After giving her heartstone to the wrong person, Holly finds her life stripped from her, left hiding and alone in an old farmhouse, forgotten on a patch of land in the middle of nowhere. What once was regarded as crimson is now just plain red once more, and Holly struggles to find meaning in the new life she finds for herself. However, as the smoke clears, she finds she is not as alone as she thought, and that the little joys around her can be more than enough reason for her to keep living.

Margo has always dreamed of competing in the Sorcerer's Duels at her university, desperate to prove everyone wrong and become the kind of sorceress her late father used to tell stories about. But no matter how hard she trains, she's never passed the initiation trials. When she watches another woman succeed, only to be rejected anyway, Margo begins to question whether the Duels were ever meant for someone like her. Just as she's ready to give up, a surprising opportunity arises-and with it, an unlikely partnership that rekindles her hope. With her new teammate by her side, Margo finally earns a place in the legendary Duels. Meanwhile, a frustratingly charming newspaper intern from one of her classes keeps showing up at the worst possible times. As their paths continue to cross and sparks begin to fly, the two uncover troubling secrets beneath the Duels' glittering surface, forcing Margo to rethink what it truly means to prove herself.

Rin and Ali are two criminology students running the Timebooth Detective Agency. While it may appear normal on the surface, it's not your typical agency. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆-𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍. Recently, a client assigned them a case, only to become unresponsive to calls when asked to pay up. Later, they find her dead. Reports say suicide, but things... aren't adding up. As the duo investigate further, they realise they're dealing with something, much, MUCH more sinister. Because they're not the only ones with these powers. The killer has it too. And now they're on his radar. They have to catch him fast before the people around them end up dead, just like their client. Time is running out... "𝑻𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝑰 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆"

They are the group no one dares to mess with, with a school that stands behind them. She is the girl who opposes them, and the girl who might just lose everything. ─────────── · ★ · · ── Beaumont Academy, a prestigious school housing only the most talented and richest students. Among those students was a carefully curated game, that could be rewarding or consequential based on your actions. Those who comply are allowed to stay, and those who break the rules, well, they don't stick around for too long. 𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐒 is the new girl. Her life is simple, the perfect future within reach. All she has to do is get the grades and graduate. However, when she chooses to defend a friend and retaliates against some bullies, she makes herself public enemy number one. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝟒 is an infamous group of bullies. Idolized by the school and at the top of the social hierarchy. They don't care much for school or grades. Instead, they pride themselves on maintaining a game fueled by malicious intent, and they do not take the interference of others lightly. Becoming the target of bullying, Alaina's strength is put to the test, but she intends to prove she can stand 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐬. Amidst the adversity─with kindness, understanding, and a little time─what starts as a petty rivalry blossoms into an unexpected friendship. However, a friendship with the V4 is all sorts of complicated─especially with their wealth, status, and history. But complicated never scared Alaina. ── · · ★ · ─────────── ˖ ࣪⭑ Book one of 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐞 completed 6/28/2024 This story contains: · slow burn · enemies to lovers · bad boy x good girl · found family · class differences · no spice

The Assassin of Atlantis is a fanfic based on The Assassin of Time by @RedPetal49. Set in the Third World Universe by Sunny Ghauri, it is a science fantasy standalone prequel to The Halfbreeds of Atlantis. --- A time-bending romance of ancient secrets and forbidden truths... Leonor Reid is a brilliant university professor of temporal mechanics at the University of Bayhan City in ancient Atlantis. Sharp-minded, guarded, and known for her work in time-state physics, she has spent her life decoding the past and tracing whispers of lost technology rumored to manipulate time. Meeting a stranger changed everything. Ander de Lara is the captivating man she met at an academic conference. A week of passion, never to be spoken of again, until he reappears a month later as her new research partner on a project around an ancient temple funded by the Atlantean nobility, also known as the sky gods. Ander is charming, disciplined, and far too composed for a man working in academia and excavation sites. What Leonor doesn't know is that he is not just a professor. He is an assassin, embedded in the project under orders to investigate a temple said to house a sentient relic. What neither of them expects is that the temple holds an Enunori, a relic and being of memory and will, capable of traversing timelines, crossing into lost futures, and rewriting destiny itself. As they descend deeper into the Enunori's timestream, the past begins to bleed into the present. Their connection intensifies, echoing across time. But time is not their only enemy. What Ander doesn't know is that Leonor is changing, and she may be the very thing he was sent to destroy. Because something ancient is stirring inside her, and she may be the anomaly that was never meant to exist. To survive, they must break the curse of sky god violence. To love, they must unravel time and challenge the order of all things.

Bite-sized tales to quench your thirst. A taste of things that go bump in the night.

Lord Marshall Sutherland wanted a wife. He had also known exactly who he wanted as his wife for precisely a year. Unfortunately, Miss I.P. Bright was a pseudonym and locating the woman of his dreams had taken a considerable amount of time, effort and money on his part. He had spent the better part of his time last year at the blasted London Season only to discover that it was apparent Miss I.P. Bright - whoever she was- did not run in the same circles as him. It had been an irksome and trying experience because now every débutante and her mama thought that he sought a wife, any wife. But that wasn't the case. He was hunting for a particular woman and no other woman would do. Marshall was a man of definable tastes and once he knew what he wanted, he generally got it. Miss Imogen Brightmore did not want a husband, especially one the likes of Lord Marshall Sutherland, who boorishly and chauvinistically opposed her anonymously published articles. So when a handsome, intelligent and agreeable country gentleman comes to town, Imogen finds herself surprisingly attracted to him and little does she suspect that he harbors a secret that could ruin their blossoming courtship.

They had been the best of friends since childhood. She knew that he secretly wore spectacles. He knew that she had once stolen all the wine for the Eucharist from the parish church and blamed it on the town drunkard. There was very little that Amy Griffiths did not know about Lord Oliver Hollingsworth, the only friend she had ever had growing up in a tiny village where everybody knew everything about anybody. She was quite happy to rush headlong into spinsterhood while she tended to her mother and worked the small bookshop, and Lord Hollingsworth did not seem inclined to wed anytime soon having ensured no mother in her right mind would allow her daughter to consort with the likes of him after the whole debacle with his once intended, Miss Augusta Fleetwood, a few seasons ago. When Amy is convinced to visit London, little did the both of them realise how meddling some of his friends would be, and how adept at matchmaking the troublesome lot are. Soon, the delicate line between friendship and true love become harder to distinguish. Bit of a slow burn, sweet romance with MATURE content and a lot of humour.

Vampires are born, not made. So when a mad man embarks on an unauthorised mission to create them, the results are disastrous. Unhinged, bloodthirsty monsters roam the world of Enorrah with no other motive but to feed and kill, dragging the already frowned upon name of pure Vampires onto the mud. It is up to the Vampiric Extermination Bureau to handle the problem of the impures. Brought to work together as VEB agents are Amara, a powerful, stern and silent vampire who has never required nor seen the need of a familiar, and Ezekiel, a familiar without a master. Ezekiel is destined to grow weaker and slowly die without a master to live for. Because of his scars and loyalty to his former master, Ezekiel is only waiting to rest peacefully forever. However, when he meets Amara, he cannot help but be drawn to her strength, ruthlessness, and what lies beneath her cold exterior. The impure vampires and his looming death seem to be the least of his problems.

Deciding to take her life into her own hands after her husband dies, Lillian Reid travels West, hoping for a new start. But then her train is hijacked by outlaws, and she's fighting to stay alive. Two neglected children find her months later in Old West Montana Territory, and she's nursed back to health by handsome rancher Sawyer Weston. However, when secrets from Lillian's past threaten their newfound happiness, Lillian and Sawyer must fight for the love they've found or lose everything-including their lives.