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The vampire's king mermaid.

"To flee one monster she gave herself to another " “Little fish, where do you think you’re going to?” Damien’s tone was mocking, his eyes glinting with cruel amusement. “You know going back there means going back to him. Or perhaps…” his lips curved, “are you interested in incest?” Bella’s cheeks burned red with shame and anger. “I’m just worried about my mother,” she said quickly. “Oh, don’t worry.” Damien’s smile turned sinful. “Why don’t we make another deal? This time, I want more than your blood.” Bella’s chest tightened. She knew whatever deal he offered would leave her cheated—just like before, when he’d promised to help her escape Marcus in exchange for her blood, while secretly asking her father to gift her to him. “What do you want?” she asked, her voice doubtful. “Seems like my little goldfish is getting clever,” Damien drawled. “But it’s not like you have much of a choice.” “At least this time I’ll know what I’m getting into,” Bella reasoned, though her voice trembled. He moved closer, his presence swallowing the space between them. His head dipped low, as if to murmur a secret, his lips dangerously close to hers. “I want your body,” Damien whispered, voice like velvet over steel. “And your soul—in full. Bella, the daughter of a king and his captured mermaid concubine, has never been treated as a true princess. Shunned and unloved, her world shatters when she discovers her stepbrother’s dangerous obsession—one she cannot understand and cannot escape. Fleeing from his twisted desire, Bella’s path collides with a fate far darker. The cruel yet mesmerizing Vampire King, Damien Althour Valemont, is drawn to her beauty and her rare mermaid blood. He wants her, body and soul, and nothing will stand in his way. Caught between the brother she fears and the vampire king who threatens to consume her, Bella must choose which cage she will step into—only to find out that love and ruin may be one and the same.
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What Her Lips Revealed

Maya Thompson has spent her entire life reading the words people never say aloud. As one of the best forensic lip-readers in the country, she can decode silent confessions, hidden arguments, and secrets meant to stay buried. But nothing prepares her for the night she receives a mysterious video that changes everything. A woman—bloodied, terrified, and trapped in a dim, echoing room—leans toward the camera and silently mouths a single word: “Maya.” Maya doesn’t know her. She has never seen her. Yet the kidnapped woman speaks her name with desperate familiarity… as if Maya is the only person who can save her. When the police dismiss the clip as a hoax, Maya follows the silent plea on her own, pulling her into a maze of coded videos, hidden messages, and someone who knows far too much about her past. Each new recording grows more intimate, more targeted, as if the kidnapper is watching Maya’s every move—waiting for her to understand a truth she has spent her entire life avoiding. As the city falls under a wave of unexplained disappearances, Maya discovers that the victim in the video isn’t the only one trying to communicate with her. Someone else is speaking through silence—someone who has been following her for years, waiting for the moment she finally sees them. Now, every whisper, every reflection, every security camera becomes a threat. Because the deeper she decodes the messages, the more she realizes: The kidnapped woman isn’t the only one in danger. Maya is. And the only way to survive is to uncover the truth buried in the words no one ever spoke— what her lips revealed.
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BLACKSTONE ASYLUM (Side Stories)

Behind every haunted hallway and whispered rule, there’s a deeper story Blackstone Asylum refuses to surrender. This companion novel, BLACKSTONE ASYLUM: SIDE STORIES, brings together the hidden journals, lost memories, and confessions that never made it into the official record—a fragmented tapestry of obsession, fear, and human survival. From the chilling confessions of Marcus Thorne, the architect who designed Blackstone as both memorial and labyrinth, to the desperate first days of Nurse Reeves as she discovers the true cost of learning the rules, these stories illuminate the shadows that hover just beyond the main narrative. The walls themselves seem to breathe, rewriting blueprints and erasing the memories of anyone who comes too close to discovering Blackstone’s secrets. Each side story reveals the unseen tragedies behind the institution’s mythos: a patient who vanishes without explanation and the nurse forced to forget; an investigator whose reality is mangled by the asylum’s hunger for silence; and a soul who becomes part of the building itself, watching and welcoming new arrivals. But these tales are not self-contained. To truly grasp the darkness and meaning behind these confessions, readers must first experience the main novel: BLACKSTONE ASYLUM. Only then will you understand the threads connecting vanished children, staff complicity, and forbidden rules; only then will every motif—the lullaby, the toy house, the Mourner—reveal its true resonance. BLACKSTONE ASYLUM: SIDE STORIES is a doorway into the lost and forbidden corners of Blackstone. Step through, if you dare—but don’t say it out loud. Some rules exist for your own survival.
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BLACKSTONE ASYLUM

After the loss of her fiancé, Alex, psychiatrist Dr. Maya Taylor flees her old life for a temporary position at the reopened Blackstone Asylum—a crumbling institution where reality itself seems to bend. Blackstone’s corridors are alive with secrets: patients speak in riddles, staff walk shadows, and Maya’s grief finds uncanny echoes in the building’s hungry silence. Her patients include Sarah, haunted by visions of a mournful woman in white; John, tangled in paranoia; and Elijah, a soft-spoken young man whose abilities blur the line between madness and medium. As Maya's memories surface, she realizes Blackstone is not only haunted—it is sentient, feeding off the pain and secrets of those within. Disturbing phenomena escalate: voices whisper in the walls, rooms shift and breathe, and Maya’s own past—her missing brother, Alex’s murder—entangles with the institution’s sinister history. When a lockdown traps the staff and patients inside, Maya must face the truth: some darkness cannot be escaped, and some houses do not stay shut, even when the doors are locked. Blackstone Asylum becomes a mirror, forcing Maya to confront the shadows she’s carried since childhood. The line between sanity and surrender blurs as the true horror reveals itself: the darkness isn’t just in the asylum—it’s inside Maya, waiting for its homecoming. Atmospheric, psychological, and unsettling, this novel brings urban supernatural horror into the heart of a crumbling city and the fractured mind of a grieving doctor. In Blackstone, trauma is currency, grief is nourishment, and not all who leave are ever truly free.
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MORMOND

Content Warnings: This story contains explicit and graphic content that may be disturbing to some readers. Warnings include, but are not limited to: graphic violence, gore, body horror, psychological torture, child death, desecration of corpses, and themes of systemic abuse and corruption. Reader discretion is strongly advised. In a world where the nobility's grace is a gilded mask for unspeakable cruelty, an orphaned boy named Mormond watches his world burn. After the brutal murder of his adoptive sister, Nini, at the hands of arrogant aristocrats, something inside him shatters and is remade into a monstrous new form. In his grief, he manifests a terrifying and unique power, becoming the "Puppeteer Calamity"—a vengeful artist who reanimates Nini's broken corpse, transforming her into a beautiful and deadly marionette of vengeance. Their bloody crusade begins in the slums of Marlock, but soon their stage expands to the decadent and corrupt empire of Omnia, a place where the elite literally consume the souls of slum children to preserve their own vitality. Hiding behind the flawless disguise of "Milos," an innocent and cherubic orphan, Mormond infiltrates the highest echelons of power. He orchestrates a masterful campaign of psychological warfare, not with brute force, but with whispers. He turns nobles against each other, drives them to madness, and forces them to author their own destruction, all while they believe him to be a harmless, lucky charm. Each conquest ends with a new, horrifying puppet added to his public collection—a gallery of corpses left as a chilling signature. His reign of terror does not go unnoticed. The empire's champion, Tifa—a swordmaster of holy light known as the Divine Guardian—is tasked with hunting the "Silver Shadow." She is his perfect opposite: a beacon of order and righteousness dedicated to protecting the very system Mormond seeks to annihilate. But as Mormond's web of control tightens around the empire's throat, an unforeseen complication arises. The ghost of Nini's true self begins to awaken within the puppet, her fragmented memories and prayers creating a glitch in his perfect control. This internal fracture becomes Mormond's greatest vulnerability. His desperate, violent attempts to maintain possession of his sister's soul expose him at the worst possible moment, forcing him from the shadows and into a direct, desperate conflict with Tifa and the full might of the empire. The Conductor's controlled performance descends into a chaotic war, where the price of his vengeance may be the very soul he fought so hard to keep. A novel by : ATLASBANAW
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