Duke Stories

After dying, Emma awakens as a wolf in a fantasy novel she once read. Rescued by the infamous Mad Duke, Killian Ravenscar, she expects to find a ruthless villain. Instead, she discovers a man feared by the kingdom but fiercely loyal to the crown. As dark secrets and hidden enemies begin to surface, Emma uses her strange ability to sense danger to protect the one man everyone else believes is the monster.

The Duke of Halewick is a monster. At least, that's what the kingdom says. Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable. So when Calista Everdane-a quiet, unremarkable noblewoman with no ambition-is forced into marriage with him, everyone expects tragedy. Calista expects inconvenience. She arrives at his fortress with tea, a stack of books, and a preference for east-facing windows. She doesn't challenge him. She doesn't fear him. She doesn't even seem particularly interested in him. While the court watches for scandal, Calista quietly claims a chair no one is allowed to sit in, befriends the Duke's hound, and begins dismantling political schemes she was never meant to notice. She doesn't scheme. She doesn't strategize. She simply observes-and acts when necessary.

They once called her the Mad Dog of the South - the spoiled, short-tempered daughter of Duke Mortane. Feared by nobles, hated by the people, and foolishly obsessed with the Crown Prince who never loved her. Betrayed by her uncle. Framed by a false saint. Abandoned by the man she destroyed herself for. She died cursing her own foolishness... until the gods granted her one final mercy- to return to the past, one year before her ruin. This time, she'll play their game with her eyes open. She'll protect what's hers, crush those who deceived her, and rise from the ashes of her former self. Because this time... the villainess doesn't seek redemption-she rewrites her story.

A ghost bride. A mysterious duke. A murder that started it all. (cover art by Zamora)

A gallery that does not exist. A man who knows her name. A book she was never meant to read. Katriana steps into something she does not understand, and by the time she realizes it, it is already too late. Because the next Sunday, the gallery is gone.... and so is she. Death should have been the end of it. But when Katriana opens her eyes again, she is no longer where she died. And this time, the story does not feel like fiction. ** Cover Art: @matchseiaa Cover Design: via Canva Upload Schedule: COMPLETED. SEASON 1 ENDED! (S2: via KDP/Kindle--or maybe still on Wattpad: August 14th, 2026) ** TW: This isn't a dark novel but there's a lot of trauma, tragic things, morally gray characters, and swear words in this series. I've toggled the Mature rating. DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction based on the author's (my) imagination, and the views are of the characters and purely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. ** FYI: I upvote my own fiction on each chapter ehehehe (^0^) Thank you for reading!

"There's a crazy monster in the North. It's best you don't cross the people there." Ravenna is the crazy monster. She once lived as the foolish villainess who chased the Crown Prince, envied the Saint, and turned the empire against her. When she was imprisoned, the only person who showed her mercy was the Northern Duke, who freed her. Only for him to be assassinated by the imperial family. On the day she dies from a mysterious, incurable illness, Ravenna begs for just one more chance. And when she opens her eyes again, she is back in time, standing in the courtroom where she is being accused. This time, instead of begging for the Crown Prince's love, she chooses to marry the Northern Duke. Everyone thinks she is still the jealous villainess. No one knows she remembers the future. No one knows she is dying from an illness. But they will know, she is here for the most cruel and wicked revenge.

[𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗚 ] ━━ 𝑺𝑯𝑬 𝑼𝑺𝑬𝑫 𝑻𝑶 be a normal woman trying to live her life, until she got transported into the novel ❝ 𝐢 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝'𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 ❞ ❛𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐎 𝐁𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐎𝐓𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒𝐍𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐇𝐈𝐌 ❜

After ending her life to escape relentless bullying and emotional exhaustion, a nameless girl awakens in the fragile body of a six-year-old noble child. But this isn't a second chance-it's a new hell. She has been reincarnated into the body of the West Duke's hidden daughter, a child locked away in the basement, neglected and abused by the very family meant to protect her. Isolated, bruised, and numb, she accepts her fate in silence. But fate shifts when the feared and mysterious North Duke visits the West in search of an heir. Amidst a sea of noble children, it is the broken girl with dead eyes he notices. Something in her stillness, her silence, her scars - calls to him. What follows is a slow-burning tale of healing, power, and the struggle to find a reason to live again - in a world both cruel and magical.

Is it possible to mend a heart that's already broken?

❝ I'm not the heroine, I'm not even the villain... Did I seriously transmigrate as a FUCKING SIDEKICK? ❞ ✧ ────────── ✧ Kim Solhwa just wanted to trash-talk a cliché novel and go to sleep, not wake up as a nobody in a wretched novel! Between a horrible script and a petty Creator who refuses to let her leave the stage, staying irrelevant is proving to be a total disaster. DISCLAIMER: !Cover image is not mine!

Creation is effortless for the celestials. Experience is not. They can design landscapes, histories, entire civilizations. They can engineer catastrophe and salvation. But they cannot produce genuine interiority. Iridescent was conceived as a solution. Not a spectacle. Not a narrative. A living consciousness placed within endlessly shifting realities. Some participants were chosen. Some were taken. Some never had a choice. One did. Her operational name: Iris. She will inhabit countless lives. She will forget and remember in fragments. She will become many. But the system recognizes only one constant. Iris. Always. Now she is in: Iridescent 1321

Lady Evelina Ashbourne was known throughout the kingdom as the perfect noblewoman. Beautiful, kind-hearted, graceful, and talented, she possessed every quality a man could desire in a wife. Yet despite her devotion, her husband-the powerful Duke Damien Blackwood-never spared her a glance. For five long years, Evelina endured a loveless marriage. While society mocked her as the duke's unwanted wife, she continued to fulfill her duties without complaint, hoping that one day her sincerity would reach him. It never did. When the duke finally asked for a divorce to make room for the woman he truly loved, Evelina surprised everyone. She agreed. Without tears. Without arguments. Without looking back. Leaving the capital behind, Evelina settled in a distant province and began a modest trading business. Armed only with her intelligence and determination, she transformed a small shop into a commercial empire that spread across the kingdom and beyond. Five years later, her name was known everywhere. Nobles sought her friendship. Merchants fought for her favor. Princes crossed borders to meet her. And powerful men who once ignored her now competed for her attention. Including the duke who had thrown her away. But Damien's regret came far too late. The woman who once loved him with all her heart no longer belonged to him. Now, surrounded by admirers and standing at the peak of success, Evelina has no intention of returning to the past. After all... Why choose the man who rejected her when the entire kingdom wants her instead? "The day he let her go was the day the kingdom began falling in love with her."

Betrayed by her family and betrothed to a prince, Arlen runs for her life-only to be found by the domineering Duke Liam Crawford, the man she should fear most. Cold, commanding, wealthy and irresistibly magnetic, he saves her with a single touch and claims her as his own. Every whispered command, every lingering caress, draws her deeper into a treacherous game with a man who sees her not as a wife, but as a prize to possess. In his arms, danger tastes like desire... but will she surrender or survive? *** Weekly updates on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. *** ⓒ Serenascent / TENBOOK / FLORIEL

Blair Maliginton was coming out to the ton. She is the youngest in her family with her oldest brother being married to the princess will she be the diamond shining ever so brightly or a wallflower. Let's see shall we.

Peter Parker is quickly sinking lower and lower the longer he lives alone. And he really does mean "alone." No family, no friends, no allies- not even his enemies remembered him. (True, most of them were dead, but that's beside the point.) All he does nowadays is get beat up verbally at work, and physically at night swinging around as his neighborhood's trademark vigilante. He couldn't take it anymore. So he built a multi universal travel device... One that had the potential to let him see the only other people who could truly understand him. Only to make a stupid mistake and end up in a place called Gotham instead.

The world knew Bruce Wayne as many things: a philanthropist, a billionaire, a silent guardian in the dark. But Atlas knew him as a set of rules. A series of cold, calculated decisions that prioritized the "mission" over the boy standing in the foyer of Wayne Manor. Six years ago, Atlas hadn't been given a choice. While Jason and Richard were groomed for the rooftops-trained in the art of the hero-Atlas had been handed a different fate. He was the one deemed too different, too difficult, or perhaps just too much of a reminder of Bruce's own failures. So, Bruce had sent him to the one place that promised to break a man down and rebuild him into a tool: the army. Six years. Two thousand, one hundred, and ninety days of "hell." Now, standing on the tarmac under a bruising gray sky, the transition felt like a physical weight. All around him, the air was thick with the sounds of reunion. Sobbing mothers, laughing wives, children screaming as they collided with their fathers' camouflaged chests. Atlas didn't move. He stood at attention, his spine a rigid line of steel, his gaze fixed on a point exactly six inches above the horizon. He was waiting. Not for a hug, not for a welcome, but for the one thing he had been trained to survive on. An order. "Atlas." ________________________ $-OC $-Batfam $-Original $-Black sheep of the family $-No ships [Art by me]

Celeste started her sophomore year determined to stay focused on school, not love. But when a string of unexpected moments draws her closer to Kairo-confident, magnetic, and full of hidden depth-friendship turns into something neither of them saw coming. In the chaos of college life, they discover that sometimes the greatest lessons aren't found in basketball or fashion magazines, but in each other.

For over a century, Harmonia Palace stood empty. Its halls carried the memory of Duke Henry Ashford and Duchess Lillian Rosewood, whose tragic love story became legend throughout Asherton. Their portraits filled textbooks. Their sacrifice shaped kings. Their palace became a monument to regret. Then came Violet Walker. An orphan with nowhere else to go, Violet secretly makes a home within the forgotten servants' quarters and spends years restoring the palace, the lavender fields, and the graves of the couple she admires. Then comes Andrew Hendrickson. Playboy. War hero. The King's favorite headache. When Andrew is unexpectedly granted the sacred title of Duke of Port Haven-Stonecrest, he arrives expecting punishment. Instead, he finds a palace that isn't abandoned. A mysterious girl living on his estate. And a love story that may not be finished yet. Because some legacies never die. And some hearts wait a century for a second chance.

They had been engaged as children. But he fell in love with another. A person of lower status, and the two as a forbidden couple indirectly tarnished her reputation as a rejected fiancée. In spite of the unfairness, her love persisted for him while watching his happiness bloom only with that commoner by his side. Though heartbroken, she never resented him once or the commoner who stole him away. She only resented her dull appearance for not attracting his gaze like the beautiful commoner had done. However.... Perhaps the heavens had seen through the unconditional sincerity of her love that his marriage did not last up to a year before the commoner disappeared, reported as dead. And so, the former engaged couple eventually got married under the pressure of their families. Of course, the union brought about a sense of awkwardness and distance, but through her persistence and efforts, he eventually opened up to her. Just when their marriage was on the path of love from both sides, the dead commoner returned unexpectedly. And with a child looking exactly like him. **** ''I regret loving you for a long time, my Duke.'' In his world, she was his replacement wife to his first love. In her world, he has always been her everything...or used to be now. . . . . . AN ORIGINAL NOVEL Copyright © 2026 Kuro Onna.

20-year-old Winona "Winny" Proof has been working as the Head Maid of Grand Duke Charleston for 5 years so far to save up for her planned 1 year vacation. Her parents are still missing from the war 7 years ago, her eldest brother is away on naval missions, her second eldest brother is traveling with his mercenary guild, and her third eldest twin brothers are competing against each other in their respective mage towers they founded. As the youngest child of the family, she didn't have much aspirations of her own, so instead of living off of her brothers' wages, she decided to find her own talents on her own. But... is this the right household she should be working for?