The God Emperor's empire stands on the edge of ruin. The Empress is barren, and without an heir, the realm may fall. To save the throne, her servant Siora must secretly take her place in the Emperor's bed and conceive a child. If she fails, they all face death. If he discovers the truth, she will be executed. The fate of the empire now rests in her hands. Will the gods be on Siora's side and allow her to succeed? --- New updates every Tuesday

Two boys. One summer. And a secret that ends in blood. When Morgan Jones is abandoned by her powerful mother in a sleepy beach town for the summer, she expects loneliness. What she doesn't expect is Jake - the quiet, steady bookstore boy who makes her feel safe for the first time in her life. Or Cam - reckless, dangerous, impossible to ignore. The boy everyone warns her about... and the one she can't stay away from. What Morgan doesn't know is that Jake and Cam are already bound by something darker than rivalry. A secret that will turn love into betrayal, and desire into something deadly. By the end of the summer, one boy will be in handcuffs. One will be bleeding. And Morgan will have to live with the truth of which one she chose - and how much it cost. Trigger Warning: Verbal and physical aggression Alcohol and drug use by minors Sexual assault Gun violence

❝ 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙚 ❞ after returning home from rehab, cj hernandez is thrown into a world of wealth, lies, and power with an anonymous online presence waiting to uncover it all [ season 1-2 ] [ gossip girl reboot ] [ oc x multiple characters ] [ slow updates! ]

Our dads were the NHL's original bad boys. Now it's our turn. We're Serkan and Ziven Woods-cousins, legacy players, and the league's next obsession. Add in Leander Hunt, son of NHL's original good boy-our childhood friend we call cousin-and you've got the most-watched rookie trio in the game. The spotlight's on us. The pressure is brutal. But we were born for this. Raised for the rink. Built to break records. What we weren't ready for? The girls. The chaos. Each other. This isn't your typical hockey romance. It's louder. Dirtier. More unhinged. Because this legacy we're carrying? It's not just about the game. It's about the chaos, the girls, and the wreckage we'll gladly burn for. Three names. Two legacies. Zero chill. Welcome to the Woods-Hunt Heirs era. [Can be read as a standalone, 18+ Mature Audience, SMUT warning, Mentions of drugs, parties, obsession, love triangle, babysitter, age gap, alcohol, kinks, etc.]

A Good Girl's Guide To Being Naughty • • • Ivy Collins is a normal 21 y/o woman. Except for the fact she's a virgin ... or at least she was until she had sex with her university rivals hockey captain. After a quick (devastatingly quick) night with the man and being called a lousy lay, Ivy made a promise to herself that she wouldn't do it again ... sex that is. Who needs sex when all it brought was insecurities and more, and it wasn't even that good to begin with. Enter Asher Hudson, Ice Hockey captain, her brothers best friend and her best friends brother - triple trifecta of why she shouldn't get involved with him. But when he overhears a conversation Ivy has with her best friend, he gives her an offer she can't refuse. Well, she can, and she should, but why would she want to? Three months, she helps him with his grades, and he'll help her with her sex life. Only one rule, don't fall in love. Easy, right? He'll teach her everything she wants to know, and show her that sex can be fun, you just have to know how to do it right. And Ivy should refuse, after all he's the Ice Hockey captain, her brother's best friend and her best friend's brother - but what's the fun in that. Ivy knows she should say no, but she won't. And she won't fall in love, she can't. ••• Completed • First Draft - Edited. Watty2025 winner #1 in #Romance #1 in #Brotherbestfriend #2 in #bestfriendsbrother #2 in #icehockey

In Willow Creek, Ohio, the factory whistles are silent, the jobs long gone, and the trailer park is all that remains-a place where rust eats through cars in the driveways and neighbors survive on gossip, cigarettes, and borrowed time. Trevor Harlan grew up in that park, in a leaking single-wide with fists for lullabies and hunger for company. But Trevor wasn't built to stay. Every insult, every bruise, every whispered reminder that he was nothing-he carved into fuel. He swore he'd claw his way out, that one day the same town that sneered at him would bow its head when he passed. Willow Creek is a dark tale of ambition forged in violence and desperation. It's about a boy who refused to disappear, who learned early that survival meant taking more than what was offered-and who discovered that power, once grasped, can never be given back. Amid the smoke and ruin of a town past its prime, two women carve out a quieter rebellion. Indie, sharp-tongued and restless, knows the weight of Trevor's fists and the cost of his fire. Odette, rich girl exiled to small-town monotony, carries the ache of someone who has never quite belonged. What begins as friendship between them smolders into something more dangerous-something tender, fragile, and forbidden in a place that punishes difference. As Trevor claws for a way out of Willow Creek, Indie and Odette are caught between desire and survival, their lives tangled with his rise in ways neither of them could have predicted. ⚠️ Trigger Warnings for Willow Creek Domestic violence (physical abuse, beatings, i Child abuse and neglect. Emotional/verbal abuse, including gaslighting and coercion. Graphic descriptions of physical assault. Toxic family dynamics. Abandonment and estrangement. Parents treating children as possessions or extensions of legacy. Power-imbalanced relationships. Sexual coercion and lack of consent in marital/romantic contexts. Manipulation, control, and emotional domination.

An infamous French mansion. A garden tended with malice. A filthy empire-and a mute maid with mismatched beliefs and an attraction to rancid scents stood in front of them all. Maison de Néronville makes luxurious perfumes worth gems and cradles deeds that could render their sophisticated scents putrid. Notable for their lush gardens, spotless legacy through philanthropy, and acute noses, they are French Riviera's finest- and dirtiest. Marguerite I. Alméras (Mia) helps to wash their dirty laundry in private. A talented soul with a disability who left her village in southeastern France to find a place where she could bloom- ironically, she found gardens, ones whose flowers smelled like decayed flesh. Getting hired at the mansion's fragrant house was as effortless as slipping on her mismatched flats. Navigating her term under the glass domes? That's another case-especially with a blind patriarch, a depressed heir, a bloodthirsty daughter, and hah...the notorious twins all spilling their nastiest acts to her, because: Mia sees, Mia hears, Mia feels, and Mia knows. But one thing Mia can't do...is tell. ~ ✨Highest Rank ✨4th in perfume out of 2.19k stories on 18/12/25 ✨10th in garden out of 8.18k stories on 18/12/25

A dark romance between a serial killer and the girl he's obsessed with... Sixteen years ago, Carter killed Allison's entire family and has been in an institution ever since. After learning that Allison is alive, Carter breaks out to track down what is rightfully his.

Sophie Allen is a Pre-Med student, a hard worker, and head over heels in love with her long-time boyfriend, Bryce Harrison. Bryce Harrison is a baseball jock, a lover of the movie Hairspray, and head over heels in love with his long-tie girlfriend, Sophie Allen. That is, until Bryce's world is turned upside down with the big-C. A cancer diagnosis. What does it mean to love someone unconditionally? And just how far would you go for the person that you love? Sophie is about to find out.

{Was #1 in Mystery/Thriller (4/08/18)} "She was too unpredictable." _______ Alice Murphy is just your ordinary teenager. A fairly popular Junior in high school, an aspiring psychologist, with a normal family who live in a nice house and have a nice, ordinary life. Everything on the outside seems like everything you'd expect from a girl who looked like her, yet on the inside it's completely different... Alice Murphy is obsessed with psychopath serial killers. But this is only after she stumbled across an undiscovered crime scene late at night beside the lake. Covered in blood and in shock... she finds herself violently falling into a lifestyle she has no idea how to handle... Or does the lifestyle have no idea how to handle her? Find out in Something About Alice Murphy...