In his world, everything has a price. In her world, every secret is a weapon."Elena Vance is the city's most elite 'fixer.' She makes scandals disappear and buries secrets deep enough to stay forgotten. But when she's caught in the crosshairs of a conspiracy that threatens to destroy her, she's forced to make a deal with the only man she's ever feared: Julian Thorne.Julian is a billionaire with a silhouette made of shadows and a heart made of cold steel. He offers her a way out-a Red Contract. One year of playing his devoted fiancée to secure a merger that will crown him King of the corporate world.The rules are simple:No real emotions.No digging into the past.No touching.But Julian didn't count on the fire hidden beneath Elena's silk dresses. And Elena didn't count on the way Julian's scent cedarwood and dangerwould make her forget the very rules she helped write.As the lines between the lie and the truth begin to bleed together, Elena realizes that Julian isn't just looking for a partner. He's looking for a confession. And in a game where the stakes are life and death, falling in love is the most dangerous breach of contract.Billionaire Romance | Fake Dating | Enemies to Lovers | Dark Romance

18+. Ten years ago, the Kim family exiled her. Now they've called her back. Hae Won returns to Seoul as Lawyer Park. Composed, credentialed, owing nothing to anyone. Her father is dying. She'll say goodbye and disappear. Simple. Except nothing about the Family is simple. Not the inheritance question that puts her at the center of a succession nobody asked her to join. Not the ones who decided what she was before she walked through the gate. And not the one who looks at her like she never left -- like the woman she built from nothing is just a coat she's wearing over someone he already knows. She came back to close a door. The door had other plans. Don't Wake the Tiger - Book One of the Children of Ash and Blood Series.

Oops! I accidentally summoned a demon! When a crazy man threatens her family if she doesn't kill the man holding them all hostage, Eve comes up with her own plan to keep her family safe. What she doesn't expect is that her sacrifice is only the beginning. Update: This began as a #WITWContest challenge, but became a mild obsession as I fell in love with it. It's still a one-shot but is now a not-so-short short-story with all the answers to the questions you had when reading that first chapter. How did she get there? Where did he take her? And so much more! All of my stories feature LGBTQ+ characters: in this novel the MC and demons are all pansexual, all demons/angels are intersex (closest definition possible since they're not human), and much of the supporting cast is also LGBTQ+. TW: violence, mentions of trafficking, food/housings insecurity, and domestic neglect Awards/Recognitions: * Shut Up and Write Awards 2025 (Fantasy & Sci-Fi) Contests/competitions this story is participating in: * The Freedom Awards 2025 (Fantasy) * The Purple Fairy Awards 2026 (Fantasy) * Wattpad Award Contest 2026 (Fantasy) * De Armoire Awards 2026 (Fantasy, Hidden Gem) * The Booker Awards 2026 (Fantasy) * The NanoWatt Awards 2026 (Paranormal) * The Stellar Awards 2026 (Sci-Fi & Fantasy) Note: Cover from Canva and/or Ai generated/assisted.

Un cruel giro del destino pone a prueba la relación entre Chizuru y Kazuya. Todas las mentiras caen, una verdad incómoda emerge, el conflicto explota y todo podría ser destruido. Umi y Mami se unen de forma inesperada y forman un plan elaborado con el objetivo de separar a Kazuya y Chizuru. Esta línea temporal alterna será más dolorosa para todos, pero también muy necesaria, ya que cada personaje tendrá que enfrentarse a situaciones difíciles que los empujarán a crecer y madurar, para finalmente encontrar la verdadera felicidad que todos anhelan. El destino trae de vuelta a todos los personajes que han aparecido; nadie quedará fuera esta vez. Todos serán parte del espectáculo durante toda la historia, y algunos personajes nuevos también se irán sumando en el camino. Esta historia explorará y expondrá a cada personaje a una reflexión profunda. Tanto la pareja principal como los demás personajes evolucionarán; ningún personaje será dejado de lado, ya que cada uno será clave para el desarrollo de la historia. --- La Historia empieza justo después del capítulo 390 del Manga, tomando una desviación considerable desde ese punto de origen creando un camino propio totalmente nuevo y diferente. Por lo tanto, esta historia contiene SPOILERS de la serie original, seguir bajo su propia responsabilidad. Esta historia está basada en el manga Kanojo Okarishimasu. Los personajes pertenecen a Reiji Miyajima-sensei, solo inventaré algunos que no han aparecido con nombre oficial.

She's a luxury sweeper-the one the rich call before their sins go public. Stevie Vale erases chaos with precision and perfection. No evidence. No emotion. No attachments. She doesn't fall in love-she studies it, manipulates it, weaponizes it. Holden Pierce is a covert intelligence operative built on discipline and truth. His latest mission: track down the faceless ghost known only as "Vale." The only problem? He doesn't know the ghost he's hunting is the same woman who's already caught his attention for all the wrong reasons. He was supposed to take her down. She never saw him coming. ✨2 new chapters EVERY FRIDAY!!✨ It is a completed novel ONLY broken up like this for people to follow along 🖤

[𝐑𝐄𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆] [𝐌𝐌] 𝐇𝐲𝐦𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏 Love knows no crown, no rules, no limits. Some songs are meant to be heard.

He hates everyone but her. She's an angel he would burn the whole world for. *** Opposites really attract in this sweet romance between talkative Anita and quiet Marco. When their worlds collide, sparks fly, and their undeniable chemistry leaves them breathless. Anita Moore is a ray of sunshine, spreading joy and laughter wherever she goes. Her bubbly personality and non-stop chatter can light up a room. But beneath her cheerful exterior, Anita has had her own share of breakups and heartbreaks; however, that doesn't deter her from being the lively soul she is. Marco De Luca, on the other hand is a man of few words. His quiet reserve is a shield, a protective mechanism that keeps people at bay. He doesn't do love, but there's something about Anita that draws him in, something that makes him want to listen to her endless chatter and offer her a shoulder to lean on. Join Anita and Marco in this 'match made in heaven' romance!

SLEEPY Pandemic: Worldwide phenomena in which certain people are falling into comas and/or dying in their sleep. Informally known as Sleepy, the pandemic has two sides, but only few know both. *** "It picks us off one by one. But as the entities get stronger so do the Sleepy waves. Soon nobody will be awake. Or alive." *** If they survive, they wake to a normal day, dreams forgotten. Die once, and they fall Comatose, stuck in the Zone. Die twice, and they become the very things they once ran from. *** What happens when the whole world falls asleep? 16 year old Dakota Winsely is an insomniac teen juggling school life and strange things. She lives with her mother and her one-year-old little brother, struggling at night to keep her hallucinatons at bay. The insomnia drugs never work, and she's given up trying. When the SSS pandemic hits the U.S and her mother falls Comatose, she is forced to move in with her aunt and uncle to the bigger city and Sleepy waves are only getting stronger. New school. New enemies. Chaos swarms the streets as more people fall each day and the citizens don't remember why. Then the impossible happens. Dakota sleeps a full night. And the things she sees don't feel like a dream... This is the Zone. Entities. Encounters. Deaths here correspond to deaths in real life. Comatose remain trapped. The rest wake up and just continue to believe in an airborne virus. But there are others who remember both sides: the waking world and the Zone; The knowledge threatening to put them in more danger than the effects of the pandemic itself. Dakota is just one of them. .-- .... . -. .-- .. .-.. .-.. .-- . . ...- . .-. .-- .- -.- . ..- .--. ..--.. ***

"I won't date you." Five years ago, Kenji Yamamoto met Ichika Nakamura. Now they're in the same high school. They call it friendship. It's easier that way. Some things don't stay buried, and not everything is as perfect as it seems. I Won't Date You is a slow-burn romance light novel. Volume 1 is complete. Volume 1.5 is now being uploaded.