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The Pairing
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rxlicias
Ongoing, First published Aug 21, 2025
Mature
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Humanity is dying. Most children never take their first breath. Only a handful of girls can still carry life. On Pairing Day, Rae Davel is matched to a stranger and given one year to conceive-or be reassigned. Her boyfriend, deemed infertile, is erased from her future overnight. Now Rae must navigate life with Mathew Hale, a man she didn't choose, under rules she cannot break. Twelve days until her first fertile cycle. Twelve days until everything changes
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ASHFALL (A dystopian novel)

7 parts Ongoing Mature

The world ended in fire. The lies came after. Twenty years after the last great war, what's left of humanity survives under the Dominion- An iron-fisted regime that controls the only clean air left on earth. The surface is a wasteland of ash, storms, and death.... or so everyone's been told. Kael Draven once enforced the Dominion's will. Now branded a traitor, he hides among the ruins he helped create hunted by the soldiers he once called brothers. But when he discovers a secret operation to release a new toxin across the wasteland, Kael realizes the air isn't poison... it's being poisoned. To stop the Dominion, he'll have to cross the dead lands- and he can't do it alone. Lyra Vance has survived her whole life out here. Reckless, volatile, and untamed, she's the kind of woman who'd rather burn the world than bow to it. She doesn't trust Kael, She shouldn't. But when their paths collide, survival forces an alliance neither wants- and sparks a war that could change everything. In a world built on ashes and secrets, trust is dangerous. Love is lethal. And the truth could kill them both. ASHFALL - Where the sky burns, and the survivors are the ones who learn how to fight back.

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