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By Her Hands by Leia FaigaComplete Sign in to Save

Historical Jewish Romance, Sweet & Spicy Romance, Pirate Romance · Mature

By Her Hands

by Leia Faiga
#found family#diaspora#Golem#Jewish Mysticism#Kabballah lore
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In By Her Hands, we dive into a unique love story that stretches the boundaries of what it means to be alive. Meet Gavriel Eliezer, a Golem brought to life by the brilliant but troubled Miriam Viona Cohen. She creates him as a protector, hoping to shield her family from the scars of her past. But when Miriam unexpectedly passes away, Gavriel is left to navigate a world that’s suddenly full of emotions he wasn’t designed to feel.

Enter Grace Liraz, Miriam's younger sister. She’s grappling with her grief and sees Gavriel as a constant reminder of her sister’s tragic fate. At first, she’s convinced he’s just a burden, a piece of clay with a heavy backstory. But as they face off against her sister’s abusive ex—a real piece of work, who represents everything toxic—things start to get complicated.

By Her Hands is a heartfelt monster romance that explores grief, identity, and the messy, beautiful nature of love. Join Gavriel and Grace as they navigate their way through a world that challenges their perceptions and uncovers the light that can shine even in the darkest places.

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Custodian by Coda LanguezComplete Sign in to Save

Dark Romantasy · Explicit

Custodian

by Coda Languez
#Found Family#Captivity#Monster Romance#Priest#Taboo
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Brother Anselm has kept spotless discipline for fourteen years: flagellation on Tuesdays and Fridays, the canonical hours recited on schedule, sermons on lust so pointed the blacksmith’s wife says they make her feel clean. Then he finds something bleeding in the November leaves, carries it home, and locks it in the root cellar under a lie about a broken gate latch.

He tells himself she’s a specimen. He builds a feeding stand at exactly twelve inches, trains her the way a falconer trains a hawk, and fills a ledger with clinical notes about antler growth and dappled skin that no priest should be able to describe so precisely. He calls her demon the way he says Amen.

She calls him by the name he discarded the day he was ordained.

Custodian details three years of confinement, confession, and a Summa theology, a collection of handwritten notes that was not intended to hold them. It tells the story of a man who aimed to civilize a creature but ultimately learned which of them was truly being imprisoned.

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Filthy Devil by Sonja FlowersComplete Sign in to Save

Dark Romance · Mature

Filthy Devil

by Sonja Flowers
#Dark romance#devil romance#supernatural
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Trapped beneath a crushing mountain of debt and desperate for a way out, she takes a dangerous gamble on an underground auction—only to catch the eye of Azrael Thorne. Wealthy, ruthless, and steeped in dark magic, Azrael offers her financial salvation, but the price is absolute: she must become his muse and submit to a pact bound by blood.

As psychological mind games, veiled threats, and illicit power plays pull her deeper into Azrael’s shadow, the line between rescue and ruin begins to blur. Surrounded by dark secrets and stalked by dangerous rivals, she must navigate a deadly game of manipulation before her freedom is lost forever.

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Half-Claimed by Elle Harper HaydenComplete Sign in to Save

Paranormal Romance · Mature

Half-Claimed

by Elle Harper Hayden
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My twin is wearing my wedding dress. And my fated mate is looking at her with a hunger he has never, not once in three years, aimed at me.

Most she-wolves would scream. They'd demand a fight. They'd let a betrayal this deep break them.

Not me.

I am the Moon Twin. The diplomat. The one who reads the silences and manages the treaties. So when my mate and my sister start quietly erasing me from my own life—hijacking my work, taking my meetings, and feeding the pack a sympathetic story about how I'm "cracking under the pressure"—I don't throw a tantrum.

I quietly walk into the Council office and file a formal petition for Rejection before they even realize I know.

Ronan thinks he can replace me seamlessly. He thinks his Alpha Ascension is secure. But he is about to learn that the woman who built his foundation knows exactly which load-bearing pillars to kick out to find her own life and happiness.

Complete. New chapter every day.

Read this if you love:
🖤 Fated Mate Betrayal / Cheating
🖤 Second Chance Mates
🖤 Twin Betrayal & Pack Politics
🖤 A Competent FMC who refuses to be a victim
🖤 Karma Comes For Everyone

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Jewgrass Fiddler by Leia FaigaComplete Sign in to Save

Historical Jewish Romance, Sweet Romance, Closed Door Romance · General

Jewgrass Fiddler

by Leia Faiga
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In a tucked‑away Appalachian town where lanterns glow against the mountains, and the one‑room shul holds generations of whispered prayers, Avner Eisner returns home carrying a silence heavier than any pack on his back. Once the butcher’s tender‑hearted son, now a wandering fiddler with a haunting new sound, he hopes to slip quietly into the life he left behind.

But nothing in this town stays quiet for long — least of all the heart he thought he’d buried.

Eliza Mitzner, the rabbi’s daughter, has spent her life being everything the community expects: proper, wise, and promised to another. Yet when Avner steps back into her world, older, wounded, and impossibly changed, the careful order of her life begins to tremble. He is familiar and foreign all at once, a reminder of the boy she once knew and the man she was never meant to want.

As old tensions resurface and new desires spark, the two find themselves caught between duty and longing, faith and freedom, past and possibility. In a place where every choice is witnessed and every secret has a cost, Avner and Eliza must decide whether love is worth defying the world they were raised to protect.

A story of music, memory, and forbidden yearning, Jewgrass Fiddler blends Jewish heritage with Appalachian soul — a slow‑burn, second‑chance romance where childhood sweethearts become near‑strangers, enemies become lovers, and two hearts fight to claim a future neither was ever meant to have.

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Puck Me Like That by Arla JonesComplete Sign in to Save

Romance · Mature

Puck Me Like That

by Arla Jones
#hockey romance#small town romance#second chance#Opposites Attract#Forced Proximity
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Tessa Monroe has perfected the art of staying in one place. As the owner of her family's struggling diner and caretaker for her ailing mother, her dreams of culinary school melted away years ago—right alongside her heart when hockey prodigy Noah Walker left town for NHL stardom.
Ten years later, Noah Walker is at the top of his game—until a devastating knee injury has him retreating to his hometown to lick his wounds away from the spotlight. The last thing he expects is to crash his luxury car right in front of his high school sweetheart's diner, or to find himself working there to pay off the damage.
Forced together daily, their chemistry is as hot as the diner's griddle during the breakfast rush. But Tessa isn't interested in being just another conquest on Noah's stat sheet, and Noah's facing the terrifying possibility that his career might be over. With Tessa's diner under threat from developers and Noah's future hanging in the balance, they both must decide what they're willing to fight for—and whether some old flames never stop burning.
PUCK ME LIKE THAT is a steamy, emotional second-chance hockey romance featuring a sassy diner owner, the NHL star who got away, enough sexual tension to melt the ice, and the kind of homecoming that changes everything.

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Rivkah's Masquerade by Leia FaigaComplete Sign in to Save

Historical Jewish Romance, Sweet & Spicy Romance, Pirate Romance · Mature

Rivkah's Masquerade

by Leia Faiga
#found family#reunited family#diaspora#Sephardi lore
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"In the shadow of the Inquisition, Rivkah Albotene flees a forced marriage and conversion, disguised as the cabin boy Mateus aboard a pirate ship. She discovers the captain, Oren Abzaradiel, smuggles Torah scrolls across the seas—and once shared a bond with her lost brother. As sacred texts sail under outlaw protection, exile and disguise entwine with forbidden romance, while Don Hernando hunts her across oceans. In the clash of covenant and betrayal, Rivkah must choose between secrecy and survival, love and lineage."

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The Cottage on Shell Road by Lorie HovaterComplete Sign in to Save

Sweet Southern Romance · General

The Cottage on Shell Road

by Lorie Hovater
#Childhood friends#friends to lovers#small town romance#coastal romance#starting over
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After a painful divorce, Lauren James heads to Harbor Point, North Carolina, hoping the cottage her Aunt Jane left behind will give her room to breathe and figure out what comes next.

She expects repairs, quiet mornings, and maybe a fresh start. She does not expect Eli, the boy she once knew during childhood summers, now very much a grown man with roots in the town and reasons of his own for keeping people at a distance.

As Lauren begins restoring the cottage, she finds herself rebuilding more than an old house. Harbor Point starts to feel like home, old connections begin to matter again, and the future she thought she had lost may be waiting at the end of Shell Road.

A sweet coastal romance about second chances, unexpected beginnings, and finding home when you least expect it.

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The Outcast's Blade - Part 1 by Ronan ValehartComplete Sign in to Save

Romance, Action, Fantasy · Mature

The Outcast's Blade - Part 1

by Ronan Valehart
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Karros has never truly belonged at the Drakonis Academy, having only made the cut because the headmaster is his adoptive father. Desperate to escape his life as an outcast, he sneaks out under the cover of night to hunt an elder dragon and prove his worth to the world. Armed with a rough-forged blade and a volatile dark magic that burns his own flesh, Karros plunges headfirst into a brutal wilderness

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To Have And To Drown by Pierce ArdenComplete Sign in to Save

MM Dark Romantasy · Mature

To Have And To Drown

by Pierce Arden
#pirate romance#merman romance#dark romantasy#forced proximity#possessive bond
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Rook came to the blackwater river for one thing: a way back to the wreck that killed his crew.

The river gives him Naere instead.

Naere is a Binder, a dangerous river-merman bound to laws older than the port at the river’s mouth. His freshwater world is dying as salt creeps inland, and the same treacherous shoals that keep Rook from his dead keep Naere from the source of the wound.

So they make a bargain.

Rook gets safe passage. Naere gets a road to the sea.

Neither expects the bargain to become desire.

But the farther they travel from the river, the more the balance between them shifts. Rook begins to see the loneliness beneath Naere’s possessive certainty. Naere discovers that the one man he most wants to keep may be the one man who cannot bear to belong to anyone.

And beyond the shoals waits a wreck neither of them understands as well as they think they do.

With a rival captain closing in and the boundary between river and ocean beginning to fail, Rook and Naere are pulled toward a choice that could cost them the dead, the living, and whatever has begun growing between them.

A dark MM pirate-merman romantasy about dangerous bargains, supernatural claiming, shifting power, and two men discovering that being kept is not the same thing as being chosen.

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Torel: Weapons Master of the Nightbrand by Ayla JonesComplete Sign in to Save

Scifi romance · Mature

Torel: Weapons Master of the Nightbrand

by Ayla Jones
#alien romance#scifi romance#sci-fi#fantasy romance#bride for the alien
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She was an unmatched candidate. He was the one who never stopped watching.

Taken from Mars Colony Seven along with four other women to save a dying alien species, Claire has watched every one of her friends fall for their Ardorian warriors — the commander, the engineer, the pilot. Even Melissa, who fights everything, is circling the medic with an inevitability that makes Claire's chest ache. But Claire? Claire is the unclaimed candidate. The scientist without a match. The one nobody's tattoos light up for.

Or so she thinks.

When a trafficking threat puts all five women at risk, Commander Ariss assigns his tactical officer as Claire's personal escort. Torel is seven feet of silent, lethal, infuriating composure — a warrior who communicates in monosyllables, stands in her greenhouse doorway for six hours without complaint, and smells like winter in a way that is becoming a serious problem.

What Claire doesn't know is that Torel has been suppressing his bond tattoos since the day she arrived — holding back the light in his skin through sheer will, because she was taken from her world without consent, and he refuses to let his biology make a claim she hasn't chosen.

A standalone novella set in the world of A Bride for the Alien. Can be read before or after the series.

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What Holds by Brynne BriarwoodComplete Sign in to Save

Romance · Mature

What Holds

by Brynne Briarwood
#small town#university#single dad#slow burn#Vermont
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Maeve Calloway has spent eleven years being capable, present, and overlooked. When she finally packs her car and drives seven hundred miles to a teaching position at a small Vermont college, she isn't looking for anything - just a town that might actually want her in it.

She gets the town. Her first night, she also gets a hole in her wall.

Rhett Danner comes to fix it, says approximately forty words, charges her a fair rate, and tells her she'll be all right here with the quiet certainty of a man who checked. He's been the most reliable person in Briarwood for a decade - single dad, his own business, a perimeter around himself so well-built most people don't notice it's there.

He didn't account for her.

When his daughter enrolls in Maeve's class and his renovation crew moves into the building next to her office, proximity does what it does. Slowly. Then all at once. But Rhett has kept his walls standing for a reason, and Maeve has spent too long waiting to be chosen to settle for almost.

What Holds is a slow-burn, high-heat standalone romance about two people in their forties who know exactly what they want - and what it finally costs to ask for it.

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Master genre

Fantasy

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Breaking the Reins by C.L. SliasComplete Sign in to Save

Epic Fantasy · Mature

Breaking the Reins

by C.L. Slias
#Romantic sub-plot#Dragons#Magic#Slow Bur
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A savage girl. A noble’s choice. A dragon waiting to rise.

In a world of combat and deception, those with the power hold the key. An enslaved girl forced to battle monsters for other's entertainment is ready to break free and destroy the family that captured her. Astrid's plot to escape is thwarted when a deadly illness settles in. The chance for redemption stolen, she must decide: Join the upcoming marriage selection or become dragon food. While she wrestles with accepting the death sentence, the monster asks for help.

Can she save the captive dragon—or will she fall for a man she hates?

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Copper Cold Steel by Sori ArylComplete Sign in to Save

Fantasy · Mature

Copper Cold Steel

by Sori Aryl
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After the facial-scarred Lucia's father died, she became Marquess Lucian to inherit the Borderland of Winterstride along with his debt.

When her step-sisters are chosen for the Princess Tests, she becomes a guard for another Lady to make ends meet.

The Duke of Coppersteel looks at her a little too closely with his prejudice of Borderlanders after he scarred Lucian's face during a duel.

Can she keep her identity a secret while helping her sister's win the hearts of the Golden Princes?

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Grounded by Mary DukeComplete Sign in to Save

Dark fantasy, urban fantasy, apocalypse · Mature

Grounded

by Mary Duke
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Humanity has already destroyed the Earth twice. Mother Earth won't give them a fourth chance.

The Earth is dying.

Again.

After centuries of pollution, destruction, and greed, humanity has finally pushed the planet beyond its breaking point. Their solution is simple: abandon Earth and find another world to call home.

Mother Earth has other plans.

Nikita knows exactly what comes next. Once human herself, she is now one of Mother Earth's Guardians—an immortal tasked with carrying out the Reaping. Billions will die. A chosen few known as Green Thumbs will survive. And when the last human has been sorted, Mother Earth will wipe away everything humanity created and give the planet a chance to heal.

Nikita has survived Reapings before. She knows the rules. She knows the cost.

But this time is different.

The Earth is taking longer to recover. Fewer humans are worth saving. And the time between humanity's mistakes is growing dangerously short.

This is their third strike.

There won't be a fourth.

Humanity doesn't need another world. It needs one last chance to save this one.

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Heavenly Music by Arla JonesComplete Sign in to Save

Fantasy · Teen

Heavenly Music

by Arla Jones
#fantasy romance slow burn#music magic academy#forbidden protector romance
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Wella Larksong has spent her whole life playing tavern tunes on a dead man's violin, never asking why the candles bend toward her when she plays. She gets her answer the night the Lumenguard rides into her village looking for a voice born of starblood — and finds it in her.

Swept up to Hallowmoon Spire to train as the next Nightingale, the lone singer whose Hymn keeps the world's oldest wound sealed, Wella learns her predecessor died climbing these same stairs nineteen years ago, and that the official story is a lie. Her fierce, grief-guarded Guard-Captain, Chaim, believes her before she has proof. The kindly Archchancellor who calls her "my dear" does not.

As the Veil begins to fail faster than anyone will admit, Wella has weeks to expose a conspiracy three hundred years in the making, or become its next casualty, unless she and Chaim are willing to break every rule the Choir has ever written about what a Nightingale's Hymn is allowed to be.

Some songs were never meant to be sung alone.

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One Little Kiss by Mary DukeComplete Sign in to Save

Young Adult, Paranormal Fantasy · Mature

One Little Kiss

by Mary Duke
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Chaska has spent her entire life avoiding three things: responsibility, attention, and becoming anything like the royal family she was born into.

Unfortunately, destiny has other plans.

When the gates between the Realms prepare to open for the first time in generations, Atlantis must choose one of its royal children to serve as Ambassador of the Sea. Chaska expects the honor to go to one of her stronger, smarter, far more ambitious siblings.

Instead, the Elders choose her.

Suddenly, the princess who never believed she belonged is carrying the hopes of an entire Realm—and drawing the fury of a sister who has never forgiven Chaska for having anything she wants.

But just as Chaska begins to believe she might actually be worthy of the destiny chosen for her, a celebration turns to bloodshed.

A prince is dead.

An ancient alliance is shattered.

And one white-tipped arrow may be enough to send Atlantis to war.

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Superhero Saga Bonus by Julie C. GilbertComplete Sign in to Save

Superhero Fantasy · General

Superhero Saga Bonus

by Julie C. Gilbert
#superhero urban fantasy#female lead#action & adventure#snarky protagonist#superhero fantasy humor
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56+ Classified Files. Two Secret Vaults. Zero Filter.

Think you know everything about Jess’s "dream job" reviewing superpowers for suit-wearing government thugs? Welcome to the ultimate off-the-record archives—56+ episodes of high-stakes training, buried secrets, and deep-lore companion stories the Suits desperately tried to keep locked away.

This collection breaks down into two top-secret files:
• The Training Modules: Step into the field with Jess as she puts dangerous, unhinged, and downright absurd powers through the wringer. Expect brutal trial-and-error, snark-fueled survival tactics, and the absolute worst assignments her handlers could throw at her.

• The Memory Capsules: Unlock intimate, high-impact snapshots from the past. Dive deep into the lived memories of Jess’s mother, her sister, and other key figures from the saga—revealing the hidden histories, secret sacrifices, and personal truths that shaped the world before Jess ever put on the badge.

Whether you're looking for tactical power-testing chaos or the emotional backstory behind the saga's biggest secrets, this vault has it all.

Start unlocking the archives—before the government scrubs them for good.

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The Nightingale Before by Arla JonesComplete Sign in to Save

Fantasy · General

The Nightingale Before

by Arla Jones
#fantasy#musical academy#magical academy#fairytale
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Nineteen years earlier, in Hallowmoon, another Nightingale, Elowen Ashsong, ascended the Spire.

When Elowen discovers that the Great Veil is dangerously weaker than the Choir admits, she must choose between refusing the Hymn of Ascension or climbing the Spire knowing she may never return.

Her eleven-year-old son, Chaim, begs her to stay.

Instead, Elowen gives him four notes and one promise:

"If I get lost, play this."

The Hymn saves the Veil.

Elowen disappears.

And nineteen years later, Chaim is still waiting for an answer.

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Horror

6 stories
Bumbulum by Dom SabastiComplete Sign in to Save

Folk horror · Mature

Bumbulum

by Dom Sabasti
#fairy tale#bed time story#coming of age#necromancer#cryomancer
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A bumbulum is a concept for a medieval musical instrument that was designed to make fart noises. It also happens to be the name given to a particular panda that lived around an odd village on the outskirts of a remote bamboo forest. This particular naming of this particular panda is highly justified.

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Crimson Hunger by Elissa HessComplete Sign in to Save

Gothic horror, monster horror, paranormal horror · Mature

Crimson Hunger

by Elissa Hess
#slow burn#fatal curiosity#house of secrets
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A violent storm should have killed Esther.
Instead, it delivers her straight into the hands of Count Alistair Winchester.
Wounded and far from home, Esther awakens in a manor of unimaginable luxury, where comfort is provided before she thinks to ask for it. Silk gowns wait in her wardrobe. Servants tend her to her every need. And the dark, enigmatic nobleman who rescued her watches her with an intensity that makes fear dangerously easy to mistake for desire.
But Winchester Manor hides an old and disturbing legacy.
At night, apparitions gather beside Esther’s bed and whisper:
Run!
By daylight, stranger things begin to surface. Family portraits that make no sense. Belongings whose owners have vanished. Remedies prepared for purposes no one will explain. And one part of the estate Alistair has forbidden her to enter.
The more Esther discovers around, the harder it becomes to believe she was brought to the Winchester Manor by chance.
Yet leaving is no longer as simple as walking through an open door.
And the man she should fear most is becoming the one she cannot stop wanting to understand and look beyond his mask.
Because behind Alistair’s impeccable manners lies a hunger older than Esther can imagine.
It isn't always necessary to chain someone down to keep them close; among the monstrous tools in this story are kindness, a touch of unhealthy curiosity... and a door that must not be entered.

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Horror In Hallowfield by Callum QuillComplete Sign in to Save

Folk Horror · Mature

Horror In Hallowfield

by Callum Quill
#psychological horror#doppelgängers#cursed inheritance#reality distortion#small town horror
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Hallowfield keeps its own.

Jesse Corwin comes home to bury the last piece of their old life, sell their grandmother’s house, and leave before the town can get its hooks back into them.

Then the dead start leaving threads behind.

A childhood friend has vanished from photographs, records, and memory. A sealed room in the abandoned mill is warm from the inside. And beneath everything, something ancient is still weaving, quietly deciding what Hallowfield remembers and what it can afford to lose.

The deeper Jesse pulls at the town’s buried history, the more they uncover an inheritance built on sacrifice, silence, and impossible bargains.

Because in Hallowfield, nothing is truly gone.

And nothing comes back for free.

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Pink by Dom SabastiComplete Sign in to Save

Existential horror · Mature

Pink

by Dom Sabasti
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The Pink of Life. The Pink of Death.

Only one character. No name. Gender unspecified. No dialogue. Pink and Black. Everything else melts away, literally.

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The Maxwell House by Grace MirchandaniComplete Sign in to Save

Horror · Mature

The Maxwell House

by Grace Mirchandani
#Haunted House#Psychological Thriller#Halloween#Gruesome#Fast-paced
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A Halloween dare turns into a nightmare when Drew and his friends break into the Maxwell house and discover something far deadlier than a ghost. If you love creepy secrets, false scares that turn real, and one seriously unhinged villain, this book belongs on your shelf.

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Historical Fiction

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