Historias de Highstakes

💙 Maynard High: Awkward Blue 💙 "He's running from legacy. She's fighting to be believed. Both are closer to the truth than they should be." Kael Lance was born into power, expectation, and control. When he finally pushes back, he's sent to Maynard High, a remote boarding school where discipline is strict, rules are absolute... and students don't always make it out. Siobhan Wildes has spent her time at Maynard trying to survive, its pressure, its silence, and the way people like her are easily pushed aside. But when she gets her hands on something she was never meant to see, she learns the truth: At Maynard, people don't just hide the truth, they disappear. And the ones who ask too many questions are next. As strange patterns begin to surface and reality starts to blur, Kael and Siobhan are pulled into something far bigger than school rules or social hierarchy. Because at Maynard, knowledge comes with a cost, and once you see it, there's no going back. In a world where secrets are controlled, loyalty is tested, and even your closest allies might turn on you, survival isn't about strength. It's about knowing when to look away. ...and when it's already too late. For fans of dark academia, boarding school drama, psychological horror, a little sports drama and slow-burn tension. Updates every Tuesday 💗

Power, Paint, and Pistons The President's daughters were born for boardrooms and power suits. Instead, they're chasing adrenaline, grease, and neon lights. Samantha, Cassandra, and Mia Morgan are the nation's golden girls and its biggest rebels. They've traded political legacies for a life of grit and glamour, living by one ironclad rule: Love is a weakness they don't possess. • Samantha: The riverboat captain with a dangerous taste for high-stakes gambling. • Cassandra: The pop icon who hides her heart behind sold-out stadiums and secret charity. • Mia: The grease-stained mechanic who lives for the roar of an engine and the thrill of the race. They thought they had it all figured out until three men enter the picture who don't care about their titles or their secrets. Now, the sisters are about to find out that the one thing they can't control is the one thing they never believed in. Three sisters. Three scandals. One word that changes everything.

Two rival captains. One fractured map. A race against time. When Captain Seraphine Vale splits her crew to hunt down a treasure hidden in two places, she makes one fatal decision - forcing Kael Varyn and Mara Quinn to lead together. They don't trust each other. They don't like each other. And on the open sea, that kind of tension gets people killed. But with a rival crew closing in and danger at every turn, survival means learning to fight together. Because the treasure isn't the only thing that demands a sacrifice. And when the moment comes... they'll have to choose - gold, or each other.

Ten years. Five thousand miles. One lie that shattered everything. Steve is the "Efficient Closer" of Wall Street. Stephanie is London's "Stone Architect." To the world, they are the pinnacle of success. To each other, they are ghosts of a California driveway where a single, jagged lie ended a nineteen-year-old forever. When a childhood friend's wedding forces them back into the same zip code, they agree to a truce: stay cool, stay civil, and stay strangers. But their bodies didn't get the memo. Steve still knows how she likes her coffee; Stephanie still falls into the safety of his shadow. As a "perfect" new man enters the frame, Steve realizes he's done running. But how do you convince a woman who has spent a decade building walls that you're finally strong enough to be her foundation?.

THE MERCURY GAMBIT By: Ace Johnson Synopsis: A series of devastating global attacks, each mirroring the atomic structure of mercury, threatens to shatter civilization. Agent Steve (Vector 88) and a team of elite specialists must race against time to stop a mastermind whose plan is not destruction, but control. With cutting-edge tech and a global network of vulnerabilities exposed, Steve uncovers a chilling truth: the system he serves may have created the very weapon it now fears.

The Shadow Protocol When a brilliant data analyst vanishes without a trace, he leaves behind only a cryptic letter and a family in mortal danger. His desperate wife and young son must follow his final instructions to seek help from two old college friends scattered across the globe - a doctor in Saudi Arabia and a professor in New York. What begins as a frantic search for answers transforms into a deadly international chase, as three former classmates reunite after eleven years to uncover the truth behind their friend's disappearance. But some secrets are worth killing for, and powerful enemies lurk in every shadow. As they piece together fragments of the past and race across continents, they discover that their quiet, observant friend stumbled upon something that threatens to expose a vast conspiracy. Now they must use every skill they possess - medical expertise, analytical thinking, and strategic brilliance - to stay one step ahead of ruthless pursuers who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets. In a world where trust is a luxury they can't afford and family means everything, four people bound by loyalty must face impossible odds. Because sometimes the greatest strategy isn't thinking three moves ahead - it's knowing who will stand beside you when the shadows close in. A suspenseful thriller about friendship, sacrifice, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.

This is the story of six cadets whose lives change inside the unforgiving world of a defence academy where discipline is absolute, training is relentless, and only the strongest can keep moving forward.

Suki Jeong is an expert at only two things: failing math class and worrying about her sister's cancer. Her life in L.A. is quiet, safe, and completely ordinary-until a flyer at her local Asian mart offers a desperate way out. An audition for K-pop trainees. 🎤 Suki has zero talent. Like, actually none. She can't dance, her singing is strictly a solo shower act, and she knows nothing about idols. But with a one-way ticket to Seoul and the help of her mysterious neighbor, Auntie Jing, she's diving headfirst into the world's most brutal industry. Between a cold CEO, grueling dance challenges, and fierce rivals who want her gone-not to mention an enemy who's becoming a crush she definitely should not trust-much less fall for-can someone this ordinary survive the stage? But she isn't doing this for fame. She's doing it for Ari... right? No training. No backup plan. Just a heart full of recklessness and a desperate need to win. Suki is going to scrape her way to the top-or break trying. CW: This story contains themes of illness (cancer) and hospital settings. Please read with care. Copyright: © 2026 by HalfMoon_Huntress. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the author. ⚠️Disclaimer⚠️: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or real events is purely coincidental.

Welcome to Whimsical Wares! Your one stop shop for all your galaxy wide needs! From magical to downright mythical, your friendly shopkeeper Lyss has you covered! If you don't have the money, that's fine! You can just sign a contract so you'll always come back! Just please, please, don't misuse the wares. Remember, Lyss is not responsible for anything you do with what you buy. Unless it happens to threaten the balance of millenia long intergalactic peace. Then maybe the reluctant butterfly will have to step in. (Very unwillingly). When magic shopkeeper, Lyss sells an item to an unassuming customer, he unintentionally causes a chain reaction of catastrophic events that put him right in the centre of a quickly unfolding intergalactic war. Is it his fault? He'd like to think not, but if it affects his business then he'll have to act.

A jungle lab burns. A weapon evolves. And the only man who touched it is already changing. Elias Voss was sent to steal a parasite‑born compound before it could become a weapon. He failed. Now half the sample is missing, the other half is inside him, and every government involved is lying about what it really does. It doesn't kill. It rewrites. Fear. Empathy. Hesitation. Gone. With seventy‑two hours before the mutation completes, Voss must team up with the rival agent who tried to kill him to stop a global release that will turn soldiers into something fearless, contagious, and unstoppable. Kill it before it dies. Or kill it before we do. A bio‑thriller about evolution, espionage, and the cost of intervention.

​"Some stories don't begin where you expect. Some begin with a blade to the throat and a secret that could burn a city to the ground." ​Rose Carter is the crown jewel of a family built on secrets and silver. Elegant, lethal, and draped in red silk, she has been trained to view the world as a chessboard-and Alex Harper is the only player she can't seem to checkmate. ​Alex is everything Rose was taught to hate: a man from the "other side," gritty, relentless, and far too good at seeing through her carefully constructed masks. Their families have lived in a state of cold war for decades, held together by a fragile treaty and the mysterious power of the blue roses. ​But when a single choice shatters the peace, Rose and Alex are forced into a dangerous game of survival. In a world where every glance is a weapon and every touch is a betrayal, they must decide if they are each other's greatest downfall-or their only hope of making it out alive. ​Two families. Three blades. One choice that changes everything.

The Pacific Ocean is no longer a destination; it's a graveyard. When Flight 815 shatters over the deep blue, structural engineer Mark (Aaron Eckhart) and Professor Lee (Ben Kingsley) find themselves leading a small group of survivors on a half-collapsed raft. But the crash was only the beginning. Beneath the surface, an ancient hunger is waiting-a relentless swarm of Great Whites led by a prehistoric king. As thirst, paranoia, and a shadowy corporate conspiracy begin to tear the survivors apart from the inside, Mark must fight a war on two fronts: the predators in the water and the monsters in the boat. In the deep water, the only thing more dangerous than the sharks is the truth about why the plane fell. "Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean."

For a century, the Peace Spell held the monsters at bay, trading bloodlust for a fragile truce. Then, in one neon-lit nightclub, a single gunshot shattered the pact. Now, the hunters have become the hunted. As the moon turns a bruised red and the city is fed a televised apocalypse, the line between guardian and monster dissolves into chaos. Jacob is caught in the middle of a war he never wanted. He is forced to choose: his father's cold, calculated logic or his ex-girlfriend's dangerous secrets. He is blind to the fact that the woman he is protecting is the key to the very truth his father has sworn to burn down. ​✌️ Peace is broken. 📱 Hunt is live. 🔥 Truth is Blurring. One Night. One City. No Mercy. In a city where every broadcast is a lie, the most dangerous thing you can do is trust the wrong person. Witness the first installment of "Peace Grows Thin" Author's Note: Peace Grows Thin is the new title (formerly The Chaotic Night Of Broken Peace Spell). Same pulse-pounding mystery, just a sharper look! New chapters drops every Mondays & Fridays after 9:00 PM IST

Selene Voss does not lose control. Not of her company. Not of her future. And certainly not of her heart. When a high-stakes corporate merger threatens to collapse both their empires, Selene is forced into an arrangement she never imagined: a legally binding marriage to her greatest rival, Cairo Blackwell, the only man in the city capable of matching her strategy move for move. It is supposed to be simple. A contract. A timeline. Clear boundaries. No entanglement. But Cairo wants one condition she did not anticipate. Honesty. As boardrooms turn into battlegrounds and partnership begins to blur into something dangerously personal, Selene discovers that the real risk is not the merger, the money, or the marriage clause written into a ruthless will. The real risk is the man who sees her clearly. And the terrifying possibility that she might start seeing him the same way. A slow-burn corporate romance filled with tension, power plays, and emotional stakes, Against My Will, With My Whole Heart explores what happens when control meets connection and strategy collides with desire.

A young fighter named Akko, whose dream is to become the strongest and protect the city.

In Beijing's gilded elite, Emma Walker, heiress to the formidable Walker Group (global investments, covert intelligence), and Lily Zhu, brilliant scion of the allied Zhu Corporation (AI, cybernetics), are destined for power. But their world shatters under Professor Meng. Veiled in mystery, and scarred by the devastating personal tragedy of the "Dragonfly Breach," Meng is no ordinary academic. He's a master strategist, a puppet master, and his law seminar isn't just a class; it's a brutal proving ground, a recruitment drive for a shadow war where legal boundaries bleed into covert operations. For the select few, his private tuition offers a glimpse into a world far beyond textbooks-a world where the lines between professor and operative blur. As Emma and Lily's families-and Michael, Emma's sharp-witted brother-uncover a coordinated economic counter-offensive, the duo forms a strategic alliance. Their partnership is immediately tested by the arrival of Valeria Shaw, heiress to the critical resource empire, Shaw Industries, whose elusive sister, Anya, whispers of a top operative. With a shared apartment needing a third, and strategic alliances blurring into personal rivalries, they navigate a world where loyalty is fluid and ambition knows no bounds. Whose war are they fighting? Can they outmaneuver a mentor driven by personal vengeance, outwit their rivals, and carve their own future in a game where algorithms, assets, and audacious ambition are the deadliest weapons? ---

One debt. Two lives. Zero room for error. ​Nia "Honey" Williams was a straight-A student with a corporate future until a $150,000 medical bill turned her world into a countdown. Now, she's trading spreadsheets for a brass pole, navigating the neon-lit "Velvet Room" with a "No-Touch" contract and the precision of an auditor. ​She's not there to fall in love. She's there to win. ​But when Kenji Sato-a half-Black, half-Japanese car mogul obsessed with mechanics and motion-sees the athlete behind the dancer, the rhythm of her grind starts to shift. In a world of grease, silk, and secrets, Nia must decide if she's willing to let a man see the woman behind the "Honey," or if the price of a miracle is her heart.

Within the walls of Berlaso Manor, fire is more than just a source of warmth-it is a symbol of absolute power. As the Warden of Fire, their father is revered by the kingdom as a noble protector. But behind the thick "Protective Mists" that shroud the estate, every shadow hides a truth that refuses to stay buried. Layana, only seven years old, becomes the silent witness to the fire's darkest form. She sees the desecration of her eldest sister, Segunda-a discovery that shatters her innocent world. Trapped between a terrifying truth and a dangerous pretense, Layana must act as if she knows nothing to shield her youngest sister, Tala, from a similar fate. This is a story of a family built on magic but broken by betrayal. How do you fight the flame when the one who wields it is the person you are supposed to trust most? Between the weight of silence and the hunger for vengeance, how much of her own soul is Layana willing to burn to find justice?

In a city protected by heroes, the most dangerous evil is the one wearing a familiar face. Connor was the perfect symbol of hope-disciplined, admired, untouchable. Adrian was the shadow he buried-his brother, his sin, his greatest lie. Nine years ago, a betrayal sealed Adrian inside Ironhold, a prison built to erase monsters. Now he's free. As the city fractures under calculated devastation, Adrian-now known as Deadlight-doesn't seek chaos... he seeks exposure. Every attack is precise. Every move is personal. And with each step, he pulls Connor closer to a truth he's spent years suffocating. Caught between loyalty and revelation, Connor's teammates begin to see the cracks in their hero-while the man they hunt knows him better than anyone ever could. Allies become liabilities. Love becomes leverage. And blood proves thicker than justice. Because this isn't a story about good versus evil. It's about what happens when the villain knows your secrets- and the hero deserves what's coming.

There are two kinds of power in this city. The kind that wins elections- and the kind that makes elections irrelevant. I was born into the first. I chose the second. My father is the President of the United States. I am Kian. Between us, the law is just a suggestion. After midnight, Los Angeles empties itself for people like us. Barriers go up. Cameras go live. A ring is drawn. A name is announced. For thirty minutes, one person runs- and everyone else turns predator. We don't race for money. We race for ownership. For reputation. For the quiet understanding that if you win enough times- no one dares to touch you again. I've never lost. Not the race. Not control. Not people. Liora was never something to win. She was already..... there. Soft. Undemanding. Uncomplicated. The kind of presence that doesn't ask questions you don't want to answer. The kind you don't think twice about. Then came Vesper. And suddenly- everything started asking questions. She doesn't react the way people should. Doesn't hesitate. Doesn't adjust. Doesn't care who I am. And I decided to understand her. It starts as a conversation. Becomes a pattern. Then a decision. A bet. Not about speed. Not about strength. About something far more predictable- emotion. There's a method to it. Attention at the right moment. Silence at the right time. Truth, carefully edited. You don't force someone to fall. You let them arrive there on their own- and make sure they think it was their choice. I've done it before. I know exactly how it ends. So I don't hesitate. I don't question it. I don't stop. Because the outcome is obvious. Until it isn't. Until the person you're studying starts watching you back. Until control stops feeling like control- and starts feeling like something else. And for the first time- the only variable I can't calculate... is myself.