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Every year, in the isolated hollow of Blackwood Creek, a girl of age is chosen to be the Patron’s Bride. The chosen one must enter the sacred cavern to lie with the Patron, a mysterious entity the town has worshipped for generations. If…
Start readingMy grandfather, Arthur, had always looked down on my grandmother, Eleanor, despising her for her lack of education and subjecting her to a constant barrage of criticism. When she asked me to buy her a box of hair dye online, he flew…
Start readingIn front of the orphanage, Lauren Murphy, the charity case I’d sponsored for years, stared at me with pure disgust. “If you don’t let Aaron get in the car, I’m not going to your house either.” If this had been before, my love-addled…
Start readingI was married to Julian Astor for ten years. In that time, I met every single one of his girlfriends. Whenever he grew tired of one and wanted to move on, I was his perfect excuse. He’d say to each of them: “If you marry me, you’ll end…
Start readingI beat my husband and mother-in-law after his affair —Because they hit me first.
Start readingEveryone said I was a fool. As a child, I drank a sip of poisoned soup meant for my mother and my mind was addled ever since. My fiancé, deeming me a simpleton, refused to marry me, yet he secretly tumbled in the sheets with my sister,…
Start readingMy university roommates knew I was a yoga teacher, so they asked me to lead them in some classes. Ten dollars a session, four times a week. Then one day, no one showed up. No one would even answer my texts. That’s when I found out my…
Start readingIt was my son’s eighteenth birthday. He made a wish for his grandparents to live long and healthy lives. He wished for his father’s success at work. When it was my turn, I looked at him with anticipation. He knew that more than…
Start readingA thousand years ago, the Luminar clan sacrificed their greatest mages to help the Sovereign imprison the Abyssals in the dark chasm at the world's edge. A thousand years later, because the Abyssal princess casually remarked, “I’ve…
Start readingThe senior trip after graduation was where I met Ethan. It was like lightning striking kindling. I fell for him so hard it was almost a death wish. And it was, in a way. It ended when he threw a positive pregnancy test in front of my…
Start readingMy master, the man I loved, nearly died mastering the Sun-Shattering Strike. To save him, I traded my body for the royal elixir that mended his soul. When he awoke, he vowed to give me the grandest wedding our city had ever seen. Yet on…
Start readingThe moment I caught my husband with a student again was the final straw. I tore the house apart in a blind rage. His mother said I was incompetent, unable to keep my own man in line. His sister said I deserved it. I demanded a…
Start readingI am a master of traditional medicine, a healer so revered that Aaron Croft, the most eligible bachelor in the country, knelt at my door, begging for my help. Yet his childhood sweetheart called me a gold digger. She slapped me, accused…
Start readingThe day my wife gave birth, I saw my own cousin swap our babies in the hospital nursery. I pretended I didn't see a thing. I brought his son home and raised him as my own. Eighteen years later, the boy I raised was accepted into a…
Start readingThe night before our engagement party, my fiancé came home not with my gown, but with a plain, simple dress. “Wear this instead,” he said. I took it and put it away. A moment later, I was scrolling through his childhood friend’s social…
Start readingMy husband died suddenly. Then, his first love showed up at my door, pregnant and holding his will, ready to claim her inheritance. My daughter told me to stand up for myself, to fight the other woman to the bitter end. But my in-laws…
Start readingMy wife melted my parents' gold memorial busts and gave the gold to a college student she sponsored. He posed with the gold bars, flashing a finger heart and a sickly sweet smile: "Got a golden gift! Kisses to my favorite angel…
Start reading"Mr. Hawthorne, are you ready to sign?" Adrian Hawthorne stared blankly at the grand, echoing hall of City Hall. The clerk's impatient voice finally pierced the fog in his mind, and the reality of the situation crashed down on him. He…
Start readingI was a queen for three years, and a Queen Dowager for twenty. When I died, I was surrounded by my children and grandchildren, and the lords of the court wept at my funeral. By all accounts, a life such as mine should have held no…
Start readingDo you know just how spineless parents can be? Have you ever seen people with wealth and power get pushed around and humiliated by their dirt-poor relatives? My name is Stella. My uncle is a small-town security guard, a man from the…
Start readingI am the Crown Princess of Eldoria, and my father’s only child. When I was seven, my father, the King, selected four sons from the Four Great Houses of the realm. They were the most handsome, the most brilliant, and they were to be…
Start readingDuke Alaric had loved me for five years, and in all that time, he defied my wishes only three times. The first was on the day my mother died, when he returned from the Northmarch with a pregnant dancing girl in tow. The second was on…
Start readingThe Duchess, my sister-in-law, had just shoved her own son and daughter from the gallery window. I, who had witnessed the entire thing, did not scream. I did not call for help. I simply sat, calmly sipping my tea, and watched the…
Start readingI’d always favored my own son, crushing my stepson at every turn. The year they both brought their girlfriends home for Christmas for the first time, I rolled out the red carpet for my son’s girlfriend, serving her hand and foot. But my…
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