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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 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 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 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 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.
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Young Adult FantasyThe Boy Who Measured Thunder
A quiet student can measure thunder before it happens, making him the only person who can find a storm that steals children.
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