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Title: The Coordinates

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)

Description

Bush pilot Kate Larsen has flown plenty of strange charter requests, but nothing quite like this one: a passenger who pays cash, gives coordinates instead of a destination, and refuses to explain why he needs to reach an empty stretch of Alaskan wilderness with no village, airstrip, or settlement anywhere nearby.

When a sudden storm forces them down together on a remote gravel bar, Elliot Voss's careful evasiveness finally cracks, revealing a secret he's spent six years and most of his savings chasing — on...

Title: The Words Between Us

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

Arjun Mehta has never written anything more personal than an engineering report, and now his family's arranged match with Priya Rao requires him to court a woman he's never met through months of letters, before either family arranges their first formal meeting. Terrified and completely out of his depth, he accepts quiet help from his sister to find his footing — never expecting how quickly that help would stop being necessary.

By the time Arjun and Priya finally meet in person, months of...

Title: The Box of Unfinished Dreams

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

While clearing out an old storage room, young monk Niran discovers a carved teak box hidden behind a collapsed shelf — and inside it, a smooth grey stone that shows him someone else's dream the moment he picks it up. Days later, the vision comes true exactly as he saw it.

As Niran learns to understand the ancient artifact's true purpose, a far more dangerous vision forces him into a race against time — six days to prove, without sounding like a monk...

Title: The Marchand Case

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)

Description

Private detective Jack Doucet has heard plenty of lies in his career, but few as smooth as the one Foster Callahan tells him about his missing fiancée. Cold feet, Callahan claims. A simple case of a runaway bride, four days before the wedding. Jack doesn't buy it for a second.

As Jack digs through New Orleans's French Quarter in search of Elise Marchand, he uncovers a trail of fear, hidden financial records, and a silent business partner with considerably more to l...

Title: The Nereid of Kymos Bay

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

Yannis has fished the waters around his small Greek island his whole life, watching the catches grow smaller each season. Then one morning, his net pulls up something impossible: an injured nereid, tangled and bleeding, unlike anything from the old folktales he assumed were just stories.

What begins as a quiet act of kindness grows into an unlikely friendship — and a secret Yannis must protect from a greedy local merchant determined to profit from whatever he's hiding near the northern ca...

Title: The Ghost Who Waited

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)

Description

Aoife and Cormac fall in love with Blackthorn Cottage the moment they see it — low stone walls, a wild garden, decades of quiet history. What the estate agent doesn't fully explain is why the last two owners sold within the year. Moved objects, unexplained cold spots, and footsteps in the night soon convince the young couple that something else still calls the cottage home.

As the disturbances grow more alarming, a visit to the village postmistress uncovers a sixty-year-old tragedy: a yo...

Title: The Dancer Who Waited for Rain

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

Rafael has played guitar in the same Seville plaza for six years — but only on rainy nights, when the streets empty out completely, does a mysterious woman appear to dance alone to his music. She never speaks. She never gives her name. And she vanishes the moment the song ends, leaving Rafael with nothing but unanswered questions and a growing fascination he can't quite explain.

When he finally works up the courage to speak to her, one word from th...

Title: The Two Halves of Forever

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)

Description

Dr. Layla Hassan doesn't believe in curses — until her team uncovers a hidden tomb chamber holding two sarcophagi facing each other, joined by a warning carved directly into the floor between them. Inside lies the story of Ahmose and Meritamun, a scribe and a princess forbidden from loving each other three thousand years ago, buried apart with a single golden amulet split deliberately in two.

When half the amulet is sent to Cairo for a museum exhibition, Layla's careful scientific sk...

Title: The Price of Frost

Level: Advanced (C1-C2)

Description

Saga Lehtonen has spent nineteen years hiding a family gift she barely understands — the power to summon frost and ice at will. When an unprecedented wildfire threatens to burn her Finnish village to the ground, she finally unleashes the full extent of her ability in public for the first time, saving hundreds of homes in a single desperate act.

But magic this powerful was never meant to be free. As Saga's body grows colder by the week, her heartbeat slowing toward a...

Title: The Blood Between Us

Level: Advanced (C1-C2)

Description

Bjorn Ulfsson has spent his whole life fighting Clan Sigurdsson, his people's sworn enemies for four bloody generations. Then he's assigned to guard Astrid Sigurdsdottir, the rival king's daughter, held hostage during an uneasy truce — and finds himself falling for exactly the person he was raised to hate.

Discovered, threatened with exile, and facing a war that could reignite over their forbidden bond, Bjorn and Astrid seem to have run out of options — until Astrid reveals a secret about her own birt...

Title: The Hunter of Glen Avoch

Level: Advanced (C1-C2)

Description

Isla MacRae has never failed a hunt. Trained since childhood to track and kill dragons across the Scottish Highlands, she arrives at Glen Avoch expecting a routine commission: a beast terrorizing the village, a grateful Laird, a clean kill. What she finds atop Ben Fàsag instead is a dragon that speaks, that grieves, and that has a very different story to tell about who wronged whom first.

As Isla digs deeper into Glen Avoch's true history, she uncovers a c...

Title: The Shadow of San Telmo

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

Once a month, a Buenos Aires milonga dims its lights to near-total darkness for Noche de Sombras — the Night of Shadows, when dancers move by touch and feeling alone. Valentina has danced there for six months with the same steady, unforgettable partner, without ever once seeing his face or learning his name.

Curiosity finally gets the better of her, and she asks the one question the tradition discourages: who are you? The answer she receives — and the truth she discovers when...

Title: The Museum of Extinct Civilizations

Level: Advanced (C1)

Story:

While exploring a mysterious gravitational anomaly beyond the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way, Commander Elias Rowan and his scientific team discover an enormous invisible structure floating silently in deep space. Upon entering, they find themselves inside the Museum of Extinct Civilizations, an ancient place that preserves the memory of every intelligent species that has disappeared throughout the history of the universe.

Instead of displaying advanced technology or priceless treasures, each civilization is represented by a single ordinary object—a bo...

Title: The Newspaper from Tomorrow

Level: Advanced (C1)

Story:

Professor Adrian Wells, a respected archaeologist, discovers an iron chest hidden beneath the ruins of an ancient monastery in Rome. Inside the chest lies an impossible object—a perfectly preserved newspaper dated June 18, 2347, three hundred years in the future. At first, Adrian believes it must be an elaborate hoax, but scientific examinations reveal that the newspaper cannot be explained by any known technology or modern fabrication.

As Adrian studies its pages, he realizes that the newspaper accurately describes the archaeological excavation he...

Title: The Woman in Every Frame

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)

Description

Kenji is a Tokyo street photographer used to capturing strangers by chance — until the same woman in a pale blue kimono starts appearing in his photos, again and again, in different neighborhoods, days apart, impossible to explain. Then he finds her in a photograph taken sixteen years before he was even born.

The search for an explanation leads Kenji to an old shrine keeper, a decades-old local legend, and his late grandfather's own unexplained encounter with the very same woman. Bu...

Title: The Cup That Remembered Tomorrow

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

In his grandmother's stall in the Marrakech medina, Amir sells a thousand ordinary things — except for one old brass cup his grandmother has always refused to part with. When a persistent tourist offers triple its worth, Amir finally gives in, pouring one last cup of tea to seal the sale. What rises from the steam changes everything: a vision of the market itself burning to the ground.

With the cup already sold and the buyer's taxi racing toward the airport, Am...

Title: The Letters in the Hatbox

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)

Description

While clearing out her late grandmother's cottage, Emma finds a bundle of wartime love letters hidden in an old hatbox — twenty-three letters addressed to her grandmother Eleanor, written by a soldier named Thomas. A man Emma has never once heard mentioned in her entire life, and certainly not her grandfather.

What begins as a curious family mystery unravels into something far more complicated: a wartime engagement, a reported death that turned out to be wrong, and a devastating choice made de...

Title: The Recipe They Never Told

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

In the small hill town of Montefiore, there's one rule everyone follows without question: you eat at Trattoria Bellini, or you eat at Osteria Conti — never both. The two restaurants have faced each other across the same piazza for forty years, locked in a rivalry so old that nobody quite remembers how it started. Giulia Bellini certainly doesn't expect to fall for Marco Conti, the son of her family's sworn enemies, over a borrowed oven and a late-night cup of coffee.

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Title: The Captain of the Nordvinden

Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2-C1)

Description

Every sailor along the Norwegian coast knows the stories about the Nordvinden — an old cargo ship said to carry the ghost of her first captain, a man lost at sea more than a century ago. Eighteen-year-old Magnus doesn't believe a word of it, right up until his first real storm, when a cold hand catches his wrist at the edge of the deck and pulls him back from the black water below.

What follows is a search through an abandoned lo...

Title: The Song on Platform Four

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

Every morning at 8:12, Élodie catches the same train from Châtelet — and every morning, just before it arrives, she hears the same haunting melody drifting from the public piano on the platform. She doesn't know the pianist's name. She's never even heard how his song ends, because her train always pulls in at exactly the wrong moment.

Months of quiet fascination turn into something closer to obsession, until a passing stranger offers an explanation that changes everything: the song, she's told...

Title: The Tide That Remembered

Level: Advanced (C1-C2)

Description

Seven winters ago, the village of Eldmar broke a sacred oath — and the sea itself turned against them. Nyxathor, the ancient god of the deep, withdrew every blessing he had ever granted, drowning the coast in storms, emptying the nets, and starving an entire generation into hollow-cheeked desperation.

Into this ruin was born Kaelen: half human, half dragon, the son of a fisherman and a creature the villagers speak of only in fragments. Feared rather than welcomed, blamed for misfortunes he ha...

Title: The Unsigned Gift

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Description

Every few days, a small gift appears on Sara's desk before anyone else gets to the office — a handmade mug in her favorite color, a leather notebook, a playlist of the exact songs she loves. No name. No note explaining who it's from. Just quiet proof that someone out there is paying attention.

At first it feels like a harmless mystery, the kind of thing to laugh about over coffee with a friend. But as the gifts keep coming, Sara can't help bu...

Title: The Melody We Left Behind | A Second-Chance Love Story

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Five years ago, Eleanor Sterling left Prague—and the man she loved behind.

She promised herself she would never return. But one rainy evening, the familiar streets lead her back to an old opera house, where the sound of a violin brings everything she tried to forget rushing back.

On stage is Sebastian Wolfe, the man she once loved. Five years have passed, but the moment their eyes meet, Eleanor realizes that some feelings never truly di...

Title: The Train Beyond Time

Level: Advanced (C1)

Story:

Dr. Nathan Carter, a theoretical physicist known for explaining mysteries through science, travels to an abandoned railway station in Prague to investigate an old legend. According to local folklore, a mysterious train appears only once every fifty years, carrying passengers to destinations that cannot be found on any map.

When the train finally arrives, Nathan discovers that it does not travel through time. Instead, it moves between alternate futures—worlds created by different choices throughout history. As he visits se...

Title: The Planet That Remembered Every Visitor

Level: Advanced (C1)

Story:

In the year 2189, humanity discovers a mysterious planet known as HD-7314-E, a world where every unmanned probe mysteriously stops functioning. Everything changes after scientists receive an impossible photograph of a woman who disappeared from Earth more than a century earlier. A team of twelve specialists, led by Dr. Eleanor Hayes, is sent to investigate the strange planet.

After landing, the explorers begin recovering forgotten memories from their childhood and past, while familiar places from those...

The One-Eyed Giant of Mount Helikon

When the Princess of Athens mysteriously vanishes during a pilgrimage to an ancient shrine, panic spreads across the kingdom. Her royal escort disappears without a trace, a single gigantic footprint is found carved deep into solid stone, and terrified shepherds whisper the return of a name that has survived only in the oldest Greek legends—a one-eyed giant known as Brontes, believed to be the last Cyclops still walking the earth.

As armies prepare for war and the people of Athens fear the worst, the young princess awakens inside an...

What if the hardest goodbye was never truly the end?

After six long years, Margot returns to the rain-soaked streets of Paris, carrying the weight of a love she thought she had left behind forever.

In the quiet corners of a charming Montmartre bookshop, she comes face to face with Julien—the man whose heart she broke without ever saying goodbye. But some stories refuse to end, and some letters are destined to remain unopened... until the moment they matter most.

Filled with romance, longing, second chances, and the timeless beauty of Paris, th...

Title: The Last Signal from Tomorrow

When humanity receives its first undeniable message from deep space, the world expects proof of extraterrestrial intelligence. Instead, the transmission delivers a chilling warning in plain English:

"Please don't build the Atlas Engine."

No one knows what the Atlas Engine is, where the message came from, or why it specifically warns against something that doesn't officially exist. While governments scramble for answers and the scientific community struggles to explain the impossible, radio astronomer Ethan Carter uncovers a hidden layer buried deep within the mysterious signal, one that...

Title: The Prince of Persia and the Blue Titan

For centuries, the southern seas have been feared by sailors, merchants, and kings alike. Ships disappear without a trace, entire royal fleets vanish beneath impossibly calm waters, and every expedition sent to uncover the truth is swallowed by the endless blue. While scholars argue over storms, hidden reefs, and forgotten currents, the oldest sailors whisper a far more terrifying explanation—deep beyond the Sapphire Horizon lives an ancient being so immense that entire islands are said to be no more than shadows drifting across its back.

As...

Title: The Goddess Who Could Not Be Remembered

Among the countless gods of Olympus, there once existed two forgotten deities whose names were never carved into temples or celebrated in epic poems. One quietly watched over every memory that vanished forever from the hearts of mortals, preserving the final echoes of lives, loves, and civilizations that would otherwise disappear from existence. The other ruled over the rarest form of love—not passion or desire, but the enduring devotion that survives the passage of time, loss, and even death itself.

For ages, their duties remained separate, ma...

Title: The Silence Between Suns

Humanity has always believed it lived beneath a single Sun. Every scientific observation, every historical record, and every memory shared by billions of people has confirmed that simple truth—until the day a second star suddenly appears at the edge of the Solar System.

At first, astronomers assume it is a revolutionary astronomical discovery. Then they realize something far more disturbing. The new star is an almost perfect duplicate of our own Sun, matching it in every measurable way, yet no telescope in history had ever seen it before. As sc...

Title: The Last Dreamer

Level: Advanced (C1)

Story :

In the ancient city of Aeloria, where the boundaries between dreams and reality were thin, there lived a young woman named Elara. She was born with a rare gift—the ability to enter and control the dreams of others. Her powers had been passed down through generations, but with the gift came a heavy burden: the weight of other people’s fears, desires, and sorrows.

Elara spent her life in isolation, avoiding contact with the world outside. She was haunted by the dreams she...

Story Title: The Rhinelord of Black Hollow

Level: Advanced

Genre: Dark Mythological Fantasy / Heroic Tragedy

Description:

The Rhinelord of Black Hollow follows Aldren, a wandering traveler who arrives in an isolated mountain village moments before the return of a legendary creature believed to have vanished centuries earlier. Neither fully human nor entirely beast, the Rhinelord is a monstrous fusion of an ancient king and a primordial rhinoceros, cursed by his desperate pursuit of immortality through memory itself. As the creature devours the memories of its victims to preserve its own existence...

Title: Born under a rare celestial event

Level: Advanced (C1)

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Lira, a young woman born under a rare celestial event, is the key to an ancient prophecy that promises either salvation or destruction for the world. Raised in a secluded village, Lira is unaware of her destiny until a mysterious figure, Elias, arrives and reveals the prophecy. As she embarks on a journey to fulfill her fate, Lira faces the overwhelming decision of choosing between two paths: the light, which requires her self-sacrifice, and the darkness, which offers power at the...

Story Title: Aurenfall

Level: Advanced

Genre: Philosophical Fiction / Political Allegory

Description:

Aurenfall tells the story of a wandering city built on a radical principle: stability is never free, and responsibility cannot be deferred indefinitely. For generations, the city survives by moving whenever remaining would require denying the true cost of its decisions, until an external demand forces it to confront a choice it can no longer escape. As the tower at the city’s center is opened, revealing a system designed not to grant power but to distribute accountability, Aurenfall must de...

Story Title: The Chest of the Unforgotten Truth

Level: Advanced

Genre: Mythological Fantasy / Philosophical Tragedy

Description:

The Chest of the Unforgotten Truth centers on a woman chosen not by prophecy or power, but by her capacity to remain present when consequence can no longer be deferred. Guarded by ancient witnesses and sealed within a chamber beyond time, the chest contains a truth so disruptive that the world itself was reshaped to forget it. As the woman undergoes an uncompromising trial of consent rather than courage, the story explores a universe built...

Story Title: Serathiel and the First Devotion

Level: Advanced

Genre: Mythological Fantasy / Divine Tragedy

Description:

Serathiel and the First Devotion tells the story of a goddess bound by covenant to absorb devotion without ever returning it, preserving a divine hierarchy built on asymmetry and silence. For ages, Serathiel contains the First Devotion within herself, protecting gods and mortals alike from the consequences of reciprocity, until the arrival of a mortal who offers witness without demand destabilizes the balance. As the goddess confronts the cost of containment, the story reframes love not...

Story Title: What Stayed

Level: Advanced

Genre: Contemporary Romance / Emotional Realism

Description:

What Stayed is a quiet, deeply emotional love story about two people who meet not through destiny or drama, but through shared silence and accumulated presence. Liora and Rowan form a connection built gradually, shaped by attentiveness rather than urgency, and tested not by betrayal, but by the fear of vulnerability itself. As old wounds surface and attachment becomes unavoidable, the story explores love as a conscious decision rather than an instinct, and commitment as effort rather than promise...

Story Title: The Hall of Measure

Level: Advanced

Genre: Philosophical Historical Fiction / Political Allegory

Description:

The Hall of Measure follows Princess Elowen, heir to an ancient kingdom, who rejects traditional courtship and challenges her suitors with a deliberately unresolved riddle designed to expose how they think when certainty collapses. As princes and nobles from across the known world fail by clinging to force, authority, or abstract justice, the riddle reveals itself not as a puzzle to be solved, but as a filter against those who confuse conviction with responsibility. When Corin...

Story Title: The Trench of Vows

Level: Advanced

Genre: Mythological Tragedy / Philosophical Romance

Description:

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, where light fades into memory and the sea itself seems to think, an ancient legend awakens. The Trench of Vows tells the story of Adrian Vale, a seasoned guardian of the deep, and Mira Ashbourne, a woman bound to a bloodline shaped by sacrifice. Their connection is not born from chance, but from an unfinished promise the ocean has waited centuries to complete.

As subtle changes ripple through the un...