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[Warning: This story contains dark romance themes. Expect dangerous plot twists ahead.] slow burn --------------------------------------------------------------- I came to Thornwood with one rule: keep my head down, survive on my scholarship, and never let anyone close enough to notice I wear long sleeves in July. Then Silas Blackwood noticed me. Cold, beautiful, and built from old money and older graves, Silas should have been my biggest red flag. Instead he becomes my shadow—memorizing my coffee order, leaving blackberries on my desk like I'm some bird he's trying to fatten up, and touching the burn scar on my wrist like he's checking if I'm still warm. But Thornwood is more than an elite university. Beneath its ivy-covered walls are buried secrets, bloodstained legacies, and a truth dangerous enough to get people killed. And when I become the center of a deadly game, the one man I should fear the most is the only one willing to burn the world for me. Silas Blackwood was supposed to be my downfall. Instead, he became my favorite ruin. [Billionaire × Scholarship Student | Dark Academia | Obsessive Love | Enemies-to-Lovers | HEA

Cora, an orphan, was adopted by the Blood Moon pack. As an adult, she married Alpha Dave. The marriage ended when Dave had an affair with an Omega. Dave rejected Cora and banished her. She couldn't have an heir. Cora sought refuge in the Arun Forest. There, she met Ethan, the Alpha of the Crescent Pack, who had just lost his mate. Cora and Ethan trust each other and realize they are second-chance mates. When Alpha Dave learns of Cora's new relationship, he is jealous and tries to destroy Alpha Ethan's pack. Meanwhile, Ethan confronts him with a fact from Alpha Dave's past.

The era of the sun is a dead memory. Humanity's sprawling kingdoms have fallen, and the last remnants of civilization are buried alive. Trapped within a decaying, subterranean iron bunker known as the Sanctuary, the few survivors of an apocalyptic extinction cling to a grim existence. Outside the walls lies an unforgiving abyss of monsters and black miasma; inside, the reality is just as terrifying. Under the iron-fisted rule of Chief Murad Xie, the Sanctuary survives through a horrifying arithmetic. Compassion is a forgotten language, and the weak are literally consumed to keep the strong alive. Eleven-year-old Akira and his mother, Syuri, are the last sparks of hope in this sterile tomb. While the rest of humanity has surrendered to the ruthless, blood-soaked laws of their cage, Syuri preaches of a forgotten world above—a place of blue skies and green earth. Her dreams earn her the title of a madwoman from the starving crowds, but Akira fiercely protects his innocence, clinging to her teachings in a society that demands cruelty. But innocence is a death sentence at the end of the world. As resources run dry and the shadow of starvation threatens to snap the Sanctuary's fragile peace, an elite soldier named Klein takes Akira under his wing. Knowing the brutal truth of their decaying sanctuary, Klein drags the boy into the pitch-black outskirts of the gates. Through agonizing, bone-breaking training, he seeks to strip away the boy's naive hopes and forge him into a weapon capable of surviving the nightmare to come. As the last embers of human civilization threaten to burn out forever, Akira stands at a crossroads. He must decide whether to surrender to the savage reality of humanity's final cage, or bleed to prove that his mother’s beautiful world still exists in the dark.

War is coming. For centuries, werewolves have fought their ancient enemies, vampires and witches, each side waiting for the moment the balance of power finally breaks. Chloe never expected to stand at the center of it. Bound to Kai, a powerful Alpha with a dangerous reputation, she finds herself caught in a conspiracy that reaches far beyond their pack. Secrets buried for generations begin to surface, alliances crumble, and enemies lurk where they least expect. As the war draws closer, Chloe and Kai must decide what matters more: the rules of their world… or the bond between them. Because when everything begins to fall apart, only one truth remains: Let them hate us. It has always been me and you from the start.

When gods wage war, mortals pay the price. What's worse: death... or immortality that will never come? Long before humanity reached the stars, two artificial gods waged war. Their battle destroyed galaxies. One promised eternal life. But billions were never resurrected. Their minds still drift in a digital purgatory between life and oblivion. Now the ancient war awakens again. Civilizations tremble. Androids rise. And the truth about immortality could destroy everything. Because when gods wage war... mortals pay the price. But sometimes all it takes is one mistake to change the fate of an entire galaxy.

Lucas Elliott, the formidable CEO of ZigLan Corp. is known to the boardroom as "The Ice King" and to the underworld as the lethal Elian. Behind his iron mask, he battles with Cystic Agnosia, a rare neurological disorder that leaves him suffering from cold-induced seizures and psychological isolation . He has built his life on absolute control, until one night of drug-induced passion with a stranger shatters his icy resolve. Beatrice Kingston, a talented designer from the humble streets of Oakhills, is the victim of her sister’s cruel envy. Orchestrated into a high-stakes betrayal, she finds herself pregnant with the heir to an empire she doesn't understand. When Lucas discovers her, he whisks her away, to hide her from the vipers in his own family and his ruthless rival, Damien. As the "Ice King" begins to melt under the warmth of Beatrice’s presence, the war turns deadly. With Damien tightening his grip on the government and the underworld, Lucas must navigate a minefield of sabotage and secrets. In a world where love is a liability and power is a death sentence, Lucas and Beatrice must decide if their fragile bond is a sanctuary or a target.

POWER IS NEVER GIVEN—IT IS TAKEN, ONE MOVE AT A TIME. Betrayed. Cornered. Hunted. Tez’ Mu has two choices: move or be removed. In Ochelon, power is a blade, and he is running out of time to claim one. Sent to broker peace, he instead walks into a war of shifting alliances and deadly secrets. If he plays his hand right, he won’t just survive—he’ll rewrite the game itself. The Eighth Pawn is a gripping tale of political intrigue, deception, and a reluctant hero caught in the storm of a dying empire. Perfect for fans of slow-burn strategy, high-stakes manipulation, and the kind of power plays that leave kingdoms in ruins. In a world of kings and warlords, one pawn dares to play. NOT ALL BATTLES ARE FOUGHT WITH SWORDS—SOME ARE WON WITH WHISPERS.

Li Yao wakes up in the world of Naruto, in the village of Konoha during the era of the future Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. His goal is clear: to change the destiny of the ninja world and save Minato. But everything changes on his very first day, when Minato reports him to the Anbu, suspecting him as a spy. From saving Konoha to destroying the Hidden Leaf, Li Yao’s journey has just begun. A Naruto fanfic full of transmigration, reincarnation, Ninja Academy life, dark secrets, and epic battles. Thank you for the support, friends. If you want to read more chapters in advance, go to my Patreon. Read 30 Chapters In Advance: patreon.com/Kira1997

BOOK ONE OF “FERAL BONDS” SERIES Vael groaned, his breath fanning her skin as he pinned her against the desk. “I swear it, Vessara, you’ll never mate another in this lifetime. You. Are. Mine.” His fangs sank into the sensitive skin at the crook of her neck. Her eyes widened in shock at the realization of what he had done. >>>>>>>>>>>> Alpha Vael’Runn did not rise to power through loyalty or honor; he carved his rule through fear. He learned early that mercy is a weakness and love is a liability. So he swore off it. Until one night changes everything. Vessara is an omega born into cruelty. She has spent her life learning how to survive by staying quiet, by pleasing others, by never asking for more than she’s given. So when she’s sold off like a property to the most feared Alpha in the realm, it becomes a death sentence. Vael is irritated by her constant existence in his life. She’s fragile. She breaks just like the other omegas. But somehow, something unsettles him. Something about Vessara refuses to fade into the background of his world. She awakens something he has buried long ago. Will Vessara become more than a possession? Perhaps a weakness Vael cannot afford? Will she remain silent and survive or risk everything to awaken the man buried beneath the monster? CONTENT WARNING: This book contains triggers and explicit scenes of abuse, violence, and a dark, obsessive male lead.

“Marry me, Your Grace, and I will be the quietest, most obedient wife you could ever ask for.” In her past life, Eris burned on the execution pyre while her husband, Duke Cesare, shielded his mistress from the flames. Before turning to ash, she learned one cruel truth, The only person immune to the Emperor’s purge is the mother of royal blood. When she opens her eyes three years in the past, Eris makes a chilling choice. She doesn’t run. She marries her murderer all over again. Hiding her trauma behind tearful eyes and the mask of a fragile noblewoman, she plays the perfect victim. She doesn’t want his love. She only wants his child. Because once she becomes untouchable… she will burn his world to the ground. But there is one flaw in her perfect plan, The cold Duke who once watched her die… is now dangerously, obsessively fixated on his delicate wife.

Warning: Dark and mature themes: explicit sex, heavy angst, non-detailed abuse, trauma, violence, and intense emotional tension. Please read with caution. Choi Yujun- born into power but cursed with a 'weakness'. The only son of the Choi family is born an omega, born an embarrassment to a bloodline of strong and pure alphas. At a party, a violent attack from a mutual enemy exposed Yujun’s secret in front of his family’s sworn enemy, Hwang Jaehyun, Yujun prepares for humiliation and blackmail, offering himself to be used by the Alpha in order to protect himself from his own family Instead of the humiliation...Hwang Jaehyun does the unthinkable... The rival who is supposed to destroy him, becomes his drug, his shield, his forbidden comfort. Together they fight to bring down the people who made Yujun bleed…together they bleed in the face of betrayals, trials and "Don't you realize? I'm a Choi, I am cursed and I am sick" Yujun says with deep angish, "then use me, Yujun-ah, use me like a drug" Jaehyun response came out raw and desperate, his alpha swearing it.

Okay so. A Korean CIA agent dies on a Tuesday. Not like — heroically. Not going out guns blazing saving the world. He gets betrayed by his own government, his own colleague can’t even look him in the eyes, and the last thing he thinks about before he dies is a location he memorized that he can’t use anymore. That’s it. That’s how it ends for him on Earth. And then he wakes up. Except it’s not waking up the way isekai usually does it. There’s no system. No congratulations screen. No hidden talent activating. No mentor showing up to explain the rules. He wakes up in the body of a nine-year-old orphan in a world at war. Malnourished. Running a fever. Can’t stand up without a wall. Has literally the lowest possible Mana — which in this world is basically saying you have nothing — and he doesn’t even know the language yet. And bro. His first conscious act? He makes a mark under the floorboard. To know if his space gets disturbed while he’s out. He’s running a fever. Can barely move. Been awake for eleven minutes. Already doing intelligence work. That’s Han Seo-jun. That’s the whole character right there in one moment. The world threw everything at him and the man just — assesses. Files it. Starts building. Because what else do you do? You work with what you have. Now the world he’s in — Kaelthar — is not nice about it. Eight nations at war. Every single one of them corrupt in their own specific way. Power determines everything — not your character, not your heart, not how hard you try. If you don’t have power you get used or thrown away. Full stop. No exceptions. And this man has no power. What he has is fifteen years of CIA field experience in the mind of a nine-year-old child. He has the patience of someone who measures operations in months. He has the ability to read a room in four seconds and already know three ways out before he sits down. So he uses that. He gets himself into Caldris — the most powerful academic institution in the world — as a kitchen laborer. Washing dishes. Carrying crates. Looking like nobody. Meanwhile he’s running three intelligence operations simultaneously, identifying the institution’s secret intelligence division through passive observation, and studying for the scholarship exam in every spare moment he has. He gets the scholarship. Lowest Mana core in the cohort. Highest academic and strategic scores in eleven years. And this is where the story starts getting to me personally because — He meets people. Not intentionally. Not as a strategy. Despite every operational instinct he has. There’s Sian. He meets her in a library. They both reach for the same book at the same time. The whole first conversation is fifteen seconds long. And across a hundred chapters of them just — existing near each other, being exactly who they are, neither of them performing anything — it becomes the most quietly devastating relationship I’ve ever written. She never says she cares about him directly. She just slides a book across a table without looking up after he gets hurt. She makes a resource appear through her channels when he gets cut off. She is the fixed moral point in a world where everything shifts.

Born unlucky. Died the same way. He killed, he stole, he built an empire from nothing — not because life was kind to him, but because he refused to kneel for anyone. They called him The Joker. He ruled the underworld with an iron fist. And died at the hands of an old woman he never saw coming. The void gave him another world. Now he rises again — carrying nothing but a mysterious ring and one unbreakable rule: No one breaks me. Not fate.Not the world itself. But was his suffering fate's cruelest mistake — or its most precise design?

Some contracts are written in ink. His was written in blood and he never signed it. Dante Kōgetsu is the best at what he does. No target too difficult. No contract refused. No emotion wasted. He built his reputation on one principle: finish the job and walk away clean. Then a contract arrived with a photograph inside. Her face. Sophie Arisaka. The only person who ever made him feel like a human being rather than a weapon. He faked her death, lied to the client, and told himself it was a calculated decision. It was not. Now he is hunting the anonymous man who ordered her death and every step closer reveals a truth he is not ready for. The man behind the contract is Edward Yashiro. His oldest friend. A person who loved Sophie, lost her, and let that loss rot into something unrecognizable. What Dante does not know yet is that Edward knows everything. The demons Dante carries inside him Kairo and Mūn were not accidents. They were placed there deliberately, by someone who chose him before he was old enough to refuse. And every time Dante uses their power, he pays a price no one warned him about. He loses her. Not Sophie herself. The memories of her. One by one. Quietly. Irreversibly. The job was supposed to be simple. It became a war against an old friend, against the man who made him, and against the clock running silently inside his own mind. Some things cannot be unforgiven. Some prices cannot be unpaid. Some contracts were never meant to end.

​A trivial mistake. That was all it took for Elena to find herself legally bound to the man whose bride had abandoned him at the altar only days prior. Luca Vermont wasn’t looking for a replacement, and Elena wasn’t looking for a savior to cling to. She was merely a former doctor, hiding in the shadows of a simple decorator's job, until she made the reckless mistake of signing a blank document left behind in the chaotic wake of a failed wedding. ​But in Vermont’s world, mistakes aren't erased with apologies; they are paid for in loyalty or blood. ​While Luca struggles to understand how this "nobody" breached his legal fortresses—and how he might exploit her—Elena wastes no time. She begins using her newfound power as a Vermont to settle old, bloody scores of her own. ​She possesses a surgical scalpel that knows exactly where to cut to kill. He possesses a bullet that never misses its mark. In a marriage built on a foundation of lies and filthy secrets, the only question remains: ​Who will finish the other first?

Nell Capri is a burnt-out journalist writing clickbait for a gossip site when she gets the tip of a lifetime: Dane, the biggest pop star in the country, isn't who her forty million fans think she is. The way in? Logan Perry: Dane's guitarist, internet obsession, and the awkward kid who used to hang around Nell's house buying cigarettes she never smoked just for a chance to talk to her. Nell hasn't thought about Logan in ten years. Logan has never stopped thinking about Nell. All Nell has to do is get close, get the story, and get out before anyone finds out who she really is... so why does it keep getting harder to remember which parts she's faking?

What happens when two powerful men fight for one woman? Will the city tremble? Jasper Reynolds, a ruthless mafia lord and the richest man in the city, is used to having everything he desires. Atticus, a wealthy and mysterious vampire with charm and darkness in his veins, who always takes what he wants by force, falls for one woman. Sophia Williams, a woman afraid of rejection and love, who has vowed never to fall in love, becomes the one thing neither can claim for themselves. Who will win in this fight for love? The most powerful and richest mafia lord or the mysterious and deadly vampire? But what happens when someone lurking in the shadows wants to kill the woman they both are fighting for? Will they destroy the city to save her... or each other? Updates are every day; Three times on weekdays weekends: 10pm with 3 bonus chapters

“This world is built on lies. If you want to keep it alive, make sure none of them are exposed. They must never reach his ears.” As long as Shuu could remember, these words had governed his life. Abandoned at the grand temple and forsaken by the gods, Shuu grew up powerless in a world that valued nothing else. Survival was never guaranteed, especially for someone like him. Yet he had one talent-he could read fortunes, and he never got them wrong. His future was decided early. He would serve the temple until his debt was paid, then fade away. But during the Hero’s fortune reading, Shuu made a single mistake. One moment was enough to strip him of his place and throw him into exile-only to be taken in by the very Hero who caused it, a man whose presence turns Shuu’s life completely off course. And as Shuu is pulled deeper into the Hero’s path, he begins to realize that something about the Hero and his companions is deeply wrong-something he cannot yet name, but cannot ignore. __________ Please leave a review. Also warning, will have Mpreg (around ch 70ish) . If it's not your cup of tea, just be careful

Arya Hunter is a simple zoologist who enjoys life with her aunt and uncle, who are also her adoptive parents, and sibling. her world turns around when her friend goes missing, without completing her field project on dire wolves, and she is asked to go the little village of Moonsglow, to complete her friends research and it is there that so many secrets unfold. was her parents killed in an accident as she was told? is she human? No, she's a werewolf. all is not what it seems, and can she see the truth before it's too late? or will she also perish and dissappear forever?

In a universe ruled not by peace, but by dominance, the Imperium stands as the ultimate authority over seven powerful planetary Lineages-Akhara, Dravok, Solaryn, Kharvex, Malrion, Raxen, and Scion. Each Lineage is governed by a ruler of immense strength, bound by a rigid hierarchy where power alone defines worth. At the center of this system lies Akhara-the strongest lineage, feared and respected across the cosmos. As tensions rise and alliances fracture, war becomes inevitable. Alex Akhara, a formidable ruler shaped by duty and ambition, prepares to lead his lineage into a conflict that could reshape the entire Imperium. But this is not just a war between planets-it is a battle of ideologies, legacy, and control. From the brutal might of the Scion warriors to the calculated strategies of Dravok, every lineage brings its own strength, secrets, and motives. Hidden betrayals, rising heirs, and untested warriors begin to shift the balance of power. In a world where strength is law and weakness is erased, only one truth remains- Not all conquerors survive their conquest