[ONC 2024 Longlister] [2nd place Pride Awards 2024 winner] [Fantasy Winner of the EC Fiction Awards 2024] [Pride Shelf November 2024 Book of the Month] [3rd place Rose Gold Awards 2025 Best Action Scene winner] From the Forest, all life sprung. And to the Forest, it may return. Umirin's people have lived within the ancient, powerful Forest since they had sprung to life there many generations ago. They respect the land they live off and worship the Heart of the Forest, the divine beast who sowed the seed it grew from long ago. Since its creation, the Forest had grown mighty. It is eternal. It is home. At least it had been, until a great tragedy many seasons ago changed everything. Now Umi's nation lives above the forest, in houses built on beams, to escape from the roaming beasts below known as Soulbiters. They are dangerous and deadly, but rooted to the Forest floor, only able to burrow through the soil. Above the tree tops, the people are safe from them. But man is not made to live floating in the clouds, and there are times when they have to travel to the ground. These trips are done by the best warriors and hunters, but encounters with the beasts are inevitable, and lives are still regularly lost to their curse. When Umi's beloved husband Shani is grabbed by the Soulbiters, he is prepared to do anything to save him from the gruesome fate that awaits if he is bitten. Anything at all. Even strike a horrible bargain with the beasts.

- ANGST - ❝He used to sit beside me on quiet nights - laughter tangled between us like the wind. Now, it's just the sound of chains on an empty swing, and the echo of a voice that forgot how to call my name. I still see him everywhere - in the smoke of a bar, in the corner of a memory that refuses to fade. Maybe we were meant to find each other in every lifetime, just to lose each other again.❞ Are Taehyung and Jungkook meant to be? If they really were why did Jungkook leave him years ago?

When a scandal forces hockey star Amelia Bennett into a fake relationship with guarded photographer Harper Lane, neither expects the headlines, or the feelings, that follow. What starts as a PR stunt begins to spark into something real, threatening to expose more than just their hearts. *** She's the world's best hockey player. She's a heartbroken photographer with nowhere else to go. And they were never supposed to fall in love. At 24, Amelia Bennett is the most talented hockey player on the planet-chaotic, impulsive, and the last Bennett standing without a ring on her finger. After a very public scandal threatens her sponsorships and reputation, the team's PR crisis plan is simple: clean up her image fast. Step one? A fake relationship. Something that should be easy, right? Harper Lane has no interest in fame, or falling for another golden boy-or girl-with a spotlight stitched into their skin. After catching her long-term boyfriend cheating, she's sworn off chaos and charm. But when her best friend Audrey begs her to stay with Millie temporarily, Harper finds herself in the middle of a media storm-and somehow agreeing to pretend to be Millie Bennett's girlfriend. It's only for the cameras. Just long enough to fix Millie's image. Just enough to keep Harper's ex boyfriend off her back. But fake smiles turn into real moments. Cold shoulders warm under shared blankets. And the girl Harper was warned about-the reckless, beautiful mess, is nothing like the one who makes her tea when she's anxious and kisses her like she means it. In a house built on secrets, one accidental love story is about to mak

one dying boy. five confessions. five days. ☆☆☆☆☆ in which a boy shares his deepest confessions with the boy who never loved him back, in the five days he has left before he dies. #284 in confessions - 1O.2O.18

Living in an apartment with a couple of other people in the building, of course it would be mandatory to pay your rent. I mean how else would you live?? Well, Aki seems to have an exception- Well.. does he? Being friends with Angel devil, the owner of the apartment complex, he's gotten away with a few things. But not paying your rent is one thing. One thing Angel Devil will not accept. Karma comes around and now Aki has a choice of working at a job with Angel Devil, or getting kicked out with no place to stay. You are tuned into 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐁𝐘 𝐀 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃.

Original Author: eviebabie Source: Archive of Our Own beta Page Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35110564?view_full_work=true ━━━━━━━━ ⋆✩⋆ ━━━━━━━━ Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime) Relationships: Fushiguro Megumi/Sukuna | Ryoumen Sukuna Characters: Fushiguro MegumiSukuna | Ryoumen SukunaItadori YuujiGojo SatoruFushiguro TsumikiKugisaki NobaraOkkotsu YuutaZenin MakiFushiguro TojiUraume (Jujutsu Kaisen)Kenjaku | Fake Getou SuguruHiguruma HiromiZenin Naoya ━━━━━━━━ ⋆✩⋆ ━━━━━━━━ [I do not own the story nor the book. All rights and credit goes to their respective author]

Two strangers team up, relentless in stopping a crime syndicate rooted in the heart of Paris, all before they descend into madness amidst a murder mystery, college drama, family problems, and identity crisis. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ∆ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Born to a successful family, Kai learned the meaning of pressure at a young age. He does not seem to get a break as he gets tangled up in an attempted murder case which makes his hellish life even worse. Threats against his life made him leave his past and instead, follow his dream of becoming a violinist at a prestigious music-oriented academy in Paris. What seemed to be a fresh start for Kai slowly became a nightmare when he accidentally stumbled upon a secret that was never meant for him to discover in the first place. But fate also gave Kai one silver lining. A blessing in disguise in the form of a roommate. Senior Detective Jamie Samson. With their fates now intertwined, they must help each other conquer their inner demons as they battle external forces who want them dead, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ∆ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Some chapters of this story may contain mature themes (warnings can be seen before each chapter), reader discretion is advised. Names of people, places, events, and ideas in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental or used fictionally.

She had it all - riches, a college scholarship, a girlfriend - until her conservative, hyper-religious parents found out about the girlfriend and made her choose between conversion therapy and disownment. That was the end of her academic career. Three years later, she met a shy public reference librarian in a bookstore. He'd been waiting his whole life for her. Meanwhile, she was starting her whole life over. What ensued between the two was magic... Given that he was about to become her tutor in the magickal and erotic arts, that was only to be expected. But at what cost? The mysterious older man was all she could ever have wished for, but she might need to choose between her developing identity and the most profound love she had ever known. ════════════════════════════════════ "Magic and philosophy sandwiched in between some of the hottest scenes I've read in recent years... Loved it!" - Hannah Gonzalez, Reedsy Discovery "A richly imagined, lurid love story that's not for the faint of heart. (Our verdict: Get it!)" - Kirkus Reviews ════════════════════════════════════ THIS IS A SPECIALLY EDITED EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL NOVEL. It is designed to be easier on the eyes of smartphone readers. There are also caution bars and spoilers bracketing erotic material in the (*) asterisked chapters so that readers who wish to avoid explicit content can read as much of the chapter as possible while skipping the explicit parts.

"Just one wrong turn could've taken me away from you...Now, would it?" . . . angst TW ⚠️ contains mentions of depression, self harm. p.s. will have a happy ending, don't worry. the satosugu fanart on the cover is not mine. storyline is mine. DO NOT COPY.