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Blood and Moon Academy
Blair Winters
She's a secret that was never supposed to exist. Half vampire. Half werewolf. Forbidden. When Nyxara Veyra's blood is exposed, Lunaris Academy becomes her prison, and her battleground. Cassian Nocturne, pureblood heir, was never supposed to want her. But he does. The wards are failing. A traitor moves in the shadows. A purge is coming for her kind. She didn't come to belong. She came to survive.
Ruin in velvet
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He’s the syndicate heir sent to clean up the blood. She’s the brilliant hacker holding the key to his empire. To survive St. Jude’s Academy, they’ll have to fake an engagement—and try not to kill each other first. "I'm not your captive," she breathed. "I'm your worst mistake if you think you can control me."
Trio Fire (A Billionaire Dark Romance)
Tasneem Patanwala
TRIO FIRE Three men. Three flames. One city under their control. Damien Reed-the calculating blue flame. Andrew Anderson-the blazing fire of obsession. Nikolas Rodriguez-the silent ember waiting to consume. Bound by loyalty, power, and secrets, they rule New York's elite from the shadows. But when love enters their lives, control begins to crack. A strategic marriage. A dangerous obsession. A forbidden romance. Every choice ignites new rivalries, betrayals, and deadly consequences.
Mine in the Dark
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A fake boyfriend. A hidden protector. A deadly conspiracy. In a city full of secrets, falling in love could be the most dangerous choice of all.
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Born an outcast bearing a "worthless" Blackstone, Orin Fox was destined to serve Elandris’s magical elite. But when his stone awakens as a forbidden Void Stone, he discovers its true nature: it doesn't lack power, it devours it. To survive, Orin must navigate cutthroat Academy Trials and forge fragile alliances, hiding his essence-draining hunger from the nobility who would execute him on sight. The realm branded him trash, but their stolen magic will fuel his rise.
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Diana has spent years trying to escape her past. When Damon returns, old wounds reopen, and the fire within her begins to spiral out of control. As dark secrets surrounding her powers unfold, she is drawn into a hidden world of ancient forces, dangerous enemies, and a mysterious being named Kaerith. To survive, Diana must embrace the power she fears before darkness consumes everything she loves.
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Lu Hua thought she had finally escaped the twisted obsession of the boy who had tormented her when she was shot and killed. However, she was surprised to find that she had been transported to an ancient world, inhabiting the body of a girl who had been married multiple times befor
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In the rain-soaked city of Rosen Hollow, Lovely Hart never believed the rumors about the mysterious disappearances—until she met Vesper Vale. Cold, beautiful, and dangerously secretive, Vesper awakens an irresistible connection that blurs the line between hatred and desire. But Vesper is hiding a centuries-old truth: she is a monster. And some love stories don’t just break hearts… they devour souls.
Puck, Paws, and Mating Calls
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A hidden wolf princess hiding out as an elite ice hockey athletic trainer must navigate her overwhelming temptation for the team’s tattooed star alpha forward while keeping her bloodline a secret.
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𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑪𝑹𝑶𝑾𝑵 On Halcyon Island, old money, family legacy and campus power collide around Levi Sinclair and Adrian Calder. 𝑭𝑨𝑼𝑳𝑻𝑳𝑰𝑵𝑬 As powerful families fracture, Levi and Adrian are pulled into the same fight while a new threat puts the island on notice. 𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑹 Fiction. Mature themes include strong language, sex, violence, domestic conflict, harassment and invasion of privacy. Reader discretion advised.
The Voyeur
Zero
Someone knows what Nina Reyes does when no one is watching. They have her passwords, her private photographs, and a talent for turning every secret into a suspect. At Bellwether School of Art, rich kids survive scandal. Nina won’t. One leak could cost her scholarship, her home, everything. And Eli—the filmmaker she wants in her bed and nowhere near her secrets—has 13 minutes missing from his footage. Maybe he’s her only ally. Maybe he’s holding the camera.
Black Orchid
Reedarh
The city feared his name. She refused to learn it.
The Thorned Crown of Shadows
irrzie
When a broken princess is imprisoned by the ruthless shadow monarch who slaughtered her family, she must choose between using her celestial light to destroy him—or surrendering her soul to the darkness to reign beside the monster she has come to love.
The Bone Garden of Oakhaven
Moon
To save her starving village, a low-born apothecary surrenders herself as a blood sacrifice to the lingering shadow-god in the forest, only to discover the monster doesn't want her life, he wants her absolute obedience, and the dark power slumbering in her blood.
Ashes of Moonhaven
Cotton Candy Princess
A hidden princess. A crown prince. A dangerous obsession. In a kingdom where the past refuses to stay buried, love may be the only path home.
Beyond the ARC
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Beyond the Arc is a sports, romance, comedy, and school-life novel set in the Philippines. It follows Gabriel "Gabe" Dela Cruz, an ordinary senior high school student with an extraordinary gift developed through years of practicing alone on a worn-down barangay court.
My Heart Will Go On
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"Can love outlast lives?"
Golden Roses
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In the city of Newside, England, a college girl becomes a hotel CEO’s new obsession so he hires her as his personal assistant…will they get close? Will he get his chance with her? (In progress of adding more chapters)
Melbourne Hearts & rival plays
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A university hockey romance
The Fallen Angel
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Once an angel, Stella turned her back on her kingdom and became a demon. Now, as the new queen, she returns to her hometown to collect information. There, she encounters Marvin, a timid guy dealing with similar struggles she once experienced. If she falls in love, it could destroy her reputation. Can she keep up her fake identity or find a way to make peace with the Angel Kingdom?
Kiss of Ruin
Sissy
They say love saves people. They lied.
The Rose Still Bleeds
F.C. Nombre
Elena Sanchez is just a nurse — until Dante Petrovic, heir to a rival mafia empire, recognizes the ghost of her old life in her hands. To escape him, she runs. Instead, she’s captured, unmasked as Eleonor Valentino, and dragged back to the father she fled. As his estate strips her identity away piece by piece, only one man is reckless enough to breach the gates for her. But by the time he reaches her, he may be facing a stranger wearing the woman he loves.
ᴠᴀʟʟᴇʏ ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ.⋆♱[ꜱᴛᴀʀᴅᴇᴡ ᴠᴀʟʟᴇʏ ꜰᴀɴꜰɪᴄ]
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Valley Shadow is a Stardew Valley fanfic that challenges the game’s cozy atmosphere, delivering a dark psychological drama that follows two broken souls—a boy mourning a girl he thought he lost, and a vampire desperate to uncover the deadly conspiracy behind her own murder.
My Dirty desires
Rejoice
She was never supposed to fall for him. He was never supposed to want her. When a dangerous attraction turns into an irresistible romance, two hearts become tangled in kisses, secrets, jealousy, and forbidden desire. But when his dark past threatens everything they've built, they must choose between walking away—or risking it all for a love neither can resist.

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