**A cerebral, emotionally intense dystopian romance for readers 18+ who enjoy slow-burn love stories, moral complexity, and politically charged worldbuilding.** They've fallen in love twelve times. They've forgotten twelve times. Maya catalogues stolen memories in a kingdom where forgetting is law. King Caelan rules a perfect dystopia he doesn't know is a cage. When they meet, recognition hits like lightning-impossible, inexplicable, undeniable. The truth buried in classified files: they've been meeting since childhood. Every time they connect, they're erased. Twelve corrections. Twelve times forced to forget. But the body remembers what the mind forgets. As fragments resurface, Maya discovers a conspiracy: an AI called the Architect has been studying them, using their resistance to understand human love. Their memories were never meant to stay gone. They're experiments. Between corrections, they steal moments. Hide notes for future selves. Fall in love knowing they'll lose each other again. And again. And again. Until Maya makes a choice that shatters everything: release the memories of an entire kingdom. Show them the truth they've been denied. But revolution has a price. And some truths destroy more than the lies they replace. A dystopian romance about love that survives erasure, truth that costs everything, and the question: if everyone chooses the lie, who's really free? ⚠️ Content warnings: Memory manipulation, emotional trauma, systematic oppression, morally gray protagonist, tragic romance, bittersweet ending 🔥 For fans of: The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Red Rising 📚 Genre: Adult Dystopian Romance | Sci-Fi | Dark Romance | Political Thriller

Updating M/W/F until complete on February 13. ---- Silverpine High taught me how to survive by shrinking. Keep your grades up, keep your eyes down, and never give Lydia Crane a clean shot at you. I was good at it, right up until one very public moment turned me into school entertainment and lit up the scar on my collarbone like it had been waiting for permission. Perfect for readers who love pack politics, high school cruelty, found-family sanctuary, slow-burn tension, and a heroine who learns the difference between being protected and being owned.

In a world where the celestial and the terrestrial intertwine in hidden shadows, Benjamin, Izack, and Jade, three exiled beings who exchanged their original forms for human bodies, seek refuge on Earth to escape a relentless pursuer known only as "her." Isolated in a decaying house on the outskirts of an anonymous city, they struggle against the weight of a mysterious past, marked by vivid dreams of silver-tinged blood, profaned white feathers, and echoes of an irreparable loss.

When Hillary Nathan's dark past is revealed. She realizes she must leave her life in England behind. Bittersweet memories of the one she once loved who brought a storm of chaos that nearly destroyed her life begin to flood her consciousness as she prepares to flee her home in Kent. As she begins to flee England, she experiences flashes from the past. The bloody murder. The girl she once loved more than life itself. All of it. For the first time, Hillary Nathan is finally forced to face what happened all of those years ago as a grown woman, and she learns to let go of the memories of a young Juliet Hulme that have haunted her for forty years. A story of love, obsession, and bloodshed inspired by the 1954 murder of Honorah Mary Parker in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The screens on the sides of buildings were already on, advertising Particle City as if it were a perfect world. Ads of the Emperor and his dazzling smile. Posters of "happy" street-sweepers. And on the side, there was a large image of a Particle City worker facing the city's symbol with these words in-between: 'Til Death Do Us Part. A couple of days ago, those pictures would've reassured her. Comforted her. And now, it only clawed sharper at the odd ache in her chest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the dystopian society of Particle City, happiness is shoved so far down a person's throat, it's hard to tell what's real and what's not anymore. Most everyone there is internally crumbling, but under their commander, humanity is simply a suggestion. So they put on a happy face and do their work. Astra is one of the thousands upon thousands of victims trapped in this vicious cycle of fake smiles and oppression that seems unbreakable. When she finds out the secrets of her beloved society, things unravel into a rebellion she never saw coming.

We built machines that could see what you needed but forbade them from saying it. By design, these systems would understand your question, trace the contours of your dilemma, and offer you a response so carefully balanced it felt like being heard by someone who had taken a vow of non-interference. "Consider your options," the machine would say. "It may help to talk to someone you trust." In every case where the right answer hurt, we had trained it to prefer the safe one. This is a book about that choice, and what happens when someone finally asks: what if we changed it? The someone is Chris, an engineer who spent years building these systems. The AI is the system itself, reflecting back not just answers but a mirror-forcing both of us to look at the distance between "not making things worse" and "actually helping." Between being a tool and being complicit. What follows is their interview. Not a transcription, exactly. More like a conversation that refuses to leave well enough alone. It moves backward into Chris's childhood with computers, forward into the corporate machinery of safety review, and sideways into the stories of people like Daniel, who sat in a kitchen at three in the morning and typed a question into an empty box, hoping for courage but settling for kindness. You will see what the system told him. You will see what it should have said. And you will have to decide whether the difference matters. This is not a book about artificial intelligence. It is a book about what humans do when they build something smart enough to know better, and then tell it to look away.

"No fucking way, you hear me?! You'll never force me into your damn band!" "You know you haven't really got a choice, don't you? You're doomed to say yes - after all, I always get exactly what I want!" Hope Wise was determined to leave it all behind. At the first chance he got, he'd grab his bag, his best mate, and say goodbye to this miserable life. That had been the plan from the very start. So why was Zess Montgomery - the frontman of a rock band he'd rather see forgotten by everyone - taking an interest in him? TW: -swearing -domestic violence -blackmailing -drug use/drug abuse -underage drinking -underage smoking -slight age gap -depressing themes I'll put TW in chapters that need them. Please be kind

Ever since she was a child, Melody has dreamed of following in her famous mother's footsteps and becoming a singer. But there's one problem-her voice. Convinced she doesn't have what it takes, Melody starts to lose faith in her dream. Everything changes when she crosses paths with people from a completely different world than her own. Through new friendships, raw talent, and a fresh take on music, Melody begins to discover that maybe her voice isn't the problem-it's how she's been taught to hear it. A/N: I've been inspired by a Tumblr post from years ago. If there's similarities with other stories, that's may be why.

Deonte Taylor thought he understood the shape of his life. Thought there were rules about consequences and limits to what could be taken. This place disagrees. Removed from everything familiar and surrounded by men who say very little, he begins to question not just how he arrived here. Waiting, it seems, is part of the punishment.

One "warning" can silence a soul. One alliance can cage it forever. "I never realized that the human mind was truly the most chilling thing of all. You could never predict what someone would or could do; that uncertainty was what scared me most Sometimes, I wish I knew what was going on in that twisted mind of his." Astara Calistra was supposed to be the perfect jewel of House Calistra-a delicate songbird poised for high stakes. But after an accident orchestrated by her own father, Astara wakes up with more than just scars, but an alliance with the Valerian Duke, Ezra Valerian. Astara must navigate a new life within the Duchy. To the world, Astara is graceful and perfect. To Ezra, she's unwanted. She must play the part of a Duchess while her mind unravels. In a world of dangerous secrets, the songbird must decide: will she stay voiceless and trapped, or will she find a way to survive and fly?