Silence love
By @Moana
Ana's peaceful trekking adventure shatters when she stumbles into a perilous encounter with terrorists. Just as despair threatens to consume her, an elite army unit descends, a whirlwind of precision and power. Amidst the chaos, Sergeant Kai's gaze locks onto her, a silent promise of protection. She succumbs to unconsciousness in his strong arms, awakening later in an army hospital, the object of his unit's good-natured teasing. Kai, a man known for his icy demeanor and unblemished bachelor record, finds his world irrevocably altered by the vibrant woman he saved. As Ana grapples with the trauma, she realizes her quiet rescuer hides a profound loneliness, a mirror to her own unspoken fears. Their unexpected connection blossoms, testing the boundaries of duty and desire in a world where danger is a constant companion.
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Echoes of the Mind: The Unwanted Bond
By @Anne Hergott
The war is won, but Hogwarts is a ghost town of survival. Harry Potter returns to finish his education, carrying the crushing weight of survivor's guilt and an explosive anger he cannot tame. Draco Malfoy, branded a traitor and stripped of pride, seeks only to survive his final year in silence. But during a volatile defense seminar, an ancient, forbidden magic misfires, fusing their minds into a shared, inescapable consciousness. Suddenly, Harry’s blinding panic attacks and Draco’s cold, suffocating dread leak into each other's souls. Initially a violent agony of exposed secrets and violated boundaries, they cannot escape each other’s thoughts. When a radical faction of remaining Death Eaters begins targeting the school, using mind-altering artifacts, Harry and Draco realize their unwanted telepathic bond is the only weapon capable of anticipating the enemy's next strike. To save Hogwarts, they must stop fighting the link - and each other.
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His Sightless Shore
By @john1208
Lenya has spent her life in the Sunken Ring, a brutal arena where she was conditioned never to show weakness, never to cry. After a daring escape, she awakens on a storm-wracked islet, inside an ancient lighthouse that hums with forgotten power. Its sole occupant is Stellan, a towering, gentle man blinded by a corrosive blight, who perceives the world through the vibrant auras of living things. He offers her sanctuary, but Lenya is a weapon honed for violence, not a guest. She discovers her tears - the one thing she was trained to suppress - are the only substance that can soothe the blight eating away at Stellan's eyes. As they slowly lower their guards, Lenya begins to heal his sight, while Stellan’s quiet strength offers her a peace she's never known. But Stellan is not just a hermit; he is the last warden of a prison for a primordial entity, the very same entity the Sunken Ring's masters seek to resurrect. Can Lenya learn to cry for a man she's falling for, knowing that restoring his sight might be the final key to unlocking the apocalypse?
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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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The Scent of Stone and Sanctuary
By @john1208
I survived the subterranean blood arenas of Vorz by keeping my head down and my fists bloody, only to be sold as a sacrificial bride. My engagement ceremony took place at the edge of a freezing cliff, legally binding me to Gorben - the cursed, towering warlord of Vihar Keep. He was supposed to be a monster who would tear me apart. Instead, I found a gentle, completely blind giant whose body is slowly rotting from a dark magic curse. But when I am near, the rot recedes. My scent, forged by the very blood magic that tortured me in the pits, is the only thing neutralizing his agony. Finally, within the heavily fortified walls of his remote cliffside castle, I have found a place to rest. We are two broken things, healing each other in the quiet dark. But the man who orchestrated my torture and Gorben's curse is coming for us. Krezko isn't just a cruel master; he's harvesting our supernatural essence to save his dying kingdom from the Hollow Blight. Will our newfound sanctuary hold against a desperate king, or will our traumatic pasts finally drag us over the edge?
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The Muted Heir's Final Spring
By @john1208
The rainy funeral of the Jasker patriarch is the perfect cover for Olesia Varnas. A lazy genius with unmatched culinary skills, Olesia just wants a low-effort place to hide from the aging oligarch her family sold her to. She finds it at the Glass Bastion, serving Henrik Jasker. Mute by choice after a horrific corporate betrayal that left him deeply traumatized, the new heir is terrifying and suffers from violent night terrors. Yet, Olesia’s unapologetic laziness and perfectly brewed spiced milk become his only anchor in the dark. Told in alternating third-person perspectives, the story follows Henrik as he grows fiercely addicted to her quiet domestic warmth, viciously defending her against high-society vultures like the cruel supermodel Natalia Kors. But a shadow hangs over their bittersweet, unspoken love. Henrik is silently constructing a cold, clever revenge before a hidden time limit expires: a progressive toxin from the betrayal gives him exactly six months before total paralysis. With Olesia's pursuers closing in and Madam Birgitta manipulating them from the shadows, will their fragile sanctuary shatter before Henrik finishes his vengeance?
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