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  • ECHOES OF HALAL LOVE by umhiteer
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    The extraordinary story of Yasmin and Fahad.a love that begins in silence, in unspoken moments, and blooms when least expected. A journey of true, qadr-guided love, exploring the beauty of patience, faith, and heartfelt connection. Along the way, discover intertwining hearts, hidden lines, and other love stories waiting to unfold.pure, halal, and destined.(Follow for frequent updates IN SHA ALLAH 💚)
  • Under a Matra Sky by LucianWard
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    Kael never wanted to come to Lysena: a prosperous matriarchal world where women hold social power and men are expected to know their place. But when his family's transport ship is forced to make an emergency stop, they find themselves stranded in a society that challenges everything Kael believes about freedom, authority, attraction, and what it means to be a man. Far from home, Kael struggles to adapt to life on Lysena. He hates the rules. He hates the attention. Most of all, he hates Sari: sharp-tongued, clever, and impossible to ignore. She seems to take endless pleasure in flustering him, turning every conversation into a game he can never quite win. But the more Kael resists her, the more tangled their rivalry becomes. Every tease, every challenge, every brush of her hand leaves him unsettled in ways he doesn't understand. And when surrender begins to feel less like defeat and more like desire, Kael is forced to confront a truth he never expected: Maybe he doesn't want to escape Lysena after all. He swore he'd never bend. She swore she'd make him hers.
  • 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗘𝗧'𝗦 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘 ║ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗟𝗟'𝗦 𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗗𝗘 by Hinod3suuu
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    ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏꜱᴛ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀᴏᴜꜱ ᴡᴇᴀᴘᴏɴ ᴇᴠᴇʀ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ɪɴ ꜰᴏʀᴍᴜʟᴀ ᴏɴᴇ, ᴡᴀꜱɴ'ᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇꜱ ᴀʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴡʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪꜱᴛᴏʀʏ ʙᴏᴏᴋꜱ, ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴇʀᴀꜱᴇᴅ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ɪᴛꜱ ꜰᴜᴛᴜʀᴇ? Ferrari had made a choice. They chose legacy over future, certainty over potential, the Seven-time World Champion over their unproven prodigy. They thought they were betting on victory. They didn't realize they were creating the one driver who could challenge a dynasty. The 2025 season will remember everything. Ferrari's decision leaves Hendryx Huntyr, a Belgian rookie fresh off a dominant Formula 2 championship, without a seat and without a future. To Formula 1, he is a missed opportunity. A casualty of politics... But Red Bull sees something else. To them, he is not a loss. He is a weapon. Signed in the aftermath of Ferrari's announcement, Hendryx is thrown into a world ruled by Max Verstappen, the Four-time World Champion who has rewritten the sport's record books and locked the grid under his reign of pace and precision. What no one expects is how fast the rookie adapts. How quickly he learns. How cleanly he cuts through them. How little he needs to break you. Race by race, lap by lap, Hendryx becomes the blade that slices through Verstappen's legacy, and the expectations of a sport that believed it already knew its future. Alongside the rising generation of young talent: Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Oliver Bearman, Isack Hadjar, and Gabriel Bortoleto, a new era begins to take shape. The grid becomes a battlefield between legacy and succession. And in the heart of all that, stands a rookie Ferrari never wanted, and Red Bull refuses to lose. 🏎 Records are shattered. 🏆 Legends are threatened. 🔥 Dynasty meets its successor. The Scarlet's Mistake || The Bull's Blade
  • I Got Genderbent But Papers Aren't Going To Sign Themselves  by noexestencenova
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    Kimira Disvinadiya has everything under control. As student council president, top student, and self-appointed guardian of schedules, deadlines, and proper procedure, his life runs with military precision. Wake up. Go to school. Finish paperwork. Repeat. Then one morning, he wakes up as a girl. Naturally, Kimi's first concern isn't the impossible transformation. It's the paperwork. Determined to keep his life from falling apart, Kimi throws himself even harder into routine. Meetings still need to be held. Reports still need to be signed. The student council won't run itself. But no amount of planning can stop the changes creeping into his life. As friendships shift, relationships become complicated, and the person staring back from the mirror feels less and less familiar, Kimi is forced to confront a question he has spent years avoiding: Is he actually living? Or has he only been existing according to a schedule someone else wrote for him?
  • ꜱʜɪᴅᴅᴀᴛ: ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴏʀʙɪᴅᴅᴇɴ ᴄᴜʀᴇ #2 by Trisha_Storyteller
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    "I am married." "I know." "I have a child." "I know." "You could lose everything." "I know." "Then why are you still here?" "Because you're the choice I will make at any cost, Doctor." Kavita Sen saves lives for a living. But she cannot save her marriage. She cannot save her family. And she cannot convince the court that she is a good mother. Shreyansh Oberoi is everything she is not - careless, reckless, and far too young to be looking at her the way he does. She is thirty-five, married, and fighting for the custody of her daughter. He is twenty-five, brilliant, and the last person she should ever get involved with. He was never supposed to be her happiness. He was never supposed to be her escape. But somewhere between night duties, court dates, and unsaid things, he became the only person who ever asked her one simple question: "When was the last time you chose something for yourself?" This is not a story about right or wrong. This is a story about choices and their consequences. This is Shiddat.
  • One Cup at a Time by PaperRoutine
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    Every Tuesday at exactly 8:00 a.m., he sits at the same table in the same coffee shop. He never expects company. Especially not a woman with puffy red eyes, cold coffee, and a heart that was shattered the night before. He tells her she looks like shit. She calls him a jackass. Neither of them expects to see the other again. Until he says, "I come here every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. and leave at exactly 8:45." A slow-burn romance about heartbreak, healing, and discovering that sometimes the right person arrives exactly on time. Disclaimer: Most chapters after the first are intentionally much shorter. Some are fewer than 100 words.
  • Her Only Attempt by MidnightSnacker12
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    When Raghav Das receives an unexpected message from a woman he barely remembers from school, he assumes it is another coincidence life likes to arrange. It isn't. Ananya Mishra has carried one quiet certainty for twelve years: that some people change your life simply by being exactly themselves, even if they never know they did. Across government postings, lonely bungalows, spare rooms, unfinished stories, and the ordinary work of building a marriage, two people learn that love is not found in grand declarations, but in the rare courage of seeing another person without trying to change them. A quiet literary novel about memory, attention, ambition, and the lives we slowly write into one another.
  • What The Body Keeps  by Hazumi_Writez
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    She measured her waist every morning. He measured his hope in months. The measuring tape won. Amara has spent her life controlling her body - measuring, restricting, sculpting - because she believes her worth lives in her waistline. When pregnancy forces her body to change in ways she can't control, she faces an impossible choice: let go of the identity she's built, or fight to keep it at any cost. Her boyfriend Alex watches her disappear into obsession. He begs her to stop. She hides. She lies. She works out in secret, wearing corsets at night, tightening the measuring tape until something finally breaks. This is not a romance. It's a reckoning. A story about muscle memory, inherited trauma, and the brutal difficulty of unlearning the beliefs that have become our identity. Because the body keeps everything - even the things we wish it would let go. 🕯️ Content warning: pregnancy loss, body image struggles, emotional distress. 16+ #Dark Romance#Psychological Fiction#Women's Fiction#Contemporary Romance#Emotional#Sad Story#Grief#Loss#BodyImage#Obsession#Love#Heartbreak#PregnancyLoss#Trauma#Healing#SlowBurn#Angst#RealisticFiction#Tearjerker#New Adult #Character Driven#Literary Fiction#Relationship Drama#Mental Health#Self Discovery#Emotional Rollercoaster#Dark Themes#Intense#Romance With Depth#Coming of Age#Family Drama#Mothers andDaughters#DomesticFiction#Infertility#Miscarriage#Grief and Healing
  • Beautifully Bound by vansh1ka3
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    Elena Carter has never been uncertain about who she is. She observes. She listens. She decides - carefully, deliberately, without needing to explain herself to anyone. Adrian Blake builds his world the same way he approaches everything else - with structure, precision, and control. Every decision has a reason. Every step has a purpose. They come from families that understand ambition, expectation, and the quiet weight of both - where choices are rarely simple, and nothing exists in isolation. In a world where most things are negotiated, calculated, or assumed, they are the kind of people who still pause. Still question. Still choose. This is not a story about being carried by circumstance or pulled into something inevitable. It is about what happens when clarity meets expectation. When instinct resists what makes sense. When two people who are used to deciding for themselves are asked to consider something that was never entirely theirs to begin with. And the quiet, deliberate choices that follow.
  • The Clockmaker & The Bookshop Girl by HDMIPortOnly
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    Paris, 1931. In the busiest train station in France, where steam curls through iron arches and clocks rule the rhythm of every life, two souls meet in the quiet spaces between departures. Avi Cabret, the orphaned clockmaker of Gare de Montreuil, keeps the station running with steady hands and a lonely heart. Hidden away in his tiny apartment above the clock tower, he believes time is the only thing he can trust-until a new bookstore opens on Platform 3. Sarah Lebuse, an aspiring author with ink‑stained fingers and dreams bigger than Paris itself, arrives with her protective father and younger brother to start her future at La Plume Enchantée. She carries grief from the war, pressure from her family, and a secret hope for something more. When Avi helps her hang a crooked sign on her first morning, a gentle friendship begins-one built on shared pastries, midnight repairs, whispered chapters, and the soft ticking of clocks. But in a city of expectations and old wounds, their growing bond is tested by Sarah's father, Avi's past, and the fragile dreams they're both afraid to chase. A slow‑burn romance inspired by Hugo and classic French love stories, The Clockmaker & The Bookshop Girl follows Avi and Sarah through quiet dawns, storm‑lit nights, and the tender moments that change everything. As spring blooms across Paris, they discover that time doesn't just move forward-sometimes it slows down for the right person. A story about healing, hope, and the kind of love that feels like rediscovered time.
  • One Easy Trick to Not Being a Lawyer by victoriabennett
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    Galilea Mirabel Brooks is not a lawyer. She has a doctorate, a successful career as a senior quantitative analyst at a hedge fund, and a resignation letter she's finally ready to submit. Then Elena Whitmore offers her a different future. Trading algorithms for litigation wasn't part of the plan. Neither were impossible cases, office politics, reluctant friendships, firm retreats, or discovering that some of the brightest legal minds in the country occasionally make spectacularly unsupported assumptions. Galilea came to Whitmore & Associates to analyze evidence. She didn't expect to find a place where she belonged. *One Easy Trick to Not Being a Lawyer* is the first novel in *Confessions of a Litigation Gremlin*, a character-driven legal drama about found family, quiet brilliance, and one wonderfully peculiar litigation analyst who keeps insisting she's not a lawyer. She's right. That doesn't stop anyone else from forgetting. #2 in legal - July 22nd, 2026.
  • Caps Lock Daily by electro30006
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    Caps Lock Daily is an original story about the cast and crew behind a beloved daily gaming and technology variety show as they navigate creativity, nostalgia, and an ever-changing gaming media landscape. While the story draws inspiration from shows like G4's Attack of the Show! and the personalities that made that era so memorable, it ultimately became its own deconstruction and reconstruction of the format, exploring what made these shows special, the challenges they faced, and what it means to let something you love evolve. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed creating it. ❤️
  • A Soft Kind of Freedom by Robin6891
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    Claudia O'Neill has spent years inside the safe, predictable rhythm of Smokestack - librarian, mother, careful woman. But when Danny Winters returns on his Harley, he doesn't bring chaos. He brings a question: What if you stepped outside your life, just once? From the quiet streets of Smokestack to the wide desert of Joshua Tree, Claudia learns that freedom isn't loud or reckless - it's gentle, deliberate, and deeply human. It's the kind that changes you quietly, from the inside out. A Soft Kind of Freedom is a story about awakening, courage, and the quiet rebellion of choosing yourself.
  • At The Bottom Of The Sea by YellowWish
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    She can take away another's suffering. He wishes it were his gift instead. What happens when fate forces them to live through each other's pain? Will she still resent her powers? Will he still crave it for himself- despite knowing the cost? Come find out if their meeting is a blessing ...or a curse.
  • The Hundredth Day by Dyurne
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    I have lived this day ninety-nine times. Every morning, the same bell rings. The same classes begin. The same people smile. And every afternoon, the girl I've loved through ninety-nine tomorrows that never came is rejected by someone else. On the hundredth time... I stopped watching. Cover by https://www.instagram.com/animaleo_/
  • Two Gods, One World by kairoku_07
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    Two souls crossed into a world ruled by power. One seeks transcendence. One has already crossed beyond it. Kael Ren awakens in a world where strength decides fate-but his body rejects the very energy that fuels it. Cast aside as worthless, he discovers something far more dangerous: a power that should not exist. While others cultivate the world, he cultivates himself. Far beyond his reach, Shen Raizen walks a different path. A path carved through pain and hardship- chosen willingly, at the cost of his humanity. One seeks control. The other has abandoned it. In a world where even gods can fall- only one will remain.
  • Shadows That Remain by Draiken
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    Publising Schedule (Tuesday - Friday) Description: In a world where magic decides power, a young man is forced into a journey he never chose. Now caught between kingdoms and monsters, he must face beings that don't follow rules- beings that walk among men as if they were gods. They are called Authorities. What to expect: A dark fantasy centered on mystery, grief, and the weight of surviving in a world ruled by powers beyond human understanding. Character-driven storytelling where relationships, loyalty, and emotional scars matter as much as battles. Slow-burn progression with cinematic payoffs, escalating from grounded struggles to world-shaking confrontations. Overwhelming enemies, ancient beings, and "Authorities" that bend reality itself - powers that feel closer to gods than magic. A protagonist forced to grow through pain, sacrifice, and impossible choices rather than destiny alone. A mature tone with emotional restraint, quiet introspection, and moments of warmth between the darkness. Brutal action focused on tension, impact, and consequences - every victory costs something. Kingdom politics, monsters, forbidden powers, and hidden truths woven into a world that feels vast, ancient, and unforgiving. Atmospheric scenes, heavy emotional moments, and fights written with cinematic intensity. Slow-burn romance, evolving bonds, and characters who change each other as much as they change the world.
  • Zarveth: The Uncrowned Throne by ReichAntic
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    As the Great Race War raged on, Zarveth, still a mere child, chose to remain on the battlefield rather than flee. From that moment on, he came to understand one absolute truth: true peace has never existed in this cruel world. ​Years later, when all factions grew exhausted by the endless warfare, the three greatest powers on the continent finally reached an agreement. The elf nation of Neiflim, the humans of Arsteim, and the dwarves of Mouncastell formed a peace pact to end the bloodshed that had lasted far too long. ​Yet, the peace that was born was not tranquility, but rather a fragile balance maintained by sacrificing anyone deemed a threat to it. ​Small kingdoms vanished from the map. Borders shifted without warning. Fear forced many nations to join the pact simply to survive. And when the great war finally drew to a close, the world did not truly heal. ​Betrayal still lurked behind the treaty. Every faction knew that the pact was nothing more than a scrap of paper, waiting to be torn apart at any moment. ​While the kingdoms busied themselves maintaining this delicate balance, the monster races multiplied unchecked. In the shadows, mercenary factions plotted revolution. Diplomatic tensions between nations continued to escalate, pushing the continent one step closer to the next great war. ​In the midst of a world slowly spinning toward ruin, Zarveth lives by his own rules and choices, facing moral conflicts, clashing ambitions, and principles constantly tested by reality. Not as a hero. Nor as a savior. ​Every decision he makes carries consequences, and without realizing it, every step he takes slowly drags him into the epicenter of a conflict that could determine the fate of the entire continent. ​As the world marches once again toward war, one ultimate question arises: It is not whether the world can be saved. But can Zarveth survive until the very end?
  • What Would People Say? by BebeDias
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    What happens when you meet someone who makes you question everything you've always known? Ama has always been the dutiful daughter, raised to be obedient and silent, her life shaped by her parents expectations. But an unexpected encounter forces her to question everything she's known, she must choose: live the life they planned, or find the courage to rewrite her own.
  • Order of the Phoenix by QuillOfMerlin
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    Hermione Granger never knew her parents - but she always knew who she was: a Muggle-born witch, a loyal friend, and a fighter for what's right. But when Voldemort returns and the war begins to stir, long-buried truths come to light - and Hermione learns that she's not who the world thought she was. Thrust into a life of secrecy and lies, Hermione learns to navigate a new world as a double agent with Severus Snape as her reluctant mentor. She walks a dangerous line between two identities, forced to play a part she never asked for. This is a character-driven reimagining of Order of the Phoenix, where family is complicated, fatherhood is hard, and pretending to be the villain may be the only way to survive.