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slow burn romance
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 路 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 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 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鈥攖he 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鈥攐r help the woman he loves bring heaven down.
New story 路 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鈥檚 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鈥攖he 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 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.
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