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Mystery
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VOWS OF SILENCE by tonyatwraxall
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#ambys2026 Saint Angela's Academy was supposed to be a place of faith, discipline, and learning. Instead, it became a pit full of secrets. When private investigator and former student, Theolinda Brady begins asking questions about the death of a student, she uncovers a trail leading back decades-through suspicious accidents, buried evidence, and the powerful women who rule the academy from the shadows. As more bodies are linked to Saint Angela's, detective Ryley and police trainee Scarlett race to uncover the truth before another life is lost. But every answer reveals a darker secret, and every witness seems bound by the same unbreakable vow: silence. At the center of it all stands Reverend Mother Bernadette Moreau, a woman haunted by guilt, and Sister Agnes, whose devotion may hide something far more dangerous. Some sins can be forgiven. Some secrets refuse to stay buried. And some vows were never meant to be kept.
Before the End by ritaquill
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Oren Hale discovers a memorial page for a boy who died four years ago and cannot explain why the photo looks exactly like him. After that, ordinary life starts to feel staged, like he is walking through a story someone else wrote. His tutor, Ayara, is smart, guarded, and dangerously easy to talk to. Their sessions shift into something riskier: honesty, which only makes the rest of the world feel stranger by comparison. As Oren tries to understand where the dead boy ends and he begins, the people closest to him keep steering him away from the truth. But the more he looks, the clearer it becomes: one of these lives is real, and the other is a mistake. He just doesn't know which one. AWARDS ~ Third Place for Best Romantic Pairing - The Triquetra Awards ~ Second Place for Best Prologue - The Triquetra Awards REVIEWS Just exceptional writing skills - David of INFERENCE
Thread Of Deception  by malihawrites
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Have you ever heard of a devil who hides behind the face of an angel? In this city, he doesn't hide in shadows... he hides in plain sight. Eight lives. One web of secrets. And a truth no one is ready to face. In a city drowning in lies, nothing is what it seems. Every smile is a mask, every truth is carefully planted. Because truth isn't real here it's controlled. This story doesn't begin with hope. It begins with something far worse. Welcome to a world of twists and turns, where every life is a secret waiting to explode... and no one is who they claim to be. You didn't stumble into this story. You were pulled in. And now... every screen belongs to him.
Dead If You Do by KateNorth
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A campus thriller: suspense, murder & one handsome roommate. ***** When Haley Bell is offered a scholarship to study at the exclusive Woodcreek College, famous for moulding the world's brightest thinkers, politicians and entrepreneurs, she jumps at the opportunity. Except when she arrives, the murders start. In a campus hidden from civilisation in the mountains of Colorado, Haley's classmates are slowly turning up dead. As the bodies pile up and eyes of suspicion turn on her, Haley finds that there's a reason why she was brought to Woodcreek. And it wasn't to study. "That opening line will hook you (I still think about it) & it DOESN'T STOP! I binged this like crazy" - Leah, Sr. Editorial Manager @ HQ [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Ellie Sita