Brooding Stories

Dahlia Sax was born to lead a werewolf pack... not to fall in love with a monster. Adrien Hale is everything she was warned about. Powerful, calculated, and dangerous. A man who doesn't ask... he takes. What begins as stolen glances and forbidden desire quickly spirals into blood, betrayal, and a world far darker than Dahlia ever imagined. When she is ripped from her pack, her family, and the life she once knew, Dahlia is forced to confront an impossible truth: Loving Adrien means surrendering everything... including her humanity. As vampire politics turn lethal and ancient enemies rise from the shadows, Dahlia must decide who she is willing to become. A pawn? A victim? Or a queen forged in blood and darkness. Because in Adrien's world, power is everything. And once claimed, there is no escape. New chapter daily

She didn't know what it felt like to be someone's first thought in the morning. To be the name someone whispers to the stars. To be someone's home. She stopped wanting to know. Then he walked back in. Ira Patel doesn't do hope. She did it once. It cost her everything. What she has now - the walls, the silence, the careful life she built from the rubble of the girl she used to be - that is hers. Nobody gets in. Nobody gets to matter. Aarav Malhotra gets in. Not because she lets him. Not because she forgives him. But because his family has fourteen people and none of them know how to love quietly, and somewhere between Dadi's halwa and a sister who calls her Bhabhi like it's the most natural word in the world - Ira forgets, just for a second, to keep her guard up. He notices. He always noticed everything. That was never the problem. The problem is eight years of silence. The problem is a secret buried so deep inside everything he built that she is the only one who can find it. The problem is that she is married to a man she once loved so completely it rewired her - and she cannot decide if what she feels now is hatred or something far more dangerous than that. He thinks he deserves it. She is starting to wonder if that is still true. Some people leave marks you spend years pretending aren't there. Some people come back and make you feel every single one.

Bella Callahan has spent every holiday at Briar, quietly in love with Carter Fletcher, the boy who has never noticed her. College at Sparrow should be a fresh start, a chance to escape the lake, the memories, and the ache of wanting him. But everything changes when she runs into Carter's best friend Jasper at her new school. Handsome, charming, and completely unexpected. Suddenly, Bella is caught between the boy she has always wanted and the one who makes her heart skip in ways she never imagined. A trip home for fall break brings Bella back to Willowbend, where her heart collides with Carter in ways she never thought possible... but Jasper isn't far behind, and the tension between past and possibility threatens to overwhelm her.

Zaylin Martinez she's known as a threat to many and the most sweetest soul to her friends, many either envy her or lust her. she's the person who you call when you in trouble. However she's been through hell and back, when will she be able to finally catch a breath? With memories of her past surfacing up every day, every minute and every second, she begins to grow tired and constantly angry. That's until one boy who takes all that wondering lost thoughts she has and makes it all disappear. Reed Hernandez the boy who likes when Zaylin tease him, the boy who likes to get under her skin until she looks like she'll go ballistic. The boy who's home life isn't exactly at its best or what you should expect from a boy like him, he enjoys the thrill of boxing and the adrenaline that it brings rather than sitting still and letting the thoughts consume him. But somewhere between the insults, the late night drives with the group and stolen glances, hatred begins to blur into something neither of them can control. Because they the one person they refuse to fall for might be the only one who truly ever understands them.

In a small town where everyone knows everyone, secrets don't stay hidden for long. Esme has spent her whole life trying to keep the peace, keep her head down, and protect the people she loves. But when two completely different boys pull her in opposite directions, everything she thought she wanted starts to fall apart. One feels safe. Familiar. The kind of love that could last forever. The other is messy, unpredictable, and impossible to ignore. Caught between loyalty and desire, Esme finds herself tangled in heartbreak, rumors, late-night drives, and choices that could change everything. Because in a town this small, every broken heart becomes everyone's business. And sometimes love doesn't just divide two people. Sometimes it divides an entire life.

For a century, the Peace Spell held the monsters at bay, trading bloodlust for a fragile truce. Then, in one neon-lit nightclub, a single gunshot shattered the pact. Now, the hunters have become the hunted. As the moon turns a bruised red and the city is fed a televised apocalypse, the line between guardian and monster dissolves into chaos. Jacob is caught in the middle of a war he never wanted. He is forced to choose: his father's cold, calculated logic or his ex-girlfriend's dangerous secrets. He is blind to the fact that the woman he is protecting is the key to the very truth his father has sworn to burn down. ​✌️ Peace is broken. 📱 Hunt is live. 🔥 Truth is Blurring. One Night. One City. No Mercy. In a city where every broadcast is a lie, the most dangerous thing you can do is trust the wrong person. Witness the first installment of "Peace Grows Thin" Author's Note: Peace Grows Thin is the new title (formerly The Chaotic Night Of Broken Peace Spell). Same pulse-pounding mystery, just a sharper look! New chapters drops every Mondays & Fridays after 9:00 PM IST

When first-year medical student Zara Whitmore returns to Stonemere, she falls in love with Adriana Ashcroft - the estate manager she has spent eight years avoiding. By December they are engaged. Then Adriana is found dead on the lower road. The official verdict is exposure. Zara does not believe it. She knows the nails were clean. What Zara does not know is that Adriana is still there. Watching from corners. Arriving cold at 5:45 every morning. The investigation that follows pulls Zara toward her father's forty-year record as town mayor, toward a generational arrangement that has been killing the Ashcroft family since 1987, and toward the discovery that she - as the third-generation Whitmore - is both the mechanism's final requirement and its only exit.

"She was like the Kadupul flower... Blooming in the darkest hours of my life, filling my shattered world with her fragrance. But I never realized that, just like the midnight bloom, I would lose her by the time the sun rises..." 🥀 Vihas has everything a man could want-wealth, power, and success. Yet, behind his cold and ruthless exterior lies a broken soul, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Desperate to escape his suffocating reality, he seeks refuge in his secluded, mist-covered mansion in the mountains of Nuwara Eliya. There, he meets Ama. The caretaker's granddaughter is everything he is not-warm, pure, and resilient. Despite carrying her own invisible burdens, her smile holds the power to heal his deepest wounds. In the dead of night, hidden from the judging eyes of the world, a fragile and unspoken love begins to bloom between them. But reality is a cruel dawn. Bound by their entirely different worlds and an impending truth, they are running out of time. Can a love meant only for the darkness survive the breaking of dawn? Or will it fade away with the shadows? A heartbreaking tale of love, healing, and sacrifice. ✨

𝕽𝖚𝖉𝖗𝖆 𝕾𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖆 × 𝕲𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖎 𝕸𝖆𝖑𝖍𝖔𝖙𝖗𝖆 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚. 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏. 𝑯𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑺𝒐 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒆. "𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒓." "𝑯𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒆. 𝑰 𝒕𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 m𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕." 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒆. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕. 𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔.

I met him when I was too young to know the difference between lust and longing. He was quiet chaos; tall, unreadable, a storm with no warning. I was the girl with the matchstick heart, too curious to run, too stubborn to let go. We were never safe. We were never steady. But we were inevitable. Years later, i should be over it. But he still lives in the corners of my mind, in the memory of skin on skin, in the fire I swore I'd never walk into again. This isn't a love story. It's what's left after the burn.

When Penelope goes to a Magic Man, she is hoping for love with the Crown Prince. But when Sir Donté steps in her path, her entire world is changed.

Poetry dug from my trash bin. ----- © 2026 J. Lee Kennedy. All rights reserved. Cover design © 2026 J. Lee Kennedy. Images used in this work belong to their respective copyright holders and are used under license or in accordance with applicable Creative Commons terms. Edited or altered images are copyrighted by the author in their final form.

"We are stars. What happens if we cross each other?"

A (very) short love story :)

She was the chaos he never wanted. But now, he'd burn the world just to keep her." Asaline Vega doesn't follow rules-she breaks them with heels on and a savage smirk. She's fire in human form, and Kairos Han? He's the quiet storm that never saw her coming. In a world of secrets, silences, and stolen glances, their connection isn't just attraction-it's war. She's bold, untamed, and unapologetically herself. He's brooding, avoidant, and logical to a fault. But when destiny throws them into each other's orbit, sparks ignite-and so do ruins. This isn't a love story. It's destruction dressed in red lipstick and black hoodies. 💔 Best friends to lovers. 🔥 Lovers to exes. ⚡Exes to... something much more dangerous. Let the art of ruin begin.

When her parents die, teenager Gail Dorjee retreats into an angry, sarcastic shell. She hopes it will ease her pain, but all it gets her is a one-way trip from Kansas to a Seattle boarding school, the elite Osland Academy. As soon as she arrives, Gail clashes with Diana, the leader of the school's most powerful clique. The Winged make Gail's life hell until she find allies: her airhead roommate; a cowardly fellow victim of the Winged; and, bit by bit, Diana's boyfriend, the seemingly heartless Nick. Gail soon has bigger problems than Diana. One of her teachers hates her. Glasses shatter and fountains erupt around her. She can't swear no matter how hard she tries. An unseen force is keeping her on campus. And worst of all, she uncovers a plot that will give one person a precious gift at the cost of thousands of lives. Now Gail and her friends must stop the plot--not just to save lives, but to win a brain, the nerve, a heart and a home. Note: I'll be putting up the full novel here. I'll be posting new chapters every Saturday and Wednesday. Enjoy.

A modern day love story of two souls that seem so perfect for each other. But, life.. as it always does... happens and only time will tell if these two will find their way into each others arms again.

In this romance, Meena, a jaded medical student, struggles with her sudden attraction to her fellow classmate, Darean Hart. The harder she fights to keep up her walls, the harder it becomes for her to resist his charm. When she opens herself up to Darean, she realizes there is so much more to life than following the path paved for her. Mee