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    STARCOURT SUMMER

    Summer 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana should feel like freedom—bright lights, loud music, and endless days at Starcourt Mall. For Y/N Byers, former Hawkins Lab Test Subject 007, it almost does. Almost. Adopted by Joyce Byers and Jim Hopper and raised alongside Eleven and Will, Y/N is trying to survive something far harder than monsters or laboratories: being a normal teenager. Between secret shifts at Scoops Ahoy, reckless escapes from Hopper’s rules, and friendships that feel like home, she’s finally starting to build a life that belongs to her. But Hawkins never lets anyone stay normal for long. Something dark is stirring beneath the mall. Billy Hargrove is acting wrong in ways no one can explain. And the same strange pull Y/N has always felt in her dreams is getting stronger—like something is calling her name from just beyond reality. While chaos spreads through the summer, Y/N finds herself caught between loyalty and longing, danger and desire. Steve Harrington can’t stop looking at her. Robin Buckley makes her feel something she can’t name. Max is the only person who challenges her without fear. And the line between friendship and something deeper keeps breaking in ways she doesn’t understand. As the Mind Flayer returns and Starcourt Mall becomes the center of something far more dangerous than anyone realizes, Y/N and her friends are forced into a fight that will change Hawkins forever—and test every connection she’s ever known. Because this summer isn’t just about survival. It’s about who she chooses to love when everything starts falling apart.

    FluffAngstRomanceFriendshipGrowing UpHurt/ComfortCuteHumor
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    He who controls the flame

    Juliette Brenner spent her entire life planning her escape. With a full scholarship to UCLA, an apartment waiting in California, and a future built entirely by her own hard work, she is finally ready to leave Hawkins—and her father—behind. Then one terrible decision changes everything. When Juliette intervenes during a dangerous experiment at Hawkins Laboratory, she unknowingly awakens a power unlike anything the facility has ever seen. In a single moment, her dreams disappear, her freedom is stripped away, and she finds herself trapped within the walls of the very place she spent years trying to escape. Now labeled as the laboratory’s most valuable subject, Juliette must navigate a world of gifted children, secret experiments, terrifying creatures, and a father who no longer sees her as his daughter. Only his weapon. As she struggles to understand her newfound abilities, Juliette finds herself drawn to Peter Ballard, a mysterious orderly whose kindness seems out of place in a facility built on fear. But in Hawkins Lab, everyone is hiding something—and trusting the wrong person could be just as dangerous as the monsters lurking beyond reality itself. Caught between freedom and control, loyalty and rebellion, Juliette must decide who she wants to become before the flames inside her consume everything she has left. After all, fire can save lives. Fire can destroy worlds. And Juliette Brenner has become the girl who controls it.

    Hurt/ComfortHawkins National Laboratory (Stranger Things)AngstRomance
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    Shadows Between Us

    A young test subject with extraordinary psychic abilities escapes a secret laboratory, believing the boy she loved to be dead. But he survived — transformed into a powerful, obsessive entity who begins haunting her dreams. When monstrous creatures come for her, she wakes in his nightmarish domain, a world shaped by his mind and memories. Caught between fear, desire, and the pull of their shared past, she must navigate a twisted landscape of dark magic, dream manipulation, and int

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