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Shadows Within Earth: Volume One by Shadows Within Earth · Loreum

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Shadows Within Earth: Volume One

Shadows Within Earth

@shadowswithinearth

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Shadows Within Earth: The Anthology
An ongoing anthology set in the World of Shadows Within Earth. Make sure to read the mainline Volumes before diving into this decades spanning collection of adventures!

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VOWBOUND
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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.
Second Sight
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For a bit of gold
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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📚
Hell is Arcane
"Do not be deceived!! There is no glory in this path you choose. No songs will be sung for you, no ballads or laurels with your name. But remember this." “When the demons charge at you. When you walk through the valley of death. When the devil stands guard against you.” “Remember you do not fight for yourself alone! You fight for all of us! You fight for the Citadel!” A thousand men struck their chest in unison as their voice shook the halls. “We die for the citadel!!”
A Drop of Haunted Blood
Sixteen-year-old Felix Carver carries the ghosts of magicians in his blood. He can communicate with them and use the magical abilities they wielded against monsters when they were alive. His newfound power would be pretty cool, if the ghosts in question weren't his family and the man who killed them.
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GREY EYES, SHARP KNIVES
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.
The Unsung
In a dying world where power is a shard of a broken song and the unbound are fed to the Rifts as living bait, the one man whose soul can hold no power at all binds the silence that ancient lifeforms were mutilated to seal, and learns he can take the dead's power for his own.
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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.
Betrothed To My Luna Of Two Worlds
Rose believes she is human until a mysterious prophecy then mark pulls her into a world of wolves, vampires, and deadly secrets. Adrian, the powerful Alpha, tries to stay away, determined to protect her from a world she doesn't belong to. But fate has other plans. As a failed Luna ritual, forbidden bloodline, and rising vampire war expose secrets that could change everything, Rose must discover who she truly is before the blood moon seals her fate.
RE:Turn OF Mana
For ages, Earth knew four great eras of magic, when gods, demons, and mythical beings walked among humanity. At the dawn of the Fourth Era, a demon made magic vanish. Humanity called it myth—until the ancient barrier broke. Mana returned, awakening extraordinary powers. As humans clash with Siddhas, the Heavenly Queens choose one man to become King of Earth and restore balance before magic destroys the world. https://www.royalroad.com/profile/1062929/fictions
Black lace & Pink venom
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.
Bekaaboo (A Tale of Bleeding Hearts ) (
Seven years ago, she broke his heart. Seven years later, he returned for revenge. Vansh once loved Ridhima. Now, he only hates her. But love never truly died. Secrets still haunt their past. Betrayal changed everything between them. Desire brings them closer again. Revenge slowly turns into obsession. Will their bleeding hearts love again?7
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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.
Paragon: A Super In Another World
What happens when a disgraced superhero meets a fantasy world? Join Adan as he navigates a world of magic where the fantastical and the monstrous dominate the lands, seas, and skies. He will fight mages and their spells, martial artists and their immense strength, and even wrestle a dragon or several. As apocalypse looms and conspiracies stir, a great showdown is all but inevitable. Fortunately for the people of this world and unfortunately for the demonic and mad, he has power unrivaled.
Death Slave
“Forever a slave to my own death.” Betrayed and killed by her own father, Zamora awakens in Purgatory as an Anomaly—a primordial being gifted with supernatural powers. Trapped inside a glitched, video game-like world, she must battle monsters, climb deadly levels, and survive a System that says she shouldn’t exist. Worse, the divine power keeping her alive comes with one small, potentially fatal side effect…
The Alpha's Forbidden Secret
Story Pitch Elara discovers she is the last Moonborn, an ancient supernatural bloodline with unimaginable power. Hunted by a ruthless king and surrounded by dangerous enemies, she must uncover the truth about her past while learning to control her abilities. But the secrets hidden by Alpha Kael could change everything—and determine whether Elara saves their world or destroys it.
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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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.
Vaporize The Memory
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...
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The Aether Portal
Ethan, an 18-year-old orphan, discovers a mysterious portal hidden beneath his late grandfather’s house. On the other side lies a dangerous world filled with monsters, magic, and unknown kingdoms. With a strange power called Aether at his command, Ethan begins exploring this new world, uncovering the secrets behind the portal and his grandfather’s past while trying to survive in a world far beyond anything he has ever known.
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.