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After falling in love with a younger and much less successful man, can Yiwen convince herself and her parents to accept him into their wealthy family? ***** When Yiwen Wang suddenly finds herself 30 and single, she lets her well-meaning best friend talk her into a blind date with the handsome Zi'an Li. And not only is he plucked straight out of a movie screen, his witty banter over dinner also convinces Yiwen he's exactly the type to make her toes curl. Yet, by some wicked twist of fate, he's five years younger than her and has no house, car, or stable, high-paying job. So how is she ever going to convince herself and her parents that he's the right choice? Especially when her new, attractive boss makes it very clear that he's interested in her? [[1st Place, Flower Awards, Chicklit Category]] [[1st Place, The Golden Awards, Chicklit Category]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

A billionaire is dead. Another is watching. And the woman chasing the truth may already be his obsession. When the COO of Arcadia Software is found murdered in his Manhattan penthouse, the city smells blood. The press swarms. The board panics. And Aiden Blackwell, the company's devastatingly private CEO says nothing. He doesn't have to. Fresh off a career-making exposé that destroyed a pharmaceutical empire, an investigative journalist Mileena Monroe is assigned to break his silence. Her reputation precedes her: relentless, fearless, impossible to manipulate. She's built a career dismantling powerful men. Aiden Blackwell was never meant to be one of them. Brilliant, composed, and dangerously unreadable, Aiden exists in a world where secrets are currency and desire is leverage. As grief over his best friend's death curdles into something darker, he invites her into his orbit; an invitation she knows better than to accept, and can't afford to refuse. What follows is a slow-burning collision of intellect and instinct. A cat-and-mouse chase played out across penthouses, private conferences, and whispered conversations where every look is a challenge and every touch is a threat. The closer she gets to the truth, the more she risks losing control-not just of the story, but of herself. Because the murder wasn't random. The silence isn't empty. And Aiden Blackwell doesn't want to destroy her- He wants to unravel her. In a game where power seduces, truth bleeds, and love is the most dangerous liability of all, one question remains: Is she hunting him... or exactly where he wants her?

A heartbroken fashion designer escapes to Tokyo to be an assistant on a movie set, only to get caught up in an illicit, whirlwind romance with the lead actor. ***** After discovering her fiance is cheating on her, heiress and fashion designer Lily Porter is whisked away to Tokyo to help a production company adapt one of her great-aunt's novels. She isn't thrilled about lying about being her aunt's assistant until it throws her into the path of the movie's lead actor, who is enough of a distraction to keep her mind off her ex for good. But can there really be a future for them when their relationship is built on lies, false identities, and a secret engagement? [[Wattys' Longlisted]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

The Last Way Home Emily Carter thought moving to Shanghai was the best decision she had ever made. At thirty-two, the American chemistry professor had finally built a life she loved teaching at a prestigious university, surrounded by friends, students, and a city that felt more like home than the one she left behind. Then war begins. Overnight, the life Emily has built collapses into chaos. Trapped in a country on the brink of destruction, she finds herself responsible for twenty-seven students whose lives depend on her. With communication failing and danger closing in from every direction, survival becomes the only goal. On the other side of the war lies Wei Liang, a military commander carrying the weight of a nation on his shoulders. What begins as a desperate fight to stay alive becomes something neither of them expected. As war tears their world apart, Emily and Wei discover that love can be found in the most impossible circumstances and that home is not always a place. A sweeping romance about survival, sacrifice, found family, and finding your way back to the people who matter most.

On Instagram, you saw her fall. You saw her rescued. You saw her wake up, voiceless, motionless, held together by people who answer to a man she hasn't seen in twenty years. But what you didn't see... is everything that happens inside. Rei's Healing Journey is the intimate companion series to the Apple Pie story - exploring what the images can't show. The memories...The silences and the slow, dangerous return of someone she swore she had buried. Listen on YouTube and follow the chapters here. - He is her Daydream. 'ARJUN' - Earth alias for HRH RI RAJARJUN ETA LUPI BOTOLPH of the LUPI STAR TRIBE, SIXAMI EMPEROR KING OF THE SIXAM EMPIRE. (You know it. I know it. Rei doesn't... yet. 😏 So hush. 🤫🤭) ✨ Arjun is an original character created by Sass - @sass.berry.origin ✨ Find her here : https://www.instagram.com/sass.berry.origin You can find him on her Not So Berry Challenge Origin story account. For those who want to see the full extent of his shenanigans - go follow her accounts and dive into his story!

Elton is the lycan prince and the natural heir to the Crown. But his uncle, the king, decided to hold a deadly tournament to determine who would be the next Lycan King, forcing his nephew to compete against thousands of Alpha werewolves for something he was raised to believe was his birthright. Now Elton is at a crossroads. In the midst of the competition, he didn't expect to find himself in a relationship with one of the Alphas in the run to take his rightful place. What will he do now? Choose love, or have his chances of ever sitting on the throne be lost to him forever? The answer just might shock you! ------------- This book is a DIRECT continuation of "The Lycan Prince", so you MUST read this one first in order to understand and follow this story. Please, do yourself a favor and read this book first.

Five years ago, everything burned down. Abram fled Singapore to escape the ghost of the only girl he ever loved, swearing he'd never look back. But when his best friend gets married, he is forced to return home. He has a return flight booked in exactly twenty-eight days. It should be simple: show up, stand at the altar, and leave. Except Mira Bennett is standing right there with him. She's polished, perfect, and preparing for her own upcoming engagement to a billionaire who can give her everything Abram couldn't. Bound by duty to their best friends, they promise to play nice. They promise to act like they are completely normal. But twenty-eight days of forced proximity, quiet car rides, and lingering ghosts are about to prove that pretending is a dangerous game. You can't play a stranger to the person who knows your soul. And before his flight leaves, Abram might just burn their fragile truce to the ground to get the truth.

Elior had to get away from his home place because of evil entities appearing out of nowhere. They're trying to get Elior. The home wasn't safe for him to grow up so his parents, Mirella and Kaylen, sent their son to the humans. Elior is secretly a demi-god and knows. Well, kind of. He knows that he's not from Monarch and stuff, but he can't remember where he is from. But, over time Elior gains more and more of his powers. He even starts to remember. Then... THEY come...

Reika's Carnet: The Phoenix Who Fled A side story from the Apple Pie universe. Far in the eastern mountains of the Mont Komorebi lies Higashiyama, homeland of the ancient Mikazuki clan. For generations, the women of the clan have served the Tsukimi Sanctuary as priestesses, oracles, and guardians of forgotten imperial histories. Their lives are not considered their own. They are raised for ritual, sacrifice, and the preservation of sacred cycles tied to the legend of the Phoenix. Reika no Mikazuki was meant to become one of them. Chosen young by the Servants of the Moon as a potential vessel for the Phoenix spirit, she was isolated from the outside world and prepared for a destiny she never truly accepted. Then she disappeared. Officially, the clan declared her ascension beneath the full moon. A sacred departure. A spiritual offering to the heavens. The truth was far less divine. Reika had fallen in love with a man tied to dangerous secrets, a relationship that shattered the future her clan had prepared for her. Heartbroken and no longer able to remain in Higashiyama, she fled the East alone, abandoning the life that had been chosen for her since childhood. But the North had other plans. And so did the man who waited there.

An ancient legend. A forgotten princess. A story that was never meant to continue. While fleeing from a deadly attack in her world, Princess Nityashree is thrust into modern-day Earth-where history has long dismissed her existence as nothing more than an old legend. Ekaksh Awasthi, a young man fascinated by ancient texts, has always believed there was something extraordinary about the princess everyone else overlooked. To him, she was only a character from a centuries-old book... until the night she appears right in front of his car. As two worlds collide, forgotten truths begin to awaken, and a legend believed to have ended long ago starts writing its next chapter.

**How do you escape someone who believes love gives them the right to own another person?** Eighteen-year-old Xuan has only one dream-to reclaim his freedom and start a new life with Zoe. Just when escape finally seems within reach, Zhen, a man from his past, reappears. His feelings have long since stopped resembling love. Using shared memories, guilt, manipulation, and fear, Zhen tries to convince Xuan that no one else could ever understand him-that only he knows what Xuan truly needs. *In His Shadow* is a dark psychological thriller about toxic obsession, emotional manipulation, and the fight to reclaim one's own voice. It explores how dangerously thin the line between love and control can be, and how difficult it is to break free from a relationship built on fear, dependency, and submission.

A play on Journey To the West, throughout the story you follow the Chinese god Erlang Shen also known as Yang Jian as he finds himself in the realm of the Norse gods. He must try and survive, and figure out how he ended up in such a place. Let him take you on a treacherous journey full of trials and tribulations, filled with splendor, adventures, and misadventures with the other gods. This story is both dark fantasy, and science fiction. (Just a disclaimer warning this story contains bad language, violence, and mild sex scenes but nothing too explicit.) This version is also being properly proof read and edited, the other version was only a draft.

Some people leave your life, but never your heart. No matter how many years pass, no matter how far you run, some love always finds its way back. ***** They were once childhood neighbors who spent their days growing up side by side, until Chen Lina moved away to Beijing when she was twelve. Six years later, they meet again, and as they rediscover the comfort of each other's presence, an old connection quietly blossoms into first love. But just when they finally get the chance to love each other openly, tragedy changes everything, tearing them apart and leaving behind a love that neither time nor distance can erase. Years later, they meet again, but life has pulled them in different directions, and the years have left scars neither of them can fully erase. Yet beneath the distance, the heartbreak, and the years that slipped through their fingers, the feelings they thought they had buried still remain. Will they finally find their way back to each other, or has fate brought them together again only to remind them of what they lost?

"🇮 🇩🇴🇳'🇹 🇹🇷🇺🇸🇹 🇧🇪🇮🇳🇬🇸 🇼🇮🇹🇭 🇦 🇩🇮🇨🇰." Byakko doesn't remember her past - but she knows getting close to Tamsy is dangerous. He's calm on the surface and chaos underneath, a quiet smile hiding something sharp she can feel even when he says nothing. She should keep her distance. She should run. But she doesn't. Something in him pulls her in, something she can't name, something she's willing to face even if it destroys her. She just doesn't know whether that part of him is meant to save her... or break her. 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒕 3 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒖𝒅𝒐'𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍

Some marriages begin with celebrations. Mine began with silence, fear, numbness and unanswered calls. I am Raveesh. This is not a love story the way people like to hear it. It is the story of a marriage that happened in silence, fear, manipulation, and numbness - a marriage my family was not present for yet paid the heaviest price for. Told from where I stand today, in December 2025, this is my truth - of love that blurred judgment, of obedience mistaken for sacrifice, of faith questioned, of a woman who walked out of her home thinking she was choosing marriage, only to realize much later what she had actually lost. This story is not about villains or heroes. It is about how easily a life can change when fear speaks louder than intuition, and how some doors, once closed, take years to even knock on again. This is the marriage my family didn't attend - but lived with the consequences of, every single day.

When four unsuspecting friends-Daichi, Nathan, Avi, and Sai-are bitten by a peculiar snake, their lives are turned upside down. As they discover that their encounter has granted them elemental powers bound to the colors of their eyes, they begin to realize that this is no ordinary occurrence. In a world where magic lies dormant, they find themselves thrust into a world of danger and intrigue. Seeking answers and guidance, the four friends discover Agni, a seasoned sorcerer who promises to teach them the secrets of their newfound abilities. But as they begin to learn the ways of their elemental powers, they soon realize that a far more sinister force is at work. Kaliya, a ruthless demon, has been tracking their movements, eager to seize their powers for his own. As the truth of their destiny begins to unfold, they must battle for survival in a world where magic, danger, and the darkness that lurks within all converge. Wondering what will happen next?! Hope you love this teen's fantasy novel!!!✨💗 Was ranked #5 in #asian tag. Original work. All rights reserved and copyright ensued. Any copy or release or adaptation made without author's official taken, written and signed consent, is duly prohibited.

Xiao Ling, the average intelligent, introverted, and aloof student, despite being intelligent he struggles to find friends around him, that is when one day a transferee named Xi yang entered his life. Xi Yang is social, cheerful and extroverted student, that Xiao Ling wouldn't want to be friends with, but Xi Yang keeps getting closer to Xiao Ling, too close that A girl named Li Mimi joined in after being saved by bullies. Will they both realize that this weird feeling isn't just friendship? ------- Note: All of the characters, places, etc. are all fictional.

Tamamo-no-Mae is the infamous nine-tailed fox in Japanese mythology, with tales of her beauty and cleverness still prevalent today despite being centuries old. But she was the last, not the first, nine-tailed she-fox to wreak havoc on empires. No, this story starts in Shang Dynasty China, over a thousand years before Tamamo-no-Mae was even born. "A fox that lives to 1000 will become a celestial fox and ascend to heaven." This is the story of women, of kingdoms, and of power. And, of course, foxes. THIS STORY WILL ALSO BE PUBLISHED TO ROYAL ROAD

Alex never expected his favorite idol to become more than a poster on his wall. But when a chance encounter puts him face-to-face with Josh-the charming, mysterious star he's admired from afar-his life takes an unexpected turn. What begins as a fan's dream quickly transforms into something real: a friendship filled with late-night talks, unspoken feelings, and stolen moments. But love in the spotlight comes at a cost. As Josh fights his growing feelings and Alex buries his own, the two enter a fragile, forbidden relationship hidden behind locked doors and whispered promises. Torn between fame and desire, loyalty and truth, they navigate the chaos of media backlash, betrayal from within their inner circles, and the slow, heartbreaking unraveling of what once felt unbreakable. When the pressure becomes too much, their world shatters-leaving both boys broken, alone, and full of regret. What will happen when they meet again months Later A story of first love, fame, betrayal, and second chances, behind the spotlight is a heart-tugging LGBTQ+ romance that reminds us that sometimes, love is worth the wait.

Two fated lives meet accidentally..