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Cold embers

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Reads 31
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Parts 9
Time 1h 58m

dark dictatorship dystopia foundfamily founsfamily losses rebellion rebels romance slowburn survival

The Citadel is nothing more than a memory, crushed beneath the bombs. Its survivors, scattered to the winds, must learn to fight again without walls, without refuge.

Mira and Elijah, faces now known to all, bear the weight of a story the regime is determined to tarnish. Ilya fights to hold onto Mira's voice amid the chaos. Mikel, the disowned heir, discovers a role he never wanted. And Tomasz, once just a worker, chooses at last not to remain a spectator.

In a capital on the brink of implosion, where propaganda collides with whispers of revolt, each must find their place. Between hope and betrayal, sacrifice and promise, the war is no longer a rumor-it reaches into every street.

And this time, there is no turning back.All Rights Reserved

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The Perfect Little Town

New town. New friends. And a secret that could destroy them all. When Kai Caldwell, a privileged socioeconomics student with a minor in bioethics, moves to a quiet town for college, he expects small-town life to be... normal. That is, until his friend's girlfriend lands an internship at the town's prestigious Cancer Institute-and then disappears. Talia Torres, a determined public health policy student, has spent her life chasing justice after the death of her sister, who fell victim to the Institute's early research programs. She doesn't trust anyone tied to power-especially Kai Caldwell, whose father runs the Institute with what seems to be a dark agenda. As strange illnesses begin to spread, and the line between life and death blurs, Kai and Talia are forced together. With secrets, lies, and a deadly outbreak threatening the town, they must decide: who can they trust... and who will survive? Thrilling, morally complex, and with a slow-burn romance, this is a dystopian tale where the cure might be worse than the disease.