The Blackwood Collection: Completed Horror
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The Coffee Shop Architect by AuthorSaloni
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Kabir lives a life of straight lines and predictable outcomes. As a rising star in a top Delhi architecture firm, he spends his mornings at 'The Marigold Café,' meticulously drafting blueprints for high-rise steel structures. He believes that if you control the design, you control the world. ​Enter Zoya, the human equivalent of a spring morning. She's just moved into the vacant shop next door to open 'Zoya's Blooms,' a boutique flower shop. Zoya doesn't believe in blueprints; she believes in the way a bouquet feels or how a specific scent can change someone's day. ​Their worlds collide-literally-when Zoya trips over a loose pavement stone and spills a bucket of flower water all over Kabir's latest masterpiece. ​What starts as a daily disaster of spilled water, stray petals, and interrupted silences turns into a beautiful reconstruction of Kabir's life. As Zoya teaches him to see the beauty in the "smudge" and the "mess," Kabir helps Zoya find the structure she needs to make her dream shop a success. "Sometimes the best designs are the ones you didn't plan."❣️
CODE: MEMORY by AuthorSaloni
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In a neon-drenched future where memories are traded like gold, Sana is an elite thief who steals secrets from the minds of the rich. But her latest target, the lethal CEO Cyrus Thorne, hides a "Ghost-File" she never expected: a memory of them in love. Now, Sana must discover if Cyrus is her greatest enemy-or the lover she was forced to forget. #CyberpunkRomance #EnemiesToLovers #TechNoir #MemoryLoss #DarkAndFlirty #Heist
The Midnight Waltz at Cinder Hall by AuthorSaloni
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"Don't blink when the clock strikes twelve." ​Amara Vance is a restorer of broken things, but Cinder Hall is a ruin she wasn't prepared for. Reclusive, dangerous, and devastatingly handsome, Vane Thorne lives in a manor frozen at 11:59 PM. He is a man tethered to a curse-a blood-stained waltz from 1945 that repeats every night at midnight. ​When the clock tolls twelve, the ghosts wake up, the walls bleed ink, and the ballroom becomes a trap. Amara was hired to save Vane's library, but she soon realizes she's the only one who can see the man beneath the monster. ​In a house where time is a predator, falling in love is the most dangerous move of all. ​#DarkRomance #Gothic #SlowBurn #Horror #Cursed
The Mirror of Mourning by AuthorSaloni
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Inheriting Blackwood Manor was supposed to be Elara's fresh start. But the sprawling, silver-veined estate holds a secret locked behind a heavy black veil in the attic. ​When Elara uncovers a grand, Victorian-era mirror, she expects to see her own weary reflection. Instead, the glass reveals the manor as it was a century ago-vibrant, candlelit, and inhabited by a family that died in 1926. But the mirror is more than a window to the past; it is a predator. Every second Elara spends mesmerized by the silent world behind the glass, her own pulse slows, and the shadows in the mirror grow stronger. ​In the house where reflections lie, the dead are looking for a way out, and they only need one minute of your life to take it. ​#Horror #GhostStory #Gothic #Paranormal #Mystery #Wattys2026