After three silent years of secretly loving Rei Saionji, the cruel and untouchable boy everyone feared, Miyu Aizawa is ready to graduate and leave her feelings behind. But Rei has been watching her too. When his obsession turns into captivity, Miyu is forced to confront the truth: what he calls love is possession, and what he wants from her is not her heart, but her surrender. After she escapes and leaves him shattered, both must rebuild their lives separately-until six years later, a Tokyo advertising project brings them face to face again. This time, the music must learn how to let go. Award: 2nd Place - Romance Category, Treetop Writer Awards 2026

The captain of a merchant ship rescues a slave girl, broken and terrified, from the clutches of his enemy during a pirate attack. He quickly realizes she has no family, can't speak, and appears to have very little independence. As captain, he doesn't have the time to provide the care she needs. However, when the girl refuses to be sperated from him, even for the gentle care of an old woman on land, he marries her and brings her aboard his ship under his protection, hoping to give her the time and safety to heal. But pushing the boundaries of her trauma is harder on both of them than he ever imagined. Can he help her face her fears and find true freedom or will she spend the rest of her life a prisoner of her own mind? ─────────────────────────────────── NEW CHAPTERS FRIDAYS AT 10 AM PDT | THROUGH NOV 6 ─────────────────────────────────── T R O P E S: ⚓ Marriage Of Convenience 💍 ⚓ Trauma / Mutism 😶 ⚓ Healing ❤️‍🩹 ⚓ Hurt-Comfort 🥰 ⚓ Nautical ⛵ ⚓ No Spice 🌶️ ⚓ HEA 💕

At twenty-seven, Anne has become an expert at pretending she's fine. So she does the only logical thing: she books a one-way ticket to Australia. What starts as a backpacking adventure soon becomes so much more. In Melbourne, Anne finds a place that feels like home, builds a life she never expected, discovers a family she never knew she needed, and meets Carter-a firefighter whose biggest battle has never been the emergencies he faces at work, but the ones he keeps buried inside himself. As Anne slowly learns to embrace the person she's becoming, she and Carter discover that love doesn't always arrive at the right time. Because no matter how much you care about someone, some wounds can only be healed from within. But not every adventure lasts forever. When Anne returns to the Netherlands, she discovers that finding yourself is one thing... not losing yourself when you return to your old life might be the hardest part of all. 27, and Still Figuring It Out is a heartfelt coming-of-age story about found family, healing, love, loss, and discovering that life rarely goes according to plan-and maybe that's exactly the point. For anyone who's ever felt lost, started over, or wondered if everyone else received a manual for life except them. ⸻ Disclaimer: This story was originally written in Dutch and has been translated into English. While every effort has been made to preserve the original tone and emotion, some Dutch expressions, cultural references and subtle nuances may not translate exactly as intended. Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy Anne's journey.

On her seventeenth birthday, Violet's ordinary life ended in bloodshed. The night she was supposed to celebrate her future became a violent awakening, forcing a dangerous, long-buried magic to rise within her veins. But her mortal body was too frail to hold such immense power, making her inherited magic a gift, and a literal curse. Learning the tragic truth about her past, she chooses to hide in plain sight at the elite royal academy under a fake elemental identity. But she wasn't trying to blend in, she was playing a lethal game of deception, using the school to get close to the palace and the one royal family she needed to destroy.

Evie Chaos and I have an understanding. I create it. It follows me. Sometimes we both survive. Most people notice that and wisely walk the other direction. Then there's Trevor Hale. Bristolwood's golden pitcher. Campus celebrity. Professional collector of female bad decisions. Trevor Hale should be the last person I want anything to do with. Instead, he's the only person who's ever looked at me like he sees the chaos and wants more. What starts between us isn't soft. It's tension. A constant pull between wanting to run and wanting to push harder just to see who breaks first. And Trevor? He never breaks alone. Trevor I used to be that guy. The guy that could charm beds open and still have a friend after, as if sex weren't complicated. Then I realized how much I like control. It didn't take long for people to start calling me reformed. Really, I was just tired of it being meaningless. And nothing carried meaning anymore. Then there's Evie. Sharp-tongued. Fun. Impossible to ignore. She pushes every boundary I have just to watch me lose composure. The problem is, she doesn't understand what she's asking for. And the worst part? Maybe she does.

When Grace wakes up alone in the barn, disoriented, and missing pieces of her memory, she's terrified of the truth, and resolves to keep it buried in the shadows of her mind. ━━━Set before Thomas arrives in the Glade━━━ Grace is the only girl in the group, a med-jack with a gift for herbal medicine. She's always kept Minho at arm's length, but it's getting harder each day. As her behavior begins to grow more alarming, unwanted attention is drawn, along with questions she can no longer avoid. When she is finally forced to confront what really happened, she is devastated, and the list of reasons she'll never be good enough for Minho only grows. Grace must learn not to let the demons of her past steal her future before she pushes Minho away for good. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ALL CHAPTERS NOW POSTED

Scarlett Williams, strikingly beautiful, but those lips never smile. Max Cole, impossibly hot, but those eyes never stay on one girl. Then she walked into his school. Now he can't look away. And she can't figure out why he keeps trying. nigerianstory #1🏅06/06/26. abusesurvivor #1 🏅 21/06/26. protectiveboy #1 🏅 26/06/26.

Althea was trapped in a life she never chose, forced into a foreign city to study medicine while burying the one dream that truly mattered. But the universe wasn't done playing with her fate just yet. She never expected to step into a dangerous new world-and she certainly never expected him. Damien Hargrove was lethal, guarded, and entirely out of reach. He had built impenetrable walls around his heart, ruling a world where survival meant feeling nothing at all. Until Althea. She became his breath, his ultimate weakness, and the one obsession he refused to let go. He knew he was poison. He knew loving him would drag her into the shadows of blood, crime, and betrayal. And still, he chose to burn them both down. Wrapped in a web of deadly missions, silent longing, and buried secrets, the line between duty and desire vanishes into thin air. One wrong move will expose them. One touch will destroy them. In a world where every single heartbeat is a gamble... will loving each other save them, or tear them to pieces? © All Rights Reserved. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously..Do not copy or repost my work!!

A woman who spent years running from her past collides with the man who never forgot any of it. This is a romance about trauma, faith in the midst of violence and corruption, and the redeeming power of love. About people caught between the lives they inherited and the ones they're fighting to choose. Can we break the cycles we were raised in, or are we forever shaped by the habits forced upon us? 𓆩❤︎𓆪 "You make me go crazy sometimes," he whispered, mint and heat brushing my face. "Am I really that bad?" I asked softly. "No," he rasped, low and honest. "I am." 𓆩❤︎𓆪 !!FULL BOOK SYNOPSIS AND TAGS INSIDE!!