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The Ashes We Sow

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Some roots refuse to die. Some fires were never meant to burn out.

Marlowe escaped Branchville with scars, secrets, and a promise: to keep fighting. But when a girl in another town vanishes-found with a camellia petal beneath her tongue-she knows the past has followed her.

In a town with its own buried rituals, Marlowe and Cass uncover echoes of the same twisted legacy: bloodbound guardians, children marked for sacrifice, and whispers of a covenant that spans more than just generations-it spans geography.

As Marlowe digs deeper into the pattern of vanishing girls and prophetic journals that should've burned with Davis Bishop, she realizes the curse wasn't rooted in a single place. It was planted in a network of towns, families, and rituals far older than Branchville.

And now, the final bloom has begun.

The Ashes We Sow is the third and final book in the Branches & Bones trilogy-a Southern Gothic tale of inherited darkness, sacred survival, and the cost of breaking the legacy you were born into.

Some stories don't end with fire.
They begin there.All Rights Reserved

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The Claimed by Mentally-Insane

They said the Hunt was sacred. That if I was chosen, it meant fate. But fate didn't feel like a mouth on my skin or claws at my back. It felt like blood. Mine. For years, I stayed hidden. Quiet. Unclaimed. I stole seeds from the state fields, grew food in secret, fed my family from soil and silence. I did everything right - stayed beneath their radar, beneath their noses. I didn't make waves. I didn't ask for more. But monsters never forget a scent. And when the Hunt came, I was scented. Tracked. Taken. I stabbed him. I buried the blade in his shoulder and watched him bleed. It didn't matter. Because he still bit me. And the world saw. Now my face is on every screen. The girl who didn't run. The girl who fought back. Some call me a rebel. Some call me a mate. But they all forget one thing. I wasn't made to be claimed. I was made to survive. And if they want to collar me, cage me, crown me - they'll have to reckon with everything I've kept buried beneath the roots. Because I am not the flower. I'm the fire beneath it. Rewrite version of formerly known book Escaping the monsters Embrace

Escaping the Monster's Embrace (OLD BEING REWRITTEN ) by Mentally-Insane

(Currently being rewritten under a new name The Claimed) Everything changed when they came out of hiding, terror spread across the world as people began to question if our presidents and our global leaders lied to us and weren't from the same race. The Beasts blended in amongst us as if we were the same, except humans didn't have the same predatory instincts and we couldn't change our forms like they could. Soon after we learnt that we weren't the only species people began going missing. Some were unlucky and taken as something that the Beasts called a Mate that one word made fear spread throughout my veins, I would rather sell my soul than have one of them mutts chain me to them. Six months went by before the government, that was un-tainted by this vile race began to take action into their own hands contacting other countries and militaries causing the great war to happen, sending both my parents off to fight for our rights. Only one of them came back, two months was the longest we lasted before we were overpowered by them. Six years of living in this dysfunctional environment and my hatred had never dwindled. Some people still believed in god and had faith in him, I didn't know what I believed in but I prayed like everyone else that I would get through another day without hearing the soul crushing word 'Mate'. DARK THEMES THROUGHOUT. UNEDITED © All rights reserved© #1 in hunt 19/06/2019 #1 in human 19/06/2019 #1 in sanity 19/012019 #3 in mate 19/06/2019 #4 in mates 19/06/2019 #5 in hunted 19/06/2019 #1 Post-apocalyptic 30/8/19 #8 in dystopian 7/10/19 #4 in Escape 24/10/19

Beyond MxB by Shifting2wolf

3518 A.D. Exactly 1500 years ago, Earth had been pushed to its limits and threatened to collaps on itself if we didn't act in time. Mankind didn't know what to do anymore and had declared our home doomed, our days numbered. That was, until the supernatural society decided to step up and take actions in their own hands. Creatures we thought never existed suddenly appeared out of their secret societies to safe Earth, to erase our mistakes and begin anew. They succeeded but parts of the world vanished for centuries due to the climate being completely out of the normal before it settled again and left the world at peace again. But not for mankind; all the other races had grown to dislike us, hate us. A witch hunt ensued and now only few of us are left. I've been running all of my life to remain free and alive, to survive and be as happy as humanly possible. My name is Thorn and I'm part of the last humans on our planet. Sadly, I'm not entirely human...

FLAMEBOUND by NicoleNewby0

FLAMEBOUND The Queen of Ashes and Light Book One of the Flamebound Series She was just a quiet high school girl walking home after dark. Until he saved her. Until he marked her. Until she was bound to the Vampire King. When Layla is rescued from a brutal attack by a cold, impossibly beautiful stranger, her life is forever changed. Lucien is ancient. Powerful. Dangerous. And after saving her, he claims a debt that binds her to him-body, soul, and blood. But there is more to Layla than anyone knows. More than even she knows. As dark forces stir beneath the surface of a hidden vampire world, Layla discovers she is the last of a forgotten bloodline-Lunari, born of light and flame, once hunted to extinction. Her powers awaken with a fury the Hollow Ones cannot ignore. And when love turns to loyalty, and loyalty to war, Layla must choose: Burn for him. Or burn everything down. A story of forbidden desire, ancient magic, and the girl who defied fate to become a queen.

The Ink That Bonds Us by misnaminglove2k20

The curse. The connection. The truth hidden in ink. Centuries ago, Wrenhaven was a town built on secrets. It was said that a gifted scribe named Isadora Vale lived in solitude by the cliffs. She could write stories that shaped destinies. Her quill wasn't just ink and feather-it was made from the last breath of a dying star, gifted to her by a lover who vanished between worlds. She used that power to bind two souls together in a love story she never got to finish. Why? Because she died before she could write the ending. Heartbroken and filled with guilt, her soul was trapped between pages-literally. Her essence infused the first two books she ever wrote. One for each lover. Both cursed to reincarnate, lifetime after lifetime, searching for each other... through the story that never ends. That's what The Binding Quill really is: a beacon for soul-bound lovers. It appears when the two are closest to finding each other again. But there's a catch: they can only break the curse by finishing the story-together. If one leaves, or if the story ends without love... the cycle starts over. Elara Moore She's a direct descendant of Isadora Vale. Unbeknownst to her, the urge to write, to dream, and to feel too deeply is the magic in her blood. Her creative block? It's because her story is waiting for its missing piece-Rowan. Rowan Hale He's wandered his whole life, unable to stay anywhere too long, haunted by memories that don't feel like his own-flashbacks of a love he's never lived, a name he doesn't remember until he meets Elara. His scar? It's from touching the book in a past life... just before dying in a fire that destroyed the Binding Quill last time. Why now? Because this is their final chance. The books are aging, the magic fading. If they don't finish the story this time-with love, truth, and trust-they'll be lost to time forever. Two souls trapped in unwritten pages.

The Queen's Slave (Book 1) by herlittlenightmare

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Beneath The Branches by SKThomas20

Where The Shadows of Branchville unearthed long-buried secrets and exposed the generational rot beneath a small Southern town, Beneath the Branches digs deeper-into the aftermath, the inheritance, and the haunting legacy that can't be burned away. Six months after the revelations that shook Branchville, Marlowe Bishop finds herself piecing together a new life while reckoning with an old one. The truth about Lena's death, Thorne Delacroix's twisted theology, and her own bloodline hasn't brought peace-it's stirred something darker. A new presence haunts the land. Old names resurface. The fire might be out, but its embers still glow beneath the soil. As Marlowe and Cass navigate love amid grief, a new mystery takes root-one bound to the town's founding sins, its unmarked graves, and the rituals that shaped its silence. And when another death rips through the fragile quiet, Marlowe is forced to ask: What else did they bury? What else was meant to stay hidden? Beneath the Branches is a slow-burning, atmospheric Southern Gothic that continues the story of trauma, truth, and identity begun in The Shadows of Branchville. It's about what we inherit, what we pass on, and what refuses to stay dead.

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The Phantom of the Woods by Bl00mingTales

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For the Taking ✅ by MarinaWritings

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The Claimed

They said the Hunt was sacred. That if I was chosen, it meant fate. But fate didn't feel like a mouth on my skin or claws at my back. It felt like blood. Mine. For years, I stayed hidden. Quiet. Unclaimed. I stole seeds from the state fields, grew food in secret, fed my family from soil and silence. I did everything right - stayed beneath their radar, beneath their noses. I didn't make waves. I didn't ask for more. But monsters never forget a scent. And when the Hunt came, I was scented. Tracked. Taken. I stabbed him. I buried the blade in his shoulder and watched him bleed. It didn't matter. Because he still bit me. And the world saw. Now my face is on every screen. The girl who didn't run. The girl who fought back. Some call me a rebel. Some call me a mate. But they all forget one thing. I wasn't made to be claimed. I was made to survive. And if they want to collar me, cage me, crown me - they'll have to reckon with everything I've kept buried beneath the roots. Because I am not the flower. I'm the fire beneath it. Rewrite version of formerly known book Escaping the monsters Embrace