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When the arrogant stranger Bess is forced to marry unexpectedly becomes a duke, she'll find herself at odds with her growing feelings as he hunts for a killer. ***** Sharp-tongued Elizabeth 'Bess' Jones is perfectly content living on her lonesome in a tiny village south of Derbyshire. She works as a nurse, owns a small home, and finds the label of 'spinster' an agreeable trade for her independence. But when her entire life is uprooted in an instant, she only has one person to blame: her new husband, Emmett Wilde, who was caught in a compromising situation with her. And now, despite his promise to fake a death certificate after their wedding--to free her of any duty to him or their marriage bed--he sends for her in the dead of night with startling news: his father has been murdered, and he is now the Duke of Ascot with a wife he can no longer deny... [[Word Count: 60,000-70,000 words]] [[Cover designed by Ren Tachibana]]

After a disastrous first season in London, Rose Wilde finds herself torn between two men who love her -- but who both hide secrets that could ruin her. ***** Rose Wilde has always considered herself plain, especially when compared to her beautiful older sister Charlotte, and has practically given up on the idea of being romanced. But when American hotelier Derek Montgomery comes to revolutionise her little, sleepy English village of Ascot, Rose starts to revisit the idea of falling in love. However, Derek brings with him many secrets and obligations, some that might prohibit him from pursuing Rose -- and push her into the arms of her friend, Michael Cornell, the Marquess of Juniper. Will fate allow Rose and Derek to marry for love? Or will she indeed become the reluctant marchioness? [[Word count: 70,000 - 80,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Bandy (The Reluctant Marchioness is the sequel to The Coveted Countess, but can also be read as a standalone)

Two years after Nathaniel Swift left for America to forget the woman he loved, he learns she's engaged to another man -- and returns to England to win her back. ***** Lord Nathaniel 'Nate' Swift is hopelessly in love with his best friend's younger sister, Charlotte Wilde. However, Nate's rakish ways, their ten-year age difference, and his best friend's objections soon make it very clear that a marriage could never take place. So Nate does the only thing he could: he travels to America and tries to forget about the woman he loves. But after two years in the New World, forgetting Charlotte proves to be impossible, and he's quickly pulled back to England after hearing of her engagement to another man. Determined to make up for past mistakes, Nate swears to stop the impending wedding and win back Charlotte's heart at any cost. But is he too late to show her the truth he's known all along -- that they're meant to be together, forever? [[Word count: 70,000-80,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Bandy

After a deadly sickness steals her sister and brother-in-law, Evelyn Hart spends her days tending her quiet farm and raising her young niece far from the judgment of town society. At the season's Harvest Ball, Clara disappears into the crowd - and Evelyn's desperate search leads her to Captain Theodore Ashbourne, a gentleman soldier with kind eyes, a gentle smile, and a strange sense of familiarity. What begins with a single dance soon turns into whispered courtships, winter letters, and a love that refuses to fade. But while society mocks the idea of a captain falling for a farm girl, Theodore carries a secret of his own: He has been searching for Evelyn for ten years. A story of old letters, ballroom dances, grief, healing, and the kind of love that remembers.

'𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆.' But not Casanna, the sole heir of the Duke of Rosemore. She refuses to be what society expects her to. She rejects its standards, defies its traditions and breaks every expectation placed upon her. Casanna is not your typical lady. She simply refuses to be dictated to. All she ever wanted was to live at her own pace, to honor her family's legacy while quietly fading into the background. 'Not just a rose with vivid petals and thorns but something far more.' Yet peace always demands a price. What seemed like a simple dream becomes far more complicated when she meets someone who mirrors her own fire, someone who will challenge her heart and change her forever. Someone who has the same temperament as hers. PLAGIARISM IS A CRIME. ❁✿❀✾❃

It's the first day of the Season on the utopian world of Nuevo Victoriana, and Bridget Claremont will meet her state-appointed betrothal candidates. Getting married is supposed to be every girl's dream, except Bridget doesn't want to get married. She wants to be the first female student at the Royal Cybernetics Academy. That, and to figure out why her attempt at creating Artificial Intelligence failed just before her Academy presentation. When Bridget is matched with the enigmatic Prince Kaseom d'Jorax, a secretive branch of the royal family that has never put forth a candidate before, she should be thrilled. He's the absolute catch of the Season. However, it's also possible his family knows why her AI crashed. As far as Bridget is concerned, she'd rather die than marry Kase. Worse, he's so arrogant and smug, she can't decide if she wants to kiss or strangle him. She'll go through the motions of the Season, but when it's over, she plans to get back to what really matters. But once Bridget and Kase are paired, Nuevo Victoriana's alien protectors, the Ragnari, take an intense interest in their courtship. Bridget finds herself drawn into a world of intrigue and royal machinations she can't begin to navigate on her own. And when her fledgling AI discovers the Ragnari are hiding a secret big enough to undermine all of Nuevo Victoriana, Bridget will need to work with Kase to stop them. Otherwise, the world as she knows it will no longer exist.

In the suffocating, soot-choked winter of 1900, London is a city built on dark secrets. When the prominent Lord Arthur Sterling is found dead in his locked Gower Street study-poisoned by cyanide and robbed of a priceless artifact-Scotland Yard is left entirely baffled. The only clues left behind are an overturned inkwell, a mutilated letter, and a fresh winter flower blooming out of season. ​Enter Julian and Adrian Vance: identical twin investigators with perfectly mirrored features but terrifyingly distinct minds. Julian operates with chilling, clinical logic, reading crime scenes like a textbook. Adrian possesses a dark, intuitive grasp of human nature, seeing the hidden malice behind a suspect's eyes. Bound by blood and an uncanny intellectual synergy, they are the Yard's last resort and the criminal underworld's greatest nightmare. ​As the twins delve into the upper echelons of London high society, they find themselves tracking a brilliant, elusive killer who always seems to stay one step ahead in the shadows. From deceptive nieces inheriting mountains of debt to a mysterious, clandestine expedition to the Orient, the Vance brothers must untangle a web of absolute betrayal before the fog rolls in to claim its next victim.

London, 1887. While young ladies dream of glittering ballrooms, advantageous marriages, and futures stretching endlessly before them, Elodie Wright is haunted by a far more troubling question: What is it that makes us human? Certain that life must hold a purpose grand enough to justify its fleeting nature, she becomes determined to uncover the truth hidden within The Lieutart, a secret society where England's most influential heirs gather to discuss art, philosophy, and ideas powerful enough to shape the future. But her pursuit of answers leads her to the enigmatic Norcrest family. To Erik Norcrest , the brilliant heir who may be her only path into the society. And to Louis Norcrest, a young man who moves through life with an infuriating ease, as though time were endless, loss inconsequential, and questions unnecessary. As long-buried secrets begin to surface and the clock refuses to slow its relentless march, Elodie must choose between the legacy she has always sought and the life she never expected to want. For some spend their lives searching for a cure for death. Others discover that the true cure has been love all along.

He said "I love you Sabrina, you're the one I love" She said "You and this place... you're all I need" It all started at Mt. Amadalia. Between the colors of nature and the beating of Robert's heart.From his grandparents' house, to the tiring journey back to the city - sometimes he needed to leave. But the mountain, and Sabrina, he never let go of in his heart.ROBERT IN THE MOUNTAIN PLACESa love story that will leave you completely confusedAll Rights Reserved 2026

Aqua Vitae follows Miss Eskoff, a brilliant noblewoman who astonishes the Academy of Science with an impossible discovery: a liquid capable of restoring the dead to life. Celebrated as humanity's greatest benefactor, she watches her invention transform society as death itself begins to lose its power. But as the demand for resurrection grows, so do the consequences. What begins as a miracle gradually becomes an obsession, reshaping civilization and consuming the woman who made it possible. Set in an eighteenth-century-inspired world, Aqua Vitae is a dark fantasy tale about mortality, ambition, and the unforeseen cost of conquering death.

(Cover art is not mine - ALL CREDITS TO THE ARTIST!) ----- "This world is a selfish place...I won't lose you again to a world of filth that could never deserve you."

London, 1900. Detective Sergeant Ned Kelly is suspended, restless, and hiding a dangerous secret. When the enigmatic James St Clair crashes into his life with talk of stolen magic and a kill list, Ned is dragged into a world he never believed existed. Witches are being murdered across the city, their powers ripped away. Ned's mysterious immunity to magic makes him the only man who can protect Jamie. But in a time when wanting another man is a crime, the greatest danger might not be the killer hunting them, but each other.

He died in early spring. Holding a watch that wasn't his. Loving someone he was never allowed to say it to. Now he is Callum Voss, twenty-eight, ordinary life, no ghosts. Until a boy with autumn eyes opens a door - and every wall Caelum spent eleven years building comes down at once. A crown for no one. A love for every lifetime. ❝ Would it have been easier, if I were commonborn? My beloved. ❞ - A Victorian BL reincarnation story about guilt, second chances, and the terrifying truth that some loves don't need a throne to survive. They only need courage. Updates weekly ✦

Agnes Drummond married Callum Brodie to save her father from debtor's ruin. She expected cold civility. A roof. A name. She did not expect the portrait of his first wife in the hall, or the housekeeper who mourns her still, or the sister-in-law who arrives each month to remind Agnes she is a replacement for a woman the village has not finished grieving. She did not expect, either, that she might one day want him to look at her the way he looks at nothing. A marriage of necessity. A house full of ghosts. And two people too proud to admit they are already lost.

Just because you're a monster is no excuse for not trying to be a good neighbor. When a truce is called between the Vampire Clans Revenant and Nosferatu, Revenant Vampire Tiberius chooses to use this opportunity to set a few things straight, including striking a deal with certain humans near his lair. But when an unidentified creature begins terrorizing the local area, Tiberius fears it will break the already fragile peace between him and them. And to make matters worse, Elizabeth, the human girl he took under his wing, is starting to see things that concern them both. Determined to protect her and himself, Tiberius won't give up the hunt until this creature is dealt with - even if he has to ally himself with someone from his past he knows he can never trust.

For years, Elias Norman has lived with the phantoms of his past. Once a student at the prestigious Eliszt Academy, he spent his youth alongside a small yet close group of friends, among them the enigmatic Alexander Moore-a young man whose influence would alter the course of his life forever. Now, years later, Elias finds himself compelled to revisit those memories through a series of letters addressed to the one person he may never see again. As Elias recounts lost friendships, first loves, and haunting tragedies, a troubling question begins to emerge: how much of the past was reality? As the past continues to haunt him, the version of events he has cherished for years begins to unravel. People remember the same moments differently. Names are forgotten. Details refuse to align. And at the center of every contradiction stands Alexander. A haunting tale of memory and isolation told through the perspective of a broken man, Letters to a Man Who Does Not Exist explores the fragile line between truth and remembrance-and what remains when the past no longer recognizes us.

Post-Civil War America - a United States now truly united - has finally found its unity, yet families have been torn apart. There is not a soul who has not lost someone. But in a morbid twist of fate, for the Fox Sisters, this era of grief holds the promise of a rise in fortune. Their father, an impoverished country landowner, left his children nothing but a crumbling manor and a collection of peculiar, scholarly notes. After years of barely scraping by, Aurora stumbles upon a handwritten notebook whose contents change their lives forever. Almost overnight, the destitute, forgotten sisters become the most sought-after mediums in the county. Crowds flock to them, hoping to reach their lost loved ones. But there is a catch. They are exceptionally gifted at summoning - it is the sending back where things get complicated. The number of disturbed souls keeps growing, and the spirits haunting the Fox estate are growing increasingly restless. Will the Fox girls manage to contend with hundreds of furious ghosts? Will they discover how to return the summoned souls to the other side? All Hallows' Eve is drawing near - a dangerous time to be at war with the dead. And their brother has chosen precisely this moment to come home, with a young lady in tow...

Born in 1885 in a smoky mill town of Lancashire, Eleanor Whitford grew up in a world ruled by the long shadow of Queen Victoria. And yet, she watches the world shift in small, astonishing ways: from horse-drawn carriages to motorcars, from waltzes to music that dares break every rule. . . While her mother, Marianne, clings to the ordered propriety of the old century, Eleanor begins to wonder: why must girls remain still and proper when the world itself is racing forward? From her first memory of a gloved hand guiding her through Victorian streets to the restless years just before the guns of 1914, Eleanor's story is one of small rebellions, family bonds, and the slow, unstoppable pull of tomorrow. ❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀ Book One in the "A New Century" Quadrilogy, an intimate saga of one woman's long life across two centuries that bring change she could have never dreamed of. STARTED: 12/04/26 FINISHED: 00/00/00 ❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀ ALL CHARACTERS BELONG TO ME

She painted him before she met him. Mira Ashford is an artist haunted by visions she cannot explain. When a mysterious pocket watch and a stranger named Callum Voss enter her life, she discovers a secret hidden across centuries. The watch can open doors through time. The problem is that every time it does, it pulls them deeper into a love story that has already happened. And some loops were never meant to be broken. A slow-burn time travel romance filled with mystery, art, and fate.

[Contains major spoilers for the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles / Dai Gyakuten Saiban 1&2] Our tale begins 10 years before Naruhodo's arrival in London, and stretches beyond the events of both games. ... Susato Mikotoba has never met her father. Driven to discover the truth, she sets out for Britain, leaving her grandmother in the care of Kazuma Asogi. Once she arrives in London, Susato quickly realizes nothing is as she expected it to be. As Susato struggles to forge a connection with her distant father, she manages to find some happiness alongside valorous Genshin, the stately Klint van Zieks, the cheerful Lady Baskerville, and the endlessly polite Barok van Zieks. But when a series of murders begins to tear through the aristocracy, Susato is inexorably pulled along by a current of grief, terror, and deception that will take more than a decade to resolve.