🌑🎼WELCOME TO THE NOCTURNE AWARDS🎼🌑 A space created for stories that linger long after the final line. The Nocturne Awards celebrate emotionally immersive storytelling, haunting atmosphere, powerful prose, and characters that leave their mark on readers forever. Inspired by music, moonlight and the emotions fiction can awaken within us, these awards aim to recognise stories that truly make readers feel. Whether your writing is soft and melancholic, intense and devastating, or beautifully atmospheric, the Nocturne Awards invite you to share the stories that echo the loudest in the dark. 🖤 ~ Every story leaves an echo. ~ 🖤

Major Rudolph hasn't touched a woman in ten years. Not because he's cruel. Because everything he reaches for disappears. Then Jasmine walks into his office. Cheap dress. Bruised mouth. A lie on her lips about her identity. When the brothel where she works burns down that same night-taking her friends, her money, everything-he brings her home. Tells himself it's protocol. She has nowhere else to go. He gives her seven days. Seven days to find somewhere else to be. Seven days to remember why he can't want her. And one night to forget. Will their newly awakened passion make them stop hurting each other? Or will it take a danger lurking in the shadows to make them admit how they really feel?

the starfall awards 2026 is a small celebration for the stories that felt like constellations written across the night sky. chosen beneath the stars themselves, only a few will be crowned, but every story is a universe worth getting lost in.

James Redwood has always loved women and feared marriage. When his parents force him into an arranged marriage against his will, he finds himself engaged to a woman he cannot stand and powerless to avoid what he fears the most. His only hope lies in prudish Grace Follet, his unwanted fiancee: if she breaks the engagement, he will be free. But how can James make Grace break the engagement when she has everything to gain by marrying him and everything to lose by leaving him?

Jilted by her fiancé, Marissa is done with men until fate steps in and she finds that Craig Langston may be more man than she can resist. Marissa is a high energy independent career woman of the 21st century who finds herself on a collision course with destiny when she is thrown 144 years into the past. Confederate Officer Dr. Craig Langston is an enticing man that any woman would long to fall in love with, and now Marissa is torn between rampant desire, for the man ignites her very soul, and a longing to return home. Can she find it within herself to embrace a new life in the arms of her Confederate officer or will more sinister forces intervene before she can discover what may be the greatest love of all time? To peek inside this book visit this link!!! http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008HYUETS/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

(COMPLETED) William, the Duke of Devin, has spent a lifetime building an empire of control. Wealth, power, influence-they are his to command, and his alone. But one reckless moment in a moonlit garden shatters that control forever, trapping him in a marriage of necessity to the one woman who sees past his title: Maya Prescott. Their union is a fortress against the ton's scorn, an arrangement of cold duty. But within its walls, a different kind of peril takes root-one of unexpected intimacy and secrets that refuse to stay buried. When a brutal death rocks his inner circle, Devin becomes the prime suspect. As suspicion tightens around him and old enemies close in, he discovers the frame against him is more intricate-and more personal-than he ever imagined. With six days until Maya faces arrest for a murder neither of them committed, they must race to uncover the truth. But the killer is closer than they think. And in a world where every smile hides a lie, the most dangerous man in England is about to learn that his greatest enemy was never a rival-but the friend who knew all his secrets.

The tale of Her Majesty The Queen Dowager of Württemberg unfolds not as a fairy-tale love story with a happily ever after but as a narrative of growth and resilience. Returning to London with her youngest children after her husband's demise, she steps back into the swirl of the 1813 social season. Life demanded many sacrifices from Charlotte, but none weighed as heavily as the sacrifice of her enduring love, especially for one man-a particular Viscount. Thirteen years after burying the echoes of their first love, fate orchestrates a poignant reunion between Charlotte and the Viscount, Anthony Bridgerton. What they believed to be entombed emotions rise to the surface with each encounter, proving that some feelings, no matter how deeply buried, refuse to remain silent. Love crashes onto their souls once again, defying the passage of time and stirring the embers of a connection they thought had long faded away. The 1813 social season will definitely be as unexpected as it will be beautiful and scandalous. Lady Whistledown shall have to purchase more ink... Disclaimer: All original rights and credits of this amazing series goes to its creators. And of course, the original creator of all characters and books, Julia Quinn and to Chris Van Duden, the creator/showrunner/executive producer of the Netflix Original Series: Bridgerton. The only new/added characters are Princess Charlotte, etc, and its ideas belong to me.