𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐌'𝐒 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐍 𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱 She's the city's top model. Seen by everyone. Known by no one. She survives by keeping her past sealed tight- every bruise, every secret, every ugly truth locked behind elegance and restraint. Her life is a performance, and she never misses a step. Until she slips... ...and falls straight into the orbit of the man she was taught to despise most. One reckless act- done under the guise of a false persona- sets something irreversible in motion. A line is crossed. A fire is sparked. And the illusion of distance between them shatters. That night leaves her with a hangover, and a realization she can't escape. You don't have to die to go to hell. Some men bring it right to you. He is power without conscience. A presence felt more than seen. The devil everyone fears. She is a mess dressed in designer. A voice that refuses to be silenced. The angel everyone envies. Logic says they should never align. That their worlds, their loyalties, and their sins are fundamentally opposed. Nexum says there couldn't be a better fit. 𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱𝐱 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 @xplicitlyvenus 2025, all rights reserved

The sheltered and the reckless. Just chaos in the making. • • • Parties, violence, and bad decisions. A reckless lifestyle was something that Ronan carried on his back. A wonky upbringing and a fast paced life had left him with a series of regrets and mistakes. After an experience that left him so close to death, he took his second chance at life as a redemption of the time he'd wasted. But even a life spent confined and made to be picture perfect wasn't always a fulfilling one. Rory lived a good girl life. Good grades, perfect reputation. She had breezed through life but had never took a day to really live it. When the two crossed paths, it was a beautiful chaos. The sheltered and the reckless.

"What does it feel like to be a heartless bitch?" "Cold." . . . Everyone loves Katherine Hartley - or at least, they love the illusion. Katherine reigns both on campus and at the elite ballet academy founded and owned by her father. She's every warning wrapped in silk. Elegance carved in ice, she's a girl raised to be disciplined, untouchable and most of all; perfect - a swan sculpted by years of brutal training and emotional isolation. Love was never meant for her. Especially not the kind that lingers - obsessive, aching... wrong. Especially not from the boy she's known since childhood. He's the one who sees through her mask, sees everything she tries to hide. And for the first time, Katherine starts to wonder what it would be like to fall - even if it ruins everything. He knows loving her may ruin him. But letting her go would destroy him. He's everything she can't want. And the only thing that makes her feel alive. She's the only thing he wants, but can't have.

𖤐₊˚.༄☾⋆ "Fuck you." I snarled . ⁺"Already did, witch." His voice broke something in me, and I hated him for it. 𖤐₊˚.༄☾⋆ Vera, a necromancer at Ravenwood Academy, only wanted to keep her distance. But when a cocky, infuriating incubus named Silas crashes into her world, their duels ignite something darker-and far more dangerous-than either of them can control. Bound by a rare magical craving that feeds on desire, the more they resist, the stronger it becomes. If they give in, it could consume them both. If they resist... it might kill them. Dark academia meets enemies-to-lovers. Forbidden hunger, dangerous magic. If you love magical tension, morally gray leads, and slow-burning chaos that explodes into heat-you're home𖤐₊˚.༄☾⋆⁺ #1 college #3 dark romance #1 whimsical #12 dark romance #4 contemporary #2 incubus

Because in a world like this, behind every smile is a lie.

It is two thousand long years into the future. There is no more Earth. There is only Callistra. Since the conclusion of the fae civil war that decimated the human population, there has been a strained peace among the surviving mythical creatures. But now, a strange fae illness is spreading across Callistra, and the era of harmony is crumbling fast. Pasiphae of Eo has been framed. Her grandmother, the most powerful witch in Eo, has fallen sick, and Pasiphae is suspected to be responsible. Forced to flee her homelands for treason against her coven, the only way to clear her name is to find the true traitor. Pasiphae has no choice but to venture deep into unknown territory with help from one of the fae. He can help her find the cause of the illness from within the Unseelie Court, where the walls talk and the shadows move, and she can do for him what the fae cannot do themselves: lie. But a conspiracy is unravelling in this foreign land swathed under perpetual night. All Pasiphae wanted was to prove her innocence, but within the heady darkness of the malevolent faery court, there is love and betrayal so potent it could ruin the world a second time.