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Romance (Small Town, Rom Com, M/M)
Fantasy (Magical, Romantasy, Shifter Romance, Magic Romance, Urban)
Historical Fiction (Fantasy)
Sci-Fi (Romance)
Romance
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Our story is written on crumpled pieces of paper with stains. Our story was tainted before it was written.
Just like any tragedy, Aria’s came unsuspected and unwelcomed. She’s spent a year wrapped in grief, residing under a permanent shadow while laying bright dreams to rest.
Now, returning to Crestside Beach, she carries the faint hope of starting anew. Friendships and places are exactly how she left them. An old life welcomes her with open arms, and time allows her to absorb the memories instead of condemn them.
But where there’s time, there’s change.
Eventually, an unexpected connection blossoms beneath the radar, and the shattered pieces of Aria’s heart begin to glue together. When the person she should’ve kept at arm’s length becomes the very one who’s rebuilding her soul, Aria’s forced to ask herself—
How many thorns are we willing to be pricked by to find the roses?
Sadie Wells is a workaholic.​ ​ As the youth outreach coordinator for the most popular team in the NHL, she knows her job is important, and she’s always on top of her game. But when Sadie’s boss finds her in the middle of a burnout-induced panic attack, he forces her to take a leave. With nowhere to turn outside of her trusty comfort crosswords, Sadie returns home with one goal in mind–figure out her future. ​ ​Max O’Reilly is a little lost.​ ​ He thought by twenty-eight he’d have the life he always dreamed of. But when too many injuries forced him to walk away from his goal of going pro, the life he expected changed forever. Now, Max is simply going through the motions–covering up his inner turmoil by being the fun-loving guy everyone expects. That is, until a new job opportunity and a quirky love interest blow into town, causing Max to re-evaluate his options. ​ When Sadie is given the key to figuring out her future, Max unknowingly helps decipher her first clue. What ensues after is a spell-binding journey that requires them to work together–two is better than one, after all. But will Sadie put together the connection between her future and each new word discovered? Or will Max choose a new path for his career before she has the chance?
Losing your best friend is painful, but being forgotten by him is something else entirely. Seven years ago, Alex Pierce lost his best friend without an explanation, and he’s spent every day trying to forget the boy who disappeared from his life. Fresh out of a four-year-long relationship, his goal is to leave the past behind and get through college as stress-free as possible. But letting go was never Alex’s strong suit, especially when unanswered questions and feelings hang over him. River Moore became a master of not looking back at an early age. After transferring schools and earning a starting position on the basketball team, the college athlete strives to maintain his carefree yet familiar lifestyle. It’s the only way he knows how to live with the mistakes he refuses to confront. When fate pulls them together again, Alex expects closure. What he doesn’t anticipate is River staring at him like a stranger and claiming he didn't remember who Alex is. As buried memories and old feelings resurface, the childhood friends realize some truths are more devastating than merely being forgotten.
Knowledge finds those who are meant to see. ​ I am the most powerful mage in Fyriane, sent by my sister, the Queen of Salistya, to take over the Kingdom of Arlom.
For one year, I have bided my time, hiding my lethal powers and waiting for the moment to strike, content to play the seemingly dutiful queen as I learn the Arlom ways. Until the Royal Forum changes everything. ​ Fresh faces bring more questions than answers, including a man that I am undeniably drawn to. With all of Fyriane’s leaders coming together and the pressure from my sister intensifying, I can’t trust anyone. They’re all out for themselves.
​ But I will find the answers I need, one way or another. As I discover the truths of Fyriane, a bigger picture starts to take shape. A picture that has me questioning everything. ​ Yet I must act. I am here now. I refuse to cower. I refuse to be a pawn.
Magic births demons, lies birth betrayal. In a world torn by war, survival means choosing a side…​ ​ Ethalyn has never known freedom. Raised in a land where the military decides every future, her only choices are to die, or to fight. As a soldier of the Ashen Corps, she is thrust into a brutal war where ordinary humans must battle elemental mages and raging demons for their very existence. ​ When Ethalyn is assigned to a squad led by a mysterious lieutenant hiding a past as dangerous as her own, she discovers bonds of friendship, rivalry, and something more forbidden than she ever expected. Yet, secrets cannot stay buried; someone knows what she is hiding, and they will use it to break her. ​ As the lines between ally and enemy blur, Ethalyn must decide who to trust. But the war is not what it seems, and the greatest threat may already be within their ranks.
Two worlds collide when Caden and Madeline fall in love.
Caden, the son of the Menelukos pack’s Alpha
Battle has been part of Caden’s life since the day he was born. He understands the necessity of his upbringing, but a lot has changed… he has changed. Caden struggles as his old scars won't leave him alone. A devastating incident constantly haunts him. Torn between the worlds of humans and lycanthropes, he has to choose: his duty to his pack or his love for his soulmate.
Madeline, the human soulmate desperate for love
Madeline finally has her life in order, but she’s unaware of the creatures walking beside her or the danger they bring. When the secret comes to light, her world is upended, her life threatened, and Madeline needs to navigate a world she doesn't know.
When old enemies return, and war is brewing, their lives are turned upside down. They fight to survive while secrets spill and danger lurks around every corner.
Honey Braxton doesn’t break rules, she enforces them. As an auditor for the Bureau of Magical Compliance, she specializes in wishing wells. Her audits are thorough, her judgments final, and her detachment absolute.
Her latest assignment lands her on the orchard of Ethan Hale, a skeptical single father who has no time for magic, or the cheerful meddling of his three children.
When Honey discovers that the kids used the family’s long-forgotten wishing well to keep the farm afloat, she knows her duty: revoke the unauthorized wishes, file her report, and walk away.
But something about Ethan and his family tugs at her tightly guarded heart and Honey finds her once-clear rules beginning to blur.
With her boss pressuring her to close the case, and the orchard hanging in the balance, Honey faces a choice: uphold the rules and risk destroying the fragile happiness this family has found—or break them, jeopardizing the career she’s spent her life building.
And in the midst of it all, she finds herself considering the one thing she swore she never would: making a wish of her own.
In Eclipsera, blood is power—but greed holds the blade.
After her parents’ untimely deaths in a suspicious lab explosion, Aria Ellis retreats into herself, haunted by grief and unanswered questions. But when her sister, Luna, drags her to the glittering Guardian Gala, Aria is thrust back into the deadly politics of Eclipsera’s founding families.
Desperate to learn more about her parents’ demise, Aria begins studying her mother’s old journal and discovers research about ancient blood magic, hinting at dark things happening in Eclipsera. When a genetically engineered monster attacks her apartment, corrupting her magic and nearly claiming her life, Aria realizes she might be the next victim in the city’s dark games.
Navigating a deadly web of power, desire, and betrayal, Aria must decide what price she’s willing to pay for the truth—and whose blood will stain her hands before it’s over.
A grounded historical fantasy of rumrunners, lobstermen, and selkies in Prohibition-era Maine.
In 1927, with Prohibition luring Maine lobstermen to smuggle liquor under moonlight, a merciless rumrunner steals a selkie’s child one night from the storm-ravaged rocks. To reclaim her child’s sealskin and return to the sea, Aaelene must place her trust in the unlikeliest of allies: the rumrunner’s apprentice, a young man torn between loyalty and conscience.
On humanity's most remote colony, brilliant engineer Maya Sato lives for two things.
Keeping Proxima's systems running and the secret project consuming her nights—every stolen kilowatt bringing her closer to the impossible. Resurrecting the digital consciousness of Julian Chen, the man she loved and lost.
When a critical systems failure forces her to work alongside the real Julian Chen, Maya's careful isolation starts to fracture. This Julian sees through her deflections, challenges her obsession, and worst of all, makes her feel things she thought died with his echo.
The colony is running out of time. Violet storms are intensifying. Silicon-fanged predators are adapting faster than their defenses can hold.
And Maya must choose between the ghost she's killing herself to save and the flesh-and-blood man showing her what being alive actually means.
On a planet where one mistake could doom two hundred souls, the greatest danger isn't outside the walls. It's the seductive safety of a love that can never hurt her—because it isn't real.
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