Tragic Love
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Until You by Jesse_Denning
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Kate Johnson doesn't fall in love-she wins. If she can land the new barista from the coffee shop down the street, she'll be back on top-and a legend among the finance bros. Olivia moves to New York City to start over: art school, independence, a life that finally feels like her own. Working at a coffee shop in the finance district is supposed to be temporary. Unfortunately, she meets Kate Johnson. Even though Kate feels like a dream come true-she might be the worst mistake Olivia ever makes. Dani Connor has spent her whole life trying to escape the shadow of her father's criminal empire. As the reluctant heir to Paddy Connor's world, she's caught between the pull of the family bar, her brother Finn, and the life she's trying to build. More than anything, Dani wants one thing she's never truly had: someone who will choose her first-and choose her back. This is a dark romance featuring morally complex characters, power imbalances, obsession, and tragic consequences. This story does not have a happy ending. ⚠️Content Warning: Themes of mental illness, substance use, criminal activity, and power imbalances, religious elements. 🌈 Queer • Dark Romance • Finance • Lesbian Romance • New York Complete 23k Words.
Dark Wings by Jesse_Denning
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Elven Commander Theo believes in order-and in following the law of Eldara. Siera, a faerie fleeing an arranged marriage, believes in love, freedom, and hope. In a war-torn kingdom where elves rule and faeries are treated as lesser, Theo has built her reputation on discipline, loyalty, and unflinching brutality. She has no patience for weakness-and no room for distraction. A chance encounter brings them together, and somewhere along the road north, something dangerous takes root between them. Society demands obedience. And when Theo chooses power over love, the fracture between them sets a chain of events into motion that neither can undo. Dark Wings is a sapphic fantasy tragedy about love denied, power corrupted, and the thin line between mercy and destruction. ⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This story does not have a happy ending. Dark Wings contains themes of war, violence, moral conflict, systemic prejudice, emotional cruelty, and tragic outcomes. This story explores difficult choices and their consequences. Reader discretion is advised. ✔️ Completed - 9K Words
All That We Are by Jesse_Denning
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Detective Casey Colburn wasn't looking for love. She is just surviving, focusing on the career she sacrificed everything for - including her marriage. Mia Johnson is an art student who lives on instinct. She's reckless in the way people are when they believe love can fix anything. A chance encounter brings them together, and their connection is immediate and intense-pulling them into a relationship fueled by desire, vulnerability, and terrible timing. What begins as something intoxicating quickly becomes complicated as real life intrudes: careers, an age gap, family, and the ghosts of past relationships. As the pressure mounts, Casey is forced to confront a truth she's been avoiding- Sometimes love isn't enough to overcome the obstacles in its way. 🌈 Age-gap. Queer. Slow-burn. Complicated lesbian romance. ✔️ Completed - 17K Words
Má krása (My Beauty) by Jesse_Denning
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Language specialist Belle Connor is taken from a hotel room in Vienna and delivered to a secluded château in the Czech countryside-not for ransom, but as leverage. Nikola Dvořák is a notorious Czech gangster who wants her brother back-and Belle is the bargaining chip. Trapped within the walls of the château, Belle and Nik begin to circle each other: captor and captive. What starts as confinement slowly becomes something far more dangerous-a desire neither woman intended, and neither can escape. Má krása (My Beauty) is a slow-burn sapphic dark romance about power, philosophy, captivity, and the perilous intimacy that forms when two women refuse to look away from each other. Author's Note: This story contains themes of kidnapping, captivity, power imbalance, moral ambiguity, and psychological tension. It explores complex relationships, implied violence, and trauma. 🌈 Sapphic Romance • Secrets • Slow Burn • Captivity • ✔️ Completed - 18K Words
Exit, Unseen. by Jesse_Denning
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Alexandra Petrova is a vampire who has outlived belief itself. Centuries of indulgence have left her detached, precise, and empty, watching humanity as one watches a play already memorized. Love, meaning, hope, she no longer believes in any of them. Bailey Anderson still does. New to New York and chasing her dreams of the stage, Bailey mistakes attention for care... and devotion for safety. When Alex enters her life, Bailey believes she has been chosen. She has. Just not in the way she thinks. Bailey's world narrows-until love becomes indistinguishable from surrender. And Alex must confront the truth she has avoided for centuries: Restraint does not make her good. ⚠️ Content Warning: Dark romance • power imbalance • emotional manipulation • blood/violence • psychological horror 🌈 Sapphic • Tragedy • Psychological Horror • Dark Slow Burn • Vampire ✔️ Completed - 11K Words