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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 savedFantasy Romance / RomantasyMarried to the Cursed King
Seren 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 savedFantasy Romance / RomantasyThe Prince Who Stole My Magic
A prince stole her magic to save his life. The law said she had agreed. Elira Wren knows she never did. Left hollow and slowly losing her memories, she enters the royal court determined to reclaim the ember Crown Prince Corin Ashvane knowingly took from her. But the deeper they investigate, the uglier the truth becomes: her forged consent is only one piece of a centuries-old system built to keep the crown alive by turning sacrifice into law. Corin may be guilty of stealing from her, but someone else made sure her name was waiting for him long before they ever met. Now Elira must decide what justice looks like when the man she should hate becomes the one standing beside her against the kingdom that taught him her life was an acceptable price. And if they destroy the system that bound them together, neither of them knows what will survive.
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.
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