For the past twelve years, Walter has not been alone. That is, inside his head. He calls it his monster. Often, it unleashes itself and takes control of him. He usually wakes up surrounded by blood or bodies, sometimes both. When the monster grows quiet in his brain for a time, Walter dares to hope that he might be getting better. This leads him to make arrangements to reconnect with his childhood best friend, Emerald, by hiring her as his own private chef. There is just one problem. His monster is not gone. He never left. In fact, he now seems quite eager to emerge from the shadows and make Emerald's acquaintance.

ONC 2026 War is a fire that spares no one. Enora, known in battle as Sir Ren "the Shield" of Moonveil, has fought and bled for a crown that barely acknowledges her kind. Hidden beneath armor and deception, she is both a knight and the heir of her house, a woman raised as a son, trained to survive a world that fears her gender and despises her people. For years, she has carried her duty and her secret with unwavering resolve. But when the war that has scarred the kingdom finally reaches its climax, Enora rides to join the King's forces and finds herself beside him in the heat of battle. Her skill saves his life, earning her the king's gratitude and the attention of his queen. What begins as honor and recognition quickly twists into something darker: desire, obsession, and dangerous passion. Boundaries blur as the queen and king both fix their eyes and hearts on the same woman. In a world of loyalty, bloodlines, and unspoken power, Enora must navigate the dangerous territory between duty, love, and the cravings of those who hold the kingdom in their hands. A dark romance of obsession, power, and forbidden desire.

Celestine always knew something about her life was not ordinary. She knew she didn't fit in the world she grew up in, but she never had anything to prove that she was an anomaly. Then the proof she so long wanted arrived in front of her but at a cost. She finds out that she was indeed from another world. A world her mother told her nothing about, a world that she would have never thought to be real if she hadn't opened the portal. As she navigates this strange world and finds out dangerous people are targeting her, she ends up in a very complicated situation. Having to marry The Prince of the land was the last thing on her mind. Now she has to find her father, who might still be alive, search for her mother's killer and also navigate life as the bride of the future king, but falling in love was at the very bottom of her list. With time running out and the dark forces getting closer to their goal, Celestine must choose to either accept love and her true powers or watch it all slip from her fingers. Published: 26/11/2025 Completed: Ongoing

When her therapy app accidentally sends Riley's private confessions to a random British expat - and his to her - what began as a glitch quickly evolves into the kind of intimacy that can only exist between strangers. A slow-burn contemporary romance. * * * When a company health initiative forces Riley Markle to download a trendy mental health app, she fills out the onboarding survey without much thought, expecting to get paired with a virtual gym buddy who'll send thumbs-up emojis twice a week. Instead, she gets paired with Joe, a lonely British expat whose wellness concern of Compulsive Behaviors is flagged by the AI system as a perfect match for Riley. Riley resolves to complete her month of check-ins and be done with it - until a glitch in the app sends both her and Joe's embarrassing therapy videos to each other instead of their therapist. Soon, Riley and Joe are talking late into the night, exchanging thirst-trap videos of their weekend routines by day, and thinking about each other constantly. Both are smitten, both are broken, and neither of them knows how to do this without destroying each other. The plan: Limit all communication to the app until after Day 30, then see where things go. But plans change. * * * 🏆 High Rankings: #1 in LITERARY #1 in QUICKREAD #1 in NEWENGLAND #1 in SHORTCHAPTERS (out of 38,000 stories) #3 in EPISTOLARY #87 in ROMCOM (out of 35,000 stories) #147 in ROMANTIC (out of 86,000 stories) Updated November 2025