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My entry for MerMay 2023 of talesofthedeep.Third prompt:Sighting, power, sunTheir world was expanding, but they weren't ready.The picture is a mer swimming by the surface and illuminated by the sun.The cover picture is from Matheo JBT on Unsplash

"𝐈𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧."-Muni Long

Victoria Smith had always been a shy girl, as no one really cared about her. She felt like she had no one in the world (well, except for her cat). One night, she finds that maybe that loneliness was about to end. "What are you doing out here all by yourself?"-Please-, take a look at the TAGS before reading. This is a DDLG story.

{{ 1 of 3 Mates Pull Sequels }}With their wolves now lying dormant deep within them. Both Elise and Vance find life much much harder having to rely solely on their moral compasses.Without being lead by their wolves Ellie and Vance are left to face on the human world blindly where they soon find out that their actions have serious consequences. Can these two lovebirds continue down the path they planned out so long ago, or will temptation from the human world be too great and end up breaking them up for good?

Under full copyright Under massive editing •One girlSeven brothers•Little red Riding HoodSeven big bad wolves•One famillyLots of problems⚠️Mature language and content⚠️Most successful rankings:#siblings - no.1#werewolves - no.5#littlesister - no.2#bigbrothers - no.13

Ice flooded my veins as the realization of who he was hit me. It must have been evident on my face because the man in front of me let out a dark laugh."Oh dear, you didn't realize you were talking to a royal, did you darling?" he crooned.Not just any royal. Kesserian Cinis. The recently coronated king and ruler over the Ember Court. I forgot how to breathe, my mind whirring as it tried to figure out how I could have been so stupid as to let this happen.***************************************************Wren Heatherfield is on the run. Having turned 18, she is now in danger of becoming selected for the Garner, a deadly game in which the six kings who rule over her continent take eighteen non-magical girls and make them fight for their lives. But as she tries to avoid the game by running away with her best friend and her sister, she consequently finds herself doomed to be a competitor in the 246th Garner.But the Garner isn't the only thing capable of killing her. In a castle surrounded by kings with dark powers and girls fighting for their lives, she may find that the politics of royalty can be just as deadly as their games.No one can be trusted in a palace full of monsters and, if Wren has any hopes of survival, she may have to become one herself.

Ever since people could remember only men were allowed to enter the House of Beardsley, but for the first time four young girls with nothing in common have been hired to work in the mansion as live-in housekeepers. Shuyan, a Chinese orphan living in Victorian England, has always had a hard time finding a job, so she applies without much thought to the infamous House of Beardsley. Her co-workers, Bethany, Clo, and Rhiannon, on the other hand, seem to have no desire to work. Although they have been warned to keep their contact with the seven men of Beardsley as minimal as possible, Shuyan comes close to overstepping the boundaries when she makes contact with the crippled and gentle master Eugene. When she finds out the girls are hired for a much more sinister reason from the cold and mysterious Tobias, will she choose to stay in the House of Beardsley? More importantly, with each secret she unearths and relation she makes will she be able to leave...?#1 in Victorian-era (1/31/20)#1 in Asiansinlit (2/13/20)#1 in nobility (2/25/20)#1 in Edwardian (3/31/20)#1 in earl (4/22/20)#1 in Asian (8/9/20)#1 in gothicromance (1/4/21) #2 in debutante (4/18/20)#2 in regencyromance (10/3/20)#3 in Victorian (2/20/20)#3 in gothic (3/27/20)

April Parker's plan for senior year is to tough it out with her overbearing stepfather for nine more months and move far away from home the second she graduates. It's what drives her to go through the motions every day and the reason his cruel expectations haven't crushed her.The last thing she expects is to end up inside a locked underground facility with dozens of other teenagers for company. As April attempts to unravel the mystery that brought them to the facility, she connects with a sweet southerner, a girl whose brightness is shadowed by the secrets she keeps, and an intuitive playboy whose interest in her discomforts her as much as it flatters her.Making friends doesn't come easily to her, thanks to her stepfather, and she's forced to hide the stigma of her upbringing to keep herself safe in this new world. But when the stronger teenagers fight for control of the facility, April is left with two choices: to remain the insecure person she's always been, or to break free of Sam's chains and step forward as a leader, even if it means going up against the temperamental and compelling Marcus Fargo.As conditions within the facility become more stressful and the teenagers' resilience is put to the test, strange things start to happen to them. Dangerous things. And if their kidnappers' silence is anything to go by, no one is coming to save them.