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HoliDAZED & Confused by Pillow_Queen, SaraNova for narkynatalie
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
14 Jan 2026
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Violet Sorrengail hates the holidays in the best of times. But this year, it's worse than ever. After she loses her job, her boyfriend, and her apartment, Violet is forced to return home for the holidays to the small town, and the life, she left behind a decade ago. But when an accident steals her memory her first day back, she's gifted a second chance at happiness with the boy who captured her heart over ten years ago. And maybe, just maybe, she'd stolen his too.
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07 Jan 2026
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At 25, crime beat reporter Violet Sorrengail is already one of the most accomplished journalists in California, with an investigation into bribery at the LAPD gaining her national attention and fancy job offers in New York. But a panicked phone call from a source leaves her rattled — and seeking answers she can’t hope to get with a press badge hanging around her neck when they're found dead.
LAPD Detective Xaden Riorson is fighting a losing battle. The Aretia Hills Station he practically grew up in is crumbling under the weight of understaffing, gangs that seem to become more emboldened by the day, and distrust from the people he’s sworn to protect. Worse, he's being saddled with training a reporter who thinks she's a cop while the gang that bribed the station's officers continues running rampant.
Xaden and Violet couldn't be more diametrically opposed, and their partnership couldn’t get off to a worse start. But as Violet begins to uncover how the scandal that led her to the LAPD isn’t as black-and-white as she’d always believed, Xaden starts to suspect that there is something she — and the LAPD — is hiding.
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Violet does exactly what she's told not to do in every universe, part infinity
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01 Dec 2025
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Violet had the worst first day ever. First, spilled coffee, then a not so expected baby! Her boss's baby.
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29 Nov 2025
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At 18, Xaden's future is bright. He's following in his father's footsteps, his friends are more like family, and he has a girl he loves more than anything.
At 33, Xaden has it all, on the outside looking in. He's a firefighter. His friends are more than family. He has a beautiful woman on his arm. But he's drowning in recent grief, his father is long since gone, and the girl he loved more than anything? He hasn't seen her in 15 years.
When she's suddenly back in his life, can he find a way back to himself? Can he find a way back to her?
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- Part 1 of From The Embers
- Part 1 of From The Embers
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29 Nov 2025
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A modern, "Dancing with the Stars" style story featuring: Violet, the new pro trying to prove herself and secure a permanent spot on the show, and Xaden, notorious playboy forced to be there by his PR team to improve his image after a recent scandal.
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28 Nov 2025
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Cheerleader Violet Sorrengail is having the worst day, all thanks to the piece of paper weighing her down. She'd like a quiet night in her apartment, but luck is not on her side—there's a home game tonight.
College football punter Xaden Riorson is pumped up and ready for the night! The excitement, the nerves are all combining in a perfect storm to make tonight the best game ever! Best of all, if they win, they'll finally make the playoffs.
A freak incident will combine their lives and meld their souls in ways neither of them expect.
This is a Modern Soulmate AU written for the Word Scramble Challenge.- Language:
- English
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- 12,425
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- 9/14
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29 Oct 2025
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”You’re a single mom. I’m a single dad. Us single parents need to look out for one another.”
Violet knew Xaden was right in principle, but he wasn’t just any other single dad. He was the father of her favorite student, and the man she thought she’d never see again, when she left all those years ago.
But here he was - shirtless. In her kitchen.
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Prequel to ‘Here we are (no one else)’ but told from Violet’s POV. The timeline will eventually converge and can be read in tandem, but both works can be read as standalones.Series
- Part 2 of But still I’ll find you there
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28 Oct 2025
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All Violet really wants is a little relief.
Newly bonded and channeling pure dragon lust thanks to Tairn, she heads to the Infantry Quadrant in search of her boyfriend Halden—only to find him in bed with someone else.
Lucky for her, her stupidly attractive wingleader has no problem stepping in. Determined to show her a better time than her ex, Xaden makes it his mission to help her hit that high—again, and again, and again.
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What if Halden and Violet never broke up and are still dating during her first year? And what if she finds out he’s cheating and Xaden is there to help her get over it?
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- English
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- 9/10
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26 Oct 2025
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The heat is on full blast for Xaden and Violet when they meet at a fundraiser, unable to keep their eyes off each other. He’s a firefighter. She’s a journalist. And their pull? It’s undeniable. Throw in an ice bath that Xaden just can’t help but join her in, and the flames are fanned, the burn between them inevitable.
But family names and buried secrets might just put out the fire before it can even begin to take hold…
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26 Oct 2025
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26 Oct 2025
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He promised her forever, and then an accident steals his memory. She takes a chance … even if it means living a lie. So who cares that he dumped her? That’s just a *small* technicality that he doesn’t even remember. All is fair in love and war.
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14 Oct 2025
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Med school is hell. Being broke is worse. Violet’s solution? Make a deal with the devil — and he answers to Riorson.
But when their worlds collide, Violet learns this deal is about more than money — it’s about power, politics, and survival. Oh and the fact she wants to climb that man like a tree.
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02 Oct 2025
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In the cutthroat world of family law, two rival divorce attorneys find themselves on opposing sides of a bitter, high-stakes court battle.
For attorney Violet Sorrengail, this case is deeply personal: her client's husband is a face from her past—the man who scorned her years ago. As she faces off against her rival, the sharp and handsome Xaden Riorson, a new tension emerges.
It's a clash of wills and intellect that sparks an undeniable attraction, turning a professional rivalry into a dangerous game where lines are about to blur.
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- English
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- 27/27
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02 Oct 2025
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Xaden and Violet can barely stand to be in the same room, let alone under the same roof. She’s a tightly wound know-it-all, bound to rules and order. He’s arrogant, rebellious, and insufferably unruffled.
The only thing they’ve ever had in common? Liam and Jesinia.
Now, grief has tied their lives together in ways neither of them wanted. Can they set aside the past?
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- Part 1 of The Years
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24 Sep 2025
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“Why didn’t you tell us Brennan? Me or Mira? You left us in Navarre in ignorance for the last six years.”
But what if he did tell her? Or better yet, what if Brennan took his sister from Navarre after his ‘death’?
This is the story of how it would have been so much different.- Language:
- English
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- 5/?
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18 Sep 2025
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Violet Sorrengail just wants to survive her first summer back at Aretia in nearly two years.
Older now, with new fears and new grief, she worries how she'll find her way back. But when she returns, the mountain is the same, with its cool, fresh air. The cabins still have graffiti-covered rafters and creaky floors. And there is Xaden Riorson, still shooting her glares and wicked grins from across the dining hall.
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Xaden's frozen, his gaze midnight, flickering over my loose, mused hair. His eyes snag on the beginnings of a braid. I huff, shooting him a look and dropping the strands I’ve been trying to weave again. “Today it's just not cooperating.”
His smile is sly as he meets my gaze in the mirror. “Let me.” I flash a disbelieving look as he steps forward, hands wide in an appeasing gesture. “I lived with Sloane for nearly a decade. I can French braid, or Dutch if you’d prefer.” He quirks his brow at me in our reflections, and truly, how is this man allowed to exist?
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- Part 1 of Camp Aretia
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17 Sep 2025
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Companion piece to Love You To The Moon and Back
A look into the minds and lives of our favorite characters in this piece.
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- 38,548
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- 15/?
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17 Sep 2025
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Violet Sorrengail just wants to get over now ex-boyfriend and the fact that he cheated on her for months. Xaden Riorson just wants to enjoy a single night of freedom away from the chains of the Riorson family business.
When they wake up married…it’s a good thing annulments are easy to get, right? Except…maybe she wants her ex-boyfriend to suffer, just a little and Xaden? Well, he's not complaining.
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"Last night we had mind-blowing, life-altering sex.” He nips at my earlobe. “And I don’t plan on forgetting you anytime soon.”- Language:
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17 Sep 2025
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Four hundred years ago, Navarre leadership chose to not hide the existence of the venin. Instead, they aid Poromiel in the fight for the Continent.
We step into this alternate universe as Xaden, fierce rider and Duke of Tyrrendor, meets Violet for the first time. Without the secret of the venin, she excelled in the scribe quadrant to become its leader, and she journeys to Aretia to offer him something he never dreamed of. Her arrival and brilliant mind send him reeling, ensnaring him in a way that feels as if it was simply inevitable.
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- Part 1 of The Duke and the Scribe
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16 Sep 2025
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Hiraeth by Bonami27
Fandoms: Fourth Wing, Iron Flame - Fandom, Onyx Storm - Fandom, The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
13 Nov 2025
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hiraeth (n) | /ˈhɪərʌɪθ/): a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home that maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for lost places in your past.
Violet and Xaden's story. Two souls. One fate. A love that defies even destiny itself.
Soulmate/Starcrossed Lovers AU.
- Language:
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- 153,236
- Chapters:
- 83/?
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16 Sep 2025