In the lands where women hold no power and society is split between humans and Cresters those born with power through male bloodlines, Genafia never envies their strength. She only wants peace. She turns a knight's own sword against him, ending the life that stole her brother's. Ozias, the knight's son, finds his father's body among the ruins, then burns Genafia's entire village in retribution, seizing her sister as his prisoner. But when the Dark Barrier breaks, freeing the ancient evil known as King Borumir of Lazareth, the kingdoms teeter on the brink of destruction. The King of Ethervale summons both enemies, bound by blood and vengeance, to fight for the same cause.

One singer past her prime, one admirer out of his depth, and one last chance at an encore. Scene: London, 1835. Once the darling of Covent Garden, Aimée Millet has exchanged ovations for creditors and a pension barely fit for decency. Her loyal maid, Nellie Simmons, guards what remains of their household pride with a teapot and a tongue sharp enough to steal scenes. Enter Mr Julian Harcourt: twenty-four, earnest, and catastrophically well-bred. His impulsive gallantry sets Bloomsbury whispering and Aimée's temper alight. A polite apology spirals into a comedy of missteps, music, and inconvenient tenderness. Julian believes love can mend what the world has broken; Aimée knows better. Yet when kindness arrives with violets, laughter, and the first glimmer of hope she has dared to feel in years, it becomes impossible to refuse. For readers who like their romance witty, their heroines wary, and their happy endings hard-won.

**The fates of a barista, a dancing criminal, and a deadly stranger become tangled in a world where the apocalypse is old news** All Mads Capot wants to do is run her coffee shop in peace and to be able to pay her bills until the next wave of intragalactic tourists arrives. But when a mysterious green-eyed stranger walks into the shop and seems to be the answer to all her problems, she's immediately skeptical. And her instincts have always been good . . . Luc is mysterious and adaptable, a drifter with a dark past and a score to settle with one of the galaxy's most infamous criminals. When he crosses paths with Mads, he inadvertently draws her into a complicated world of outlaws, renegades, and ancient curses existing on the fringe of a destroyed world. Can they put aside their differences to survive, or will they end up as two more nameless corpses? Inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, Baz Luhrmann films, 2000s pop punk, club bangers and a dash of Star Wars, "The Last Coffee Shop" is a science-fantasy adventure for fans of Firefly, White Collar, fairy-tale retellings, and Diana Wynne Jones. *Stay tuned for spin-offs/shorts in the world of TLCS* CW: PG13 level violence, language, sexual themes, and mentions of abuse, etc

"I will become as monstrous as I must." Five hundred years after the Great Freeze, the empire of Britannia stands, untouchable, as the greatest power in the world. The Britannia that emerged from the Freeze is an empire built of iron and ice, of blood and ash and bone. Its rulers govern a strictly-organized society, with each class serving a purpose and kept strictly separated. Daphne Corvus has been raised from a frozen hell to the heights of wealth and power for one purpose alone: to become that which she hates the most in order to bring a cruel empire to its knees. If she succeeds, she will see the sister she's lost again; if she fails, she will die, and her sister will be left to suffer In order to succeed, she must first infiltrate the school where Britannia turns the children of its most powerful families into its greatest commanders. But the Academy is notoriously competitive, and Daphne is far from the only student who needs to triumph. *This story is my entry for the 2024 Open Novella Contest*

Desperate to revive her failing career, novelist June Halper retreats alone to a rented cabin deep in the Appalachian woods. Her only companion is an antique typewriter - the Sterling Scribe - a relic from another age that feels more alive than it should. As June begins typing, the stories she creates start to manifest beyond the page: a figure watching from the treeline, whispers under the floorboards, a child's imaginary friend who might not be imaginary at all. With each new line, the boundary between author and story erodes. To finish her masterpiece, June must decide which version of herself will survive the final draft.

Amalia Knight was raised to be everything her mother was, a proper woman of Upper Class Society. But that's never snuffed out the fire burning within her to learn everything she can about her father's aether factories and how he runs the business. Why? She wants to run them someday, make them better for workers, and have aether available for everyone in London. But with Reynard, the Night Fox, strolling around and raiding aether factories like it's his playpen, Amalia wants to take this vigilante down. But when she faces him at a party she and her father are at, she starts to question everything. Suddenly, she realizes those she's grown to trust all wear masks she'd never seen before, including herself. Is she ready to pull these masks off and see what lays behind it, including Reynard's?

» Complete rewritten trilogy « 𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔. 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. Luna Carlyle, a Louisiana photographer with a family, had always believed her life was ordinary, until the day she discovered her telepathic connection with Amir Khan, a Pakistani geneticist. Their bond is intense but comes with a fatal price: meeting in person could cost them their lives. Deemed insane for her telepathic conversations, Luna finds herself trapped in a psychiatric facility, betrayed by someone she trusted. To save the woman he loves but can never touch, Amir risks everything to break her out. However, what awaits them beyond the institution's walls is more terrifying than confinement. A shadowy organization, dedicated to eradicating human anomalies, has the pair in their sights. Can Amir and Luna defy a destiny designed to keep them apart, or will their love become a casualty in a deadly game? ~ Sense8 meets Heroes meets StrangerThings ~ ✧ 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 ✧ 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 ✧ 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐎𝐕 ✧ » The Tethered Trilogy « • Tethered Souls - BOOK ONE (COMPLETE) • The Tethered Ones - BOOK TWO (COMPLETE) • Tethered - BOOK THREE (COMPLETE) Copyright © 2025 Lily Mitchell Exclusive to W A T T P A D, under the profile of OnceUponALily, and an 8-chapter excerpt is also posted on Inkitt under the username Lily_writes. 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫