Story By Keturah Derko
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Keturah Derko

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Just a girlie with a whole universe living in her head and the gift to bring it to life on the page. Keturah is a storyteller in the purest sense. No filters, no formulas. Just raw imagination and creativity poured into stories that grab you from the first line and refuse to let go until the very last word. She writes for the feeling. The anticipation that keeps you reading at two in the morning. The plot twist that makes you gasp and flip back three pages. The excitement of watching everything unravel before it all comes beautifully, perfectly together. And the happy ending because every story worth telling deserves one.
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The Unbecoming
Updated at Jun 14, 2026, 07:58
She came to his office to fix what a man had broken.She didn’t expect the cure to be just as dangerous as the wound.Amanda Klein walks into therapy carrying the wreckage of a relationship that slowly dismantled her. Dr. Keller is supposed to be safe. Composed. Professional. The kind of man who has heard the worst of what people carry and never once lost his footing.He has never lost his footing.Until her.The Unbecoming is a story about the woman you become when you finally stop shrinking and the forbidden, inconvenient, utterly devastating man who sees her before she sees herself.
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From Internship to forever
Updated at Jun 14, 2026, 07:38
From Internship to ForeverA Story of Talent, Desire & the Price of FallingEllie Hartman arrived in New York City with a portfolio full of dreams and a left shoe full of rainwater.Small town. Big talent. Zero connections.She earned her spot as an intern at Hartwell & Cole the most prestigious design agency in the country purely on the strength of her work. She didn’t come from money or Manhattan or the right circles. She came from Clover Creek, population 4,200, where nobody had ever taken her seriously enough.That was about to change.Ronan Cole CEO, visionary, the kind of man whose attention feels like standing in direct sunlight notices her not because she’s the prettiest girl in the room, but because she’s the sharpest mind on his floor. And for a man who has seen everything, that is far more dangerous.What begins as stolen moments in corridors and charged exchanges over design boards slowly becomes something neither of them can explain away. Ronan is controlled, guarded, a fortress of a man but Ellie Hartman has a way of walking through walls without even trying.The problem? Ronan’s world has rules.His mother has already chosen his future a polished, pedigreed fiancée named Camille who fits perfectly into the life Victoria Cole designed for her son. The announcement is coming. The wedding is inevitable. And Ellie is just an intern from nowhere.But the heart is spectacularly bad at following rules.While Ronan fights a battle between duty and desire, Ellie is fighting her own war on the fourteenth floor. Petra Voss — beautiful, calculating, threatened — has decided that Ellie needs to be destroyed before she can rise. The bullying is quiet and surgical at first. Then it becomes something uglier. A stolen project. A plagiarism accusation that nearly ends everything.And in the middle of all of it Zane. Sweet, funny, devoted Zane, who falls for Ellie in the quiet ordinary way that good people do. Who makes Ronan’s jaw tighten every time he laughs too close to her. Who becomes the unwitting match that sets the whole thing on fire.From Internship to Forever is a slow burn epic about a girl who refused to shrink, a man who didn’t know he was drowning until she pulled him up for air, and the beautiful, messy, costly journey from I shouldn’t to I can’t stop.Themes: Ambition. Desire. Class divide. Loyalty. Betrayal. Redemption. The kind of love that ruins you for anything less.
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