Samika Orelvin and Kesar Astor were never meant to belong to the same world, let alone the same story. She is the illegitimate daughter of a condemned colonel. He is the last heir of a noble house marked by treason. Different beginnings. The same stain. Arriving at Arx Royal Military Academy, they expect neither glory nor honour, but a future. For Bravian seeds, the children of executed traitors, Arx is a last chance to survive. They have been dying across the kingdom for years, and now the killing has followed them through the academy's gates. Samika insists that she and Kesar are nothing more than circumstance. Kesar has learned to live with a guilt he cannot confess. Samika wants a future she can build on her own terms, serving as a knight without being drawn into politics. Kesar has no intention of serving the kingdom that condemned his family. He intends to change it. Still, they are each other's only constant, bound by violence, shared secrets, and everything they refuse to name. At Arx, staying alive is only the beginning. The real question is what they will have to become to do it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cover and banner are made by the amazing @Twisted_taleso7 ✨ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Inspiration: The Empyrean series by R. Yarros, The Shades of Magic by V. E. Schwab, and The Firebird Trilogy by C. Gray ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Content Warnings This story contains mature and sensitive themes, including: • graphic violence • torture • sexual violence (non-graphic depiction with trauma aftermath) • psychological abuse and manipulation • war crimes and wartime atrocities • death, including of minors • body horror • dissociation • self-destructive behavior • abuse of power • sexual content (18+) Reader discretion is advised.

Reyna Ashcroft thought inheriting her grandmother's café was the biggest surprise of her life. Little did she know, it was only the beginning. ݁ .‧₊⋆.٠༺✶༻٠.⋆₊‧. ݁ By day, 'The Midnight Brew' is an ordinary coffee shop, boasting of the finest lattes and honey cakes in town. However, when the clock strikes twelve, it's doors open to every magical realm hidden from the human world. As the cafe's new owner, Reyna expects burnt pastries - not staff with wings, enchanted drinks, supernatural politics, or a brooding vampire who orders the same black coffee every single night. Now, with a dangerous force threatening to destroy the cafe that holds the magical and mortal worlds together, Reyna is forced to work alongside him - the cold, infuriatingly aloof (and annoyingly attractive) vampire alive. Saving two worlds might be possible... But can she survive her midnight customer? ݁ .‧₊⋆.٠༺✶༻٠.⋆₊‧. ݁ This story has been written for TEGSA 2026 hosted by @AprilJester

WARNING: This story contains themes of domestic abuse, loneliness, torture, and love. Life must go on when Ariana Vernan's parents pass away, even if it means moving to a new country and leaving old memories behind. Unaware of the monsters in disguise she calls family, Ariana begins to suffer abuse from her three brothers behind closed doors. Whether at school, where no one knows her, or at home, where she's abused, Ariana lives under a fake identity, Apple Rye, and leads a lonely life. But when she has to share a room with Roman Vault, the principal's son and her brother's best friend, on a school trip, could it change her life forever?

Two kingdoms. One peace. And a princess who shatters it the moment she runs. For fifteen-year-old Princess Taehyung of Byeolhae, marriage was never a choice. Her body became a treaty, her life the binding thread of a fragile peace. When she escapes her violent husband - the king of Nakseong - the sacred bond collapses, and war spills into the mountains like a rising storm. Across those same mountains lives Jungkook, a prostitute sold to pay for her father's sins. Marked by the Thirteenth Tithe, she survives in Nakseong's underbelly, where hunger is law and omegas are currency. She has learned to bow, beg, and bleed - until a runaway princess crashes into her arms. What begins as a dangerous alliance soon sparks a rebellion fierce enough to set kingdoms on fire.

​He's the villain in everyone else's story. But she might just be his only weakness. ​Cold. Dangerous. Unpredictable. Shivansh Singh Rathore doesn't just run an empire-he rules it with an iron fist. Even his own family treads lightly around his razor-sharp temper, and his rivals know better than to cross him. He's a demon in a custom suit, and he likes it that way. Until she walks into his home. ​Sweet, naive, and hopelessly terrified of him, his little sister's best friend was never supposed to catch his eye. But the moment she does, the game changes. Driven by an obsession he can't control, Shivansh pulls her into his world and makes her his wife. ​Now trapped in the golden cage of a dangerous man who scares her to death, can she ever see the passion behind his cold gaze? Or will his dark temper destroy them both? Stay tuned!!❤️❤️ 🏆 1st Place Winner in Romance - [Treetop Writer Awards 2026]

🥉Best Cover in The Masquerade Awards (2026) LOVE: An intense, spectacular feeling that can happen anytime, anywhere. Love is the definition of true happiness. It comes from the heart that takes over your emotions in a wholehearted way. This story is UNLIKE any other typical teen fiction. After everything Tilly Lilly Johnson has been through, she is entering her senior year, the year that she finally has everything she ever wanted. She is a content creator on a famous social media app called BOOM! A life that she never expected to have is now carefully balanced between fame, expectation, and the ghosts of everything she has already survived. Her boyfriend Devin, the loveable, supportive partner, is right by her side, and their best friend Samuel is back in her life again. But things aren't always what they seem. Celebrity pressures tighten around her life, a pleasant relationship starts to crack under unseen strain, and a new transfer student arrives, coming between her first love and her best friend. As old emotions resurface and trust begins to blur, Tilly is pulled back into similar patterns she thought she had once escaped last year. Can she once again survive the trenches she is put through and rekindle the relationships she once had? Or, will she be ended by the terminal secret? ©2025 by S.A.S. (QueenSas24). All rights reserved. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or distributed in any form by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations used in critical reviews.

Jungkook had his 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 completely planned out. Just him, his dog Bam, and zero drama! But, now Jungkook is 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤 sharing a roof with the coldest, most annoying, insanely flirty guy he knows. They can't agree on a single thing, but their dogs becomes instant best friends. And after one ridiculously chaotic weekend, Jungkook is left trying to figure out if he actually hates his neighbor... or if he's in serious 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞.

Two sisters. A prophecy. A looming war. Liberty Morningstar and her younger sister Spring Morningstar, two Nephilim, were raised in Hell after their parents tried to kill them. At twelve, Spring, having been raised as a spy, is sent on a long mission at the Holy Wing Academy, an academy for half-Angels. A Nephilim academy, an enemy's academy. As problem starts arising and war between Nephilim and Demons seems nearer than ever before, Spring must make a choice. Will she protect her species and her friends? Or will she protect the Demons and her home? As Spring faces a dilema in the Nephilim world, in Hell Liberty faces the slowly unveiling truth behind what happened when she was a child. Will the truth tarnish her hate and thirst for blood? Or will it instead fan the flames of revenge?

John Harrow knows what it feels like when something is wrong with the world. He just doesn't know why he is the one noticing it. It begins with a runaway truck, four strangers who suddenly develop impossible abilities, and John walking away without a scratch. Sera bends shadows. Miko commands electricity. Cass freezes whatever he touches. Tessa sees things before they happen. John gets nothing. Or so he thinks. Their mysterious guide, Aruchuti, tells John that surviving the crash was not luck. His lack of a power is the reason he was chosen. John wants to return to his ordinary life. Instead, his reflection starts moving when he doesn't. Messages appear in his own handwriting. The others begin experiencing impossible disturbances of their own, hearing words they never said and finding signs that something has followed them home. Then Ethan Voss arrives. He knows who they are. He knows what frightens them. And he knows Aruchuti has done this before. There were five before them. Aruchuti refuses to say what happened to them. Ethan does not. He has one question for John: if the others were chosen for what they can do, why was John chosen without a power at all? Because whatever brought the five of them together has happened before. And this time, something about John is different. Something Aruchuti never intended them to find out.

Almost a decade after the terrible battle between humans and demons, Figdelia wakes up. She has lost her memory and the healing magic inherited from her clan, the Mikhis. The evil threat is still rampant. Figdelia, despite of being powerless, is thrown back into the conflict that has depleted the human mage lines. Would she succeed to rebuild her magical core? Would she take back her position as the greatest healer, backing elite magicians in their fight against the bloodthirsty monsters? In her journey chasing her past, she will face deceptions and hidden secrets. Can she trust the ones who pretend to care for her? Can she even trust the one she was before her accident? *** New chapter on Sundays Disclaimer: violence, deaths, mention of consensual sexual intercourse