©bloodlikegrace ENGLISH VERSION ! cover by @dancefevers ( see more in the graphic gallery chapter ) In the shadows of Paris's underworld, Alessia grew up confined to a house of prostitution, knowing only shame and despair. Her life takes a dramatic turn when an enigmatic man, the Count of Monte Cristo, frees her from her chains and reveals a shocking truth: she is the descendant of a noble lineage, betrayed and forgotten. Now, she has the chance to seek revenge and reclaim what was stolen from her. In the glittering salons of Parisian aristocracy, Alessia must learn to navigate the games of power and deception. But as she grows closer to Albert de Morcerf, a sincere and passionate young man, she finds herself torn between her role in the Count's intricate plan of vengeance and her own burgeoning feelings. Albert is the son of a man tied to the wounds of her past. Can she love the one she was meant to despise? In her quest for truth, Alessia confronts her tormentors and uncovers the dark secrets of her family. But with every revelation, she plunges deeper into a world where manipulation and betrayal reign supreme. As the masks fall away, Alessia must choose between her desire for revenge and her need for love, between the justice she seeks and the future she hopes to build. "Le Jeu des Masques" is a compelling tale of identity, redemption, and forbidden love, where every choice risks shattering what the heart yearns to rebuild.

❝ 𝓗𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓶𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓵𝓮𝓽 𝓶𝓮 𝓰𝓸. ❞ Grace always felt as if her heart was missing something, like a puzzle piece that got lost. No matter how hard she tried to fill the space with her uncle, or her aunt's family, she knew that nothing could replace that puzzle piece. That puzzle piece: was her father. Growing up she only knew that he left her and her mother one night when she was a year old, and never returned. When The Daily Prophet headlines that Sirius Black had escaped Azkaban the summer before her third year at Hogwarts, Grace started questioning everything. Being a thirteen-year-old girl was already hard enough, but to add looming questions, reliving traumatic memories, and realizing she might have feelings for one of her best friends, all while a murderer was on the loose, was becoming too overwhelming. However, once she learns and accepts the truth about her family, she holds onto it, never letting go. Starts in PoA, and ends post DH. Started: 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒. PoA: ꜰɪɴɪsʜᴇᴅ GoF: ꜰɪɴɪsʜᴇᴅ OotP: ꜰɪɴɪsʜᴇᴅ HBP: ꜰɪɴɪsʜᴇᴅ DH: ᴄᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ ᴡʀɪᴛɪɴɢ Post DH: ᴛʙᴅ

𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐰. Princess Vaella Targaryen walks the knife's edge between courtly grace and quiet ruin, her ambitions igniting when she crosses paths with her cousin. In the game of fire and blood, some flames are too bright to survive. 𝐀 𝐊𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 AERION TARGARYEN X FEM!OC. VALARR TARGARYEN X FEM!OC. ©MONZIEE 2025.

©bloodlikegrace They were neighbours once. Friends. Almost something more. Now Ruby Clarke is twenty-two, six months sober, and barely holding her life together behind the counter of a shabby café. She thought she'd buried the past along with her addiction-until Matt Buckner, a disgraced American student, stumbles into her world and reopens an old door she swore she'd never touch again. On the other side of that door is Pete Dunham. Teacher by day. Firm leader by night. The boy next door who used to dare her higher, now swaggering, fearless, and every bit as reckless as she remembers. As old loyalties flare and old wounds split open, Ruby is pulled back into a life of bruised knuckles, smoke-choked pubs, and brotherhoods that feel far too much like her own cravings. Pete is the only one who ever saw her clearly, and the one who might destroy her all over again. Their love was never clean-only clear as bruises.

❝and I won't confess that I waited but I let the lamp burn as the men masqueraded I hoped you'd return❞ Only screwups get sent to Slough House...and Georgie Knightly, she's one of them. Six years after River Cartwright broke her heart, the pair find themselves forced to work together. Will such close proximity repair or further break their hearts?

Corinium Television, a once-prestigious production company tucked away in the English countryside, is in crisis. To salvage its public image, Tony Baddingham calls in a specialist: Alexandra Thorne: a glacial redhead, divorced from a powerful politician, a single mother, and a ruthless strategist. Reluctantly, she returns to the Cotswolds, surrounded by rumors, former friends, old enemies, and a workplace unsure whether to fear her or admire her. Amid budget cuts, sabotaged costumes, and crumbling scripts, Alexandra must lead the charge to modernize Corinium... and stop Venturer from claiming victory. What she didn't expect? Declan O'Hara: a rugged, serious, mildly infuriating Irish journalist with an inconvenient history of accidental charm. Between dangerous flirtations, whispered exchanges in crowded rooms, behind-the-scenes cold wars, and nights where there's only one bed... what happens when she begins to suspect she may have chosen the wrong side of the story? Too late to run. And Alexandra Thorne has never been one to back down from a fight. Declan O'Hara x OC

David, brought into the world by Peter Weyland with the simple directive to serve. Created to serve, it instantly seems to be a hardship, a life which will be dictated by another, without a free will of his own, because free will is simply an illusion. But, there is another who is unlucky enough to be trapped under the same roof as Weyland, and it isn't his eldest daughter Meredith; Minerva, the girl in the cluttered room who is not all that she seems to be. Relatively the same, yet also different, both David and Minerva end up finding themselves more alike than they thought as life decides to twist and turn before them.

Tiger Mallory is eight years old. Alone in the walker-infested woods of rural Georgia, with nothing but a knife and a dog, she knows her chances of survival are slim. If her sister was still here, perhaps there would be a little more hope for her, but Jackie is gone, and it's the sort of gone that people don't usually come back from. Not anymore. So, when a little girl comes running through her forest, Tiger decides to chase her. Out of boredom, hope or loneliness, she isn't really sure, but it suddenly gets a whole lot more complicated than just that little girl. Some bitchass cop and his redneck friend are looking for the kid too, and they want to bring Tiger with them. Just for now. Just until they find the girl. And really, who is Tiger to refuse? She's just using them, same way they'll use her. Maybe she'll survive a little longer with Rick Grimes. Hey, maybe she'll even find her sister.

Lay me down where the trees bend low. Put me down where the greenery stings. Finan the Agile / oc. The Last Kingdom. 2025 © bridalshowers cover by @freaklowden

- in which carina black offers her former professor a job and attempts not to fall for him in the process. (female oc x remus lupin) (golden trio era)