Anthony lives in a world of fraternity parties and late nights, while Rose spends her days in art studios surrounded by canvases and quiet. Who knew that one match on Loom would spark a connection neither expected? Rose Lee grew up in a small, creative household where quiet moments and self-expression were valued above all else. From an early age, she found comfort in sketchbooks, paints, and capturing the world around her in art. Thoughtful and introspective, she often sees the world differently than those around her. Anthony Lin grew up in a lively, social family in a mid-sized city. Outgoing, confident, and a little wild on the surface, he is known as someone who can light up a room and make people laugh. When life pulls them in different directions, can their love survive the distance, the time, and the challenge of growing together while apart?

Everything seems empty here, and the hotel guests are far too special.

After a heist gone wrong, five teens receive the ultimate punishment... To be forced to Participate in the Champions' Games, the prize of which is to enter The Maze that lay beyond the walls of their city, created many centuries ago by a scornful witch, cursing the city and its people to live in isolation. Nobody who's entered the Maze has been known to make it back alive. Will the gang survive? Or will they meet the same fate as those before them? **This book is more of a draft for my book to get feedback, some elements may change over time, if this happens I will include an author's note detailing the changes**

-"She'll ruin you! She'll bring you to your knees." His answer was a prayer, murmured above me. "Even better."- ~A tale of oaths, and the people who break them~ Cassia Aurelius is a thief, an orphan, and a girl who made a terrible mistake... she ate Fae food. Now she's trapped in a realm of beautiful half-truths disguised as mercy, where the price of survival is combat. Forced into deadly trials before a crowd of merciless Fae, Cassia fights to keep her life, unaware that the game was never meant for her to win. When a dashing Fae Lord steps in to save the hapless human girl, she sees no way to live long enough to find her way home, except his unwanted offer of marriage. This Lord had his own reasons for this chivalry, however. She was not to be a bride, but a key. Hunted, terrified, and betrayed, Cassia finds an unlikely ally in the court of her betrothed. One with secrets that echo her own... one who leads her to a reclusive and broken Fae Lord who sees the darkness she hides. As war brews and ancient magic stirs, love becomes a weapon. Cassia must decide who to trust before she loses more than her home and freedom. In the Fae realm, looks can be deceiving. And after a life of hot and cold, Cassia isn't certain she can trust a "just right". TWs: -Physical & Emotional abuse -Domestic Violence -Torture and Imprisonment -Major Character Death -Themes of Self Harm and Suicidal Ideation (part of character arc, not glorified) -On the page sex scenes (consent implied or explicit, but present) Read with care!

SLEEPY Pandemic: Worldwide phenomena in which certain people are falling into comas and/or dying in their sleep. Informally known as Sleepy, the pandemic has two sides, but only few know both. *** "It picks us off one by one. But as the entities get stronger so do the Sleepy waves. Soon nobody will be awake. Or alive." *** If they survive, they wake to a normal day, dreams forgotten. Die once, and they fall Comatose, stuck in the Zone. Die twice, and they become the very things they once ran from. *** What happens when the whole world falls asleep? 16 year old Dakota Winsely is an insomniac teen juggling school life and strange things. She lives with her mother and her one-year-old little brother, struggling at night to keep her hallucinatons at bay. The insomnia drugs never work, and she's given up trying. When the SSS pandemic hits the U.S and her mother falls Comatose, she is forced to move in with her aunt and uncle to the bigger city and Sleepy waves are only getting stronger. New school. New enemies. Chaos swarms the streets as more people fall each day and the citizens don't remember why. Then the impossible happens. Dakota sleeps a full night. And the things she sees don't feel like a dream... This is the Zone. Entities. Encounters. Deaths here correspond to deaths in real life. Comatose remain trapped. The rest wake up and just continue to believe in an airborne virus. But there are others who remember both sides: the waking world and the Zone; The knowledge threatening to put them in more danger than the effects of the pandemic itself. Dakota is just one of them. .-- .... . -. .-- .. .-.. .-.. .-- . . ...- . .-. .-- .- -.- . ..- .--. ..--.. ***

A military project at a high-security facility dedicated to building a mass destruction nuclear weapon goes terrifyingly wrong, leaving behind not a fiery explosion but a suffocating silence. Syline which was once a lively region has been evacuated due to high radioactivity. However, the silence only lasted so long before a new form of life emerged from the heart of Syline. Anomalous creatures known by some as 'Irradiants' and by others as 'Fiends' pose an existential threat to all life. And it has fallen upon a chosen few to restore balance to this descending chaos.