Manhattan Stories

What if starting over in a new city doesn't mean leaving your old heart behind? After spending her entire life in the Philippines, Genevieve Marquez moves to New York's Upper East Side, ready for a fresh start. With a new college, a future in fashion, and a city full of possibilities, she's determined to make this chapter of her life as perfect as she always imagined. But somewhere between fashion classes, Manhattan adventures, new friendships, and unexpected romances, Genevieve begins to discover that love isn't always as simple as she thought it would be. Some people teach you what it feels like to fall in love. Others teach you what it means to lose yourself in it. And sometimes, the hardest lesson is learning the difference between loving someone and choosing what is best for yourself. As Genevieve navigates heartbreak, new feelings, and everything in between, she starts to question the things she once believed about love, relationships, and happily ever after. Maybe moving to New York wasn't just about starting a new life. Maybe it was about finally figuring out who she wants to be.

The New Avengers are working together after what happened with Bob and protecting Earth from any other threats. They're chasing down their first major job as a team. Mysterious killings have been popping up throughout New York and the citizens are counting on their new heroes to save the day. However, Dr. Strange warns them about a lethal force that has escaped her solitude confinement in the mountains. He tells them that the lead they're chasing down is most likely linked to her. Strange also warns them to be careful because this escaped prisoner is supposedly deadly and they know little about her abilities or why and how long she was locked up. They accept the order because this is what they are meant to do, protect the people of this planet. But something feels off about this mission. Something Yelena can't quite figure out. ❄️❄️❄️ Something happened to her, something cruel and unforgiving. It haunts her, weighs her down and hasn't left her mind. But she just wants to move on with her life, find peace, whether that's in death or freedom. But who is to say that those are not two and the same. But when she escapes, confused, disoriented and alone, she goes back to the only place she knows. Only to find that it's been so long since it happened that everyone she had is gone. And the only thing left is a letter. A letter that makes her blood boil. A letter that shouldn't exist, she thought she made sure of that. But alas, it is there and it is real. And now all she wants is revenge. TW: Swearing, depictions of gore, violence, abuse (mental and physical), and various mental illnesses I do not own any marvel characters, just a few of my own and this storyline i have created.

Damon van der Woodsen grew up on the Upper East Side and had always been close with Nate, Chuck, and especially Blair, who'd had a crush on him since childhood. But as Damon got older, started dating, and eventually went to Princeton, Blair masked her jealousy by dating Nate. When Nate cheated on her with Serena, Damon was furious, not just at the betrayal, but at their silence. Now, with Serena back and old secrets threatening to surface, everything Blair tried to bury may finally come undone. "𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨. 𝙀𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. 𝙎𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄'𝙢 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧" -𝘽.𝙒 "𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙚! 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙩?! 𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙖 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙙𝙤𝙧𝙛! 𝙂𝙤𝙙, 𝙄'𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙙𝙨!"-𝘿.𝙒 "𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜?" -𝘽.𝙒 "𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚-𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙤𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚....𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚" -𝘿.𝙒 "𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝘿𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙫𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙚𝙣 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙" -𝘽.𝙒 "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧" -𝘿.𝙒

Galilea Mirabel Brooks is not a lawyer. She has a doctorate, a successful career as a senior quantitative analyst at a hedge fund, and a resignation letter she's finally ready to submit. Then Elena Whitmore offers her a different future. Trading algorithms for litigation wasn't part of the plan. Neither were impossible cases, office politics, reluctant friendships, firm retreats, or discovering that some of the brightest legal minds in the country occasionally make spectacularly unsupported assumptions. Galilea came to Whitmore & Associates to analyze evidence. She didn't expect to find a place where she belonged. *One Easy Trick to Not Being a Lawyer* is the first novel in *Confessions of a Litigation Gremlin*, a character-driven legal drama about found family, quiet brilliance, and one wonderfully peculiar litigation analyst who keeps insisting she's not a lawyer. She's right. That doesn't stop anyone else from forgetting. #2 in legal - July 22nd, 2026.

The Password Between Us Victoria and Asher have already crossed the distance between them. Their cohabitation has become a reality within the field they share, and now something deeper is beginning to open. A password becomes permission. A corridor becomes a passage. And then Hekate places a set of keys in Victoria's hands. As residue releases from her field, visions begin revealing what lies beyond the life they already share-new spaces, new possibilities, and a future where their connection expands beyond anything they have known. They are not two souls, but one soul within two bodies. They are one soul, experiencing life through two bodies.

**The Magic Between Moments** Victoria and Asher have crossed the distance between them in ways neither could have imagined. What once felt like a mystery to understand has become the life they simply live. They are not two souls searching for each other. They are one soul, experiencing life through two bodies. Across miles, cities, dreams, and waking moments - through the invisible space between them - they remain connected by an energetic field that distance cannot break. A thought becomes a whisper. A feeling becomes a voice. A moment in one life ripples instantly into the other. There are no more lessons to teach, and no more answers to chase. There is only the quiet magic of living within what they already know. Because sometimes the greatest magic isn't found in the extraordinary. It's found between the moments of an ordinary life.

❝ 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 ❞ In a haunted by mortal alien monsters New York, Eric and Elizabeth met each other in the weirdest of the ways. Knowledge and complicity never felt with anyone else immediately bloomed between them as an invisible string kept pulling them toward each other. "Right person, wrong time" they say. Nothing could explain better than that what was going on between them. Even so, not even an apocalypse would've been enough to prevent them from falling for each other. An apocalypse wasn't the best place to fall in love in, but they weren't looking for best or good, they just wanted something that felt like home, that felt like enough. Maybe, even though the world was falling apart, the hope of life still having one last surprise wasn't completely gone.

A journalist goes undercover as a high-fashion model to solve the mystery of his sister's death. ⋆☆⋆ When 27 year old A-list actress Ines Holland publicly known as Mary V dies from slipping and hitting her head on her bathtub in her lush penthouse in the Tribeca, her cause of death is ruled as acute alcohol intoxication - or at least that's what the tabloids say. Convinced that something far more sinister happened to her, her twin brother River who works as a journalist at The Manhattan Gazette goes undercover as a high-fashion model under the alias River Perry to determine the actual cause of her death, starting by blackmailing the newest Victoria's Secret Angel : Lorelai Hartford. In exchange for stepping out into the public eye as a couple, River promises to ensure that her dirty little secret is kept in his pockets. With a hit list of all of Ines's friends in the Hollywood industry and NYC'S latest prized possession riding on his arm, River claws his way into the golden circles of Hollywood where he's pulled into a conspiracy that crystalizes into reality the deeper he gets. But when feelings start to develop for the dangerously gorgeous girl he's blackmailing and reality and fiction starts to blur, River has to decide whether his thirst for revenge is worth destroying his entire life for. ⋆☆⋆ [ hollywood chronicles : #1.4 ] [© ataliass 2026]

In the gilded corridors of Manhattan's elite, where secrets are buried under layers of wealth and high-thread-count linen, an unlikely alliance forms between a brilliant, emotionally guarded "Special Consultant" and the young man standing at the center of a perfectly staged murder. Alastor Wolfe is a man defined by clinical logic and a carefully constructed persona of arrogant indifference, but beneath his charcoal suits and leather gloves lies a decade of silence and a trauma that refuses to stay buried. When he takes on the case of Jullian Thorn, a suspect whose life has been dismantled by a mountain of suspicious evidence, the investigation becomes more than a hunt for a killer-it becomes a collision of two fractured souls. As they navigate a city that demands perfection and a legal system hungry for a conviction, the boundary between protector and predator begins to blur. In a world where every smile is a mask and every truth is a performance, they must decide if they are willing to face the ghosts of their pasts to survive the dangers of their present. It is a psychological exploration of grief, the weight of expectations, and the sharp, dangerous edge of the truth.

The Awen Effect Victoria and Asher live miles apart-she in a quiet Hudson Valley village, he in Manhattan-but distance has never been able to separate them. They are one soul experiencing life through two bodies, connected by something deeper than the physical world. When Victoria encounters the Awen, an ancient symbol of three rays and three points, old doubts and fears begin to dissolve. Asher faces his own changes as his life and music career enter a new chapter. Something is shifting between them. The shadows are releasing. The light is emerging. And the Awen is showing one soul, two bodies, one path home.

A sequel to When You Reach Me.

Across the miles between Riverdale and Delaware, Victoria and Asher discover that physical distance cannot separate what has always been one soul. As their awareness slips between the physical world and Helios, visions, storms, and whispered messages weave their lives together. When six mysterious Goddesses appear and reveal that a rusted key from Hekate holds the key to Victoria's destiny, the boundary between worlds begins to blur. With 11:11 appearing as a powerful anchor and their connection growing stronger through time and space, Victoria and Asher must trust what they cannot yet physically hold-the truth that beneath the distance, beneath the dimensions, and beneath their separate lives, they are one soul. Two lives. Two bodies. One Soul.

❝Danny Ocean wishes he could pull off a heist this big❞ Being the daughter of a notorious criminal mastermind had always been easy for Valentina Álverez. Her surname struck fear in the hearts of others and caused people to fall at her feet. She ruthlessly ruled the halls of Addington Prep, and she loved every minute of it, but her need for excitement was insatiable. Only wanting to make his daughter happy, Marco Álverez reveals the plan for what would have been his greatest heist ever to Valentina, who quickly becomes obsessed with the idea. Determined to successfully steal two hundred million dollars worth of jewelry, Valentina enlists the help of five high-class individuals. Two hundered million dollars, six teens, and one perfectly curated plan. Only everything could go wrong.

this entire story is credited to a writing prompt I found on the tik tok account @/itsyaboyrunzo !! Aurora McLoughlin; the smartest woman on the scum filled streets in which she walked, a genius both logically and criminally. She was the queen of the scummy streets of Greenaway, the most feared boss in all of America, the one woman in the world that everybody was truly afraid of. Harlowe Salvatore; the most feared man in the world, known for his ability to pick any lock, manipulate anyone he encountered, and his seemingly endless capability to torture those who crossed him. Their paths hadn't crossed in years; Aurora hadn't heard a word from him or heard anything of him from her staff, hadn't thought about him or anything of him since they'd broken up junior year and she moved from Brighton, England to Manhattan, where she built a city up from nothing and did so with just her bare hands. Harlowe, however? Tabs were kept on her by himself and his righthand, and he had Auroras name on the 'hurt them and die' list, a list that he used and made global to keep those he loved safe, away from the sick minds of those who might think to hurt them. What happens when Aurora learns that her name is on this list? Will she set out to kill Harlowe, or will she set out to find and thank him for protecting her for so long?

Victoria and Asher are one soul, split across two lives and two cities - she in Riverdale, he in Manhattan, the Hudson River running quiet between them. What binds them isn't distance or choice, but a cord that stretches across every mile without ever breaking. By night, their awareness crosses into New Helios, a kingdom under twin moons where Asher rules as Admiral and Victoria stands beside him as negotiator of the realms, their dragon Dimitri wound close, sensing what words don't say. By day, they carry the ache and the wonder of loving someone who is somehow always near and always far. This is a story of one soul learning to hold both worlds - the cord that ties them, and the light that lets them find their way back to each other, again and again.

Survivors have scars. Victims have graves. Kenji Weston is no ordinary young man. He's an Arior, the most powerful clan of the Kayan race, and his only goal is to stay alive. He has abilities that we could only dream of, and he is no stranger to pain and loss, but his friends have become his family, and their loyalty knows no end. The catch? The same people who killed his parents are trying to kill him too, and they will stop at nothing to accomplish killing off the last Arior in existence.

Everyone has something they would rather keep hidden. Isabelle believes some secrets are harmless. Anna believes the truth always finds a way out. Jake has learned that trusting the wrong person can cost you everything. And John? John has spent years making sure no one ever asks the right questions. From the outside, their lives look almost perfect. But perfection is easy when everyone agrees to believe the same lie. As friendships begin to fracture and carefully buried secrets rise to the surface, four lives become tangled in something none of them can control. Someone is lying. Someone already knows the truth. And by the time they realize which is which, it may be too late. Some lies are beautiful enough to believe.

Tras 15 años de haber sido separados inesperadamente, Lorena y Thiago, dos viejos amigos que compartieron grandes momentos en su niñez vuelven a cruzar caminos. Ahora, Lorena acaba de terminar sus estudios universitarios y es fotógrafa en una de las más importantes revistas de Lima, mientras que Thiago es bartender en Manhattan. Con sus vidas formadas y con el mismo cariño que se tuvieron de niños, ambos afrontan la realidad que viven, cuestionando seriamente si son felices con lo que tienen y hacen. Antes de regresar a Manhattan, Thiago le recuerda a Lorena la promesa que hicieron cuando eran niños; escaparse algún día a un lugar lejano y pasar un mágico momento sin importarles el trabajo, la familia y las posibles consecuencias. Lorena deberá apresurarse a tomar una decisión pues esta podría ser la última vez que vea a su amigo de la infancia.

Sandra seems like just an ordinary girl. For a long time, she was. But her world is turned upside down the moment a spider bites her.

Still reeling from the suicide of his best friend Tess, seventeen year-old Brendan struggles to overcome addiction and identity issues. Walking the ledge outside his Manhattan apartment has become its own sort of drug, as he stands night after night with his arms outstretched, ready to fly away. Sarah can see him from her window, and begins journaling about a boy on a ledge. Paige and Nate, a young couple in another building, can see both teens from their fire escape. None of them knows the others are watching, but a strong desire for freedom resides in each of them. One by one, as their lives unexpectedly intertwine, that desire will be tested. Three buildings. One city block. Three stories. One common thread. #featured