as a professional makeup artist, you've had your fair share of celebrity clientele. never in a million years would you have expected to work for michael jackson, though. michael jackson × reader

"It causes your immune system to turn against you," I explained gently. The color terrifyingly drained from his face as he stared at his knuckles. "I have a spot," he whispered, his voice scraping like glass. "Right here." He let out a strangled noise as the stadium footage buffered. "Riley!" he shrieked, covering his burning face while peering through his fingers at his future self. "Those pants leave absolutely nothing to the imagination!" He went so unnaturally still I thought his heart had stopped beating. His charcoal-stained fingers curled into tight fists. "Fifty," he whispered, scanning the fatal summary on the glowing screen. "I am... I am gone at fifty." What if the only way to save your future was to completely abandon your past? In 1982, Michael Jackson is suffocating. Trapped behind his family's compound gates and drowning under industry pressure, the rising star just wants a life of peace and normalcy. The universe answers-violently ripping him from his timeline and dropping him onto the bedroom rug of Riley, a freelance graphic designer in the year 2025. Stranded forty-three years in the future, Michael must face a world that already knows his tragic history. But Riley fiercely refuses to let that history repeat. She offers him the anonymous, ordinary life he always craved, rebuilding his shattered confidence brick by brick and teaching him the radical concept of self-love. More importantly, she arms him with the ultimate weapon: the brutal truth. She gives him the exact names of the snakes hiding in his 1982 backyard, the upcoming betrayals, and the devastating tragedies he is destined to face. When the universe inevitably pulls him back, Michael is no longer the timid pop star terrified of his shadow. He is a king preparing to claim his throne, knowing exactly how to rewrite music history and what it takes to survive. But armed with the future, changing his fate might cost him the one person who taught him how to live.

❝ 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝. ❞ (𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟏) (𝐀𝐔) (𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐜 𝐱 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝) 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝟑𝟎/𝟑/𝟐𝟔 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃:

SEQUEL TO BLACK STARS Leah Azemar has returned to the life she lost. Back with her family, she hopes to finally feel a sense of belonging; but as war rages and Leah fights to control her feelings for a boy who can never be hers, the S.I.S begins questioning her loyalties. In a world where the past overshadows the future, and those that are dead don't always stay that way, can Leah control the new found power inside herself and protect the Mors Mortis Device from those trying to destroy it?

In the war-torn kingdom of Valum, Isabelle Gauthier has spent her life surviving-until survival is no longer enough. Disguising herself as a man, she joins the king's army, determined to forge her own fate. But war is unforgiving, and keeping her secret becomes harder when she catches the attention of Baron George Edmore, a hardened commander who sees more than he should. As battle looms, their relationship turns into something far more dangerous-something neither of them can afford. But when truths come to light and the throne is left vulnerable, Isabelle and George must decide if they are willing to fight for more than just their kingdom. Because some wars are won with swords. Others are won with hearts. - Like a Mulan Retelling! 😁

In which they watch the life of the dead black brother Or In which Regulus black lived in Mystic falls this whole time. Regulus Black x Bonnie Bennett

"Loyalty is no loyalty when it wavers." - Lady Alerie of Houses Tyrell and Hightower. The Tyrells have always been deceitful, even their spouses. Lady Alerie of Houses Tyrell and Hightower has her alliances elsewhere.. By the Targaryens, and her dead friend Rhaella. ) this book is based on the tv-series ( [𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐭]

*undergoing rewrites, the original first draft originally posted is up on my profile!* cover by @velaryons

{it's okay if you're burning with anger or sadness or both. it is necessary for you to collapse so you can learn how phoenixes are reborn. when they burn and rise again from the ashes of their existence} [sometimes darkness and burning light go hand and hand, lip to lip] |shadow and bone| (started: 6/4/21)