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Bitter Lace

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Reads 104
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Parts 3
Time 25m

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She wasn't supposed to be seen. Now she's the only thing they're watching.

Liora is a girl with secrets stitched beneath her silence, on the run in a city that never forgets. With charm like lace and edges sharp enough to cut, she blends in, until someone from her past rips the mask off.

Now she's tangled in a dangerous game of betrayal, obsession, and truths that were never meant to surface.

In a world where loyalty is a lie and everyone's wearing a mask, the softest touch can be the deadliest.

She's not running anymore. She's about to rewrite the rules.All Rights Reserved

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When the storm came, it brought more than thunder. Liora, an apothecary with a gift she's spent her life hiding, lives quietly at the edge of an enchanted forest-until a battle of old magic tears through the sky and leaves a wounded stranger on her doorstep. Aric Vale is dangerous, charming, and far too familiar with the kind of power she swore never to use. But when royal hunters and ancient forces close in, Liora and Aric are thrust into a fight for survival that unravels everything they thought they knew about the world-and themselves. The deeper they journey into a realm of forgotten gods and fractured light, the more the storm inside them both begins to awaken. Caught between loyalty and desire, past and destiny, they'll have to decide whether to fight the fire growing between them... or let it burn everything in its path. Magic. Betrayal. A love born from lightning. The storm has found them-and it never lets go.

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In a world that fears what it cannot name, there lives a girl who speaks the language of the wild. Liora was born beneath a silent moon, her first cry echoing through the forest. From that night onward, animals were drawn to her - birds sang her name, wolves bowed their heads, deer sought her touch, and every lost creature found its way to her door. To the beasts, she was warmth, gentleness, and love. To the villagers, she was a curse - a witch who bent nature to her will. Banished to the forest's edge, Liora built a small home among the moonlit trees, where she lived surrounded by the creatures who adored her. She tended to the wounded, sang to the restless, and found peace in their company. But the world outside would not leave her be. One by one, five men - each powerful, scarred, and searching for something they cannot name - are drawn to her haven in the woods. Some see her as salvation. Others, a mystery. And all will come to love her in their own way. Yet darkness lingers beyond the trees, and as the whispers of witchcraft grow louder, her moonlit garden will become both sanctuary and battleground - where love and destiny entwine like roots beneath the earth.

Ashes Beneath the City by LumiraWriter

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When the Veil shatters, unleashing monstrous creatures upon the world, young mage Lira finds herself caught in a deadly game. As she unravels a conspiracy that reaches millennia, she must confront not only the creatures of the void but also the terrifying truth about her destiny.

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Stormbound

When the storm came, it brought more than thunder. Liora, an apothecary with a gift she's spent her life hiding, lives quietly at the edge of an enchanted forest-until a battle of old magic tears through the sky and leaves a wounded stranger on her doorstep. Aric Vale is dangerous, charming, and far too familiar with the kind of power she swore never to use. But when royal hunters and ancient forces close in, Liora and Aric are thrust into a fight for survival that unravels everything they thought they knew about the world-and themselves. The deeper they journey into a realm of forgotten gods and fractured light, the more the storm inside them both begins to awaken. Caught between loyalty and desire, past and destiny, they'll have to decide whether to fight the fire growing between them... or let it burn everything in its path. Magic. Betrayal. A love born from lightning. The storm has found them-and it never lets go.