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John Zegrus is a dead man. At least, according to the outside world. As he found himself thrown into the city of Lily, he realized that the fallen city was more than meets the eye. He was immediately recruited by a powerful witch as her assistant in her agency, The Night Parade. Will he be able to cope with her demands while trying to maintain his self-discipline?! Or will he fall for indulging his overpowered abilities!

DARK ROMANCE DISCLAIMER! This story features a male lead who is far from a gentleman. His love is obsessive, manipulative, possessive, and all-consuming. If you are looking for a fairytale, this isn’t it. As a Mafia romance, this story involves criminal elements and morally grey (or black) actions. You may find certain themes or behaviors difficult; if these tropes are not to your taste, I kindly suggest you skip this one. Includes super explicit steamy scenes (which will be marked with warnings). I welcome constructive critiques, but please keep the comment section respectful. R18 | Reader discretion is heavily advised. Proceed only if you enjoy pure, manipulative dark romance. ~~~~~~ I loathed those dark eyes. Not a day or night passed without them haunting me like restless ghosts on a rampage. Even as I stood there defiantly glaring at him, they seemed to bore into my mind, body, and soul. I hated them. I despised them. "You spoke out of turn, sweetheart." His infuriatingly deep voice shattered the flame igniting in my body. "I don't want you kneeling. I want you standing exactly like this... angry, defiant, and unbroken. So you understand that even at your strongest... you're still mine." "And if I don't want to be? Will you destroy me?" Defiant was my middle name, and I would live up to it or die trying. "That doesn't scare me." A slow smile I knew all too well touched his mouth, but it did not unnerve me one bit. I had seen too much of his ruthlessness to be deterred by that dark, devoted, yet terrifying smirk. "I would destroy the world first. But if it came to you?" He leaned in, his words brushing my ear like a promise and a threat intertwined. "I'd ruin you... and call it mercy." ***** For three years, Isabella was married to one of the richest men in America. But their marriage was anything but loving; to be precise, it was a contract. When the time finally came to an end, she walked away exactly as the agreement demanded. Gabriel Smith let her go, certain that the "little Isabella" he knew had nowhere else to turn. He expected her to come crawling back the moment she faced the cruelty of the real world, a decision that would become his greatest regret. Instead, Isabella disappeared back into a past Gabriel knew nothing about, leaving him to now chase her, but only to find her in another man's arms.

It’s the age of superhumans! Genetic modifications, Cybernetic enhancements, magic enchantments- the choice is yours! For the right price, you can rise above the masses and gain power only ever seen in myths! For the right price! No matter how far humanity advances, power will always fall in the hands of the wealthy few. It was a truth Dante learned at a very young age and with it came a burning hatred for those who use power to oppress and dominate. The flames grew stronger once he found himself faced with the cruelty of those who rule from above. Left all alone in the world, robbed of everyone he cherished, Dante swore revenge on those who hurt him, but true power couldn’t be fought with hatred alone. In his search for a weapon that could help him take his revenge, Dante crosses paths with a certain Artifact, his fate taking a turn he could never have anticipated. =================================== This is not a Fan Fic. Check out my other works: Valkyrie Smash.

Althea Nocturne is nothing but a wolfless omega rejected by her Alpha mate and framed for murdering his unborn heir. With a pack baying for her blood and nowhere left to run, she flees into the one place no wolf dares tread: the Red Mist, where the Hellhound of the North makes his den. Thorne Vargan is a creature of shadow and vengeance, the son of a Witch Luna burned alive by Althea's own mother. He swore to destroy everyone responsible and when Morgana's daughter stumbles bleeding into his hellish domain, he sees his chance. He claims her as a captive. As the perfect tool to gut the pack system from within. But the bond doesn't care about his plans for retribution. It doesn't care that she's the daughter of his enemy. It thrums for her with a fury that threatens to consume them both Her scent tempts the beast he's barely controlling, her fear feeds something he thought long dead while she bears secrets that could unravel everything he's built. And while Thorne keeps her caged, the Alpha she fled is coming. He wants his little omega back. But Thorne isn't letting her go. — ~Excerpt~ "Because," he said, his voice dropping to a husky growl that made my core clench, "my restraint is going to shatter if you keep touching me." The words hung in the air between us. I looked down, following his gaze, and saw it, the unmistakable bulge pressed against his pants, hard and straining. My pheromones. They were affecting him. "I would like to take you up on your offer," he muttered, his voice rugged, tipping into ravenous. Confusion whirled through me. "What offer?" "The kiss," he whispered. "Not a peck, Thea." My heart ceased beating, liquid fire filling my veins. "I want tongue.” — Dark paranormal romance Morally Grey ML Forced proximity Captor/Captive ENEMIES to lovers Fated mates Angst Smut

The story revolves around Nazli, who worked as a prostitute in a nightclub. She stole a magical book that turned her into a servant of the underworld and a mediator between high-ranking figures under a false identity. This led her to enter the depths of the game. However, in the end, she loses the game, loses her Jennifer persona, and returns to being Nazli, the prostitute. . . . . You will find exclusive characters and scenes from the novel: . . . TIKTOK ACCOUNT : https://bit.ly/3N4zbMV

It's any otaku's dream to become an OP powerhouse and wipe the competition with ease, to be as good as some of the greats, like sung jin wo or rimuru, this mc wanted nothing more than to be like those, and in his dreams he was faced with a question. If you had the chance to turn it all around, a chance to take a moment and become god, would you take it? to have all the riches you can possibly muster, to have gold you couldn't spend in your lifetime or a legacy that would transcend you're already infinite life. Would you grasp that moment by the horns and never let go. Can you become God of this forsaken world?

Rated 16+ This novel contains themes of dark romance and psychological thriller elements, featuring a morally complex protagonist and a dangerously devoted lover. This isn’t the average romance novel. This will make you gasp, yell and scream! Xoxo *"* In a world where being alpha, beta, or omega decides your power, status, and whole life, nothing is fair. Alpha detective Daniel hunts the Dollmaker, a killer who kidnaps omegas, breaks them, and poses them like broken dolls. The Dollmaker also takes money from weak omegas who want to destroy powerful alphas and betas who break the law. After Daniel rescues Sky from an abduction. He can’t let Sky go back to danger. Sky is clingy and sweet. His touches slowly heal Daniel’s lonely, broken heart. His dying mother loves BL novels and omegaverse stories. Her last wish: Daniel must marry a man and have a child to honor her dream. If he refuses, she will make sure his father cuts him out of the family money and destroys his FBI job. Sky’s controlling parents see him as a way to climb higher. They demand he traps a strong alpha protector or they will abandon him completely. What happens when the killer Daniel is supposed to be hunting ends up on his own bed?

"You really think you can just hide forever? From them? From me?" "Do you really think we can be together?" she whispered, her voice rougher than she meant. "No. We can't. It just won't work." Zayden tilted his head, his thumb brushing against the frantic pulse under her jaw. "Why?" His voice dropped low, dangerously smooth. "Why can't we make this work, huh?" She swallowed, the movement making her throat press harder against his hand. "Don't forget, You're----" “Say you love me…. Or I’ll fvck that stubbornness right out of you. Bend you over this desk, and make you scream my name until you forget your own." Aylin's face turned beet red. She pushed against his chest forcefully. He didn't move an inch. ***** Aylin Monroe Alston is a brilliant hacker and martial artist with Turkish roots. She can change her identity and her looks as easily as changing clothes. Always staying a step ahead of death, she had been on the run until she crashed into him. Zayden Cole Virelli is a billionaire leading a double life. On one side, he is a successful businessman; on the other, he is a powerful mafia king. Women don’t exist in his world until a runaway hacker crashes into him, capturing his thoughts and refusing to leave his mind. A collision in a dark forest leads to one lie he told and one secret she kept. Now, the most feared man alive wants her, while the woman who can bring down empires with just her keyboard wants nothing to do with him. He’s possessive, she’s untouchable, and they’re both liars. Two worlds collided: a hacker who can take down empires and the mafia king who won’t let her go. Can their love make it through the mess they're about to create, or will one of them get hurt first? WARNING!!!! - Mature Themes - He Fell First and Harder - Mafia World - Weak to Strong - Slow burn

Horrible Accident? Check Otherworldly Soul Yeeting? Check Taking over some schmuck's body who died around the same time? Check Unable to cultivate because the aforementioned schmuck's constitution is all messed up? Double Check In the world of Valresta where the great and powerful cultivate an energy called aether to get to where they are, Zhen Liu (Thomas Lee) is physically unable to despite having the qualities to do so. But due to a twist of fate, Zhen Liu is given the ability to create kaijin, strange and monstrous warriors to fight in his stead. By using this world's laws combined with his knowledge of Earth, watch as Zhen Liu stands above the so-called aether saints to become the one and only kaijin lord! "What the hell is a train"?! "Something that's about to kick your butt. Get him"! "Yes my lord"! Cover art done by JacKLYart on Twitter My Twitter: https://twitter.com/MajorMizako?t=23kOezglRcDjEUKcmpZQiA&s=09

NEW. MASS UPDATE check out my other novels too!! *** Everyone thought Grant was a broke, useless son-in-law living off his wife’s family. They mocked him. Humiliated him. Treated him like trash. But they were wrong. Behind that quiet smile is a man with unimaginable power… the wealthy young master of the prominent Morgan family. Grant was never the leech they thought he was. He was simply repaying a debt to Daisy’s father—three years of marriage and silent protection. Yet the James family never saw his worth and instead made his life unbearable in every possible way. Daisy James never loved her husband. She pitied him at best… until she started to see the man behind the mask. The way he protected her when no one else would. The quiet strength in his eyes. The secrets he carried alone. Now Daisy’s heart is betraying her. She’s falling for the man everyone calls useless, only to discover he’s the most dangerous man of all. During his time in the James family, Grant uncovers a buried secret tied to his past, one that could destroy everything he’s vowed to protect. And when Grant’s true identity is revealed, Daisy will have to decide: stand by the man she’s only just begun to love… or watch the James family’s darkest secrets consume them both.

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Vero, a 20-year-old just returned to his hometown after years of captivity. His brother welcomes him dearly and the world sees him as a poor victim. He joins the Imperial Academy and in everyone's eyes, he's just an untalented crippled boy. That is until someone more observant catches on... his quick disappearances from sight, the spirits offering him gifts on occasion, and the shivers of those around him when he's in a foul mood.

What will happen when you reject gods? Of course they will kick you right?! Henry Clark, the divine sword spirit was sentenced to life in prison within the cauldron of death. He rejected the Moon God, the Dragon King, and even the Heavenly Emperor. The saber goddess personally came to kill him! But life gave him another opportunity! Can he survive the mortal realm against HUMANS?!

[Volume 3 out now!!!] A world without gods struggles against cunning and dangerous monsters from another realm, teetering on the brink of collapse—until… Silvanus never expected to die at the peak of his glory. He was on stage one second, accepting his third consecutive Best Actor award. The next, he was dead—crushed by a falling glass stage light in a tragically ungraceful demise. But the worst part was yet to come. He didn't indeed die. Instead, he woke up in an entirely different world, one on the verge of being swallowed by darkness due to an overwhelming invasion of monstrous creatures. [Beep—Acting System activated! Greetings, my god. Please create your character and start collecting Acting Points!] Thus, humanity discovered that they now had gods, divine protectors who guided them in their battles against monsters… A god who feared everything yet could foresee the future. A narcissistic deity who commanded water and life itself. A depraved being who, despite his corruption, remained undefeated against even the strongest creatures. No one knew they were all the same person. "Worship me. Believe in me without end. And one day, I shall truly descend upon this world…" ... Silvanus once thought that all he needed to do was seal the endlessly appearing dungeons, but the world was far broader than he had imagined. As secrets gradually came to light, Silvanus’s journey toward becoming a true god grew ever more difficult, entangled with even greater conspiracies. Can Silvanus rediscover himself and complete his own growth in order to repel the darker, more sinister forces that are constantly plotting to invade the worlds under his dominion?

Born into the royal family, Vaelen should have inherited a sacred white flame. Instead, something dark answered his birth. Raised inside the palace but treated as a problem, he grows up learning that in a world ruled by bloodlines, being different is more dangerous than being weak. As the silence around him grows heavier, Vaelen begins to understand that his birth is tied to something the kingdom wanted forgotten. Some call his birth a curse. And it may become the beginning of the kingdom’s fall.

Lian Shenhai looks like a lazy sect master drinking tea on a dying mountain. But inside his body, entire planets are being born. With the Eternal Sovereign Creation System, his soul travels to distant worlds where he must survive as the weakest beast and evolve into a god-level monster. Every evolution returns a planet to his body. Every victory increases the gravity of his existence. To the world, he is just the master of a forgotten sect. But his disciples unknowingly train inside the planets that exist within his flesh. While arrogant sects fight for land… Lian Shenhai is quietly building a universe.

In her previous life, Han Ruochen was tricked into marriage and was forcibly made the wife of the foolish brother of her husband. She failed to escape, and her legs were broken by her cousin, Han Ziyan, who not only stole her husband but her destiny. She thought that after giving birth to a son and a daughter for the fool, she would be allowed to leave, but unfortunately, fate had other plans. She was killed by her foolish husband, who beat her up until she died, and her entire family was razed by Han Ziyan, whom they had kindly adopted. Han Ruochen hated Han Ziyan to the point that she couldn’t even close her eyes even when she died. However, when she opened her eyes, she was reborn in the nineties, before she lost everything. Armed with the knowledge of her previous life, Han Ruochen started to guard against Han Ziyan and her mother, Meng Yunhan, for she knew that Han Ziyan wasn’t her cousin but her mother’s illegitimate child! And the two of them were determined to snatch her father’s fortune and ruin her siblings to fill the pit made by Han Ziyan’s biological father. But by a stroke of luck, Han Ruochen gained a ‘Golden Finger’. Not only did her strength increase by leaps and bounds, but the sea also became her golden fishing ground. She left on an empty boat and returned with tonnes of expensive seafood. That wasn’t all. With the money and strength, she straightened her siblings and made them walk on the righteous path, where they started to respect the elders and care for the young. Thefts? Corruption? What was that? Come here and let your sister straighten you up with her fishing rod!

That guy was my friend's boyfriend. After they fought, he came home and said he wanted my opinion. What exactly made his girlfriend change? I, who didn't have a bad feeling at all, put him in the house. Then he killed me! That bastard stabbed me multiple times with a kitchen knife and killed me. Even though he knew tomorrow was my wedding day. How sad. A death that made me curse all efforts. But, what could I do? I thought I was dead. I did. Because at that moment I didn't feel any air in my lungs. Because everything went dark. I didn't know anything until I opened my eyes and saw a beautiful ceiling with crystal chandeliers. Are there hospitals like this? I'm sure that even if the apartment I lived in was sold, I wouldn't be able to buy that crystal chandelier! "She's alive! SHE'S ALIVE! LADY ELEONORA IS ALIVE!" I turned my head and saw an old woman running while screaming. I'm alive? Really? But who is Eleonora? I'm Cristy! I don't understand anything yet. Not a single thing. People started introducing themselves as my parents, future in-laws, and fiancé. But I knew that none of them were telling the truth! Their smiling faces were terrifying masks. My gut screamed at me to run away. And I knew that my gut never lied!

The world ended, cities burned, kingdoms collapsed, and the legendary heroes who were supposed to save humanity… all died. Lucien Vale a powerless professor who could only watch his students fall one by one...died with them. Yet when Lucien opened his eyes again, he had returned ten years into the past. Back to the day he first became a professor at the Royal Magic Academy. This time, Lucien knows everything. The disasters that will come. The traitors hiding in the kingdom. The students who will one day become legends. But Lucien has no intention of repeating the same future. He will personally train the strongest generation in history. Secretly recruit geniuses no one notices. Guide the future heroes before they rise. And build a force powerful enough to challenge fate itself. The world may see him as a weak professor… But behind the scenes, Lucien Vale is creating the strongest generation the world has ever seen.

On the day of her wedding, the sky did not fall. He did. Michael — a name whispered like a curse across kingdoms. A warrior from the long-forgotten Varkhal tribe, believed to have been wiped from history. A man who does not negotiate, does not plead, and does not forgive. He takes. Yelena Sterling was meant to become a symbol of peace. Her marriage would unite two noble houses and finally end generations of bloodshed. Instead, it began another. The wedding became a massacre. Blood painted the altar. And when the screams faded, Michael left with only one prize. The bride. To Michael, Yelena is not a hostage. Not a political tool. Not even a lover. She is his. But Yelena sees only the man who destroyed her world — a barbaric storm wrapped in human skin, a monster who whispers her name with unsettling devotion. Now the kingdom trembles. Bounties spread across the land. Adventurers, assassins, and mercenaries gather to hunt the last Varkhal warriors. Ancient tribes begin to stir. Old secrets buried beneath history start to surface. And as the world prepares for war, a question begins to haunt those who hear Michael’s name: Is he truly a villain driven by obsession… Or the inevitable consequence of a world that tried to erase his people? Some love stories begin with a kiss. This one begins with blood.