When Remsie's boyfriend asked her to go on a tour of the NASA Space Center, she assumed the most interesting thing she would see would be a rocket. But she couldn't have been more wrong... After falling through a top secret portal to another world, Remsie wakes nauseous and disoriented in a world she wasn't built to survive. When she's discovered by a tall alien warrior and brought back to his den mates she's determined to keep them at arms length. But that's hard to do when they believe she's a deity come save their species from extinction. Caught in the complicated pack games of this foreign world, it is not only reality as she knows it at risk of being lost forever, but her life and maybe her heart... ___ #1 in alien on 09/03/25 #1 in science fiction on 10/22/25 #1 in scifi fantasy on 10/22/25 #1 in romantasy on 11/14/25 #1 in paranormal romance on 12/22/25 #1 in why choose on 3/26/25

[a two-shot] ─────── ✦ cold coffee, warm glances, and a beginning disguised as a date ✦───────

At two years old, she was taken from everything she knew - a powerful father, devoted brothers, and a home where she was treasured beyond measure. Kidnapped by the one person meant to protect her, she vanished without a trace. Raised in cruelty by her mother and stepfather, she grew up believing pain was normal and love was something earned. She never knew she had been stolen - or that an entire empire had been quietly searching for her. For fourteen years, her father and brothers tore through cities, secrets, and bloodlines to find the daughter and sister ripped from them. Now, as she turns sixteen, the truth begins to unravel. And when a mafia family finally finds what was taken from them, they don't let go easily.

Where the evil Queen of Hearts and the eccentric Mad Hatter fall in love. --- Marra is the Queen of the Kingdom of Hearts. She is known to be heartless and cruel, a tyrant through and through. She has been searching for clues on how to find the mystical being called the Jabberwocky. As she sets foot on her adventure, she encounters different people and creatures who will change her outlook on life, including the eccentric Mad Hatter. Will she let herself fall in love with the madman? --- Based on the "Alice in Wonderland" franchise, particularly the classic books "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. --- An Open Novella Contest 2026 entry. Prompt 44. "May I have this dance?" "Seriously? Right now, in this situation?"

For Centuries Grim has been collecting souls. It's what he does, it's his purpose. One day, while collecting a soul in the park, he comes across a lost puppy. For reasons he can't explain, the urge to return the small dog to his owner is overwhelming. He soon finds the animal's owner, a woman in her mid-twenties named Maria. He is struck down by her beauty and realizes that he had once claimed the soul of someone she loved. He becomes even more conflicted when he realizes he has just one year to claim her soul.

"I'm going to ruin you, Elijah," I whispered, trailing my fingers down his scarred chest, feeling his entire body shudder. "You're mine now. Every thought you have and every breath you take, they all belong to me. And I'm going to taint you so full of my scent that you'll be begging me to let you drown in my body." Elijah has spent years building walls around himself, but Aria ignites something primal inside him that he can't fight. He doesn't do soft and he doesn't do mercy, but one reckless touch and one desperate kiss later, his years of control shatters. Elijah meant to break her. He meant to show her why he's the most feared wolf in the pack, but in the heat of a single night, he realizes he isn't the one doing the ruining. She is. They're learning each other the only way they know how, hard, fast, and without mercy. And when the claiming ceremony arrives, nothing will stop him from making her his. She set his world on fire and he will burn the world down to take her. Tropes: Cold girl x Cold guy Badgirl x Goodboy (in bed) Female Pack healer x Male Delta Wolf Virgin x Virgin She fell first, both fell harder

"People think silence means there's nothing inside you. But silence is where I hide everything I can't survive saying out loud." Fourteen-year-old Aluna Amari has only ever trusted one person: her father, who raised her alone after her mother abandoned her. But when he's diagnosed with cancer, Aluna is forced to move in with the mother she hasn't spoken to in years. What she doesn't expect is that her mother is engaged to Andrei Petrov-a cold, feared Russian mafia boss-and that his home comes with six ruthless sons who see Aluna as nothing but an unwanted inconvenience. A silent little "freak" their father's fiancée brought into their world. Another thing about Aluna is that she is selectively mute, trapped in a house full of danger, secrets, and people who don't want her there. And as her father's medical bills pile up, she realizes she may be the only one who can save him. The only voice she has left... is music. Because hidden behind her silence is something no one expects: Aluna is a musical prodigy-and music is the only language that's ever made her feel alive. It's her escape. Her weapon. Her prayer. And in a world ruled by violence, power, and secrets... the quietest girl in the room may be the one who changes everything.