AS OF SEPTEMBER 2026 - OPEN to new members! ˙⋆✮⋆˚࿔ A permanent pairing book club that aims to have your entire book read by your partners.

Every empire begins with a mother's sin. Every Lilith leaves a mark no man can forget, and every life that crosses her path is altered, or quietly undone. Hülya was not born cruel. She was born clever in a world that devours the innocent and mistakes gentleness for weakness. In the court of Mehmed III, mercy is a luxury few survive, and love is a liability that can cost a throne. So she chooses fire over fear, ambition over surrender, and sin before sin has the chance to choose her. Merciless is the story of a mother who refused to fall in a world designed to bury her, and of the empire that would never be the same because of it.

Wesley Moran is terrible at being evil. Unfortunately for him, he's expected to take over his father's supervillain empire. When the mean girl at his high school discovers his secret alter ego as the Phantom, a bargain is struck up - pretending to date as revenge on Iris's ex boyfriend, who just so happens to be the Phantom's rival. But as tensions brew between an anti-superpower political party that involves Iris's father, a rising rogue villain, and Iris's own developing abilities, their high school drama soon becomes the tip of the iceberg in a world of not overcoming evil, but outdoing it. [BOOK 1 IN THE VILLAINOUS VIRTUES SERIES] [COVER BY NIGHTWVNGS]

There are strange creatures in the water - and TEMPEST RAERIR is tasked with keeping them there. The gods have long since abandoned the Queendom of Khaedel, letting monsters of the deep plague the land with sickness and death. She defends the shores and kills anything that dares to step onto the sand. When one of the queens of Khaedel - Tempest's mentor - falls ill, her duty switches to saving who she cares about most. And she just might be the key to saving everyone. The deeper you go into the Arnstar Ocean, the more powerful the creatures become, and THE WARDEN'S duty is to keep them all in line. For centuries, the magic keeping the most depraved monsters at bay has been waning. Now that cracks have cut through the surface, the Warden faces no choice but to obtain the help of the beings that despise them the most. Tempest and the Warden must band together and venture as far down into the Arnstar Ocean as they can to seal the fissures. Only, getting there might not be as easy as they thought. Can they survive the battles with the leviathans that lurk in the darkness? Or will they prove the gods right that the land is hopeless? ONGOING 2026 © -DeeIsDead-

When the two rival football stars collide again, the tension between them shifts from hatred to something far more dangerous. Loving the enemy could destroy their seasons, their futures, and the identities they've fought to protect. *** Gabriel Chase rebuilt his body from the ground up. After a season-ending injury nearly stole his future, he's back on the field with something to prove. He refuses to be underestimated. He refuses to be someone's secret. Mateo Del Campo built his reputation on control. On the field, he hits hard and never apologizes. Off the field, he keeps his real thoughts locked behind discipline and loyalty. He does not make mistakes. He does not lose focus. When their rivalry reignites during Gabriel's comeback season, the tension between them shifts from resentment to something neither of them knows how to name. The chemistry is undeniable. The consequences are brutal. In a sport where loyalty is everything and weakness is punished, falling for the enemy is more than a risk. It's a gamble with careers, reputations, and hearts on the line. *** Open Novella Contest entry for 2026 Prompts: 30, 58

When Elora comes back home one afternoon, she discovers her mentor dead-just another in line of her recent nightmares that came true. With his final message telling her to find a reclusive researcher, as well as the traces of corrupted obsidian powers at the scene of the crime, she quickly realizes that there is something much larger behind her mentor's death. Something has been corrupting Obsidians, and Elora is one of the few people who are seeing that. And now that something has killed her mentor and forced her on a journey she never desired to go on. With the help of an enthusiastic alchemical apprentice-to-be, Elora will have to find Arcani and put an end to the corruption that is trying to catch up to her before it's too late.

A wedding crasher with a broken past. A mafia boss who doesn't believe in accidents. Some love stories begin at the altar. This one begins with an interruption. °°° Male x male romance This book might contain mature content -most likely words that feels illegal to use :). Please be aware of that.

When a cautious Formula One engineer crosses paths with a damaged comeback driver, she discovers that the most dangerous variable she should assess in the sport isn't speed-but attachment. ✦✦✦ Adriana Santos has always known her place on a championship-winning Formula One team is contingent. Excellence, she learned early, is not the same as security. She works in a role the paddock barely understands-simulating failures before they happen, answering 'what ifs' before they become 'what went wrong', and treating the car like a living thing whose future rests in her hands. Her work is quiet, precise, and easily erased the moment she becomes inconvenient. She is careful because she has to be. She knows Joshua Thomas long before she meets him: the driver who changed his name to fit in, the anomaly on a rival team forever tipped for titles. To Adriana, he's a reaction curve that never quite returned to baseline after last season's crash. His comeback is framed as resilience. Many are simply waiting to see him fail. They meet by accident, in a moment stripped of his usual extravagance and pretence. Adriana notices what she always notices-the face behind the mask, the way he laughs through failure like it doesn't frighten him. Adriana doesn't forget him, though. She keeps her distance but Joshua doesn't, and their reluctant friendship begins to bend into something riskier. And they both know exactly what it could cost them. ✦✦✦ ✦ Open Novella Contest 2026 | Prompts 24, 29, 30, 44 ᴄᴏᴘʏʀɪɢʜᴛ © 2026 ʙʏ ᴀᴜᴅʀᴇʏ ᴀʟʟ ʀɪɢʜᴛꜱ ʀᴇꜱᴇʀᴠᴇᴅ.