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YA Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery, ThrillerThe Boy Who Keeps Saving Me
Wren Castellano arrives at Larkspur determined to uncover what really happened to her mother ten years ago. She expects secrets. She does not expect the accidents to begin again—or for Ezra Vale, the guarded boy who keeps appearing whenever her life is in danger, to become the person she trusts most. But Ezra is hiding something too. As Wren follows a trail connecting her mother’s death to Larkspur’s most powerful family, every answer exposes another betrayal: missing evidence, staged accidents, buried witnesses, and people who chose silence because the truth cost too much. Even Ezra’s love cannot protect their relationship when Wren discovers how much he knew and how long he kept it from her. To survive Larkspur, Wren must learn the difference between being saved and being controlled, between forgiveness and forgetting, and between loving someone and letting them decide for you. Because this time, finding the truth is only half the fight.
New story · 0 savedThriller, Mystery, Suspense, Survival, RomanceSURVIVE UNTIL SUNRISE
Nora Vance enters Blackwater Lodge searching for answers about her missing sister, Lily. Instead, she becomes one of the unwilling players in the Vigil—a seven-night hunt where wealthy clients pay to chase human prey through a private mountain estate. Every sunrise is supposed to bring them closer to freedom. Every new rule proves otherwise. As bodies fall and alliances fracture, Nora uncovers links between the Vigil, her father’s suspicious death, a buried disaster at Harrow Pass, and a secret archive powerful enough to destroy everyone behind Blackwater. Her only chance may lie with Cole Mercer, a tracker who should be hunting her but keeps choosing to help her survive. But Cole is hiding the one truth Nora may never forgive. With the final night approaching, survival is no longer enough. Nora and the others must expose the system before Blackwater erases them with it.
New story · 0 saved 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 savedApocalypse / DystopianThe Last Green Place on Earth
The Weald is the last green place on Earth, and its 3,806 survivors have built their entire lives around one brutal rule: every life must be paid for. Then Neve Halloran, the woman responsible for measuring how much life the land can sustain, discovers the number on the Board is a lie. The soil is dying. The truth has been buried for nineteen years. And the only way to give the Earth a future may require destroying the last place keeping humanity alive. As Neve uncovers what the Weald really is—and what it will cost to save a world none of them may live to see—she and Gatewarden Joss Amadi are forced to choose between the life they finally found together and a future that demands they walk in opposite directions.
New story · 0 savedSci-FiEARTH HAS SEVEN DAYS LEFT
Earth has seven days left. Everyone knows exactly when the world will end, and humanity’s only hope is the Aubade—a massive ark built to carry forty thousand people to another world. Then Ada Wren’s nineteen-year-old son wins a berth. There is only one problem. Ada helped build the ship. And she knows it will never survive the journey. As the final countdown begins, Ada uncovers a truth far worse than a hidden defect: the ark was never simply built to save people. The lottery was never truly random. And the people in charge already know exactly what will happen after launch. With her son determined to board and the entire world clinging to the Aubade as its final symbol of hope, Ada must decide whether exposing the truth will save anyone—or destroy the last peaceful days humanity has left. The countdown is real. The ark is the lie.
New story · 0 savedApocalypse / Dystopian Survival ThrillerTHE GOVERNMENT OWNS OUR CHILDREN
Five siblings. One legal identity. In a world where the government decides who is allowed to exist, the Ketterly siblings have survived for years by sharing the identity of one woman—**Iris**. They share her name. Her wrist Tally. Her work hours. Even her face. One mistake could expose all five of them. But when their carefully controlled system begins to fail and government officials start watching their street, the siblings realize something terrifying: They may not have been hiding from the government all these years. The government may have known exactly where they were. And now, it wants them back.
New story · 0 savedSci-Fi / Technology / Future THE LAST HUMAN ON EARTH ISN’T HUMAN
Elias Venn wakes from therapeutic suspension inside Facility Aster forty-one years after the Continuity Collapse. MARA, the facility intelligence, can verify no living humans anywhere on the surviving recovery network, but Elias refuses to accept absence of evidence as extinction. Across Episodes 1–10, he leaves Aster, explores an Earth where automated systems still perform routines for vanished citizens, reconstructs fragments of the Collapse, follows traces of post-collapse human movement, and begins noticing that old systems treat him with unusual Aster authority. The block remains focused on loneliness, survival, world discovery, and earned hope rather than solving Elias’s identity. The block ends when Elias reaches the Vela mountain shelter and confirms that living humans still exist—only to discover that they are terrified of his connection to MARA.
New story · 0 savedSci-Fi / Technology / Future / Dystopian Thriller / Slow-Burn RomanceI WOKE UP 200 YEARS LATE
Adrian Cross wakes from what he believes was a thirty-day cryogenic trial and discovers that two centuries have passed. Dr. Elara Voss becomes his reluctant guide through Novus as disbelief gives way to grief, culture shock, and the first evidence that his survival was not an accident. Adrian learns that everyone he knew is dead, that ordinary life now depends on neural links and an artificial intelligence called EDEN, and that someone deliberately kept his forgotten chamber alive for generations. The block ends when Adrian hears EDEN speak and recognizes the voice of EVE, the primitive behavioral AI he worked on in 2026. EDEN then addresses him by name. The block does not yet reveal how EVE became EDEN, why Adrian was preserved, the truth of the Collapse, or Adrian’s later legal and political importance.
New story · 0 savedScience Fiction | Romance | Survival | Drama | Colony ShipTHE SPACESHIP WOKE ME EARLY
Mara Vale wakes eighty-three years before the Astraea reaches Elysia and discovers that the ship cannot return her to long-duration hibernation. The first half of the block makes the isolation real: she tests every practical route back to sleep, walks among thousands of people she refuses to wake, explores an empty moving city, and confronts the distance from Earth. Small physical traces gradually suggest another human may already be awake. The second half turns those traces into proof, then into a cautious first contact with systems engineer Julian Rook. Their meeting is not romanticized or rushed: Mara is relieved, angry, suspicious, and determined to understand why Julian hid from her. The block ends with the central question widened from “why did my pod fail?” to “why did the ship select me?” without revealing the later answers too early.
New story · 0 savedApocalypse / Dystopian / Survival / Romance / ActionTHE WALL WAS BUILT TO KEEP US IN
We begin inside Haven, a fortified city surrounded by an enormous wall built after the catastrophe known as The Fall. The citizens have been taught that outside the Wall are poisoned lands, infected humans, predatory creatures called Hollows, and death. Our heroine, Mara Vale, has no reason to doubt this. She has grown up inside Haven. She has a family. Friends. Responsibilities. A job. A life. And importantly, she is not rebellious simply because she is the protagonist. Her older brother Elias serves in the Wall Guard, making the Wall personal to her. Mara has spent her entire life believing men like him are the reason Haven still exists. During Block 1 we establish everyday Haven properly—markets, rationing, housing districts, Wall Guard culture, curfews, government broadcasts, schools, memorial ceremonies, work assignments and class divisions. No immediate conspiracy. No stranger dragging Mara into a secret tunnel in Episode 1. We allow her world to feel real first. A young Guard officer, Kael Rowan, begins crossing paths with Mara through ordinary circumstances. There is attraction eventually, but initially they are simply two people whose lives repeatedly intersect. Kael believes strongly in order. Mara believes strongly in Haven. This becomes important later. Near the end of the block, a Wall breach alarm occurs. Everyone expects Hollows. Instead, Mara witnesses something she cannot explain. A figure appears briefly beyond one of the restricted barriers. Standing upright. Wearing clothes. Watching the soldiers. Human. Before Mara can get closer, the Guard kills him. Episode 10 ends when Mara secretly retrieves something that fell from the dead stranger. A metal identification tag. Stamped with words impossible according to everything she has ever been taught: REPUBLIC OF WESTERN TERRITORIES ISSUED: THREE YEARS AGO. The outside world is supposed to have been dead for seventy-six years.
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Sci-FiThe Orchard at the End of Mars
A botanist inherits the only orchard on Mars and finds fruit growing around messages from the first colonists.
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AdventureThe Northbound Saint
A disgraced navigator leads an expedition north to return a saint's compass before it points every nation toward war.
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Dark FantasyThe House That Ate Winter
A village sends one child each decade to a house that eats winter, until the chosen daughter returns as its landlord.
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