A Firelit Room Game Novels & Stories

To avoid a ridiculous arranged marriage that had been decided before I was even born, I beg my father to send the family a picture of an ordinary-looking woman with a face covered in spots. I've heard before that Austin Hammond, the most distinguished scion in Jarlesbury and the man I was supposed to marry, has an obsession with looks. If anyone who doesn't meet his standards comes within ten feet of him, he instructs his bodyguards to get them out of his sight. Since then, I've continued to hide my captivating face and pretend to be a plain, unattractive woman—and one day, Joshua Farrell shows up. On the day he proposes to me, he holds my hand and promises, "Your looks don't matter to me, Ellie. No matter what you look like, I will still love you." Believing his words, I ignore my father's protests and insist on getting engaged to Joshua. Finally, our wedding day arrives. Just when we're about to exchange our wedding rings, he stares lovingly at the surgically-enhanced face of his first love, Isabel Grady, and abandons me at the altar. The guests mutter among themselves, casting pitying looks in my direction, but I simply smile. It occurs to me then just how easy it is to see a man's true colors. It's just as well. This means I can settle for being Mrs. Hammond without a care in the world.

Right before graduation, my roommate waved around a job offer from some overseas company. It had a three-day workweek, with a starting salary of $50,000 a month. It sounded too good to be true, so I warned her it might be a scam. When she struck out on other job leads, I asked my dad to get her a position at his company. She scoffed at the eight-hour days and $6,000 monthly salary, calling it slave labor. Then she went live online, falsely accusing my dad of inappropriate advances and pressuring her to bear him a son. When skeptics questioned her, she swore no woman would lie about her honor. The internet erupted, branding my dad a predator. Our company collapsed under the backlash, leaving us drowning in debt. To spare me, my dad jumped from a rooftop to his death. Devastated, I wandered into traffic and was struck by a truck. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day Amber got that shady offer.

'SEDUCTION IN THE BOARDROOM: Corporate Flames Ignite' is a tale of love, confusion, betrayal and secrets from the past. Emily, a struggling staff in a small company, meets with Alexander, a multi-billionaire in the country at a corporate event held for business associates. They have a connection that leads to a one-night-stand experience which causes them to find their feelings for each other, a great deal. It is worse when a dirty secret from Alexander's past finds its way to the present, and Emily is shattered a second time. Betrayal happens and the two lovers will have to choose to stick together, but is Emily willing to fight with Alexander despite his past life?

When my roommate learned that getting pregnant in university came with special treatment, she brazenly posted on the campus forum, openly recruiting a "baby daddy." [Requirements: over 5'11", eight-pack abs, handsome, assets in the millions, no bad habits.] Afraid she would ruin her life on a moment of reckless impulse, I snatched her phone, deleted the post, and gave her a serious rundown on the risks and consequences of early pregnancy while still studying. After much deliberation, she was finally persuaded. But a month later, a classmate struck it rich by getting pregnant. She not only married into a wealthy family, but also received a million-dollar childbirth bonus from her in-laws. My roommate was driven mad with jealousy. She stormed into the dorm, shrieking at me at the top of her lungs. "If it weren't for you, I'd be a rich wife by now! You owe me my life!" As she screamed, she stabbed me over and over, venting her rage until I was dead. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day she first posted on the forum, brazenly searching for a baby daddy.

In my dormitory, there was a poor student. With all the good intentions in the world, my roommates and I were eager to help her, not realizing how much our help would cost. She wasn't impressed by the hairdryer we offered, insisting on borrowing a branded one instead. The skincare products we gave her? They were applied to her feet. And, as if that wasn't enough, she specifically demanded luxury face cream. One day, I lent her my tablet to look up some information, and to my surprise, she secretly opened up my gaming app, spent all the diamonds and reward tickets I had saved for half a year, and left me empty-handed. When I asked her to pay me back, she turned the tables and posted a public message online, accusing me. "I'm just a poor student from the countryside, never played games before. Are the materials in the game really worth this much?" Before I knew it, the comment section was flooded with criticisms of me. In a fit of frustration, I fired back with a post of my own, throwing her into the spotlight. "Well, I suppose you've never tasted the bitterness of being cyberbullied, have you?"

One night, as I was making my way to the bathroom around 3 a.m., I saw my dormmate, Yvonne, squatting in front of our door. She was rearranging all our shoes so that their tips were pointed inward. I thought it was funny, so I rearranged them to have their tips pointed outward. The next day, I found that all of them had been positioned inward again. This kept happening for a week, and I continued to scramble things up, hiding the shoes, even, or tying the shoelaces together. But they always ended up being repositioned neatly inward. I started observing my dormmate and found her mumbling to the shoes while squatting at the door. I ranted about it online, only to have my first reply send chills down my spine. [Do you also get the weird feeling that something paranormal is happening around you? You have to move out before it’s too late!]

Wrenley Vale was promised to an alpha before she could walk. When the bond was meant to seal, she rejected it and ran out of the pack lands and into a human city, with stolen clothes, a fierce determination to live a life that belongs to her for once, and a wolf inside her that has been dying a little more every day since the night she said no. The plan was simple. Keep her head down, qualify for the Olympics, and outrun what refusing a fated bond does to a wolf. The plan did not account for Aurel Castell, North Bay's hockey golden boy, who looked at her across a crowded afterparty and called her Red before she could stop him and who has no idea that the warmth crawling under his own skin is a wolf no one ever told him he carried. She cannot tell anyone what she is or she'll lose the scholarship that is the ticket to her dream. She cannot complete a new bond without it costing her the only freedom she ever fought for. And she absolutely cannot fall for Aurel Castell because the brother whose claim she rejected, the alpha who razed her family for it, is the one person Aurel doesn't know he's related to. With a jealous captain stripping her life apart piece by piece, a betrayal coming from the only friend she has, and a rejected alpha sending word that her time to come home is almost up, the question is not whether her secret comes out. The question is how much she will have already lost when it does.

He was a bad boy, not the type of person Lynn needed in her apartment but her best friends thought otherwise. Lynn's new roommate was not the usual bad boy type with a soft heart but an annoying and arrogant pervert. Lynn hated Alec but she wasn't sure of her heart. Was it on the same page with her mind?

Aliaria Laurent Moon, known mostly as Aria, is the Luna of the Moonfall pack. Everything is fine, until her mate is killed and she has to lead the pack herself. With her being vulnerable, enemies attack the pack and she seems helpless. Until, a solution comes up. She could be the ritual mate of another pack and the two packs would fuse together. This however, happens once in a century and the paired packs would compete with other pairs in a tournament. Aliaria agrees, left with no choice until she finds out that the alpha of the pack she is meant to mate with, was the jerk who broke her heart before at Leaders’ Camp. Will she let her feelings get in the way or put aside her feelings and win for the sake of the pack and get her revenge for her dead mate?

On the day she was meant to say I do, Delany chose Revenge instead. In her first life, her husband’s cruelty broke her, her family’s betrayal crushed her, and her death came far too soon. But fate gave her a second chance, returning her to the very moment her misery began: her wedding day. This time, she doesn’t smile through the lies. She doesn’t bow to expectations. With ice in her veins and fire in her heart, Delany looks her groom in the eye and declares, “I do not.” And then, with a daring lie, that she has been in love with his older brother all along, she shreds her pathetic world into peices. Her plan? To rebuild her life herself, reclaim her power, and make every single person who destroyed her pay. But revenge is a dangerous game, and playing bride to the wrong man might spark a war between love, loyalty, and the revenge she refuses to let go. Because sometimes the sweetest “I do”… is the one you never say.