Epic FantasyTHE LAST ORACLE LIEDEpic Fantasy · Prophecy MysteryTHE LAST ORACLE LIED1. Core Story Promise For three hundred years, every sacred prophecy spoken by Aureth’s Oracles has come true. Eighteen years ago, the final Oracle declared House Serath would open the Black Gate and destroy the kingdom; House Veyr must rise, and the last Serath daughter must die before her twenty-first year. The prophecy caused a purge, a civil war and a new dynasty. Now the Oracle dies after whispering two words to a young temple archivist: “I lied.” The archivist, Nerys Vale, soon learns she is Nerys Serath—the very girl the prophecy condemned. The mystery is not merely whether the Oracle lied. The deeper question is why a woman who could see the future would deliberately create a false prophecy that killed thousands, destroyed an innocent bloodline and placed the current king on the throne. The ultimate answer: sacred prophecy is partly a system of control. The gods use the Threadwell to weight possible futures and institutions enforce those predictions until they become reality. The Oracle’s lie was a deliberate act designed to create the first future the gods could not see. She chose catastrophic uncertainty over a predictable future of permanent divine rule.New story · 1 savedOngoingPeek inside
Dark RomanceI MARRIED MY NIGHTMAREDark Romance · Forced MarriageI MARRIED MY NIGHTMAREDr. Elara Voss has spent six years believing one thing with absolute certainty: Silas Crane killed her sister. So when the feared, reclusive shipping heir suddenly offers to save Elara’s collapsing trauma institute in exchange for a one-year marriage, she knows there has to be a darker reason. Silas is controlling, obsessive, impossible to read—and far too interested in the nightmares Elara has spent years recording. Then Elara moves into his isolated cliffside estate and discovers something terrifying. Silas is having the same nightmares she is. The deeper Elara investigates, the more everything she believed about her sister’s death begins to fracture. Hidden beneath Thornwick is a secret network capable of preserving and manipulating human nightmares, and Elara may be carrying the one thing its creators have been searching for. Even worse, the man she married to uncover the truth may not be her sister’s murderer at all. Silas has lied to her. Watched her. Interfered with her life. Protected her in ways she never asked for. And beneath every terrible secret is one truth Elara is becoming increasingly afraid to face: Silas Crane has been obsessed with keeping her alive for years. Now Elara must uncover what really happened to her sister, survive the people who want access to her mind, and decide whether the monster she once feared is the only man she can trust with her heart. Because their marriage began as a contract. Their nightmares made them enemies. But loving Silas may become the most dangerous choice Elara ever makes.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Fantasy RomanceMarried to the Cursed KingFantasy Romance · Dark FantasyMarried to the Cursed KingSeren 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
Young AdultThe Boy I Was Never Supposed to NoticeYoung Adult · Prep School RomanceThe Boy I Was Never Supposed to NoticeHazel 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
Dark RomanceHIS LOVE COMES WITH LOCKSDark Romance · ObsessionHIS LOVE COMES WITH LOCKSMaren 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 savedOngoingPeek inside