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Be the Light

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Reads 14
Votes 2
Parts 2
Time 36m

Mature

humor murder mysterious thriller

When murder meets marketing, things get complicated fast.

Lola Russo never planned to become a detective. She's just a copywriter at BrightSide Technologies, a shiny New York startup that claims to "bring empathy to AI." Most days, she translates tech jargon into human language and survives on sarcasm, cold brew, and her French bulldog, Bolt - a small grey creature with golden eyes and a talent for judging people.

Her roommate, Nina, believes everything can be fixed with therapy and rosé. Lola's not so sure. Especially after the morning she and Bolt arrive at the office early and find Jared Foster, BrightSide's charming but suspiciously perfect strategist, dead in a glass conference room.

The police call it an accident.
The CEO calls it a tragedy.
Lola calls it bullshit.

Soon she's knee-deep in secrets BrightSide's cheerful branding can't hide - broken security cameras, fake data leaks, and colleagues who know more than they're saying. Alongside Bolt's uncanny instincts and her own relentless curiosity, Lola starts untangling a web of ambition, betrayal, and lies that run straight to the top.

But in a company built on teaching machines how to fake empathy, figuring out who's human - and who's pretending - might be the hardest part of all.

Witty, fast-paced, and full of dark humor, Be the Light is a mystery for anyone who's ever rolled their eyes in a team meeting and thought, someone in this office could totally kill someone.All Rights Reserved

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Hardwired For Him✓

Confidence is a hell of a drug, and for Skylar Evans, the high is magnificent-but the comedown is a total fucking bitch. It starts with the catastrophic snap of a heel and ends with a face-plant into the expensive, custom-tailored chest of a man who looks like he owns the sunrise-and probably the bank you keep your meager savings in. Fresh out of the Ivy League, armed with elite coding skills and a caffeine addiction she refuses to apologize for, Skylar wants one thing only. Control. Over her career. Her future. Her heart. Then she meets Carlos D'Artagnan. He is the devil in a bespoke suit. A predator who breathes strategy and exhales liquid heat, wearing a smile that promises heaven while his silver gaze drags you straight to hell. He is elegance sharpened into a weapon, a towering monolith of power built on a foundation of secrets and scars. The moment his eyes lock onto hers, the air in the room doesn't just thin-it catches fire. In that one, soul-stripping look, Skylar realizes the encryption on her heart has been bypassed; her carefully guarded life is about to be dismantled, piece by agonizing piece. One reckless encounter drags her into his orbit of corporate warfare and whispered betrayals. Carlos thought he had buried the monster he used to be, but the past is a debt that always collects. Now, it's rising to reclaim him, and Skylar is the only collateral he's not willing to lose.