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Royal / 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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