[Side Story in the Shade Series] [Takes Place Before Storyline] Before heroes, there was blood. Before fate, there was survival. Scyllena's quiet life in the mountain village shatters when a brutal Helriox raid leaves her home in ruins and her family missing. Fleeing through frozen forests and snow-covered plains, she clings to life with nothing but sheer will and desperate hope. When she is found, half-frozen and covered in blood, salvation comes from an unexpected source - the Nimor, fierce beings of legend who walk the razor's edge between saviors and predators. Thrust into their dangerous world, Scyllena must navigate uneasy alliances, unravel buried truths, and confront the haunting question: what happened to her brother? As whispers of war and ancient magic spread across Emäel, Scyllena's journey for answers becomes a battle for survival - and a destiny far greater than she could have ever imagined. Before the rise of heroes, before the tales of empires and rebellions, begins the story of a girl carved from loss and forged in fire. Her blood runs red, but her story runs deeper.

They broke her trust. They broke his mind. But when the past claws its way back, survival isn't enough - vengeance demands blood. Victoria learned how to stay quiet. Grief became her shadow, guilt her constant companion. It whispered in her ear that she should have been the one to die instead. Not her mother. Never her mother. If she had, maybe her father wouldn't have walked away, leaving them to fend for themselves. But silence is a fragile shield-and when the past resurfaces, dragging her into a world she barely escaped, she realizes staying quiet won't save her this time. Xavier learned how to disappear behind scars, behind rage, behind the monster his past made him. Forged by cruelty, built by betrayal, and fueled by rage, he became the kind of man other monsters feared. Scars became his armor. Violence, his language. He doesn't believe in mercy-only vengeance. Especially for the man who made him this way. Victoria was everything he had been taught to avoid - soft yet unbreakable, damaged yet defiant. She had the kind of pain that mirrored his own, a past carved into her bones, a war waged behind tired eyes. She saw through him in ways no one else had ever dared, and he hated it. Hated her. Because she made him feel. He was chaos wrapped in quiet fury, a storm threatening to consume everything in its path. And yet, when she looked at him, she didn't just see the monster - she saw the man who had once fought to hold on to his soul. But love between two broken people is never easy. It's volatile. Cruel. A constant push and pull, neither of them willing to surrender, both too damaged to truly hold on. The closer they get, the more dangerous the stakes become. Yet, for all the ways they fought against it, they kept coming back to each other.

Breaking into his reclusive neighbor's backyard wasn't Aidan's best idea-but he never expected to find a man chained to a tree like a beast. Grey-eyed and starved, the stranger is hauntingly beautiful... and dangerously inhuman. Because he isn't a man at all. He's something more sinister. Now, Aidan is tangled in a web of secrets darker than he ever imagined. Trapped between a creature who craves him and a world that would never believe the truth, Aidan has two choices: run while he still can or risk everything for the monster who might just be more than he seems. 🔥 Tropes: Forced proximity, monster romance, touch-starved supernatural being, forbidden attraction, reluctant caretaker, found family.

✧ After a disastrous blind date - two paths collide, uncovering a shared fear of abandonment and trust issues. As an unexpected but powerful connection unfolds, past traumas are exposed - as are their hearts. Will they fall back into comfortable patterns or will they learn to accept the art of the unexpected? ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ Started: February 19, 2025 First Published: February 26, 2025 Finished: - - - ⚠️INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ⚠️EXPLICIT CONTENT (sex/smut, drugs) 🌷©paralyzedfeelingz

When you've been a victim all your life, falling in love with a serial killer doesn't seem all that bad. It had been two years since people in New Hale have started going missing. Yet without any bodies found, it's unclear whether this is pure coincidence or the work of a genius serial killer. Lucy Starling starts her life at university with hope. Hope that her awful time in high school would not be repeated here. Hope that her family would stay safe in these uncertain times. And hope that her missing best friend is still alive out there somewhere. But all that hope is crushed when the first body is found. And she is the prime suspect. As though her life couldn't get worse, Lucy manages to catch the attention of the real killer. Yet instead of giving in to despair, she surprises him by falling in love. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙢? *** 𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗗: Killer x Victim Serial Killer Yandere Stalker Bullying Innocent Girl x Murderous Guy Slow Burn Love Triangle Reverse Harem Stockholm She falls first but he falls harder

James Dalton a former member of the international "Gray Crime Syndicate" or the G.C.S has abandoned his old life of crime after a disagreement with his now old friend and long term associate Emma Gray, He meets a beautiful amateur level ice skater by the name of Francesca Salvatore by chance. All is well until his rivals force Emma Gray into tracking him down and handing him over to them for her family's safety due to his interference with a business deal six months ago

Each time, the public rewrites the victim's story-villains become saints, heroes become scandals. Someone is pulling the strings, turning death into a social experiment.

In a district where danger lurks around every corner, Isaac North tries to live a normal life, but quickly finds himself entangled in a perilous romance with one of the most notorious figures in the Red District. Season 1 of Strip for the Devil *** In a world filled with darkness and desperation, Isaac North fights to escape his past. He finds himself drowning in debt, fighting off loansharks, and struggling to keep his head above water. But when his best friend proposes a daring solution to his financial situation, Isaac is thrust into a seductive and dangerous world he never expected. When he enters the enticing realm of strip clubs, Isaac collides with Lucien Royce, a figure both feared and revered in The Red District. Intrigued by Isaac's tenacity and resilience, Lucien is immediately drawn to him. Isaac plans to escape Lucien's treacherous world the first chance he gets, but as their relationship deepens, Isaac realizes Lucien isn't who he thought he was. As tensions simmer and desires ignite, Isaac must decide if breaking free from Lucien's hold on him is really what he wants. But is he ready for the danger that comes with it?

He wasn't used to distractions. Emotions were a weakness he couldn't afford. He ruled with an iron will, his control absolute. People like her didn't belong in his world. She was chaos-and chaos got people killed. But hell, chaos had never looked so damn good before. She had sworn men were nothing but distractions at best. She risked her life, not her heart. But somehow, she found herself ensnared in his dangerous world, as if she were the one pulling the strings, dragging herself deeper into his orbit with every reckless step. ----- But what happens when two unstoppable forces collide? When fire meets ice, when chaos challenges control-do they destroy each other, or burn even brighter together? In a world where power is everything and love is a liability, their connection could be their greatest strength... or the reason they fall. The real question is: Will they survive the fire, or will they burn in it?

One life, one chance. That's what they say. But what if there's a loophole? What if a second chance is only possible for those who choose to end their own lives? A chance to fix everything and go back. ​Haunted by the death of the man she loved, young Christy chooses to end her pain. Yet, death is not an ending. She awakens in the World of Second Chances-a strange, chaotic afterlife inhabited only by suicides. Here, adventure and passion collide with the long, painful road to soul healing. ​To earn her way back to the living, she must face the truth of her past life. Now, Christy must make the impossible choice: Embrace the new, vibrant, but unstable life in the Second World, or return to the living and finally become truly happy? Will she take the chance fate handed her, or is some pain too profound to let go? ​~ All the answers are here, inside this story~ | The author is not responsible for the reader's perception of this work. | * inspired by "Angels Don't Die" (songs by Amanda Krey)*