Slow Burn Stories

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The Scribe of Shadows

The Scribe of Shadows

Author:Bernard Webb

I'm a horror author with a secret: I write in total darkness, a ritual to ward off a crippling paranoia that someone is stealing my words. But my paranoia has become my terrifying reality. I just received a letter from the main character of my unpublished novel. He's alive. He thinks I'm God. And he's trying to break through the page to meet his maker. Now, every word I write ripples into the real world, and I'm losing control of the story... and my sanity.

Artisanal Lust

Artisanal Lust

Author:Lynn Garrett

Chloe is a bartender who slings beers and shots. Julian is a mixologist who crafts cocktails with scientific precision. Forced together in a high-stakes competition, their rivalry is as bitter as his artisanal bitters. But when the night ends, insults turn into desperate, angry passion on top of a bar. Now, a shocking business proposal forces them to collaborate, turning their one-night explosion into a slow burn of clashing wills and undeniable lust. Can they build a future together, or will they burn each other down first?

The Nexus Retribution

The Nexus Retribution

Author:Katherine Carroll

He built their digital empire from scratch. He was the god in their machine, the sole architect of their success. When they refused to reward him, exploiting his dedication and casting him aside, they forgot one crucial fact: the one who builds the system also knows all its secrets. Now, with a single keystroke, Kai Sterling will unleash a data-driven reckoning that will bring the corporate titans to their knees. They should have paid him his overtime.

Warden of the Sanguine City

Warden of the Sanguine City

Author:Silas Thorne

In a city powered by blood and secrets, Aether-Fixer Deon hunts for the disappeared. His search leads him to the Warden, a monstrous enforcer bound by magic and duty. But the beast in chains is not the enemy—he's a prisoner of the same dark system. To save the city's stolen souls, Deon must forge an impossible alliance with the monster he was meant to destroy, risking a bond that could either sever the Warden's chains or shackle them both to an even darker fate.

Bitter & Spice

Bitter & Spice

Author:Ember Thorne

I pour beer and shots. He crafts artisanal cocktails with unicorn tears. We were rivals in a high-stakes competition, a clash of cheap whiskey and expensive bitters. The only thing stronger than our hatred was the forbidden lust simmering beneath every insult. We both lost the trophy that night, but when the room emptied, leaving us alone in the wreckage of our ambitions, we found a different prize. On a bar top sticky with spilled liquor and shattered pride, we didn't just break the rules—we rewrote them, one searing touch at a time.

Her Devilish Claim

Her Devilish Claim

Author:Blaise Thorne

My open relationship with Charlie was easy, all casual fun and no strings. But Kayla... she's different. She's a new world, a new part of my soul I never knew existed. With every stolen touch and whispered secret, she unravels me. I thought I wanted clarity, to define what we were. But when she looked at me with a devilish smile and told me I was hers, I realized I didn't want answers. I just wanted to be claimed. And I was about to find out exactly what that meant.

The Echo in the Lake

The Echo in the Lake

Author:Bonnie Riley

To escape his suffocating city life, Liam returns to the remote lake where he spent his happiest childhood days. But the nostalgia is shattered by a chilling presence in the woods—a figure that watches him from the trees. This is no random stalker. It knows his name, it wears his face, and it's a terrifying echo of a nightmare that haunted his father years ago. The lake doesn't just hold memories; it holds a horrifying reflection, and it refuses to let him go.

The Serpent's Scholar

The Serpent's Scholar

Author:Jared Dunn

He called her fat. He called her stupid. He cheated on her with his student and discarded her like an old experiment. Jake, a brilliant PhD candidate, thought he was untouchable. He didn't realize that Elara, the woman he scorned, was a master of a different kind of science: the science of revenge. She would dismantle his life piece by piece, using his own secrets as her weapons. Twenty years later, when he thought his past was buried, she's back to deliver the final, devastating lesson. His downfall wouldn't be loud or violent—it would be a quiet, academic dissection of his very existence.

Chasm Runner: The Aetheric Interface

Chasm Runner: The Aetheric Interface

Author:Mattie Prescott

In the neon-drenched underbelly of Veridia City, a sarcastic master thief named Haven lives by one rule: trust no one. But when a heist goes wrong and she witnesses a grotesque, reality-glitching demon attack, her world shatters. She discovers she possesses a unique 'Aetheric Interface'—the power to see and manipulate the code of magic itself. This ability throws her into the path of Asterias, a cold and dangerously handsome agent from the secret order that polices these demonic incursions. Forced into an uneasy alliance, they must unravel a conspiracy tied to her father's mysterious death, a conspiracy that will drag them through high-tech heists and demonic cults, blurring the line between justice and revenge.

The Viper's Claim

The Viper's Claim

Author:Aria Thorne

Art student Nicole thought her life was ordinary until she was abducted and thrust into a world of opulent darkness. Now, she is the captive prize of Eva, a beautiful and ruthless syndicate queen, and Bryce, her formidable enforcer. Forced into a test of submission and pleasure beyond her wildest imaginings, Nicole discovers a side of herself that craves their control. But in this gilded cage, is her surrender a path to ecstasy or a trap with no escape? She must navigate the desires of her captors while fighting for her own soul, caught between two powerful figures who intend to claim her, body and mind.

Whispers on Paradise Key

Whispers on Paradise Key

Author:Jeff Austin

To recover from a mysterious illness, an overworked assistant is sent to her billionaire boss's private island. But the tropical paradise holds a dark secret: strange noises from a non-existent attic, a reclusive novelist, and the handsome, guarded pilot who warns her that not everything is as it seems. Trapped between her powerful boss and the pilot who makes her feel alive, she must uncover the island's ghostly secret before a looming hurricane reveals a truth more terrifying than any spirit.

The Thaumaturge's Gambit

The Thaumaturge's Gambit

Author:Elias Thorne

A cynical 21st-century detective is murdered, only to awaken in the body of a nobleman investigator in an alternate Victorian-era world. In this Anglo-French Empire, magic is a rigid science controlled by the Church, and his new partner is a powerful, by-the-book sorcerer. Tasked with solving impossible locked-room murders, he must use his modern forensic knowledge to reinterpret the very laws of thaumaturgy. As he untangles conspiracies that threaten to drag the empire into war, he finds himself in a deadly game of wits against a beautiful, ruthless sorceress from a rival empire, where one wrong move could shatter both his cover and his new reality.