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  • ECHOES OF HALAL LOVE by umhiteer
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    The extraordinary story of Yasmin and Fahad.a love that begins in silence, in unspoken moments, and blooms when least expected. A journey of true, qadr-guided love, exploring the beauty of patience, faith, and heartfelt connection. Along the way, discover intertwining hearts, hidden lines, and other love stories waiting to unfold.pure, halal, and destined.(Follow for frequent updates IN SHA ALLAH πŸ’š)
  • Five Years Later || Luke castellan by inkedbybatt
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    ❀ ─── ❀ ─── ❀ She was the daughter of Persephone. He was the boy who left without saying goodbye. ❀ ─── ❀ ─── ❀ He was her first heartbreak. She was his petal. ❀ ─── ❀ ─── ❀ 🌺Luke Castellan X Fem!OC 🌺Percy Jackson and The olympians 🌺all credit goes to Rick Riordan ❀ ─── ❀ ─── ❀ 🌷Started : 18/02/26 🌷Finished : ??/??/?? ❀ ─── ❀ ─── ❀
  • The princess and the General by sparkling__dusk___
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    "In a world of swords and silence, it was never passion that saved them - but the love that never asked to be spoken." β˜…He finds the peace he never thought he'd deserve. β˜…She gives her heart without asking for his - believing that one day, he might give it anyway. β˜…But in a world ruled by swords and secrets... can love survive without speaking its name? β˜…First chapter: 10th October 2025 β˜…Final chapter :
  • Order of the Phoenix by QuillOfMerlin
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    Hermione Granger never knew her parents - but she always knew who she was: a Muggle-born witch, a loyal friend, and a fighter for what's right. But when Voldemort returns and the war begins to stir, long-buried truths come to light - and Hermione learns that she's not who the world thought she was. Thrust into a life of secrecy and lies, Hermione must navigate a world that sees her as a symbol of power and legacy. With Severus Snape as her reluctant mentor, she walks a dangerous line between two identities, forced to play a part she never asked for. This is a character-driven reimagining of Order of the Phoenix, where family is complicated, fatherhood is hard, and pretending to be the villain may be the only way to survive.Hermio
  • Dirty Little Secret by ChromeDok
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    He never meant to blackmail her. He just didn't know how else to make her see him. Justin's invisible at school: it's online he spends his nights gaming with people who actually get him. Zelda's the opposite: a flawless and admired cheerleader, but it's all an act. When Justin stumbles across her secret - that the perfect girl everyone worships is actually a geeky gamer -, he does something stupid. Now, he's determined to prove he isn't the bad guy she thinks he is. But getting close to Zelda means pulling her deeper into the world she's tried so hard to hide... A slow-burn YA romance about secrets, loneliness, and the people we become when we finally let our guards down. UPDATED EVERY WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY AND SUNDAY
  • Three Ways Love Arrived by m0nsk333
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    *She asked for freedom and learned what it cost.* ________________________________________ This is a story about three people bound by the same love - and separated by the moment they were ready to choose it. Lisa loved Jennie deeply, but mistook freedom for distance and reassurance for presence. When she asked for space, she didn't realize she was letting go of the one person who had been staying all along. Jennie learned what it meant to stop asking, to stop waiting, and to choose herself without bitterness. In the aftermath, she rebuilt her life piece by piece - discovering that love doesn't disappear when it's quiet, and that being seen can feel like coming home. Chaeyoung had loved Jennie patiently since college, never demanding space, never forcing timing. She stayed when it hurt, waited without disappearing, and arrived not as a replacement - but as someone who was finally met. Told through parallel points of view, this is a story about presence, regret, healing, and the devastating truth that sometimes the greatest love of your life doesn't leave you - you leave it. And sometimes, someone else stays.
  • Under the Same Badge by AmaniHaddock1
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    Harper Bradford crossed an ocean to start over. She didn't expect to find love, or a husband with more walls than windows, or a career that would test every piece of her heart. Fresh out of the LAPD Academy, Harper is assigned to Mid-Wilshire-and to the one man who knows her better than anyone else: her husband, Training Officer Tim Bradford. On the streets, he is relentless, controlled, and unforgiving. At home, he is the man she loves. Between the two lives is a line neither of them can afford to blur. As Harper learns what it truly means to wear the badge, she must fight to prove she isn't just "Bradford's wife," but an officer in her own right-while the job, the danger, and the city of Los Angeles threaten to tear down everything they're trying to build.
  • Only If You Stay  by authorcnecole
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    He didn't ask for her heart. He studied it... then took it like it already belonged to him😈😈.... Ziya Foyce doesn't chase men. She paints, she hides, and she protects her peace like it's sacred. In a town full of loud cousins, nosy neighbors, and old drama that refuses to die, she minds her business and lets the world spin without her. Then Nahlej Cordeaux steps in. He isn't ordinary. He's pressure in human form-a hood philosopher with a past carved into his skin and a stare that makes you forget every promise you made to yourself. From the moment he sees Ziya, it's done. He doesn't flirt; he studies. He circles. He claims. And once he locks in, he doesn't let go. Ziya promised herself she'd never fall for a man who could break her. Nahlej promised that if he touched her once, she'd never leave. What starts as a glance turns into a pull she can't shake. Between sharp-tongued best friends, family chaos, and chemistry that refuses to quiet down, their story unfolds reckless, obsessive, and addictive. He isn't the villain. He's just unhinged enough to make love feel dangerous in all the right ways. This isn't a fairytale. It's grown, messy, Southern hood love. The kind that lingers. The kind that claims. The kind you don't forget. πŸ”₯ Only If You Stay is a Southern Black romance about a love that doesn't ask-it takes and restores.
  • Everything I Couldn't Say | Complete βœ” by writtenbykaya
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    What happens when you meet someone on the worst night of their life? When they're standing on the edge of a bridge and you're the only one who sees? How does a story like that begin? The story of two people who meet when everything's already falling apart. After her twin sister's death, Norah Bishop learns how to look whole - polished, composed, untouchable. She carries a secret that feels heavier than grief and a guilt she mistakes for balance. If something was taken, something must be paid. Daniel Cohen has been quiet his whole life. Not because he has nothing to say, but because no one ever listened. Not when it mattered. He doesn't believe in fate. He believes in control. In endurance. In loving one person so steadily it becomes instinct. They aren't supposed to collide. But from the moment they do, something ancient and unspoken refuses to let go - in glances across classrooms, in banters, in conversations that stretch past midnight, in touches that feel like recognition rather than discovery. As old wounds surface and truths threaten to unravel everything, Norah must decide whether she will keep living like punishment - or choose a love that feels terrifyingly alive. This is a story about grief that lingers. About desire that burns through fear. About two people who don't promise to save each other - only to stay. -------- [Book 1] in the Norah & Daniel Universe
  • Pranbir - what love survived by natheerjooste
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    Ranbir and Prachi fall in love quietly - in conversations that linger, in silences that feel safe, in the choice to build something steady rather than rushed. Marriage gives them a life that finally feels whole. Until the past resurfaces. When an old wound reopens and a buried truth begins to fracture the intimacy they worked so hard to build, love is no longer tested by betrayal alone - but by silence, distance, and restraint. Choices made out of love collide with consequences no one intended. Revenge completes itself even after it is abandoned. Trust breaks where it was never meant to. This is a story about love that exists before the conflict... and whether it can survive loss, guilt, forgiveness - and the cost of choosing each other again.
  • The Farrier's Son by EDwrites
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    Ranch Life Novel | Cedar Hollow Series Nineteen-year-old Lance Hawthorne grew up knowing exactly who he was meant to be-the next farrier in his family, working the forge beside his father and keeping the ranch running. But one rainy morning, a freak barn accident leaves him paralyzed from the waist down, shattering the future he spent years preparing for. Now the Hawthorne family is struggling to stay afloat, the business is slipping out of reach, and Lance is drowning in anger, guilt, and the fear that he's become a burden. Everyone walks on eggshells around him-except Blu Mercer, the new physical therapy assistant assigned to his rehab. Quiet, observant, and steady, Blu doesn't treat Lance like he's fragile. He doesn't push too hard or step away. He simply shows up-again and again-meeting Lance where he is, not where anyone thinks he should be. As Lance battles trauma, family expectations, and the loss of the only future he ever planned, he discovers that healing isn't about going back to who he was... it's about learning who he can become now. A story of identity, family, resilience, and the unexpected people who help us stand tall when we can't stand at all.
  • Beneath Still Water by twenteasomething
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    They were children when they met on Harmony Island. They were children when they learned what their abilities could be weaponised to do. Now, years later, Atka and Taiyo hide their past behind concealer and smiles, clinging to each other in a city that doesn't know what they've survived. But the past has a way of surfacing. And when it does, they'll have to decide: keep running, or finally face what was done to them-and what they were forced to do.
  • In the Quiet Between Us by whispersof_Aurora
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    This story is slowburn. Heavy. Emotional. Psychological. There won't be instant confessions. There won't be dramatic love at first sight. There will be silence, tension, misunderstandings, and emotional shifts. Aurora is not perfect. Ian is not expressive. They will hurt each other without meaning to. And love here won't look loud - it will look restrained. If you're here for soft romance, this might frustrate you. If you're here for quiet intensity, stay. Let's see what grows in the quiet between them.
  • πˆπ… πŽππ‹π˜ 𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 π’πŒπˆπ‹π„πƒ by bleuir
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    in 2021, one polite smile in a hotel lobby goes unanswered, and what should've been nothing slowly turns into tension, pride, and a rivalry neither of them is ready to admit started over something that small.
  • Life at Full Volume by Axionic
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    Life at Full Volume A Psychological Speculative Novel Mark Ellison is fifty-two, professionally "legacy," domestically stable, and quietly terrified of becoming background noise in his own life. So he drags his old amplifier into the dining room and turns it up. At first, it's harmless nostalgia. A Springsteen lyric that doesn't match what everyone else remembers. A cereal box logo that looks slightly wrong. A children's character missing a detail he's certain was always there. Then it gets personal. A late-night forum post appears under his name-one he doesn't remember writing. A second account using his exact name and age responds in third person... and disappears. His wife sees it too. What begins as a midlife restlessness turns into something far more destabilizing: the possibility that memory isn't failing... it's splitting. As small fractures begin appearing in music, digital records, and shared reality itself, Mark is forced to confront a dangerous question: What if another version of him never settled? What if that version is still active? Life at Full Volume is a tense, emotionally grounded exploration of identity, marriage, midlife reinvention, and the terrifying idea that the life you didn't choose may still be unfolding somewhere-at full blast.
  • House of El by MorielFresco
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    What if the voice inside your head... wasn't yours? Maya Miyamoto sees spirits. She always has. But seeing ghosts is the easy part. Surviving your own self-doubt? That's harder. When a solar eclipse darkens Amsterdam, Maya's world begins to crack open. A demon attacks her. A stranger saves her. And a mysterious invitation arrives to a student residence in Leiden called The House of El. A place that isn't just a boarding house. And isn't just a school. Behind its doors are students from across Europe-some bearing angelic spirits, some who don't even believe in God, and some who are far more dangerous than they appear. They wear enchanted bracelets. They train in angelic magic. They play Arcane Football and wage wars no human sees. And somewhere in the shadows, something in a suit is watching Maya. Demons are growing stronger. Possession is becoming easier. And Maya's gift may be the very thing attracting them. As she struggles with family expectations, self-worth, and feelings she never asked for, she must decide: Will she let the darkness define her? Or will she learn what it truly means to love- not just others, but herself? Because in the House of El, everyone has a role. And some roles were written long before you were born.
  • Among Sinners by light-in-darkness
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    After the years they came to call the Scarcity, the world did not end. It only grew quieter. In the valley of St. Helena, vineyards survived where cities failed. The Vyrell family helped rebuild the land with bread, mercy, and hard work. A generation later, the trains still run and the vines still root deep. But renewal does not erase sin. Alaric hides his guilt behind a glowing screen. Micah takes his inheritance and runs. Sera reaches for forbidden power. Lydia learns survival always has a cost. Set in a California valley rebuilding after worldwide collapse, Among Sinners is a dark, character-driven mosaic of interwoven parables about ruin, pride, mercy, and the long road home. Some sons leave. Some stay. All must choose who they become when the noise is gone.
  • My Girl [ONC 2026] by iAmMokoto
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    Anna lives a deliberately colourless life-one spent in the background, where asking for anything comes with a price she learned to stop paying long ago. At school, on the bus, at home, her world has been built on silence, routine, and the certain safety of going unnoticed. It's a balance she maintains meticulously, because being seen has never ended well for her. Then, one day, that balance fractures after a brief moment of accidental acknowledgement-small, meaningless, fleeting, and completely impossible to undo. Now, Anna is forced to confront the quiet life she's built. She begins to question whether survival is the same as living... and what it might cost to want more. She finds herself wondering whether the price is too low-or far too high. Because once you're noticed by someone, the world doesn't always let you disappear again. Highest ranking: #1 literaryfiction 01/03/2026 - Ongoing.
  • My Dear Nerd by TheLynx
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    | Luxury can't protect you from loneliness. | Kyle Faulkner lives surrounded by everything that should feel like enough. It doesn't. That luxury makes every expectation too heavy, every sound too loud. He disappears - into screens, into code, into quiet that doesn't demand anything. Until the day a stranger enters his quiet. Doesn't push. Doesn't ask him to be different. Just stays. My Dear Nerd is a slow, intimate story about loneliness behind closed doors, fear that doesn't look dramatic, and the fragile courage it takes to step toward someone - without knowing whether you'll be met halfway.
  • Rebulas: The Convergence (Book One) by Rebulas
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    Decades ago, a Great War erupted among the four lands of the world. Each sought control over ancient artifacts once belonging to a single, powerful relic known as the Oral of Corvulus - a force capable of tipping reality itself in favor of whoever wielded it. The conflict nearly destroyed the realms and the world they shared. In the aftermath, the Arbiter emerged - a mysterious, almost godlike figure cloaked in a mask of shifting gold and shadow. Claiming dominion over balance, the Arbiter began intervening whenever one land grew too dominant, too greedy, or too corrupt. To prevent another collapse, the Rebulas Trials were created - a legendary series of high-stakes competitions designed to preserve balance through sacrifice. Each Trial summons four souls, one from each land, to be tested not only for power, but for courage, intelligence, control, and morality. As the Trials resurface once more, four new travelers are called upon to represent their realms in the name of peace. Among them is Riven Morlake, a shadow mage from Noctara - the land of shadow and decay. His selection marks an unexpected disturbance, one that the world is not prepared to face. Raised in a realm feared and misunderstood, Riven's presence challenges long-held beliefs about darkness, truth, and what balance truly demands. Rather than focusing on the Trials themselves, Rebulas: The Convergence follows four rivals on their dangerous journey toward Rebula City, where cooperation may prove more dangerous than the Trials awaiting them. As their paths converge, the question at the heart of the world begins to surface: Where does truth truly lie - within balance... or beyond it?