She entered the palace to spy on him. She was never supposed to love him. *** Noemi Sakari was raised to fear the winged Ilari who rule from the sky. When rebellion sparks in the impoverished principality of Selavetia, twenty-three-year-old Noemi enters the prince's palace as a spy. Her task is simple: listen, count, survive, and send information back to the rebels before the ruling Houses crush them. Then the High Council sends Eirran V'Asanii, a royal of the powerful Fifth House and former warrior Seraph whose name has been worshipped and feared for decades. Eirran is supposed to restore order. Noemi is ordered to watch him. Neither expects the other to become impossible to ignore. But Noemi is lying to him, Eirran belongs to a world that considers her lesser, and rebellion is growing beneath both their feet. As deception gives way to trust, and trust to forbidden love, every choice draws them closer to a truth neither of them can survive unchanged. Because loving each other might not be enough to save them. But it might be enough to change their world. A standalone tragic fantasy romance about a love that survived death and became the beginning of change. Set in the world of Earthborn.

Riley Davis has always had her life figured out for her. Soccer. College. Her family name. Even the guy everyone expected her to end up with after graduation. So moving into a dorm twenty-five minutes away from home shouldn't feel like the biggest act of rebellion she's ever committed. Then she meets Elizabeth "Lila" Turner. Lila is everything Riley isn't supposed to want-loud, messy, shameless, ridiculously pretty, and way too good at getting under her skin. She's also very sure she's never been into girls. ...Probably. What starts as Riley being unable to stand her quickly becomes Riley being unable to stay away from her. She starts wondering whether the life everyone planned for her is actually the one she wants. And maybe it is. Except maybe Lila.

One kiss. Just one. That's all it will take to end this goddess-damned everlasting war. Amber's mission is simple: Convince the Autumn King she is his mate, seal the bond, then break him from the inside out. That's all it will take to free the four kingdoms from a tyrant who threatens to burn the world to ash. Once a humble beekeeper in the fae Summer Kingdom, Amber has been recruited for a dangerous, brutal, and precise assassination. Her magic bends pheromones and rewrites scents in the air - usually to calm a hive of hornets or soothe a stray dog. Now she must use her ability to weaponize herself as a ticking timebomb in the Autumn Court. Will she succeed? Tropes include: - Fated Mates ❤️ - Enemies to Lovers 🔥 - Mistaken Identity 𐀪𐀪 - Dark Romance 🖤 - Bully Romance 😈

The universe may be a void, but it is a void with a familiar face -- emptiness given name. It is all we have. Argon and street lights; this is where we belong. In a small town of less than 100 residents, Hunter Nhật meets a new arrival: a strange boy by the name of Mori Kagetsu. Gay longing and shenanigans ensue.

Pari didn't want this marriage. And Arjun didn't want Pari. So when they're forced together into an arranged marriage, it's a complete disaster. She's out to make his life miserable, and he's too stubborn to care. But under the same roof with no way out, line after line keeps getting crossed.

Dark/Gaslamp Fantasy. Character-Driven, Atmospheric, Mythic Horror The Wode was ment to protect them. That ancient forest with its deep hunger. Yet somewhere beneath its roots, something has begun to finally wake. Camilla survived the destruction of her home, but survival has a way of changing a person. Now hunted by the Emperor's living writs and haunted by the thing that inhabitants the blade at her side, she is dragged deeper into a world of ancient gates, starving forests, and old powers that refuse to stay buried. In the hidden refuge, whispers of war spread like rot through the dark. The Children stir beneath the trees. The dead walk wearing borrowed flesh. Storms gather over kingdoms already breaking apart. And within Camilla, something wild is learning to claw its way free. To survive, she will have to become more than what the world made her. Even if it leaves nothing human behind.

Yusuke Haruki remembers nothing of his past. Living in an orphanage, he believes himself to be an ordinary human searching only for the truth of his origins and the name he once bore. But hidden within him slumbers a rare power, coveted by many: Memory Magic. His search for answers leads him into the war between angels and demons, where he discovers a world far darker than he ever imagined. Faced with horrors beyond his understanding, Yusuke chooses the only thing he can think to do: run away. But fate can never be escaped. As the conflict consumes everything around him and his own humanity begins to slip away, Yusuke must decide what kind of person he wants to become. To protect his own future and that of many others, he will have to accept the scars of his past, embrace the person he is becoming, and confront a world he once wished to leave behind.

He was the prince who was never allowed to inherit. The son the realm called a bastard. The heir his mother refused to abandon. The boy lost beneath the waves of the Gullet. When Jacaerys Velaryon died, Queen Rhaenyra refused to let death have him. Through blood and forbidden magic, she brought her son back-but not entirely. For one hundred and seventy years, Jacaerys remained suspended between life and death, untouched by time. Until Daenyra Targaryen found him. And the moment his eyes opened, the past came alive once more.

In a world rotting from the inside, few know its cruelty better than Alatar Kane, a man even more ruthless than the age that forged him. Most know him as "The Unforgiven," a cursed man painted in the ashes of his past, or "The Beastmonger," an apex predator that cannot be killed, reasoned with, or corrupted. All society sees is something that is more beast than man. Few know the eternal struggle he faces to keep that beast in check, not only for their sake, but for his own, and eventually, for her sake. Idris can't remember who she lost, or the blood-soaked night that shattered her life, but the nightmare remains the same: a mask with no face behind it, a power that belonged to someone else, and her destiny held in clawed hands. Her own life has never truly been her own. Pushed around by corrupt elites and toyed with by the forces of darkness, she finally gets a chance to reclaim her life after an encounter with Alatar. However when the corrupt authorities of the kingdom of Desle find and arrest Alatar, the task of protection falls into the hands of the dragonhearted protector of Desle, Kai, a moral man forced into oath under an immoral crown. His hands were already tied, but in his task of protection, Kai finds that Desle has ties running much deeper and darker than he could imagine. The destinies of Alatar and Idris were intertwined long ago, and not entirely by choice. When a plot to resurrect primordial darkness from Alatar's own bloodline is set in motion, these two broken souls must meet again to stop it, and to fix themselves. However, with dark forces manipulating every move they make, their only hope may lie in the very thing Alatar keeps under chains. The beast must be caged to save himself...but must be unleashed to save them all.

** 18+ Toxic Romantasy** **Thieves Guilds, Nobles, Fantasy Races, Magic** Growing up in the criminal underworld of Tide Gate shaped them both into monsters, yet their darkness is nothing alike. He's lethal control. She's devastating chaos. Known as The Ghost, Reed drags himself through life, half-dead from a mysterious illness that deteriorates his body and haunts his mind, yet nothing can stop him from taking what he wants. Cold, calculated, and ruthless, Reed is already the city's most feared assassin and the next in line to rule the Crimson Syndicate. But his ambition is never satisfied. Nyx is a loose cannon. Unpredictable and volatile. Her presence unsettles even those closest to her, yet her danger has an allure. She is poison that tastes of honey. Freedom is all she dreams of, desperate to outrun the ghosts of her past, but she remains a prisoner of the guild and her own unraveling mind. But beneath the blood and the lies, only they understand the darkness in each other. What starts out as a vicious struggle for power and freedom soon spirals into a storm of love and toxic obsession. As long-kept secrets unravel and ancient curses awaken, they must survive not only the enemies closing in, but also a deadly love that refuses to die, no matter how dark the night becomes.