Anorakii. They are not just a tribe; they are the only life Giiunayi has ever known. As the winter solstice approaches, he anticipates the sacred rite of passage that will mark himself into the heart of the Anorakii, bringing a close to his restless belonging. But as the ancient rituals unfold, they awaken a wrathful...
#ONC2025 *** Six people. Complete strangers, with incomplete connections, all wake without a single recollection of memory. The struggle of feeling their blank page of a past haunting them with every decision they make, muddled with their newfound desires, it all feels so nonsensical. Not to mention they have to save...
epiphanot; An idea that at first seems like an amazing insight but later turns out to be pointless, mundane, stupid, or incorrect, and often is the root cause of bad decisions. It's not a real word, but that about sums up the relationship between lifelong best friends, Kennedy and Elodie. That's how it feels when Elo...
Wesley Davis has no interest in becoming a beta tester for his friend's new language app, PollyGot. But when he's introduced to the alluring Livia Spencer, she challenges him to a bet: she'll learn more French than him in two months. His competitive side can't resist. What begins as a playful challenge soon turns sini...
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[Set in Eilos, the world of 'Echoes of the Reach', and can be read standalone.] Where ripples of the past lead, the tidal waves of history soon follow. Jaster Brand is an artificing prodigy. From enchanted tools to automaton companions to his own right arm, his passion for arcane engineering has carried him to the Ma...
Logline: He's a hopeless romantic, she's romantically hopeless. Together? They're a match made by the gods. --- Love-cursed Verena has never known the pitfalls of true heartbreak or the euphoria of a special meet cute. Instead, she spends her days working as an event planner and sigil artist for Aphrodite and being an...
High school senior Marshall just wants to graduate and leave town. Days from the first anniversary of his big brother's death, he finds a strange note attached to his car. At first he think it's just a stupid joke, but the notes keep coming-and not just to him. His ex-best friend Savannah gets them too. When a fellow...
Eliora May, a lifetime citizen of Maplemaw, is something many women are not. Literate. An activist. But these become hard to complete as all is stripped away from her with the coming of unexpected news. Marriage and war between the faeires and elves of Ilkaphene. A land of magic, where flowers and fungi grow as tall...
Olive and Sebastian have been best friends since they can remember and are total opposites. Despite everyone around them thinking they would get together, they both thought they were too opposite to see each other as anything more than friends. When a new, suspicious cafe called Brewtiful Souls opens on their high st...
Saoirse Rowan has just one wish: to escape with her best friend from Saltwood and begin a life anew. But there's a problem: the town of Saltwood is cursed. No outsider can step inside, and while the folk can venture out, one way or another, they always come back. As Saoirse and her friend start planning their escape...
"𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘹-𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘐'𝘮 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘦. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦." •❅──────✧❅✦❅✧──────❅••❅──────✧❅✦❅✧──────❅••❅──────✧❅✦❅✧──────❅• Diana is a normal widow, out of her mourning per...
What happens when love collides with the supernatural? In a world where a demon roams the shadows, Nadine finds herself inexplicably drawn to Havoc, a self-loathing demon grappling with his dark purpose. As their paths intertwine, Nadine discovers that falling for a demon was the last thing on her wishlist, yet it may...
Ah, the start of Senior Year. Homecoming, late-summer house parties, team tryouts, and betting on which universities will fight over your over-accomplishing athletic career. Can it get any better? Certainly not for the It Couple of Northride High. Cameron Hansley, the captain and star of the school's record-setting ho...
Viola has been telling stories her whole life. It's her escape from poverty, hopelessness, and strife. Viola is a femme caught by time. When she looks in the mirror she sees ordinary but hopes one day to be a cwen. She marries Sai in the hopes that together they will climb the highest mountain of her dreams. She is to...
Strange disappearances have plagued the small fishing town of Port Lawrence for months. With the only thing to hint at who will be next being flickers of blue scales Terrified, the townspeople decide to take on the assistance of a legendary monster hunter. Reimu Asahi is no stranger to monsters. She has spent her ent...
Twin sisters Zalira "Zee" Vallisair and Zarael "Rae" Vallisair used to be inseparable. Now, they can barely stand to be in the same room. Zee, the golden girl of their elite boarding school, lives for the spotlight, while Rae, the sharp-witted outcast, prefers to be left alone. The only thing they still have in common...
Some secrets are meant to stay buried... When a series of brutal murders begins, each victim is forced to confess their darkest secrets, Special Agent Nico Hart is called in to track down a killer who seems to know more than they should. As Nico digs deeper into the case, the chilling realization sets in-the killer i...
Unlovable is a curse that Cupid, the God of Love, is forced to carry forever. Ever since he's left Venus's womb, his mother has made it clear that he has one job: to make people fall into and out of love. His whole life, Cupid has known that he could never be loved. That there was no one to make him fall in love with...
53. On your honeymoon, you discover the most shocking truth about your spouse - one that could change everything. For Celia, nothing matter more in the world then marrying the love of her life, well that and becoming one of the few women to win the Nobel peace prize. So when her new husband shows her a secret base tha...
Join quirky Carolyn on a hilarious journey through her past relationships in this delightful chicklit comedy. As she revisits her ex-boyfriends, she stumbles upon the surprising realization that her first love might have been the one all along. Get ready for laughter, love, and unexpected twists in this charming tale...
Two souls once shared a passionate romance that burned brightly but ended too soon. Twenty years have passed since Angie's and Jack's reluctant breakup, and life has taken them on separate journeys. Now, fate gives them a second chance amidst the joyous chaos of their children's wedding preparations. As they navigate...
*ONC 2025* Prompt 118: "You're feeling trapped in your current relationship and can't shake the urge to break free." A young French woman, Rosalie Ballou, is solemnly betrothed to the enigmatic Scottish Duke, Campbell, a union orchestrated to secure and preserve the noble lineage of her family's spectral abilities. Un...
Nobody has been chosen for over a hundred years, but the Guardian of the cursed forest picks Runa in the ceremony, forcing her to face untamed magic, forgotten legends, and choices she never thought she had to make. Legends and Myths Magic Guardians and Villains Where do tales end and history begin? ☾ ↟↟♖⛰︎↟↟ Th...
Eros (Cupid) gets rejected by Psyche for a newly-revived Narcissus. Convinced he is a failure who does not live up to his job description, Eros quits in anger and embarrassment, breaking his bow and his vows and retiring to Florida. -- After Hell's major overhaul, Kelsia-a repentant succubus and a hopeless romantic-fi...
She's an angel. He's a demon. What could go wrong? Most angels would balk at setting foot deep into demonic territory -- not Siah Umbrath. When the Angelic Council appoints her father as ambassador to the demonic kingdom, Siah sees it as a thrilling opportunity. As a history buff, she eagerly awaits her enrollment at...
Veyr Thalric was born beneath a blood moon, his fate inked in the past and bound to a future he cannot escape. The son of the slain Wolf, he has spent his life hidden in the shadows, waiting for the moment he can claim vengeance against the one who stole everything from him-Rowan Ashwood, the legendary hunter who wear...
A lone lighthouse keeper watches over the coast, tending to her light as the sea rages beyond. The storms are nothing new-neither is the solitude. She is content with the quiet rhythm of her life, the crash of waves against the cliffs, the scent of salt and parchment filling her days. But when a shipwreck leaves a bat...
28-year-old Calista's life took an unexpected turn when her parents died and left her all of their fortune. Her fiance Trevor came at an opportune time and helped her heal from their loss. Now, she is engaged and having the time of her life at her bachelorette party in Mexico with her friends. All that changes when sh...
"Something has been forgotten, something has been lost and something has not been forgiven." During the summer holidays, Alex Lockwood stumbles upon a dark-and buried-family secret forcing him to enlist the help of his secondary school classmates who must unravel the truth before the ghosts of his family's past seek t...