it takes seven days for the poison to work. seven days until ACP Darsh and his team figure out the mess untill the killer takes away something very dear to him. Because the count has begun

Misusing Ashi's gentleness to be her weakness, her family continues to emotionally manipulate and control her as per their will. But when they decide to forcefully marry her off against her wishes, Ashi decides that it's time to finally break free from their clutches. A whole new world awaits her outside where everyday is a new experience, especially when two girls enter her life and quickly become her best friends. But along with the girls, also enters one specific young man, the ever flirtatious and irritating like hell, Arjun. Plus, it doesn't help that circumstances force her to stick around him even more. * Arjun doesn't like the way Ashi has instantly formed a bad opinion about him based on their not-so-amicable first meeting. He believes that even he can be nice and sensitive when he wants. Almost taking it as a challenge, he does everything to get into her good books. And who knows, maybe a little into her heart as well... * Cover credits : @yoursonly_clichegirl

While comprehending what is in the future for her and Raktim, Maya needs to find the killer of a royal bride. **** On the recommendation of Aadi Babu's son Arun, Maya is summoned by Princess Isha of Krishnanagar who is soon going to be married. However, instead of being happy, she worries over death. She asks Maya to find her killer if she dies. Away with Raktim to enjoy their romantic space for a small time, Maya misses saving the bride. If that guilt isn't enough to burden her, the bride's older sister and heir to the throne Princess Rohini knows too much about Maya and Raktim's past. Chapters which they thought were closed and hidden are brought to the surface by this self-proclaimed psychic. When another member of the palace dies, Maya promises to speed things up before the last death. Unfortunately, the next target is Raktim, and she has no idea about it.

Everything had gone grey-until a dusty book began finishing my sentences. It told me where to look, what I would lose, then stopped predicting and started deciding. I tried to destroy it; it always returned. There was one way out: give it away. And now the pages are waiting for you...

(ON HOLD FOR A REWRITE) Giles is a 15th-century holy man. Raised by a religious order since the age of two, he was very surprised to be twenty-six, dead, and in the sixth level of Hell. No training could have prepared him for that. After centuries of torture and therapy, Giles is granted twenty days of freedom on the mortal plane. He has seen this happen before to others and thinks it's all just a cruel game being played by the demons and their masters. Giles decided to use this time to find a way out of Hell-because there's always a way out, right? ------ This story is only on W A T T P A D. If you are reading it anywhere else, it was stolen and you may be at risk for malware. Cover by: @lostlovefairy Content Warning: Paranormal dark drama/thriller/horror Triggers include hell, torture, religious beliefs, abuse, gore. (I may add to this.) Please read safely.

Lenora did not have a wonderful life. After her engagement to Prince Ronan is broken, she loses everything... her reputation, her home, and her family. Starving on the streets, she dies angry and bitter at how her life unfolded... Only to wake up in her old bed, fifteen again, five years before she died. Now she must struggle to change her fate, and the fate of those around her. This time she won't trust in something as flimsy or changeable as love. No, this time she'll have the power and the money to protect herself. Lenora has already lost everything once. She's not going to lose again. No matter what the cost. (Cover submitted by @QueenHelmer)

Family and Relationships are the two complicated factors in life. Some are very lucky and some are unlucky in these factors but eventually you will find a one solution of these factors which is LOVE. Based on these two factors, there is a story and a LOVE which is yet to be fulfill and the family which is dysfunctional and yet to be united, the love which is waiting to get soulmate and yet to be incomplete. So, come and join me in this journey. Kya pata kuch khamoshi ke pal hame kuch satrangi pal de jaaye Kya pata kuch khamoshiyaan muhjse bhi baatein karna chahe!!!!!!

[in Noir reading list of @mystery in Diverse Fiction RL of @Ambassdors] In the small town of Chandaneshwar, a young woman by the name of Amba works as a flower seller. After the death of her father, she is offered a job to work in the temple of Raja Vijay Mukherjee. Although poor, she is a Brahmin woman, so she has knowledge about the divine. One night, while fleeing from the beastly hands of Tirtha Mukherjee, she witnesses something she shouldn't have. Next morning, the fifth murder of the year takes place. Amba might not have solid proof, but she is sure these are the doings of the Mukherjee. These are all human sacrifices- narabali.