Beneath the Stares

Derek Foster built a secret bed to hide beneath the woman he’s obsessed with, craving the intimacy she’ll never willingly give. But when her fiancé enters the picture, Derek’s obsession spirals into violence—and a gruesome, claustrophobic nightmare. Now, trapped with a rotting corpse and his sanity slipping, Derek realizes too late that love and madness are only a heartbeat apart.

Marcus, trapped in the shadows of his family’s cruelty and poverty, faces a nightmare when a grieving woman searching for her sons stumbles into their rural Appalachian home. As secrets unravel and violence spirals, Marcus must choose between survival and his last shred of humanity. But the cost of silence may haunt him forever.

Grace returns to her fractured family, only to find her forbidden love for Mason—her stepbrother—still burning beneath the surface. With gold-diggers circling and old wounds reopened, Grace must choose: sabotage her brother’s wedding for a shot at reclaiming her lost happiness, or finally break free from the past. But in this high-stakes game of love and legacy, nothing stays buried forever.

After losing her family in a shocking identity swap, Natalie is exiled to rural Ohio and forced to endure grueling labor and icy stares. When a mysterious string of live comments hints at a forbidden connection with her intimidating crew chief, she faces a choice: stay invisible, or risk everything for a chance at belonging—and maybe love. Will Natalie finally find a place to call home, or is she doomed to remain an outsider forever?

Derek came to Chicago chasing stardom, but found himself learning forbidden secrets from a phantom voice haunting the theater’s midnight shadows. As his talent grew, so did the chilling suspicion that the price of his gift was more than just sleepless nights—especially when his confession brought the city’s secret ghost-catchers to the stage. Now, with the truth threatening to destroy him, Derek must choose: expose the supernatural bargain or risk becoming the next legend whispered about in the dark.

When Lauren, a meticulous office worker, becomes convinced that something sinister is dripping from the ceiling, her life spirals into paranoia and fear. As her colleague tries to support her, both are drawn into a chilling mystery that threatens to unravel their sanity and their friendship. What lurks above could change everything they thought they knew about their safe, ordinary workplace.

Waking up in her old high school body, Savannah thought she’d seen it all—until Carter Reed, the school’s untamable bad boy, starts declaring she’s his wife in front of the whole school. Suddenly, her quiet do-over is hijacked by rumors, jealous rivals, and Carter’s relentless (and ridiculous) pursuit. As Carter battles Diego, the heartthrob with Ivy League dreams, Savannah’s world spirals into chaos—detentions, band-aids, luxury brands, and family dinners where Carter fits in far too well. But beneath Carter’s bravado lies a heartbreak he can’t hide and a desperate need to rewrite his own future. Is this a second chance at love, or just another high school disaster waiting to happen? When Carter finally drops his guard, will Savannah run—or realize he’s the only one she’s ever wanted?

Every dawn, Maple Heights shakes awake to the same ear-splitting chorus: one cantankerous old man, a Broadway wannabe, making sure no one gets a wink of sleep. When a battle-scarred insomniac moves in—lured by dirt-cheap rent and nothing left to lose—he finds himself at war with the neighborhood’s untouchable menace. But this isn’t just about lost sleep: the old man’s secrets run deeper, and his reign of terror has left scars on everyone around him. As petty games spiral into full-blown chaos, alliances form and the whole block watches, desperate for a hero—or at least a little peace. When revenge is the only thing keeping you awake, just how far will you go for one quiet night? Or will the noise finally break them both?

A father races against time when a sinister online threat creeps from his HOA Facebook group to his own front door. As twisted pranks turn deadly and paranoia spreads, he must protect his family from dangers lurking both online and in the halls of their new home. In a world where trust is scarce and every neighbor is a stranger, survival means questioning everything—and everyone.

When a senator’s twisted heir shatters a farm girl’s body and soul, Maple Heights turns a blind eye—except for one cop. Derek Lane is the only man ruthless enough to drag the town’s monsters into the light, even if it means taking on the Seven Stars Society and the Deacon dynasty. But as secrets bleed and power shields the guilty, can Derek bring justice to a girl whose only crime was honesty?

Everyone thinks I’m the gentle saint holding our last safe haven together—but the apocalypse has no place for saints. My mask of kindness is just that: a weapon for survival, and now a new girl with knowledge of our story wants to expose me as the villain she believes I am. When Lila, the transmigrator, arrives with future-sight and ruthless logic, she shatters my fragile community, taking my place at the center and casting doubt on my every act of mercy. But I’m not as fragile as I seem. As monsters close in and trust turns to suspicion, the lines between savior and monster blur, and even those I save begin to see what lurks beneath my smile. Will kindness be my undoing—or is the real villain the one who survives at any cost? When the new world demands monsters, how long can a saint keep her mask?

Waking up in the body of Evan Carter—the school’s straight-A legend—was supposed to be my ticket out of mediocrity. Instead, I found myself suffocating under his parents’ impossible expectations and their chilling brand of ‘love.’ Every smile hides a threat, every meal is a test, and every mistake earns bruises—sometimes on my body, always on my spirit. As I stumble through Evan’s glass-box life, I uncover secrets about Mason Carter, the boy now living in my skin—and the ugly truth about what it really means to be ‘perfect.’ When my desperate acts spiral into public chaos and humiliation, I realize escaping this nightmare might cost more than I ever imagined. Can I outwit the parents who control everything, reclaim my life, and help Mason before we both lose ourselves forever? Or is this body swap the cruelest lesson of all?