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Jarek Elderberry was never built for an ordinary life. Marked from birth by a scar carved with ancient Velorian runes, he carries the weight of a prophecy his family refuses to speak aloud. Veloria - the drowned world of their ancestors - fell to chaos centuries ago, but its laws still bind Jarek's bloodline, dictating who survives and who disappears. London Price has always been his anchor - storm-gray eyes, hidden power, a bond older than memory itself. But when she vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a fading energy signature, Jarek is thrust into a spiraling hunt through forests where shadows move wrong and time bends around old scars. Creatures long thought extinct stalk the edges of reality: Sælions - guardians of bloodlines, bound by loyalty and instinct; Vareks - fractured Velorian predators who test the limits of ancient borders; and the Windigo-Wolves - hunters born of corruption and hunger, drawn to the rare, luminous energy Jarek and London share. As the Rite of the Tide nears - a sacred trial forcing every Velorian-Skinwalker hybrid to claim their ancestral ring buried beneath living ocean currents - Jarek must face the truth: the seal holding back an ancient darkness is cracking. Laws are breaking. Families are splintering. Some destinies aren't inherited. They're written in scars. Trigger Warnings: Grief · Violence · Blood · Family Trauma · Mental Health
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Ashes Of Zara

Zara was the first daughter in a chaotic household of seven—a girl of quiet strength, unshakable faith, and unspoken ambition. From a young age, she carried the weight of responsibility, tending to her three younger brothers and sister, watching over her parents, and dreaming of a life that could lift her family out of struggle. She didn’t know exactly what that life looked like, only that she would do anything to secure it.But when her chance to leave for a better future abroad arrives, her world shatters. Kidnapped and forced into a secretive, sinister lab, Zara becomes part of a horrifying experiment designed to erase her memories, control her with drugs, and turn her into a lethal assassin. Stripped of choice, she learns to kill—but the human heart she cannot fully suppress continues to ache, a quiet rebellion against the monster they are trying to make her.As the years pass, her life becomes a shadowed dance of obedience and grief. Then she meets Isabella, a young Italian woman who is pregnant and unbroken by the lab’s cruel regime. Through their tentative friendship, Zara glimpses hope, loyalty, and a connection to a world she thought she had lost forever. But when Isabella is kidnapped, forced to give birth, and dies, Zara’s humanity and vengeance collide in a storm of fury. Trained to kill, driven by grief, she hunts down those who destroyed the life she never fully had—and she does not stop until justice, however brutal, is done.From the wreckage of her past, Zara rebuilds herself—learning language, culture, and business—and, quietly, begins sending aid to the family she can never fully return to. She searches for purpose, finds faith, and ultimately discovers that redemption may come not through forgetting, but through facing every scar, every memory, and every choice.“Ashes of zara” is a gripping, cinematic thriller of loss, survival, and the unbreakable will of a young woman who refuses to surrender her soul—even when the world demands she become a weapon.
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