ONC2026 Long List! Sidharth is Parvathy's safe place. He's her best friend, her winter comfort, and the one person who makes Canada feel like home. But he's also off-limits, dating someone else and firmly placed in the "friend zone" to protect her heart. When her mother introduces her to Jithin, a stable, kind potential groom, Parvathy agrees to give him a chance. It's what her family wants. And maybe, just maybe, it will finally help her move on. But dating Jithin doesn't erase her feelings for Sidharth. And when Sidharth's relationship starts to fall apart, the careful boundaries of their friendship begin to blur. Caught between keeping everyone happy and following her heart, Parvathy has to decide: Will she stay safe in the life others chose for her? Or risk everything for the love she's been hiding all along? Tropes: Friends to Lovers | Slow Burn | Unrequited Love

He never wanted the throne. Kwon Jae-hwan was born into Myeongseong, one of South Korea's most powerful conglomerates-a dynasty where loyalty is tested, love is a weakness, and every marriage can become a political weapon. But Jae-hwan has no desire to inherit the empire. He wants to be its shield. After witnessing what his family can do to the people they consider expendable, Jae-hwan quietly builds an empire of his own: a financial and technological fortress powerful enough that no one-not even his family-can dictate the lives of those he loves. Then he meets Han Seo-jin. Beautiful, intelligent, and already a queen in her own right, Seo-jin has built her career far beyond the reach of ordinary privilege. She doesn't need a prince to save her. But loving Jae-hwan means stepping into a world where power has a price-and where the family behind his name will stop at nothing to protect its legacy. As corporate wars, family secrets, succession battles, and old wounds collide, Jae-hwan faces the one battle he has spent his entire life preparing for: Can he protect the woman he loves without becoming the very thing he swore he would never be? A Fortress for the Queen is a story of love, legacy, power, sacrifice, and the quiet strength of two people who refuse to let an empire decide what their lives are worth.

Hope is all we have left. No one knows how to help, where help is, or if they will ever get help. Some ask a mighty being above to help. Someone who probably doesn't exist. But it gives us hope and the courage to keep moving forward. Four months. That is how long Harlow has survived the rotting remnants of the world alone. Four months of carrying the crushing guilt of a best friend's ultimate sacrifice. Survival is a lonely, brutal routine-until the day the infected corner Harlow, and a scruffy stranger named Ed intervenes. Ed is an older man with a hollow look in his eyes, haunted by the recent loss of his own family. In an apocalypse where the living are far more dangerous than the dead, a fragile alliance forms. Trapped together against the horde, both must face the deadliest question of all, In a world gone mad, can you truly trust a stranger with your life?

Two families spend years destroying each other over a feud they can barely remember the cause of-while the people actually profiting from their war stay carefully out of frame. That's the engine under Pleasant Valley Wars, and it isn't a 19th-century problem. The novel asks what it costs to keep mistaking the person in front of you for your real enemy, what forgiveness even means when there's no one left to hold accountable, and whether revenge is ever about the original wound at all-or just a debt quietly passed down to whoever's standing closest when it comes due. Nora Callahan watches it happen in real time: capable of sensing the danger building long before it arrives, but never quite able to make anyone act on what she already knows. She doesn't get to stand above the wreckage and dispense wisdom. She has to live inside the uncertainty, the same gap between what's right and what's possible that we all occupy when the people we love are making choices we can't stop-and may not even be completely wrong to make.

A glittering runway built on dark secrets, stolen crowns, and desperate survival. To the rest of the world, The Face of K-Seoul is South Korea's most elite national modeling competition-a golden ticket out of poverty, a 500 million won grand prize, and a path to absolute fame. For Cha Chae-won, sweeping floors in a gritty Incheon textile factory while running from a ruthless loan shark, the audition isn't a dream. It's her only way out alive. Alongside her childhood best friend, Han Yoo-ri, Chae-won steps into the blinding neon lights of the Gangnam fashion scene. But under the watchful, cold eyes of Director Kang Tae-oh and the untouchable, elite corporate sponsors, friendship is a liability. As the cutthroat rivalries turn toxic, secrets are weaponized, and the glamour unravels into an elite underworld of bribery and mutual sabotage. In this game, your closest ally is your most dangerous enemy. Only one girl can take the crown. How much of your soul are you willing to burn to save your face?

🏆x3 Awards! ✨️Second Place for Best Cover in the Cassiopeia Mini Awards. Proud to say What Was Held made the short list in The Original Muse Awards! I'm Liliah. Sixteen, almost seventeen. I hate being me. Why? Ten reasons: 1. I'm stuck in Muxleigh - a suffocating seaside town. 2. My mum only cares when it affects her. 3. My step-dad runs our house on fear. 4. I'm failing the person I love most: my six-year-old sister, Forsythia. 5. I don't know who I am... or why I'm here. 6. I attacked the worst boy in town - now I'm hated, and he's still worshipped. 7. My vice? It's leaving scars. 8. My mental health? Apparently I belong in a psych ward. 9. Bexmoore was meant to be a fresh start. It wasn't. 10. I had two chances at something real... and I ruined them both. I'm at breaking point. Hiding in the dirt, literally, I'm not joking. What I hate the most? How alone I feel. Maybe telling my story means someone else won't feel like this. Before it's too late.

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a very long and complicated story about a group of roommates who decide to move in together after meeting each other at a bar and establishing that their previous house had rat problems. now, amberjack, levi, anne, milo, and elijah try to figure out their personal relationships and how to live together with unexpected circumstances *wink wink*. this originated from a dream one of us had and we just kind of kept going by adding our own ideas to the story. most of the plot was developed when we were both delusional teenagers at 3am over text using little emojis for each of the different characters...so it's a little crazy. be scared. hope the three people who read this have fun reading it :) it might not make sense, but feel free to try and understand it. note: the title will hopefully make more sense later... hehe

╰┈➤ ❛❛𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔?❜❜ He leaned in and whispered, "I know you want it too. Just say you do and you'll get what you want." His voice was filled with love and desire. I nodded and tried to lean in but he stopped me by placing a finger on my lips. "Words, darling or did you forget how to speak?" I glared at him. He was challenging me. "Kiss me," I ordered and he wasted no time. Our lips crashed into each other. ─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─── One reckless morning changed everything. For Jaehyun, it was the moment he finally slowed down. For Claire, it was the moment she let someone in again. What began as a sudden accident became the start of something real and raw. But what will happen when Jaehyun suddenly moves back? What will Claire do? Read more to find out! (A/N, this is the first story I published so it's not that good!)

How to know if your curry is perfect? professional chief would check the temperature, but a mother would just look at the color and say "Rang abhi baaki hai". The fate of the restaurant Kashi Kutumb Rasoi is about to transform when an unexpected guest becomes a delivery boy, he decides to transform the black and white Rasoi to a perfect running restaurant. He becomes a part of the Gopinath family, but why is he doing it? And how is he able to something generations couldn't? what is the real story behind this guy? A wholesome story with a sweet message, feel good and will at least make you smile once. Disclaimer: I did use the help of some AI, but the story is completely mine, AI was used to make either cover pages or enhance what I have written, please don't hate me for that. Picture novel is available, comment if you want to see it