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RomanceThe 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.
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Gothic MysteryBlue Hour at Verity House
An art restorer arrives at Verity House to repair a portrait that ages whenever someone in the family lies.
New story · 0 savedRomantic DramaMy Crush Is Dating My Sister
Wren Hollister has loved Jonah Pryce for eight years. She finally decides to tell him the truth when he returns to their coastal hometown, only to discover that her beautiful older sister, Celeste, has reached him first. Now Jonah is dating Celeste, their struggling family inn depends on the boatyard he intends to sell, and Wren is expected to smile while helping their relationship survive. Then the lies begin to crack. The sister Wren has spent her life protecting is hiding something. Their mother has secrets of her own. And the man Wren thought chose someone else all those years ago may never have made that choice at all. As an engagement turns into a wedding and old betrayals surface, Wren must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice to keep her family together. Because sometimes losing the person you love is painful. But discovering they might have loved you all along can destroy everything.
New story · 0 savedMystery / ThrillerWe Buried the Wrong Girl
ix years ago, June Calloway buried her twin sister, Wren, after a burned body was identified and laid to rest beneath Wren’s name. But when their dying mother demands the grave be opened, one impossible fact changes everything. The girl they buried was not Wren. Now June must uncover who is really in the grave, what happened the night Wren disappeared, and why some of Alder Hollow’s most powerful people worked so hard to make the investigation end. The deeper June digs with forensic genealogist Micah Reyes, the more the town’s old story begins to collapse. Hidden payments, altered records, buried evidence, and a terrified girl nobody bothered to identify all point toward the Ashford family and a secret that has survived for six years. But the most dangerous truth is also the one June wants most desperately to believe. Wren may never have died at all.
New story · 0 savedYA 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 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 · 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 savedMystery / CrimeThe Case My Father Never Solved
Thirty-one years ago, five people vanished from the quiet town of Ashenmoor—including nine-year-old Ivy Merrit. Her father, Detective Chief Inspector Gethin Merrit, spent the rest of his life trying to solve the case. He died with nineteen boxes of evidence still stacked in his garage and a reputation built on never giving up. Now his surviving daughter, cold-case detective Calla Merrit, has only eleven months before the fen where the victims may be buried disappears beneath a new reservoir. She expects to finish the investigation that destroyed her family. Instead, she discovers something no one was ever supposed to notice. There are two versions of the case file. Statements are missing. Search maps have been altered. Evidence points in directions it never should have. And buried among her father’s papers is proof that he may have known exactly who the killer was decades ago. The deeper Calla digs, the more terrifying the question becomes—not who took the victims, but why her father spent thirty-one years making sure the case could never be solved. Because only four people were taken. And the truth about the fifth victim begins inside Calla’s own family. To give four families the answers they have waited decades for, Calla may have to destroy her father’s legacy, expose the people she loves, and sacrifice the career she built trying to become everything she believed he was.
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