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[WARNING EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT] [TABOO THEME] Bound by marriage, divided by hate — Alex and his arrogant stepsister Laura swore to ignore each other. Until one blackout, one scream, one forbidden fall changes everything. Night by night, sin by sin, they surrender: a hand slipping under silk in the dark, a moan swallowed against the hallway wall, a single touch that could shatter their parents’ marriage — and them. They’re not just step-siblings anymore. They’re sinners. And the house is listening.

In a past life, Daphne was a concubine whose beauty won the Emperor's heart, but earned the Empress's wrath. Betrayed and poisoned, she died a tragic death,spending her final moments in the arms of a cold, powerful general who swore to find her in the next life. But fate has a different plan. Daphne is reborn, returned to a time before her family's ruin and her own gruesome end. Armed with a mind sharpened by a lifetime of regret and a body she now vows to make unbreakable, she forges a new path. She will not be a pawn again. This time, she will protect her family and defy the destiny that once took her life. General Alaric , the man who had loved her secretly in her past life is unaware that she's been reborn. He is a living legend, a name whispered with of awe and terror on every battlefield. Yet, beneath his calm surface lies a fiercely possessive nature. What Alaric desires, he claims, and what he claims, he holds with an unbreakable grip. This possessiveness is the darker twin to his battlefield prowess, a ruthless, unyielding trait that ensures once he decides something is his, be it territory, or a woman, he will stop at nothing to secure it. In the mood for a doting and extremely obsessive husband? You're in the right place.

"Married to a stranger. Bound by a contract. Trapped by fate." Ava Carter is drowning, her mother needs life-saving surgery, her father has gambled their future away, and her sisters depend on her for everything. Just when all hope seems lost, an accident throws her into the arms of Dylan Reed, the cold billionaire heir whose father’s will demands one thing: marriage. For him, it’s business. For her, it’s survival. But when a contract signed in desperation turns into something far more dangerous, Ava and Dylan realize they’re not just fighting for money or power… they’re fighting for their lives, their family, and maybe, each other. A story of sacrifice, secrets, and unexpected love. Will they survive long enough to see if it’s real… before the ink dries. Author’s Note: Hi, lovely readers! This is more than just a contract-marriage romance, it’s a story of sacrifice, family, power, and unexpected love. Ava and Dylan’s journey will test their hearts, push them into impossible choices, and force them to decide what truly matters *before the ink dries.* If you love emotional drama, swoon-worthy tension, and secrets that keep you flipping pages late into the night, this story is for you. Add it to your library, drop your thoughts in the comments, and let’s go on this ride together.

In a world torn apart by the undead, survival is no longer about just staying alive. It’s about who you’re willing to trust, what you’re willing to give up, and how far you’ll go to feel something human again. Iyisha Clarke, a young doctor with more instinct than experience, crosses paths with Malcolm Briggs, a former Navy SEAL carrying wounds deeper than just the physical. They didn’t plan to travel together, much less depend on each other. But between dodging zombies, stolen kisses, and broken boundaries, their connection becomes harder to ignore. Supplies are scarce, safe zones are shady, and sex in a zombie apocalyptic world is messier than it sounds. Some people are trying to rebuild. Others are just trying to breathe. And somewhere between a dying government and whispered hope, Iyisha and Malcolm might find more than just survival. They might find a reason to live. P.S. Though romance, the romance is slow burn so please be warned. First chapters are survival.

Great.I just time traveled.Instead of chilling,I decide to change the system in a hope to make it better than the present one.Yes,I am delusional but don't the mad ones change the world?But can I do it without becoming a monster?That's the question.

The story traces the life of a girl through a series of defining moments that shape her from childhood to adulthood. As she faces love, loss, fear, and emotional trauma, each experience leaves a quiet mark on her inner world. Through collapse and recovery, silence and survival, she learns to endure. The narrative is a tender exploration of growth, resilience, and the unseen strength it takes to keep going.

story about the Creed family, who move to rural Maine and discover a burial ground behind their new home that brings the dead back to life, leading to tragic and monstrous outcomes when they bury their cat and later, their young son, exploring themes of grief, loss, and defying the natural order. The resurrected beings are twisted versions of their former selves, unleashing horrific evil and testing the limits of love and desperation, proving that sometimes "dead is better".

Five years ago, Elena Moore died in a car accident—pregnant and heartbroken. In her final moments, she could still feel the faint heartbeat of her unborn child. Now, five years later, she wakes up in a hospital—reborn, with a five-year-old son, Ethan Moore. Hiding her true identity, Elena lives a quiet life, determined never to be found by the man who once shattered her world—Adrian Blackwood, the cold, untouchable heir of The Blackwood Group. But fate plays a cruel joke. One rainy night, Ethan saves a stranger from a car accident— and that man is none other than Adrian himself. When Adrian meets the boy’s gaze, he freezes. Those eyes... they’re just like hers. And Ethan whispers to his mother, > “Mommy, that’s the mysterious man from my dreams… He’s my daddy.” The hidden wife returns— and destiny is ready to reunite what fate once tore apart.

A girl leads a happy life with her family & friends. She is happy in her own world & joined a team as a detective & fell in love with a person whom she used to hate. But everyone was clueless about her past. When she investigates a case ,happen to know who is real her? & a terrific truth revealed. After knowing about her truth , what changes will happen in her life ? What happened in her past ?will her beloved people will accept & support her or not ?.

In a rotting city where the streets are paved with broken bones and the air tastes of rust and gunpowder, survival demands brutality. One hunter moves like a shadow made of venom - silent, relentless, carving through gangs with needles that kiss flesh and steal breath. Driven by a brother swallowed by the slave trade, every kill is a step closer to vengeance... or deeper into madness. Then a stranger arrives. A man in a black duster. On an ordinary Tuesday, he walks into a casino and leaves nine corpses behind - leaders of the Red Carpet gang, throats opened, hearts pinned with playing cards. No rage. No mercy. Just cold efficiency. The underworld erupts. Gangs howl for blood. But Boss Jager - the calculating king who rules from the shadows - sees something else: raw power to claim. He wants the stranger alive. Broken in. A new blade for his empire. First, though, the man must survive the city's deadliest weapon - the hunter who leaves no witnesses, no second chances, only bodies cooling in the dark. Refuse Jager's offer, and die screaming amid the ruins. Accept, and become the monster that devours everything. In this war of gangs, hunters, and broken souls, blood is the only law. Alliances shatter. Bodies pile. And in the end, only the fallen sing. The Hours of Fallen Bloods: Sing or Die New Chapters Every Friday at midnight UTC Also available on Royal road Scribble hub Same time, Same Author- Jerome (Jdreams)

It follows the story of a young man named Naren. Naren follows his heart in a world that seeks to end him just because of his name. Constantly troubled by adversaries of various orders, he must find allies on the odyssey towards his destiny. And whilst he's at it, he must escape a setting sun and the Gaze of Fate, for he is the one who laughed at fate. And fate doesn't like being laughed at.

Foster Ambrose is a lie. He is a ghost wearing a dead man's skin, a policeman juggling a consultant's life, and the only soul in a gaslit, anachronistic city who remembers he wasn't supposed to exist. His only clues to his three violent deaths are a blood-stained notebook and a cheap compass that points towards the impossible. With a club of individuals from different walks of life, Foster battles entities that can conceal entire city blocks from memory and killers who wield words as weapons. But this is only the beginning. As the barrier between worlds thins, Foster's three deaths mark him as a key player in a game played by deities. To protect his brother and the city he now calls home, this lonely saviour must ascend from a pawn to power, and decide whether to build a bastion for the light, or become a god in his own right. The gate is not a door. The book is not a shield. The heart is the key. And he is the Lonely Saviour who must turn it.

NOVEL TITLE: BRANDTONGUE --- In a world where betrayal is a physical taste, one man must devour the sins of others to remember his own. The skies are bruised. The sun is a blind, white eye. In the wound-scarred realm of Midland, people don’t dream—they have Echoes, fragments of others' trauma that replay in their sleep. Here, sin doesn’t just mark the soul—it warps the flesh. Those who commit acts of profound, intimate betrayal risk becoming Apostles: monsters shaped by their own treachery, doomed to reenact their crimes for eternity. Cassian is a hollow man. His tongue is a ruined lump of scar tissue, branded during the Feast of Coherence—an event where his closest comrades weren't just killed, but unwritten. Their trust, their memories, their love were harvested as cosmic art by the Godhand, beings of pure emotion who feed on humanity’s capacity for treachery. Now, Cassian is cursed. His branded tongue leaks memory and attracts horrors. But it also lets him taste the stories of other betrayers. To survive, he hunts Apostles, consuming their tainted memories as fuel for his own broken body. He is not a hero. He is an addict, feeding on the very poison that ruined him. Gareth, the luminous, cruel architect of the Feast, watches from the shadows. To him, Cassian is not a victim—he is a masterpiece in progress, a walking tragedy whose suffering only deepens the beauty of his grand design. Accompanied only by a Glimmer—a shard of stolen hope that weeps like a dying star—Cassian journeys across a dying land. He will walk through fortresses of psychic stillness, galleries of frozen suffering, and into the heart of the world’s oldest wound. Not for revenge. Not for redemption. But to find the reason he sold out everyone he ever loved—and to decide whether the truth is worth swallowing, or if some lies are better left to rot. --- BRANDTONGUE is a dark fantasy epic for readers who found Berserk poetic but wanted the horror more intimate, the pain more psychological, and the tragedy more irredeemable. It’s a story about the addiction to suffering, the architecture of betrayal, and the brutal truth that sometimes, remembering is worse than dying. For fans of: · The visceral, psychological horror of Clayton Snyder’s River of Thieves or Michael Fletcher’s Beyond Redemption · The tragic, character-driven ruin of Anna Smith Spark’s Empires of Dust · The cosmic, intimate dread of Gareth Hanrahan’s The Gutter Prayer · The unflinching grimness of R. Scott Bakker’s The Second Apocalypse Content Warning: Graphic body horror, psychological trauma, existential dread, intense violence, and explorations of betrayal, addiction, and moral decay. This is not a story about hope. It is a story about what happens when hope becomes the sharpest weapon.

“ Forbidden! This is forbidden! How could a crown prince marry a maid working in the palace? What is Prince Ethan thinking? That’s beyond forbidden love!” a maid whispered. It was indeed the most forbidden love when a crown prince, close to becoming king, fell for a maid in the palace. His parents were furious, and it sparked a great war between the poor and the rich. The royal families are very strict when it comes to marriage. They don't joke with that! Queen Susan, the most powerful queen is from the Rogelio family, she once caught a maid red-handed having a sexual affair with her second son. She didn’t hesitate to punish her most cruelly. The poor maid was made a sex slave for the guards for three days before being beheaded. Allison was terrified. She knew Ethan was stubborn, especially when it came to what he wanted. She tried to stop him by escaping, because the love between a crown prince and a maid was impossible! No matter how she tries, Ethan will always know her plan. Allison did everything she could to hide their relationship until her contract ended, hoping to try another escape before her fate turned out like the beheaded maid. Because Ethan didn’t care about his crown or title, he had already made up his mind. He wanted Allison!! Even if it meant losing everything. He kept chasing her despite her pleas to stop loving her. But one day, they were caught red-handed by the queen herself! What will happen to Allison? Will she be punished like the others? Or will Ethan risk everything… to protect the woman he loves?

Aanya steps into Rajgarh's Haveli as a bride, carrying nothing but quiet strength and unanswered fears. Arjun Veer Pratap Thakur, feared, respected, and untouchable, rules a state with discipline and silence. To the world, he is the Chief Minister. To Aanya, he is a man who speaks less but feels deeply, even when he refuses to show it. Their marriage begins on the edge of tradition and power, where love is neither promised nor expected. But in moments away from titles and guards, something dangerous blooms, a connection too deep to ignore and too fragile to protect. A journey meant to escape fear brings them closer... and invites an unspoken threat. A past resurfaces. An old bond twists into obsession. And a man who refuses to let go steps back into Aanya’s life. When tragedy strikes and distance grows between them, silence becomes louder than words. And just when healing seems possible, a truth emerges that forces Aanya into a choice she never wanted to make. One decision. One accusation. One arrest. Love turns into loss. Trust fractures. Power becomes meaningless. Because sometimes the greatest betrayal isn’t born out of hatred , but out of love.

Story of three friends who finished there study and return to their village after many years.on reaching the village they noticed various changes there which made them suspicious.the plot continue till the reaches an abandoned property close to there village where the mysteries of village begins to unfold .

The Mark Between Us By Rhyann Renfro Aislinn Hayes is doing everything she can to rebuild her life. After losing her firefighter husband in a tragic accident, she focuses on raising her young son and running the small-town coffee shop she co owns with her best friend. Routine helps. Structure helps. Believing the worst is behind her helps. Until she wakes with a strange, ring shaped bruise circling her finger. The bruise is impossible to explain. The dreams that follow are even harder to ignore. Vivid images of a man she has never met. Warm hands. A quiet voice. A life shared in flashes of memory that feel almost real. The dreams leave her breathless and unsettled. As if she is remembering something she never lived. Declan MacCrae has spent years avoiding anything that feels like attachment. His work restoring historic homes is safe and predictable and he prefers it that way. Until the night he dreams of a woman with deep red hair and bright green eyes. A woman he marries. A woman he loves. A woman he wakes up reaching for. He opens his eyes to find a bruise over his heart shaped like a dragonfly. When Aislinn and Declan meet in a crowded café, the pull between them is immediate and undeniable. Their marks begin to fade yet something deeper settles between them. Recognition. Curiosity. A quiet ache neither of them can explain. But someone else has taken notice of Aislinn. Someone who watches from a distance. Someone who has no intention of letting her move forward. Someone who believes she belongs only to him. As dreams shift into warnings and reality grows more dangerous, Aislinn and Declan must decide whether to trust the connection that binds them or step back before it destroys them both. A mysterious bond. A growing attraction. A hidden danger closing in. The Mark Between Us is a gripping blend of romantic tension, supernatural fate and slow burn suspense that will captivate readers who love Carissa Broadbent, Ana Huang and Lauren Thalassa.

Natalia, also known as Great Eden, was sucked into a world unknown to her. Everything was set up to look like it was a game, but it was far from the truth. While trying to become strong for her alliance, the brutal truth of how weak she was cost her a near death experience. Erza, a mystery of her own, protected Eden on multiple occasions. Aside from trying to discover the truth and help others return home, a betrayal was brewing in each corner.  Great Eden and her friends uncovered secrets of the game that was jaw-dropping.

In a world ravaged by demons, where the Demon Slayer Corps fights desperately to maintain balance, a new warrior emerges from a distant land: Karina, master of the mysterious Arcane Breathing. Her style is unknown, her power disrupts even Upper Rank demons, and her past remains sealed behind a secret mission—evaluate the true threat posed by Kibutsuji Muzan. Upon arriving in Japan, Karina is immediately thrown into one of the most dangerous battlegrounds: the Entertainment District, where countless disappearances shake the Corps. Tengen Uzui leads the investigation… but Karina’s sudden insertion into the mission changes everything. Her strange aura, precise yet overwhelming technique, and sharp presence draw both trust and fascination. Tanjiro, Inosuke, and even Tengen begin to see her as a formidable force capable of confronting the deadliest demons of the night. But Daki and Gyutaro, the Upper Rank siblings, sense instantly that she is no ordinary slayer. She is a threat. She is an anomaly. She is the variable that could break their centuries-long domination. This explosive What-If retelling of the Entertainment District Arc reshapes every battle, every revelation, and every choice. Karina will confront the shadow of a tragic past, survive the advances of powerful allies drawn to her strength, and unleash an ultimate technique capable of slicing through illusions, arteries, and even the destiny Muzan imposes upon the world. One thing is certain: this time, history will not unfold the same way.