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The Empty Archive

St. Jude’s Institute was built on a lie: that knowledge is more important than the person who holds it. ​In an elite, high-pressure school where every thought is digitized and every student is ranked, Callie is a ghost. She’s the girl with the pen in a world of tablets—an observer who records the life of Julian, the school’s brilliant but cold physics prodigy, in the secret pages of her journal. She knows his habits, his coffee order, and the exact way he looks when a problem is too hard to solve. But she never expected him to look at her. ​Everything changes when the "First Silence" hits. ​A mysterious mental virus, controlled by the ruthless Student Council President, Archer, begins to "reboot" the students. One by one, memories are deleted. Personalities vanish. Talents are harvested into a digital Archive. As the school goes into a high-tech lockdown, the geniuses become blank slates, and friends become strangers. ​When Julian begins to forget his own name, Callie is the only one who can anchor him to reality. Armed with only her ink and her memories, she teams up with her best friends—Sloane, the fierce strategist, and Jax, the athlete-turned-shield—to break into the heart of the school and stop the Master Delete. ​But Archer’s Archive is hungry, and it needs a core. ​In a race against a countdown that is erasing their souls, Callie and Julian must decide: How much of yourself are you willing to lose to save the person you love? The Archive is closing. The ink is drying. And once the story is deleted, there is no coming back.
Ishika_Pandey_9454 · 1.1k Views

Eden in the Weeds

Eden: Three years ago, Eden vanished without a trace. One night was all it took to destroy her life, the night the men came. They wore the cut of a motorcycle club she trusted, spoke the name of the man she loved, and left her for dead. So they thought. Now living under the radar in a small roadside town, Eden has rebuilt something fragile but safe. She has a quiet life, a new family, and a version of herself that doesn’t look back. Until the past walks through the diner door. Cash never stopped looking for her. Cash: As the treasurer of Iron Mercy MC, he’s spent three years chasing dead ends, blaming himself for the night everything fell apart. He was supposed to protect her, his old lady, his future, and instead, she disappeared without a word. So when he finally finds Eden alive, he expects anger, but what he gets is fear. Not the kind of terror that makes her scream and run like he’s the one who destroyed her. Now Cash is faced with an impossible truth: Eden believes he, and the brother she once trusted like family, ordered the attack that nearly killed her. Cash knows one thing for certain. He didn’t. Someone used his name, his club, and his life. And whoever did it isn’t finished. As buried secrets begin to surface, enemies close in from the shadows, and Eden is forced to confront the past she tried to escape, trust becomes the most dangerous risk of all. Because the truth isn’t just about what happened that night. It’s about who wanted Eden gone, and why she was worth destroying in the first place.
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Sacrificed to the Tyrant King: The Witch Who Conquered the Continent

Hermi did not volunteer for this marriage. She is a royal bastard, hunted down by a father she has never met, then handed off to a foreign king whose name is whispered like a curse. A perfectly efficient solution for everyone involved. Except Hermi. That foreign king rules a wasteland so barren and forsaken that the six surrounding kingdoms use it as a dumping ground for criminals and exiles. He is rumored to be a tyrant. Every princess sent before her is said to have died within months. Hermi's expectations are, understandably, low. She arrives with exactly one goal: survive long enough to burn her home kingdom to the ground. A modest ambition, all things considered. Survival, however, turns out to be complicated. The land is hostile. Her husband runs cold and scorching in equal measure. The crown on her head feels less like power, and more like a very formal death sentence. Then, somewhere between a wasteland and a husband who wouldn't stop watching her, Hermi awakens something the continent hasn't seen in thousands of years. A magic so ancient and absolute it rewrites the rules of the world. The kind that makes kingdoms nervous. The kind that makes alliances form overnight. Hermi arrived in the wasteland to start a war. She didn't expect to become the reason the entire world has no choice but to declare one against her. — Tags: Dark Romantasy, Morally Grey, Political Intrigue, Kingdom Building, Power Couple, Slow Burn, War, Dragons, Monster Hunt, Magic System, Level Up, Power Growth — Warning: Explicit Gore and Sexual Content
scarlet_ivy · 35.7k Views