Psychological Horror and Slow-burn Dark Romance. 18+ --------------------------- It's been five years since that fateful Friday night. I remember it like it was yesterday. The night I was kidnapped. I was held against my will. Tortured. Starved. Broken apart, piece by piece. All in the name of "curing" me. He didn't just steal my freedom. He rewrote the rules of pain, of fear - and then, somehow, of love. If you'd told me I'd fall for the man who ruined my life, I would've laughed in your face. But reality doesn't always follow logic. He's given me this journal and I'm going to write my story. This is my truth. My confession. My war cry. Because what he did to me deserves to be known. --------------------------- THIS BOOK CONTAINS TRAUMATIC CONTENT! TRIGGER WARNINGS: Kidnapping, assault, systemic abuse, mentions of Domestic Violence and childhood trauma, phobias, blood and gore, body horror, and mental illnesses including severe psychosis. READER DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED! --------------------------- Original version: 2023-24 Rewrite started: Feb 2025 to present

After getting lost in a forest, eighteen-year-old Atlas was attacked by two pythons. He didn't expect to survive as they coiled around his body and squeezed the life out of him. He also didn't expect some serpent-controlling boy with fangs, patches of sage scales across his skin, and vertical slits for pupils to save him. And he most certainly didn't expect the boy to bend closer to him, blink slowly, and whisper, "Pspspspspspsps." ----- Copyright, all right reserved © Anyone187 2025

Newly crowned and unwilling to embrace tradition, King Samwell Valois wants nothing to do with magic -- especially not with Damia, the fiercely capable mage newly appointed to his court. But Damia, who has sacrificed her own ambitions to serve the people of Altriel, refuses to be dismissed. When a mysterious affliction strikes someone dear to the king, Samwell is forced to turn to the very magic he has long rejected, and the woman he's tried to avoid. As their reluctant alliance deepens, they uncover dark truths buried in the kingdom's past -- truths that no one person can face alone.

Her love is a weapon. It's killed before. And this time, she's sworn it won't happen again. Everyone at Blackthorn University thinks Kara is just another human girl juggling midterms, frat parties, and overpriced lattes. No one suspects the truth: that she's a Phoenix shifter, hiding in plain sight in a world ruled by werewolves and lycans. Even her closest friends don't know the fire simmering beneath her skin. But Kara isn't just hiding from them, she's hiding from fate. From the one thing she dreads more than anything else: her mate. She's done letting her love be a death sentence. She won't survive another loss. The scars she bears run deeper than flesh. So when Ryker, the dangerously magnetic lycan General, realizes Kara is his fated mate, she does exactly what she swore she would. She pushes him away. Again. And again. And again. But lycans don't walk away from their mates. And Ryker? He's dominant, possessive, and utterly relentless. He's a storm she can't outrun, a flame that won't go out. And every heated glance, every stolen moment, threatens to shatter the walls she's spent years building. As secrets ignite and her past begins to unravel, Kara must face the truth: Can she let herself love again, knowing it could destroy them both? Or will her lies-and the deadly curse entwined with her love-be the very thing that dooms them forever?