Story By Zaram Emma
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Zaram Emma

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The Last Seat
Updated at Jun 25, 2026, 12:22
*Summary - The Last Seat*Ava Brooks transfers to Crestwood Prep Academy in Atlanta for one quiet senior year. At 18, she wants to stay invisible and graduate without drama. That plan dies when Bianca Cole — popular, perfect, and Ava’s ex-camp friend from age 13 — recognizes her on day one. When Student Council VP Noah Hart picks Ava as his $10,000 charity gala partner instead of Bianca, she takes “the last seat” at the table. Bianca, who’s tied her worth to winning since that camp abandonment, declares war. What follows is 90 chapters of sabotage, stolen ideas, group chat rumors, paint on dresses, canceled sponsors, and a gala venue locked on event day. Ava refuses to stay invisible. Noah stops being Bianca’s backup since kindergarten and starts choosing for himself. Bianca spirals, transfers to online classes, then rebuilds through therapy and her own charity work.It’s a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers story. Ava and Noah go from detention partners to rooftop forehead kisses to college long-distance. Bianca goes from rival to real apology to peace. Mrs. Hart becomes the found family Ava never had.Five years later, Ava and Noah run a charity together. Bianca shows up with her husband and child. All three hug. From camp abandonment to adult forgiveness.*Core*: In a school where everyone fights for a seat… the bravest thing is choosing yourself.
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The Boy Next Door’s Secret Crush
Updated at Jun 22, 2026, 12:35
Mia Bennett moved to Westfield High hoping to stay invisible. But when soccer captain and Student Council VP Lucas Carter picks up her dropped sketchbook on day one, quiet becomes impossible. Everyone knows Lucas is “dating” Student Council President Chloe Richards. Everyone except Lucas. Now Chloe is making Mia’s life hell, and the whole school is watching. Can the shy girl with a secret crush survive senior year without getting crushed? A clean, slow-burn romance about noticing the quiet ones. No spice, no drama bait, just heart. 70% school setting | HEA | 90 chapters
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Married to the Devil of Wall Street
Updated at Jun 17, 2026, 01:20
Elena Carter will do anything to save her brother. When loan sharks threaten Mason’s life over a two-million-dollar debt, a mysterious man appears with an offer she can’t refuse.Damian Blackwood. The “Devil of Wall Street.” Cold, ruthless, and untouchable. He offers to pay off her debt for one year of marriage.No love. No intimacy. No questions. Just four rules. And Rule 4 is the hardest: Don’t fall in love with me.A 30-chapter slow-burn contract marriage romance about a deal that was never supposed to mean anything—until it meant everything.
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I tutored the cultist that failed physics
Updated at Jun 1, 2026, 09:06
*Synopsis: _I Tutor The Cultist Who Failed Physics*_ Amara Okoro is nineteen, brilliant, and running out of time. With her mother’s hospital bill at ₦182,400 and unpaid for weeks, the first-year Physics scholar at Lagos Institute of Technology is one step away from losing the only family she has. Then Kachi Eze walks into her life. Kachi is twenty-two, a third-year student, and the most feared name on campus. He is the CEO of the Vipers, LIT’s most notorious student organization. He is also failing Physics for the second time, and his father—the university’s Pro-Chancellor—is forcing him into a marriage arranged to protect the Eze family’s reputation before a critical board election. His proposition is simple and dangerous: tutor him, help him pass, and he will pay her mother’s bill and ensure no one on campus harms her. The only condition is that she publicly pose as his girlfriend for two weeks to derail the arranged marriage. Amara signs. She has no other choice. What begins as a contract quickly becomes a fight for survival. When a staged public altercation goes viral and convinces the Dean, Amara believes her scholarship is safe. She is wrong. The Scorpions, LIT’s rival organization led by Jamal Adams, and his second-in-command, Nneka “Venom” Obi, want Kachi eliminated. Amara becomes their leverage. A falsified execution video surfaces, framing Kachi for murder. To clear his name, Amara and Kachi must hunt the informant within the university, rescue the missing witness, and expose a conspiracy linking the Dean, Venom, and Chief Eze’s political enemies to a fifty-million-naira bribe. From Benin to Abuja, from lecture halls to abandoned warehouses, Amara is pulled into a world of violence, betrayal, and institutional corruption. She learns to lie, to negotiate, and to fight—not to become like them, but to protect the people she cares about. As the danger escalates, the line between pretense and reality begins to blur. Kachi is not only a feared cult leader. He is a son trying to escape his father’s legacy, a student who studies when Amara teaches him, and a man willing to let the world condemn him if it keeps her safe. Amara is no longer just a scholar. She becomes the one person who can stop Kachi from losing himself. But choosing him comes at a price. When Chief Eze disowns Kachi and issues an ultimatum—marry the daughter of an oil magnate or lose Amara forever—Amara must decide whether to walk away to protect her family or stand with the man who would risk everything for her. Choosing him means war. It means exposing Chief Eze, dismantling a legacy built on corruption, and becoming the target of every enemy still at large. Choosing him means creating a new contract. One built on trust, not coercion. --- *Themes:* Trust versus survival, class and power, education as escape, family sacrifice, love versus legacy. *Tone:* Gritty campus thriller with slow-burn romance, sharp dialogue, and high-stakes action. *Hook:* What happens when the student who lives by the rules falls for the man who breaks them?
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