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Spectral Contract

Sixteen-year-old Kael Arclight lives in a neon-lit city where ghosts hide behind every reflection—but he has spent most of his life trying to ignore the supernatural. That changes the night he accidentally forms a forbidden Spectral Contract with a mysterious ghost girl named Lyra. The contract brands him with a glowing mark that grants him powers he doesn’t understand—and begins draining his life with every use. Lyra remembers nothing about her death, yet dangerous fragments surface whenever Kael touches the mark. Each memory hints at a catastrophic event the government erased from history… and a horrifying truth buried in Kael’s own past. Even worse, the contract makes him a criminal in the eyes of The Veil Order, an elite force that hunts illegal ghost-bonded humans on sight. Now Kael and Lyra are forced into a deadly chase across ghost zones, abandoned districts, and the hidden underbelly of the city. As Kael’s powers grow unstable and Lyra’s true identity begins to emerge, the line between human and ghost starts to blur. Enemies close in from every side—rogue spirits hungry for the contract, Veil exorcists who want Kael dead, and a mysterious officer, Ardyn Vale, who seems to know more about Lyra than she does herself. But the greatest threat isn’t chasing them. It’s waking up inside Kael. When a monster known as a “Reclaimer” appears—something that only hunts survivors of massive ghost disasters—Kael realizes the truth: he wasn’t an ordinary boy who stumbled into fate. He’s the lone survivor of a forgotten tragedy… and the key to a disaster that might happen again. To save Lyra, uncover the past, and stay alive, Kael must choose: break the forbidden contract and lose her forever— or complete it and risk becoming something no longer human.
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Fear and Love

After the sudden loss of her fiancé, Amara Sen escapes the suffocating memories of city life for the quiet solace of rural India. She inherits an abandoned stone mansion at the end of Hollow Lane, a decaying estate steeped in local legends. Intending to heal in isolation, she instead finds herself drawn into the house’s eerie atmosphere. Strange noises echo through empty corridors, dusty mirrors reflect fleeting shadows, and someone—or something—leaves messages in handwriting identical to her late lover’s. During a violent monsoon storm, a stranger named Ravi Deshmukh appears at her door. Ravi grew up on the estate; his mother worked there before the house fell into ruin, and he believes the mansion has a heart and a memory. Haunted by his own past, he recognizes in Amara a kindred spirit. Together they begin to uncover the truth behind the house’s whispers. As they search through hidden rooms, forgotten journals, and local lore, they learn that the mansion is a liminal space where the boundary between the living and the dead is thin. Spirits trapped by unresolved love and betrayal linger within its walls, and one of them is tied to Amara’s own history. As Amara and Ravi delve deeper into the mystery, their bond strengthens and blossoms into a fragile romance. They must confront vengeful specters, unravel a century‑old tragedy that connects their families, and decide whether to help the restless souls find peace—even if it means unearthing painful secrets. In confronting the house’s haunting and the ghosts of their pasts, they discover that love can be both a source of terror and redemption, and that some stories are meant to be rewritten together.
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