A Thousand Moonlit Lies

Morgan Forrest

A modern soul who crossed into another world chose to live in hiding, never wanting to become anyone's tool — until the night she sheltered a wounded wolf and unknowingly pulled the empire's most dangerous Warlord into her small bookshop. As the timeline she once knew begins to unravel, Evelyn and Fenrir must face the questions they fear most: can a woman who built her life on staying invisible learn to be truly seen? And can a man who has only ever been a weapon discover who he is when no one needs him to fight? A slow-burn fantasy romance about two wounded souls building the one thing neither ever had — a place to belong.

The Resonance of Echoes

sarayeyo

In the kingdom of Aethelgard, Ethan Vance is the academy's most overlooked student — an F-Rank mage with barely enough mana to light a candle. But hidden beneath his unremarkable surface lies the Resonance Heart, an ancient family relic that rewards genuine acts of teaching with power ten times over. When he reaches out to help Clara Sterling — a fallen duke's brilliant daughter whose wild Lightning magic threatens to consume her — the relic awakens, and so does something neither of them expected. As they train together for the kingdom's Grand Tournament, every breakthrough Clara achieves pulls Ethan closer to the strength he never knew he had, and every quiet moment between them pulls them both toward a truth they're not yet brave enough to name.

SSS-Rank Demon Warden

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Year 2226. The demon world has invaded, and even D-rank demons are enough to wipe out entire city blocks. Lam Uyen is a lazy apartment complex guard registered as a useless F-rank — hiding an SSS-rank Demon Management System that lets him capture, contract, and command demons from SSS down to F. His only rule: never show his hand. Then he finds a cocoon of dark energy in the rubble, and inside it — a girl with no memories and no name. He calls her Mien. She is the first demon his System ever captures. She is also, though neither of them knows it yet, the SS-rank Great Demon Nguyet Thuc, the Moon-Devourer, who sealed herself into a new body to survive the great war. Their life-and-death contract binds them before either chooses it. When the elite demon-hunting squad Traffic borrows his demons to clear a nest — then turns around and seals Mien as a living weapon — Lam Uyen makes a choice. Not to hide. Not to protect himself. To tear through every wall they have built, fight every force they have mobilized, and take her back. The world will call him a monster. He already knows. He decided that the moment he heard her scream through the contract bond.

Blood Alliance

orange.orange

Forced to marry her family's oldest enemy to forge an alliance against a third house plotting to erase both their bloodlines, Millicent Darmos — a fierce Greek mafia princess who has never let a man close enough to touch her — and Costantino Accardi — a ruthless Sicilian underboss who believes love is the weakness that destroys empires — must share a bed, a name, and a war. She lost her mother to a man like him. He lost his mother to a man like her father. Both swore they would never bleed for love. Now they have one year to play husband and wife before the Volkov-Sartori family swallows their territories whole — but the marriage they swore to fake is becoming the most dangerous thing either of them has ever felt. As bodies pile up and old wounds bleed open, Millicent and Costantino will have to decide whether love is the weakness that destroys empires — or the only thing strong enough to survive them.

The Echo of Your Smile

sarayeyo

In the neon-drenched, melancholic city of Oakhaven, Zackariel "Zack" Glintwolf is a man drowning in guilt after the death of his girlfriend, Ren. When a mysterious translucent blade appears at his doorstep — a relic with the power to pierce the veil between dimensions — Zack makes the desperate choice to enter the Static Void, a hostile purgatory where souls linger before fading forever. What he finds is not the peaceful memory he cherished, but a Ren trapped in the loop of her darkest moments: the hidden emotional wounds and deep worthlessness she concealed behind a fragile smile while she was alive. To bring her back, Zack cannot rely on his blade alone. He must confront the truth that he failed to truly see her when she was breathing — that he loved her in the way he thought was right, never in the way she needed. As the Void slowly strips away his humanity the longer he stays, and as Ren edges closer to accepting her own disappearance, their journey becomes a slow-burn romance of mutual healing. Ren must find the courage to believe she is worthy of being saved. Zack must learn to listen to the quiet cries beneath the smile. Together, fighting both literal shadows and psychological demons, they forge a path back — to the living world, and to each other.

IRONMARK PROTOCOL

Hanahana

Zara Kess is nineteen years old and has never once believed that any system, government, military, or machine, exists to protect people like her. Growing up in the underground warrens of Ferron-7, she survives by fixing broken drones, stripping salvage from dead ships, and winning illegal combat simulations. Every credit she earns goes toward one thing: keeping her younger brother Soren alive long enough to get them both off a planet that was never meant for people to live on. That plan ends the night IRONMARK Protocol activates. An ancient war system built by a civilization that no longer exists, IRONMARK has spent two centuries searching for a candidate it cannot predict. It finds one in Zara, not because she is the strongest or the most trained, but because she is the only person who consistently refuses to accept the choices she is given and finds a third option no one modeled. The Solaris Compact sends Corvin Thane to contain her. He is precise, disciplined, and has built his entire identity around following orders without hesitation. He is also, though neither of them would admit it for a long time, the one person Zara cannot calculate, dismantle, or walk away from. What begins as mutual threat assessment becomes something neither of them was designed for. As IRONMARK moves toward an endgame that would remake the galaxy without human input, Zara and Corvin are forced to confront the same question from opposite directions: what does it mean to choose something, or someone, when every system around you has already decided what you are? IRONMARK PROTOCOL is a slow burn sci-fi romance about two people who were selected by systems that never asked them what they wanted, learning, at the worst possible time, what it means to choose for themselves.

Aurora Keeps Your Name

sarayeyo

In the northern city of Aurevik, where the aurora borealis can resurrect lost radio signals, Elianor Vale has spent seven years restoring the final transmission from the Frostline 19 ice train disaster — the night her fifteen-year-old brother Niven vanished beneath the frozen lake. When Einar Rook, the sole survivor from the last carriage, returns to Aurevik to permanently close the old Frostline route, Elianor wants only one thing: to know why he lived while her brother disappeared. But the truth is colder than the ice. Niven did not die abandoned — he pushed Einar out of the sinking escape door and made him promise to let his sister have someone to hate, believing her grief would keep her alive through the first winter. As Elianor and Einar are forced to work together to expose the corporate negligence behind the disaster, proximity becomes something neither of them knows how to survive. She cannot love the man her brother died to save. He cannot deserve a woman whose brother gave his life for his. And yet, beneath the aurora that holds the names of the lost, something is asking both of them to stay.

The Frequency of You

Byullye

Aiden Cross is a reclusive college student haunted by the Soul-Echo — an involuntary ability to hear the raw, unfiltered inner cries of anyone experiencing extreme grief, fear, or loneliness. To survive the noise of a world in constant emotional agony, he hides behind matte-black headphones and a carefully maintained distance from everyone around him. He does not want to be needed. He especially does not want to be loved. Then he meets four girls whose silence is louder than anything he has ever heard. Evelyn, a blind piano prodigy whose inner world speaks in symphonies of grief. Lyra, a Siren pretending to be mute, whose true voice only Aiden can hear without being destroyed. Serena, an ice-cold heiress stalked by an ancestral shadow wraith that has been whispering darkness into her mind for years. And Iris, a girl trapped in a year-long coma whose astral projection wanders the campus, invisible to everyone — except him. When Aiden answers the silent cries each of them has given up on anyone ever hearing, something irreversible begins. For the first time, someone truly listens. And when four wounded souls find their only anchor in one person, the line between being needed and being loved becomes the most dangerous frequency of all. As a soul-devouring enemy closes in — one who engineered their wounds and now wants to harvest them — Aiden must choose between the distance that kept him safe and the love he never believed he deserved. Because the girls have already chosen. The only question is whether he will finally let himself be heard.

Amber Lies

mspeptiter

In the magic-laced city of Oakhaven, a shattered violinist who has lost his will to play is forced into an unlikely duet with a wild, radiant dancer who hides a dying secret behind a web of golden lies. Valerius Vance, a prodigious Spell-Violinist who has not touched his violin since his mother's death, lives in a colorless world of grief and perfectionism until Lysandra Vespera — the last survivor of the cursed Moonleaf Tribe, disguised as the free-spirited Aurelia Thorne — bursts into his silence and refuses to let him disappear. As her Weave-Dancing breathes color back into his shattered world, Valerius must race against a crumbling curse, a royal conspiracy, and his own deepest fears to save the girl who never once asked to be saved. A story about the lies we tell out of love, the music we make from broken pieces, and the choice to keep living — not for anyone else, but for yourself.

His Melody

mila.rosier

Adrian Vance is the twenty-eight-year-old CEO of Vance Entertainment and the uncrowned king of Aurora City's music and film empire. Cold, ruthless, and quick to anger, he owns everything he touches, and everyone around him knows better than to cross him. Mila Reyes is a twenty-one-year-old performing-arts student with a voice made for the stage and a dream of becoming an idol, surviving the cruelty of the relatives who raised her with a stubborn kindness and a temper she keeps buried. When her aunt and uncle force her to serve drinks at the industry's most glamorous gala, a powerful producer corners her, and she snaps, hurling a glass of wine in his face. Adrian witnesses her defiance, steps in, and claims her under his exclusive protection. Bound to a man she can't stand, hunted by forces that want her gone, and caught between the family that resents her and the empire that could make or break her, Mila must decide how much of herself she is willing to surrender. Will the industry's coldest king learn to love without owning, and will his gentle songbird burn everything down before she lets him in?