🌑🎼WELCOME TO THE NOCTURNE AWARDS🎼🌑 A space created for stories that linger long after the final line. The Nocturne Awards celebrate emotionally immersive storytelling, haunting atmosphere, powerful prose, and characters that leave their mark on readers forever. Inspired by music, moonlight and the emotions fiction can awaken within us, these awards aim to recognise stories that truly make readers feel. Whether your writing is soft and melancholic, intense and devastating, or beautifully atmospheric, the Nocturne Awards invite you to share the stories that echo the loudest in the dark. 🖤 ~ Every story leaves an echo. ~ 🖤

She arrives in the city hoping to disappear. After her older brother's sudden death, Katherine leaves behind the only home she has ever known, carrying nothing but grief and the belief that distance might quiet the past. In a place where no one knows her name, she builds a life in silence-working mornings in a small café on the edge of a busy financial district, learning how to exist without being seen. Before she leaves, she finds a hidden box in her brother's room. Inside are letters she was never meant to see. Most of them are simple at first-ordinary words, familiar handwriting, fragments of care she doesn't fully let herself read. She only opens a few before closing the box again, leaving the rest untouched as if keeping them sealed might keep something else from unraveling. In the city, life settles into routine. Early mornings. Familiar faces. The comfort of being unknown. It should be enough. But it isn't. A man begins to pass through her world each day-always at the same time, always just out of reach of notice. He does not speak to her. He does not look at her like she is anything more than part of the background. And she does not recognize him. Not once. And yet, something about his presence begins to linger where memory should be clear. As fragments of her brother's past begin to surface in small, unsettling ways, Katherine starts to understand that distance does not always mean escape-and some things follow you quietly, long after you think you've left them behind.

Evelyn had everything going for her: valedictorian, early acceptance into her dream university and her relationship was going strong, until it wasn't. One lie, one night, shattered everything she knew to be true. Suddenly Evelyn's noticeable features made sense now and why they refused to hide. Will Evelyn be able to escape her doomed fate or accept the new changes in her life?

Of Shadow and Sin is a dark romantasy filled with soul ties, ancient lore, and a world where almost everyone is supernatural. Vampires, hunters, witches, demons-if it exists in the shadows, it exists here. Mavera's life in the small town of Aspen Hollow is built around her close-knit group of friends and the one person she trusts most: her best friend. But everything changes when his visit home places him at the center of a brutal murder, dragging her into a dangerous world she never knew existed. Soon, Mavera begins having visions of a man who looks exactly like him-but isn't him. A man who starts stalking her from the shadows. As the line between reality and nightmare blurs, she is pulled into another realm entirely, where she meets a third man tied to secrets far older and darker than she could have imagined. Caught between obsession, danger, and forbidden love, Mavera discovers that neither she nor her best friend are truly what she thought-and that even her own family has been hiding the truth. As buried magic awakens inside her, she's forced to unravel who she really is before the supernatural world consuming her destroys everything she loves.

Liore thought the island of Formentera would be enough to burn away the memories of home. She thought that it would be her sanctuary, a place where her secrets could finally rest. But as the wind picks up and the tides begin to turn, she realises that some ghosts know how to swim. And now, for the sake of the heartbeat inside her, she has to leave the only peace she has ever known. She leaves nothing but footprints that the tide will soon erase. Where the waves whistle goodbye.

Teresia knows sleeping with the pastor's son is a terrible idea. In 1984, eighteen-year-old Teresia is stuck at The Well Fellowship with her mother and stepfather, surrounded by people who mistake obedience for virtue and gossip for concern. She knows how to play along when she has to. She knows how to stay quiet. What she does not know is how to stop wanting Charles Connors. Charles is the pastor's son. Beautiful, experienced, and far too used to getting away with things, he comes with a reputation Teresia understands immediately. He is the last person she should get involved with and the first person who makes her feel fully seen. What begins in secrecy turns into something deeper, more dangerous, and harder to contain. As their relationship intensifies, the walls around Teresia begin closing in. The church is watching. Charles's family already has their doubts about her. A secretive writing group offers the possibility of another life, but even there, jealousy and gossip have teeth. Every choice she makes pulls her further from the version of herself everyone wants, and closer to the one she might have to destroy everything to become. Set against the heat and pressure of a Southern church town, Teresia is a dark coming-of-age romance about desire, power, shame, obsession, and the cost of wanting freedom more than forgiveness. ❤️ REVIEWS ❤️ Your story still pops into my head. I loved it. So different from everything I've read before - Eleanor of Corrupt Romantics

When the world collapses overnight, siblings Carissa and Ian are left to survive in a land reshaped by an all consuming force. As they struggle to stay alive, something within them begins to change strange, powerful, and not fully understood. But in a world where survival comes at a cost, not everyone they meet will be worth saving. Updates every wednesday/thursday!

I made a career travelling through time killing the worst people in history: Gacy, Denke, Dahmler, Vasquez, Hitler more than once. But it's when I keep seeing her at every killing that I realise that I have competition. I might be the next one on her list, and the only thing more dangerous than being in a hitwoman's sights is falling in love with her. Cover by: CasualClyde https://cara.app/casualclyde/portfolio/book-covers Or https://www.instagram.com/casuall.clyde/

*EDITS ONGOING* Katinka thought the world was small. A cabin. Her mother. Silence. She was wrong. Taken from the only life she's ever known, she's forced to travel with men she doesn't trust, through a world that no longer plays by any rules she understands. Some are kind. Some are dangerous. Some are both. And as the road leads them toward a place where survival is controlled by power, Katinka begins to realise- being safe and being owned are not the same thing. In a world where people become what they must to survive... What will she become?

A princess unloved by her family for being an illegitimate child that cost the life of two people. She is destined to die due to a curse that she kept concealed until she died in her first life. Now reincarnating as her younger self can Serenity defy the will of the gods from the royal families and live to see her family demise.