Defiance Stories

Lady Eleanor Cantwell, daughter of the Marquess of Salford, is a proper young lady. With her golden complexion, raven-black hair, and manners befitting a princess, Lady Eleanor has always been deemed a belle. There is just one problem. Lady Eleanor Cantwell is Indian. Having been adopted from India when Lady Salford found herself unable to bear a child, Lady Eleanor is shunned by society, including her mother, on account of her true heritage. The ladies turn their noses at her and the gentlemen only wish for her virtue which she clings to dearly. They certainly have no wish to wed an Indian girl, no matter how pretty she is! Which is why the entire ton is incredulous when a young man - a duke, no less! - offers his hand in marriage to the young daughter of the Marquess of Salford. Lady Eleanor finds it quite hard to believe that any gentleman would wish to marry her and instead of feeling grateful, all she feels is remorse and anger. A husband would only bring with him a mountain of restrictions that were detrimental to her plans of travelling the world - the land of her ancestors, in particular. So, when her parents sell her off to the duke, she realises that she no longer cares for society, her beloved father, or her reputation. And when the duke makes her an enticing offer, she realises she would have to abandon all sense of propriety, manners, and rules to do what he asks of her. She would have to defy. . * Favourite in the Amby Awards 2025 hosted by @TheAmbys @Ambassadors * 1st Place Winner in HISTORICAL FICTION of the HIDDEN GEMS AWARDS * Featured in the "Diverse Fiction" reading list by @Ambassadors * Featured in the "Historical Fiction" reading list by @AmbassadorsIN * Featured in the "Ambassador's Monthly Picks (Oct 2025)", "War & Military" and "Historical DiverseLit" reading lists by @HistoricalFiction * Featured in the "Historical Adventures" and "DiverseLit Adventures" reading lists by @adventure

Iris Bennett is a late bloomer... but this isn't about puberty. This is about the triangle between tattoos, Iris, and Wilde, all connected to the government and their tyranny over the system. Iris has yet to get her signature tattoo... to find out how she'll die. Meanwhile, Wilde has found a way to hide his from the World, and government. They meet in an entangled fantasy of betrayal, lost love, heartbreak, and hope- all for the goal of stopping the Government from controlling the people for the rest of eternity. But there are a few minor details they keep forgetting about... and a few plot twists that keep that goal from happening. Can Koda love her after everything he's been through? Can Iris forgive him for lying about it all? Can they work this out?

"Look in my eyes and tell me." he says in a rough voice. I roll my eyes and look away he uses his hand and holds my chin in place, leaving me to stare at his metallic grey eyes as he stares at my green orbs "I hate you Xavier Zayn Romero." Scarlett Rose DeLuca is the daughter of the Don of the Italian mafia, making her the princess of the Italian mafia. Ever since she was a little girl, she was trained to be the best "No need for improvement". "Have your head up and don't cry." These are the lines that she lives by as these are what were told to her whole life . Most importantly, "Family is the only love you need." Xavier Zayn Romero is the Don of the Mexican Mafia taking over it at a young age as his father became too unstable to be a proper don he saw love as a weakness after witnessing his parents' toxic marriage leads him to believe love is not worth time. When Scarlett gets told she has to marry Xavier, she doesn't know how to feel about it .Love has never meant anything to her execpt the love she had for her family arrange marriage was a tradition in the family one after the other she wasn't suprised but she thought she would have had hee choice as she wasn't the heir. After meeting Xavier, will their thoughts on love change as two people who don't know love be able to teach each other what love is? ○ All Rights Reserved

Elliot Vale was raised inside the perfect city. Above the Sectors, life is clean, orderly, and generous. Wealth is inherited carefully, passed down like a duty. The city teaches its children that nothing is taken without reason-and that what lies below is simply how things must be. Elliot has never doubted that story. Until now. Below the upper levels, the city's perfection begins to fracture. The lower Sectors exist to sustain a comfort they will never share, and the people who live there understand the cost of silence far better than Elliot ever has. When Elliot is called to formally inherit his place in the system, refusal becomes unavoidable. But walking away from privilege is not a private act. It disrupts contracts, unsettles balances, and exposes a weakness the city has spent generations concealing. As unrest stirs below and order hardens above, Elliot learns that truth does not dismantle power cleanly. It leaks. It spreads. And sometimes, it burns.

Sunday is nineteen and has a talent for getting in trouble. After being expelled from nearly every school she's attended, her parents finally ship her off to Saunders Academy-a last resort for problem students. But Saunders isn't just any school. Every student is placed into a classification that defines who they are: Dom or Sub, Caregiver or Little, Brat or Tamer, Pet or Slave. What she thought would be another easy expulsion turns into something she can't control. Because once you're classified at Saunders-escaping isn't as simple as breaking the rules.

Ben was sick. He couldn't deny the fact...But now he had to convince everyone else that he was fine, because why fuss over a tiny illness?

Mira never asked to become the emotional center of a pack rebuilding itself-but her quiet strength makes her impossible to ignore. Lucas, steady and warm beneath his sarcasm, finds himself drawn to her in ways he can't explain and doesn't want to resist. Together, they become Hyatt's heartbeat: soft where the world was cruel, steady where the past was chaotic, and brave enough to choose each other in the aftermath of war. Their bond doesn't explode. It settles. And in that settling, Hyatt finds something it hasn't felt in years-peace.

In 2025, the authoritarian 2025 Group crushes individuality and targets LGBTQI+ people, banning Pride, destroying safe spaces, and forcing re education through fear and surveillance. Seventeen year old hacker Riley works with an underground network hiding people in forgotten places. After Milo's graffiti sparks resistance when a youth centre is shut down, Riley joins Jude, Milo, Elliot, Flynn, and Sanna to form Spectrum, a small but defiant resistance led by Jude, driven by the loss of her sister. Spectrum sabotages propaganda with messages of hope and art, but the regime strikes back, tightening surveillance and capturing innocents. Close calls, rising fear, and the discovery of a mole test their trust, yet only strengthen their bond. Each member faces personal struggles as secrecy and danger press in, forcing them to grow, adapt, and lean on one another. When the 2025 Group announces a nationwide re education campaign, Spectrum launches a bold attack on the regime's data hub, risking everything to erase the records of thousands. They succeed, at a cost, and their act ignites resistance across the country. Hidden symbols, rainbows, phoenixes, and the words we will not fade, spread like sparks. In the darkness, chosen family becomes a revolution, and hope refuses to be silenced.

During the age of the great Chinese dynasties and the construction of the Great Wall, Caia, the daughter of the great General Fey, takes up her father's place in the emperor's army, working her way up the ranks as one of the most renown women generals in ancient folklore. Her journey, beginning as a defiant young woman of the countryside, leads her to every corner of China, and eventually to the unfortified Northern border, where she finds her greatest battle. It is here that she secures herself as a legendary warrior shrouded in magic and victory, alongside a Roman mercenary. Her heart beat to follow the drums of war. // Based off of Chinese legends

THE CALL OF DESTINY Book 3 of the Call of Duty Series By E.L. Beth She was meant to disappear. Just another girl in the back of a van-silent, broken, and forgotten. But fate had other plans. Destiny never knew real family. Or love. Or safety. Orphaned and passed around like property, she thought she'd found a home-until the very people who adopted her sold her into a sex trafficking ring. Her hope is gone. Her voice silenced. Until a soldier tears the world apart to save her. Hector is built for battle-hard, disciplined, and unshakably loyal to his mission. But when he finds Destiny during a raid, something about her makes him break every rule. He brings her back to base. Keeps her close. Watches her. Because something doesn't add up. She's scared, but she's hiding something. And Hector doesn't do secrets. Forced to remain under his protection, Destiny is pulled into military life, ordered to train like the rest of them-except she's not like them. And Hector isn't prepared for the fire behind her eyes or the defiance in her voice. She challenges him, unsettles him... and tempts him in ways he can no longer deny. But falling for her means risking everything-including the one mission he can't afford to fail: keeping her alive. WARNING: This book is recommended for readers aged 18 years and over. IT CONTAINS SEX AND SUBMISSION.

They called you dangerous for surviving. This is the poem that proves them right. A black rose, grown around pure white tulips, formed cruelty, blooming with thorns, starlight, and defiance. Too radiant to cage, too lethal to touch without consequence. ⸻ They broke you until you learned to shine with teeth. They wanted obedience. They grew a monster wrapped in beauty instead.

Bellatrix Lestrange's daughter is starting Hogwarts. Fifteen-year-old Delphi arrives with a secret mission, a growing rivalry, and a past she doesn't fully understand. As the lines between good and evil blur, what will she choose when her heart begins to question everything she was raised to believe? What do you think Delphi's mission really is? 👀 Whose side do you think she'll end up on? No one knows-unless you read ;) I'd love to hear your thoughts 💖 ✨ Also 100+ reads! That is crazy! I cannot thank you enough guys!💖

They called you dangerous for surviving. This is the poem that proves them right. A black rose, grown around pure white tulips, formed cruelty, blooming with thorns, starlight, and defiance. Too radiant to cage, too lethal to touch without consequence. ⸻ They broke you until you learned to shine with teeth. They wanted obedience. They grew a monster wrapped in beauty instead.

August. The name of one of the hottest months but her destiny is to become as cold as ice. August left her life in Whitby to save everyone she loved, but she has to move on and deal with the few new problems in her life. When she turns 18 she will become a vampire and there is nothing she can do about it. But could she try and find her lost brother and ask him for help or will he find her first? She had an arranged marriage ready for her when she was little for when she grew up but now she might be going back will the marriage still be on? Or will a different vampire, that she hasn't seen in a long time, make his way into her life again? So who will she choose, the one decided to be hers or the one destined to be?

"Ink and Ash: Chants of Resistance is a fierce collection of protest poetry that ignites the page with unyielding defiance and unflinching awareness. These verses pulse with the grit of ink spilled in rebellion and the ash of battles fought, forging a chorus of voices that refuse to bow. From the smoldering ruins of complacency to the electric hum of awakening, each poem is a chant-a call to confront, to question, and to rise-blending visceral imagery with a relentless rhythm that echoes the soul of resistance." "Rooted in the tension between creation and destruction, this collection doesn't whisper-it howls. It's a stormlit dance of words that strips bare the illusions of power, weaving threads of outrage, hope, and revelation into a tapestry of protest. For those who feel the weight of the world and the fire to change it, Ink and Ash offers not just poetry, but a weapon, a mirror, and a flame."

All my life, no one ever made me happy, no one ever seemed perfect enough for me to die for, no one looked more handsome than him and there is no one I was willing to give up everything for like him I dearly loved and cherished him more than anything else, he had the most handsome brown eyes and the best physique, leaving all that aside, I knew his heart, he was my first everything, my first date, my first kiss and my first love, my joy and comfort, all of it, he was the one. Based on a true story

War breaks out, hearts get broken, families are lost, and in midst of war... Defiance.

An alien race has invaded the Earth, near total genocide has rained down and civilization as it was known is over. Oliver Steele has just been rescued and has made the discovery of a life-time. A colony of humans reside within a city working to resist and defy the enemy. As Oliver finds himself involved with the various lives of the colony he can't help but speculate about the most mysterious colony member of all - Rachel Gilbert, leader of the Resistance. As a member of the colonies own plots against them all Oliver must work hard to help continue the resistance, defend the final hopes of the human race and work with the leader who seems so determined to see him dead. Warring with an external enemy who is set on eliminating the human race and an inside betrayer who is determined to end the defiance has him out to prove himself not just to Rachel but to the rest of the world, small as it may now be.

Rich had just been disowned. What was he going to do? After fifteen years you'd think your parents wouldn't be as cold as his were. Rich falls desperately in love, but can't tell anyone because he lives under her roof.

Please read. So basically Elizabeth finds out that she's mated to the Alpha king. If there's one thing she learnt at school in the human realm is that those of the other realm are savage beasts with a superiority complex. If you're mated to one of them you are a submissive and treated degradingly. When she makes eye contact with the king, she runs. Obviously king Aethelstan won't let his mate run away from him. So he chases her desperate to show her that they belong together. Under a guise he wants to convince her that the two are made for each other and that she is wrong. But how wrong is she really? Okay Crappy description. My other description was way better but it got deleted cause of a glitch.