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Obsidian Memories
Young Adult After fleeing the Ezen Empire, Asha, Kael, and Lirien find refuge among the exiles in the Broken Mountains, where the secrets of the ancient Keepers begin to emerge. Asha struggles to harness her power over the ashes and control the memories that threaten to consume her, while Kael faces a creeping petrification that increasingly separates him from his humanity.
With the original war between races revealed as manipulation by the Keepers, and the rebellion setting the entire continent ablaze, Asha must make choices that tear her away from her own identity. Unexpected betrayals, heartbreaking sacrifices, and a hidden past will pave the way for an inevitable confrontation.
When Kael's obsidian heart becomes the key to survival, Asha will have to choose between becoming the weapon she fears or the savior the world desperately needs. But at what cost? Whispering Ashes
Young Adult In an empire where fire is law and ashes hold forbidden secrets, Asha, a young woman who pretends to be mute, is offered as a tribute to serve in the sacred temple of the Ezen. Gifted with the strange ability to read the memories hidden in the ashes, she discovers that her power goes beyond what is permitted: she can revive forgotten fragments of the past, even those buried in unrecorded wars.
Under the watchful eye of Kael, a warrior who hides his own demons, Asha begins to unravel the truth about her lineage and the dark destiny that awaits her. As tension and attraction grow between them, the empire is shaken by simmering conspiracies and rebellions. But the fire that burns within Asha may be both its salvation and its doom.
A ritual trial, an unexpected alliance, and a desperate escape mark the beginning of an adventure that challenges the rules of power and reveals that, in the ashes, everything can be reborn... or die forever. The maid and the young heir
Romance Amelia cleans the De la Vega family's marble floors while her life falls apart on the other side of town. Her father has disappeared, leaving debts to dangerous people, her little sister cries from hunger every night, and she only knows one thing: no one will come to save her.
Until Luciano, the eldest son of the wealthy family, appears. An arrogant man with a golden smile, the kind of man who never looks down... until he sees her.
What begins as a provocation turns into a dangerous game of glances, silences, furtive touches, and emotions that threaten to devour them. He has everything but freedom. She has nothing but dignity. And a heart that begins to beat for someone who should never have touched her.
But when the scandal explodes, secrets come to light, and threats cross social classes, Amelia will have to decide whether to cling to the love that made her feel seen for the first time... or leave it behind to protect the only thing she has left: her sister, and an uncertain future growing in her womb.
An impossible love. A divided city. A fierce, dizzying, and addictive story about what happens when two worlds that were never meant to intersect... ignite like wildfire. Under the same contract
Romance Emilia Torres swore to never cross the line between professional and personal life again. However, the romance with her billionaire boss took her by surprise. Adrián Vega entered her life and she couldn't resist: he noticed her beauty, and she sought the professional success that came with working for him. She never thought of falling in love again, but life had other plans for her.
The relationship went well until her ex-husband, Mateo Ortega, returned to their lives.
Adrián's jealousy was well-founded, not only because Mateo had set his sights on winning Emilia back, but because he had been her partner in the past and betrayed him. She didn't trust him and knew he wouldn't hesitate to hurt her again.
Emilia was torn between staying with Adrián or trying again with Mateo, which caused her boss to lose control and attack his enemy. Amidst their rivalries, she received a proposal she couldn't refuse: to be his forever, by agreeing to marry Adrián.
Amidst timelines, secrets from the past, and a tension that simmers even in silence, Under the Same Contract explores what happens when two broken hearts must sign more than just an agreement... one that could change their lives forever. Express Delivery to the Heart. Part 2.
Romance What would you do if you discovered that the person you love has a dark secret that could destroy everything you thought you knew about them? Mei Ling never imagined that her perfect life would crumble because of a simple package.
One day, in her office, she finds a package wrapped in hearts, addressed to her boyfriend, Jian Wei. What seemed like an innocent gesture soon becomes the spark that ignites a storm. Upon investigating, she discovers that it came from a woman in Spain, an unknown named Sofía, and doubt takes hold of her heart.
Jealousy and distrust torment her, but Jian Wei insists there is nothing between him and Sofía. However, his words don't seem enough when Sofía appears in Singapore, exuding confidence and making it clear she still has a place in Jian Wei's heart. Mei Ling is pulled into a dangerous game where the truth seems to vanish with every lie and hidden smile.
Is Jian Wei really the man she thought he was, or is she trapped in a web of manipulation and secrets? Is Jian Wei truly caught in a lie, or will Mei Ling be the one to pay the price for not knowing the truth in time? In this story of broken hearts, deceit, and impossible decisions, every page is filled with mystery, passion, and a final twist that will leave you breathless.
In "Express Delivery to the Heart 2", jealousy becomes poison, and distrust transforms into a maze with no way out. A mysterious package, a woman from the past, and a truth that threatens to destroy everything... Mei Ling must decide if her love is stronger than betrayal, or if the lie will lead her to ruin. Express Delivery to the Heart
Romance 📦💌 A lost love. An unexpected surprise. Second chances... or second disappointments?
Mei Ling had her life under control... until Jian Wei, the man who broke her heart, returned without warning. He says he never stopped loving her, but how can she trust someone who disappeared without explanation?
Determined not to fall for him again, Mei Ling tries to ignore him. But Jian Wei doesn't give up. From surprises at the Dragon Festival to encounters at the Temple of Luck, he is determined to prove, step by step, that his love is real.
💘 Can Mei Ling trust him again?
💌 Or is it too late for the love they left on pause?
Between love trials, unexpected laughter, and a ring that could change everything, Express Delivery to the Heart is an addictive, romantic, and emotion-filled story that will make you swoon until the very last chapter.
📖 Perfect for fans of second-chance romances with exciting twists and unforgettable endings. 💖✨
I Burn for You
Romance What would you do if everything you thought you knew about love, betrayal, and destiny was suddenly thrown into doubt? Ana is critically injured after an accident, mentioning the names of her husband Sebastián and Gabriel, an enigmatic man from her past. As the story jumps between the past, present, and future, hidden secrets, betrayals, and a devastating love triangle are revealed. Ana discovers that her marriage to Sebastián hides more lies than she ever imagined, while a dangerous connection with Gabriel begins to resurface.
Caught between love, revenge, and family secrets, Ana must make decisions that will test her heart and her future. Will she heal and find peace, or burn for them? A tale of passion, betrayal, and redemption that will keep you hooked until the very end.
Veil of Vengeance
Romance What would you do if you discovered that the person you trust most has betrayed you in the cruelest way? Ana found out when she saw her boyfriend, Javier, in bed with her best friend. The love she thought was perfect crumbled in seconds, and with it, all the illusions she had built alongside her beloved.
Torn, confused, and devastated, Ana decides to face a truth she never imagined: the lie has been her companion all this time. But in the midst of the chaos, something within her ignites-the desire to heal, to become herself again. As the memories of a love that now seems unreal resurface, Ana embarks on a journey full of pain but also self-discovery.
Each step forward reveals new facets of herself and what she truly wants in her life. And while Javier continues to seek a second chance, Ana wonders: is it possible to leave the past behind and find a love that values her for who she truly is?
Veil of Vengeance is an intense story of betrayal, growth, and second chances. Discover with Ana that true strength doesn't lie in forgetting but in learning to love yourself first. An emotional journey that will capture you from the very beginning and won't let you go until the last word. Legacy of Moon and Blood
Modern Do you dare to step into a world where forbidden love, blood, and the full moon dictate fate? Laura, marked by tragedy and protected by a silver bracelet, discovers that her lineage hides a secret that could change everything. The daughter of an impossible love between a human and a werewolf, Laura will be forced to choose between her humanity and the wild call of her true nature.
With the help of Xaqui, the mysterious son of the alpha, she must face ancient betrayals, a war between humans and werewolves, and a truth that will unleash the power flowing through her blood. The moon lights her path, but danger lurks in every shadow.
Discover whether Laura will be able to break the cycle of hatred or if the world will fear her for what she is destined to become. I AM NOT YOUR DOORMAT
Werewolf Isla Hawke has inherited her mother's throne, but being Alpha in a world of betrayals and power struggles is not easy. Levi Darnell, an ambitious and cunning werewolf, sees Isla as a key ally to achieve his own power, but his terms are clear: no feelings. However, the attraction between them is undeniable, and what starts as a cold alliance soon turns into a dangerous passion. Between betrayals, enemies, and decisions that could destroy them, can they resist desire without losing everything? Power and love are at stake, and both will have to decide how far they are willing to go to get what they desire most. You might like
Invisible To Her Bully
Dea B Unlike her twin brother, Jackson, Jessa struggled with her weight and very few friends. Jackson was an athlete and the epitome of popularity, while Jessa felt invisible.
Noah was the quintessential "It" guy at school-charismatic, well-liked, and undeniably handsome. To make matters worse, he was Jackson's best friend and Jessa's biggest bully.
During their senior year, Jessa decides it was time for her to gain some self-confidence, find her true beauty and not be the invisible twin.
As Jessa transformed, she begins to catch the eye of everyone around her, especially Noah.
Noah, initially blinded by his perception of Jessa as merely Jackson's sister, started to see her in a new light. How did she become the captivating woman invading his thoughts? When did she become the object of his fantasies?
Join Jessa on her journey from being the class joke to a confident, desirable young woman, surprising even Noah as she reveals the incredible person she has always been inside. Beauty In The Boy's Dorm
Author Lightwriter "What do you think people would say if they found out you don't have a dick?" Christian asked, his voice low and dripping with seduction. His hand pressed firmly against my crotch, fingers exploring the flat, unfamiliar emptiness there. A devilish smirk curved his lips. "Or if they discovered these voluptuous breasts you've been hiding so well?"
A strangled moan slipped from my throat as his hand slid under my shirt, his fingers brushing over my hardened nipples, teasing them with slow, deliberate strokes.
"Which do you think they'd call you?" he murmured, eyes gleaming. "A boy with tits... or a dickless little fraud?"
I stared into his hungry blue eyes, words failing me.
"The term you're looking for is 'girl,'" came Xavier's smooth voice from the bathroom doorway. He stepped inside, closing the door behind him with a soft click, his gaze raking over me with open interest. "So tell me, little girl... what the hell is someone like you doing in an all-boys dorm?"
Christian's smirk widened. "She wants to be devoured by boys like us." His fingers gave my nipple one last firm pinch before he leaned in closer, breath hot against my ear. "And I'll be more than happy to give her a taste."
Sacrificed Son, Unbreakable Soul
Diversion The email glowed on my screen, a full scholarship to MIT. A surge of pure joy, a feeling so unfamiliar it almost hurt. This was my ticket out, the thing that would finally make them see me.
But when I ran downstairs, laptop clutched like a holy relic, my family was gathered around my younger brother, Caleb, celebrating his acceptance to a local community college. Their banner read, "Congratulations Caleb!"
"I got in," I said, my voice softer now. "MIT. With a full scholarship." My father glanced at my screen, then back at Caleb, admiring a new, expensive watch. "That's nice, Ethan," he said, flat and dismissive. "But we're a little busy right now. It's Caleb's big day." My sister scoffed, "Always trying to steal the spotlight, aren't you?"
Later, my printed acceptance letter and plane ticket for orientation were torn to unrecognizable pieces in the trash. It wasn't an accident. It was a message. My mother waved it off, "It's just paper. Stop being so dramatic."
"Dramatic?" My voice rose, shaking. "This was my ticket to MIT! You destroyed it!" My father boomed, "Don't you raise your voice! You are upsetting your brother on his special night." Caleb smirked from behind him, admiring his new watch, a symbol of his victory.
A cold clarity washed over me. It had always been like this. My one tangible hope of escape lay in the garbage. They hadn't just thrown away paper; they had thrown away my future, showing me my dreams meant less than protecting Caleb from his inadequacy. I was a stranger in my own home, a perpetual villain in their narrative. Was I too ambitious, too smart? Was my very existence an inconvenience? My throat ached with a dry sob. I felt like those scraps-torn, discarded, worthless in their eyes. Reclaiming My Own Life
Zhu Xiaying The first sign something was wrong wasn't a fight, but a cheerful Chime-Chime-Pop from my sister Lily' s phone, a sound I' d never heard before, buzzing with secrets during family dinner.
Later, while I painstakingly helped Lily with her biology homework-a subject I'd aced, she struggled with-that same chime rang out again, punctuated by her casual lie: "Just Mom."
But Mom's text tone was different, and the metallic taste of a familiar coldness spread through me as my suspicion grew.
Then, Lily giggled, phone in hand: "Dad just sent that meme of the cat freaking out. He said it' s you trying to explain biology to me."
My blood ran cold as I watched her oblivious smile; the pieces clicked with sickening finality.
A secret group chat – "Family Trio" – Mom, Dad, and Lily-bug.
Not me.
The next morning, armed with a lie and an opportune request for a bakery address, I unlocked my mother's phone with Lily's birthday, and there it was: "Family Trio", pinned at the top.
Hundreds of messages, photos of trips I knew nothing about, jokes about my "seriousness," complaints about my work schedule, and coordinating their financial demands: "Had to give Chloe another hundred bucks for her books. When does she start paying us back?" "Don' t forget, Chloe, we need you to chip in for the property tax bill next month. It' s a big one."
The betrayal was absolute; I was their ATM, used and discarded.
My hands trembling, but with chilling clarity, I screenshot every piece of their casual cruelty, a digital archive of their deceit, then wiped every trace.
The confrontation shattered the illusion of family, the truth pouring out like acid, exposing years of neglect and manipulation.
My father' s icy threat, "If you' re so unhappy here, Chloe, maybe you should think about finding somewhere else to live," was the undeniable proof.
This wasn' t a misunderstanding; it was their nature.
I felt a devastating clarity: I was utterly and completely alone in that house, a burden to be cast off.
Then came the final demand: two thousand dollars for Lily' s car, almost my entire escape fund.
I transferred the money, a piece of my soul, but this was the last time, the last dollar.
I was getting out and no one was going to stop me. Seventeen Again: The Day Everything Changed
Charlene I died peacefully in my eighties, only to shockingly wake up seventeen again, still in my childhood bedroom. It was college application day, and everything felt eerily familiar, especially my lifelong dream with best friend Jack and boyfriend Kevin: Princeton, shared dorms, and a future intertwined.
But the comfort shattered an instant later. Kevin and Jack, my supposed "constants," calmly announced they were ditching the Ivy League. Their new plan? State University, staying local, all to "support" Brittany, the head cheerleader—a non-entity in my previous life—who claimed her family was in crisis.
The betrayal hit like a physical blow. Suddenly, my meticulously organized SAT notes, the very tools of *my* ambition, were handed over to Brittany without a second thought. They paraded her scores, reveling in *her* success, while publicly dismissing my shock and mocking my sudden declaration of choosing UC Berkeley. At the graduation party, they treated Brittany like royalty, their arms around her, their attention solely hers, while I became an irrelevant outsider. The yearbook, a symbol of our unbreakable bond, bore their dismissive scrawls, cementing my abandonment.
How could the boys who were my rocks, my future, obliterate *our* shared dream for someone they barely knew? Why did their chivalry translate into such a profound betrayal of me? The sheer injustice and confusion were a cold knot in my stomach.
But I wouldn't let their misplaced heroism define me. No longer the girl who silently absorbed their choices, I clutched my Berkeley acceptance, booked a one-way flight, and definitively chose my own destiny. This time, I was playing for myself. When Best Friends Become Monsters
Blair Dippel I was cramming formulas for the National Innovators Scholarship exam, our ticket to Caltech' s engineering program.
Ethan Hayes, my best friend since kindergarten, and I had dreamed of this for years. We were supposed to be a team.
But Ethan wasn't here. He was with Jessi Vance, the new, rebellious girl. I overheard her chilling plan: she wasn't just distracting him; she was sabotaging him, plotting to get him wasted so he'd fail the exam.
Naive, I interfered, dragging him back to the exam. He got into Caltech, but Jessi soon died in a drunk driving accident. He twisted it, blaming me. His revenge was meticulous: a framed sexual assault, wiping out my future. The public humiliation, amplified by his powerful family, drove my parents to despair. Their car went off the Blackwood Bridge, a tragic 'accident' .
My heart, already fragile, couldn't bear his venomous words. He visited me in my cold cell, holding a newspaper headline of my parents' 'tragic accident.' "This is what you get for ruining my life," he hissed. "You and your family paid for Jessi." The pain, the injustice, consumed me. Then, darkness.
My eyes snapped open. I was in my own room, my own bed. The clock read 7 PM, the eve of the exam. I was back. This time, Ethan Hayes could make his own damn choices. I' d protect myself. And above all, my family. The Price of Unrequited Love
Shearwater Eighteen days after giving up on Brendan Maynard, Jayde Rosario cut off her waist-length hair and called her father, announcing her decision to move to California and attend UC Berkeley.
Her father, surprised, asked about the sudden change, reminding her how she' d always insisted on staying with Brendan. Jayde forced a laugh, revealing the painful truth: Brendan was getting married, and she, his stepsister, could no longer cling to him.
That night, she tried to tell Brendan about her college acceptance, but his fiancée, Chloie Ellis, interrupted with a bubbly call, and Brendan' s tender words to Chloie twisted a knife in Jayde' s heart. She remembered how his tenderness used to be hers alone, how he had protected her, and how she had poured out her heart to him in a diary and a love letter, only for him to explode, tearing the letter and yelling, "I'm your brother!"
He had stormed out, leaving her to painstakingly tape the shredded pieces back together. Her love, however, didn't die, not even when he brought Chloie home and told her to call her "sister-in-law."
Now, she understood. She had to put that fire out herself. She had to dig Brendan out of her heart. Reborn: Three Days Before The SATs
Julian Reid My world was perfect.
Top of my class, early acceptance to Yale, just days away from the SATs.
Then, my stepsister Tiffany handed me a protein shake.
I trusted her, drank it, and then – darkness.
I woke up in a cheap motel, framed for cheating, test booklets scattered, my phone incriminating.
Campus security, news cameras flashing.
"Cheater!" the headlines screamed.
Yale rescinded my admission, my furious father disowned me, and my popular boyfriend Chad, feigning support, was part of it all.
Pregnant, isolated, my dreams shattered, I withered, looking ten years older than I was.
Five years later, I overheard Chad boasting, chillingly: "Tiffany and I planned it perfectly.
She needed Sarah gone – Valedictorian, Yale, the Miller inheritance.
And Sarah? Served her purpose. Time to upgrade to Tiffany."
The betrayal, so cold and absolute, utterly shattered me.
I ran blindly into the street, and then – screeching tires.
Nothing.
A gasp.
I sat bolt upright in my own bed, sunlight streaming through my window.
My heart hammered, the nightmare vivid.
I looked at my phone.
Three days before the SATs.
It was happening again.
No.
It was my second chance.
This time, they wouldn't know what hit them. 
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