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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 💚)
  • 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.
  • You Talk Too Much  by han8n_akayourdarling
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    Nicolas didn't want friends. Didn't want attention. Definitely didn't want her. But then Lina sat next to him. Every. Single. Day. She talked through the awkward silences, laughed at her own jokes, and asked questions he never answered. She was chaos in sneakers and bubblegum lip gloss - and he wanted nothing to do with her. ...Until he did. Because somehow, her noise started drowning out the thoughts he didn't know how to escape. And her voice became the only thing that made the silence bearable. This isn't a love story. Not at first. This is a story about a boy who lost his spark... And the girl who wouldn't let him disappear quietly. ✅ Nicolas ✅ Lina ✅ "You Talk Too Much" ✅ High school setting ✅ Healing + chaos + slow-burn (Btw I forgot to add that there will be no smut of any kind in this story. Maybe an innocent kiss or something but nothing else)
  • Aspiration to the Heavens: Becoming the Supreme Mage Vol. 1- Novus Magus by ImperialSun
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    How far are you willing to go to achieve your dreams? That's a question that Lei's been asked a lot in his life as a boy born with asthma. However, Lei doesn't care about what others say. He still aims the strongest mage in all of Xeleria, even if it means dying while trying. The first step to make his dream into a realtion is pass the entrance exam to Nine Petal Academy! But can a boy with wind magic who ironically has trouble breathing really be able to make it into one of the world's top magic academies? With books 2 and 3 also already completed and book 4 currently ongoing, immerse yourself in a world filled with magic, danger, love, and the pursuit of power. Don't miss out on this original light novel series that will leave you spellbound. The other Books in the 'Aspiration to the Heavens: Becoming the Supreme Mage' Series Volume 2- Descent of Darkness Volume 3- Blade of Ruin Volume 4- Crimson Phoenix Guardian All Rights Reserved.
  • 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
  • Minor Gods by EBeck76
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    Cara doesn't remember being a goddess. And she's certainly not taking the word of smart-mouthed slacker Kenneth Ford. If they're from the same place, how come he remembers? But Cara can't deny the things she's seen, like the way that guy evaporated after Kenneth brained him with his skateboard. He's sullen and sarcastic, but he did have her back when things got hellish, or underworld-ish? Even if he's not telling her the whole story, like who he really is, for now she'll have to trust him. ... When seventeen-year old Cara learns she is the mortal incarnation of a Greek Goddess of Death, she is thrust into a cosmic power struggle in which she is forced to discover her true self, the reason she's on earth, and the motives of the minor gods hiding in plain sight. New Episodes Wednesdays & Fridays Book One Complete First Book in a Planned Series This story started as a television pilot and eventually grew into a novel. If you enjoy supernatural adventures, flawed heroes, unfolding mysteries, and slow burn romance, I hope you'll join me for the journey. *Dual POV + Romantic Subplot #### The gods are getting restless... This is a story of gods. Not the ones you know. Not the great figures of myth and legend, watching from their mountaintop and manipulating the world on a whim. This isn't about the ones who ruled, but the ones who served. They did the bidding of those above them. They suffered their wrath. Because while Olympians do as they please, there's little benefit in being a minor god. This story is about them, the ones that were forgotten, if they were ever known at all. +Violence +Strong Language +Mature Themes
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fearful by mynameismicha
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    She's scared of everything... and the worst has yet to come. Bullied and ignored by her family, Riley Hart has never had it easy. Scared of almost everything, she's the laughing stock of her school and her parents' failure. Until that one evening, during prom, when something happens to her that would scare the bravest man. And after that, her life will never be the same. Weekly updates :)
  • 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. :::
  • 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒔 & 𝑹𝒆𝒏 by BubblesInDisguise
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    𝙰 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚎𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎-𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚜, 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚗.
  • What Remains at Lillyhall by la_prima_donna
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    In the spring of 1816, Henry Carthart reluctantly returns to Lillyhall Manor after inheriting the title of Earl of Ulswater from the estranged father he spent years avoiding. Intending only to repair the struggling estate before returning to the army, Henry instead finds himself trapped within a tense household held together not by nobility, but by the quiet competence of Miss Caitlin O'Higgin-the Irish governess who has raised and protected his younger half-siblings through years of neglect and cruelty. Intelligent, sharp-witted, and fiercely devoted to the children in her care, Caitlin has no intention of trusting the cold, emotionally distant new earl. Yet as the rain-soaked months pass and the walls between them begin to crack, resentment gives way to understanding, and understanding to something far more dangerous. But in Regency society, an earl and a governess are not meant to fall in love. As gossip spreads and family obligations threaten to tear them apart, Henry and Caitlin must decide whether the cost of choosing each other is worth risking everything they have left. What Remains at Lillyhall is a slow-burn historical romance about grief, family, and the quiet people who become home when one least expects it.
  • THE VERSION OF YOU by author_aryaa
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    She writes everything she's too scared to say. He notices everything. Especially her. What begins with silent glances across a café turns into something neither Aaradhya nor Ishaan expected. But before they can love each other, they must face a question neither of them is prepared for: Are they falling for the person in front of them... or the version they've imagined? A slow-burn romance about love, reality, and choosing someone even after the fantasy fades.
  • What We Found Along the Way by Havenite85
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    A slow-burn contemporary romance about found moments, found people, and discovering that the best chapters in life are often the ones we never intended to write. Some people collect things. Sam Reyes collects places. She'll take the longer road, strike up conversations with strangers, wander into tiny museums no one has heard of, and board trains with no itinerary beyond curiosity. After leaving Santa Fe for a fresh start in Richmond, Virginia, she's determined to build a life one unexpected discovery at a time, convinced that the best stories are never the ones you plan. August Calloway has built a life that already feels complete. A beloved high school English teacher, advisor to the literary magazine, and firm believer that stories matter because people matter, he's content with quiet mornings, overflowing bookshelves, meaningful conversations, and the students who remind him every day why he became a teacher. Nearly a year after the end of a six-year relationship, love is the last thing on his mind. Then one ordinary trip to a used bookstore changes everything. One book. Two strangers. The same moment. What begins as an accidental meeting among dusty shelves slowly unfolds into something neither of them was searching for, proving that sometimes the most important journeys don't begin with a destination. They begin with a single, unexpected page.
  • The Life That Happened Anyway by Anamyea
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    An arranged marriage. Two strangers. One home. It should have been simple. It wasn't. Not because of betrayal. Not because of tragedy. But because some truths take years to recognize.
  • 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.
  • To Belong | wlw by Arcoiris__6
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    She had always believed that love would arrive loudly. Like a storm. Like a grand declaration. She was wrong. Some loves arrive quietly. And change everything anyway. --- (Entirely fictional. The year, the crown, the characters, the places - all made up and owing nothing to reality. Any resemblance to actual royals or real history is purely coincidental....) ✨️
  • 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 First Spark by Vampire164ever
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    They took his childhood. They took his name. But they could never take the fire. At five years old, William Kennedy turned a playground accident into an inferno-and the world turned on him. Branded dangerous, locked away, and reduced to a number, he spent years as a government experiment, learning that his flames could burn everything except the truth: he was never the monster they made him out to be. When the power fails and the walls collapse, William escapes into the wild-scarred, silent, and burning with purpose. On the slopes of Mt. Inferno, he finds others like him: the grounded Taryn, the fierce Castia, the quick-tempered Mira, the bright-eyed Leo, and the shadows that follow Makoa. Together, they are hunted children learning what it means to fight back. But for William, the revolution begins long before rebellion has a name. It begins with a choice-to stop running, to strike first, and to become the spark that sets the world ablaze. Every legend starts with one spark. This one starts with William Kennedy. COVER ART BY @MyComicArts