The House At 3:17

The house has been abandoned for twenty years. A girl named Evelyn Mercer disappeared without a trace. At exactly 3:17 a.m., a light appears in one of the mansion’s upstairs windows. So who—or what—is watching from the window? And why did she choose tonight to reveal herself?

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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.

The House At 3:17 Book Two: The Girl In The Window

Emma thought the nightmare at the house at 3:17 was over. She was wrong. When a mysterious girl begins appearing outside her bedroom window, Emma and Maya uncover a terrifying truth: some nightmares don’t stay behind. As the clock strikes three and the shadows grow closer, Emma realizes the girl isn’t trying to get in. She’s already inside. 👁️

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.

The Whisper in the Wall

Lara thought Apartment 304 would be the perfect place to start over. But when strange whispers begin coming from behind her walls, she discovers that the building hides a disturbing history of disappearances and unexplained deaths. The more she investigates, the more the walls seem to know her and the more she realizes that whatever lives inside them may never let her leave. Some walls keep secrets. Others keep people.

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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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.

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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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Jimmy and The Ghost of Alister

When psychometric prodigy James Kingston (Jimmy) arrives at Transylvania’s sinister Ashen Academy, he uncovers a horrific secret: a secret order siphoning the psychic energy of gifted students. Teaming up with the brave groundskeeper’s daughter, Clara, Jimmy must decipher ancient clues, battle dark parasitic forces beneath Carpathian crypts, and untangle a century-old conspiracy, all while falling deeply in love amidst the gothic shadows.

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!)

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 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.

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.

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Murder Mystery: The Expanse

What would you do if you suddenly woke up in a mysterious looping meadow with forty-nine strangers, and no way out? Reina Quinn, a paramedic who trust a notebook more than people. When a calm leader and a kind healer seemed too perfect. She noticed a pattern of murders. Can Reina uncover the killers and exposed them? Follow her journey on the place called Expanse.

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 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.

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.

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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.

THE WOMAN IN MY FATHER'S GRAVE

Three hours after burying his father, Daniel receives a phone call from the dead man himself. His father's warning is chilling: a mysterious woman has been buried beside him, and she must never be released. But Daniel witnessed the burial, and no woman was there. As strange messages arrive and his mother's secrets unravel, Daniel discovers a terrifying truth buried in his family's past. Someone is lying, and the dead may not be the only ones hiding something. Some graves must never be opened.

Restoration

Logline: When a picture framer takes on a late-night rush commission of a mysterious Victorian portrait, he accidentally unleashes an entity that traps its victims inside their own reflections—and it's starting to wear his face. Pitch: Perfect for fans of dark, slow-burn psychological horror and supernatural dread. Dive into a world where your own mirror can no longer be trusted. Read the full 8-chapter serialization now!

The Chaos Theorem

"The most dangerous place a man can live is inside his own assumptions."

Your Last Seen was 2:17AM

At 2:17 a.m., Noah Vale receives a message predicting tomorrow. It comes true. Then the texts turn personal, exposing his three-year-old secret and we a dead podcaster, Elias Reed. Noah turns to digital evidence researcher Julian Cross, who has been investigating him all along. Both lie. Is it love, or strategy?

The Perfect lie

Investigative journalist Elena Hart receives an anonymous envelope with a chilling message: "The lie begins with your name." As she follows a trail of hidden secrets, mysterious deaths, and shocking betrayals, everyone becomes a suspect. With a determined private investigator by her side, Elena is must uncover the truth before the mastermind behind the lies silences her forever.

Crimson Pursuit

Sabrina Vasquez is done playing by the rules. After her mentor Mike Lowrey is gunned down, the determined Miami parole agent vows to find his shooter. Her hunt leads to Armando Aretas, a dangerous man with a blood-soaked past. But when hunter and hunted collide, anger gives way to an unexpected connection. Now Sabrina must choose: avenge Mike or risk losing herself in the chaos—and the man she was supposed to bring down.

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 Moon's Debt

When Lena Carter discovers that her brother’s illness is connected to an ancient pact, she travels to a forbidden mansion in Blackwood, Oregon. There, she meets Ethan Vale, the cursed Alpha of a secret wolf pack. Her family promised her as his bride generations ago, but Lena carries the Moon’s Mark, a power capable of saving the pack or destroying it. As forbidden desire grows between them, she must uncover the truth before Ethan’s wolf takes control.

THE BEAUTIFUL MISTAkE. (C

Riddhima Sareen, a young budding psychiatrist, who loves to lessen her patients' pain. But the irony being that she herself doesn't have anyone whom she can share her pain with..... However a strange encounter with a handsome but mysterious man stirs new hope in her heart. In him she finds her saviour, her guardian angel and a perfect answer to her emptiuness. But sometimes, even psychiatrists can have bad judgements....

The Last Dragon-Kin

Vanya is the last Dragon-Kin. She looks twenty. She is over a hundred. Disguised as an archive maid, she plans to reclaim the scroll that holds her people’s stolen life force. Prince Killian, the charming spy who pretends to be a playboy, notices her because she is the only woman unmoved by him. Both are lying. Neither expected the other to matter. A slow-burn fantasy romance of mutual suspicion, costly magic, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.

DON'T OPEN THE LAST VOICE NOTE

he gave me my dead best friend's phone. 4 voice notes. The last one says DON'T OPEN. I opened it and it knows my name. Now it wants me as number 4.

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