the woman he loves bring heaven down.
New story · 0 savedRoyal Romance | Contemporary Romance THE PRINCE'S LAST PROMISE
Amara Lennox was hired to restore an old royal residence, not become part of the royal family. Prince Soren Avelmont was never supposed to inherit the crown. As the second son, he believed he had been given the one thing his older brother never could have—a chance to build a life that belonged to him. Their love begins quietly. In unfinished rooms. Over terrible coffee. Through protected Wednesdays, private jokes, missed dinners, ordinary arguments, and the small routines neither of them realizes will one day become priceless. Soren chooses Amara long before the country ever asks him to choose anything else. They fall in love. They marry. They build a home. And for a while, they are allowed to believe that love has given them something permanent. Then tragedy changes the line of succession. The second prince becomes the future king, and the life they carefully built is pulled beneath the weight of a crown Soren never wanted. Still, they choose each other. Again and again. Until the day duty asks Soren for something love cannot protect. He once promised Amara he would always come home. It becomes the only promise he is afraid he cannot keep. Because sometimes love does not save someone from dying. Sometimes it simply makes the life they had worth grieving. The Prince’s Last Promise is a slow-burn royal romance about ordinary love inside an extraordinary life, the devastating cost of duty, and what remains when the person who made somewhere feel like home is no longer there.
New story · 0 savedFantasy Romance / RomantasyMarried to the Cursed King
Seren Aldworth never expected to become queen—especially not to a king whose love leaves people frozen in its wake. King Aurek Mourne has spent twelve years denying himself affection because every genuine feeling feeds the creature trapped inside him, and someone else always pays the price. But Seren was raised to bring warmth wherever she goes, and the more she refuses to fear him, the harder it becomes for Aurek to stay empty. Their marriage begins as duty. Then comes trust. Touch. A kiss. Love. And with every step closer, another road, village, or life turns white. When Seren discovers that the “curse” destroying Aurek was never truly a curse at all, she must decide whether freeing the man she loves is worth unleashing the thing his coldness has been keeping trapped. Because sometimes love is not the cure. Sometimes it is the most dangerous thing in the kingdom.
New story · 0 savedFantasy Romance / RomantasyThe Prince Who Stole My Magic
A prince stole her magic to save his life. The law said she had agreed. Elira Wren knows she never did. Left hollow and slowly losing her memories, she enters the royal court determined to reclaim the ember Crown Prince Corin Ashvane knowingly took from her. But the deeper they investigate, the uglier the truth becomes: her forged consent is only one piece of a centuries-old system built to keep the crown alive by turning sacrifice into law. Corin may be guilty of stealing from her, but someone else made sure her name was waiting for him long before they ever met. Now Elira must decide what justice looks like when the man she should hate becomes the one standing beside her against the kingdom that taught him her life was an acceptable price. And if they destroy the system that bound them together, neither of them knows what will survive.
New story · 0 savedPolitical ThrillerTHE AI PRESIDENT CHOSE ME
In 2061 Nigeria, twenty-seven-year-old mathematics teacher Ndidi Obiora is chosen by Baba, the machine executive that has governed the country for eleven years, to become the twelfth Consent Citizen. Her job sounds simple: hear the government’s deadliest decisions, demand the working, understand the cost, and sign. But every correct decision leaves bodies behind. As Ndidi uncovers why Baba specifically chose her, she becomes trapped between a machine that never lies, a former president fighting to return power to human hands, and Sotonye Briggs—the Voice assigned to explain each deadly act, whose own carefully arranged truths may have shaped every signature before hers. Thirty-one acts are waiting. The final one could determine whether machine government survives at all.
New story · 0 savedMarriage of Convenience | Revenge RomanceHE MARRIED ME FOR REVENGE
Cassian Rowe did not marry Elara Voss because he loved her. He married her because of her name. Years ago, the Voss family destroyed everything his father built, and Cassian spent years becoming powerful enough to return the favor. When Elara’s family empire begins to collapse, he offers them salvation on one condition: Elara becomes his wife. To her, it is a marriage of necessity. To him, it is revenge. Cassian plans to take her family’s company, strip away their power, and make the Voss name pay for what happened to his father. But Elara is nothing like the woman he expected to punish. She is intelligent. Proud. Strong enough to challenge him. And unwilling to defend even her own father without knowing the truth. Then the past begins to unravel. The betrayal Cassian built his hatred around may not have happened the way he believed. And somewhere between fighting his wife, protecting her, and discovering the truth beside her, revenge stops feeling like victory. By the time Cassian realizes he no longer wants to destroy Elara’s life, she has already learned the truth about why he married her. And this time, she is the one preparing to walk away. He married her because he hated her name. Now he may lose the woman he never meant to love.
New story · 0 savedBillionaire / CEO Romance THE BRIDE HIS FAMILY REJECTED
Kellan Viremont chose Sienna Reed to be his wife. His family never forgave him for it. To the powerful Viremont dynasty, Sienna is everything their future heir’s wife should not be—wrong name, wrong connections, wrong background. They expect her to disappear quietly once Kellan realizes his mistake. But Sienna refuses to beg for a place at their table. And when humiliation turns into sabotage, family pressure threatens her career, and Kellan’s silence begins hurting almost as much as their cruelty, their marriage is forced to become something neither of them expected. Because choosing Sienna once was easy. Standing beside her when it could cost Kellan his company, his inheritance, and his place in the family will be much harder. And the Viremonts are about to discover just how far a man will go when they force him to choose between belonging to them and protecting the woman he loves.
New story · 0 savedBillionaire / CEO RomanceTHE BILLIONAIRE’S UNWANTED MARRIAGE
She becomes the wife of a man who never chose her. The marriage happens because of family/business circumstances—not because Adrian Cross went looking for a bride. So naturally, she enters the marriage believing: He didn’t choose me. He probably doesn’t even want me. And Adrian doesn’t help matters because he is quiet, private, controlled and difficult to read. He doesn’t give dramatic speeches. He doesn’t constantly say how beautiful she is. He doesn’t chase her around demanding affection. So at first, she interprets his calmness as indifference. But then... She starts noticing things. He remembers she hates eating breakfast too early. If she falls asleep on the couch, somehow her phone is charging when she wakes up. If she mentions wanting something once, three weeks later he remembers. He checks whether she arrived safely. He notices when she’s pretending to be okay. When she's uncomfortable at some wealthy-family dinner, he doesn't embarrass her by asking what's wrong in front of everyone—he quietly changes the situation. And when someone crosses a boundary with her, Adrian doesn't become some screaming alpha billionaire. He just gets very calm. Too calm. He trusts her completely. But he also makes it extremely clear to other people where the boundaries around his marriage are. And eventually she confronts him: “You never wanted this marriage.” And Adrian answers: “No. I didn't choose the marriage.” Pause. Then: “But somewhere along the way, I chose my wife.”
New story · 0 savedRoyal / Aristocratic RomanceTHE CROWN WAS NEVER HIS
Six weeks before a royal coronation, junior Verifier Ines Sault discovers something impossible: the Crown Register—the record that legally decides what is true—has 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’s stability—and 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—or erase one—some truths cost more than a crown.
New story · 0 savedBillionaire / CEO Romance THE WIFE HE NEVER CHOSE
Nora Ellison never expected to marry Elias Hawthorne, the billionaire CEO of Hawthorne Holdings. Neither did Elias. Years earlier, Nora's late father helped Elias's grandfather build Hawthorne Holdings from a struggling company into an empire. Before his death, the old man placed a controversial condition inside the family voting trust: when Elias assumes permanent control of the company, he must be married—and the wife approved by the trust is Nora. Elias is furious. He already has the life he wants. He doesn't need a wife chosen by dead men, and he certainly doesn't want the quiet, composed woman who arrives in his boardroom carrying a marriage contract. What Elias doesn't know is that Nora doesn't want him either. The same agreement protects thousands of employees through a foundation her father created. If Nora refuses the marriage, the controlling shares transfer to Elias's uncle, Victor Hawthorne, a ruthless executive already planning to dismantle the employee protections and sell several divisions. So Nora agrees to twelve months. Separate bedrooms. Separate lives. Public appearances when required. No interference in each other's personal affairs. And absolutely no falling in love. Elias makes one thing painfully clear on their wedding day: She may carry his name, but she will never have his heart. Nora does not beg for it. That becomes the problem. Because the wife Elias never chose slowly becomes the one person in his world who doesn't fear him, flatter him, need his money, or allow him to treat her badly. And by the time Elias realizes he doesn't want their one-year marriage to end, Nora may already have learned how to live without him.
New story · 0 savedBillionaire / CEO RomancMY BOSS HAS MY MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
Naomi Reed thought her paper marriage ended seven years ago. She never met the man she married, never knew his face, and believed the divorce was finalized long before she rebuilt her life. Then she finds their marriage certificate hidden inside her billionaire boss’s private archive. Elias Mercer—the cold, powerful CEO she constantly clashes with—is the husband she never knew. And they are still legally married. Suddenly, Naomi is dragged into a ruthless family battle where her unexpected marriage could determine who controls a billion-dollar empire. Elias’s family wants her out, the board questions her motives, and every secret they uncover makes their forgotten marriage more dangerous. But somewhere between fighting each other, surviving scandals, and trying to finally end the marriage, something neither of them planned begins to feel real. Naomi may already be Elias Mercer’s wife on paper. But if he wants her heart, he’ll have to earn it after she’s finally free.
New story · 0 savedEpic Fantasy / Myth / GodsWhen the Gods Went to War
One god chose a mortal to hold what was breaking. One mortal king chose to burn the sky down for what the gods let happen to his family. Neither of them asked her. Wren Ash is twenty-four, a swordsmith's daughter, and the last living Warden-blood — the only mortal alive whose vow can still hold a Seal against the Drowned Kings sleeping beneath the world. When Seal Four cracks, the Aureate Court marks her as its Herald, burning her mortal years to fuel a fire she never agreed to carry. As a grieving king marches toward the last Seal with a war nine centuries old and a debt no one will name, Wren has to decide whether being chosen is the same thing as being spent — and whether the only god willing to stand beside her is worth the cost of choosing him back.
New story · 0 savedDark Romance • Obsession • Psychological Suspense HIS LOVE COMES WITH LOCKS
Maren Ellis wakes at 2:17 a.m. in a stranger’s heavily guarded house with no memory of how she got there—and a bedroom door that refuses to open. Her first thought is simple. She has been kidnapped. Then she discovers the lock isn’t meant to keep her inside. It is meant to keep someone else out. Cillian Rook is everything Maren should run from: wealthy, ruthless, dangerously controlled, and far too interested in a woman he claims he barely knows. He watches everything. Remembers everything. Knows when she is lying, when she is frightened, and sometimes what she needs before she does. And when Maren demands to go home, Cillian gives her the one answer she hates most. “You can leave. I just can’t promise they won’t find you.” Because the attack that brought her into his house was no accident. Someone wants Maren silenced. Worse, Cillian may know why. As locked rooms begin opening and buried secrets connect Maren’s father to one of the most powerful families in the city, she discovers that Cillian’s obsession with protecting her began long before the night they supposedly met. Now Maren has to decide which frightens her more—the people hunting her, or the man willing to destroy anyone who touches her. Cillian calls it protection. Maren calls it control. But somewhere between forbidden doors, whispered threats, brutal jealousy, and the terrifying tenderness he shows only to her, the line between captivity and belonging begins to blur. Because Cillian Rook wants her. Desperately. Possessively. Enough to lock the entire world outside if that is what it takes to keep her safe. But if he truly loves her, he will eventually have to learn the one thing that terrifies him most: A woman who is free to leave can only become his if she chooses to stay.
New story · 0 savedBillionaire RomanceTHE MAN WHO CALLS ME MINE
Sienna Hart has spent years building a life that belongs entirely to her. Her career, her choices, her independence—none of it is negotiable. Then Damien Cross notices her. Powerful, ruthless, and impossibly wealthy, Damien is a man accustomed to getting exactly what he wants. And from the moment Sienna catches his attention, he wants her with a certainty that borders on obsession. He doesn't hide his jealousy. He doesn't pretend his interest is casual. And when he publicly declares that Sienna is his, he turns what should have been a dangerous attraction into something impossible for either of them to ignore. But Sienna refuses to become another possession in Damien Cross's carefully controlled world. If he wants her, he will have to learn that loving her does not mean owning her. That protection can become a cage. That devotion without choice is just another form of control. And Damien—possessive, relentless, and frighteningly certain that Sienna belongs beside him—will have to do something far harder than taking what he wants. He will have to wait for her to choose him. What begins as a battle of wills becomes a slow-burning romance filled with obsession, jealousy, temptation, public scrutiny, and boundaries neither of them expected to test. Because somewhere between “You’re mine” and “I choose you,” Damien and Sienna may discover that the most powerful kind of possession is the one freely given. A dark, slow-burn billionaire romance about obsession, independence, enemies becoming lovers, and a possessive man learning that the woman he calls his can only truly belong with him by choice.
New story · 0 savedContemporary RomanceThe Billionaire Who Wouldn't Say My Name
Damian Vale has never been in love. At thirty-two, the billionaire is still a virgin. Not because women haven't wanted him. They have. But Damian has spent his entire adult life building an empire, and intimacy has never been something he wanted to give anyone. No girlfriends. No casual relationships. No secret women. Not even a first kiss he considers meaningful. His reputation isn't that of a playboy. It's worse. He's known as the billionaire nobody can get close to. Then Amelia Hawthorne walks into his company. And Damian dislikes her before she finishes introducing herself. Not because she's beautiful. Not because they've met before. Because of one thing. Her name. Amelia. Damian's grandmother—the woman who raised him—had hated that name with almost comical intensity. Years ago, when Damian was a child, an arrogant woman named Amelia repeatedly made his grandmother's small catering business miserable. She complained about everything, looked down on their family, and once publicly humiliated his grandmother during one of the hardest periods of their lives. His grandmother eventually turned it into a family joke. “If you ever meet an Amelia, Damian, run.” Damian never forgot it. After his grandmother died, the joke became one of the strange little things he kept from her. So when his newest employee smiles across the conference table and says— “Amelia Hart.” Damian's expression changes immediately. “No.” Amelia frowns. “No?” “I don't like your name.” She stares at him. Then laughs. Nobody laughs at Damian Vale. And that's where their war begins. Amelia refuses to let an arrogant billionaire judge her because of something as ridiculous as her first name. Damian refuses to admit that she's getting under his skin. She starts deliberately making him say her name. “Who prepared the report?” “Ms. Hart.” “My name is Amelia.” “I'm aware.” “Then use it.” He doesn't. Until one day, he does. And Amelia notices. Their relationship develops slowly through work, arguments, accidental tenderness and increasing attraction. Damian has never dated, so money doesn't make him romantically experienced. He can negotiate a billion-dollar acquisition without blinking but has absolutely no idea what to do when Amelia flirts with him. Their first hand-holding matters. Their first hug matters. His first real date matters. His first kiss matters. And when their relationship eventually becomes intimate, that matters too. Amelia slowly realizes that the intimidating billionaire everyone assumes can have any woman he wants has actually never given himself to anyone. Damian doesn't immediately become smooth just because he falls in love. He is awkward in ways nobody expects. Protective without understanding jealousy. Possessive feelings frighten him because he's never experienced them. He researches restaurants before asking her on a date because he has no idea where people actually go. He can buy Amelia almost anything but struggles to tell her that he misses her. And Amelia refuses to let his wealth become a substitute for emotional effort. Their central conflict isn't a mystery. It is two stubborn people learning how to love each other while working together, dealing with workplace boundaries, family expectations, public attention, jealousy, differences in power and Damian experiencing romantic love for the first time. Eventually, the name Damian once refused to say becomes his favorite word. Because Amelia becomes his first girlfriend. His first kiss. His first lover. His first real relationship. And, if he has anything to say about it— his last.
New story · 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—and 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—and 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 · 0 savedWerewolf RomanceMy Mate Belongs to Another Pack
Her mate died in her arms. She watched his eyes go empty. She felt their mating bond tear apart. She prepared his body herself. She watched him buried. For three years, Lyra has known one truth. Kael is dead. Then Alpha Darian of Blackridge crosses into her territory. A stranger. A powerful Alpha with his own pack, his own life, and no memory of ever meeting her. But the moment Lyra scents him, her wolf awakens after three years of silence. Mate. And beneath Darian’s unfamiliar scent is something that should be impossible. Kael. Darian insists she has the wrong man. Lyra knows she buried the right one. But as forgotten memories begin to surface and secrets from the night Kael died refuse to stay buried, one terrifying question remains— If Kael truly died three years ago, who exactly is Alpha Darian?
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Romantic FantasyThe Garden Where Time Kneels
A royal gardener can make time kneel for flowers, but not for the prince who asks her to save a dying kingdom.
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RomantasyGlass Dragon Contract
An exiled noble signs a marriage contract with a dragon prince and discovers the fine print can burn cities.
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RomanceLunar Heiress
An exiled heiress returns to the moon estate that disowned her and finds her inheritance tied to a vow she never made.
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RomantasyThe Heiress of Paper Moons
A paper artist inherits a court of folded moons and a betrothal contract that changes shape whenever she trusts the wrong person.
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