Embracing the Dark
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  • Reads 227
  • Votes 18
  • Parts 18
  • Time 4h 52m
Complete, First published Nov 13, 2022
Mature
(Wicked Lovely Fanfic) Maeve Byrne has always known she wasn't completely human. It's the reason she could always see the faeries that inhabited Huntsdale.

But she's also never told a soul what she was or what she could see. Her mother, for all her faults, had pressed one thing on her - it was dangerous. If others found out what she was - especially the Summer Court - they could hurt her to get to her father, whoever he was. All she knows is that he was a member of the Dark Court. And that she can never take off the charm that hides what she truly is.

But now she's back in Huntsdale, the last place she ever thought she would return. Her dreams of being a professional ballerina - of creating a life with her fiance - are now dead after a horrific car accident two years ago. 

Maeve isn't sure what drew her back to her hometown. But feels like the new Dark King just might have something to do with it. Maybe he can help her find out who her father is. And perhaps finally embrace the darkness that has always lived inside her...
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Red Moon Princess

63 parts Ongoing

In a world where every royalty child is born with magical powers, depending on its kingdom, unexpected thing occur as a powerless princess is born in the ruling dynasty. The Sirius Bloodline of the moonlands or as one would like to call it 'Lunalurse'. Time passes and Maria soon turns seven and still doesn't awaken her gift. The King and his Queen find it odd as a royalty child mostly awakens their gift between the ages of 4 and 6. So they strive to seek answers, some deep inside the lunar palace, and some across the realms making long-life friends throughout the way. Would the powerless princess awaken her gift? And if she does what would it mean for her, the realms and everyone else? And what if her long-awaited gift is something no one has seen coming, not even her? And what if this power of hers releases unknown and unwanted guests some the world would have been a better place without and what if she's all to blame? And what if whilst performing her duty of protecting the realms, she becomes aware of the feelings her best friend Ashton harbors for her, knowing her cousin has taken a liking to him for years? Rowan realizes he has fallen in love with her cousin, as well as Zephyr who has fallen for Maria. She finds herself in a turmoil of longing and raw emotions where she has to choose between love or performing her duty. Read it all as it takes place right before your eyes. It's never too late to hop onto the track of fantasies "I might be the princess of the moon, but I can also be the bringer of your doom." ----- All the characters, kingdoms, names, and places are my ideas. Any resemblance to real ones is purely coincidental. The story contains some violence and some explicit scenes of gore, but nothing too bloody or disgusting. Keep in mind, that this is the first book I've ever written, and English isn't my first language. Any mistakes or twists of words are unintentional. I'd do better than this in the future so 🐻 with me.