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Gilded Cage
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Ongoing, First published Dec 24, 2024
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A princess bound by duty. A knight who stirs her heart. A stranger who tempts her soul.

Princess Solaryn of Zephyra is everything a ruler's daughter should be-graceful, strong, and unyielding in the face of expectation. But behind the facade of royal perfection lies a restless heart and a dangerous secret: she possesses magic-dark, forbidden magic that could cost her everything if discovered.

When her childhood fiancé, the golden and noble Lord Cedric, begins to break through the icy walls she's built around herself, Solaryn thinks she's found a fragile sense of peace. Yet peace is fleeting, and her kingdom is still suffocating under the Severance, an ancient curse that has plagued Zephyra for over a century.

A night of chaos brings Sylas, an enigmatic warlock with eyes like a storm and secrets darker than the night. Hired to investigate the powers behind her mother's assassination, he has his own agenda-one that involves Solaryn in ways neither of them are prepared for.

Caught between her duty to the crown, her growing affection for Cedric, and the magnetic pull of Sylas, Solaryn must navigate a treacherous web of lies, betrayal, and forbidden desires. But the more she uncovers about the Severance, the more she realizes magic may not just be the key to saving her kingdom...it might also be the reason for its ruin.

Perfect for fans of slow-burn romance, morally gray characters, and love triangles.
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Queen of Bargains: Monsters Under the Mountain

80 parts Complete Mature

Selene was never meant to be part of this world. She had once been a medical student, living an ordinary life filled with textbooks, late-night study sessions, and the quiet certainty that magic was nothing more than fiction. Then, she woke up in a world ruled by monsters. For twenty-five years, she has survived on the outskirts of a human village, healing where she can, hiding where she must. She knows little of the High Fae, their courts, or their treacherous games. She knows only whispers-of a wicked queen named Amarantha, of a war that shattered kingdoms, of a High Lord with violet eyes and a smirk sharper than a blade. But when a raid on her village drags her Under the Mountain, Selene is thrust into a world of cruelty and deceit. Powerless and human, she should have been nothing more than another disposable servant. Instead, she catches the eye of Rhysand, Amarantha's right hand. To the world, he is a monster. A traitor. A willing pet in the queen's twisted court. But Selene has seen him at his most powerful. And now, she has seen him at his most broken. Forced into servitude, trapped in a palace where humans do not last long, Selene must navigate the deadly politics of a court built on suffering. But as she uncovers the truth hidden beneath Rhysand's carefully crafted mask, she begins to question everything she thought she knew-about this world, about him, and about the war that looms on the horizon. Because it was not fate brought her here. She was the obstacle to his fate. And fate is watching. all rights reserved to the original author

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