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Wings of Ember and Shadow by Buteobelle
Buteobelle
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When Mistmorrow's sacred birds fail to return to their temple aviaries, Niam Yarrow, a Academy-trained druid, and Lylia Vesh, a magic-wielding priestess are thrust together in a desperate attempt to save their island. However, when beasts attack, and wyverns darken the skies, the only way to survive is to leave their beloved home.
Bed of Lies by chelsy_lea
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They broke her trust. They broke his mind. Now the past is back-and this time, it wants blood. Victoria learned early how to survive in silence. Grief became her shadow. Guilt, her constant companion. Because if she had died that night instead of her mother... maybe everything would have been different. But the past doesn't stay buried, and when it drags her back into a world she barely escaped, silence won't save her anymore. Xavier learned how to disappear behind scars, rage, and the monster his past made him. A man shaped by violence, and driven by retribution. Victoria was everything he should avoid- soft yet unyielding, broken but still standing. She had the kind of pain that mirrored his own. She saw too much, pushed too far and worst of all, she made him remember something he buried a long time ago. He hated it. Hated her. Because she made him feel. What exists between them isn't gentle. It isn't safe or healing. It destroys. And when the truth comes for them both, they'll have to decide: Run. Burn. Or destroy everything in their path.
Bound To The Heir by Amayawhojustexists
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She's the girl her father sold. He's the heir who never wanted a wife. ---- When Lena Sterling is forced to marry Dante Moretti - the cold, calculating heir to the most feared mafia family in the country - her life becomes a cage of locked doors, silent servants, and a man who treats her like a debt he never agreed to collect. But the longer she lives in the Moretti estate, the clearer it becomes that Dante's distance isn't cruelty - it's caution. There are things he doesn't say. Rooms she isn't meant to enter. People who watch her too closely. Their marriage is venom and defiance, two strangers circling each other in a house built on secrets. Until Lena's sharp mind starts noticing cracks in places Dante refuses to look. Cracks in his empire. Cracks in his carefully controlled façade. Cracks that reveal a softness he paid the cost for, and a past he never speaks about... until her. Enemies become reluctant allies. Allies become something dangerously more. But in the Moretti world, betrayal doesn't come from the outside - it comes from the people closest to you. And when a threat rises from inside Dante's own family, Lena becomes the only person he can trust... and the only one who might save him. Because the danger isn't a rival family or a distant enemy - it's the quiet, calculated sabotage happening under the Moretti roof. Someone is dismantling Dante's future piece by piece. Someone is making sure Lena never uncovers why he's being targeted. And when they finally discovers the truth, Lena becomes the only person who can stop the betrayal from consuming him - or the one who triggers the fall they've both been running from. [Winner of Best Title In The Golden Whiskers Mini Awards]
The Burial  by Author_outsider
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Meet Maya - a girl from Mumbai with one goal: to become one of the city's best journalists and give her family the life they deserve. As the backbone of her household, she knows there's no shortcut - just hard work, day after day. But luck doesn't always favor the deserving, and Maya is about to learn just how true that is. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she crosses paths with Inspector Aryaman Sehgal - and suddenly, long-buried truths begin to surface, truths that confuse even her, because some of them... are her own.
A Gambit For His Soul by berrypie12
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Cleo Anderson would rather jump off a cliff than ever have anything to do with her ex-best friend, Aster Blackwood. Once inseparable, their relationship has now become almost nonexistent. While Cleo's life orbits around the beauty of figure skating, Aster's world is a cold, precise one centered around being a chess prodigy. Their contrasting worlds only pull them further apart. They both claim they hate each other. Or maybe Cleo does. But Aster? His feelings for her are teetering on the edge of madness. --- After a trap set by both their parents, Cleo finds herself once again in the house of her worst enemy. Instead of the confrontation she expects, Cleo is met with his death-and the weight of every word left unsaid. Granted a second chance by Death itself, Cleo must save the boy she once knew from a path of destruction, all while slowly dying herself. ---- Warning: might make you cry by 2am in the morning, read at your own risk Updates every Wednesday and Saturday.