Pakhan and the Nurse
By @Alyssa Marner
Katia Volkov, a nurse haunted by a past she desperately tries to bury, finds her quiet life shattered when she crosses paths with Dimitri Markov, the ruthless Pakhan of the Russian Mafia. Forced into close proximity by circumstances beyond her control, Katia discovers a dangerous allure in the man who commands an empire of shadows. As the smoldering tension between them ignites into a passionate inferno, old wars resurface, threatening to consume them both. Dimitri, a master of combat and manipulation, finds his iron will tested by Katia's fierce independence and hidden strengths. Their forced alliance against a common enemy blurs the lines between captor and savior, thrusting Katia back into a world of violence she vowed to escape. Can love bloom amidst the brutal theatre of mafia warfare, or will their fragile connection be crushed under the weight of betrayals and bullets?
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Threads of Our Undoing
By @mori
In the gilded, high-stakes world of the Neo-Victorian elite, Clara Vance is a master of illusion. Born into poverty but blessed with the unique kinetic ability to manipulate fabrics and threads, she weaves masterpieces that disguise the darkest secrets of the nobility. Yet, her most dangerous design is her own identity. When the ruthless Duke of Sterling, Julian Vance, uncovers her deception, he doesn't expose her - he forces her into a contract marriage to legitimize his claim to the throne. Surrounded by enemies and bound to a man who represents everything she fears, Clara must play the dutiful duchess. But Julian hides a devastating secret of his own, and as their forced proximity ignites a volatile, forbidden passion, the thread holding Clara's lies together begins to unravel. In a court where love is a weakness and trust is a death sentence, Clara must decide if her survival is worth losing her heart.
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The Art of Playing Dumb
By @john1208
Tressalia Branth has perfected the art of the vacuous smile. At her cousin's obscenely lavish engagement party, playing the champagne-guzzling ditz is the only way to hide her writer's block and protect her introverted younger brother, Kip, from their family's relentless social climbing. Desperate to finish her satirical masterpiece, Tress spontaneously whisks Kip away to the anonymous, neon-drenched metropolis of Oshkora. Told in alternating third-person perspectives, the story follows Tress as she navigates the deafening canals and meets Maddock - a scruffy, wandering traveler with a vintage camera and an equally cynical sense of humor. As they bond over mocking pretentious tourists, a slow-burn romance blossoms, and Tress finally finds her creative spark. Her breakthrough earns her the legendary Oshkoran Laurel, the city's ultimate artistic reward. But the prize is a trap, a legally binding snare designed to enslave brilliant minds into ghostwriting for untalented aristocrats. Escaping the city by the skin of her teeth, Tress assumes her fleeting romance is lost forever. That is, until she attends a stifling high-society wedding back home and accidentally spills wine on a groomsman - Maddock, completely out of his traveler's disguise. Will their Oshkoran connection survive the ridiculous reality of their real lives?
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The Hourglass Deception
By @john1208
Anahid Barseghian, a horologist of unparalleled talent, wants nothing more than to be left alone with her research and her naps. Her preternatural ability to perceive and untangle the timelines of objects makes her a genius, but the constant temporal noise makes her chronically exhausted. Her quiet life shatters when Levon Makarian, the grim heir of a rival House, abducts her on her wedding day. Consumed by grief, Levon believes Anahid sold the secrets of a sacred Temporal Anchor to his enemies, leading to his father's death. His revenge is meticulous and cruel: a forced marriage, binding her to him as a prisoner in her own home, the Karsian Archives, which he seizes. He forces her to use her unique powers to restore his broken family heirlooms, a constant, painful reminder of what he thinks she destroyed. But as the cogs of his vengeance turn, Levon finds himself captivated by his brilliant, infuriatingly passive captive. He sees glimpses of a truth that doesn't fit his narrative, even as the real traitor, his first love, watches from the shadows, ensuring her own devastating endgame falls into place. Can Anahid break through her apathy to fight for her freedom, and can Levon unravel the deception before his revenge consumes them both?
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The Hourglass Heart
By @john1208
I am Irena Nowakova, CEO of Aethelframe, and I live by one rule: control everything. When my brother, Ludwik, is killed in a suspicious 'accident', that control shatters. His final act was to name me guardian to his five-year-old daughter, Zoya - a variable I cannot afford. To maintain my grip on the company and hunt for Ludwik’s killer among the vipers on my board, I hire her teacher, Dariusz Pawlak, as a live-in tutor. He is everything I am not: warm, patient, and infuriatingly kind. He sees the cracks in my armor, and his quiet defense of me in a world of corporate sharks is a novel, disarming sensation. While my brother’s AI construct, the ‘Echo’, helps me navigate the investigation, Dariusz and Zoya are thawing a part of me I thought long dead. But Ludwik's secrets run deeper than corporate espionage. Hidden within the Echo is a final protocol I never knew existed, one that has already begun its countdown. What happens when the woman who controls everything discovers her own time is the one thing she can't manage?
4
What the Salt Said to the Stone
By @john1208
I am a salt-scourer, one of the few who can cleanse the Creeping Blight that devours our shores. My name is Otylia, and my skill is all that keeps my younger brother, Borys, alive. But when the affliction strikes him, the only cure lies with Voron, the monstrous, reclusive keeper of the Gorgon's Tooth lighthouse - a man whose very presence accelerates the Blight. He is a beast of salt-crusted stone and silent rage, his heart petrified by a loss he never speaks of. Voron offers a deal: my permanent service cleansing his blighted island in exchange for the rare ingredient that will save Borys. Trapped in his oppressive shadow, I chip away at the island's corruption and the stone around his heart, discovering the man buried beneath the monster. But the tides of his sorrow are relentless, and the island's blight is a reflection of his own soul. As a brutal storm traps us together, forcing us to rely on one another to survive, I realize the horrifying truth of our bargain. He wasn't blackmailing me for a cure; he was binding me as one. Can I save my brother and escape, or will I be eroded by the very grief I was meant to cleanse?
4
City of Stolen Hours
By @john1208
I packed a single bag to run away from my suffocating family dynasty, intending to lay low in a boring neighboring town. So waking up thousands of miles away on a first-class maglev train pulling into the blinding, chaotic metropolis of Vangkhon was a literal impossibility. I had a fake passport and a pocket full of cash. Someone had seemingly kidnapped me into a luxury vacation. Naturally, I decided to roll with it. In that labyrinth of night markets and neon arcades, I collided with Idris - a man wearing a bespoke suit like a straightjacket, desperate to escape his own corporate empire. We agreed to no pasts and no futures, just stolen weeks of shameless teasing, shared umbrellas, and a slow-burn connection that felt more real than my entire life. But reality always bites back. When a manufactured scandal cuts my trip short and forces me into hiding in a dreary apartment back in Galtier, I discover my miraculous 'escape' was actually a vicious framing orchestrated by my best friend and beloved cousin, Odalys. Stripped of my resources and cornered, I think it's over - until a familiar, soaking-wet billionaire knocks on my door in the pouring rain. Will our fleeting vacation romance survive the brutal daylight of my ruined life?
4
My Beastly Patron's Terrible Guide to Courtship
By @john1208
Eliana Vettori is a disaster. At least, that's what her family thinks when they send her to replace her brilliant runaway sister as the fiancée of the disgraced magi-tech artisan, Benedetto ‘The Ruin’ di Sforza. Cursed and reclusive after his Grand Orrery project catastrophically failed and killed his patrons, Benedetto is now a beast of a man, both in temper and, rumor has it, in form. Stuck with him in his decaying, automaton-filled estate, Eliana finds a list of 'household rules' left by her sister. Convinced it's a secret guide to winning over her grumpy fiancé, she cheerfully begins 'The Reformation Project.' She'll mend his heart, fix his home, and prove she's just as worthy as her sister! But Benedetto grows more dangerously protective with every rule she breaks, and the 'accidents' around the estate feel less than accidental. What if the list wasn't a guide to courtship, but a desperate warning about the very real curse that haunts the House of Sforza?
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A Cadence for His Ruin
By @john1208
Dr. Ilona Văduva is a rising star in performance psychology, known for her unshakable empathy. It's the perfect cover for the cold revenge she's meticulously planned against Lorin Călinescu, the celebrated but volatile conductor whose cruelty drove her mentor to ruin. Hired by his orchestra's board after a public meltdown threatens his career, Ilona holds Lorin's future in her hands; her psychological evaluation will either save him or end him. Their sessions become a battleground of clashing wills in the soundproofed halls of the Philharmonia, where his abrasive genius meets her clinical calm. Ilona's mission is to expose him as unfit, a monster hiding behind a baton. But as she chips away at his formidable defenses, she uncovers not a monster, but a man haunted by a devastating secret. When his vulnerability culminates in a life-threatening crisis only she can stop, her carefully constructed revenge begins to unravel. Can she sacrifice her own justice for the man she was sent to destroy?
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The Garment Bag Bride
By @john1208
I never planned on waking up zipped inside a breathable, temperature-controlled garment bag at thirty thousand feet. I also didn't plan on Tycho Renz - the tyrannical, sleep-deprived CEO of the city's most vicious fashion house - unzipping me and demanding I sign a marriage contract to repel his horde of litigious, gold-digging ex-fiancées. As a lowly pattern drafter, I should have run. As a quietly ruthless opportunist, I signed. The rules were simple: act like his adoring wife, secretly redesign his failing winter line to save the company, and never mistake his desperate need to sleep next to me for affection. Tycho is a chronic insomniac who only drops off when I'm in his bed. But the joke is on him. I recently uncovered encrypted sketches left by my own erased memory, proving I deliberately shipped myself to him in that bag to corner him into this marriage. My scheme was flawless - until my abusive, parasitic relatives finally tracked me down, and my cold, calculating boss decided to breach our contract by going absolutely feral to protect me. Just how unhinged is my fake husband willing to get?
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The Rainbound Decoy
By @john1208
In the middle of dodging a tire iron in a rain-soaked alleyway, Iolla pitches the ultimate deal to the terrifying Arkady Severin: she will carry his fake heir to draw out the assassins hunting him, in exchange for the exact sum needed to buy her emancipation from her abusive warden. Playing the bubbly, scatterbrained girl, Iolla hides a razor-sharp mind, treating her luxurious captivity in Arkady's rain-lashed penthouse as a temporary gig. But the cold transaction blurs when Arkady's icy demeanor fractures. A fake pregnancy wasn't supposed to trigger his obsessive protective instincts. Soon, he is threatening a terrified pastry chef to fire up his closed ovens at two in the morning just to satisfy her craving for spiced honey-cakes, and refusing to let her out of his sight. When rival Magnate Zanech attempts to kidnap the unborn decoy, Arkady's terrifying retaliation proves he isn't just protecting a corporate asset. But as Iolla reaches the end of her term and demands her freedom, she discovers the horrifying truth about her payout. Her emancipation papers are a legal snare, transferring her custody directly to him. Will she escape the golden cage, or let the monster who guards her sleep keep the key?
3
Lord of Ash and Oddities
By @john1208
Lord Kazimierz Radek is the most feared man in the smog-shrouded city of Kovelle. A ruthless industrial magnate and master of Shadow Weaving, he is known for his cold efficiency and the whispering rumors of a curse that haunts his bloodline. When his family's greatest rivals, the Votocheks, default on a generations-old debt, he demands payment in the form of their most valuable asset: their daughter, Veronika, a brilliant archivist renowned for her eidetic memory. Kazimierz expects a weeping damsel; he gets a woman who immediately starts reorganizing his library and color-coding his assassination contracts. Veronika, for her part, is pragmatic. Her new life is a problem to be solved. The lord is cold, his automaton butler is far too cheerful, and the manor seems to be actively trying to trip her. But when she stumbles upon Kazimierz in a state of utter panic, not from a looming threat, but from a single pigeon on his windowsill, she glimpses the traumatized boy beneath the monstrous facade. Can her logical approach to life possibly find a solution for a man whose heart is governed by an illogical fear?
3
Cold Haven
By @john1208
I was running on exactly three hours of sleep, an IV drip of caffeine, and crushing depression when my estranged father died. His final act? Handing me the deed to a remote cabin in the Vulkari Peaks. Desperate to escape my soul-crushing job as a logistics dispatcher for a soulless megacorp, I packed up my teenage brother, Bram, and fled to the snow. Enter Calder Hest. The quiet, broad-shouldered innkeeper next door chopped wood, made terrible jokes, and brewed excellent coffee. For the first time in years, my chest stopped aching. I thought I'd finally found a fleeting slice of peace. I was dead wrong. The cabin wasn't a gift to help me heal; it was a beacon designed by my father's enemies to lure us to a killbox with no witnesses. Suddenly, my relaxing vacation turns into a high-octane bloodbath in the snow, and Calder reveals a lethal set of black-ops skills that definitely aren't on an innkeeper's resume. We barely survive, and I flee back to the city to hide. But when a knock echoes through my apartment door in the pouring rain, and Calder is standing there bleeding, I have to ask: did the danger follow me, or did my heart?
3
Bound to the Ash-Reaper
By @john1208
Bahar’s ordinary morning routine of sharpening blades and dodging barracks inspection goes horribly wrong when a vivid, blood-drenched nightmare strikes: Kadir, the Bastion’s most lethal and silent warrior, is destined to butcher her and her entire squad during the upcoming Ascension Rite. Desperate, fiercely loyal to her friends, and intensely hot-tempered, Bahar decides to legally disqualify herself from his combat roster by faking a sudden engagement to a wealthy civilian merchant. But her clumsy evasion backfires spectacularly. The Bastion’s ancient Rune-Core detects the immense magical friction between them and interprets it as a 'Perfect Resonance.' Instead of being discharged, Bahar is soul-tethered to Kadir, meaning they now share pain, power, and an inescapable magnetic proximity. Forced to fight side-by-side in the infested ash-wastes, Bahar waits for Kadir to reveal his murderous nature. But when a cave-in traps them in the dark, she witnesses a shockingly gentle side to the supposed monster. As the system rewards their violent synergy with the coveted Vanguard’s Crown, they realize the prize is actually a lethal snare. Can they break the tether before the fortress feeds them to the abyss?
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Cradled in Ice
By @john1208
The rain at her father's funeral did not bother Tova Neri; the mountain of illicit debt he left behind did. A brilliantly lazy restorer of antique clockwork who prefers napping to working, Tova sees only one exhausting way out: offering her womb to Henrik Vaner. The frigid CEO of a maritime shipping empire needs an heir to secure his family trust, and a transactional surrogacy seems perfectly devoid of emotion. But as Tova moves into his sprawling, silent manor, the icy arrangement melts. Henrik's cold demeanor shatters under a fierce biological imperative. Soon, he is obsessively monitoring her sleep cycles, wrapping her in blankets, and, during one midnight craving, carrying her to the kitchen to quietly bake pastries together in the dark. Yet a melancholic shadow hangs over their domestic cocoon. Dr. Kaspar Olin has secretly altered their medical bindings, and Henrik's head housekeeper is playing both sides of a corporate war. As Tova's pregnancy advances, fragmented memories begin to resurface. Why does Henrik's estate feel so familiar? And what will he do when they both realize Tova's forgotten past self orchestrated this entire "accidental" surrogacy from the start?
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The Insomniac's Fake Bride
By @john1208
The story opens at a lavish engagement gala in the glittering city of Vespari. Zesara Fane, a shamelessly cheeky executive concierge, flashes a brilliant, fake smile beside her boss, the notoriously cold CEO Orenzo Vettori. To the world, it is a whirlwind romance. In reality, it is a strict contract: Orenzo provides the marital stability Zesara needs to win custody of her little brother, Timo, while she keeps Orenzo's overbearing family at bay. There is just one unwritten complication - Orenzo suffers from severe insomnia and can only drift off when Zesara is sleeping beside him. As shared beds lead to accidental intimacy, like zipping up dresses and sleepy embraces, a bittersweet, unspoken love blooms between them. Told in alternating third-person perspectives between Zesara and Orenzo, the stakes rise when Zesara uses her secret fluency in the obscure Qalaran language to save a vital international merger. Her triumph threatens a trusted corporate mentor who is secretly orchestrating their downfall from the shadows. When a sudden paparazzi ambush forces Orenzo to break his own rules with a fierce, jealous kiss, will their fragile love survive the sabotage, or will hidden enemies tear their newfound family apart?
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Synaptic Echo
By @john1208
Dr. Demyan Yevgrafov, a cold, calculating neurosurgeon, awakens in a sterile cryo-revival suite at the exclusive Zima Institute. He remembers dying. Now, he's alive, but not alone. A voice echoes in his mind - that of Zoya, a ghost tethered to him since his near-death experience. She was a patient at Zima, murdered by someone she loved, but trauma has erased the killer's face from her memory. Trapped together in the gilded cage of the institute, Demyan is her only link to the living world, her only hope of finding justice. As he reluctantly untangles the web of secrets surrounding Zima and Zoya's death, their forced intimacy sparks a slow-burning connection that thaws his frozen heart. But Zoya's last regret isn't just about finding her killer; it's about a revolutionary medical procedure she was part of. Can Demyan uncover the truth and fulfill her final wish, or will helping her pass on reveal a horror worse than death itself?
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Matchmaking My Murderer
By @john1208
I died on the end of Dragomir Rostova's shadow-blade. I know this because I just woke up with memories of my past life right before the Sable Vanguard squad assignments. Naturally, I did what any sane, survival-oriented girl would do: I faked a highly contagious, embarrassing magical bowel disease in front of the entire courtyard to avoid being paired with him. It didn’t work. My commander magically healed me on the spot, the whole fortress laughed, and now I’m stuck on a two-person elite monster-hunting team with my future killer. My new survival plan? Get him a girlfriend. If Dragomir is busy swooning, he won't have time to murder me. But every time I try to shove him into the arms of a blushing sniper, a cursed bounty we accidentally touched snaps us back together. We are physically and magically tethered. I can't escape him. Worse, while we're trapped in a collapsed basilisk burrow, I catch this supposedly ruthless killer gently feeding my six-legged pet ferret. If he's so gentle, why did he kill me? And why does the mysterious shadow-beast hunting our outposts feel exactly like the dark magic he wields?
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Faking My Death Broke the Mad Scientist
By @john1208
Olenka's transmigration into the gothic-industrial novel 'The Iron Apotheosis' begins with a brutal public humiliation at the Grand Exhibition. But when her reclusive, genius employer, Dr. Casimir Zhelanov, steps in to violently maim her tormentors, Olenka realizes he isn't just a brilliant scientist - he's a terrifying, unhinged obsessive. When her system violently glitches, warning her that her proximity to him guarantees a zero percent survival rate, it forces her hand. She fakes her death in a massive alchemical laboratory fire, leaving behind a charred biomechanical corpse. Thus begins a breathless, high-stakes game of cat and mouse across the smog-choked underbelly of the city. Olenka narrowly evades his clockwork hounds and relentless enforcers, believing she is escaping her doom. But Casimir is a genius who knows her fatal weakness. He engineers a devastating, localized affliction in her slum hideout, heavily guarding the only cure. Kind-hearted to a fault, Olenka cannot let innocents die and steps directly into his inescapable trap. As his possessive grip closes around her, she uncovers a horrifying twist: the system didn't want her to run to save her life. It wanted her to run so Casimir would lose his mind and trigger the apocalypse. Can she extinguish the apocalyptic obsession she accidentally ignited?
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The Echo in My Veins
By @john1208
Krystian Radomir was the undisputed prodigy of the Imperial War College of Radov, his cold calculations earning him victory after victory in their famed strategic simulations. But after a devastating public failure, orchestrated by his fiercest rival Zofia Laskova, he becomes a pariah. His humiliation is compounded when, after Zofia's sudden and mysterious death, he inherits the antique Meridian Compass she used to defeat him - only to find her ghost bound to it. Zofia, burdened by the regret of never exposing a traitor, can only move on if she finishes her mission. She proposes a truce: she can possess Krystian's body for brief periods, using her tactical insights to help him navigate the treacherous political landscape and regain his standing. In return, he must help her find her killer. Forced together, the two rivals slowly unravel a conspiracy that threatens not just Krystian's life, but the entire Radovian Empire. Can a man who trusts only logic learn to share his heart with a ghost he can never touch?
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My Chibi CEO's Contracted Heart
By @john1208
Lin Wei, a talented but struggling illustrator burdened by her family's crushing debt, finds her life irrevocably altered when she's coerced into a contract marriage with Gu Chenzhou, the notoriously cold and powerful CEO of Gu Industries. He needs a temporary wife to fulfill a clause in his grandfather's will and secure a crucial inheritance, while she needs an impossible sum to save her ailing father. Trapped in a lavish penthouse that feels more like a gilded cage, Lin Wei navigates the icy indifference of her "husband" and the suffocating expectations of high society. But Gu Chenzhou, despite his formidable exterior, is haunted by a past tragedy, and Lin Wei holds a dangerous secret: she's the anonymous creator of "Tiny Titans," a viral webcomic that mercilessly parodies Shanghai's elite, with Gu Chenzhou as her most frequent, and unflattering, muse. As their lives intertwine, sparks fly amidst the tension, and a formidable rival, Su Mochen, begins to take a keen interest in both Lin Wei and her hidden identity. Can their contract survive the truth, or will their carefully constructed world shatter, exposing fragile hearts beneath chibi exteriors?
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The Warlord's Unwanted Plus-One
By @john1208
On her deathbed, Neyla gripped her younger sister Qamara’s shirt and delivered one final, bizarre rule from her 'past life' memories: flee across the ocean and never, ever speak to Zehrav the Iron-Blooded, the warlord destined to slaughter them all. Deeply loyal and notoriously hot-tempered, Qamara immediately honors the dying wish. She steals the identity of a timid botanist named Farha, buys a one-way ticket through the Ley-Loom portals to a distant floating city, and breathes a sigh of relief. Then the portal collapses. To prevent its passengers from being lost in the void, the transit's emergency magic tightly tethers Qamara's soul to the only other person in the gate: Zehrav himself. Now physically stuck within a hundred paces of the brooding killer, Qamara must maintain her disguise as a weeping, fragile scholar while trying to ditch him in a chaotic jungle metropolis. Her hilarious, clumsy attempts to drive him away only convince him she needs his fierce protection. But the agonizing truth? Zehrav doesn't care about the botanist - he has always quietly, desperately loved Qamara's true self. What happens when she gets blackout drunk on fermented spark-fruit and furiously blabs the entire prophecy to the one man meant to kill her?
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The Cipher of Salt and Sorrow
By @john1208
I was once Lyra Vask, the prodigy strategist of the Argent Covenant, feared for my mind. Now, I am a ghost, trauma-muted and haunted by the massacre that stole my voice and my family. My only path to vengeance is a desperate deal with Lord Voron Tyr, the disgraced 'Beast of Kallasgrad,' a crippled giant slowly dying from a magical poison in his clifftop fortress, Kaelus Rist. He needs my scent, which inexplicably soothes the corrosive magic devouring him. I need his protection and resources to dismantle the Concordium that betrayed us both. It's a simple, cold transaction: my presence for his power. But the longer I spend within these stone walls, watching this gentle, broken man, the more the fortress feels less like a prison and more like a sanctuary. And the more I suspect this isn't a chance encounter. Flickers of a forgotten past - a complex cipher, a whispered promise - suggest this entire alliance was a gambit I set in motion long ago. What master plan did my former self devise, and can I trust the scarred man who is its centerpiece?
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My Landlady is a Liability (and a Ghost)
By @john1208
Zeger van Kessel, a certified genius whose only ambition is to achieve a state of permanent napping, has his plans for a life of blissful lethargy ruined when he inherits a ridiculously large, ridiculously dilapidated manor in the misty canal city of Breukelburg. The inheritance comes with a surprise roommate: Yfke van der Meer, the ghost of a 19th-century heiress who is spiritually duct-taped to the property. She’s dramatic, indignant, and absolutely convinced that Zeger’s great-great-grand-uncle is the scoundrel who murdered her. Unfortunately for Zeger, she's also his only key to finding a hidden family treasure that could fund his retirement into glorious slothfulness. Forced to live together, they bicker their way through a farcical investigation into a century-old murder, uncovering a plot far more ridiculous than either of them imagined. But as Zeger’s carefully constructed apathy begins to crack, he realizes the real treasure might be the ghost who’s turned his life upside down. Can a man who wants nothing more than to be left alone solve a murder for a woman who can never leave?
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The Weaver's Silent Loom
By @john1208
Iovian Adalrik, Grand Historian of the Varkosian Conclave, remembers everything. He remembers a past life where his most cherished creation, a chronicle of lost ages, was stolen and claimed by a brilliant young weaver named Nadiya Vesela, leading to his ruin and death. Reborn with his memories intact, Iovian orchestrates a chilling revenge. He uses his influence to have Nadiya, now a quiet but gifted apprentice tapestry-maker, assigned to the remote, silent Isenloft Archive under his direct wardship. Isolated from her family and唯一的support system, Nadiya finds her world shrinking to the cold fury in her new master’s eyes. As Iovian systematically dismantles her life, he is tormented by glimpses of the kind, resilient woman behind the traitor he is determined to punish. He finds himself drawn to her silent strength, an unspoken connection blooming amidst the bitter frost of his vengeance. But the truth of the past is not what it seems, and the real betrayer is much closer than he imagines, watching his cruel masterpiece unfold. Can Iovian unravel the threads of his own delusion before he destroys the woman he's starting to love?
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The Somnolent Cipher
By @john1208
Dr. Janek Mrozek, a medical prodigy whose career flatlined after a near-fatal research accident, now drifts through life with cynical detachment. His only connections are to his younger sister, Milena, and the strange, recurring dreams of a woman named Zosia, a silent ghost who died in the very sanatorium where he now works. Believing her to be a benign spirit with a deep regret, Janek begins piecing together the puzzle of her death, a mystery that seems entwined with the sanatorium's grim history and an unseen entity known as the 'Gloom Weaver'. As he deciphers Zosia's dream-borne clues and their unspoken bond deepens into a bittersweet love, Janek realizes the Gloom Weaver's next target is Milena. He races to break the curse, believing that solving Zosia's murder will set her free and save his sister. But what if setting her 'free' isn't the key to her peace, but the final step in the Weaver's century-old trap?
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What the Jasmine Dew Remembers
By @john1208
Anan Pimsai has spent his life playing the part of the family's cheerful, unambitious disappointment, a role that perfectly masks his sharp intellect. But his charade ends when he's tasked with pacifying the 'Devouring Orchid,' a vengeful ghost said to haunt their ancestral home. To do so, he must perform the Rite of Reverence, a complex ritual that allows him to see and speak with the spirit. Expecting a monster, he instead finds Soriya, a clever, wistful young woman trapped for a century by a curse. She reveals her 'accidental' death was a carefully orchestrated murder, and Anan is the descendant of the man who framed her. Bound by the ritual and a shared desire for the truth, they forge an unlikely alliance. As they unravel the mystery, a deep connection grows, but their investigation unearths a shocking secret: Soriya was not the only victim that day, and the true identity of the ghost Anan has been falling for is the key to a century-old lie. Can he uncover the truth and free her soul without destroying his own family?
2
A Vow Woven in Rain
By @john1208
I fell asleep in my cramped basement apartment and woke up in a silk bridal gown inside a locked penthouse suite. A note from my glamorous, ruthless twin sister explained the impossible: she had drugged me, swapped our places, and fled her arranged marriage to the most feared CEO in Mirel. Now, to protect my sister and appease his dying grandmother, I must pretend to be the confident executive he contracted to marry. Living with Keston Varr is a terrifying ordeal of forced proximity. He is cold, exacting, and enforces a strict contract of emotional distance. Yet, the boundaries begin to blur during the heavy coastal storms, when the untouchable billionaire seeks out my touch, trembling and terrified of the thunder. I soothe his fears, and my hidden fluency in forgotten dialects ends up saving his international merger. But when my violently abusive family finally tracks me down to extort the 'new bride,' Keston's icy composure shatters. He breaks every rule in our contract, going absolutely feral to protect me. What will happen when he discovers I'm the wrong sister - or worse, what if he knew all along?
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The Obsidian Substitute
By @john1208
Maris Lontar made a fatal mistake when she publicly humiliated meek Shae Joren at a high-society charity gala, forcing the desperate girl to flee. She didn't account for Shae's identical twin, Riva. Fiercely loyal and hot-tempered, Riva steals her sister's identity and signs the degrading surrogacy contract Shae left behind, securing the massive payout for their younger brother's life-saving thoracic surgery. Her plan is cold and clever: infiltrate the ultra-secure penthouse of Brekkan Thrace - Maris’s glacial billionaire fiancé - gather enough corporate dirt to ruin the manipulative woman, and vanish. But Brekkan is not the detached executive Riva expected. Forced into cohabitation, Riva’s fiery defiance clashes violently with his ruthless control. Yet, as the biological imperative of the pregnancy sets in, Brekkan’s icy demeanor cracks, giving way to an unhinged, suffocating protectiveness. Soon, he is hunting down paparazzi trying to expose her, and strong-arming a closed street-side restaurant at 3 AM just to satisfy her craving for spicy noodles. With Brekkan's sharp-eyed grandmother secretly aiding Riva’s revenge, her plan is flawless - so why does the thought of leaving his gilded cage suddenly feel like the ultimate betrayal?
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Symptoms of a Sweet Vow
By @john1208
Dr. Senna Caris is a brilliant medical botanist who prefers napping in the company greenhouse over climbing the corporate ladder. Her peaceful, lazy days are shattered when a mysterious delivery arrives at her desk: a limited-edition 'Puff-Griffin' plushie clutching a contract. Her icy, ruthless boss, Kiran Reyker, needs a fake wife to fend off a relentless swarm of gold-digging exes. In exchange, he will fund the world-class care Senna’s little brother desperately needs. She reluctantly agrees, using her hidden medical talents to secretly treat Kiran’s debilitating, agonizing nerve condition. Cohabitation reveals a softer side to the terrifying CEO - namely, his massive, closely guarded collection of adorable plushies. As Senna's unorthodox treatments soothe his pain, Kiran's cold boundaries melt into a fierce, irrational jealousy whenever other men approach his 'fake' wife. When a sudden paparazzi ambush forces Kiran to protect her with a real, desperate kiss, all the rules are broken. But neither realizes the old notary filed a specific regional contract with a hidden time limit: in exactly ninety days, all annulment clauses vanish, and the marriage becomes irrevocably permanent. Will Kiran let her walk away, or will the plushie-loving boss finally admit his heart is entirely hers?
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Appetite of the Ashen Prince
By @john1208
Transmigrated into the grimdark novel Requiem for the Eclipse, Sabina Vladescu wakes up at a rain-drenched funeral with a death sentence hanging over her head. She has just been betrothed to Prince Gavril - the starved, illegitimate outcast destined to plunge the kingdom into eternal night. Worse, her family orchestrated the execution of his mother, making them bitter blood rivals. Knowing Gavril’s future massacre is driven by the agonizing hunger and isolation he currently suffers, the world-weary and sarcastic Sabina decides on a highly pragmatic survival strategy: aggressive domesticity. Armed with heavy iron pots and heavily spiced meats, she storms his haunted, freezing tower every night. She ignores his venomous glares and forces hot meals down his throat, wrapping him in furs whether he likes it or not. But Sabina’s plan works a little too well. The terrifying future tyrant quickly realizes that coughing pathetically and pretending to be terrified of the dark earns him warm hugs and extra servings of honeyed duck. As the eerie court plots their demise, when did this feral, brooding rival turn into a clingy shadow who refuses to let her leave his side?
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Echo of the Sunken Vow
By @john1208
Jaro Kossuth remembers his first life with bitter clarity: the sting of betrayal, the fall of his house, and the smiling face of Zsofia Varga as she orchestrated it all. Granted a second chance by a cruel twist of fate, Jaro has returned to the past with one goal: to ruin Zsofia as completely as she ruined him. Using knowledge of the future, he corners her, blackmailing the seemingly carefree cartographer's daughter into becoming his public fiancée - a gilded cage where he can control her every move. But Zsofia is not the villain he remembers. Her cheerful demeanor hides a razor-sharp mind, and she navigates his political traps with an unnerving grace that slowly unravels his certainty. As Jaro's obsession deepens, he finds himself drawn to the woman he has sworn to destroy, all while Zsofia quietly searches for the source of his inexplicable hatred. When a hidden diary surfaces, containing the devastating truth of their shared past, will Jaro recognize the real traitor before his quest for vengeance consumes them both?
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The Warlord's Guide to Unsolicited Cuddles
By @john1208
Dr. Zosia Pavlasek, a Mind-Mender whose empathy is as vast as her temper is short, is on the brink of eviction. Her last hope arrives in a bizarre, gilded box: a job offer she can't refuse. The patient is Stellan Varos, the infamous 'Iron Warlord of the North,' a man so traumatized by his brutal past that the slightest physical contact sends him into a violent, destructive frenzy. The job? Live in his isolated, frost-bound manor and cure him. The pay? Enough to solve all her problems and then some. Armed with radical therapeutic techniques and a talking, kleptomaniac raven sidekick, Zosia chips away at Stellan's icy exterior. She’s shocked to find not a monster, but a deeply wounded man desperate for connection. But as Stellan's walls crumble and he begins to heal, Zosia uncovers the terrifying fine print of her contract: her 'cure' is not a cure at all, but a process that forges an unbreakable psychic bond. If she succeeds, she becomes his living anchor, forced to stay by his side forever to keep his demons at bay. Is the safety she fought so hard to win worth the price of her freedom?
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Ballistic Housekeeping
By @john1208
Zova Ren remembers nothing but how to bake the perfect saffron-honey pastry and how to dismantle a biometric lock in three seconds. Working as a maid for Garek Sintra - a brilliant billionaire with severe PTSD - is a daily rivalry. Garek builds state-of-the-art defenses to isolate himself; Zova shamelessly breaks through them every morning to force-feed him breakfast. Garek acts outraged, yet secretly craves the daily dopamine hit of her bright smile and grounding presence, even secretly grading her practice essays for the Kyran Scholastic Institute. But when heavily armed mercenaries breach the manor, an ordinary Tuesday becomes a chaotic warzone. Trapped in his panic room, Garek watches the security feeds in shock as his sunny maid casually weaponizes the cleaning supplies. Complicating matters is Velia, a manipulative socialite who faked an injury to stay over, and a treacherous double agent on the staff. As Garek guides Zova via intercom - quizzing her on history dates while she dodges bullets - they uncover that the syndicate leader is Garek’s childhood kidnapper, driven by a tragic desire to save his dying daughter. Can Zova survive her awakening violent instincts long enough to protect the man she's falling for?
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A Hunger So Vicious
By @john1208
Opening in a dimly lit, rain-lashed office, Saskia Radic strikes a devil’s bargain. To rip custody of her little brother from her sadistic uncle, she agrees to a three-year contract marriage with her terrifying employer, Kazimir Ozerov. Kazimir is a ruthless billionaire who hasn't slept or eaten a full meal in years, paralyzed by the trauma of a past betrayal. But Saskia is utterly shameless, and her exceptional culinary skills become the only thing that can coax the beast to eat and rest. Their arrangement has strict boundaries, until Ostrom's violent thunderstorms reduce the cold boss to a trembling mess who demands her presence in his bed. As accidental touches - zipping a dress, sharing a blanket - turn into suffocating tension, Kazimir's indifference fractures into a fierce, irrational jealousy. Meanwhile, a deadly string of syndicate poisonings sweeps the city. When a sudden, brutal fever brings Saskia to the brink of death, Kazimir panics, breaking his own ironclad rules to save her. But his frantic realization of his feelings uncovers a horrifying twist: the custody battle and the shadowy assassin hunting Kazimir are orchestrated by the exact same mastermind. Can Saskia survive the man she was unknowingly sent to destroy?
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The Marrow-Bound Melody
By @john1208
Stellan Varik is the last of his line, a cheerful but aimless young man who inherits the crumbling Varik estate and its greatest treasure: a clavichord made of bone and weirwood. He soon learns the instrument is haunted by Alisa, the ghost of a musician sacrificed in a dark ritual a century ago. Bound to the clavichord, Alisa's only connection to the living world is through Stellan, who she can possess for fleeting moments. Together, they begin to piece together the truth of her murder, uncovering a conspiracy tied to a parasitic entity that feeds on the souls of the Varik family. Stellan, who has spent his life avoiding responsibility, finds a purpose in freeing the spirited ghost who has become his only companion. But the ritual that killed Alisa wasn't just a murder; it was a lock. What happens when the only way to save the ghost he's falling for is to unlock the cage and release the monster she was meant to contain?
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His Last Good Headline
By @john1208
Rina Gavrilas is the best in the business. They call her 'The Mortician' because she buries scandals so deep they're never seen again. Her latest client, however, is a career-defining nightmare: Damen Aris, the enigmatic heir to a shipping empire, whose self-destructive behavior is legendary. Hired by Damen's dying father and bound by an ironclad contract that gives her unprecedented control, Rina arrives at the old man's funeral ready to spin tragedy into triumph. But Damen isn't the arrogant playboy the tabloids paint. He's a man haunted by a past trauma, lashing out to keep the world at bay. Their professional relationship is a battlefield of clashing ethics - her ruthless pragmatism against his defiant self-sabotage. Every strategy she deploys, he counters with a new disaster. Yet, beneath the animosity, a reluctant understanding grows, an unexpected spark in the eye of the media storm. When a city-wide lockdown traps them in his penthouse, the line between professional duty and personal desire blurs into nonexistence. But as Rina chips away at the walls around his heart, she's unaware that the greatest threat to Damen's future isn't a reporter's headline, but a betrayal from someone she trusts implicitly. Can she save him from his demons, and herself, when the real enemy has been by her side all along?
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A Vow of Thorns and Silver
By @john1208
After her father's sudden death leaves her family destitute, Danuta Rostova sacrifices her future by accepting an arranged marriage to the enigmatic Duke Ziven Radomir, a man who has not been seen in society for years. Her only goal is to secure a safe life for her sickly younger brother, Alek. But the sprawling, isolated estate of Kresnik Spire holds dark secrets, and her new husband is a man of shadows and sorrow, kind one moment and terrifyingly distant the next. Danuta's kindness slowly chips away at Ziven's walls, revealing a gentle soul trapped by a horrifying curse: every full moon, he becomes a mindless, bloodthirsty beast. As their arranged marriage blossoms into genuine love, she learns the curse can only be broken by a willing sacrifice from someone who truly loves him. When a former suitor, Baron Verian, arrives with the intent to expose Ziven and claim Danuta for himself, she must make an impossible choice: protect the man she loves by condemning him to a lifetime of monstrosity, or save his soul by surrendering her own life?
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The Ghost in My Gun
By @john1208
Detective Zoryan Volkov lives by one rule: trust no one. His latest assignment is the decade-old cold case of Liriana Voronin, an heiress sacrificed in a bizarre ritual and left for dead in the abandoned Voronin Manor. When Zoryan wakes up chained inside the manor's decrepit ballroom, he finds himself face to face with Liriana's ghost, a fiery spirit just as stubborn as he is. Bound to the manor and furious about her unsolved murder, Liri has one unique ability: she can possess Zoryan's body. They strike a reluctant deal - he'll be her hands and feet in the living world if she helps him find the evidence to nail her killer. As they clash over control and chase down leads, their rivalry sparks into an impossible attraction. But the killer is still out there, preparing the next ritual, and the one person helping them uncover the truth may be the very architect of their doom. Can they solve the murder and find a way to bring her back before the killer silences them both for good?
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Bully
By @Robin The demon child
On her third day at Yerev Academy, a prestigious, hyper-competitive elite school, transfer student Elara Vance arrives to find her desk completely smashed to splinters. Unbeknownst to her, the destruction was the byproduct of a brutal post-class brawl involving Adrian, the school’s most feared and brilliant delinquent. When the indifferent principal tells her a replacement will take a week, Elara is left stranded without a seat. Enter Adrian. Towering, hot-headed, and impossibly cunning, he offers her a deal: share his desk. Elara, desperate to survive in this cutthroat environment, reluctantly accepts, unaware that her new 'savior' is the very monster who broke her desk in the first place. As they are forced into suffocating proximity, Adrian plays a dangerous double game of protector and tormentor. But in a world where weakness is social suicide, proximity breeds a volatile, dangerous attraction that threatens to shatter both of their carefully constructed defenses.
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