What the keys unlock
By @Autumn Marshall
Elara Finch is a ghost in her own life, a modern-day recluse hiding behind a wall of cold, analytical silence. Her quiet existence shattered when she inherited a brass ring holding seven mismatched keys and a slip of paper bearing a single address in the labyrinthine city of Oakhaven. Each key unlocks a door to a hidden room within the city's ordinary-looking buildings, revealing grotesque, impossible secrets: a library where books bleed, a parlor where clocks tick backward, and relics that defy physical laws. Guided by an uncanny, obsessive intuition that allows her to trace the resonance of these strange anomalies, Elara is drawn into a dark, unfolding puzzle. But she isn't just looking for answers; she is hunted by an unseen presence that wants the secrets kept locked. To survive, Elara must piece together the truth behind her inheritance before the final door unlocks her own destruction.
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Shadows of Valmont High
By @Millie Darvill
At Valmont Academy, old money buys absolute silence. To the student body, Paris Valmont is an untouchable goddess - beautiful, wealthy, and reigning supreme over elite house parties and rugby championship celebrations. But her flawless life is a desperate construction built on a foundation of lies. Beneath her cold, polished exterior lies the suffocating trauma of a fateful night she has spent years trying to forget. When her childhood sweetheart turned bitter rival, Julian Vance, returns to the academy with proof of her family's ruinous secrets, Paris's carefully curated world begins to fracture. To protect her family, she must play Julian's cruel social games, even as their toxic, competitive tension ignites a dangerous, forbidden passion. Caught between the haunting memories of her past and the suffocating reality of her present, Paris must decide if keeping her crown is worth losing her soul, or if she will let the dark truth consume her entirely.
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