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Gwendolyn is a charm caster who was never given a charm. In a world where every caster manifests a magical ability at sixteen,Gwen wields raw, uncontrolled power with nothing to anchor it. Her flares have made her a danger to everyone around her, and after the latest incident, her family sends her away again, this time to live with her aunt Ariana in a remote, unfamiliar town. Isolated from everything she knows and increasingly convinced something is fundamentally wrong with her, Gwen tries to settle into her new life under her grandmother's watchful, shield-reinforced control. But the town itself is hiding something: people have been disappearing without explanation, and Gwen starts to suspect the disappearances aren't unrelated to her own condition or to what she really is.

Julian Thron is no longer a ghost. After the Monday Morning Meltdown, his face is scorched onto every security feed in the city. The elite "fixer" has lost his greatest weapon: his anonymity. To stay alive, he has to do the one thing a professional killer never does—step into the light. The Role of a Lifetime: Maya, the brilliant architect who survived the meltdown by his side, has the ultimate exit strategy. She isn't hiding Julian in a safehouse; she’s hiding him in the center of a crowded ballroom. Trading his tactical vest for a bespoke tuxedo and his silence for small talk, Julian must play the part of Maya’s charming Plus One. The High-Society Shark Tank: In a world of silk, champagne, and corporate predators, Maya is now the one in charge. As they hunt Vane—the man who orchestrated their downfall—Julian must suppress every "Professional" instinct to keep their cover. But when every smile is a mask and every handshake is a threat, the performance becomes more dangerous than the mission. In this game of performance and politics, the "Plus One" is a lethal secret waiting to be unleashed.

In a nation divided between the wealthy Spires and the struggling Sinks, one hundred citizens are sent to Blackwake to compete in the Red Hunt, a televised game where only the strongest are expected to win a prize and residency in the Spires. The hunters are divided into teams of four called Quadrangles. Each Quadrangle is made up of four classes: the Tactician, who leads the team through strategy and decision-making; the Scout, who moves ahead to gather information and navigate danger; the Fighter, who handles combat and protects the team; and the Lifeline, who keeps injured teammates alive and provides medical support. Among them is Elowen Bradshaw, a teenage girl from the Sinks who enters the Hunt expecting nothing more than a way to help her dying aunt. But Blackwake is not the arena the government claims it to be. As mysteries pile up and the island reveals secrets buried beneath its surface, Elowen begins to realize that someone has been watching and manipulating the game from the shadows. The deeper Elowen goes, the more the Red Hunt stops looking like a competition and starts looking like something far more terrifying. Because the Hunters were never chosen at random. The Red Hunt was never about finding a winner. It was about deciding who deserved to be erased, then convincing an entire nation to watch. ~•~ "May the worthy endure. May the Spires remain eternal. Let the Red Hunt commence." ~•~ This novel contains some graphic content including violence & blood. Reader discretion is advised. Copyright © 2026 Eugene John Lubaton All Rights Reserved.

The Great Qian Dynasty. The thirty-second year of the Zun’an era. The weather was favorable, and the empire enjoyed peace and prosperity. Having failed in his search for the path of immortality, Zheng Xiu had no choice but to resign himself to a mundane life. He poured his efforts into commerce, deciding to simply be an honest, unpretentious… wealthiest man in the realm. One day, Zheng Xiu was framed by his enemies and thrown into prison. Yet, it was there that he unexpectedly awakened his “Golden Finger” cheat. From that day forward, the entire tone and genre of this world took a massive, screeching hairpin turn.

Twelve men and women of various identities are invited to enter the New World. Here, they not only have to decide their lifestyle through proposal voting but also continually participate in life-and-death games to extend their visa time. Once the visa is expired, they would die immediately. Lin Sizhi is one of them, and the designer of these life-and-death games.

"A malicious incident has occurred at our city hospital, a patient has taken medical staff hostage, and is now in a standoff with the police..." Yang Xiao turned off the TV, and the next second, a call came through, "Son, release the doctor now. There are police all around; you can't escape!" As if to prove the woman's words, the police sirens outside grew louder one after another, and there was also movement in the hallway. "It's fake, all fake. This is the Nightmare World. Otherwise, why would your call still come through after I cut the phone line?" Yang Xiao glared at the fallen phone line, his face twisted ferociously.

"Why did you save me?" Mei Ling Lù asked trembling as her eyes met his cold, calculating gaze. Her ordinary life had never prepared her for the night she stumbled upon a dangerous deal, a deal which drew her into the world of the city’s most powerful mafia family. Lian Chen Fàn, the silent heir, is a man of secrets, power, and ruthless control yet he chooses to protect her. Thrown together in a world of danger, loyalty, and forbidden attraction, Mei Ling must navigate the fine line between fear and trust, knowing that one wrong move could cost her everything. Can she survive his empire and his relentless, silent desire? Disclaimer: This story is purely fictional. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, companies, or events is entirely coincidental.

This is one heck of a Victorian-style fantasy novel. Add a spoonful of steam engines to make that darned technology tree come alive! Add a spoonful of love and hatred, so everyone has good reasons to brawl! Add a spoonful of madness to lighten up this gloomy world, and finally, add a spoonful of natural disasters to play the main boss... and so on! Phew, that's a lot! ... Year 931 in the Engerwick Calendar. The city I reside in has been hailed as the most advanced in the West. The main reasons? The world-shaking steam technology, emerging technologies, and the wellspring of chaos. Can't deny it, but the fact remains that people keep flocking here to live. This city always gives you a glimmer of hope, whether it's lies or illusions, but it's so close, within arm's reach, making you risk life and limb. A city of hallucinations. I am one of those dream-chasers.

Silas Malachai, 23 years old, enters the Toy Factory — a clandestine institution beneath the streets of Chicago — to dispose of anomalous objects: toys and relics that lose their narrative energy and die. He soon discovers he is unlike anyone else: instead of absorbing stories, stories flow *from* him. As he descends through the ranks of the Factory, he comes to realize that his father didn't study the system — he *built* it. And in his diary, whose contents shift with every reading, he left behind a map to something the Factory has feared for decades. The question is not whether Silas will survive. The question is whether the person chosen by stories is a weapon, a resource, or a door that should never have been opened.

One day, an awakening condition was suddenly given. [Please play the assigned game.] After going through hell and somehow managing to awaken— [Which tower would you like to enter?] …Excuse me? There’s only supposed to be one tower in this world. But for me alone, another tower appeared. And then— absurdly powerful beings started showing up. PS. THIS WEBNOVEL DOESN'T BELONG TO ME AND ITS A TRANSLATION. IF THE OWNER WANTS IT TO BE TAKEN PLEASE CONTACT ME. I HAVE POSTED THIS ON FANFIC SECTION TOO.

Maria, a bright psychology student, is left shattered when her boyfriend is brutally murdered. The tragedy plunges her into a fragile mental state, where grief twists into fear and paranoia. Haunted by whispers that may be real—or merely echoes of her unraveling mind—Maria becomes obsessed with discovering whether her boyfriend’s death was the work of a human killer or something far more sinister. With the uneasy support of her friends and cousins, she ventures into a world where shadows hide deadly secrets, and every step could lead her closer to the truth—or to madness itself. In the blurred line between reality and the supernatural, Maria must confront horrors that threaten not only her sanity but her very life.

You have a royal family to build."-----A story of reincarnation. A story of growth. A story of love. A story of lust.After dying a simple death, a boy reincarnated in a new world. A world where magic is common and dragons are real. A world where goddess exists and monsters abound.This story follows Sol, the son of the dead king. A man who literally saved the world, at the cost of his life.Watch as he grows and evolves to become his own person, moving from the shadow of his parents and set his own record in history. All the beautiful women he gets along the way is just a bonus.****Notice:* — mean that it will be a kinky chapter with some preliminary.** — mean that’s it will be a kinky chapter with actual sex.

Mon\Thu - 2 new chapters. Reality is not as stable as it seems. There are moments—brief, almost impossible to notice—when something shifts. A hallway feels longer than before. A sound arrives too late. A memory no longer fits where it should. Most people ignore these fractures in reality. Juson cannot. After a series of disturbing incidents begin to follow him, buried memories slowly resurface—fragments of a past he cannot fully remember, tied to a hidden existence surrounding entities known as Omizans. As strange blue particles begin appearing around him and reality itself starts to distort, Juson is drawn toward a truth connected not only to his forgotten past… but to his own son, Herik. The deeper he searches, the more unstable the world around him becomes. And as the boundary between dimensions begins to tear apart, one question continues to haunt him— Were these memories taken from him… or did he choose to bury them himself?

Liza's and her twisted story, a girl went to deep sleep .her time is stoped in between but still there is some things going on .