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He won her in a bidding war. She expected chains. Instead, he offered chaos, and something dangerously close to freedom. Anastasia was raised in the temple, carved from childhood with sacred runes. Each one a blood-soaked tribute to the gods she never chose. A weapon. A symbol. A prize passed from hand to hand. A body to be used and sold. When the temples auction her off, she’s prepared to survive whatever comes next. She’s not prepared for him. Malvor, the God of Chaos, is all smirks and swagger, crowned in mischief and dressed like temptation itself. But beneath the theatrics is a man hiding his own scars. Some emotional, some eternal. He doesn’t want obedience. He wants fire. Challenge. Her. And Anastasia? She’s done playing the part of the willing doll. She’s dangerous, defiant, and not afraid to bite the hand that tries to claim her. Now, caught in a realm where illusions have teeth and gods play games with mortal lives, the only thing more reckless than trusting Malvor… is falling for him. This isn’t a love story. It’s healing wrapped in heat. It’s trauma, chaos, and slow, aching desire. It starts with a woman who was never meant to survive. But did. And came back sharper.

Tormented by the death of her beloved, Ysolde decides to take her life. Seconds before she takes the step, a mysterious person holds her and says, 'He is alive'. With this new confusion and hope that her beloved is somewhere out there, she sets on to fulfil their dream of building an Opera House while actively seeking him out. But how can he still be here when she had seen his corpse with her own eyes?

She once tried hard, but the marriage unknowingly turned into a lifeless pond. Her husband stayed out all night, and she gradually became numb from heartache. Work became her true companion. The only gift from this marriage was that it forged her into a calm and independent female journalist. She thought her heart had long drowned in that lifeless pond until she met that man in a crisp police uniform, with a crooked smile and cunning eyes... Their first encounter was at the scene of a crime. She went to report, and he went to apprehend. He mistook her for an accomplice, mercilessly cuffing her wrists to a wire fence! She panicked and bit him, desperately defending herself: "I don't have the stolen goods you want!" He, however, looked at her through his sunglasses with wicked charm: "Really?"

"Some fires never die-they just wait for the right spark." Isabella Hart was born into perfection - wealth, grace, and a family that demanded obedience. But behind the silk curtains and flawless smiles hides a secret she can never say aloud. A secret with a name... Ava. Ava Moore was the light in Isabella's lonely world - fearless, kind, and beautifully unafraid of loving her. But when fate tore them apart, both were left to navigate a life that felt colder without the other. Years later, with miles and memories between them, Isabella still dreams of her touch. Ava still hears her laugh. And when destiny pulls them close again, their hearts remember what the world forced them to forget. Two souls. One forbidden love. When love defies rules, families, and time itself... how long can it burn before it consumes them both?

A wildfire took their homes. A lie gave them a roof. Strangers Albert and Melissa have nothing in common—except the desperate need to protect their children after a devastating fire. When the emergency shelter runs out of space, they are faced with a choice: stay in a tent or claim the last family apartment. They choose to lie. Two single parents. Two traumatized kids. One cat. And a government form that declares them a "Household." Forced into a tiny apartment with a 90-day deadline, they set ground rules to keep things strictly practical. But as they rebuild their lives from the ashes, the intimacy of shared meals and shared nightmares begins to break down their walls. In a city full of smoke and secrets, can two broken people build a forever home on a foundation of lies?

Riley Styles is a cold, calculating billionaire, forged in the crucible of war and haunted by a childhood marred by the ruthless grip of loan sharks. In stark contrast, Stephanie Rogers is a gentle but fiercely determined young woman, resolutely fighting to shield her widowed mother from the very predatory empire that once tormented Riley's family. Their fates intertwine on a tempestuous night when Riley witnesses the brutal assault of loan sharks on Stephanie and her mother. With the instinct of a man who has dedicated his life to hunting down the monsters that shattered his past, he charges in, unleashing a fierce wrath that reverberates with his own pain. Grateful yet shaken, Stephanie finds herself face to face with a man who excels in weapons and warfare but lacks the warmth of human connection. Riley, taken aback by her quiet bravery, discovers that her spirit penetrates the icy walls he has built around his heart. As Riley immerses himself deeper in his mission to dismantle the country’s deadliest loan shark network, Stephanie becomes an unwitting target—one aimed at breaking him. The very woman he risked everything to save now hangs in the balance, and Riley must confront the haunting battle he has feared his entire life: the battle for his heart. Will he guard his emotions or fight for the love that could save them both?

His neck burns. The spot where his mating mark should be burns the closer Travis got. He is shaking, aching all over, and he knows Travis’ touch would soothe him. But he is hurt and bleeding. He doesn’t want to repeat his life all over again with the alpha. Not when it led him to lose everything. And everything was him, Travis. Someone who once awakened him has done it again. His fated mate. Things have changed. He is a different person now. But his stupid omega is making a fool out of him by reacting in all the worst ways. “Don’t,” Day holds his hand out, heart racing. He doesn’t know why this was happening. His body and mind are clashing again, like they always do whenever they do this. “I am not some weak omega who is going to present to you simply because you were once mated to me. I am not going to submit to you. You are not my alpha.” Gods, how he wishes he could give in just this once. He can already feel the slick trickling down his thighs. Soiling his jeans. And going by the way Travis’ pheromones flare, nose twitching, he knows the alpha can smell he is losing the battle. … Day can find nothing wrong with his life. He is now enrolled in university, a whole new life away from his cage, finally growing up and discovering who he is. Then crosses paths with Travis. The alpha who makes him feel like he is being born and dying all at the same time. A thread is pulled every time he locks eyes with him, talks with him ... feels him near him. Every time his scent wraps his body like the softest cloud. With each tug, the life that has been carefully woven and fed to him starts to fall apart. Day realizes he isn’t who he has been told he is, and he was someone different once. Something else, but it was all taken away. Travis was taken away, too. All the scars unravel themselves on his bones, and he is once again breaking apart.

A highly anxious city pastry chef inherits a decaying coastal café and plans a quick sale, but her heart slowly thaws under the gentle rhythm of the small town and the quiet, steady gaze of a soulful landscape photographer who uses the space as his refuge.

[BL] Imagine being the main character of a toxic BL novel who somehow transmigrated to the real world— and then you found out that your readers ‘ship’ you with your abuser. Awful, right? Thankfully, that didn’t happen to Wonyoung. But that could happen to An Baekya— the main character of a hit omegaverse novel, who also happens to be his son-in-law. Yep, the red flag male lead who abused the main character was Wonyoung’s son from his 'past life.' He didn't know how his past life became a novel, but he hated his previous self for failing as a parent. So, when an unfortunate event brought him back inside the novel, he decided to change the main character's life for the better. Yes, Wonyoung will raise his future Omega son-in-law this time— even if it means abandoning his Alpha son. *** #omegaverse #dominantomega #dominantalpha #pregnancy #contractmarriage #mystery #timetravel #transmigration #novel #omega #alpha

Julie Marie Navares seemed to be a typical young woman. Her father wished her to go to the same school as her brother, Christian Navares, which is why she moved. She thought school would be quiet because she thought her secret—her hidden talent for singing and her alter ego on stage as the POP PRINCESS—would stay with her family. But what would happen if Mark Cielo Villanueva, a friend from childhood who she hated, found out? They had just met again. Could she still keep her secret and her peace?

Julia Hale is a beastwoman of unsettling beauty, an emergency room nurse in a large, unforgiving city, and the mother of young twins still too innocent to grasp the cost of silence. Behind her clinical composure and carefully ordered routine, Julia carries the scars of years of domestic violence, relentless humiliation, and a past that has never truly loosened its grip. Separated from Theo Desmond, her charismatic and predatory ex-husband, Julia struggles to build a stable life. She works. She raises her children. She manages her body, her desire, her exhaustion. On the surface, she is moving forward. In reality, she is still surviving. Her trauma does not erupt in screams but in interrupted gestures, intrusive memories, conflicted desire. She is in love with a woman—Stella Vance—a one-sided, silent love never spoken aloud. This attachment becomes a mirror, reflecting both what Julia longs for and what she still cannot claim. Under the Skin of a Beastwoman is neither a revenge story nor a tale of miraculous healing. It is a fragmented, intimate chronicle of a woman learning—slowly, imperfectly—to detach herself from a life built on fear, while trying to offer her children a future she was never given. An R18 urban narrative, visceral and deeply personal, where the body, desire, and memory become battlegrounds for survival and reclamation.

If love comes knocking would you open the door? If it came once again, would you answer twice? ~~~~ Sometimes we fail to appreciate that which comes to us and stays, believing it to stay forever so we take it for granted. But sometimes we are blessed with a second chance. So is the story of Rose and Cephas, who must learn that the path of love is one worthy of our heart space and must be regarded with utmost severity. But when they have to learn this amidst troubles, will their love hold true or will it give way to things that only lead to heartbreak? Let’s find out.

Aureal never expected her first love to be waiting for her on the other side. Haneul; the boy she adored from afar in her youth—now stands before her, no longer the pretty boy she remembers, but a breathtaking man who seems even more reachable in death than he ever was in life— But he isn't the only one. Four men; Four connections; None of them alive. As Aureal stumbles through the fog between worlds, she finds herself tangled in old regrets, dangerous secrets, and stolen moments that feel too real to belong to the dead. Somewhere between longing and fear, she has to decide-are these men her guides, her downfall, or something heartbreakingly in between? Because even in death, the heart doesn't stop wanting.

They say love can be arranged. But what happens when the heart isn’t ready? Felix Moretti grew up knowing his future was already written — an arranged engagement to the aloof, powerful CEO Matteo Romano. Bound by family ties and expectations, he stepped into Matteo’s world with quiet devotion, hoping love might grow where duty began. But Matteo never looked at him the way he hoped. Cold. Distant. Untouchable. Until the night everything changed. After a violent attack shatters the illusion of safety, one sacrifice leaves Felix unconscious and Matteo spiraling. And when Felix opens his eyes six months later… he doesn’t remember the man who once meant everything. But the heart has its own memory. And some love stories are destined to begin twice. Matteo must learn to be vulnerable — not a protector from the shadows, but a partner in the light — or risk losing Felix forever.

Jax Ryland, the visionary producer and rapper who serves as the bedrock of the globally dominant boy band Aether, built his multi million dollar empire from absolute zero. His drive isn't fame; it's the desperate need to prove to his middle class parents, who only wanted the secure life of a doctor for their firstborn, that his art is worth the risk. Drowning in the exhausting aftermath of a world tour, Jax seeks oblivion in an elite private club. ​Aria Thorne, a highly ranked operative in a covert mercenary unit, is on her first true vacation from a life of lethal secrecy. Her stunning looks conceal a tragic past—abandonment by her wealthy father and a harrowing kidnapping at 17 that propelled her into the world of shadows. When she sees Jax, she recognizes a fellow warrior, and their instant, explosive night together is a total, dangerous loss of control. ​They vow to forget it, but fate is governed by contracts. Aria is a powerful shareholder in her older brother Elias Vance’s global investment firm, the same firm acquiring a massive stake in Zenith Records, the label Jax built. ​Thrust into a corporate boardroom as professional rivals, Jax is determined to uncover the secrets held by the woman whose body language screams danger, while Aria must keep her soldier identity hidden at all costs. As the glamorous world of celebrity fame crashes headlong into a landscape of global threats and deep personal betrayals, they must expose the unseen scars to survive the fallout.

Lily Davis, a young teenager, was a neglected abused shell of person, forced to keep to her self and not cause any trouble. When her family decides to abandon her mother and herself in the pouring rain, she calls someone who is supposed to help her no matter what, who comes shielding her from everything?

After being betrayed by her family, Bai Meiyue found herself struggling in the flourishing age where zombies and mutant animals ruled. And that too with a big belly! Though people called her crazy for being stubborn, Bai Meiyue didn’t regret keeping the fruit of her one-night stand. What she regretted was not protecting her child and trusting those whom she should have killed at the very chance that was handed to her. In the eleventh year, Bai Meiyue lost her child and died while taking revenge on those who took her son away. However, just when Bai Meiyue thought it was the end, she returned two months before the beginning of the doomsday. Carrying the grudge of two lifetimes, she swore to make life living hell for those who harmed her and her son. With the heavens blessing her with a barter system, Bai Meiyue was intent on giving her child everything that he deserved. But why was the child’s father chasing after her? Hello? We only shared a bed for a night. So why was he clinging to her? Her child’s father: From the best medicine to education, you have given our child everything, Meiyue. But what about a father?

Artis Hart never expected to see Ethan Brewer again. On Christmas Eve in 2009, they nearly had something. But it ended before it began. Now eight years later, when an accident lands Artis in the hospital and Ethan at her bedside, old feelings resurface quickly and so do the doubts that tore them apart. He remembers the way things ended. She remembers the hurt. Neither of them is sure if the timing is finally right, or if history is about to repeat itself. Told through dual perspectives and timelines, Christmas Lights traces the fragile line between first love and second chances. Artis and Ethan must decide whether the bond they once shared can survive the truth of who they’ve become. +++ Hii, Kai here. So "Christmas Lights" is a pretty atypical book (especially on Webnovel) because each chapter only has a maximum of 100 words. But you are in for a ride because less words = more emotions pumped into them. This is a work I am very proud of and wrote during a difficult period in life. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I've been writing professionally for 10 years and now I'm on Webnovel to practice consistency. I'm not that good with writing blurbs but I can assure you that my writing is great. It'll be wonderful if you decide to give me and my books a chance. If you liked the story, consider adding the book to your library and leaving a review. You can also contact me via my socials. Instagram: @kaitsukama Twitter: @kaitsukama Reddit: @kaitsukama And if you want to support me, you can also buy me a ko-fi! You can find me @kaitsukama :) Thank you and see you again!

It is a story about a young girl who dreams of finding a place where she belongs. Her world is inhibited by fascinating beasts that have grown in the land for Millennium, and they can soar in the air like it was nothing. The dragons are her friends, and they have been around for millennia, creating Nations. There are two types of nations: one that watches over these magnificent beasts, and one that doesn't. The story highlights the dangers of evil lurking in the world, and the protagonist must decide whether to follow the right path or face the consequences of her actions. The story serves as a reminder of the importance of balancing good and evil in our world.