Carmine Covenant
By @Fatima
In the seemingly serene world of Arya, Aurélia Voss, a young university student and aspiring writer, is thrust into a maelstrom of power and peril. Her quiet life shatters upon an unexpected encounter with Cassian Vale, the enigmatic heir to a formidable mafia empire. From their first volatile meeting, an intense bond ignites, transcending mere attraction into a fervent emotional and physical dependency. Cassian, outwardly cold and scarred by a brutal past, finds in Aurélia a vulnerability he never anticipated, a solace that both grounds and threatens him. Aurélia, drawn into his dangerous orbit, confronts a world where love and loyalty are paid in blood. She must navigate treacherous alliances and betrayals, battling not only external enemies but the dark desires simmering within their possessive, passionate connection, threatening to consume them both.
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Zero Trace Protocol
By @john1208
I dodge a searing plasma bolt and shatter a mercenary’s jaw without breaking stride. Just another Tuesday since I abandoned my arranged marriage. To rebel one last time before fleeing my syndicate family, I had dragged Kravoya’s most terrifying warlord, Kholat, into bed, used him, and vanished, wiping all security footage to leave absolutely zero trace. Now, I’m laying low as a meek data intern at his own front company. My daily routine? Keep my head down, endure the terrible corporate coffee, and ignore the massive bounty my boss just posted for the 'mysterious assassin' who infiltrated his bed. I know his reward is a lethal trap designed to execute whoever tries to claim it. This isn't a romance; it's a desperate, tactical game of survival. With Jibbs, a jittery cyber-scrapper, as my only ally, I navigate the corporate crossfire while Kholat breathes down my neck. The disguise holds perfectly until a biological gang attack hits the office, forcing me to perform a highly classified field-trauma procedure to save a colleague. Suddenly, Kholat corners me, his eyes locking onto my bloody, highly-trained hands. Will I fight my way out, or has the warlord's trap finally snapped shut?
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Gilded Cages and Gunfire
By @john1208
Bozkar spent three exhausting years playing the perfect, gentle, and fiercely supportive boyfriend to Neyza. In reality, the world-weary syndicate survivor was weaving a web of lies to destroy her father - the ruthless political rival who ordered the massacre of Bozkar’s people. The trap springs flawlessly at the glittering Zenith Gala: in a brutal public humiliation, Bozkar exposes Neyza and hands her to the city's police with perfectly forged evidence of terrorism. Victory is his, but it tastes like ash. His hollow triumph shatters when he discovers the horrifying truth: her father wasn't a tyrant, but a tragic hero who purged Bozkar's syndicate to stop a world-ending cognitive plague. Worse, that same plague has just breached the subterranean supermax prison where Neyza is trapped. Told in a fast-paced, close third-person perspective, this isn't a story about romance - it's a frantic, bullet-riddled race for survival. Liquidating his massive underworld fortune to buy his way into the collapsing quarantine zone, Bozkar will grovel through blood and rubble just to see her smile one last time. With his loyal best friend harboring a deadly secret and automated incinerators activating, can a sarcastic traitor save the innocent woman he doomed?
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-Vision(A page of two)
By @Hema Geesawor
Vinyll Eminem, a cold-hearted acrobat with an unnatural mastery over physical boundaries, finds himself thrust into the abyssal depths of the Realms of the Immortals. This world, a twisted hierarchy fueled by infernal duties, demands his unique talents for a purpose he can barely fathom: serving as a living key to the Gates of Hell. A dark, forbidden love begins to bloom amidst the shadows, threatening to unravel his carefully constructed emotional walls. Every acrobatic feat, every boundary pushed, tightens the chains of a pact he never made, drawing him deeper into a thrilling, horrific dance where the price of devotion might just be his soul. Can his cold heart survive a love born in the abyss?
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Absolute Zero Anchorage
By @john1208
I always played the ditz at the Oskola Shipping Syndicate. I brought pastries, giggled at the managers' bad jokes, and never complained. But my act cracked the night I stood at the deathbed of Dr. Kestrin Yul, a disgraced oceanographer who shoved a decrypted drive into my hands. His data proved a hyper-thermic collapse was hours away, destined to plunge our coastal town into a lethal deep-freeze. When I warned my office the next morning, they laughed me out of the breakroom. So, I went back to smiling, brewed the coffee, and secretly forged manifests to divert insulated cargo pods and a military thermal-core to an abandoned lighthouse. The very next day, the ocean flash-froze, crushing ships like glass and trapping the town in -80 degrees. Now, the coworkers who mocked me are begging at my reinforced steel doors. I have to fight off ice-crazed scavengers, negotiate with my fiercely competent rival Maris, and decide who gets a spot by the fire. But with a trusted friend quietly sabotaging our defenses from the inside, who can you trust when the world freezes over?
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Sunset Silks and Stolen Naps
By @john1208
In the neon-soaked, booming metropolis of Shanjin, ambition is everything - unless you're Tienya. After being publicly humiliated at the city plaza for having zero production points and proudly declaring she only wants to be a beautiful trophy wife, the impossibly kind-hearted slacker marries Jianmo, a scarred, silent dockworker. While ambitious local girl Peizhi exhausts herself trying to topple the ruthless Jade Serpent monopoly, Tienya spends her days rescuing stray cats and lazily doodling on scrap paper. But Shanjin is a fast-paced powder keg of high-speed chases and turf wars. Told in alternating third-person perspectives between Tienya and her husband, the truth unfolds: Jianmo is secretly the underground tycoon orchestrating the city's chaotic restructuring just to buy Tienya a quiet penthouse. Their marriage is a bittersweet dance of unspoken love, with Jianmo believing his bloodstained hands make him unworthy of her boundless warmth. When a fleeing artist discovers Tienya's sketches, she accidentally becomes the face of an explosive pop-art revolution. As Peizhi's labor rebellion and Jianmo's shadow war are shockingly revealed to be two halves of the exact same conspiracy, can Tienya sleep through the crossfire, or will she finally stand up to save her devoted husband?
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The Tycoon's Ticking Heir
By @john1208
It began at a deathbed. Standing over the loss of their mutual mentor, Tessana and Ondrio shared one grief-stricken night before she vanished. Five years later, Tessana is a shy but fiercely stubborn translator raising Tassio in the shadows of Alta-Venza. But four-year-old Tassio isn't a normal toddler - he’s an online stock-market prodigy. When Tassio enrolls in the elite academy funded by Ondrio himself, Tessana is subjected to agonizing near-misses, dodging the billionaire's gaze in the very hallways he owns. The stakes detonate when Tassio’s anonymous short-squeezes accidentally bankrupt a violent smuggling syndicate. Suddenly, armed mercenaries are hunting the 'mastermind,' plunging Tessana into a fast, action-packed race for survival. When Ondrio finally uncovers his heir in the crossfire, he coldly threatens a ruthless custody battle - even as he secretly melts at the boy's brilliance and fiercely shields them with his life. Amidst the gunfire and a bittersweet, unspoken love, Tessana guards a twist nobody mentioned: a ticking terminal diagnosis giving her exactly sixty days to live. Will Ondrio realize the truth and find a cure before her clock runs out?
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Bulletproof Nuptials
By @john1208
The story opens at the blood-soaked deathbed of Vahri's mentor, where she swears to protect little Pava from the megacorps hunting the child's rare genetics. Desperate for legal immunity and custody, Vahri crashes the heavily armed office of Zannet, a terrifying, chronically sleepless bio-tech CEO. She offers her skills as a rogue doctor in exchange for a contract marriage. Zannet immediately agrees, but only because Vahri's unique bio-signature miraculously cures his crippling insomnia. Told in alternating third-person perspectives between the oblivious medic and the exhausted boss, the arrangement spirals into chaos. Vahri completely misunderstands the rules. She assumes "exclusive partnership" means she must act as his personal saboteur. While Zannet just wants her to share a bed so he can finally sleep, a cheeky Vahri is out hijacking convoys and zipping up tactical dresses to infiltrate galas. The explosive, strictly non-romantic tension peaks during a high-speed train heist. When a handsome rival CEO openly flirts with Vahri, Zannet breaks his own non-interference protocol, crashing a gunship into the train out of fierce, irrational jealousy. As explosions rock the city, Vahri must figure out: is her boss trying to kill her for breach of contract, or is he just dangerously possessive?
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Night of the Brass Coin
By @john1208
The story opens with a breakneck chase through the neon-drenched slums of Kravathek, as underground doctor Dacha Zoria narrowly escapes a pack of cybernetic bloodhounds. Dacha never wanted romance; she just needed a quick burst of somatic energy to survive an experimental toxin. Breaking into a red-light district suite, she mistook the terrifying Spire Enforcer, Vorek Yastov, for a hired resonance escort. After extracting what she needed, she left a mocking thank-you note and three rusty brass tokens on his nightstand. Now, Vorek is furiously tearing the subterranean city apart to find and obliterate the woman who humiliated him. By day, Dacha hides in plain sight as the only physician capable of soothing his cursed insomnia, gritting her teeth as he vents about the 'street rat' he plans to skin. It’s a high-stakes, action-packed game of survival where one wrong glance means death. But as an unseen plague threatens the slums, Dacha discovers the mastermind behind Vorek's curse is her own mentor - whose terrifying actions are the only thing holding back a worse apocalypse. When a sudden bio-warfare attack forces Dacha to use her stolen resonance technique in triage, Vorek corners her. Will this desperate medical maneuver expose her as his elusive prey?
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Dead Water Paradox
By @john1208
Renzo Corbal was perfectly content wasting his days sleeping in the cliffside town of Punta Coral, much to the disgust of his powerful in-laws, the Castillo family. But while dodging punches in a seaside tavern brawl, a bleeding stranger crashes through the window, shoving a glowing relic into Renzo’s hands with a final, gasping warning of an impending megaflood. Sacrificing his peace and spending every coin he has, the lazy genius secretly retrofits an abandoned dreadnought into a heavily armed, fully automated ark so he can survive without lifting a finger. His in-laws laugh, calling him a paranoid parasite - until the ocean rears up and violently swallows the continent. Now, the surviving Castillos are drowning, begging for a spot on the ship they scorned. Renzo would rather leave them to the sharks, but the relic’s System promises immense firepower and automated upgrades for every soul rescued. There’s just one catch: the 'Salvation Tokens' act as a blaring sonar beacon to the abyssal horrors hunting in the new world ocean. With a double agent sabotaging his ship from within and an unspoken love trapped among his enemies, will Renzo’s laziness finally get him killed, or will he outsmart the deadly system?
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