Echoes of the Broken string

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 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.

I Plead the 5th

This novel has a lot of twist and turns.

The New Crown: BLACKWATER

𝑺𝑬𝑹𝑰𝑬𝑺 At Windsor Academy, brilliance is currency, legacy is law, and every crown comes sharpened. When two powerful young men collide beneath the weight of expectation, the island’s oldest systems begin revealing what they were built to protect. 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑪𝑹𝑶𝑾𝑵: 𝑬𝑷𝑰𝑺𝑶𝑫𝑬 𝑶𝑵𝑬 Move-in weekend brings fresh faces, old power, and the first fracture in Windsor’s carefully managed image. By sunrise, everyone is watching the wrong thing.

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.

My Highschool Crush

She spent years secretly loving the most popular boy in school, believing he'd never notice her. But when fate brings them closer, hidden feelings, jealous rivals, painful secrets, and unexpected twists turn a simple crush into a love story that will change their lives forever. Will their first love survive the challenges of high school, or remain just another beautiful memory?

The Last Great American Dynasty

Cameron Forbes arrives at Georgetown determined to be known for who he is—not as the President's son. Keeping his identity secret seems easy until he falls for Wyatt, a charismatic senior who has no idea who Cameron really is. But as their connection deepens, the truth becomes harder to hide. • Duel POV • College Romance • Secret Identity

Come Get Me.

Maya thought she was marrying the love of her life… until she caught him with her best friend on their wedding day. Heartbroken, she texts the one person she never expected to need again — her childhood friend. She has no idea he’s now a mafia Don who’s been watching her for fifteen years. And he’s done waiting.

The Love I Wasn't Taught

She spent her childhood learning how to survive the people who were supposed to love her. Then she met him—the boy who made her believe she was finally worth choosing. But when love begins to hurt in familiar ways, she must decide whether to keep chasing the love she was never taught… or finally choose herself.

Seven panels to fall

Ren discovers a webcomic with a final message: If no one comes by March 14, I jump. The robot in the panels has a three-fingered hand the same hand as Haruka, the quiet girl in his class who always hides hers. He starts going to the roof where she sits. Day after day. Not to save her. Just to be there. A quiet story about being seen when you’ve spent years disappearing.

What Growing Up Feels Like

Growing up isn't just about chasing your dreams—it's about surviving the truths you never saw coming. As old wounds reopen and hidden secrets begin to surface, lives intertwine in unexpected ways, testing friendships, family, love, and courage. In a world where the past never truly stays buried, everyone is forced to discover what growing up really feels like.

Ask Me To Stay

A billionaire inventor searching for a family. A guarded survivor carrying a pregnancy he never planned. A donor event neither man fully remembers ties Leonardo Ivanov and Theo Maren together through a private contract, a criminal cover-up, and a scandal powerful people are desperate to control.

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.

Blood and Moon Academy

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.

My Heart Will Go On

"Can love outlast lives?"

A Melody Born in Transit

When two strangers meet on a train journey through South Korea, an unexpected connection begins—one that may change both of their lives forever.

Whats left of me

Liz thought she had it all figured out-her business, her friendships, her future. What she didn't realize was that she was slowly losing herself in a relationship that didn't love her back.

Ashen Ascendant: Wings of Embers

Elowen and her best friends Yuna Salvadore-Nephilimio and Lyra Salvadore have always known they were different. Born with powers they don’t understand, they hide their abilities from the world. But when they are summoned to Avalis Academy, a hidden school for the gifted, they uncover the truth about their powers and a prophecy that places Elowen at its center. Now, they must face dark forces and decide whether their destiny will save the world…or destroy them.

Not Just an Exhibit

Eden Clark is a historian helping to curate the Smithsonian's Captain America exhibit when Captain Steve Rogers takes an interest in her safety. She's drawn into the world of her heroes (she wrote her thesis on Captain America and the Howling Commandos after all), drawn in further than she could have ever imagined.

My Fate Written For You (complete)

Would you take chance if you knew that you might lose a person for forever yet you make a place for them in your heart? Two souls, confined in one place where people come to get cured from they're physical misery. One's heart so fragile that it barely holding her. One's heart so betrayed that she can't take it anymore. Yet both are made for each other amidst their own curse.

MY Wife is the Secret Boss

After being betrayed and divorced by the man she loved, Sophia starts over with nothing. Unknown to everyone, she's the true heiress of the powerful Laurent Empire, but she hides her identity. As she secretly helps struggling CEO Damien Carter rebuild his company, her ex-husband, his new lover, and a fake heiress continue to humiliate her. How long can the real Secret Boss remain hidden before the truth changes everything?

Restringing the Heart

Jaxon Henderson was once a well-knowned guitarist in a band called The Runaways. Eliana Cruz is known as the nightingale of the West End Theatres. What happens when they both run away from the spotlight?

Safe as Lighthouses: By Night

James is a second generation actor struggling with being typecast, sibling rivalry, and roles that refuse to let him go. Faith works with an agency that offers unlimited assistance in whatever capacity members need. There is nothing the agency can't get you, if you are willing to pay the price. After finding out his brother has been refused membership multiple times, James accepts a meeting with Faith and finds himself quickly pulled into her gravity. But she knows far more than she lets on.

The End Was Never the End?

When surviving became my childhood.

London Boy

What if falling in love meant risking everything? In 1950s London, Justin Authbert and Theodore Coddington find themselves drawn to a love they cannot openly embrace. In a society ruled by expectations, their feelings must remain hidden, and every stolen moment comes with a price. London Boy is a tender story of forbidden love, courage, and the longing to be seen for who you truly are—despite a world that says they should hide.

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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.

Don't Catch The Falling Blade (Enverga Series #1)

Asia, a science, technology, engineering and mathematics student, was very clear with her one and only goal in life-to be the valedictorian. However, it became difficult for her when she met Rade, also from science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the boy version of herself or maybe...the better one.

Bound in darkness

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.

She Waits by The Sea

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.

Sunkissed

ONGOING. Updated Tuesdays (JST) Sun, sea, sangria and some harmless flirting. Ella and Lucy head to Spain determined to reinvent themselves before university. Armed with sangria, sunshine and a promise to stop saying no, the two best friends soon discover that first love, first heartbreak and growing up never go according to plan. CLOSED DOOR

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