Three teammates remember the woman who ruined their lives. She remembers nothing. As ancient betrayals, impossible constructs, and a forgotten enemy begin resurfacing, the line between love and resentment blurs once again. Some wounds survive death. Some promises do too.
Ashlee was never supposed to exist in The Kid at the Back. She arrives halfway through the school year with a Kentucky drawl, a leather journal full of tragic poetry, and enough gothic flair to make an entire classroom stare. To everyone else, she is simply the strange new transfer student. Emily knows better. She saw Ashlee appear in an empty courtyard through a glitch that should have been impossible. Now Ashlee is stepping into relationships already tangled by years of friendship, obsession, jealousy, and memories from a life Emily cannot remember. Jericho protects too fiercely. Solivan loves without knowing where devotion should end. Hyugo hides violence behind a grin. Emily has spent years becoming someone they return to—and she has no intention of being quietly replaced. Meanwhile, the world itself is beginning to feel wrong. Reflections move when they shouldn’t. Old memories surface in people who never lived them. Expressions reveal emotions their owners would rather hide. And somewhere beneath poisonous flowers, stained glass, golden shackles, and fractured moonlight lies the answer to a tragedy that already happened once. Ashlee may not belong in their story. Unfortunately, the story has already noticed her.
For years, Parallax has ruled the world of rock music. Sold-out arenas. World tours. Award shows. Headlines. Scandals. Fans who worship them. Haters who watch anyway. To the public, they’re untouchable. Behind the spotlight, they’re barely holding together. When Ashlee Blanton is chosen as the band’s newest vocalist, she’s thrown into a world of celebrity, obsession, nightlife, and secrets far darker than anything the tabloids could invent. Because fame isn’t the most dangerous thing hiding behind the stage. Expressions are real. Reflections never lie. And the people standing beside you are often capable of hurting you the most. Some fans fall in love. Some become obsessed. Some mistakes end with tomorrow’s headlines. Others end with someone never making it home. Welcome to Parallax. The music was always real. Everything else is about to fall apart.
Ashlee has always been good at pretending she’s okay. She smiles when she’s hurting, apologizes for taking up space, and gives pieces of herself away so freely that no one notices she’s slowly disappearing. When flowers begin appearing where blood should be, she quietly presses them between the pages of a journal, dates every bloom, and tells everyone she bought them from a florist. It’s easier than asking for help. As the illness spreads, so do the lies. By the time three stubborn men realize the truth, the flowers have already taken root—and saving someone who refuses to be saved may prove far more impossible than the disease itself. Some gardens are grown. Others are endured.
Ashlee Blanton knew The Kid at the Back by heart. Every route. Every hidden interaction. Every bad ending. Then she woke up inside it. Not as the protagonist. As the new transfer student. The story is still moving exactly as she remembers. Jericho is already the protagonist’s closest friend. Solivan’s obsession has already begun. Hyugo is already causing trouble wherever he goes. Everyone already has a place in the story. Except her. At first, the changes are almost impossible to notice. A conversation lasts a little longer. Someone sits in a different seat. A familiar scene plays out… slightly differently. Then the bad endings begin to look less like memories and more like possibilities. Because this isn’t a game anymore. There are no dialogue choices. No save files. And no guarantee the story will end the way anyone remembers.
Ashlee Blanton has never met Solivan, Hyugo, Jericho, or Angel. At least, not in this life. To her, they are strangers. To them, she is a memory. For centuries, their souls have crossed paths beneath different names, in different countries, and under different skies. They have been lovers, enemies, friends, rivals, soulmates, and tragedies waiting to happen. Now the cycle has begun again. The problem is that everyone remembers pieces of the past except Ashlee. As old memories return, forgotten loves, ancient rivalries, and centuries-old secrets begin resurfacing. Each of them remembers a different version of her. A queen. A pirate. A healer. A revolutionary. And every one of them believes their version was the real one. But buried beneath countless lifetimes lies a mystery older than all of them. The First Life. The life nobody remembers. The life that started everything. And if the truth is finally uncovered, it may destroy every relationship they have left.
Expressions have always been part of the world. So have Reflections. And so have Fay—the companions born from the same soul, each with a personality entirely their own. Westbridge University exists to teach Expression users how to master their abilities before stepping into the real world, but for Ashlee Blanton, college quickly becomes about much more than passing exams. Somewhere between practical combat classes, sleepless nights, terrible coffee, and campus chaos, a silver fox named Nova decides to befriend the most intimidating wolf at Westbridge… accidentally introducing four strangers whose lives are about to become hopelessly intertwined. A modern university AU inspired by The Kid at the Back, featuring original worldbuilding, college life, slow-burn relationships, found family, adult humor, mature themes, and Fay that seem determined to make friends long before their humans do.
They call her the Woman on the Rocks. A ghost. A warning. A monster. By day, Ashlee Blanton is just another woman trying to rebuild the life she left behind. By night, the sea remembers what she really is. As old friendships rekindle and forgotten legends begin surfacing, the line between love, fear, and folklore slowly disappears.
The hidden world has survived for centuries by remaining a secret. Then Expression users begin dying. Branded the Moonlit Reaper, Ashlee becomes the hidden world’s most wanted assassin after falling under the control of a powerful syndicate. Hunted by a relentless investigator, a wealthy heir, and an assassin working beside her, every battle uncovers another piece of a conspiracy reaching far beyond them all. In a world where power thrives in silence, the greatest threat isn’t the woman holding the blade… it’s the people deciding where it falls.
Four coworkers. One nightclub. Absolutely no fucking professionalism. Ashlee works the floor as a dancer and VIP bottle server, Jericho commands the bar, Solivan handles security, and Hyugo controls the DJ booth—and abuses that privilege whenever possible. Between packed Saturday nights, drunk customers, filthy jokes, shameless flirting, workplace gossip, jealousy, hookups, after-hours chaos, and 5 AM diner runs, somewhere along the way they stop being just coworkers. Nobody knows exactly when it happened. Nobody is emotionally mature enough to mention it. And they still have to clock in tomorrow night.
You thought college would be stressful. You didn’t expect mythological creatures hiding among humanity, a secret academy built to keep legends forgotten, three dangerously captivating men, and the discovery that you’re the last known member of a species the world believes has been extinct for centuries. Some secrets were buried for a reason. Unfortunately… You just enrolled in all of them.
Humans were never supposed to find sirens. When a late-night fishing trip ends with Jericho, Hyugo, and Solivan meeting three impossibly curious women beneath the moonlit sea, everything they thought they knew about monsters is turned upside down. Ashlee, Lily, and Angel are among the last sirens alive. Forced onto land, they suddenly find themselves sharing a tiny seaside cottage with three humans while trying to understand a world that makes absolutely no sense. Apparently rain falls indoors, food lives in humming boxes, blankets become nests, and humans have far too many confusing rules. But the biggest misunderstandings aren’t about appliances. They’re about each other. In siren culture, the smallest gestures can carry completely different meanings than they do for humans, turning everyday kindness into blushing confusion, awkward silence, and endless laughter. As friendships deepen, instincts clash, and the line between land and sea begins to blur, six strangers slowly discover that home isn’t where you were born… It’s who you choose to share it with. A cozy fantasy romance filled with humor, found family, culture clashes, mystery, and slow-building passion beneath the waves.
Four strangers receive the same invitation. One impossible manor. Countless trials. No one knows who built the house, why they were chosen, or what waits behind its shifting walls. As impossible choices, hidden Omens, and deadly experiments begin tearing fragile alliances apart, survival becomes more than escaping alive—it becomes deciding who you can still trust. Every decision is observed. Every relationship becomes data. And in a place where even love can be measured, the greatest danger may not be the house… but the people trapped inside it.
Ashlee, Lily, and Angel expected a quiet life in their little seaside cottage. Then a storm delivered three wounded strangers from the sea. Hyugo, Jericho, and Solivan aren’t just lost—they’re sirens, forced onto land by a catastrophe unfolding beneath the waves. Now six people from two completely different worlds must learn to live under one roof, where indoor showers are mistaken for rain, refrigerators become “cold cupboards,” and human customs are just as confusing as siren traditions. As friendships deepen, attraction grows, and long-buried secrets rise from the ocean, the line between instinct and choice begins to blur. But whatever drove the sirens ashore is still out there… and if the sea can’t reclaim its own, it may come for humanity next. A cozy fantasy romance filled with humor, mystery, found family, and monsters learning that sometimes the strangest place to find home is on land.
Every Friday night, four friends take the same fishing boat out onto the ocean. They expected another quiet evening. Instead, they caught something that was never meant to exist. Ashlee has spent centuries hidden beneath the waves, watching humanity from afar and believing solitude was the price of survival. When an accident forces the last siren into the human world, fear, distrust, and ancient myths collide with a truth neither side expected. As secrets surface, walls begin to crumble, and the line between monster and human slowly disappears. But some instincts cannot be outrun, and every full moon reminds Ashlee that she may truly be the last of her kind. A slow-burn fantasy romance filled with found family, coastal mystery, longing, humor, and the haunting beauty of the sea.
A princess destined for the throne. A prince promised her future. An executioner who should never have loved her. A royal guard who taught her freedom. In a kingdom where Expressions shape both power and soul, one impossible love will rewrite history… and leave legends that refuse to die.
The continent knows her as the princess who supposedly rode into battle. They know him as the Golden Prince. The Black Prince. The Mad Prince. Rumors are easy. Living beside one another is much harder.
Every night at midnight, Briar University listens. Hidden in the attic of an old academic building, a forgotten radio station broadcasts anonymous confessions, secrets, regrets, desires, and late-night thoughts from students across campus. No one knows who the host is. No one knows where the station came from. Yet somehow, everyone keeps listening. Ashlee Blanton never intended for the station to become the heart of Briar. She only wanted to give people a place to be honest. Instead, she finds herself at the center of a mystery that grows with every broadcast. As anonymous callers reveal their deepest truths, friendships form, secrets surface, and lives become tangled together in ways none of them expected. But Ashlee is hiding secrets of her own. And if the wrong person discovers who is behind the microphone, everything she’s built could come crashing down. A gothic supernatural romance filled with mystery, late-night confessions, hidden identities, friendship, desire, poetry, and the dangerous beauty of being truly known.
