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Ten years ago, mana descended upon Earth in the form of Gates that opened into other worlds. These Gates contained Magical Beasts of unfathomable strength and power that preyed upon humans and sought the destruction of everything around them. But along with the Gates, humans gained the power of Gifts—super abilities that allowed them to fight back against the monsters and take back their world. Now, the Superhumans with Gifts are tasked with defending the people and ensuring that the Gates, which open all over the world, do not bring about the end of them all. ... Jason Marc was just your regular seventeen-year-old high school student whose father abandoned him ten years ago. He worked two part-time jobs while also helping his mom with her diner to aid with the finances, but he could have never guessed that his entire world would change on the eve of his eighteenth birthday. Now, with more power than any one man should possess and an army at his beck and call, Jason works toward protecting those close to him while finding out the truth behind the emergence of the Gates—and preventing the end of the world.

Frank, Timothy and Papa Bear… FrankLy, they were all good men - ambitious and honorable. But then, Lydia entered their lives and charmed their hearts with her honesty, integrity and charisma. The honorable men became more ambitious. Thus began the war of the few good men who were Greedy for Love and Love for Money.

Aiden thought losing Liner was the end of his world. Isolated, heart heavy, and nursing old wounds, he never expected the night at a club to change everything. That’s when he meets Damien — one half of a mysterious twin pair, charming yet unpredictable. As their lives intertwine, Aiden discovers that love can heal… but also destroy. Can he navigate the chaos Damien brings, or will his heart break all over again? Heartbreak has a way of leaving scars… “He broke my heart… then he entered my life.”

"I was paid to be his wife. Now I might pay with my life." Maya is a struggling actress with a debt that could get her killed. When a mysterious handler offers to wipe her slate clean, she accepts without asking questions. The job sounds simple enough: Impersonate Elena Vance, a missing billionaire heiress who looks exactly like her. All Maya has to do is wear the diamonds, sign the merger papers, and play the part of the ice queen for a few weeks. But she didn't read the fine print. She isn't just stepping into a life of luxury, she is stepping into a lion's den. Elena’s husband is Julian Thorne, the most ruthless CEO in New York, and he doesn't just hate his wife, he despises her. Maya expects a cold war. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a golden cage with a man who is as dangerous as he is devastatingly handsome. As she struggles to keep up the charade, Julian starts to notice that his "wife" has changed. The ice is melting. The hatred is turning into a dark, forbidden heat that neither of them can control. But the walls of the mansion have eyes. Maya soon realizes that Elena didn't just run away. Someone in the house tried to kill her. Now Maya is sleeping next to a man who might be a murderer, playing a game where one slip-up means death. Can she find out who wanted Elena dead before they realize she’s a fake? Or will falling in love with her husband be the mistake that destroys them both?

Dr. Nina Reeves was drowning until a billionaire sociopath taught her that good people don't win, they just die poor. This dark romance psychological thriller follows a brilliant criminal psychologist whose ethical world shatters when Zachary Hale walks into her office for court-mandated therapy. He's a tech mogul, diagnosed sociopath, and the most dangerous man she's ever met, not because he's violent, but because he sees her hunger for power before she admits it exists. In this enemies-to-lovers corruption arc with morally grey characters, Nina discovers that being good kept her drowning in debt while her father died of cancer. Zachary offers her everything: $500,000 salary, her father's treatment covered, and partnership in building a criminal empire where psychological manipulation is the ultimate weapon. This billionaire romance with dark mafia undertones isn't about redemption; it's about revelation. Every corporate crime Nina helps orchestrate, every corrupt politician she coaches, every enemy she destroys using her psychology expertise, she becomes more of who she was always meant to be. The possessive obsessive male lead doesn't fix her. He frees her. Fans of antiheroine stories, forbidden therapist-patient relationships, and office romance gone criminal will devour this contemporary romantic suspense. It portrays a strong female lead who chooses darkness actively, not as trauma response. The forced proximity of therapy sessions becomes a twisted courtship where power dynamics shift, ethics crumble, and love looks like obsessive possession. With fast-paced chapters ending in cliffhangers, this dark thriller romance explores whether corruption is freedom when the alternative is helplessness. The FBI is closing in, former friends become enemies, and Nina must choose: return to powerless goodness or embrace becoming Zachary's perfect partner in every criminal sense. Warning: Contains morally complex characters, criminal activity, manipulation, and a love story with no redemption arc. Just pure, unapologetic descent into darkness.

Everything was going on well until the night before her wedding, Lin Shuyin’s fairytale life suddenly crumbled from her fiancé's call, dragging her to reality... Her fiancé abandons her for her stepsister, her father and stepmother escape, abandoning her to fend off the reporters and media, and by morning, she’s framed for her grandmother’s murder. Thrown into a cruel underground prison, she dies beaten and broken. But death is only the beginning. An ancient soul awakens within her, a woman who spent a century trapped in a lab, experimented on, and injected with beast blood. When her soul awakens, the weak and naive Shuyin is gone. In her place rises someone colder, sharper… unstoppable. Then comes Lu Yuze, her ex-fiancé’s uncle, a man wrapped in secrets and power. He saves her from the abyss, but not for free. His price? Her blood, and her bone marrow… to save his dying daughter. The only thing Lu Shuyin wanted was revenge, and asked for a contract marriage, and money, these were the most important things to survive out there... In a world where betrayal runs deep, love becomes the most dangerous experiment of all. She’s no longer the victim. She’s the revenge they never saw coming.

“Only Haki can stand above everything else.” This was the supreme creed of the Great Route’s gold-medal lecturer, “Hundred Beasts” Kaido, a truth worshipped by countless people. But Roy did not agree. “Then let me ask you this... If there were an ability user who could analyze and collect all Devil Fruit powers, and who was unaffected by Seastone or seawater… couldn’t he rely on Devil Fruits alone to reach the pinnacle of this sea?” To prove his belief, Roy took action. Many years later. The Red Line, the Holy Land Mary Geoise, was engulfed in raging flames. Above Pangaea Castle, the one responsible stood calmly in the sky. A pristine white Marine cloak fluttered violently in the wind. “Are you going to make an enemy of the world?” The World Nobles demanded. Roy only bared his teeth in a grin. “Wasn’t I already an enemy of the world?” He smiled. Those who followed him stepped forward from behind. The figures at the front caused the entire scene to fall into dead silence. Everyone recognized them. They were the terrifying powerhouses who had risen suddenly to fame across the seas in recent years. Among them were assassins, revolutionaries, pirates, merchants, doctors… Without exception, they were all top-tier ability users, and all belonged to the same organization. It was said that this organization had a mysterious leader, the most dangerous criminal on the seas today. And now, the truth was obvious. “Y-You are…” The new legend of the Marines. The most dangerous criminal on the sea. From the very beginning, the two had always been the same person. His name was... Roy·Amos.

“911, what’s your emergency?” “Help… I think I just killed somebody.” Sasha Peters never imagined that leaving Africa after the deaths of her mother and brother would lead her into another tragedy. Trying to rebuild her life in a new city, she meets Ethan Grant, the charismatic grandson of the town’s mayor. He’s everything she never thought she’d find again — comfort, love, belonging. But Ethan’s world isn’t what it seems. Behind his perfect smile hides a family web of secrets, power, and corruption. When Sasha finds herself standing over a lifeless body, blood on her hands, she must decide: is she a victim of love… or its killer? In a story of passion, betrayal, and the thin line between love and destruction, Forever Always asks — how far would you go for the person who made you feel alive again?

Kael Shadowborne has one purpose: kill without question. Raised by the Veil—a ruthless assassination guild—he's been forged into the perfect weapon. His elemental shadow magic makes him unstoppable, his loyalty absolute. On his eighteenth birthday, he receives his first S-rank mission: assassinate Aldric Thornhaven, the charismatic young leader uniting the war-torn Eastern Principalities against the corrupt Continental Empire. The infiltration is flawless. The blade is steady. Then Kael sees his target's sleeping face—and it's his own. Aldric isn't just similar. He's identical. A mirror reflection that shouldn't exist. When Aldric wakes and doesn't call for guards but instead whispers, "Brother?" everything Kael believed shatters. They're twins, torn apart as infants when assassins slaughtered the royal Thornhaven family. Kael was stolen and raised to destroy everything Aldric fights to rebuild. Now Kael must choose: complete his mission and murder the only family he has left, or betray the Veil and face their wrath. But the Veil doesn't forgive traitors. And Aldric's brilliant strategist—the ice-cold Lady Seraphina Vale—watches Kael with emerald eyes that see through every lie, her blade always ready to protect her prince. As war erupts and the Veil's true apocalyptic plan unfolds, Kael discovers his shadow magic isn't just elemental power—it's forbidden divine magic, the same force that destroyed the old gods. He and Aldric are the last vessels of opposing divine powers, prophesied to either save the world or annihilate it. Blood calls to blood. Destiny demands sacrifice. And love blooms in the space between assassin and protector, shadow and light.

Five years ago, Damian Lockwood lost everything his empire, his name, and his dignity after being betrayed and framed by his fiancée Vanessa and half-brother Ethan. Forced into hiding, he lived as a humiliated live-in son-in-law in the Reyes family, enduring daily scorn from everyone except Bella, the kind-hearted daughter who quietly cared for him. Now, Damian has returned as an unstoppable billionaire tycoon. With unmatched power and loyal allies by his side, he crushes his enemies one by one in ruthless revenge. To secure his comeback, he offers Bella a contract marriage for convenience. But as they live together, fake feelings turn real. Amid jealousy, schemes, and deadly threats, Damian discovers that the woman who stood by him when he had nothing is the only one he’ll ever want. A thrilling tale of sweet revenge, rising power, and a love that heals a broken king.

Code: Doomsday. Everyone becomes statues. Some become Knights. Some become Monsters. And the battle between Knights and Monsters is inevitable. Whoever loses will be afflicted with Lifeless Syndrome, and whoever wins will control the world. Kira Rainhard, trapped in Code: Doomsday, rises as Aigis's Representative to avenge the Monsters who caused his mother's Lifeless Syndrome. Kira thought the Monsters were otherworldly beings wreaking havoc on the world. However, the Monsters are actually humans living in the same world as him. Political leaders, religious leaders, the mafia, and even shady businessmen exist in a world fragmented by the chaos known as Code: Doomsday.

“Mommy!! Daddy’s new mate said she’s having a baby. Does that mean he won’t want us anymore?” little Colin cried, clinging to my legs. “Mommy! That rude lady said Daddy doesn’t love us.” my twin Amy whispered, her lips trembling. I looked up from my sobbing children at my Alpha King mate, who had come chasing after them once his so-called mate had hurt them. "She’s pregnant? You told me she was just a fling," I choked. "You and the kids will never lack luxury or comfort," he uttered, refusing to meet my gaze. So that was his excuse? That was his answer to cheating? “You’ve already lost me. Now you’ve lost your children too. We’ll live better without you, and one day you’ll regret losing us.” The moment I said it, his eyes finally met mine, they were wet too. "Alpha King Kash, I reject you!" I hissed. .. Iris thought she had the perfect mate until she caught her Alpha husband cheating. Heartbroken and pregnant, she ran away, hiding in the woods with her unborn pups. Years later, Iris returned to the werewolf world, not as a weak Luna, but as a mother and a woman determined to take her place. But her Alpha had already married his mistress. When he discovered that Iris had left with his children, rage and regret consumed him. Now torn between betrayal and love, Iris faced a choice: protect her babies and destroy the mate who broke her, or risk giving him a second chance.

[WARNING! MATURE CONTENT] "Act like I'm the only one, Yuki." Trapped within the walls of a brothel that sells both her bodies and dreams, Yuki clings to a hope that one day, someone will take her away from that place. So when Ivanovich—a dangerous man more accustomed to killing someone than showing tenderness—begins to hire her privately, Yuki thought there was still hope for her to escape from that hellhole. Despite the danger of loving someone as important as Ivanovich, Yuki couldn't help but get drawn deeper into his life.

One day, she was Samantha Lim, a contemporary woman worn out by the unrelenting grind of the twenty-first century. Reinn, the only daughter of the powerful Hylde Duchy, is well-known for two things: her voracious thirst for attractive men and her family's ferocious lion insignia. However, the "new" Reinn's objective is different. She wants nothing more than peace, quiet, and a pleasant retirement because she was burned out in her prior life. But it's difficult to live a "peaceful life" when you've already told your parents that you would go after the most dangerous man in the empire. At first, Reinn pursued him solely to fulfill her "character's" reputation for pursuing attractive men. However, the dynamic changes when Samantha's contemporary humor and "don't-care" demeanor take the place of Reinn's typical outbursts.

[UNIQUE CLASS] [Monster Innkeeper] [Welcome to the Arx Inn system] Luke was summoned accidentally into another world alongside his two friends. Unlike them, who received heroic class, he was given a strange role, managing an inn reserved for monsters, demons, and other creatures. But Luke discovered that life in this new world wasn’t as bad as he feared. He gained allies, friends, and loyal monsters. His days felt safe and peaceful, focused only on running a successful business and dreaming of a quiet life with wealth and stability. Yet Luke’s dream shattered when the Demon King who was supposed to be defeated by his two friends, began interfering with his life. And he realized he could never rest easy until the Demon King was destroyed.

Isla Kim, head of marketing, is in a tight spot. Her mother’s medical bills are piling up, and one desperate night, she takes a temporary escort gig. The man she meets? Her CEO, Damien Frost. He’s precise, cold, and for the first time, intrigued. Seeing potential in her intelligence, discretion, and… compatibility, he offers her a contract: marry him, carry his heir, and the company will ensure her debts and family are taken care of. Isla knew it was a bad idea, but what could she do? Her mother's life was on the line. ------- Damien Frost has everything: wealth, power, a company that bends to his will… except for one thing. His family demands an heir, and no matter how many therapists he consults, nothing works. Until he sees her. One glance, one subtle move, and he’s intrigued in a way he can’t explain. But she’s his employee, and he is a CEO who doesn’t mix business with pleasure… or at least, that’s what he tells himself. One contract. One child. One rule: keep it professional. But every look, every interaction, draws them closer to a line neither of them thought they’d cross. Snippet: "Ms Kim this, Ms Kim that. You've never said my name before." "I'm trying to be professional. Something you clearly don't understand else you wouldn't be sitting here in this ridiculous outfit at a bar of all places." "Wow, professionalism." I rolled my eyes sarcastically. "You call leah by her name... why isn't that an issue." "That's..." "Different. I know. She's been your assitant for nearly a decade while I'm the girl you hired to give you babies." "You're more than just that to me, Ms-" He swallowed the last words but I heard them. A bitter laugh escaped my lips and raised my head, blinking away the tears that threatened to fall. "You won't even say it." I spoke in a low voice, scared of the words ready to be ripped out of my mouth, and the emotions they brought. "I know this is just a deal and I shouldn't expect more from you than you've given me... but can't I be selfish enough to ask for that one thing?" "I... I can't say it." "Yeah, no shit." I scoffed bitterly, standing up in my broken heels and messed up dress. I couldn’t be in his presence a second longer or I'd break. "I can't say it because I don't want our relationship to be more personal than it is." He yelled before I could leave. "Personal? Personal! I'm supposed to have your child Mr Frost, it doesn't get more personal than that." A beat of silence stretched and he released a heavy sigh, extendjng an arm toward me. "Let's just go home, we can talk about this later." "No." I shook my head violently, tears spilling from them. "I'll go home. You can go fuck yourself... and Leah while you're at it." Part of me wanted to turn back to see if he was chasing after me, or even contemplating doing it. But I couldn't face yet another rejection in the same night. I walked and walked until my feet felt heavy and by the time I reached my house, there was no one behind. "Of course, what did I expect?" To Damien Frost, I'm nothing but a tool.

**Contain Mature Content, Please read wisely** Fired after being slandered by his ex-wife, Atreus's life feels shattered. His wife's betrayal with her boss at work cost him all his possessions, including custody of his child. He even feels like a failure because his child hates him, influenced by his ex-wife's slander. In the midst of his downfall, Atreus reads a book left behind by his late parents, which leads him to be transmigrated to an ancient kingdom era as Baron Atreus Vermillion, an orphan whose lands are about to be seized by robbers. Living as Baron Atreus, accompanied by a tall, beautiful, and sexy loyal maid named Leysha who agrees to be his wife, he begins his new life as a wizard to defend his lands and vows to become the ruler of his new world!

BLURB: “We are sorry Maria, we never meant to hurt you. Come back to us!" They all thundered. But it was too late, I was determined to make them Pay. *** I am Maria Moon, casted out of my Pack at the age of eighteen. All because of a tradition— one that states, that which ever family the Alpha's mate comes from, any other female wolf of same status is cast out. But it all felt wrong, It wasn't supposed to be me but her— my step sister— Patricia Moon. “I, Darren Copper, Alpha of the Frost moon pack, hereby declare that Maria Moon is no longer a member of this pack!” I pleaded for them to see the truth but no one cared, they were all blinded by their love for her. I became a rogue, wandered about for days and was unfortunate to attacked by the older rogues. And even more unfortunate to be saved by the quadruplet Alpha's, my Pack rival Alpha's. *** “Isn't she the Beta's daughter of Frost moon pack?" Damien growled as he turned to his brothers. “Definitely, she looks the same even after five years!" Adrien replied as he squatted, cupping my chin harshly on his palm. “She is definitely a spy, let's kill her!" Davian roared, stretching his claws, his stance ready to slaughter. “Don't Davian!" Aidan the oldest amongst the quadruplet echoed, “That’s all the more reason we should keep her close, letting her die is to easy.” He turned to the guards beside him, “Take her to the Pack, she is our Personal maid." Adrien chuckled lightly, a sly smirk appearing across his lips. “Nice idea Aidan. We would make her suffer!" CONTENT WARNING. This book contains explicit scenes, abuses, graphic violence and dark obsessive romance. Readers discretion advised.

“Ruling is the duty of oversight, to oversee instead of create. To govern instead of live. It came with power and prestige, with obligation and responsibility. Soldiers fought and farmers farmed, but to be King is to rule. To maintain the illusion of power one’s forefathers had built. Marcus didn’t care for any of it. He saw magic when he first opened his eyes, and nothing else ever compared. But the King is old and he an only child. Decisions had to be made. Important, hard decisions. No one expected much of him. Not in regards to anything but magic. They were right not to. Until the cube. Until it taught him what life meant for people not born into nobility, and that all his skill with the arcane did not make him immortal. That running from problems did not, in fact, make them go away. Marcus Sepsimus Lannoy—Marcus to the friends he did not have—touched something he should not have on the day he planned to run from his problems.” Inspiration taken from The Menocht Loop, A Practical Guide to Evil and everything else I have ever read in my life. But mostly the first two, though not overly much from either. Concepts and the like. I hope to do them justice. Am I rambling? I feel like I’m rambling.