| Hide and the truth will never be found, Find the will and the world shall be yours. | bxb | A drop of blood on his lips enslaved him to one person for the rest of his life. The other witches called him the daemon of the archives, the tragedy of the Tower, but he would not stay that way. A newfound prophecy and the arrival of three strangers, including one with two different colored eyes and a penchant for stirring up trouble will shake the very foundation of the Ivory Tower. I ask you, what will fall first: their hearts or the Tower? | #1 savant 12.2025 | | #9 storm 12.2025 | Cover masterfully created by @cleartapes A Sovereignty Series Standalone Content advisory: Violence, LGBTQ+ (MxM), Explicit language, Intimate Scenes. Genre: Dual POV High Fantasy, Fantasy-Romance, Dark Fantasy Copyright© 2025 short_flame

Annabel Stewart has always lived with shadows. Raised by her grandfather after the mysterious death of her parents, she has carried a loneliness she can't name and a hunger for connection that her art has never been able to fill. On the night of her long-awaited gallery debut, her world unravels. Her work is torn apart by critics, and the boyfriend she thought she could lean on betrays her in the cruelest way. Broken and adrift, Annabel retreats to Scotland, where she unexpectedly inherits her family's ancestral cottage. But the cottage is no ordinary home. Standing at the edge of the wildwood, it hums with forgotten magic and whispers of a legacy long buried. As Annabel digs through her mother's old journals, she discovers that her bloodline once stood at the heart of a fragile peace, three powerful witches who balanced the realm of mortals and fae. A balance shattered the night her family was murdered. Among the ruins of that lost world, Annabel encounters Nick, a gruff fae whose piercing blue eyes and guarded heart conceal secrets of his own. Drawn to him against her better judgment, she begins to sense that their fates are tangled far more deeply than she realizes. But in the shadows, an old enemy stirs. The Loom of the Year trembles, the Courts are restless, and the veil between realms grows thin. Annabel must choose: embrace the legacy that terrifies her, or watch both worlds collapse into ruin.

Blake Hill's gotten into more trouble then he cared to admit. As the resident bad boy, he's gotten detention for smoking, fighting, cussing teachers and more. Never in his life though, would he imagine himself to become a cheater as well. Yet, when he's found kissing another girl at prom, one of the most important nights in a senior's life, he can't find it in him to care. Instead, he finds his relationships starting to crack and his future looking dimmer then ever. One's thing for sure, stuck between the memories of past and present, Blake's going have to do some self reflecting to find the strength to move on, figure out what his future holds, and maybe find new love with someone who accepts him, flaws and all.

[DUO spin-off, prequel to Codename: DEMON]  In the city of Portia, the government has a small branch called the Special Connections Division. On the outside, they serve as a way for for the government to keep an eye out for non-government funded organizations. On the inside, however, their job is different: they operate as a black ops, weeding out criminal organizations and gathering enemy information from the shadows During the night, Lucinda Saffirus works for the SCD as an assassin who uses her blood as a weapon. But during the day, she's a private detective working to solve the major crimes, especially murders, in the city. Juggling new jobs isn't new to her, but raising her eight year old son as a single mother changes a lot of things. Life isn't already easy, but a new threat makes things more difficult--one of the top members of the city's most powerful criminal organization has figured out her identity, and she's given one rule: play their game. And she has no choice but to accept. Otherwise, her family, friends, both jobs, and especially herself will be at risk.

When Dave starts doing the weekly doughnut run for Maplevale's small team of firefighters, he expects his only problems to be his coworkers' latest pranks and which flavors of doughnut he should pick. Unfortunately for him, the most irritable police officer in town doesn't react well to the revelation that only the firemen are treated to free doughnuts. Soon, Dave finds himself stuck in a heated conflict involving a polka dancing Dalmatian, dumpster diving, and lots and lots of sprinkles as he and his coworkers fight to protect their right to free doughnuts. Cover by @LittleVee

There is a whole world Azora has yet to discover. That is our world. The times have changed, humans have changed and somewhere along the way, they forgot about the magical races, forcing them to go into hiding. Azora comes from one of those hidden races whose home is under the surface of the sea. Rejected, alone and unloved, hope for a better future seems to be just out of her reach. But then, life gives her a chance to enter the world of humans, and to do that, she has to let them change her in ways she never thought were possible. In a school created for hidden races, she is learning how to assimilate insensibly into the human world. There are many lessons to learn, many mythical creatures to get to know, but the one thing she never dreamed of is that one homework assignment might change someone's life forever. With her friends by her side, Azora will let her curiosity take her on a journey of discovery, to unveil the biggest mystery in the history of her race. Genre: Fantasy / Urban Fantasy Story status: COMPLETED. WARNINGS: This is not a romance story. The MC doesn't fight the big bad villain. There might be parts that might make you chuckle.

Jack Ogswold, a charismatic, successful, but at times selfish art gallery owner lives in the copper country of Endil. With his cursed gift, he can read people's minds, but it gives him horrible headaches. The only way to cure his curse is to free a dragon from a greedy Enchantress. A strange girl called Eli may help with that. One day, an old nemesis crashes Jack's grandest gallery show, revealing a hidden past. For reasons unknown, Eli helps him escape from police. Soon, a cursed orphaned boy joins them and they set out to find the Enchantress, but it's not what they expected. The self-proclaimed Jack of all trades is soon faced with a dire decision and the fate of dragons is in the palm of his hands. Will he make the right choice? Or is this unreliable character too self-absorbed to care?

When the towns local Witch goes missing, her two familiars set out to find her. Matias only really likes one person, his witch, Eve. So when she goes missing one day he's determined to find her. Even if that means putting up with the annoying crow of hers. But there's only one problem, Matias has no clue where to start. Logical, the only right thing to do is blame the girl who's always hanging out around their cottage. Selene has been told to be scared of the witch that lives at the edge of town, and she is. Or at least she thinks she is. The witch is the only one who really stirs something in her gut, and it has to be fear, right? When a cat and a crow come to ask her to help them find the witch she's hesitant. How could she possibly be able to find her? But when no one else in town seems to be searching and the cat seems almost desperate she decides to help. How hard can it be to find someone who disappeared without leaving anything behind? *** An ONC 2024 Novella