Forbidden Dawn: Monika
By @Tommi
Bound by a past accident and a sacred promise, Adam, a man marked by lingering scars, finds himself inextricably drawn to Monika, the wife of his best friend and godmother to his son. Monika, with her striking auburn hair and compassionate heart, once brought him solace in his darkest hour, delivering meals to his hospital bed after a life-altering accident. Now, with Adrian, her husband, frequently away on business trips, the unspoken tension between Adam and Monika intensifies. Adam grapples with his intensifying feelings, torn between loyalty and a desire that threatens to shatter their intertwined lives. Can love truly blossom from such a complicated past, or is their connection doomed to remain a forbidden fantasy?
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SARK
By @Drew Bonnell
Quiet and reserved Drew Sark arrives at the infamous Nevermore Academy in Jericho, Vermont, hoping to escape his haunted past. But peace is a luxury he cannot afford. A string of brutal, ritualistic murders begins to plague the sleepy gothic town, and Drew is thrust directly into the bloody center of the investigation. Haunted by unsettling raven visions that offer prophetic, agonizing glimpses of impending deaths, he must wield his potent, unstable electrokinesis and sharp intellect to survive. His only anchor in this storm of dark secrets is his vibrant, colorful werewolf roommate, Enid Sinclair. As the bodies pile up and the school's shadows deepen, Drew realizes the killer isn't just hunting outcasts - they are hunting him. To save those he is slowly learning to care for, Drew must unravel a web of ancient conspiracies, even if it means unleashing the destructive, lightning-charged monster dwelling deep within his own fractured soul.
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Of Frost and Freckles
By @john1208
Narineh, the ever-optimistic ‘Sunpetal’ of Arevik, has always found a reason to smile, even at her own father's funeral. But her cheer is put to the ultimate test when she's bartered in a marriage alliance to the notoriously cold Lord Vahagn of the Vorotan Peaks. His touch brings frost, his words are clipped shards of ice, and his heart is a fortress locked away since the day he witnessed his parents’ murder. To save her people from a creeping, unnatural winter, Narineh must live in his frozen citadel and endure his chilling presence. Undeterred, her shameless and cheeky warmth begins to chip away at his frosty exterior, revealing glimpses of a vulnerable man beneath the gloom. But as a bittersweet, unspoken affection thaws the air between them, Narineh realizes the creeping frost that plagues their lands isn't a natural phenomenon, and the architect of Vahagn's lifelong winter is far closer than either of them imagined. Can she bring the true spring to his heart before a trusted ally buries them both in an eternal frost?
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SARK
By @Drew Bonnell
Quiet and reserved fifteen-year-old Drew Sark arrives at the infamous Nevermore Academy in Jericho, Vermont, desperate for a fresh start. Instead, he is thrust into a living nightmare as a string of brutal, monstrous murders plagues the sleepy town. Haunted by unsettling raven visions that show him prophetic, gruesome glimpses of deaths before they happen, Drew must learn to navigate his volatile, unstable electrokinesis and an intellect sharper than any blade to survive. His only anchor in this gothic hellscape is his vibrant, bubbly werewolf roommate, Enid Sinclair. As the blood toll rises, Drew's visions paint a target on his back. To stop the killer, he must unravel a dark web of ancient school secrets while fighting his own self-destructive obsession with solving the mystery. With every shock of lightning and bloody vision, Drew edges closer to a truth that threatens to consume his sanity and destroy the only home he has ever known.
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A Resonance of Stillness
By @john1208
Mirina Novastra, a cartographer renowned for her brilliant mind and profound laziness, wants nothing more than a quiet life of naps and well-funded expeditions. Her plans derail when her vivacious twin sister flees an arranged marriage, forcing Mirina to take her place. Her new husband is Lord Gavril Saros, the 'Beast of the Still-Glass Spire,' a man so tormented by the trauma of his parents' murder that his grief has crystallized into a deadly, silent blight known as the 'Stillness,' a phenomenon that petrifies all life it touches. Trapped in Gavril's silent, crystalline fortress, Mirina finds her new husband is not a monster, but a rival intellect trapped in a prison of his own making. Tasked with mapping the blight and finding a cure before it consumes them both, she begins to see the vulnerable man behind the cold facade. As she uncovers the secrets of his past and the true nature of the Stillness, Mirina realizes that saving him from his grief might mean confronting the very person responsible for it - and questioning whether the heart she's trying to heal is the only one in danger.
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The Artificer's Silent Vow
By @john1208
I am Ilona Rostova, a scribe from a fallen house, and my wedding day is a transaction. I am the price to secure an alliance with House Valerius and its reclusive master, Stefan, the infamous 'Tarnished Artificer'. His name is a curse, whispered in connection to the Great Cogfall Disaster that claimed dozens of lives and shattered his reputation. My new husband is a beast of a man, scarred and silent, who communicates only through curt notes and the whirring of his clockwork servants. His rules for our marriage are simple and stark: never touch his personal workshop, never ask about the past, and never show him pity. To him, I am merely a political pawn, a ghost in his gilded cage. But I see the tremor in his hands and the sorrow in his guarded eyes. I have my own duty - to protect my younger brother from the vultures circling our family - and I will endure this cold union. When I find him collapsed from exhaustion, I break his rules not out of defiance, but simple kindness. That single act starts a chain reaction, revealing that the vows of silence I thought were meant to imprison me were actually protecting a devastating secret. Could the 'beast' I married be the only person who truly understands what it means to be trapped?
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