The Retail blood sucker

At Blackthorn Department Store, Victor Draven is more than a cruel manager—he is a centuries-old vampire who feeds on fear, exhaustion, and obedience. When Mira’s five-day absence disrupts his Blood Moon ritual, she becomes the key to exposing his dark secret. As missing employees return drained and the store’s hidden basement reveals its horrors, Mira and her colleagues must unite to destroy the monster ruling their workplace.

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THE EMPTY GLASS The Black Lantern Mysteries

Mara Voss thought the secrets beneath the Black Lantern were finally buried. She was wrong. When a mysterious stranger leaves an empty glass containing a single drop of blood, Mara discovers the name Elias Black engraved beneath it. As people begin disappearing, Mara and her allies uncover an ancient ledger tied to Evelyn Black, Mara’s family, and a ritual centuries old. Now Mara must uncover the truth before Elias finishes what his mother started.

The Last Call: A Black Lantern Mystery

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.

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The Ghost of Who I'd Become

After illness took over her life and erased the future she planned, Lena Quinn discovers a film showing her the future she was meant to live. Why is someone trying to destroy it frame by frame?

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The Mafia's Deception

Evelyn is a detective assigned to investigate Daymian, a dangerous mafia boss. But the closer she gets to him, the more she falls for the man she's supposed to destroy. With a dangerous political conspiracy threatening to change everything, Evelyn must choose between her duty, her fiancé, and the man who could ruin her life or steal her heart.

Easter hunt

It was only supposed to be a normal easter egg hunt but really it was a test to see who lives or dies. A detective who was sent by a nearby town went to investigate the missing children in the town of Achel. Achel is a town with nothing but serial killers. Their favorite time of the year is Easter.

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Everyone hated her until Monday

Amara thought everyone hated her—until she discovered that the rumours, betrayals, and missing memories were all connected to one terrible night. At Westbridge Academy, uncovering the truth could cost her everything, including the family she thought she knew.

THE BLACK SHEEP OF OTUMFA

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.

When the Rain Remembers

Years after their best friend's murder, two childhood friends return to a town full of secrets, where love and the truth could cost them everything

A Familliar Stranger

Elena returns to her hometown after a failed assignment, pretending she only came home to rest. In secret, she investigates the strange incidents happening around town—unaware they are connected to a forgotten event from her past. Then she meets Adrian, the boy she never stopped loving. But as Elena gets closer to the truth, she starts seeing Adrian in places he swears he never went. Is someone lying, or is there something she doesn’t remember?

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THE DEAD SEER

Areil walked away from her family's shrine, her grandmother's village, and the gift she never asked for. Five years later, something has followed her across an ocean. It knocks on her walls, stands in the rain outside her window, and takes more from her each night. When her grandmother is attacked and whispers that evil has returned, Areil has to go home and face the dead seer who has been waiting for her.

ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏsᴛ ʙᴏʏs ᴏғ ᴅɪʀᴇʜᴀᴠᴇɴ

A ‘choose your own path’ mystery with CHOICES, CLUES, VISUALS & SOUND. Solve for Cold Case 174: a paranormal horror surrounding 7 boys who were gone for months in the [REDACTED] Conservation Site and came back forever changed after interacting with [REDACTED]. (CURRENTLY ADDING MORE CHOICE CHAPTERS BETWEEN CLUES!)

Let’s Play

The phones never stopped ringing — not for calls, not anymore. When the lockdown hit, an unknown presence began hunting anyone without a device. Now the only way to survive is to play: codes, puzzles, riddles, and choices that can’t be undone. You’ve been selected. The Corrupts are waiting. Let’s play.

The Other Petra

Petra Brooke died at thirty-four with a bullet in her chest and a secret she never got to uncover. Then she wakes up eighteen again, three days into her senior year. This time, she'll protect her mother, uncover the conspiracy surrounding her family, and find the person who killed her. There's just one problem: she is falling for the man she married in her first life, and she still doesn't know if he was involved in her murder.

The Certainty Trap 2

“Some doors are only ever opened by the part of you that already knows what’s on the other side.”

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The Boy Who Knew My Secret

Three years ago, a girl disappeared, and Emily Carter was the last person to see her alive. Now, Adrian Blackwood has returned with a secret that could destroy Emily's life. He knows what happened that night—but the closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between love and revenge.

His Favorite Scandal

Mara Candal wakes up with her own funeral clip on her phone and three months to stop the men who made her look unstable before they killed her. Her fiancé wants her quiet. Her editor wants her contained. Julian Cross wants her dangerous. He helped ruin her once. Now Mara will use his secrets, his guilt, and his obsession to make powerful men confess, on camera and on their knees.

The Voyeur

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.

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The trouble with falling

A story of a boy and a girl who started as enemies but slowly fell in love only to be broken by some secrets

ᴠᴀʟʟᴇʏ ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ.⋆♱[ꜱᴛᴀʀᴅᴇᴡ ᴠᴀʟʟᴇʏ ꜰᴀɴꜰɪᴄ]

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.

Ẹmí Àjẹ́

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 Hidden Past

Two sisters were murdered. Their spirits never left. Now, months later, Thalia steps into the same forest… and something starts to follow her. Visions. Whispers. Shadows calling her name. The truth behind their deaths was buried long ago— but the Hidden Past always finds its way back.

THE HOLLOW CROWN

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.

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Ruthless Desires [SMUT 25+]

"Why the fuck would he cheat on me with a stripper?" Rose only wanted to survive. Working nights at a strip club was never part of her dream; it was her only choice. Then Lewis walked into her life. A wealthy man with dangerous secrets and a wild obsession. Falling for him could cost Rose everything, especially now that his ruthless wife has vowed to make her life a living hell for sleeping with her husband. ⚠️ Adult/explicit content begins from Chapter 25 onward. Reader discretion advised.

Pretty Little Sins

Six years after her sister’s murder, forensic psychologist Amara Vale receives a mysterious package leading her to Roman Devereaux—a dangerous billionaire who knows more than he admits. Desperate for answers, she enters his world of power, obsession, and deadly secrets. But as desire blurs the line between predator and prey, Amara discovers the most terrifying monsters may be the ones she's loved her entire life.

The Moon Beneath the Lake

‎When a mysterious moon appears beneath the surface of a quiet lake, a curious young girl named Elara Vale discovers that it is not a reflection—but a doorway to a hidden world. ‎With the help of a mysterious boy who seems to know more about the lake than he admits, Elara must uncover the truth about the moon, face the secrets hidden in her own past, and decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to save the world beneath the lake.

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Fifteen

Eun Jo's funeral was held on a Saturday evening, One day after It decided she was dead, and one day before Rene shook her hand, the same way it had happened to someone the year before and would happen to someone the year after.

T.E.A

After returning home for a family funeral, Romilly receives a mysterious message from a six-year-dead group chat—and realizes Silas’s death may be hiding a secret her family desperately wants buried.

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ᴠᴀʟʟᴇʏ ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ.⋆♱[ꜱᴛᴀʀᴅᴇᴡ ᴠᴀʟʟᴇʏ ꜰᴀɴꜰɪᴄ]

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