Petal and Ashes
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Last published Sat, Aug 30, 2025
Lyra has always been the girl who smiled.
Bubbly, full of laughter, a little ray of sunshine in a grey world... or so everyone thinks.
Behind the bright eyes and jokes, her life is painfully boring and unbearably lonely. An orphan abandoned by her parents, she's been drifting through life, dreaming of something-someone-who could make her heart race.
She never expected it to be him.
Zane.
A name only the bravest dare to speak.
The ruthless, cold-hearted King of the Underworld. A man feared by all... and untouchable by anyone.
Until her.
One accidental meeting turns into something far more dangerous than Lyra ever imagined. Zane doesn't believe in love. Lyra doesn't believe in danger. But the moment their worlds collide, neither will ever be the same.
Because sometimes the brightest light is the one that tempts the darkest shadow.
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> "He was the monster everyone ran from. I was the fool who ran toward him."
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