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When Zeus + Aphrodite compete in a game of, 'Who's your worst patron deity?', Helen must follow and marry a man far from her homeland of Sparta Her single goal becomes to break free from their divine influence and return to her true husband, and beloved king, Menelaus. #2025Pit #Q #A #HF

⚔️Witches with swords and compulsion magic⚔️ Fate chose wrong. Alys Sathos has no desire to free an enemy realm from their queen’s mind twisting magic. Especially not after the prince captures her when her broom crashes behind enemy lines. #2025pit #F #A #RF #ownvoice #bipocFMC

Death comes, spiraling down from on high like indignant desert birds. But Jimmy Rivers can talk to death. Sometimes, death talks back. Gideon the 9th (aesthetic) X Story of Your Life (theme) X Sandman Slim (structure) ❤️Grief 🍺Recovery 👻Spooky 🕵️‍♂️HOWdunit? 👪Family #2025PIT #F #A #ParanormalNoir

“May the path Fate pave be just.” A mute girl, a deaf boy, and a callous executioner will do whatever it takes to protect one another—or they’ll die trying. ETHEL CAIN’S “PREACHER’S DAUGHTER” X RACHEL GILLIG’s “ONE DARK WINDOW” A Silence So Divine - Gothic Fiction #2025Pit #A #SPF #D #R

CHASING GHOSTS: His brother is dead. His parents have disappeared. Then Anthony Hassan starts hearing a voice. Drawn to the mysterious town of Ash Hollow, he uncovers a dark secret—and ultimately surrenders to the voice within. The Host x Shutter Island #2025Pit #A #supernatural #mystery

DRESDEN FILES X GRAVITY FALLS Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in Bludeye Beach. 👧Character driven 🫂Found family 💕Slow burn romance 👻Monster menagerie #2025pit #A #Q #H #F

#2025pit #a #f #h Scotland, 1925: a thief must steal the English grimoire that started the apocalypse. If he refuses, he’ll be hanged for past crimes. If he succeeds, he’ll hold the most powerful book in the isles… one that might destroy him. He still has time for an affair or two.

TRIANGLE X TIMECRIMES Evan died and Rene doesn't know how to go on, now a deal with something in the woods gives him the chance to go back, for a price. Rene is willing to do anything so he and Evan can be happy ...But this story doesn't have a happy ending #YA #H #Q #ShortStory #2025pit

#2025Pit #A #D #F #H #GF #S A witch + a dystopian society + a family curse + ambition = THE TIME OF THE WICKED Ancient Ones + Whisperers + Man Eaters + Uniques = A Hidden World THE TIME OF THE WICKED is the 1st book of THE WITCH OF THE SANKUL WOODS series.

In 18th century Slovakia, a young widow murdered and turned to vampirism by a herbalist sect must confront their elusive leader to reclaim her humanity. THE HISTORIAN X A DOWRY OF BLOOD 🖤🦇🖤 Agent's guide included 📖 #2025Pit #A #E #H #HR #gothic #literary #vampire #writesky #folkhorror #LGBT 🏳️‍🌈

TENDER IS THE FLESH + THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS As a wild human, Rachel’s flesh is considered a delicacy. Captured & sold at market, her fate now rests on her ability to convince her not quite human buyer that she is worth more alive than on his dinner plate #2025Pit #Q #A #SF #H #SpecFic

ADDIE LARUE x DIVINE RIVALS x DAWSON'S CREEK When Birdie & Lennon accidentally summon a trickster god, they unknowingly tangle the invisible threads of all three. 🌿multi-POV 🌿magical take on the string theory 🌿petty gods + their politics 🌿villain-turned-softie #2025pit #a #f #r

🐦‍⬛📖 MARK OF A MAGPIE 📖🐦‍⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #2025Pit #Q #YA #F #R #RM #amquerying #DIS

Golden Girls x Jaw Breaker Rebecca is on a wine cruise in France as a substitute for her deceased mother. When bodies pile up, and blood flows like wine, she realizes her mother's Boomer mean girl squad has a secret past they'll kill to keep buried. #2025Pit #A #M #U #R

NINTH HOUSExGilmore Girls A 21st-century witch promises to help a dead 17th-century predecessor. When she learns a coven masked as a company is using her ex to hunt the ghost for a killer internship, she must delve into her haunted past to save the man she loves & her kindred spirit. #2025pit #F #A

#2025Pit TWIN PEAKS x TOMB RAIDER X JACKAL My #A #SPF #T #M has... 🤗 found family 🦌 weird stuff in the mountains 👀 fighting small town drug lords 💪 two strong female MCs dealing with their respective trauma 👻 supernatural murder ⛰️ an atmospheric town in the Blue Ridge

Bound by destiny, siblings Wren and Archer are thrust into a rising battle against the dark powers of Enwir. To survive, they must unite four strangers, each tied to an elemental stone with the power to save their world—or destroy it completely. Shadow&Bone x Stormlight Archives #2025pit #YA #F #Q

TREASURE PLANET X STARFIELD When Jak finds an ancient wrist computer with his new friend Eris—a tech prodigy—he couldn't have guessed it would tear him from his home on a pirate space station to an interstellar quest for answers about his dad's legacy, old mysteries & himself. #2025Pit #YA #SF #M

❤️ Moments of PREY = (BUFFY x GOONIES)^LOVECRAFT + ROCK N’ ROLL 🐺 🐕 Rescues & Protectors 👯‍♀️ Strong friendships 🗡️ Kickass heroines Riley & Lily (+ L is a badass LGBTQ icon) 🎸 Rockstar heart to hearts 🧪 Morgan & Grayson’s chemistry 🔥 Riley and Liam falling in love 🧍‍♂️ Healthy Masculinity #2025Pit #Q #NA

Homebody Ondra accidentally becomes a death god, including a -probably- evil shadow minion. The Empire tasks her spitfire sister Ray to fix her. Or is she too late? Gravity magic & climbing | shadow mommy | #LGBTQIA+ Cinder Spires x Witchlands #A #F #R #2025pit #amquerying #writingcommunity

PENROSE As a child, Nico watched his mother climb a staircase in the woods and vanish. Reading her journal 30 years later, he discovers a link between her disappearance & the Gilded Age mansion which burned down in those woods 100 years ago. SEA OF TRANQUILITY x PIRANESI #2025pit #A #LF #SPF

ARCANE x BEASTS OF PREY If Lux has to burn down the worlds to reclaim his freedom, he will gleefully light the match. But with a crew of underdogs at his side, now he has something to lose. 🏕️Found family 🗡️Morally grey MCs 💥Chaos magic 🐍Carnivorous forests ☠️Monsters #2025pit #ya #fa

🩸AI vampires 🚀A spaceship disguised as a castle🏰 🧠Mental health rep 🔥Cannibals with flame-thrower arms 🧑‍🤝‍🧑A cinnamon roll AI girl & hot, scrappy soldier bff duo ⚔️Medieval fantasy vibes #2025Pit #F #SF #dis #A

Giver x Scythe 17yo Orion is destined for leadership in a "perfect" future society rebuilt after the Final War. But when dark truths surface, he must choose: uphold peace built on lies or bring war to the world he was born to lead. Love, betrayal, & revolution await #2025Pit #YA #SF #Q #LGBTQ

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES X JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE w/ beach read 🧜🏼‍♀️ A scorned marine biologist turned mermaid 👑 must return to Bermuda as a human siren and seek 💀 revenge on men, guarding her ♥️ from a mystifying man on the beach, doing whatever it takes not to become a monster. #2025Pit #A #NA #CON #F

#2025pit 🇬🇷EMILY WILDE x MAMMA MIA🇬🇷 When evil Dryads abduct her friend, Kleio joins the only magicians powerful enough to defy them. But her heroes aren’t as spotless as they seem... & Kleio's unique magic could very well tip the scales in the ruthless war between magicians & Dryads. #YA #RM #F

LAST AIRBENDER x MISTBORN Ursa's best friend moved away without telling her. Oh and on the same day, Ursa's arrested for apparently being a blazing star in human form. The princess, born without that honor, rebels for her—but Ursa doesn't care about that. Just why her friend left. #YA #F #2025Pit

GIDEON THE NINTHxFFXIV When magicless Mick agrees to be an adventuring partner for Eleanor, his mage best friend (and crush), a mishap turns him into a dragon and binds him to the gods' dead adversary. Now they're rushing to break his curse before his existence triggers a war. #2025pit #F #R #A

CIRCE X ARIADNE Zeus born. Cursed. Wife. Mother. Adulteress. Downfall of Troy. Everyone always had a label for Helen, except one man: Menelaus. For the man who waged a war to rescue and bring her home, Helen was always just beloved. #2025Pit #Q #A #HF

WHTF X THE STARDUST THIEF Almas must outwit an ancient evil & unite a war-torn land—but her secrets may kill her first. ✨ Middle Eastern-inspired w/ Arab mythology ✨ Unique magic system ✨ Found family ✨ Quest for lost secrets ✨ Slowburn romance w/ fake marriage trope #2025Pit #F #YA #A #crossover

THE HONEY WITCH x LATE BLOOMER A disabled witch hires a butch grocer to help her failing apothecary, but in falling for the grocer, the witch angers the ghost haunting her shop, and, oddly, her half-satyr best friend. The Witch and The Grocer 🍇🐝 #RM #A #YA #DIS #ownvoices #2025Pit

LEGENDBORN X AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER When fighters start disappearing from an underground elemental tournament, a sixteen-year-old participant with wind powers must uncover the tournament’s secrets before she loses a match and shares their fate. #2025Pit #YA #F #Jewish

Bantering sibling airship couriers are embroiled in a plot to exterminate non-magics like the FMC, but outwitting their client will take more than swashbuckling and quirky schemes. It could cost them everything—even each other FIREFLY x FOUNDRYSIDE x DnD Movie #2025Pit #Q #F #A #NA #YA crossover

#Agents if you like the martial competition and political intrigue of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, the forbidden romance and family loyalty themes of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS, and the E2L banter of FOURTH WING, I have a book for you! ❤️‍🔥 Slow burn 🎭 Secret identity 🔪 Morally grey FMC #F #R #RM #2025pit

SHADOW AND BONE x ACOTAR When Keira's sister is captured by a shape-shifting immortal, her fate intertwines with the God of Light to rescue her; but an ancient darkness grows within Keira, and she must choose between stopping those who seek to harness it or saving those she loves #2025Pit #RM #A #F

SONG TO DROWN RIVERS x JASMINE THRONE When artistic Syrala, trapped in the palace as a pawn, discovers the queen severed her subjects’ souls to gain power, she must outwit the dynasty to reclaim her own soul–but to succeed she must betray the brooding prince she’s learning to love. #2025pit #F #A

OF WISDOM an Athena origin tale 🦉 Athena has been abandoned, cast aside on earth by a prophecy foretelling her rise to power and Zeus’ downfall. Determined to prove she isn’t a threat, Athena embarks on a journey back to Olympus, unaware every step she takes is unravelling her fate #2025Pit #HF

Blue Crush 🌊 x Sirens When wanting to drown your ex after they break your heart is a normal feeling it’s also a normal reaction in Breaker Bay 💔 And when you’re a girl gang of sirens whose love language is violence… It’s a little too normal 🧜🏼‍♀️ #2025Pit #A #SPF #F #R

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE x THORN Olivet hates her ability to “hear” stories to life almost as much as arrogant Trevethyn, but when his mistold tale wakes wildmagic and toadifies him & her sister, Olivet must use her curse to break theirs before nature itself unravels. #2025pit #A #F #retelling

PERCY JACKSON meets THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB. Ines, a young girl in a wheelchair, discovers the greek heroes aren't dead, they're just in a retirement home. When one of them is killed, she has to solve the mystey before her new friends go to war. Or break a hip. Possibly both. #2025pit #MG #F

10 years ago Hattie spent the perfect day with attractive, slightly chaotic, writer Ed. 3 years ago she tried to reconnect with him at a book signing, but he didn’t remember her. Now she agrees to spend the summer with a group of friends. Unexpectedly, one of them invited a guest—Ed. #2025pit #A #CR

'CROWSTONES' BLY MANOR X THE BEGUILED 👭Female led 👻Ghost story 🗡️Murder mystery 🏔️Remote location ❄️The hardest winter on record “Here lies a poor distressed maid. Just in her bloom she was snatched away, Her clothing made of the cold earthen clay.”’ #2025Pit #H #HF #A

WhiteSmoke xThis Wretched Valley & TheMaryShelleyClub #2025Pit 1 blue eye. 1 brown. The🗝️is in their blood—& the blood of other Founding Family descendants. The 🗝️& the danger. Morgan’s fast, but can she outrun the force plaguing her new mountain home before her family falls prey to it? #YA #H #SF #R

Lizzy, a high school freshman caught between the unraveling of her family and the trauma she carries, is going to die. After jumping from a third story balcony, Lizzy’s life flashes before her eyes as she relives the chain of events that brought her to the brink. #LF #2025PIT #CON #A #ownvoices

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #2025Pit #Q #YA #SF #LGBTQ