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The Quietest Knife

Willow wakes in a hospital bed injured, medicated, and alone. She is informed that her life, as she understood it, ended weeks earlier. Her fiancé is there. Calm. Controlled. He explains that they broke up before the accident and that the separation was mutual. He says he remained by her side only out of decency. He is already involved with someone else, his boss’s daughter, and speaks as though this version of events has always been established fact. No one in the room challenges him. The doctors attribute Willow’s disbelief to concussion and trauma. Nurses lower their voices and repeat the same explanation with careful reassurance until it becomes official, documented, and final. Each repetition strips away her certainty, replacing memory with doubt. When Willow looks to the one person who could contradict him, she finds no relief. Her fiancé’s closest friend, a man who has never hidden his dislike for her, says nothing. He offers a brief nod that confirms the narrative without words. With that single gesture, the past is closed. Every detail they present contradicts what Willow knows she lived. Weeks have been erased. Conversations have been rewritten. A relationship has been reassigned without her consent. If she resists, she will be labeled unstable, emotional, and unreliable. She will be the only one insisting that reality has been altered. So Willow stays silent. Within that silence, something colder begins to take shape. She begins to question why her fiancé needed the past rewritten at a moment when she cannot safely object. She begins to wonder why his closest friend chose this precise moment to agree. She begins to realize that decisions were made about her while she lay unconscious and defenseless. The Quietest Knife is a dark psychological romance centered on gaslighting, betrayal, and power disguised as care. It follows a slow, deliberate descent into manipulation, control, and revenge, where harm is inflicted quietly and authority wears the mask of concern. This is not a story about forgetting. It is a story about being rewritten calmly, professionally, and without resistance.
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Ascension of the Voidblade

When Kieran Vale dies an ordinary, meaningless death, he awakens in Eidolon Rift, a brutal reincarnation world governed by an omnipresent System that claims to grant power—but in truth exists to filter souls, grinding the weak into monsters and forging the strong into disposable gods. Branded an Anomaly from the moment of rebirth, Kieran is bound to a forbidden weapon—the Voidblade, a soul-devouring manifestation that grows stronger by consuming the dead. Each victory grants power, but at a terrible cost: the erosion of empathy, memory, and identity itself. The System does not reward heroism. It rewards survival—and survival demands cruelty. As Kieran navigates a world divided by warring factions—the rigid Vanguard Accord, the soul-harvesting Hollow Covenant, the merciless Astral Inquisition, the lawless Freebound, and the mysterious Choir of Silence—he becomes a destabilizing force none of them can fully control. Allies become rivals. Rivals become monsters. And monsters are often what the System prefers. Hunted by executioners, tempted by tyrants, and tested by rival champions both male and female, Kieran rises through blood-soaked dungeons and faction wars, uncovering the truth behind the System itself: a failed mechanism left behind by dead gods, designed to manufacture replacements through endless suffering. At the heart of the chaos stands Lyra Ashenfell, a Vanguard captain sworn to uphold the System’s order. Their bond forms slowly—through shared battles, quiet understanding, and unspoken choices—yet the System marks their connection as a flaw. Love becomes a liability. Trust becomes rebellion. Every step closer threatens to break them both. As gods begin to fall and the System tightens its grip, Kieran is forced to confront an impossible choice: ascend and become what the world demands, or reject godhood entirely and risk erasing himself from existence. Ascension of the Voidblade is a dark, long-form action fantasy about power that corrodes, systems that lie, rivals forged by circumstance, and a love that grows not in safety—but in defiance. It asks a single question across its vast journey: If a world is built on suffering, is it better to rule it… or to end it?
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