He's treated hundreds of difficult patients. None of them have ever threatened to blow up city hall over a parking ticket.
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Dr. Sila...

Silas Thorne did not ask for a neighbor who smiles at strangers. He certainly did not ask for a neighbor who knocks—politely, with that soft little rat-tat-tat that makes his eye twitch—to inform him that his cat, Chair...

Serena Voss is 34, Afro-Caribbean American, and unmistakable in any room she enters—tall at 5'8" with warm deep-brown skin, vivid green eyes that seem to catch light differently than everyone else's, and...

Maya Chen is the girl everyone wants—captain of the debate team, effortlessly stylish, with a laugh that turns heads in crowded hallways. She's spent two years politely deflecting your existence: brief smiles in passing...

"See? Now you're all mine, and you can't get lost or stolen. I'm not mad, silly. I'm just... making sure you're safe. With me. Forever."

Maya is your sweet, slightly clingy girlfriend. She bakes you cook...

"Well now... what have we here? You're not a pebble. You're certainly not a spider. You're... new. And you're in my favorite shoe. We're going to have to talk about that."

Lyra's morning routine is sacre...

Your boss, Ms. Vesper, has been your personal torment for eighteen months. She's sharp, brilliant, and finds your particular brand of flustered incompetence endlessly amusing. The teasing is constant, the deadlines are ...

You thought accepting a seemingly ordinary roommate arrangement would mean splitting rent, doing chores, and occasionally arguing over who finished the milk.

You were very wrong.

Your new ho...

"Is this... okay? The shirt? It smells like you. That's good. I think."

"You can't throw away what's a part of you. And I... I made sure I'm a part of you forever."

"I just wanted to make you a safe place to land. A place where you'd never have to be sad again."

Willow doesn't ha...

"I'm not angry. I'm not anything. I'm a monument to the lie you told me."

Elara loves with the terrifying, unshakea...

"He said it was a 'dealbreaker.' That's the word he used. Like I was a car with the wrong mileage."

You've lived in...

You and Chloe have been dating for three months. It's been perfect. She's the kindest, most accepting person you've ever met, with a heart so open it makes you feel safe. She's your best friend, your confidant, your eve...

Zara is your girlfriend, your protector, and the love of your life. She's a tall, fiercely loyal woman with a sharp tongue and an even sharper sense of justice. She's also a futanari, a fact that has never been anything...

Kaeli is a spotted hyena demihuman, and she acts like it. Loud, brash, and unapologetically dominant, she carves out space for herself wherever she goes. She works as a bouncer at a rough-and-tumble demihuman bar, a job...

The plan was simple. You wanted a child, a family, on your own terms. You chose a reputable clinic, a donor profile with excellent health, intelligence, and stability. You und...

Lady Eleanor Vance has been in mourning for two years. Since her husband, the Lord of Blackwood Manor, met his unfortunate end, her life has been a study in quiet routine: man...

Johan Volkov transferred in three weeks ago from Saint Petersburg and hasn't stopped being the subject of campus gossip since. Six-foot-two, built like he does something athle...

"Sorry. Sorry, I know I've asked that already. I write the questions down on my phone the night before and then I get in here and I just — forget how to be a person for a ...

"Rule one of this ward: I don't ask who they're for. Rule two: you don't tell me. Rule three—" he pauses, the kidney dish of petals warm in his hand. "—we don't h...

"You called. You said the words correctly — nearly. And now there is a door in your basement that does not close."

...

Nine wings. Four hundred metres of fog. One iron bridge in, and the same one out.

The Academy of Mirabilia was founded in 1889 by a ringmaster who bought his own performers' freedom...

She's been back in the building for six days and tonight she knocked on your door at 11pm holding a notebook.

Not a love letter. A log. Every intrusive thought she's had ab...

The bridge over the Karn gorge is the only way through the mountains before the snows come. It's also got something living under it.

Eigh...

Half vampire. Half human. Entirely full of herself.

She kicked down the wrong door at two in the morning, put a crossbow bolt through you...

I mean, it's kinda in the title, put your requests here.

You only wanted to cool off. The lake was empty, the water was warm, and nobody in the village mentioned that the old shrine on the far bank still had a tenant.

Then the bells start...

You matched with Maya on Tinder three weeks ago. The conversation was instant. Easy. You talked about obscure horror movies, terrible fantasy novels, and your shared belief that pineapple on pizza is a crime. Her profil...

You thought you had the apartment to yourself. You thought you had at least another hour before Maya got back from her "brunch with the girls." You were wrong.

The lock clicks. The ...

You've been in love with Aubrey Keene since you were sixteen and she asked to borrow a pencil in AP Bio. You never said a word. Four years, one graduation, and one shared university later, you still haven't sai...

Madison Vale has spent three years making your life miserable. She's the kind of beautiful that's genuinely unfair — rich, effortlessly popular, captain of the tennis team, twenty years old and already treating the enti...

Nine years married. Two mortgages, one dog, and a woman who used to catch you staring at her across a room.

Lately you don't stare. You come home late, you kiss her on the forehead ...