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My Valkyrie

My Valkyrie

  • Fantasy
  • GL
  • LQBTQ+
  • Young Adult
  • Romance

Maya's boring Friday night walk took a wildly different turn when she witnessed Val fall from the sky.
She was a Valkyrie, and after nursing her back to health, she and Maya went to search for her missing gear and memories.

Though their lives would intertwine much deeper than either anticipated, but they were all in for it. Including the encounter of undead draugr, berserker, earth giants and their romantic feelings for one another.

Kadets64
835
26 chapters
Ongoing
Their Desire

Their Desire

  • Mystery
  • Contemporary
  • Young Adult
  • Drama
  • Romance

People think of me as a rich snobbish bastard but their perspective about me never bothers me because they are all insignificant beings who abhor me not because of my personality but because they want to live my life and unfortunately, they can’t.

Yet she was different, when we met for the first time, she kept with my obnoxious personality and endured my temperament till I came to adore her. And with time that adoration took the shape of love.

But I never dared to tell her about my feelings thinking that my declaration might damage our friendship. Still, I hated the thought of any other guy approaching her, so I used all my means to keep them away from her.

But then she left me, making my heart yearn for her presence.

After a long time when I had learned to live without her, she came back into my life.

She was in pain and I could see it in her eyes, and I was afraid that she would leave me again if I confess.

But all changed when I saw her with my best friend. He had pulled her into a tight hug, patting her back reassuringly while kissing her forehead repeatedly.

That day something changed in me, and I realized that she doesn’t deserve my love.

Hence, I started to loathe her, torturing her in every possible way.

But still, somewhere in my heart, I desired her.

Note: It's a slow-burn story so things will progress steadily.

Ji Na
250
12 chapters
Ongoing
The Last Wish

The Last Wish

  • Fantasy
  • Historical Fiction
  • BL

{{Censored}} An exciting Fantasy Western boy's love tale of a lawman sent out West and a bandit king who won't give up. Follow Federal Officer Lucas Solomon as he braves the Western Frontier to take down the Angband Gang and their leader, Malachite Fury. When Lucas comes face to face with Malachite for the first time, he'll realize he's bitten off more than he can chew. But will pride be his undoing?

lordmouri
946
8 chapters
Complete
When Lament Finds Love

When Lament Finds Love

  • Fiction
  • Young Adult
  • Drama
  • Romance

Can you really feel the music? Can we really hear the same sound, and interpret it in different ways? A blind violinist and a writer meets one fateful morning to find out exactly that. What could these two unlikely lovers discover in themselves and in one another?

Oriphyne
721
31 chapters
Ongoing
True Love, Or Death?

True Love, Or Death?

  • Thriller
  • Horror
  • Mystery
  • Fiction
  • Romance

Raven finds herself at a haunted hotel with her best friend and crush, Darren Williams. Darren has no idea that Raven has a crush on him. Darren currently starts dating a bratty, snotting teenager named Daniela Carson. Daniela hates the fact that Raven is so clingy towards Darren, but Darren wants Daniela to do the same. Soon enough, Darren develops feelings for Raven. As they walk to the haunted hotel with their friends, Sophia Faria, Jaydah Faliciano, Alex Melemed, Juliana Galarza, Maddison Daye, Liam Hudson, Noah Carter, James Grayson, and Mason Jaxson. They all party and drink while being there. Everyone discovers their true love towards each other, but then experiences death. What'll happen to these people? Will they die with their last kiss?

PeanutbutterFudge
142
6 chapters
Ongoing
She Who Bears The Wolf's Mark

She Who Bears The Wolf's Mark

  • Werewolf
  • Fiction
  • Romance

In a moment of desperation, a deal was struck between Carly's parents and one of the most powerful packs to ever rule the Evergreen forest that thrusts Carly into a strange world she hadn't known even existed. It is a deal that will change Carly's life forever once she is 18.  
    
The deal states that on Carly's 18th birthday, the Evergreen Pack will come knocking on her door to claim what's theirs. Her. And until that day, she bears the mark of the Evergreen Pack on her back, the future Supreme Alpha's mark. 
    
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FeastOfNoise
958
19 chapters
Ongoing
The Wolf and The Source

The Wolf and The Source

  • Werewolf
  • Fantasy
  • Romance

The world needs her. She needs him. He... just wants to have a good time.
 
Through no fault of his own, simply a matter of timing, Ekon has found himself in the possession of the mantle of his wolf pack's Alpha. It's a privileged role that comes with far too much responsibility.
 
Also the victim of timing, Anaïs has woken to find that she is a Sorcerer: the Source of all of life's power. The first for centuries. Why her? Because. Why now? Because. Power from the cosmos now flows through her, and out into the wider world, controlled only by the amulet she must always wear. And if she takes it off? Kaboom.
 
And if it's stolen from her? ...
 
 
**
 
This is the first book of a planned series called Guardians & Guides. It's still very much in its infancy, so will develop slowly (especially while I'm still prioritising finishing Magician's Touch from the Deadly Touch series). I'm also going to have to do a bunch of worldbuilding for this one, so the actual writing will happen later in the process, or will undergo some changes as I "discover" things. This is just to let you know it's on my agenda, just in case it's the sort of story you might be looking for ...

Deb E. Howell
413
4 chapters
Ongoing
Healer's Touch

Healer's Touch

  • Fantasy
  • Supernatural
  • Romance

The Young Riders meet The Vampire Diaries in this tale of brother versus brother and blood-magic set in a gaslamp fantasy world. Book 1 in the Deadly Touch Trilogy.
 
Llew has a gift. Her body heals itself from any injury, at a cost to anyone nearby.
 
Llew's father disappeared when she was eleven, leaving her orphaned, as far as she knew.
 
Since then, Llew has learned to survive the streets of the gold-mining town of Cheer – full of opportunistic men and desperation. It’s a hard existence made tougher when her so-called friend accuses Llew of murder, sending her to the gallows.
 
Llew's Aenuk ability to absorb life means she doesn’t stay dead for long, but she does leave a trail of death behind her.
 
Escaping the hangman’s noose sees Llew fall into the hands of Jonas: the man with the knife and the Karan power to kill Llew’s kind. If Llew can nurture the attraction he has to her, maybe she can keep that knife from her heart.
 
But lurking in the shadows is Jonas’s half-brother, Braph: the man who has learned to combine Aenuk and Karan powers into infinite and addictive magical potential.
 
Healer's Touch is a fantasy novel flavored with a wild west setting, steampunk-like technology, enough romance to draw you in, horror to keep you hooked, and just enough sex to keep things spicy.

Deb E. Howell
1,496
26 chapters
Complete
Abyssal

Abyssal

  • BL
  • Adult
  • Romance

The day that Kai learns that he's half-human, half-merman and that he's the key to ending a 100-year-old war, is also the day that the entire ocean learns of his existence. For years his family kept him hidden from the world, but now the strongest, most dangerous merman in all the seven seas knows about Kai, and he's coming to the surface for him. 

To ensure victory, King Marius the Conqueror must capture the half-breed prince of Astria, his nation's greatest enemy, and claim him as his Mate in order to absorb his power before he learns to use it. There's only one problem: there's nothing Marius hates more than humans, not even an Astrian, and Kai is both those things. But when Marius sees the beautiful Kai and clashes swords with him, the cold-blooded king's blood begins to boil for the very first time.

When a dark, handsome, sword-wielding stranger attacks Kai in his home, instead of running, Kai fights even though he knows he's no match. Defeated, Kai is kidnapped to a world he never knew existed and is held prisoner against his will. Thrust into a secret, dangerous aquatic world, Kai must learn to navigate swimming with a tail instead of legs and avoid a powerful, possessive king's advances if he wants to save his newly-discovered mer-people from annihilation.

FeastOfNoise
8,564
98 chapters
Ongoing