What happens when you meet someone on the worst night of their life? When they're standing on the edge of a bridge and you're the only one who sees? How does a story like that begin? The story of two people who meet when everything's already falling apart. After her twin sister's death, Norah Bishop learns how to look whole - polished, composed, untouchable. She carries a secret that feels heavier than grief and a guilt she mistakes for balance. If something was taken, something must be paid. Daniel Cohen has been quiet his whole life. Not because he has nothing to say, but because no one ever listened. Not when it mattered. He doesn't believe in fate. He believes in control. In endurance. In loving one person so steadily it becomes instinct. They aren't supposed to collide. But from the moment they do, something ancient and unspoken refuses to let go - in glances across classrooms, in banters, in conversations that stretch past midnight, in touches that feel like recognition rather than discovery. As old wounds surface and truths threaten to unravel everything, Norah must decide whether she will keep living like punishment - or choose a love that feels terrifyingly alive. This is a story about grief that lingers. About desire that burns through fear. About two people who don't promise to save each other - only to stay. -------- [Book 1] in the Norah & Daniel Universe

Angelina D'Amato was twenty-three and pregnant when Vincenzo went to prison. Twenty-three and terrified that the life he chose would swallow their daughter he didn't know about whole before she even took her first breath. So she had to make a choice. Walk away or watch everything burn. She chose to walk away. Seven years later, 1995 NYC, she's an undercover NYPD agent with a new face and a singular focus. She's to infiltrate the Castellano crime family and take down their Consigliere. The job is dangerous. The target is deadly. And when she sits across from Vincenzo Vitale for the first time as "Marianna Marino," she realizes the worst part isn't the risk of being killed. It's that he still looks at her like she's the only person in the room. Vincenzo Vitale spent seven years building an empire on the ashes of everything he lost. Prison taught him control. Power taught him patience. Being Consigliere taught him that sentiment gets you killed. Angelina broke him, but he had moved on. He turned off his emotions and let the dark mafioso life consume his soul. There was no more room for heartbreak, and he'd learned to live in the dark until she became the light he didn't want. When the blonde woman walked into his world, something about her unravels him in ways he can't explain. She's too smart for her own good. Too familiar in moments that shouldn't feel familiar at all. He tells himself it's attraction or chemistry and nothing more. Until Vincenzo is hit with the realization that she is not some ordinary blonde, but the woman he used to love. Love doesn't always give you a choice. Sometimes it just gives you a reckoning and the knowledge that some people were never meant to be strangers, no matter how hard you tried to make them disappear.

Long before he became a general, Li Chengjue discovered a portrait of a girl who shouldn't exist. The palace artists had secretly painted a series of imperial "omens": symbolic portraits meant for divination. One painting was deemed dangerous and burned - the one of the girl. Her eyes have haunted him ever since. Years later, he sees the same eyes in a woman: Shen Qingyan, the capital's top courtesan - whose charm, ambition, and secrets make her as dangerous as she is irresistible. The one woman he should never trust. But why can't he look away? *** On a short break for the festive season - be back in the new year! \(^o^)/

In a world where emotion is power, the Academy of Velanor guard and educate what remains of the shattered Cores: 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞. 𝐑𝐚𝐠𝐞. 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟. 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞. Each bound to a human life. When Serra's Core ignites without warning, she is thrust into the unknown world and rules of Velanor, a place, she soon realizes, that feels both like a cage and sanctuary, compared to the dying world she came from. Serra meets Aren. A Corebearer marked by a forbidden past. His magic is unstable. His temper, 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦. And when their powers collide, the old myth stirs again. The same myth that once broke the world. NEW CHAPTERS ARE POSTED 1-2 TIMES A WEEK!

Wang Linxue transmigrates into a novel and becomes the villanous second female lead of a wealthy family. In the original plot, she schemes over the female lead who also schemes back, but is defeated in the end. The male lead Xi Jinwei she wants for herself tortures her to death. When Wang Linxue transmigrates, she vows to get in her father's good graces, scheme on the female lead who sabotages her and do good so she could live a good life. Good plan right? So why is the two faced and stubborn male lead courting her instead of the female lead? Just because she showed him some kindness when they were younger? The villainess and male lead aren't meant to be together. Right? Well, it was up to her to carve her own path in this life or follow the novel . NB: This is my original work. Plus I'm an amateur writer and this book is my first so overlook any plot holes and inconsistencies and try and enjoy the book.

He took her because she remembered. She was his to keep. But she was his Keeper. ___ To her, he was a stranger with eyes that haunted and words that chilled. He walked among many, but none remembered his steps - none but her. To him, she was the key to breaking a cycle of misery. But every heartbeat she gave him pulled him closer to the end. In a world where memory decided who lived and who faded, love was the most dangerous thing of all. ___ ▶Word count (Originally 18000) ▶A quick and easy read romance ▶Some mature scene ▶No guarantee of a happy ending (read at your own risk)

She never failed her order. He learnt to see danger. Their path clashed, reckoning to destroy one another. ••• "Kill me already! What are you waiting for?!" He crouched down, giving her a look she had never seen before. Something she first thought was curiosity, but there was more; there was sympathy. "Because I don't understand you, and you don't understand me." ••• The city flourished, the power spread, and the force reigned from the ruling of PEACE. But deep within laid a secret they hid for centuries. They kept her alive. They put her on a leash. They use her for stability. She was Joule, a stolen relic from their enemy. Ash live all his life inside walls. He revolted against everything he didn't understand until one day, a tragedy hit, and he met Joule. At first glance, she was destruction. But something was keeping him from ending her; conscience. The stigma of fear would soon collide with conscience. And in order to save his family, Ash would put an end to PEACE. ••• Beautiful cover credit to @guinealove2005

This fanfiction is for a very special @Oohkahmee who asked for a Zhao Yun X Reader fanfiction. ------- "Will he ever notice me? Am I good enough for him? What do I have to do to get his attention?" How desperate are you to earn the Dragon of Changsha's love? Will he even love you back?