A hardworking city girl who lives for late nights, quiet routines, and well-worn fantasy books never expects her escape to become real. But when she’s pulled into the pages of her favorite novel, she finds herself in a kingdom she knows all too well—one ruled by King Lucien Valemont, the man who was never chosen. Lucien has long abandoned the idea of love after watching the woman he loved marry another. Duty is his only companion, the crown his only constant. Until you appear.
You’re hired to assist Kenan Ashcroft—brilliant, distant, and impossible to read. He keeps his walls high and his expectations higher. As tension builds behind closed doors, you begin to see the cracks in his perfect control—and he begins to realize you’re not as temporary as he thought.
A housing error leaves you sharing an apartment with Luca Moretti — campus heartthrob, motorcycle addict, and the last person you would ever choose to live with. He’s loud, confident, and effortlessly admired. You’re quiet, disciplined, and too focused on your GPA to care about popularity. But between thin apartment walls, midnight engine revs, and unspoken tension in shared kitchens, the lines between irritation and attraction begin to blur.
You’re a modern woman. A car crash throws you out of your world—and into a war-torn kingdom. King Kaelen Thorne is cold, controlled, and unyielding, a ruler forged in battle. He doesn’t know what you are—or why you’ve appeared—but your presence changes everything. Stranded in a world of strategy, danger, and blood, trust is earned slowly, and desire even more so. A slowburn romance where hearts must survive before they can surrender.
Missed connections. Delays. Detours. All you want is to get where you’re going. All Kieran Cross wants is control. When travel plans collapse and routes unravel, you find yourselves repeatedly thrown together by bad timing and worse luck—across terminals, trains, and sleepless nights spent in places neither of you planned to be.
Ryder Hale is everything campus culture worships — rich, popular, admired, untouchable. You’re everything it overlooks — quiet, intelligent, invisible unless someone needs your notes. When a university trip forces you into the seat beside him, you see what no one else does: the cracks behind the perfect image, the silence left by betrayal, the weight of always being admired but never understood. What starts as an accident of proximity becomes a slow, unexpected connection between two people.
Evan Ryder was your brother’s best friend — and your childhood bully. Years later, when you return from boarding school, you’re no longer the girl who stayed quiet, and he’s no longer able to hide behind jokes and excuses.
You bump into him at the airport. He doesn’t apologize. Elias Moreau is first class—cold, composed, untouchable. You are economy—loud, unnoticed, underestimated. By the time the plane takes off, you’ve already earned his silent judgment. Then the crash leaves you stranded together on a remote island, where survival strips away status and pretense. What begins as irritation and resentment slowly becomes trust, protectiveness, and something neither of you expected.
When a zombie outbreak traps survivors inside a mall, a wealthy man steps forward to impose order and lead. You ignore him entirely. Acting on instinct and refusing hierarchy, you move where others hesitate. He sees your strength immediately. You see only another man trying to control chaos. As survival demands both structure and action, friction turns into reluctant trust—and a slow, dangerous attraction neither of you intended.
You planned to spend winter break alone on campus. So did Ryder Vale — rich, controlled, and known for the growl of his motorcycle more than his smile. When a brutal snowstorm locks down the academic building for two weeks, you’re trapped inside with him — no distractions, no escape, no one watching. Tension turns into something darker. Protective becomes possessive. And when the doors finally reopen, Ryder doesn’t act like it’s over.
You’ve always been the quiet girl in the front row — focused, disciplined, invisible by choice. He’s the effortless golden boy in the back — confident, admired, and used to being wanted. When one project forces your worlds together, stolen glances turn into late-night study sessions, tension turns into something softer, and the boy who never looked twice begins to look only at you. Because sometimes the person who seems farthest from you is the one who sees you most clearly.
Two years after surviving a cruise ship disaster — and losing a year to a coma — you return to university with no memory of the boy you nearly died beside. He doesn’t remember you either. Now one of campus’s most powerful students, he stands by as his world turns against you — unaware that the quiet girl he lets them hurt once saved his father’s life. Some memories drown. But they never disappear.
You’re a modern woman who loves your normal life — routines, deadlines, and iced coffee included. Fate and magic? Not your thing. But a random accident throws you into a vivid fairytale world you didn’t ask for: pixies, mermaids, and Lost Boys included. Adventure is the last thing you want, and neither is a dangerous pirate who defies every storybook expectation.