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    Parent-Teacher Conference

    Elementary school teacher Y/N has dealt with difficult parents before—but none quite like Vivian Moretti. Cold, intimidating, and impossible to read, Vivian is a single mother whose young son constantly finds himself in Y/N’s classroom for all the wrong reasons. Every parent-teacher conference turns into another battle of wills, and neither woman can stand the other. As Y/N becomes determined to help a troubled little boy, she finds herself crossing paths with his mother more and more. Beneath Vivian’s icy exterior lies a fiercely protective parent carrying burdens Y/N can’t begin to understand. What Y/N doesn’t know is that Vivian isn’t just an overworked single mom—she’s the woman who rules the city’s most powerful criminal empire. As their reluctant partnership turns into an unexpected friendship and something far more dangerous, Y/N is pulled into a world of secrets, loyalty, and impossible choices. Falling for the city’s most feared woman was never part of the lesson plan—but neither was discovering that monsters can love just as fiercely as heroes.

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    Her Daughter’s Smile

    A one-night stand was supposed to be just that. Y/N never expected to see the captivating older woman from the bar again—until she walks into her best friend’s apartment and realizes the woman is her friend’s recently divorced mother. Determined to bury their mistake, they agree to pretend nothing ever happened. But avoiding each other proves impossible as family dinners, campus events, and shared celebrations keep pulling them together. What begins as lingering attraction slowly becomes something deeper, forcing both women to confront feelings neither expected—and a secret that could destroy the people they care about most. Sometimes the greatest risk isn’t falling in love. It’s falling in love with the one person you were never supposed to want.

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    Deep Cover

    When a sarcastic ex-con is recruited to help infiltrate one of the country’s most dangerous criminal syndicates, she’s paired with the last person she’d ever choose—a stone-cold detective whose entire life revolves around control. Forced to pose as partners while navigating a world of lies, betrayal, and organized crime, the two women discover that maintaining their cover is far easier than hiding what they’re beginning to feel for each other. In a game where trust is deadly, falling in love may be the biggest risk of all.

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    The Serpent Beneath the Pitch

    Set in the 1890s during the events of Hogwarts Legacy, the story follows Y/N, Hogwarts’ fiercely talented Quidditch captain and one of the youngest captains in recent school history. Known across the school for impossible dives and ruthless match strategy, Y/N thrives under pressure — at least on the pitch. But during the first match of the season, something impossible happens. Moments before Gryffindor secures victory, the enchanted stadium briefly distorts: the crowd falls silent, broomsticks lose control, and a massive shadow coils beneath the Quidditch pitch before vanishing without explanation. Only a handful of students seem to remember it happened at all. Soon after, students begin disappearing around the castle grounds at night. When Y/N discovers strange ancient markings hidden beneath the Quidditch stadium — markings older than Hogwarts itself — they’re pulled into a conspiracy involving a forgotten secret society once tied to the founders. The deeper Y/N digs, the clearer it becomes that something buried beneath the school is waking up.

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    The Quiet Years at Hogwarts

    Not every year at Hogwarts is filled with dark wizards, ancient prophecies, or world-ending dangers. For Y/N, life is made up of late-night study sessions, Quidditch matches, impossible homework, Hogsmeade weekends, and a friend group that seems determined to get into trouble at every opportunity. Between rivalries, crushes, embarrassing mishaps, and the pressure of growing up, Y/N slowly discovers that the most important moments aren’t the grand adventures—they’re the people who stand beside you through them. A cozy slice-of-life story about friendship, first love, laughter, heartbreak, and finding magic in ordinary days at Hogwarts. ✨ Genre: Slice of Life • Friendship • Comedy • Romance • Coming of Age • Hogwarts Life

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    Between The Silence

    After a bar fight lands her in court-ordered therapy, Y/N expects to spend the next year doing everything she can to avoid opening up. Instead, she finds herself slowly trusting the one person she never expected: her therapist, Dr. Nora Whitaker. As Y/N begins to heal, Nora faces an impossible truth—she’s developed feelings she can never act on. Bound by ethics, timing, and the responsibility to put Y/N’s recovery first, both women are forced to walk away before either can admit what they feel. Sometimes the right person comes into your life at exactly the wrong time.

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    Where the River Bends

    Tennessee, 1796. As the frontier town of Jonesborough struggles to adapt to its new future as part of the United States, fiery cattle rancher Y/N fights to protect the life her family built on the edge of town. But when Charlotte Beaumont — an aristocratic British woman sent to modernize the settlement — arrives with dangerous ideas and sharper words, the two women become bitter rivals almost instantly. Their clashes soon become the talk of Jonesborough. Yet beneath the anger grows something neither of them can explain nor safely confess. In a town ruled by tradition, gossip, and expectation, falling in love may cost them everything they have left.

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    You, Unfortunately

    Y/N and Charlotte Hayes hate each other. At least, that’s what everyone at Westbridge Academy believes. After years of academic rivalry, public arguments, and mutual resentment, the two girls can’t seem to spend five minutes together without fighting. But when they both join an anonymous messaging app, they unknowingly begin talking to each other under fake names. Hidden behind screens, walls come down. Conversations turn into confidences, confidences turn into feelings, and soon both girls find themselves falling for someone they’ve never met. There’s just one problem: The girl Y/N is falling in love with is Charlotte. And Charlotte’s anonymous crush is Y/N. Caught between the person they know and the person they’ve come to love, the two rivals must decide whether their connection is real enough to survive the truth—or if some first impressions are impossible to overcome.

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    Collateral Damage

    Everyone in Halcyon knows that Solaris and Nightshade hate each other. The city’s beloved superhero and most wanted supervillain have spent years tearing through streets, rooftops, and headlines in their relentless rivalry. Every fight is louder, more destructive, and more personal than the last. What nobody knows is that behind closed doors, their hatred has become something far more complicated.

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    Ashes Beneath the Crown

    In the wealthy kingdom of Valedorn, Princess Elyra has spent her life protected behind palace walls while war rages beyond them. After an assassination attempt, her overprotective father assigns his most trusted knight, Sir Rowan, to guard her at all times. But Rowan carries a dangerous secret: the kingdom’s greatest war hero is actually Renna Vale, a woman who disguised herself as a man to survive in the military. As tensions rise between neighboring nations and hidden truths about Valedorn begin to surface, Elyra and Renna are forced to question everything they were taught about loyalty, duty, and the empire they serve.

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    Ashes of Iron

    Arcane-adjacent story. In the industrial nation of Vharos, where technological progress is fueled by a mysterious metal mined beneath the earth, a decorated royal investigator is tasked with hunting the infamous saboteur blamed for a string of devastating attacks. But as the two women uncover a conspiracy buried far deeper than the mines themselves, they find their loyalties—and their hearts—tested against a nation built on lies. With civil war looming and an ancient force awakening below, they’ll have to decide whether Vharos is worth saving… or if it must first be allowed to fall.

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    The Devil Knows Her Name

    When refined British settler Eleanor Whitmore arrives in the American West to claim her family’s land, she expects opportunity, adventure, and civilization. Instead, she finds a brutal frontier ruled by railroad barons, corruption, and violence. Her journey changes forever after a train robbery leaves her stranded with the territory’s most feared outlaw: “The Viper”. Cold, sharp-tongued, and hunted across the West, Y/N survives by robbing the powerful men destroying towns and lives in the name of progress. Eleanor should fear her. Instead, she follows her. As the two women travel through outlaw camps, dying frontier towns, and occupied territories, they uncover a conspiracy tying Eleanor’s own family to the suffering Y/N has spent years fighting against. With bounty hunters closing in and war brewing across the frontier, the outlaw and the settler must decide how far they are willing to go for justice — and for each other. A slow-burn western romance about survival, corruption, and the violence hidden beneath civilization.

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    Hostile Takeover

    Vivian Ashcroft has spent decades building an empire—and walls just as impossible to break. Fresh off a devastating divorce, the brilliant but emotionally closed-off CEO has no interest in friendships, let alone love. Then Y/N joins her executive leadership team. Young, relentlessly optimistic, and infuriatingly fearless, Avery refuses to be intimidated by the woman everyone else avoids. Every sarcastic remark is met with a grin, every icy glare with unwavering kindness, and every attempt to push her away only makes Avery push a little harder. What begins as constant clashing inside the office slowly transforms into something neither woman expected. As Y/N chips away at Vivian’s carefully constructed defenses, the older CEO is forced to confront the possibility that her heart isn’t as irreparably broken as she believed. But with an age gap, a strict boss-employee relationship, and scars from a marriage that nearly destroyed her, falling in love may be the one risk Vivian refuses to take. Some walls are built to keep people out. Others are waiting for the right person to tear them down.

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