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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.
Black Orchid
Reedarh
The city feared his name. She refused to learn it.
The Last Call: A Black Lantern Mystery
Bailey Strange
Mara Voss has run the Black Lantern for decades, serving drinks while keeping her vampire nature—and her past—hidden. But when a dead man is carried into her bar bearing a symbol from 1941, Mara’s buried secrets return. A woman she watched die appears at her door, murders begin, and an old mystery resurfaces. To stop the killer, Mara must uncover the truth about the night she died—before she becomes the final victim.
Beneath the black crown
zarii c
will her life change ?? find out now
Ẹmí Àjẹ́
Keren Noir
Anyone who spills a woman's blood, steals her body, or protects the one who did, belongs to me." Don't let Ẹmí Àjé hear your cries. She has slept beneath this land since before it had a name. Now she is awake, and done watching. Every silenced girl, every blamed wife, every forgotten daughter, until the old laws crumbled and listening became unbearable. Some debts are owed for generations. She has come to collect. Complete story📚
THE HOLLOW CROWN
Jellyfish
London is drowning in fog, and someone is leaving the dead on thrones. Each body is stripped of its face, wearing a porcelain mask with a painted smile and a wire crown. Investigator Edmund Whitmore takes the case with his sister Violet, who harbors a six-year secret. But this isn't simple murder—it’s a message. Someone is exposing secrets London preferred to forget, with a twisted idea of justice and a mask for every lie.
Black Water Mercy
Nique
In a land where mercy runs thinner than blood, a fallen princess and two outlaw brothers become bound by loyalty, desire, and the sins no river can wash away. Together, they carve their names into legend through gun smoke, betrayal, and the shadow of the gallows. Black Water Mercy is their hymn.
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A soul ties that turns into turmoil a great read and hard to put down
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Danai Panagopoulou
This is part of my self-published poetry bundle. These are poems or thoughts inspired by real life and the phases we all go through
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Welcome to the Museum of Forgotten Stories! Within these galleries rest the memories of our subjects, and the horrors they have endured; we hope you enjoy your visit! After all... once you enter the Museum, you can never leave.
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Roxanne Louise
COMPLETE No one knows why children are vanishing, or why they disappear near Healey Dell. Does Fairies Chapel hold more than just beauty? Are the tales of fairies, wishes, and ancient music true? As a haunting melody lures them in, will anyone return? Or are they lost forever? Inspired by the Lancashire folklore of Healey Dell, eerie, enchanted spaces, and the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
She Waits by The Sea
Rossica
A structural engineer and his partner travel to a haunted clifftop chapel in Goa to fix its crumbling foundations — and discover it's haunted by a woman abandoned at the altar in 1845, who's now fixated on keeping him for herself. To save their relationship and free her spirit, they must find her hidden grave and finally lay her to rest.
THE HOLLOW CROWN
Kshonda Davis
In the cursed kingdom of Nocthyr, the dead do not rest—they whisper. Every hundred years, the Hollow Crown chooses a new ruler, but the crown demands a terrible price: the monarch must surrender their soul to keep the darkness imprisoned. When 19-year-old Lyra Vey discovers she is the last heir to the forgotten bloodline of shadow kings, she is hunted by monsters, corrupted knights, and an immortal sorcerer who believes she can awaken an ancient god sleeping beneath the world.
Where the Shadows Loved Us
Julia Holley
Where the Shadows Loved Us is a haunting dark romance about love, addiction, and redemption. As Noah battles alcoholism and a terrifying supernatural force that feeds on his despair, Evelyn refuses to give up on the man she loves. Together, they discover that the greatest victory isn’t escaping the darkness—it’s finding the courage to choose hope, healing, and each other.
A Barkeeps Guide To swallowing Hexes
Ellicor
Loch just wants to serve watered down ale to doomed men and ignore the mud. Unfortunately, his frail body violently absorbs raw magic and the skills of the dead. When a disgraced commander catches him swallowing a lethal hex with a wet bar towel, his quiet life in the trenches is officially over. To survive a pointless war and a looming apocalypse, this sickly publican must weaponize the stolen power of a thousand dead aristocrats.
Shadows of a Bleeding Soul
AmiUnknown
I don’t know how much [REDACTED]. It’s [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] gave both [REDACTED] back their [REDACTED]. They’re [REDACTED]. Not true. I don’t know if anyone will ever read this. But I need to get the [REDACTED] out. Please forgive me. Please. Please.
GREY EYES, SHARP KNIVES
Keren Noir
She believed she had buried her monster. Nia Bennett came to Moscow to study art and start over. Then Andrew Volkov decided her indifference was the one thing he couldn't survive. She escaped him with a blade and left him for dead. Four months later, he returns smiling. Some monsters never die, they simply come back for what they believe is theirs.
Vaporize The Memory
Heather Jackson
We had always loved the occult, we basked in our morbid humor, and even daydreamed of one day haunting some poor unfortunate soul in our after-lives. Then you died and left me to pick up the pieces, but our coward of a friend won't even let me give him his first tattoo or watch scary movies with me. So that left me with no other option, I had to contact you...
Echoes of the Broken string
Kingsley Ogboli
Sixteen years ago, a scandal involving K-pop superstar Cha Ha-eun destroyed Han Ji-woo's family. Now her estranged father is dying—and the diary he leaves behind reveals that everything Ji-woo believed about the affair may have been wrong.”
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.
THE BLACK SHEEP OF OTUMFA
Samuel A. Victor
Fyneface thought he had made peace with his father’s death. Fifteen years later, one detail changes everything: a closed casket. As he revisits a funeral everyone remembers differently, he discovers a church that knows more than it admits - and a quiet pattern behind the generosity of people he trusted. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes: his father’s death may never have been what he was told.
Echo of the Black Chorus
Yahya El aissi
Memory detective Elara Voss has no past — until the night she touches a stolen data-shard and hears her own erased childhood laugh. That sound awakens the truth: she is not human. She is the living key engineered to unlock every mind on the continent and rewrite humanity into one obedient song. With midnight approaching and the city turning against her, Elara must decide whether to destroy the weapon inside her skull… or become the voice that ends free thought forever.
Shadowbound Hearts🖤✨❤️‍🔥
Ken Raze
Every Lifetime, he finds her. Every Lifetime, She Forgets Him. Feared as the Devil by the world, hehas waited through centuries, protecting the one soul he could never stop loving. Bound by an ancient promise and a curse neither of them understands,he watches from the shadows while she livesa life with no memory of him But this lifetime is different The rain has begun to remember his name. And so has she.
11:34 A tale of Verdara
Nqobile Xakaza
11:34: A Tale of Verdara is fantasy that reimagines depression and anxiety as spiritual forces, inviting you to question the nature of suffering, belief, and all that goes on around us with a little bit of love and betrayal stitched into it

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