**WARNING: This narrative is a work of fiction blending horror, dark comedy, and crime elements, featuring intense and disturbing scenarios. Reader discretion is advised.** **Prologue** During spring break, a group of affluent and entitled teenagers embarked on a trip to their best friend's secluded holiday mansion, nestled in a remote area. Their intention was to indulge in unbridled revelry, unencumbered by responsibilities or concerns beyond their own desires. The excursion commenced with euphoric enthusiasm, but unforeseen darkness lurked beneath the surface, harboring secrets that would unfold before they reached their destination. The girls confronted unimaginable challenges that exposed hidden facets of each other's personalities, forged by the extreme events they faced. Will they confront the darkness together, or betray each other's trust? Is their friendship as solid as it appears, or does it conceal cracks waiting to crumble into dust?

Sabine has spent the past decade hiding from the Wild Hunt. But when a charismatic stranger recruits her to retrieve an invaluable artifact, she'll have to finally reveal her identity... and her dark secrets. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The darkness holds more than just secrets... Marked for death, Sabine escaped from her home more than ten years ago. But the Wild Hunt will never give up. It should have been easy to stay hidden. All Sabine had to do was keep her head down, avoid telling anyone about her past, and above all else -- not let her glamour drop. Even the best-laid plans eventually fall apart. When a charismatic stranger arrives in the city, Sabine finds herself unwittingly drawn to the power she can sense hidden within him. Keeping her distance is nearly impossible, especially after a life debt is called due and she's tasked into helping steal a rare artifact. Sabine is the only one who can break the magical barriers protecting the item, but that means revealing the truth about her identity and exposing her darkest secrets. Unfortunately, the Fae aren't the only ones hunting her. And the most dangerous monsters aren't always confined to the dark.

Frida died on the battlefield with no family to mourn her-only a comrade she saved, and a quiet hope that she might see the man she loved but never confessed to. He too had perished in war. A soldier. An orphan. A soul full of quiet regrets. Her only comfort in life? The stories she devoured in secret-especially the ones about loved daughters finally finding a place to belong. But fate had something stranger in store. When she wakes again, it's not her body she returns to-but that of Nej, the veiled, forgotten princess from the last novel she read. Scarred, unloved, and pushed aside-a tragic villainess who had once moved Frida's heart. Now, somehow, Frida is inside her. But it's not just reincarnation. It's inheritance. Nej, it seems, had turned back time-returning to the moment she was scarred by her mother's blade. Too broken to face her past again, she summoned the one soul who had mourned her in silence: Frida. A girl who shared her pain. A girl who also bore a scar from her first battle. A girl who would take her place. Now, with both their memories tangled inside her, Frida-as-Nej carries more than just a royal name. She carries two lifetimes of sorrow, and a vow to break the cycle: She will fulfill Nej's unspoken regrets. She will reclaim her own life. And she will shatter the gilded cage of royalty-sword in hand. Because this time, she's not living for duty or death. She's living for freedom.

In a realm where dragons choose their mates through ritual and instinct, Annabella-a realist from a world of logic-never believed in magic, fate, or monsters. But after falling through a mysterious rift, she awakens in a wild, primal land filled with creatures who aren't quite human... and who seem to think she belongs to them. She's cold. She's starving. And then the gifts begin. Food. Shelter. Fire. And always, that scent-smoky, powerful, and maddeningly alluring. Survival comes first. Or so she tells herself. But with every brush of clawed fingertips and heated glance, the lines between survival and surrender begin to blur. These dragon shifters don't just want her-they've chosen her. And in their world, choice runs both ways. A slow-burn, emotionally rich, polyamorous romance about instincts, intimacy, and the bonds we never see coming.

In a kingdom that hated her, he stayed. Crowned by tragedy and cast aside by her people, the queen lives in isolation within a crumbling castle-haunted by grief, doubt, and the echoes of a life she never chose. Her only constant is her knight. Silent. Masked. Unwavering. He watches over her when the world turns cruel, guarding not only her life but truths she does not yet know. Bound by duty and shaped by devotion, he becomes her last refuge in a kingdom that refuses to love her. As rebellion brews and the crown tightens its grip, the queen must face what it means to rule-and what it means to love someone she was never meant to have. A Crown Between Us is a slow-burn fantasy romance about forbidden devotion, quiet rebellion, and choosing love over the throne.