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  • Montclair  by yaminairain
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    The sudden death of the Marquis Montclair shocks London. Four brothers gather to mourn, but a mysterious will reveals a hidden half-sister-Emilia Wilson-whose arrival threatens everything. Secrets, scandal, and whispers of the past rise, all watched by a shadowy observer who knows more than anyone... Lady Mitchell.
  • Rebirth of the Phoenix by Vanilatte733
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    [Getting 1.6 million views on the Indonesian version] Published every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday 8:00 AM GMT+8 Mei Li Yue, a twenty-one-year-old assassin from the modern world, falls into an old well during a mission that sends her into the past. She wakes up at the edge of a steep cliff beside Zhang Li Yue, the Empress of the Feng Empire, who has just been killed by Xi Liu Ri, the Chief Consort of the imperial harem. Shocked to find herself on a dangerous cliff, Mei Li Yue is even more startled to discover that the lifeless Empress lying beside her has the exact same face as hers. Mei Li Yue quickly realizes she has travelled to the past. The woman's elaborate ancient clothing, the dense forest of towering trees with exposed roots, and the presence of an important-looking corpse all tell her that she is no longer in her own time. When she encounters the Empress's spirit, Mei Li Yue is asked to take her place as the Empress of the Feng Empire and avenge her death as well as the death of her younger sibling. Filled with fury after hearing Zhang Li Yue's story, Mei Li Yue vows to take revenge not only on the ones who murdered the Empress and her sister, but also on the people who once humiliated her. She is angered as well by the Emperor, Feng Wu Lan, who ignored the injustice suffered by his own Empress despite knowing everything. How will Mei Li Yue's journey unfold as she takes the Empress's identity and seeks vengeance for Zhang Li Yue and her sister? And what awaits her when she finally crosses paths with the ruler of the Feng Empire?
  • The Boy of Haran by ArinMoonWay
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    A boy crossed the frozen plains to find a general - and walked into war. The Boy of Haran When Taiyuan fell to the northern riders, one boy survived. Across frozen plains and wind-scoured wastelands, he walked alone-carrying nothing but his father's last command: Find General Jin Mugwang of Haran. He was not a warrior. He had never drawn a blade in battle. Yet he crossed a land where even soldiers would not travel in winter. In Haran, at the edge of the frontier, a war waits. Armies gather. Old loyalties fracture. The border does not forgive weakness. The boy who arrived half-frozen at the gates of the northern campaign will grow beneath banners of war. But survival is only the beginning. In a fractured age, he must learn when a blade must be drawn- and when it must remain sheathed. A story of war, loyalty, and the making of a man.
  • BAD blood by prodigalSon89
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    Caleb and the Night family have just survived nearly becoming permanent guests of the berserkers, a criminal organization in Berlin, Germany. Now they have all dispersed, and Caleb and Aimee are now in Paris to celebrate Aimee's support as a cop that gained her first award. And bury her mother, who passed away early on. Now, as if that wasn't enough, another criminal organization has caught wind of the shift in action of the berserkers now that Selena has taken leadership and has captured(abducted) Caleb, leaving Aimee to research the "shadow palace," a Russian organization that aims to force the night-children out of hiding
  • Prehistoric Wild: Life in the Mesozoic by ZacharyDow
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    Step into a world lost to time with "Prehistoric Wild: Life in the Mesozoic," a captivating collection of short stories that transport you to the ancient past. Each tale unfolds in a different fossil formation around the globe. Gain a glimpse into unseen times in natural history from the healing world of the Triassic, the ecological bloom of the Jurassic, and the waning days of the Cretaceous. Explore worlds much different from our own such as the sea of middle North America, the wetlands of southern Mongolia, and the forests of the Antarctic. Meticulously researched and vividly imagined, these stories strive to capture the authenticity and wonder of life during the Mesozoic era. Written in a style inspired by nature documentaries, each story offers a realistic and immersive glimpse into the behaviors, struggles, and triumphs of a diverse array of creatures that once roamed our planet. Whether it's the famous dinosaurs, the sky-faring pterosaurs, the long-forgotten marine reptiles, or the earliest ancestors of mammals, this collection brings the ancient world to life with compelling accuracy. Drawing inspiration from modern-day natural phenomena as well as the latest theories and discoveries in paleontology, these tales blur the line between fact and fiction, reviving the distant echoes of prehistoric life. Join us on this journey through time, where the wonders of long ago await your discovery. Experience life on Earth as it once was for over 180 million years. Welcome to the Prehistoric Wild.
  • THE CEO CONSORT: Silk, Snacks & Scandals by jigglypuffbae
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    "I used to run a multi-billion-dollar empire from a boardroom. Now, I'm running a harem from my bed-and the room service is appalling." Su Lin was the "Dragon Lady" of the corporate world-cold, calculating, and capable of firing a man with a single look. But after a freak accident, she's transmigrated into the body of a neglected, "weak" consort in the 4th Prince's palace. The original Su Lin was a pushover who died in silence. The new Su Lin? She's a predator. While the other concubines are busy weeping for the prince's attention, Su Lin is busy treating the Imperial Court like a hostile takeover: 📊 Performance Reviews: If a maid can't brew tea properly, she's getting a "Personal Improvement Plan." 📉 Budget Audits: Why are we spending 5,000 taels on incense when the snack selection is this pathetic? 💼 Hostile Takeovers: The palace isn't a home; it's a corporation. And Su Lin is coming for the CEO's chair. But there's a glitch in her plan: The cold-hearted 4th Prince, who once couldn't care less if she lived or died, is suddenly very interested in his "new" wife's sudden change in personality. He's intrigued, she's annoyed, and the ancient world isn't ready for a woman who treats a Royal Decree like a "suggestion" from HR. In a world of silk-wrapped daggers and poisoned tea, Su Lin has only one rule: Don't mess with her empire, and never touch her snacks. In a world of deadly scandals, she's the biggest one of all. ❤️🔥🐦🔥 ✨ WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS: ✅ Badass Female Lead (No damsels here!) ✅ CEO x Prince (Power Couple energy) ✅ Transmigration / Isekai ✅ Slow Burn & Snarky Humour ✅ Historical Palace Drama
  • Blood and Dust by MichaelTodd68
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    Dead Rock buried its sins with rope and lies. When former marshal Clay McCallister is framed, branded an outlaw, and left to hang, the town thinks it's rid of him. They're wrong. Now he's back - with a bullet list, a haunted past, and two dangerous allies who have their own scores to settle. Corrupt sheriffs. Blood-money mining companies. A train full of mercenaries. Dead Rock wanted a villain. They're about to get justice instead. Revenge burns slow. And this time, it burns everything.
  • The Carthaginian Candidate by fun-history
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    Rome is about to fall. But not in the way you think. Forget the legions. Carthage's deadliest weapon is Saphanbaal, Hannibal's younger sister - a master of whispers, lies, and unseen control. Operating under a Roman alias, she infiltrates the heart of the Republic, pulling strings in the Senate, twisting public opinion, and turning Roman against Roman. As the drums of the Second Punic War grow louder, Saphanbaal's shadow network ignites riots, sparks scandals, and weaponizes the very fabric of Roman society. But a young, idealistic Tribune, Marcus Valerius Flaccus, is beginning to connect the dots, unraveling a conspiracy that could shake Rome to its foundations. The Carthaginian Candidate is a pulse-pounding historical thriller that asks: How far would you go to save your people? And can a society survive when truth itself becomes a weapon? Uncover the secrets of ancient espionage, where every whispered rumor is a bullet, and every alliance is a potential betrayal.
  • Thrown Into Madness - Lord of the Mysteries by Junyaoi
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    "... I just wanted to read a book, What's with the bloody scene?! And what? I'm a child? And whose memories are these? Where am I? Who am I? I don't want this! Who would want this?! Get me back! I wanna go back! Please!" ... Who would think that buying a weird history book would bring Juny into the life filled with madness. Her only goal is to get back to her friends and family to flaunt her new abilities, but... can she? This is a Lord of the Mysteries fan-fiction.
  • Death on De Vergulde Lelie by fun-history
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    In a city where a single flower is worth more than a man's life, some secrets are deadly enough to kill for. Amsterdam, 1637. At the height of the insane Tulip Mania, a group of the city's wealthiest speculators gather on a lavish barge, De Vergulde Lelie (the Gilded Lily), for a secret auction. The prize: the Semper Augustus, a tulip bulb so rare it could buy a palace. But before the first bid is cast, the night is shattered by a scream. The host, a ruthless and widely hated speculator, is found murdered. The priceless bulb is gone. Trapped on the barge by the frozen canals, a handful of suspects are locked in a cage of opulence and fear: the bitter rival on the brink of ruin, the indebted English lord, and the vengeful farmer who claims the bulb was stolen from him first. The city watch sees a simple case of greed. But they're not looking closely enough. Signor Alvise Grimaldi, a disgraced Venetian glassmaker living in exile, sees what the others miss. He's not a detective; he's an artist with an eye for fatal flaws. While everyone else is blinded by the missing bulb, Grimaldi is drawn to the real heart of the crime: the silent, stolen glances between the victim's beautiful, trapped wife, Katarina, and the brilliant, obsessive painter, Frans van Loo. Their forbidden love is a secret far more dangerous than any financial debt. As Grimaldi peels back the layers of deception, he realizes the murder wasn't a simple robbery. It was a crime of passion, a desperate act disguised to look like greed. Now, he's in a silent duel with a killer who is just as much an artist of deception as Grimaldi is of glass. In a world gone mad with speculation, can a broken artist expose a truth hidden in a single drop of paint before the ice thaws and a devastating secret sinks them all?
  • Vikings Valhalla: The Last Saga by Sugarlipzz
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    Vikings: Valhalla - The Last Saga The age of the Vikings is ending... but the saga is far from over. Leif Erikson, Freydís Eiríksdóttir, and Harald Sigurdsson sail west, chasing a horizon no map has ever shown. Kings rise and fall, gods are forgotten, and the old ways vanish-but a new land promises a chance for legacy, power, and survival. In Vinland, they will face uncharted dangers, test loyalties, and confront the choices that define what it truly means to be a Viking. Will they carve their names into history... or will the last saga of the Vikings be their final one?
  • Daughter of the Duke by astralaube
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    I died and woke up as Cryselle Argentum, a princess whose fate I already knew too well. This world was not unfamiliar to me. It was the setting of a novel I had once read, a tragic story where a neglected child grows into a misunderstood scholar and meets her end at the hands of her own father. Knowing that future, I resolved to survive by doing the opposite of what the story demanded. I would stay quiet, stay small, and stay out of sight. But the world did not allow me to remain unseen. I met Silas Argentum, my father, far earlier than I was ever meant to, and every interaction felt like walking on thin ice. Was he dangerous? Yes. Was he cruel? Perhaps. But he was also attentive in ways the novel never described. So tell me, if fate has already been written, what happens when the person meant to die decides to rewrite the story herself?
  • AARINI - A REIMAGINED MAHABHARAT [ upcoming ] by J_Kukuble
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    What if one girl could rewrite the Mahabharat? Sixteen years ago, the kingdom of Kalinga was wiped out in one night. The royal heir disappeared. Everyone said she died. They lied. Asha has spent her whole life feeling out of place-mysterious dreams, a strange birthmark, and a necklace she can't take off. When a hidden scroll reveals her true name, her entire world shatters. She is Aarini. The lost princess. The girl a hundred enemies are searching for. And the first one to find her is not an assassin... It's Vyren-a cold, brilliant, infuriatingly calm strategist from Hastinapur. A boy who speaks in logic, fights in silence, and looks at her like he's solving a puzzle no one else can see. He claims he's here to protect her. He swears she's in danger. He refuses to leave her side. But Vyren also has secrets-dangerous ones. The kind that could break kingdoms. As old prophecies rise, ancient creatures hunt the forests, and forgotten enemies close in, Asha is forced into a world she never knew was hers. A world where her bloodline is a weapon... and her survival could stop a war. He says she's the last hope. She thinks he's lying. And yet- when the darkness comes for her, Vyren is the one who stands in front of it. A lost princess. A strategist with a guarded heart. A destiny written long before they were born. This is not the story she was meant to live- it's the one she was never supposed to survive.
  • Stuck with You by grazoology
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    Beatrice is a college student from Dunberg University of Technology. During her free time, she stumbles upon a mysterious book at the library. And then, before she knew it, she was stuck in an unknown world... inside the book?! She transmigrated into a lady called Kelcie Lavinia Wyresdale, who was rumoured to be a cruel, mean, and icy person of Western Empire. Kelcie is destined to marry the crown prince of the Southern Empire, Mason Iker Dyvill. However, Beatrice doesn't feel comfortable nor inlove with Mason as she's still adjusting to Kelcie's life. While figuring out how to escape from her "nightmare", she met Vishan Kade Goldes, the ruler of Hamiya Kingdom. Will she be able to accept her fate as Kelcie? Will she be able to stop her marriage? ______________________________ Started: May 13, 2025 Published: Ended: This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
  • Be Not Afraid by CarlMcarlsbad
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    Galway. 1759. The British Colonization of Ireland is underway. When a small clan of Fyarl demons prove quite the thorn in the Brits' side, Arabella, a newly called vampire slayer of only a few weeks, is dispatched to the Galway country side to neutralize them. Rumors swirl of a very deadly young vampire stalking the streets of Galway. While The Council is convinced that this new vampire is calling the shots for this Galway gang of demons, Clochtún seeks out the vampire as the only hope to save his clan from the Slayer and the forces of British occupation. Can Clochtún find him before Arabella and The Council? And if he does, will the vampire agree to fight on their side? Clochtún has no choice but to find him. The one who could be their salvation or their undoing. The Irish vampire with the angelic face...
  • The Silver Lily: Symphony of Blood and Ink by KWeerapperuma
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    A delicate flower in the court. A sharpened blade in the dark. To the people of Lankara, Princess Amarani is the Silver Lily-a fragile beauty meant for galas and diplomacy. But beneath the silk and lace lies a warrior trained in secret, waiting for a war she hoped would never come. Peace is dying. With Lankara's ministers bought by the rival Valeria Empire, Amarani discovers a betrayal that cuts deeper than any sword: her own sister is days away from signing a blood-contract in the Black Book of Valeria. The cost? The lives of the entire Royal Family and the arrival of the Unseen-elite assassins whispered to be myths only because they leave no survivors. With no proof to show the court, Amarani and her most loyal ally, Arjun, embark on a desperate suicide mission into the iron heart of the enemy's capital. What begins as a search for answers becomes a race against time to infiltrate the Valerian castle and seize the book before the first drop of blood hits the page. Deep within a city of shadows, their only hope lies in an impossible alliance with the enemy's own son, Prince Vaelar. Forced into a revolution they never asked for, the three of them must strike a match against the darkness of an empire. They have ignited the spark of rebellion, but they cannot choose which way the fire burns. *Updates every Tuesday and Friday.*
  • Second Play of Fate by Rawit_nd
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    The war of Kurukshetra ended in blood, but for Karna, death was not the end-it was a restart. Reborn as Adiratha, a humble charioteer in a timeline that feels cruelly familiar, Karna seeks only one thing: to protect his son, Vasusena, from the cursed destiny of a warrior. He is willing to bury his solar brilliance in the dust of the stables, to be a nobody, if it means his child survives the world that once rejected him. But he isn't the only one who remembers. When a twist of fate drags Karna before the throne of Hastinapura, he faces a King who is blind, broken, and burning with rage. Duryodhana has returned, carrying the memories of their past life and a heart blackened by betrayal. He doesn't see a brother; he sees a liar who mocked their bond by hiding the truth. Determined to punish the man who once shone too bright, Duryodhana demands a penance that pushes Karna to his limits. Trapped between a King who wants to break him and a son who was born to fight, Karna must navigate a fragile second chance. They drove to their deaths once. Can they drive towards salvation this time?
  • ATHERTION  by Purplebutterflys1
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    Athertion once known as Vanerria and Vanxuim. The Vanxuim was divided into two by the god Enrien. One world for humans and the other land for demons. The Vanxuim is a very large world,some are turned into an island or a small land. There are four Empires that have been keeping the Athertion safe and at peace since the first to the fourthy-two generation. There are also hidden magical gems underneath each of the imperial palaces in each of the Empires. Those gems are very powerful but.. now forgotten,yet they continue to be still powerful as ever. The Imperial royal families have forgotten them when one generation decided to hide the gems underneath their imperial palace and now are long gone forgotten by them and the people,they consider it as a myth nor a legend.. but one imperial royal family had not forgotten,which is the O'Connor family. They know about the gems and their powers,the two siblings expected that the other imperial royal families also had remember it.. but they do not. Though,those four gems has a lot more powerful gem. The gem of life and death,hidden beneath the Temple of Prophet. Located in the center of Atherion,it is a powerful gem than all the four. It is well hidden and has magical security. But... What if someone stole the gem of life and death? What will happen?
  • The Fallen Kingdoms by itslovely23
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    Copyrights © 2018 by itslovely23 All rights reserved Many believed he was a gift to mankind. No one could defeat him. No one could challenge him, and those who did crumble at his feet. He has defeated many nations that dared to take his. He had the strength of Zeus, the heart of Aphrodite, and the wrath of Ares. He was unlike anything that a man has seen. Like he was one of the gods. Many believed he was, he was Achilleus. The son of a mortal Greek hero, Peleus and the goddess of water, Thetis. The great warrior who's favored by the gods in times of wars to bring them glory. He was destined to become the greatest of all times and many will remember him for that. Will his good fortune and path to destiny be put at a halt when he sets his eyes upon a woman of Ivorian descent in the land of his enemies drifts him of his ways? In which his desire to fight for her becomes greater than for his country.
  • Jijivisha by jimmyprotested29
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    - जिजीविषा च मुमुक्षु ― The will to live, the hunger for release. Gauri Nimbalkar lingered somewhere in between. Time did not take her - it sentenced her. One moment, love cradled in her arms; in the next, she was cast into a world that worships her name but does not know her soul. Bound to a love that dissolved like sand through her fingers, punished for a sin she never intended, and haunted by the remnants of a life stolen from her grasp- she walks as both a trespasser and a tether of a divine past. But fate is a script she refuses to follow. If the past has stolen from her, she will steal from destiny itself. Let the gods watch - for Gauri will decide whether she bends or breaks; whether she wills to live or to liberate.