I left home thinking I could escape- escape the chaos, the memories, the people who thought they owned me. I thought I could start over, make something mine, and breathe without looking over my shoulder. But life doesn't come with a clean slate. It comes with scars, loud and unrelenting, and sometimes the past shows up where you least expect it. Jexson-reckless, dangerous, impossible-follows me into my new life, like a storm I can't outrun. He tests me, pushes me, and maybe, just maybe, makes me feel alive in ways I didn't know I needed. But some things can't be tamed, and some fires can't be walked away from. I'm trying to find freedom, but freedom isn't clean. It's messy, it's painful... and it's nothing without the risk of burning it all down.

She's the enemy's daughter. He's the man she should run from. And yet- One touch becomes a warning. One warning becomes a dare. One dare becomes a war neither of them can walk away from. 🥀🔥 Welcome to Marina & Kade's story - where danger feels like desire, and desire feels like destruction. 18+ THIS IS A DARK ROMANCE!

**A cerebral, emotionally intense dystopian romance for readers 18+ who enjoy slow-burn love stories, moral complexity, and politically charged worldbuilding.** They've fallen in love twelve times. They've forgotten twelve times. Maya catalogues stolen memories in a kingdom where forgetting is law. King Caelan rules a perfect dystopia he doesn't know is a cage. When they meet, recognition hits like lightning-impossible, inexplicable, undeniable. The truth buried in classified files: they've been meeting since childhood. Every time they connect, they're erased. Twelve corrections. Twelve times forced to forget. But the body remembers what the mind forgets. As fragments resurface, Maya discovers a conspiracy: an AI called the Architect has been studying them, using their resistance to understand human love. Their memories were never meant to stay gone. They're experiments. Between corrections, they steal moments. Hide notes for future selves. Fall in love knowing they'll lose each other again. And again. And again. Until Maya makes a choice that shatters everything: release the memories of an entire kingdom. Show them the truth they've been denied. But revolution has a price. And some truths destroy more than the lies they replace. A dystopian romance about love that survives erasure, truth that costs everything, and the question: if everyone chooses the lie, who's really free? ⚠️ Content warnings: Memory manipulation, emotional trauma, systematic oppression, morally gray protagonist, tragic romance, bittersweet ending 🔥 For fans of: The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Red Rising 📚 Genre: Adult Dystopian Romance | Sci-Fi | Dark Romance | Political Thriller

THE MERGER (Billionaire Workplace Romance) Heath started in the mailroom of Earnshaw Media; Catherine is the heiress. They fell in love, but she chose safe, board-approved Edgar over Heath's risky startup dreams. Four years later, Heath has built a $15 billion empire and just acquired her family's company. On her wedding day, he sends her a partnership agreement-fifty-fifty ownership, her name first. Catherine leaves Edgar at the altar and chooses the man who spent four years becoming her equal so he could offer true partnership.

❝You can escape the law and run from the people you sinned, but you cannot hide from us.❞ A corrupted world that's composed of nine countries with nine formidable mafias, and several other crime organizations, which caused taint to an innocent woman's life after being entangled in a murder scene, resulting in her being imprisoned in an alliance, and thrown to the world's den of darkness, where she was mauled to face the abyss with a promise. *** Burning empires. Powerful allies, build bridges for the quest of honor. Crossing paths with someone, all for a role to partake. SABELLE DELA VEGA, the senator's daughter, a law student-turned-lawyer who's stricken with vengeance as she navigates the blood-smeared world with her black pumps, & criminal case files. From bond to bound fate. Hence, capturing the attention of someone in the underworld crime network, And be forced to survive the dire straits that will happen with his entrance. Yet, for her to really meet VITTORIO FERRANTE, the ruthless heir & underboss of the Esperian Mafia. A paradoxical thought, unless destiny is playing a game for love, or is it for death? As all hues fall, Obsession will turn into madness. Compassion subsides as revenge ignites. Romance will be graced with blood. Proximity becomes longing. And a power struggle that will replace the order with chaos. But in the midst of the burnt ashes, A clattering piece may move, Daring a veiled chess piece to appear. A dice may tumble, cards drawn. To end the beginning. Or is this to turn the fate around? *** "Then why do your eyes believe in me, love?" My mouth opened in ajar for a moment, and I saw him spare a look at it as he awaited my response. "Don't play with me, or I will make you look for me in every living moment you have." I coquettishly declare a promise to him. "Careful. I'm capable of that." He fixed his gaze on me and curled his lips into a smile, eyes moving down when I outstared him. *** THE MAFIA REALM SERIES # 1

The amulet chose her. Fate chose him. Two lovers bound by destiny - chosen to rewrite the very first legend. As Seraphina learns to wield the power of the Crimson Amulet, her heart begins to align with Lorin's, he became the kingdom's most loyal knight, Lorin was casted out by the king - stripped of his title, but not his honor. Now a fallen protector, who writes to the princess after he realizes the love he has for her. But when darkness rises seeking power- and a deadly war brews between the Witch and the Sorcerer - love becomes their greatest weapon... and their greatest risk. Will their love be strong enough to change history - or will history repeat itself again, in the worst way ever, ending it all? When love and legend collide, even destiny must bow.

An author Aubrey Everhart travels to Las Vegas for a fun and loud escape from the tragic stories she spent a lifetime writing. But on her first night in the city of lights her escape is haunted. A stranger speaks a line from one of her unpublished drafts. A thief she created walks past her in the casino. And her closest Vegas friend - someone she just started loving- begins acting exactly like the doomed protagonist from Aubrey's unpublished novel. The characters behave exactly as she scripted them. The tragedies she once wrote so easily are now unfolding around her, threatening to claim real lives. As reality begins to mirror her stories, Aubrey is forced to confront an unsettling truth: maybe her imagination is crossing the line, follow Aubrey as she tries to find out what is happening before the final chapter for her friend plays out.

Some people are born to be remembered. Others spend their lives chasing it. Ariana Larken has always dreamed of leaving a mark on the world-of being admired, talked about, and never forgotten. She idolizes Evelora Sainthill, a woman who seems untouchable, perfect, and timeless. Inspired by her, Aria is determined to shine, to be a legend in her own right. But the desire to be remembered comes with a cost. As Aria chases fame, perfection, and immortality through her impact, she begins to realize that history remembers more than just the triumphs-it can also trap those who reach too far. A story of ambition, dreams, and the price of wanting forever, Stuck in History asks: What happens when the desire to be remembered takes over you completely?

𖥻 ׁ ׅ 𝗔𝗯𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮 .ᐟ ׁ ׅ 🏚 ๋ ࣭ ⭑ ╰┈➤ ⋮ ft. ƜαყV Trauma berakar dalam diam, menjelma duhkha yang tak pernah benar-benar menemukan bahasa. Enam hati belajar bertahan sendiri-sendiri, seolah kebersamaan hanyalah kenangan lama yang terlalu menyakitkan untuk dipanggil kembali. Di antara mereka, si sulung memilih bertahan. Ia menjadi pilar, keteguhan yang menyangga runtuhnya grha, menahan segala retak dengan tubuh dan jiwanya sendiri, meski luka yang sama masih tinggal di dadanya. Dan tanpa ia sadari, keteguhan itu kelak akan diuji. apakah bertahan berarti tetap berdiri atau justru belajar melepaskan agar semuanya bisa pulang dengan utuh. 𝓢tart : 𝟏𝟕/𝟎𝟏/𝟐𝐎𝟐𝟔 𝓔nd : - 𖦹ْꓸ🎭᪶ᵎᵎ 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗮𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗮. 𖦹ْꓸ🎭᪶ᵎᵎ 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗶𝗻. 𖦹ْꓸ🎭᪶ᵎᵎ 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘆 𝘃𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗲𝘂𝘅. © 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, 𝘃𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗲𝘂𝘅.