healing

Let’s be frank: my stepmother is human trash. She has always been, and she’ll always be. That’s just how life is. But I’ve got to admit that she’s outdoing herself today. ‘Cause, darn, she’s just told me, first thing in the goddamn morning, that I’m to be wed in a few hours’ time for the prosperity of the clan. That has the merit to be crystal clear, at least. Alright, sure. Fine. I can live with an arranged marriage. It’s not the worst thing she’s done. What’s not fine, though, is my spouse’s gender, age, and species. I want to make three points clear: 1. I’m not into men. 2. I’m not into older people. 3. I’m not into other species. Guess what? It appears my future partner is everything listed above. Male, old enough to be my ancestor, and a demon! ...Is it too late to run away? Asking for a friend. ______________________________ Doesn’t-give-a-fuck-anymore human x pampering older demon [BL] ______________________________ Free of copyright picture used for the bookcover by Leonhard_Niederwimmer

[TW; mature content; smut; grumpy x sunshine; hate-to-love] --------------- He’s sunshine. He’s a cold blade. They’re doomed from the start. --------------- Alex is the fated Crown Prince of Vellara. Handsome, idealistic, and an outstanding swordsman, all he wants is to run away from the throne and its suffocating duties. William is his soon-to-be Court Mage—a stubborn man with cold eyes, a sharp wit, and a past full of sorrow. Alex refuses to be bound to someone who slapped him in front of the entire court, yet his attempts to sabotage the Crown Pact come to nothing when the king sends them on a mission that may be a deadly trap. As court intrigues and assassination attempts force them closer than either expected, Alex and William find themselves entangled in a bond far deeper and forbidden. Will love bloom between a prince and a foreign commoner, or are they fated to be torn apart by duty and social rank?

In a world which is filled with misfortunes, Adira finds herself in another misfortune again,yes again. Why , because she wakes today pregnant, normal right, but that's not Adira's case . How can her be prepared when she's a virgin. Is she the second Mary or what. Founding herself in a family that does not love her, how can she survive with this pregnancy and also finish her tertiary education to become the lawyer she always dreamed of. What's worst, she's been forced into a marriage to save the family from disgrace and also save the unborn child from being an illegitimate child. Enters Aarez, who just got cheated on by the woman he loved and also got his sperm stolen. Now he is an expecting father and has gotten himself a wife, crazy right. Join me as we journey through the life of Adira and Aarez, before the marriage , during the marriage and after the birth of their baby. This is a slow burn story, So dear lovelies stay stunned .

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.

In ancient Egypt, there was a Pharaoh and his Champion. When the Pharaoh's spirit is trapped in the millennium puzzle, his champion must survive through the ages in secret until the time comes to protect him again. Some promises return. Some battles return with them. As shadows gather in both the ancient and modern world, Zahra confronts a destiny reborn — she must become who she once was and return to the side of the Pharaoh she can no longer remember.

Elaina never anticipated discovering that her husband, the reigning emperor of the Kingdom of Luminiera, was unfaithful. To make matters worse, the one seemingly attempting to undermine their marriage was none other than her sister! Unable to confront this harsh reality, Elaina resolved to plan her escape and distance herself from her husband. However, a significant complication emerged while she was plotting her departure—she was pregnant with the emperor's child. Determined not to subject her child to the consequences of her husband's infidelity, she chose to flee with her child and embark on a fresh start in the neighboring kingdom of Darcero, utilizing her expertise in farming while also planning on raising the child that she will give birth soon all on her own without the need and support of a father. As fortune would have it, the gods appeared to favor her resolve. "Because the gods are impressed by your dedication, we reward you with a helper that will allow you to flourish in this land. In exchange, you help us grow plants that are not yet present in this world and spread them all over the world. Activating the Farm Helper. Welcome, host!" Now faced with the prospect of an entirely new life and the responsibility of her unborn child, Elaina must navigate the challenges that lie ahead. What trials and tribulations will she encounter as she endeavors to build a life for herself and her child in this unfamiliar territory?

Zoya lives a quiet, ordinary life in Busan — a world of hostel rooms, shared laughter with friends, and midnight prayers whispered into the stillness. She never imagined her path would cross with Joen.J, the most beloved idol in the country. His voice reaches millions, but behind the flashing cameras and perfect smile is a man longing for something real. When Joen.J’s beloved dog, Bamson, goes missing, his world is thrown into chaos. Thousands join the search, but it’s Zoya and her friends who find the frightened dog by chance. Bringing him home should be simple… but in their strict hostel, pets are forbidden. Keeping him means risking everything. After days of secret care and sleepless nights, they make the only choice they can — to return Bamson without being seen. One quiet evening, they leave him at the doorstep of Joen.J’s family home with a small note: “He was safe with us. Please take care of him, always.” Joen.J returns to find Bamson waiting, along with the mysterious note that stirs something deep in his heart. He doesn’t know who brought his dog back… but fate has already begun weaving an invisible thread between him and the girl whose kindness he’ll never forget. His Heart, My Faith is a story of love born from silence, bound by faith, and tested by the worlds that try to keep them apart.

The rumors say she jumped. The truth says she was pushed. ​Annie Combs is back in LakeVille, but she isn’t the same girl who left in the back of a cab three years ago. Haunted by the loss of her mother and gaps in her memory that feel like physical wounds, she finds herself the target of a town that hasn't forgotten her "scandal." ​But Annie isn't alone this time. Ethan Hawthorne, the boy who watched her grow up through a pane of glass, has stepped out of the shadows and into her life. In a world of hired bullies and family lies, Ethan is the only thing Annie can trust. ​As the secrets of the past begin to bleed into the present, Annie must decide if she’s brave enough to find the evidence of what really happened that night- and if she's strong enough to survive the answer. *Trigger Warning* *suicide, death, murder, assault, and bullying*

Born into wealth but raised without love, Mariah Ashford has always been nothing more than a tool in her parents’ hands. Obedient. Silent. Replaceable. To save their collapsing company, they trade her away like a business contract—forcing her into a loveless marriage with Tony Wright, the arrogant heir of the richest family in the country. To him, she isn’t a wife. She’s a transaction. Humiliated, neglected, and forced to watch her husband flaunt his mistress in their home every night, Mariah endures it all, believing that if she tries hard enough, someone might finally choose her. But the night she’s pushed down the stairs and thrown out like trash. Something inside her breaks. Alone, injured, and abandoned, she collapses outside a hospital—only to be saved by a stranger. A quiet, dangerously handsome man with unreadable eyes. Asher Cross. A name whispered in the business world. A man more powerful than the Wrights. Richer. Untouchable. And for reasons she doesn’t understand, he refuses to let her go. For the first time in her life, Mariah is treated with warmth. With respect. With care. And when Asher discovers her hidden talent for fashion design, he does something no one has ever done before— He believes in her. With his silent protection and her own rising strength, Mariah begins to rebuild her life and her dreams. A new name. A new identity. A fashion empire of her own. But when her grand brand launch shakes the entire country and the elites receive an exclusive invitation… Her ex-husband. His mistress. And the parents who sold her. They all attend. Not knowing the woman they once discarded. Is now the queen standing above them all. This time? They’ll be the ones begging. And Mariah will never be anyone’s pawn again.

Alone and desperate to get out of debt, Ava begins to work odd jobs to keep herself afloat. She calls her gift for singing a silly talent and uses it to earn small cash at local bars. But a simple song from her was able to put Leon Prescott to sleep in seconds. Leon is old, wealthy and has insomnia. He walked into the bar that night hoping to spend the money he didn’t need on girls who needed it. Ava was the lucky girl of the night. She sang to him, he fell asleep immediately. Something that never happened. He needed her, he had to find her but she was gone. Destined to meet again, Ava is handed a contract. Move into Leon’s mansion as a live-in personal assistant and sing him to bed every night and get a hefty pay. The desperation caved in and killed her independence. She accepted, thus walking into a life of love, pain, and war.

In the war-torn kingdom of Valdris, where kings are crowned and deposed by the sword, where poets sing of brave knights and dashing generals, the story of Hannah would never be told. She is a blacksmith's widow in the forgotten village of Ironvale, a woman doing a "man's job" just to keep her two young children from starving. When her husband is conscripted and killed in the first battle of a pointless war, Hannah is left with nothing but her grief, her hammer, and a forge that is slowly going cold. She wants nothing from this world except to be left alone. But the world has other plans. A routed army detachment staggers into Ironvale, hunted by an enemy noble's elite cavalry. Their captain is dying, their weapons are shattered, and their cause is lost. Hannah, with no love for the king who took her husband, wants to turn them away. But the enemy doesn't ask whose side you're on. They only ask if you're in their way. Forced to repair the soldiers' equipment to save her village from being caught in the crossfire, Hannah does more than just fix broken swords. She improves them. Her husband's death taught her something the royal armories never learned: the difference between a weapon that looks glorious on a parade ground and a weapon that keeps a man alive in a real fight. She reforges their blades with a hidden strength, reinforces their armor with a practical flexibility, and designs a new type of horseshoe that won't crack on rough terrain. When the cavalry arrives, the king's men—with Hannah's humble work in their hands—win against impossible odds. The enemy captain, dying in the mud of her village, sees her at her forge. His last words are a curse that will follow her forever: "The king has a new witch. A smith witch." Word spreads like wildfire. The Smith Witch of the North becomes a whisper on the wind—a tale of a woman who can make a farmer's scythe cut through steel, who can turn scrap into salvation. Hannah wants none of it. She wants to raise her children, tend her forge, and live in peace. But war is a tide, and her village is built on sand. As the kingdom crumbles around her, as refugees flood her valley and deserters seek her out, Hannah discovers that peace is not something you can hide from. It's something you have to build. With her hammer as her only weapon, her forge as her fortress, and her children as her reason to fight, she will do what no general, no king, no hero has ever done: She will forge a nation from the ashes. This is not a story about a woman who learned to fight. It's a story about a woman who learned that the sharpest sword in the world is useless without someone to forge it, someone to sharpen it, and someone to believe in the hand that wields it.

Lee Jisung is an overworked alpha living a quiet, exhausting life. A rooftop apartment,a 9-5 job and a talent for being invisible. Han Euno is a wealthy omega born into a chaebol family but trapped. To escape an arranged marriage and secure his inheritance, he needs to take action right away "let's play house, I'll pay you" As fake domestic life turns real, instincts flare and feelings blur, two lonely hearts learn the meaning of HOME.

Like how many other stories begin, Tyler’s life ended with a car accident, and he was reborn. But instead of being reborn with overwhelming power or a harem waiting at his side, he woke up as a baby girl in a parallel world. In his past life, he was ugly and unattractive, in this life he was pretty and adorable. He appreciated not being ugly, but he definitely does not appreciate being turned into a girl. But what can he do? Nothing! Now given another beginning, he must navigate how to live his new life in a world where his parents stay the same, except that he suddenly have new brother, and more & more new people are appearing in his life. Oh, one more thing! Is his family sexist or what? Why are they fawning all over him like crazy?!! Note: Since I’m a new writer, my first few chapters might not be that good, but it definitely will get better even if slowly, I promised!

Acheron woke in a hospital bed with a bandage tight around his throat. He survived the night that broke him. But he did not survive unchanged. Haunted by addiction and a past he cannot escape, Acheron keeps his heart locked away — until Eamon Sauveterre, the powerful lawyer assigned to his case, steps into his life, unwilling to let him fall. Eamon is steady where Acheron trembles. Relentless, where Acheron wants to run. But when viral videos and twisted headlines drag Acheron’s darkest moments into the public eye, the man who once claimed him makes it clear he isn’t finished. This isn’t just a scandal. It’s a warning. And the storm is coming.

"I can feel your dick pressed against my ass." Jamie gritted out, the words barely made it out of his throat. "But you love that, don't you." Jett whispered against Jamie's ears. - "Wanna have sex at the beach." Jett asked with a smirk. "what? No!" Jamie exclaimed, heat rushing to his face. - "I bet your dick is so small you need a microscope to see it." - Jamie. "I'll let you be the judge of that." - Jett. - Jett is the second son of a wealthy, powerful household that expects him to inherit the family company alongside his older brother. But Jett wants none of it. Boxing is the only thing that makes sense to him, Jett has spent most of his adult days swinging with his fists, the only place where he decides the rules. Jamie is everything Jett claims to hate. Cute, sharp-tongued, stubborn as hell, and impossible to ignore. A college student with a bright car, a sharp mouth, and a younger brother he protects with everything he has. Jett is like smoke, angry, dark, drifting between worlds he refuses to choose from. Jamie is like sugar, sweet at the core, though he hides it under thorns and fire. Together, they're a slow, inevitable burn.

"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?

Paradise. A place I’d only heard whispered about in stories too bright, too perfect, too impossible to be real. Yet running for my life through the Forest Packs dragged me straight into the arms of the one place I never believed existed: Novaterra Pack. The paradise of shifters. The kingdom that rivaled human nations. The home of the Alpha King himself. And somehow… they accepted me. A runaway. A branded traitor. A boy with no pack number, no family, and a past wrapped in blood. I told myself I was here temporarily. Just until they figured out who I really was and tossed me to the wolves like I deserved. But then I saw him. The man with the red eyes. Kastiel Novaterra. The Alpha King who built paradise with his bare hands. The one man I should never look at, never want, never crave. His presence terrifies me. His gaze burns through my lies. And his scent makes my knees weak in ways I never believed were real. Falling in love is the last thing I should be doing in a place that isn’t meant to be my home. But the more I try to run from him… the more Paradise itself pulls me in. And Kastiel. Kastiel never lets go of what’s his.

Chestnut haired Hannah Bennington’s brutal awakening to her second life locks her into 11 years of hell as a motherless 14 year old noble dressed in rags. Stuck in a household full of cruelty an indifferent father a blind-eyed eldest brother a second brother who tortures her physically and a stepsister Layla who makes her days a nightmare of mockery she’s never known a moment of kindness. Now with her past life’s memories burning bright she’s finally ready to break out of her gilded cage for good. What does she have to do with her second life?

She owns an empire but feels nothing. He owns nothing but cooks like every dish is a confession. When a chance encounter binds a numb heiress to a broken chef, obsession blooms in the space between hunger and fear. But her world is built on war, and his life is scarred by loss. As threats rise and loyalties fracture, love becomes their most dangerous gamble. Because once you taste something real… you can’t go back to empty.

“There’s nothing wrong with breaking her legs to keep her. Or chaining her to the bed. She’s mine.” She was looking for freedom. He gave her obsession, wrapped in tenderness. Genesis Caldwell thought escaping her abusive home meant salvation but her arranged marriage to billionaire Kieran Blackwood might be its own kind of prison. He’s possessive, controlling, dangerous. Yet in his own broken way… he’s gentle with her. To Kieran, Genesis isn’t just a wife. She’s everything. And he’ll protect what’s his. Even if it means destroying everything else.