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[COMPLETE] Casper's got three things: a trash boyfriend, a deadend job, and enough self-destructive habits to ruin his life. So, if Cain - a charming, enigmatic stranger - seems a little too captivated by him, he's not going to question his luck.Except his perfect stranger turns out to be yet another bad decision. Claiming to be Casper's lover from a past life, Cain takes him prisoner.But even if his kidnapper's starting to give him butterflies, Casper can't stay trapped in a cage. He knows how to get out - he's just got to trick Cain into thinking Casper loves him back, but Casper's never been able to stick to a plan. He's drowning in depression, his mental break demon won't leave him alone, and he's struggling to remember what's real and what's the game.Especially now Cain's madness seems just a little too real to feel safe.🥇 1st Place for Romance in the Autumn Awards🍂🥇 1st Place for Romance in the Starlight Awards🌟🥈 2nd Place for Romance/New Adult in Books Got Talent 2020🌍🥇 1st Place for Romance in the Phoenix Awards🐦🥇 1st Place for LGBTQ+ in the Golden Wings Awards👼🥉 3rd Place for Romance in the Soul Writers Award ☁️🥉3rd Place for Romance in the Halcyon Awards 💙🥇 1st Place for Romance & 🥈 2nd Place of All Winners in the Cosmic Rose Awards 🥀🥇 1st Place for General Fiction in the Carnival Awards🎪🥈 2nd Place for Best Main Character in the Carnival Awards🎪🏵️ 4th Place for Romance in the Tricolor Triennial Awards [Phase 3] 🇮🇳🥇 1st Place for Romance & 🥉 3rd Place of All Winners in the in the Fairy Awards🧚🥈 2nd Place of All Books in the Shut Up and Write Awards 💬🥈 2nd Place for Romance in the Blooming Rose Awards 🌹🥈 2nd Place for New Adult Romance & 🏵️ Honorable Mention Overall in the Lovely Awards 💗CW: Suicide attempt, heavy mental health, drug abuse & implied sexual abuse/r*pe…

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Lukas might have caused the apocalypse, but he still can't talk to the girl who saved him without getting tongue-tied. Aina's his light, his redemption, and as the cosy warmth of Christmas closes around them, he starts to realise one thing.The light can never really love the darkness back."There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights." - Bram Stoker, DraculaCW: drug abuse/overdose🥈2nd Place for General Fiction in the Frozen Awards 2021 🏰🥈 2nd Place for Romance in the Guilded Raven Awards🐦🥈 2nd Place for General Fiction in the Carnival Awards🎪…

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Various short stories that may or may not be AUs~𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚐𝚢➳ Cain Smith is a professor at the country's only magical university, and he's never cared about anything besides growing his own knowledge and power. People are nothing more than entertainment, and when senior student Casper Black shows delight in the lure of obscene power, Cain is captivated by the chance at a new game.Except Casper has teeth of needles and before things are done, he will hold Cain by his throat. Sometimes the search for power can eat you alive.𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜➳ The day Casper gives into bigshot CEO Cain Smith's incessant flirting is the day he actually puts a latte heart on one of these rich f**kers coffees. He thought it was never going to happen, but Cain's smile as he calls Casper his good luck charm is really starting to get to him.𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛➳ [A Little Red Riding Hood retelling] In a district made from its own ruins where there's no law but the bionic wolves prowling the street below, Jack's got nowhere to go but down. At least not until he meets Red and spies a way up. Grandma rules the roost, and you don't screw with his play things. But Jack's never learnt how to play nice, and with Red as his new obsession, he's gonna get what he wants and kill doing it.So who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?🥈 2nd Place for Short Story in the Fairy Awards 🧚…