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"Your world is an absolute sanctuary of quiet, sweet girl. But outside? The world is a monster. Let me be your eyes, your ears, and your ultimate shield." ⚠️ WARNING: This is an intense, dark action-crime romance. It features heavy themes of stalking, extreme possessiveness, deep psychological angst, forced proximity, age gap, graphic violence, and gore. Please read with care. 🔥 TROPES INCLUDE: • 🤫 Stalker / Obsessive Anti-Hero • ☀️ Sunshine x Grumpy/Darkness • 🎓 Professor x Student (Forced Proximity) • ⏳ Age Gap (23 & 32) • 🩸 Mafia Coup / Underworld Action & Crime • 🫀 Disability Representation (Deaf/Mute Lead)

The night Maelys was born, a storm made a decision for her. A desperate woman, a coerced midwife, and a courtyard where someone died in the rain conspired to place one infant in a palace and erase another from the record entirely. Twenty-two years later, someone has come to unmake it, and she has twenty-two years of righteous fury, a powerful patron, and the specific weapon of a truth that supports multiple stories at once. Raised in the painted corridors and orange-blossom courtyards of Solenir Palace, Maelys knows how to read a room before she enters it, how to wear humor like armor over something more serious underneath, and how to survive in a court that admires her with one hand and doubts her with the other. She has been exceptional here her entire life. She knows what exceptions are for. When the girl she unknowingly replaced arrives with documents, damage, and the kind of righteous anger that is the most dangerous kind because it is not entirely wrong, nothing careful is enough anymore. With a conspiracy threading through the court's most elegant rooms, a bodyguard who has been keeping a report in a locked box for eight years waiting for the right person to receive it, and a crown prince who asks before he touches and is not without fault and is learning the difference between those two facts, Maelys must fight for her name, her life, and the identity she has spent twenty-two years choosing rather than receiving. This is a slow burn interracial historical romance with explicit intimacy, graphic violence, and a world that does not soften its edges for the comfort of anyone in it. It is a story about what is owed and what is chosen, about love as a continuous practice rather than a destination, about darkness that stays and is carried rather than resolved, and about a woman who refuses, repeatedly, in every room that tries to define her, to let anyone else decide who she is. Dark. Tender. Permanent. Earned. ©️ _RelleLebby_ // R. L.

Chika's great-aunt Anne invites her to New York for school and promises to pay for all her expenses. Chika leaves Nigeria and heads for New York. She meets new people and experiences a whole new kind of life( courtesy of her aunt's acting career). Her aunt isn't the nicest person and Chika has to get used to all the new people around her but she has faith that everything will work out.

#272 in teen fiction {june 26 '16} ×× Protagonist - Eva Antagonist - Life as we know it ∆ It was a hour long drive from the airport to our new house. I always found car rides really horribly boring and unbearable. The constant honking,the bumps on the road, the whirr of the engine - it's the absolute recipe for 'Not Being Able To Sleep.' And that my friends is the major reason behind why I despise car rides - because I don't get to sleep. No matter how hard I try, no matter how I position my back or body or arms, no matter how sleepy or tired I am, no matter how soothing the music is - I'm never able to sleep during car rides. Also - claustrophobia. And a closed moving vehicle that makes me feel uneasy and trapped is a nightmare at the least. Add to that, it being midnight when our plane landed, meaning I had to spend the peak of my sleeping hours awake (in the moving thing) and you get an overly annoyed and cranky Eva. ∆ #346 in teen fiction {June 25 2016} © 2016

Love is complicated. Alex knows this better than most: his soulmate, Freddie, hates him, his flatmate is dating said soulmate and angry hate sex has never looked so appealing. It's so easy for Alex to get tangled up in Freddie and the lines between what is right and what is good blur until he's breaking all his own rules. If he keeps it a secret, though, if no one knows, then no one gets hurt, right? Also featuring a bonus story, Sunday Morning (Teen Wolf): SM: Stiles and Derek have a casual thing and it's amazing, more than Stiles could ask for, but that doesn't mean his eyes don't wander. And he can't help but linger over the third year who always seems to bump into him when he's leaving on a Sunday morning.

There are days when Aiden wants nothing more than to leave Tristan to suffer in the messes he's made. They've been through a lot, he, Tristan, and Callie, and he loves them, but Tristan still drives him to thoughts of murder. Until Tristan goes off on a research trip, and a few days later the magic in Aiden's tattoo stops glowing-meaning that in all likelihood Tristan is dead. Clinging to the hope he's wrong, Aiden and Callie go looking for him, and wind up in a town where a series of suicides aren't exactly what they seem, and only the beginning of their troubles...

An evil curse lands Peter Pan in modern day London, where he is forced to grow up. But when Tiger Lily and Tink break Captain Hook's spell and bring him home to Neverland, they will find themselves on a perilous quest to save their friends, and imagination itself.

BASED OFF 'Merchant Ships' SONG OF THE SAME NAME Seventeen-year-old Michael Horowitz is the rock of his dysfunctional family, shouldering the burden of his mother's hospitalization, his father's addiction and arrest, and the protection of his younger brother, Gary. But when the 9/11 tragedy shatters their world, Michael must navigate grief, anger, and despair to lead his family out of darkness. Haunted by prophetic dreams and an uncertain future, Michael's unwavering love for Gary and his faith are put to the ultimate test as he strives to keep the last flickers of hope alive in their hearts.

When 11-year-old Morgan loses her father in a plane crash, she thinks grief is the worst thing she'll ever face. But when her nightmares begin to burn with real fire and ancient prophecies stir in the hills around her new home, Morgan discovers that her father's death may not have been an accident-and that she's connected to a power older than memory itself. A story of loss, magic, and finding light in the darkest places.

It's a story about a man who always brings camera in his pocket but doesn't know how to use it; there are no pictures in it. And Ezra Zima is there to show him the world.

When mysterious secrets begin to surface in the small town of Willowbrook, sisters Zoe and Nola Blue discover their lives are connected to an ancient magical legacy. Together, they must uncover the truth about their family, their powers, and the darkness lurking just beyond sight.

"Her lips are like the galaxy's edge, and her kiss the colour of a constellation falling into place" (AM). - Every time he looked at her, he could feel his heart breaking. She was the girl with the gleam in her eyes plucked from the stars themselves, she was the girl with the broken soul and crooked smile that she masked through an allusive silence. Maddox Reign was someone who constantly found himself wondering about the quiet and enigmatic Arabella Huxtable. Maddox didn't know how someone so innocent looking and so kept to herself was surrounded by a whirlwind of vicious rumors and hate. That is until a graphic video is spread around school featuring Arabella Huxtable and the notorious Abel Rogers, who also happens to be Maddox Reign's old best friend. - TRIGGER WARNING. MATURE CONTENT. Copyrighted © 2017.

Inspired by the Regina Spektor song 20 Years of Snow. Charlotte's conservative small-town upbringing collides with her true self.

It's so hard to find a story where the main character looks like me... So instead of ranting about it, I decided to do something about it!

New and collected works in the far-flung universe from: @Fromthebar @benjammies @Matt_Weber @elveloy @Holly_Gonzalez @krazydiamond @Lynn_Vroman @Red_Harvey And four contest winners! Cover credit: @benjammies

When Darcy and Everett Swanson discover an abandoned egg, their quiet life on Mistvale Pond is forever changed. Taking a leap of faith, the two swans decide to become fathers to the strange new hatchling they name River. As River grows, her very nature clashes with the tranquil traditions of the pond, making her a target for whispers and unkind judgments. Together with her dads, River struggles to navigate a world that doesn't understand her while trying to hold onto her unique spirit. After a difficult experience at traditional school, they all begin to wonder if River will ever find her place in the world. This is a moving story about family, identity, and the extraordinary power of love to help a young alligator finally make her own way in the world.

Kate James, thirty-five and single, has achieved everything she had ever wanted to achieve. She believed she had it all, but after a comment from a comical chef and the realization that this might be the last chance she has at having a baby, she sets off to do just that. But when her one night stand finds her in California, will her vacation turn into a lifelong commitment? Buy my new novella today on Amazon!

(A/N: Story on hiatus ) Her life was a book. Written by everyone but her. She, however did not fight. Her life was painted. The colors decided. She, however did not crack. But changes they come, as inevitable they are. She learns things. She questions things. Princes aren't always charming. How long shall happy ever after stay a myth?

In the halls of Lincoln High, siblings Alex and Hannah navigate the twists and turns of high school life while pursuing their passion for music. As they audition for the glee club, they discover the power of their twin voices and the strength of their bond. "Harmony Unison: A Tale of Twin Voices" is a heartwarming story of friendship, family, and the journey to finding one's true voice.

Guardians of Light, Book One Sixteen-year-old Iris Sinclair has always known she was different. Born into a legendary Jamaican bloodline of women tasked with protecting the balance between worlds, she's spent her life trying-and failing-to suppress the gifts that mark her as a Guardian of Light. When tragedy strikes, Iris is forced to leave behind the only home she's ever known and move into her estranged father's estate deep in the Colorado mountains. Isolated. Suffocating. Haunted by more than memories. Inside the sprawling mansion, rooms seem to shift when no one looks. The walls whisper. And a centuries-old mural calls to her in ways she can't explain. But something is waiting within those painted depths. Something that sees Iris for what she truly is. And as her powers grow beyond her control, Iris must decide whether to keep running from her inheritance or confront the darkness festering behind the walls of her family's perfect life.