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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • The Farrier's Son by EDwrites
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    Ranch Life Novel | Cedar Hollow Series Lance Hawthorne has always known where he belongs-on horseback, beside his father, building a future that made sense. But one moment changes everything, leaving him caught between the life he built and the one he doesn't know how to live. Back home, the days grow quieter, the distance between him and the world stretching further with each passing week. Frustration settles in. So does silence. And the harder he pushes people away, the easier it becomes to disappear into what he's lost. Until a trip to an unfamiliar ranch forces him into something he's not ready for-hard work, hard truths, and a place where nothing is handed to you. At Murray's Ranch, progress is earned one step at a time, and the expectations don't change just because he has. Surrounded by people who challenge him in ways he doesn't expect-and one in particular who refuses to see him as broken-Lance is forced to confront more than just his limits. Because this fight isn't only about strength. It's about trust. Trust in the work. Trust in himself. And maybe... learning what it means to let someone stand close enough to matter. Because sometimes starting over doesn't mean going back. It means deciding you're not done yet.
  • Everything Before  by whiteredlilyy
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    Book 2 in "Daughters of Eve" trilogy Before she became the girl who ran away, she was the girl who stayed. Adeline grew up in the second pew from the front as the preacher's daughter. She knew the rules of her home, the kind of love she was taught never to question, and the version of herself that had been decided for her before she was old enough to have a say. Then there was Darryl. Patient, steady, certain. He wanted to leave this town and he wanted to take her with him. And Adeline wanted to go. But wanting and doing are different things. This book lives in the space between leaving and staying. Where you can see the door and cannot make your feet move toward it. Where you love someone enough to want to follow them and are too afraid of yourself to try. Where you stand at the edge of something for so long that by the time you're ready, it's already gone. Because loving Darryl had been easy. Choosing herself had not. Small town roots. Inherited faith. First love that wasn't enough to save her. This is everything that happened before she left her home.
  • Red Earth  by APrice829
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    Earth is gone-or at least that's what the rest of the universe believes. Hidden beneath a surface of dust, heat, and memory, Root One survives. Alex has spent her life protecting what remains of humanity: preserving culture, guarding her people, and holding together a world built to outlast collapse. Then Piper arrives in a sandstorm carrying impossible biology, impossible history, and questions that shouldn't exist. As old truths fracture and survival becomes something far more dangerous, both women are forced to ask: What are they willing to sacrifice to save the world they've come to love? ⚠️ This story is written as a continuous narrative and is best read in chapter order for full worldbuilding, character relationships, and plot progression. :::
  • Pembroke by StevenWilson032
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    This story introduces Harland Walsh, a quiet, book-loving teenager, and his hardworking father, Patrick, as they leave Jonesboro to begin a new life at Dane's Grove, a sprawling pecan plantation in the Arkansas Delta. Though the grand estate promises stability after years of uncertainty, Harland feels intimidated by its size and by the wealthy Danes who own it. Their assigned laborer's cottage is old and run-down, but Patrick sees it as an opportunity to build a permanent home.
  • False Spring by Zapeleon
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    "Some seasons feel like promises. Others feel like lies in disguise." Caleb Morgan wasn't supposed to still think about that year, the one filled with cheap beer, broken furniture, and a group of friends who once felt unshakable. But when his daughter finds an old photo buried in the garage, memories come rushing back: of bonds that fractured quietly, of the girl who never quite belonged but somehow changed everything, and of the version of himself he never really outgrew. Now a father, a husband, and a man who rarely speaks of the past, Caleb must confront the spaces between who he was and who he's become. Told in alternating chapters between present and past, False Spring is a story of closeness and distance, of things left unsaid and the people we carry with us long after they're gone. Lyrical, intimate, and quietly devastating, it's about the friendships that fall apart, and the ones that hold everything together without trying to.
  • Mehram-e-ishq ✨ by ishqxfabi
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    Mehram-e-Ishq ✨ Some souls are meant to love... even when destiny refuses them. Hᴀʀᴀᴍ Gʜᴀᴢɪ believed in silence, dignity, and prayers whispered only to Allah. Sᴀʟᴀᴍʙᴇᴋ Aᴢɪᴢ Kʜᴀɴ loved like devotion dangerously, deeply, and without limits. Mᴀʀᴡᴀᴀɴ Sᴀɪғʏ loved quietly... like rain loves the ocean from afar. Three souls become tangled in a love that was never meant to be easy. Because sometimes love does not heal people. Sometimes... it ruins them beautifully. "𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘲 𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘩𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘺." When love begins to feel like destruction... will they still choose each other? For aesthetics, character reels, edits & spoilers: Instagram: @yourusername. Want New Chapter soon.. Follow me here: stck me: @yourusername. Start on: 01 July 2026
  • 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. #3 in legal - July 16th, 2026.
  • Astral Souls Meet  by jawhar2026
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    Astral souls meet regardless of titles ​"There is no sin in science." For Daniel, a brilliant chemist and cold businessman, this is the only law. But beneath his controlled world lies a web of psychological control and obsession. Trapped between his twin brother and Jeffrey-the provocative shadow who constantly pursues him-one question remains: What will happen when a grand party forces them all into the same room? Step into the story to discover the dark truth
  • Inherited Wounds by Bilel_Raboudi
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    He sat in the corner and watched everyone. She smiled at everyone and let no one in. When two people who've learned to protect themselves from exactly each other finally start talking - the question isn't whether they'll fall. It's whether the wounds they're carrying will let them. A dual-narrative philosophical romance told in two voices, two silences, and one sentence that almost ended everything. Some wounds aren't yours to begin with. You just inherited them.
  • 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.
  • The World, As I Notice It by StickingStickers
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    Through small observations and gentle daydreams, ordinary moments become meditations on self awareness, gratitude, loneliness, empathy, and the quiet stories that surround us every day. Each story begins with something easily overlooked: a passing stranger, a changing light, a small detail; and follows wherever the imagination leads. None of these imagined lives may be true, but perhaps they don't have to be.
  • 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.
  • 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 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_/
  • The Sixth Day by HussainFaqih
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    Coco Sakurai is the most watched girl in class 2-B, and she works for it. Every laugh is placed. Every kindness has an audience. Under all of it runs one engine: fear. Fear of slipping, of being ordinary, of anyone seeing how hard she is holding on. Then Fuuko arrives and gets noticed without trying. Without even wanting it. Coco's answer is bullying, the daily kind, done in full view. Eraser crumbs swept onto her desk. Her name turned into the class punchline. Rumors that reach a room before she does. Teachers who see all of it and mark her present. For nineteen months, that is Fuuko's whole school life. Fuuko survives it by counting. Fifty-six ceiling tiles. Ninety-one steps from the gate to the shoe lockers. She keeps her weeks in a three-hundred-yen notebook with a ruled margin, and some weeks the margin looks thin. This is a story about what fear does when it is popular, what endurance costs when no one steps in, and what six days can hold. ··· Prologue + 16 chapters, updating Mon, Wed, Fri. The final seven chapters post daily, one each day, ending Sunday night. This one carries real weight. A note before you begin, and resources at the end, are part of the book. Sixteen and up.