Heba Badran grew up in a funeral home, raised by an Egyptian mortician. She believed her night terrors were nothing more than bad luck. Until they spoke on her sixteenth birthday. The protection of her Anubis amulet waned, and the voices were no longer contained: they were horrors forged in chaos, hunting for demigods' hearts... And they wanted hers. Soon, Heba discovered a hidden world filled with children of the gods who are ruled by laws, judgments, and Egyptian deities who do not forget. Silence, anger and pain once kept Heba safe. Now it may be the reason she's hunted. **FIRST DRAFT** + SHORT CHAPTERS + INCLUDES DIGITAL DRAWINGS + POLLS AFTER EVERY CHAPTER +WEEKLY UPDATES Follow the story in real time. 👻✌️💀

He left Hollow Creek chasing the spotlight. She stayed-and survived the dark. When Nathan West, a rising Hollywood star, returns to his small Pennsylvania hometown just days after Christmas, everyone assumes he's home for the holidays. No one knows the truth: fame cost him everything he loved. Hannah Collins never planned to see him again. Now twenty-six, living with her parents, and raising her one-year-old daughter, she's rebuilding a life shattered by a past no one knows about. Not the town. Not her friends. And definitely not the boy who once promised her forever. As snow falls and old memories resurface, Nathan is forced to face the life he missed-and the woman who became stronger without him. But some wounds run deeper than regret, and love doesn't erase the scars of survival. © 2025 V. Noire. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction created by the author. Please don't copy, repost without my permission.

[𝐌𝐌] 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏 ─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─── Asa Davies is barely keeping his head above water. A single father living in a rundown complex with his nine-year-old son, Maizen, he's desperate to give his boy a better life - even if it means doing things he never imagined. When Jordan Crawford, the wealthy older brother of Asa's best friend, comes back to town, sparks fly - but not the friendly kind. Asa can't stand Jordan's cold, self-assured attitude, and Jordan's own walls make him dislike everyone around him. But when desperation meets opportunity, an unexpected arrangement could be the solution to both their problems... if they can survive each other long enough to make it work.