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Her current chapter explored a love story between two women in 1950s New York – a time of profound social constraint and hidden desires. Based on interviews with older queer women, the narrative revealed extraordinary resilience.
"Sometimes," Sarah told Rebecca, "the most radical act is simply existing. Refusing to be erased."
The typewriter continued its percussive rhythm. Each keystroke was an act of documentation, of resistance.

Jeremy Taylor is a live-in son-in-law despised and ostracized by everyone, who all say he is a worthless piece of trash. In reality, those who mock him are unaware that this is a facade. Jeremy Taylor is actually a superhero—wealthy, skilled in medicine, and even proficient in the legendary and mysterious Chinese martial arts. While people continue to mock him as before, this time Jeremy Taylor decides not to evade but to retaliate directly. This time, he no longer wishes to hide his true identi...

They’re long-time friends, but could their relationship end in a bloody mystery? As a computer guru, Jenna White is offered a lucrative position at a new firm in California. On the day she leaves Arizona, her best friend makes a move that has Jenna questioning her feelings and her future. Former soldier Heath Fairchild, now security expert, can’t forget that special and unexpected moment on the day his closest friend relocates. But when he visits Jenna, he finds her apartment door open and her c...

I was treated like a Omega servant by my "family", and forced to serve drinks at my step-sister’s 18th birthday. She told everyone I was pregnant with a "mutt" even if I begged her not to tell anyone. Just when all the guests gasped at the shocking news, the most famous Alpha prince took off his blazer and covered me with it.

My name is Salem Harpen. I'm eighteen years old. And I am the last member of my pack.
The day I was born, my pack was secretly attacked and many of them were killed. My grandmother was lucky enough to escape with me into the depth of the forest.
For eighteen years my grandmother and I have been dwelling secretly in the forest. Old age had soon taken over her and she was not strong anymore. The day she was taking her last breath. She made me make a promise to never leave our secret place. One da...

Jenna and Ethan unexpectedly tie the knot in a flash marriage, but to keep things low-key, they agree to keep their relationship a secret. Jenna takes a job as a janitor at Ethan's company, facing workplace discrimination and the jealousy of Luna. But with talent and determination, she earns the respect of her colleagues. As Luna repeatedly tries to sabotage her, Ethan stands by Jenna's side, protecting her at every turn. In the end, Luna's schemes unravel, and Ethan finally makes their love pub...

After our bitter divorce, the powerful billionaire stumbled upon the secrets I had kept hidden for years. I was never just the quiet, unassuming wife he thought I was. Beneath the facade lay a woman with a past full of mysteries, connections, and talents that could rival his own. Now, with my true identity revealed, he’s determined to uncover every layer of my hidden life. As our lives intertwine once more, will he seek to unravel my secrets for revenge, or will he find himself drawn to the woma...

Isabella would never have imagined that being betrayed by her fiance would be the ticket to her revenge on her fiance, stepsister and her family.
“ I’ll help you get revenge if you marry me,” the mystery man she had met in the club proposed and without hesitating she accepted his proposal.
Everything sounded perfect, with revenge at hand and a marriage that could blossom into something more. All was well until a devastating incident thwarted her road to her happy ending.
Oh, how she wished sh...

"Tell me the truth, Suzan. Is he mine?"
"You lost the right to ask that question five years ago, Anthony."
Five years ago, Suzan Royce gave her heart to the wrong man. Trapped in a fake relationship with the ruthless billionaire playboy Anthony Carter, she never expected to fall for him—until he shattered her world. Heartbroken and pregnant, she disappeared without a trace.
Now, she’s back. No longer the naïve girl he abandoned, Suzan has transformed into Celeste Laurent—a powerful, untouchab...

Amanda earns extra money by working part-time at a hotel but is dragged into the room and accidentally has sex with a mysterious man. The man left his watch as a token and wanted to make amends. But by chance, Amanda's friend, Mabel instead of Amanda, got to live a luxurious life in a rich house because of the watch.
Four years later, Amanda, who gave birth to four children, was notorious, but she was strong, optimistic, and worked hard in her life. Amanda joined the Xi Group(Rowan’s family gro...

Damon Alamander. He's not just an alpha, he is THE ALPHA.
Every pack knows his name, every woman wants to be his Luna. He is rude and arrogant and feared and respected by all that is until he meets his mate.
Lianna Redwoods is a rogue on the run looking for safety anywhere she can find it. She has a secret she keeps and a prophecy to fulfill. What happens when she lands on Alpha Damon's territory where rogues are instantly killed.
Damon is the alpha that other Alpha's want to be like and e...

''We have to go before they find us,'' Sam, one of my bodyguard said with a sense of urgency, urging me to leave.
'' But we can't just leave like that. '' I continued.
''We can and we will. We promised to take care of you and we will even if you are standing in the way.'' Jonathan said pulling me out.
'' But we can't just leave. Everyone here has been kind to us. We can't just abandon them when they need us." I continued
''Find her and when you do bring her to me. I'm going to end he...

Enough of hearing their bullshit, I decided to visit India for further investigation. Just a visit not going to change anything, rather, it gives the answer I'm dying to find.
Deep down I have a feeling that this visit will change my life but how? Let's figure out later.
I have finished my degree in Texas a famous college around the city. I'm a biological student who wishes to become a biological scientist like my father.
Yes, my dad is my hero and I will go beyond the ocean to fulfil m...

Six years ago, Aurora Langston was the innocent daughter of a hotel maid. Her life shattered when billionaire heir Damon Thorne exposed her mother in a scandal that led to their downfall. Betrayed, humiliated, and pregnant with Damon’s child, Aurora vanished from the elite world of high society.
Now, she’s back—with a new identity, a powerful backer, and a singular mission: ruin Damon Thorne.
But fate has a twisted sense of humor. Damon, scarred by years of betrayal and surrounded by vipers, f...

Laura is a woman who fought for her dream of becoming a highly educated woman. However, when she was only able to go to college at the age of 20, she was forced to get engaged to a man she didn't know. Laura rebelled. But one day, she found out that the man she was betrothed to was a campus idol who was a medical student named Reynold, heir to the richest businessman in the city of Granada.
When she was worried, Laura accidentally met a mysterious man who was able to shake her heart. A man nam...

Your ex, the one who took everything from you, announces at the ball that you're going to marry him... and tries to force you to agree. 😤 You shut him down hard. But then he sees the kiss mark on your neck and demands to know who did it. His rival, the famous playboy, the world’s richest billionaire pulls you close and says... 'Me.'

He loved her enough to burn the world—until she lit the match that destroyed him.
Serena believed she had buried her past the day she vanished, but fate threw her back into the fire the moment she landed at the feet of ruthless Mafia king Matteo Russo, the man she once loved…and betrayed.
To keep her family alive, Serena can't reveal the truth. Matteo doesn't want answers either. All he wants is revenge.
He plans to take it inch by inch, chaining her freedom, breaking her spirit, and seducing...

Iliana Dimitri, a member of the Shadow pack and a spy for the Shadow pack, meets Alexander Robinson, the alpha of the Silver Creek pack —the pack Iliana was sent to as a spy. She soon finds out she has no way of escape but to collaborate with Alexander as his mate until her mission is complete. In her attempt to collaborate with this alpha, she notices too many significant changes in her personality and emotions. Alexander agrees with everything Iliana puts us through but is withdrawn when he fi...

The Red Devil Pack (under the guise of rogues) attacked the Silver Wolf Pack and killed everyone except the pregnant Luna who wasn't there at the time. She went into hiding, and before her daughter turned 18, she passed away. Her daughter, Adriana, has grown up thinking she is nothing more than an Omega until she finds out she is the fated mate of the Alpha, Daemon, in the pack she has been hiding. He doesn't want a mate, especially an Omega but finds he cannot reject her. He finds out that she ...

Nothing would have prepared Rhiannon Sander for what she was about to witness on that fateful night.
“Why are you asking me why? Isn’t it obvious or should I tell you?” Kaylee asked.
Her stepsister’s words hit her like a brick making her world spin in circles, unable to believe her eyes as she tasted the face of betrayal from the two closest people in her life.
she stared up at her fiancées face, silently hoping he’d step up to her and tell her all this was all but a prank.
He not only did n...

Nothing would have prepared Rhiannon Clark for what she was about to witness on that fateful night.
"Why are you asking me why? Isn't it obvious or should I tell you?" Kaylee asked.
Her stepsister's word hit her like a brick making her world spin in circles, unable to believe her eyes as she tasted the face of betrayal from the two closest people in her life.
she stared up at her fiancées face, silently hoping he'd step up to her and tell her all this was all but a prank.
He not only did not eve...

"I will fuck you, ruin you just like your father did to mine",
THE RUSSIAN MAFIA’S HIDDEN SECRET.
I knew she was the daughter of the man that killed my father but I needed to be inside of her again.
I wanted to fuck her so badly and my dick was hardening more.

“Selena…..take care of our mother”, she stuttered, then vomited blood on to her hands.
Selena blinked, taken aback by the declaration, a clod lump forming in her throat.
Even though she had just met the woman, her heart was aching profoundly
“Noooo!”, Selena shrieked out as she saw her twin collapse, her eyes wide open and not blinking.
Selena takes on the role of her dead twin sister Mia Langdon. She soon gets caught up in a power
struggle for the throne.
Her heart is torn apart by th...

On the day of the Mate ceremony, Zara is devastated when her fated mate, Adrian, rejects her. As a half-blood werewolf, she can only have one mate, and unlike pureblood wolves, she cannot sever the bond. Once rejected, she cannot be claimed by a second chance mate. Zara flees to the pack's border, longing to escape to the human world.
Six months later, the Alpha forces her return. She discovers her father has passed, and twin Alphas have taken his place. They are her second chance mates, but if ...

"Once upon a time,
In a Land not so far away,
They would commit a heinous crime,
Against the Queen of Hidden Fae..."
Daphne Myrh has always been considered the most beautiful of her sisters, maybe even, of the entire village. When her father is sentenced to death, Daphne's love for her sisters will push her into the palace. She will offer her own life, for her fathers.
Ash has been living in the palace for twenty years awaiting an opportunity to enact his r...

Betrayed on Her Wedding Day—Now She's Marrying a Stranger!
Skyler's perfect day turns into her worst nightmare when a scandalous video of her groom cheating with her coworker plays at their wedding. Humiliated and heartbroken, she runs—only to crash into a mysterious billionaire with a proposal she never expected.
"Let's get married. I will help you get back at your ex, and you will help me get my family's company in return," he said to her.
Unknowingly marrying a man from one of the richest fam...

I had always firmly believed that my husband loved me deeply.
However, when I was diagnosed with a terminal illness and my father was on the brink of death, I called my husband to seek help with medical expenses. To my shock, a woman answered the phone.
With a sharp and sarcastic tone, she revealed:
My husband doesn't love you at all; he married you only to take revenge on you, to torment you...
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Mothers were supposed to love unconditionally. Mine didn't. In fact, she tried to kill me on my thirteenth birthday, when she saw just how different I was. My dad saved my life that night. He also took her away on an extended vacation, leaving me with an ever-absent uncle.
Five years later, solitude was something I lived by. I had to because I was different and people tended not to cope well with the unusual. In fact, they hated me for it, were even scared of me because of it.
I thought I was ...

"Rumi! It's time to get up!"
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What the hell is wrong with this woman? She keeps shouting for no reason. I was not looking forward to today. I'm starting my new school today in the middle of the semester. I got expelled from my other schools for fighting and arguing with the staffs. I have a big mouth and it seems to put me in a lot of trouble. I got expelled from my last school because I beat the hell out of three guys and the reason I got expelled from my other school was for beating the hel...

Ruby finds herself agreeing to be the contracted wife of a man she knew nothing about just to save the life of her sister.
He only calls her when he needs something from her and she's totally unaware about his identity except for his name.
What happens when everyone is trying to find the wife of Jaxon?
How will Ruby react when she realizes that she married the hottest bachelor in the city?
Will they ever be able to fall in love and overcome all obstacles?
What happens when she finds...

Su Xi and Ling Jiuzhe have been married for three years without ever meeting, a fact known by very few. At night, Su Xi is the president's wife, lounging in Ling Jiuzhe's villa, playing with his dog, and relaxing on the custom sofa he designed himself. But during the day, she is his hired tutor, taking his salary, needing to watch his mood, and enduring his whims.
While he can give her a hard time, no one else dares. When someone insults her, he stands up for her; when someone bullies her, he s...

Wolf shifters are real. And three alphas have claimed me as their mate.
For years, I've been kept prisoner by my uncle, hidden like a piece of trash in the basement of his house. Beaten, broken, and neglected, hated by him for reasons I can't even understand.
But one night on the back roads of rural Montana, I see a chance for escape.
And I take it.
I run.
...straight into the arms of a naked man.
No. Not a man. A wolf.
Ridge, the man with dark hair and honey-colored eyes, is the alpha of...

Matured content.
"Why...are.. you looking at me that way?" Emily stuttered.
"I want to kiss you so bad."
"I.I...me..."
Have you ever been lied to?
Have you ever tried to change someone?
Have you ever thought you knew someone but found out things were not how it seemed?
Emily Riverstone finds out that her new boyfriend happens to be the owner of a multi billionaire company and had been hiding his indentity from the world and even from her.
Will she be able to overcome the consequenc...

My stepmother is extremely vicious. She actually drugged my drink and sent me to another man's bed. To make matters worse, the next morning, a group of reporters was waiting outside the door...

They all called me wolf-less, a cursed bloodline… but fate had other plans.”
Born half-wolf, half-human, she was the outsider—shunned by her pack, abandoned by family, and denied the powers everyone else took for granted. She left, seeking a place where she could forget their rejection. But when a strange pull calls her back, she’s drawn to the presence of the Alpha triplets, three dominant forces who once made her life a living nightmare.
And when her wolf finally awakens, it brings with it a...

The book starts with Annabelle who lives in a regular world. Her life takes a drastic turn as she starts to have reoccurring dreams. She thinks it is as a result of the movies she had been watching but unknown to her, her real identity starts to surface as she has kept it in for too long. On the road to discovering her real identity, she finds out about her missing and supposed dead brother and father. She is forced out of her normal life into a new one here she has to accept who she is, what sh...

Charlotte has always been the spare,
The second daughter, the invaluable one and she hasn't really minded because although it hurts it gives her a freedom that her sister can only dream of.
A freedom that is taken away when she is promised to the notorious Alpha Hunter.
She won't do that; not when she realizes she has a mate out there so she runs away. And where does she run? Straight into the arms of her mate.
Logan has never really put much thought into having a mate but now that he do...

--“I cannot dismiss the feeling that I will not survive the night. I am shaking in fear, but I know my time is coming to an end, and all this is happening on my 18th birthday. That is the very worst part, I was so looking forward to starting a new chapter in my life.”
--“I can feel our mate, Jake. I can sense her but her scent is faint. She is scared, we need to help her.”
Evie Andrews is a loner. Abandoned as a baby, she has spent her whole life in foster care in New Orleans. She was turn...

As she took in her surroundings, Cecilia saw only bare flesh. The carnal muscles and handsome faces, tangled around her.
Four Alphas.
One curled her hair between his fingers. One held her hand to his mouth, brushing a feather-light kiss against her knuckles. She rested against the chests of two of them, their laughter soft in her ears and their bodies pressed warm against her shoulders.
The Alphas’ fingers moved down her naked flesh, casting chills where they went. Hot, gentle lines were dra...

Dark Romance in Blackthorne Hollow
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Title: Whispers in the Shadows
Genre: Dark Romance
Synopsis:
In the desolate town of Blackthorne Hollow, secrets are buried deep, entwined with lust, betrayal, and forbidden love. Clara, a brilliant but introverted college student, returns to her hometown after her mother’s sudden death, haunted by memories and an overwhelming sense of loss. As she unravels truths about her family and her mother’s hidden past, she encounters Adrian, a charismatic yet enigma...

After graduation, Roselyn Smith is confident that she will find a better job to change her home situation and take care of her recently divorced mother Bervelly Smith. Her hopes fall apart when she finds out that her cousin Mia had hooked up with her boyfriend Michael and stole her only chance to get her dream job. Tormented by her horrors, Roselyn takes a late night walk to distress but her horrors intensifies as she faces an unexpected accident on the road, meeting an intimidating billionaire....

Charlotte has always been the spare The second daughter, the invaluable one and she hasn't really minded because although it hurts it gives her a freedom that her sister can only dream of A freedom that is taken away when she is promised to the notorious Alpha Hunter. She won't do that; not when she realizes she has a mate out there so she runs away And where does she run? Straight into the arms of her mate. Logan has never really put much thought into having a mate but now that he does he will ...

My father left me here when I was 5 and promised to return soon.
I’m now 20 and I have not seen him since.
I wished I was strong like him, but I’m scared and broken and I still can’t shift into a wolf.
*****Ava, a low-ranking werewolf must face her fears from her past to save her best friend. Prince Ashton must rescue the scouts to regain his honour and prove himself to his father. They need to work together to achieve their common goal, but they could not be more different. Even if they can...

Olivia thought she had found true love when she married Ethan Williams. But when he callously left her for another woman, she realized she had been nothing more than a stand-in wife, since she looked so much like the woman he truly loved.
Devastated and brokenhearted, she resolved to take revenge on the man who had betrayed her.
But when Ethan returns, begging for another chance and declaring his love, Olivia finds herself torn between her desire for revenge and the possibility of a second chan...

In modern society, the Dragon World has not vanished but has instead hidden among the masses. After years of improving, they have become the leaders of massive industries, a criminal syndicate ruling over immense wealth. However, the sudden death of their leader, the Dragon King, sparks a battle over his fortune, leading to power struggles and even regional wars.
Layla, princess on the run, possesses the rarest diamond in existence, the black diamond. This diamond can summon the Fire Dragon Kin...

She thought it was just a routine field trip. She woke up as prey.
Seventeen-year-old Lana awakens alone in a dark forest, her classmates vanished and her memory blank. As she desperately searches for her missing friends, she discovers she's trapped in something called the Pine Protocol—a horrific experiment that turns high school students into test subjects for psychological manipulation.
Hidden cameras track her every move. Masked hunters stalk her through the trees. And beneath the fore...

Dravina has spent seven years trapped in a gilded cage. As the Luna of the Firestone Pack, she endures a life of cruelty and control under her possessive mate, Alpha Cassian. Desperate for freedom, she makes a daring escape into the wilderness armed with nothing but a small bag and the unbreakable will to survive.
But freedom has its price.
When Dravina is captured by another powerful pack, she expects punishment or worse, to be returned to Cassian. Instead, she finds herself face-to-face with a...

She signed a deal with the devil to save her world....
Now she's caught between the fire of one Alpha and the tenderness of his brother.
Desperate to save her dying mother, wolf-less Isabel agrees to a contract marriage with the ruthless, Mafia Alpha. But when his kind, loyal brother returns, Isabel finds herself torn between a monster who owns her, and a man who sees her....and one dangerous secret that could destroy them all.