FantasyThe Last Library Under DawnFantasyThe Last Library Under DawnA failed apprentice discovers a city-sized library that rewrites itself every sunrise, and every unlocked shelf exposes a secret about the empire that erased her family.5.0 rating · 1 savedCompletedPeek inside
RomanceToo Late to Love YouRomanceToo Late to Love YouFor the first year of their marriage, Amelia Hart Vale believed she had found a home in Adrian Vale. He was gentle, protective, ambitious, and certain that providing for her was the same as loving her. But during their second year, work consumed him. He missed dinners, anniversaries, hospital visits, promises, and the small conversations that once made Amelia feel chosen. Adrian never cheated. He never struck her. He never stopped loving her. He simply stopped being present. Amelia fought for their marriage until waiting became more painful than being alone. By the time Adrian finally understood what his absence had done, she had already begun building a life that no longer depended on him coming home. When divorce is spoken aloud, lawyers enter their marriage and separation terms are placed before them. But leaving is not the only door Amelia wants to know how to open. As Adrian fights to rebuild what he neglected, buried Vale family secrets, forged documents, corporate manipulation, and generations of control turn their private pain into a public weapon. Now Amelia and Adrian must decide whether their marriage can become something neither of them has known before. A home where love is present, freedom is protected, and staying is a choice rather than a sentence.New story · 1 savedOngoingPeek inside
Billionaire RomanceTHE BILLIONAIRE WHO HATED MY NAMEBillionaire RomanceTHE BILLIONAIRE WHO HATED MY NAMEAmara Vale, a forensic risk analyst with a reputation for finding fraud hidden inside respectable companies, applies for a high-level contract inside Cross Meridian Group. Lucian Cross, billionaire CEO and heir to the Cross empire, rejects her the moment he sees her surname. Vale is the name attached to the scandal that nearly destroyed his family twenty years earlier. The rejection becomes impossible to maintain when Cross Meridian’s board requires an outside forensic review of a newly acquired subsidiary and Amara is the strongest candidate. She enters the company under a fixed-term mandate independent of Lucian’s direct hiring authority. Then Lucian sees a childhood photograph Amara has carried for years. In it, Gabriel Vale stands beside Evelyn Cross — Lucian’s mother, officially dead for two decades. On the back, in Evelyn’s handwriting, are the words: “If anything happens to me, trust Gabriel.”New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Mystery & ThrillerThe Man They BuriedMystery & ThrillerThe Man They BuriedMira Voss loved her husband. Not perfectly. Not blindly. But truly. Elias made her coffee too strong, stole the blankets, remembered every small thing she forgot, and promised they would grow old arguing about the same harmless habits. Then Elias dies unexpectedly. His body is identified. His family mourns him. On Tuesday, Mira watches the man she expected to spend her life with lowered into the ground. On Friday night, her phone rings. ELIAS. She answers. At first there is only breathing. Then the dead man says her name. Mira tells herself grief can make the mind cruel. But the calls return - never on schedule, never often enough to become normal. The voice remembers private jokes, unfinished conversations, the side of the bed she sleeps on, and secrets nobody else should know. Then one call tells her not to go home. Hours later, someone breaks into the house. As Mira investigates, the husband she thought she knew begins splitting into two men: Elias, the man who loved her, and Elias, the man with a second phone, hidden transfers, a locked storage unit, an unknown woman, and a file on someone who had supposedly been dead for years. Elias is not alive. But before he died, he prepared for death. And someone is still following his instructions. The most dangerous question is no longer who is pretending to be Elias. It is which calls Elias planned - and which ones came from someone else.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Billionaire / CEO RomanceMY BOSS HAS MY MARRIAGE CERTIFICATEBillionaire / CEO Romance · Workplace RomanceMY BOSS HAS MY MARRIAGE CERTIFICATENaomi 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
Rom-Com / Workplace / Feel-Good RomanceTHE FAKE BOYFRIEND PROBLEMRom-Com / Workplace / Feel-Good RomanceTHE FAKE BOYFRIEND PROBLEMNora Bell and Ethan Cole as longtime neighbors whose arguments have become part of the building’s daily entertainment. A simple plumbing disaster puts a shirtless Ethan in Nora’s apartment at exactly the wrong moment, and Nora panics when her mother sees him. One impulsive lie turns Ethan into her boyfriend, drawing both families into a relationship that does not exist. As the lie spreads, Nora and Ethan are forced to cooperate, invent relationship history, survive family scrutiny, and agree to fake-date just long enough to clean up the messNew story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Billionaire RomanceThe Disgraced HeirBillionaire RomanceThe Disgraced HeirFive years ago, Soren Kessler had everything: a future inside the Kessler Group, the respect of his powerful father, and a wedding ahead with Elena Reyes. Then fabricated evidence tied him to a devastating corporate scandal. His father disowned him. His accounts were frozen. His name became poison. With every door closing and danger following him, Soren fled New York carrying almost nothing except a stolen flash drive and the certainty that someone inside his family had framed him. Everyone believed Soren Kessler was finished. They were wrong. Five years later, billionaire investor Cole Mercer arrives in Manhattan. Marcus Kessler sees him as a potential ally. Vanessa Kessler sees him as a threat. Elena sees something far more dangerous: a stranger whose habits, voice, and eyes awaken memories of the man she never truly stopped loving. None of them know that Cole Mercer is Soren Kessler. As Soren quietly buys influence, attacks the Kessler empire from within, and traces the conspiracy that destroyed him, he discovers something worse than betrayal: his father's mysterious illness may be deliberate poisoning. Revenge becomes a race against time, and Soren must decide whether reclaiming his life is worth becoming as ruthless as the people who stole it.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Gothic MysteryBlue Hour at Verity HouseGothic MysteryBlue Hour at Verity HouseAn art restorer arrives at Verity House to repair a portrait that ages whenever someone in the family lies.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Contemporary RomanceMy Crush Is Dating My SisterContemporary Romance · Second Chance RomanceMy Crush Is Dating My SisterWren 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
MysteryWe Buried the Wrong GirlMystery · ThrillerWe Buried the Wrong Girlix 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
YA RomanceThe Boy Who Keeps Saving MeYA Romance · Romantic SuspenseThe Boy Who Keeps Saving MeWren 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
ThrillerSURVIVE UNTIL SUNRISEThriller · MysterySURVIVE UNTIL SUNRISENora 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
Billionaire RomanceHIS CONTRACT WIFE RAN AWAYBillionaire Romance · Contemporary RomanceHIS CONTRACT WIFE RAN AWAYEthan Calloway never planned to become a father. But when tragedy leaves his six-year-old niece, Sophie, in his care, the powerful billionaire suddenly finds himself fighting a custody battle he cannot solve with money, influence, or lawyers. Then Nora Hayes walks into their lives. She is supposed to help Sophie heal—not become part of the family. But Sophie trusts her. Ethan depends on her. And when his lawyers warn that his unstable home life could cost him custody, Ethan makes Nora an offer neither of them ever expected: Marry him for one year. It is supposed to be simple. A contract marriage. Separate lives. A stable home for Sophie. Enough money to save Nora’s struggling learning center. And when the year ends, they walk away. Except somewhere between school mornings, sleepless nights, family dinners, arguments, stolen kisses, and a little girl who begins calling them “my people,” the arrangement stops feeling fake. Nora falls in love with the family they accidentally created. And Ethan falls even harder. But Ethan has spent his whole life expressing care through money, protection, and carefully written agreements. So when their original reason for being married disappears, he makes the worst mistake possible. Instead of asking Nora to stay… he prepares another contract. Five more years. More money. More security. More promises written on paper. And not one honest sentence telling her what she desperately needs to know: Would he still choose her if Sophie never needed her? By the time Ethan finally realizes that love cannot be negotiated, Nora has already made her decision. The contract expires. Her wedding ring is left behind. And his contract wife runs away. Now the billionaire who could buy almost anything must learn the one thing money was never able to give him: how to make the woman he loves choose him freely.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Sci-FiMY CLONE WANTS MY LIFESci-Fi · Psychological ThrillerMY CLONE WANTS MY LIFELena Cole wakes after six weeks in a coma expecting to return to the life she nearly lost. Instead, she finds a life that somehow continued without her. Her passwords have changed. Her apartment feels subtly wrong. There are photographs she doesn’t remember taking, messages she never sent, and people she loves acting as though something happened while she was unconscious that nobody wants to explain. Then, at 2:17 in the morning, Lena comes face-to-face with the impossible. A woman with her face. Her voice. Her childhood memories. Even her memories of loving Lena’s boyfriend. Her name is Eva. Created in secret by NeuVale, Eva was built from Lena’s biological material and reconstructed memories as part of an experimental project promising something humanity has always wanted—the ability to survive death by transferring a person’s identity into another body. NeuVale expected Eva to become a continuation of Lena. They never expected her to become someone else. Now Lena must fight to uncover why her accident happened, why pieces of her own memory are missing, and how much she unknowingly gave NeuVale before they decided consent no longer mattered. But the deeper she investigates, the more terrifying the truth becomes. Eva was conscious before Lena’s accident. There are others like her. And some of the richest people in the world are already preparing to buy another lifetime. As Lena and Eva fight the corporation that created their nightmare, they are forced to confront a question neither science nor law knows how to answer: If two women remember the same childhood, love the same family, and carry the same past… who gets to call that life theirs? And when Eva finally chooses a future that belongs only to her, Lena believes the worst is over. Until one last file is recovered. Dated three years before the accident. SUBJECT: LENA COLE REPLICATION ATTEMPT: 01 STATUS: SUCCESSFUL.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
MysteryOur School Has One Secret RuleMystery · ThrillerOur School Has One Secret RuleAt 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
Young Adult RomanceMy Tutor Is My Childhood EnemyYoung Adult Romance · High School RomanceMy Tutor Is My Childhood EnemySeven years ago, June Marlowe froze on live television. Theo Ashby laughed. At least, that is what June remembers. The humiliating clip turned her worst moment into a town joke, destroyed the friendship she once had with Theo, and made mathematics something she could barely face without remembering that stage. Now seventeen, June has built a new life around art. She has even earned a conditional place at the Calloway Institute of Art and Design in New York. There is just one problem. She needs a B or better in AP Calculus to keep it. And she is failing. Then her mother announces that she has hired the best student tutor in Port Calder. Theo Ashby. The boy June has hated for seven years. Their tutoring sessions begin with insults, rules written on graph paper, and a contract designed to keep everything painfully simple. No talking about Brain Bowl. No touching her sketchbook. Sessions are strictly math. And absolutely no feelings. But the more time June spends across the kitchen table from Theo, the harder it becomes to fit him into the villain she remembers. He notices when she is about to panic. He teaches her mathematics through animation instead of making her feel stupid. He protects her when no one is supposed to notice. And every honest answer between them creates another crack in the story June has believed since she was ten. Because Theo has secrets. He volunteered to become her tutor. He has spent years carrying the truth about what really happened on that television stage. And the anonymous reader who has faithfully supported June's secret webcomic for three years may be much closer to her than she ever imagined. As old footage resurfaces, buried family guilt comes to light, and someone begins manipulating their past for personal gain, June must decide whether she is brave enough to confront the moment that changed her life. Not only to save her future. But to discover whether the boy she spent seven years hating was ever really her enemy at all.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Young Adult MysteryThe Girl Who Vanished After PromYoung Adult Mystery · Romantic SuspenseThe Girl Who Vanished After PromOne 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
Coming of AgeThe Summer Before Everything ChangedComing of Age · Contemporary RomanceThe Summer Before Everything ChangedTessa 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
Young Adult RomanceWe Were Never Just FriendsYoung Adult Romance · College RomanceWe Were Never Just FriendsNora 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 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
Contemporary RomanceMy Husband Is Running Against MeContemporary Romance · Marriage DramaMy Husband Is Running Against MeCamille Vale never thought the greatest threat to her marriage would be ambition. For twelve years, she and Adrian Vale have built a life together—and inside Valecrest Global, they have built two equally formidable careers. Camille is the executive employees trust when everything is falling apart. Adrian is the strategist investors call when millions are on the line. They have always been partners. Until the CEO announces his retirement. Five executives enter the race to replace him. Camille is one of them. So is her husband. At first, they believe they can handle it. They set rules. No confidential information at home. No using their marriage for advantage. No sabotaging each other. Whatever happens at work, they promise their marriage comes first. Then the rankings begin. One victory puts Camille ahead. Another puts Adrian above her. Soon the board is comparing them, employees are choosing sides, journalists are turning their marriage into a headline, and every professional decision carries a personal consequence. When Adrian publicly exposes a weakness in Camille’s proposal, she begins to wonder where being her husband ends and being her rival begins. When Camille receives an opportunity that could remove her from Valecrest entirely, Adrian realizes winning the CEO position may cost him far more than he expected. And when the competition narrows until only husband and wife remain, neither can pretend anymore. They both want the same chair. They both believe they deserve it. And only one of them can win. But this is not a story about cheating, betrayal, or discovering they never loved each other. Camille and Adrian do love each other. Deeply. That is exactly what makes the competition dangerous. Because loving someone does not erase ambition. Supporting your spouse does not mean wanting their dream more than your own. And sometimes the hardest person to lose to is the person you most want to see succeed. As boardroom battles become arguments at home, professional victories leave emotional wounds, and one devastating decision gives Camille the power to destroy Adrian’s chances completely, they must decide what kind of competitors—and what kind of spouses—they are willing to become. Because eventually Valecrest will have one CEO. And when the final vote is cast, one of them will walk out victorious. The other will have to go home with the person who beat them. My Husband Is Running Against Me is a corporate marriage drama about ambition, equality, communication, power, and two people discovering that a strong marriage does not require one person to become smaller so the other can shine.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Contemporary RomanceONE NIGHT WITH MY BILLIONAIRE ENEMYContemporary Romance · Enemies-to-LoversONE NIGHT WITH MY BILLIONAIRE ENEMYMaya Stone and Evan Hale have spent years trying to destroy each other. She is the brilliant CEO of StoneBridge. He is the ruthless billionaire behind Hale Capital. Every deal is a battlefield, every meeting another chance to win, and neither of them has ever considered surrender. Until one reckless night changes everything. By morning, the attraction they refused to acknowledge has become something far more dangerous—because confidential information from both of their companies has been leaked. Maya believes Evan used their night together to steal from her. Evan believes she did exactly the same. They return to war determined to expose each other, only to discover a disturbing truth: the sabotage began long before they ever shared a bed. Someone has been watching them. Manipulating their companies. Feeding their rivalry. And profiting every time Maya and Evan tear each other apart. Forced into a secret alliance, two enemies who trust almost no one must begin trusting each other. But late-night investigations become personal conversations. Arguments become jealousy. Protection becomes instinct. And the night they both swore was a mistake begins to feel like the first moment they ever truly saw each other. Then they uncover something worse. Some of the betrayals that made them enemies in the first place may never have been accidents. Someone has been building their war for years. Now Maya and Evan must decide what matters more: winning the battle that made them enemies… or protecting the person who became impossible to lose. Because this time, destroying her billionaire enemy might mean destroying the man she loves.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Secret Baby RomanceHE NEVER KNEW ABOUT OUR SONSecret Baby Romance · Second-Chance RomanceHE NEVER KNEW ABOUT OUR SONEmma Shaw thought divorce was the hardest thing she would ever survive. Then, two weeks after her marriage to Ryan Scott ended, she discovered she was pregnant. She meant to tell him. Until she heard Ryan say publicly that becoming a father was the last thing he wanted while he rebuilt his life. After years of being the person Ryan always promised to come back to later, Emma believed him. So she disappeared. Nearly six years later, Emma returns with five-year-old Luke—the son Ryan never knew existed. She has no intention of telling him. But one school emergency ruins everything. Ryan walks into the principal’s office, sees a little boy with his eyes, his expressions, even the same nervous habit he has carried since childhood—and hears Luke say the words neither of them can ignore. “You look like me.” The truth comes out quickly. But discovering Luke is his son is the easy part. Ryan has already missed the first word, the first tooth, the first birthday, the first day of school, the fevers, the scraped knees, and five years of ordinary moments he can never get back. Biology may make him Luke’s father. It does not make him Dad. That is something Ryan will have to earn. And while Ryan struggles to build a relationship with the son he never knew existed, Emma is forced to face an uncomfortable truth of her own: she may have believed she was protecting her child, but she also made a life-changing decision for Ryan based on one sentence spoken by a broken man—and on all the wounds their marriage had already taught her to expect. Now they must learn how to co-parent without repeating the mistakes that destroyed them. How to separate anger from parenthood. How to let Luke love them both without making him choose. And eventually, how to decide whether the love that once failed them deserves another chance. Because this time, Ryan cannot keep promising he will come home when everything else is finished. If he wants his son and Emma he has to learn how to come home while life is still happening.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Detective MysteryThe Case My Father Never SolvedDetective Mystery · Crime ThrillerThe Case My Father Never SolvedThirty-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.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Billionaire / CEO RomanceThe Billionaire's Hidden BrideBillionaire / CEO Romance · Professional MotorsportThe Billionaire's Hidden BrideLena Hart is Dorian Mercer’s wife. The problem is, no one is supposed to know. Their marriage was meant to stay private until the right moment. But while Lena quietly lives as the woman behind Dorian’s closed doors, the Mercer family begins planning his future beside someone else—and the world starts calling another woman his perfect bride. At first, Lena tells herself she can endure it. Until whispers turn cruel. Until people begin calling her Dorian’s mistress. Until being protected starts feeling exactly like being hidden. When Lena finally refuses to remain the secret in her own marriage, Dorian is forced to choose between the powerful family empire that shaped his entire life and the woman he never expected to become the most important part of it. But revealing their marriage is only the beginning. Because the moment Dorian publicly chooses his wife, his family comes for his position, his inheritance, his company—and everything he was raised to believe belonged to him. Now Lena refuses to let him destroy himself for her. And Dorian refuses to let her leave to save him. They began as husband and wife behind closed doors. Now they must decide whether their marriage can survive when the whole world is finally watching.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Mafia / Crime RomanceTHE DON'S FORBIDDEN BRIDEMafia / Crime Romance · Arranged MarriageTHE DON'S FORBIDDEN BRIDEValentina Moretti was supposed to marry Luca De Luca and end years of bloodshed between two powerful families. Instead, on the morning of their wedding, Luca disappears. With the alliance on the verge of collapsing and both families preparing for the consequences, there is only one man powerful enough to take his brother’s place. Dante De Luca. Cold, feared, and ruthless enough to make entire rooms fall silent, Dante was never meant to be Valentina’s husband. Yet before the day is over, she becomes the wife of the most dangerous man in the De Luca family. Their marriage begins as nothing more than damage control. Valentina refuses to become a decorative mafia wife. Dante refuses to treat her like property. Somewhere between family wars, assassination attempts, betrayal from inside their own walls, and the unexpected return of the man she was originally supposed to marry, their forced marriage begins to change. Because Luca did not return to reclaim his bride. And Valentina is no longer the woman abandoned at the altar. She has chosen where she stands. The only question left is whether Dante can stop protecting her long enough to admit that somewhere along the way, the bride he married out of duty became the woman he would choose over everything. She was supposed to marry his brother. Instead, she became the Don’s forbidden bride—and the one thing he could no longer afford to lose.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Fantasy RomanceThe King Who Fell From HeavenFantasy Romance · Romantic FantasyThe King Who Fell From HeavenWhen 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—the 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—or help the woman he loves bring heaven down.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Mafia / Crime RomanceTHE DON'S DEAD WIFE IS ALIVEMafia / Crime RomanceTHE DON'S DEAD WIFE IS ALIVEThree years ago, Mafia Don Dante Moretti buried his wife, Elena, after a convoy bombing that ended a fragile peace summit. He identified her body, attended her funeral, and rebuilt his organization around the certainty that she was dead. Then an anonymous photograph arrives showing Elena alive in another country. The woman is real—but she calls herself Mara Voss, remembers almost nothing of her marriage, and reacts to the Moretti name with fear. The mystery is not only how Elena survived. It is who altered the escape plan she secretly created before the bombing, who delivered her alive to a covert conditioning program, why her memories were fragmented, and why powerful people inside Dante's own family needed her to remain dead. As the truth unfolds, both Dante and Mara must confront an uncomfortable fact: their old marriage contained genuine love, but love did not prevent secrecy, unilateral protection, or choices made on the other's behalf. The ultimate answer is structural. Elena's disappearance was enabled by a criminal system in which family loyalty, intelligence access, financial secrecy and 'protection' gave powerful men permission to decide what other people were allowed to know and choose. The ending therefore cannot be solved only by killing one villain. Dante and Mara must dismantle the structures that made the conspiracy possible, then decide whether they still want one another when neither marriage, memory, blood nor the Mafia requires it.New story · 0 savedOngoingPeek inside
Contemporary RomanceThe Billionaire Who Wouldn't Say My NameContemporary RomanceThe Billionaire Who Wouldn't Say My NameDamian 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 savedOngoingPeek inside
