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Torment | 18+ ✓ by rhianovak
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Running from hell isnʼt easy. Especially when someoneʼs dragging you back down into it. Belligerent, brash and always in shades of black, Freya is hardly a lady. Hidden away by her father, sheʼs lived a normal life despite being born into the dark waters of New Yorkʼs underworld. Heʼs cold, cruel and calculating, with a proclivity for destruction. Feared by even Made Men, Torren is the boss of the stateʼs most leachorous crime syndicate. Freya hates his crudity and possessiveness, but she canʼt deny the way her breath hitches at his rough touch, the deep timbre of his voice, and his dark, heated gaze. Torren hates her disobedience, her recklessness, and her chaos. To him, sheʼs only something to be tamed. And after he slips a ring on her hand, snatching away her future, she makes only one vow---to become his biggest torment.
ECHOES OF THE FALLEN by therayawrites009
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On the morning of her third wedding anniversary, Charlotte Wilson learns the truth-her husband, David Jones, has been betraying her for years with her best friend, Morecea Hale. The betrayal cuts deeper when she discovers her stepsister, Anna Wilson, has been helping them, eager to seize the inheritance her mother left behind. Stripped of her shares, framed for fraud, and left to die in a staged "accident," Charlotte's final moments are filled with one bitter truth: the people she trusted most were the ones who destroyed her. But death is not the end. Charlotte wakes up five years in the past-two years before her doomed marriage-armed with the knowledge of every betrayal, every deal, and every face that smiled while stabbing her in the back. This time, she will not be the woman they ruined. She will be the storm that topples their world. With her foresight, she builds an empire untouchable by lies, dismantling her enemies piece by piece. Her path unexpectedly collides with Warren Solomons-her former childhood friend turned bitter rival, now one of the most dangerous businessmen in the city. In a game where trust is a currency no one can afford, Warren becomes both her greatest challenge and her most unlikely ally... if she dares let him in before the final reckoning.
SHADES OF HER THE WORLD NEVER SAW  by therayawrites009
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Aleena Rajab had grown up knowing the world would never be kind to her. Too dark, too different, too visible in her difference - eyes lingered, whispers followed, and expectations buried her before she could even breathe. She learned early that fairness and beauty were privileges, and that society measured worth with standards she could never meet. She built walls. Not from fear, but from necessity. Every glance, every comment, every dismissal became another brick, shaping a fortress around her heart. Fairy tales weren't real. Love wasn't for her. Belonging... didn't exist. And yet, in that world, Aleena survived. She became sharp, painfully practical, socially aware. She studied, she worked, she lived - not for approval, not for recognition, but for herself. Each judgment she endured, every slight, every exclusion, forged her into someone unyielding. She learned to confront a world that was cruel and unfair, to carry her own worth even when no one else acknowledged it. This is the story of her resistance. Of her courage. Of a girl who refuses to shrink, to hide, or to let the world define her value. Aleena Rajab will not just survive - she will claim her space, her voice, and her life, on her own terms.