watchman river

"Dafeng Night Watchman" tells the story of modern policeman Xu Qian'an who traveled to the Dafeng Dynasty. As soon as Xu Qian'an traveled through time, he was involved in the case of the loss of his second uncle's tax silver. He was later implicated and imprisoned and faced exile, but he successfully solved the case with his past life experience and wisdom, rescued himself and his second uncle's family, and joined the night watchman organization. After that, he encountered various murders, political struggles, and entanglements with mysterious forces. He killed his superiors in anger to save the female relatives of the prisoners, was involved in the Sangpo case, participated in the struggle between Buddhism and the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Monsters, and entered the sight of major forces. In the end, Xu Qian'an realized that his mission was to plead for the people and protect the weak. He began to run around for the people of the world, promoted the alliance between Dafeng and the Southern Xinjiang Gu Clan and the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Monsters, and joined hands with Princess Huaiqing to launch a coup to save the people of the world. The novel combines a variety of cultural elements such as Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, the demon clan, and sorcerers, showing Xu Qian'an's intelligence and detective skills.

In a dystopian future where Vampires emerged from the shadows in order to stop humanity from becoming extinct, a young woman with a dark past meets a charismatic stranger. As time goes by Private Love Aikawa of military Unit 4-7, finds that she may not be as human as she first thought. Battling rogue vampires, mutated creatures and her own past, Love works to unravel the mysteries behind the secretive Helsing unit, and tries to become the bridge between humans and vampires in a world filled with discrimination. This novel starts intentionally slow through the exposition and the early world and character building, BUT everything kicks into gear after the turning point in the latter half of Volume 1, and especially Volume 2, where the tone of the novel shifts. So, I hope you stick with it and enjoy the wild ride! I also added some song recommendations along the way to listen to whilst you read certain chapters, I hope this helps boost the experience. Public Spotify playlist titles (all under the name LouLou): TLAR - Book 1 TLAR - Book 2 TLAR - Book 3 TLAR - A Fire in Their Wake This is rated 'No one under 17 permitted' for (very) mature themes, including drug use, SA, LGBTQ+ discrimination, very frequent strong language, violence etc. Please note that no storyline is chosen for shallow shock value, and most are taken from personal experience, and hopefully handled with the care, respect and sensitivity they deserve. Disclaimers are added against any chapter that may cause distress. Tip Jar + updates and some extra content: https://ko-fi.com/loulou2 The majority of Volume 1, in a different order and edited as a full novel is available free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/Loulou2

Su Ziyu has a golden hourglass of time. Every time the sand runs out, Su will be transported to a different world.

Berawal dari pertemuan mereka di Senior High School membuat mereka kini menjalin sebuah persahabatan yang penuh dengan misteri, teror, ancaman, dan tantangan yang berbahaya. Awalnya, mereka menjalankan sebuah misi karena rasa penasaran akan sekolah baru mereka. Namun rasa penasaran mereka membawa mereka menuju misi-misi selanjutnya yang dipercayakan oleh Kepala Polisi Park secara rahasia kepada mereka hingga membuat mereka menjadi seorang detektif. Ini adalah kisah petualangan 12 pemuda tampan yang dibumbui dengan nuansa horor yang kental di dalamnya. ***** “Berhenti sekarang sebelum semuanya terjadi.” “Kalian semua akan mati saat jam 11 malam.” “Kami sudah menyatu, dan aku adalah bagian dari dirinya.” “Sepertinya begitu. Kita semua akan mati jika kita gagal dalam misi kali ini.” ============================ WARNING! Di sini aku hanya meminjam nama tempatnya saja. Cerita ini hanya fiksi dan murni dari pemikiran penulis. Jadi ini tidak nyata. Tempatnya mungkin nyata dan kalian beberapa mungkin ada yang tahu. Tapi kejadian yang ada di cerita ini hanya karangan penulis belaka. Jadi jangan ada yang menyamakan kejadian yang ada di tempat ini sama dengan kenyataannya. Karena itu berbeda. Dapat dipahami kan? I'm just borrowing the name of the place here. This story is only fiction and purely from the author's thoughts. So this is not real. The place may be real and some of you may know. But the events in this story are only the work of the author. So don't equate what happened in this place with reality. Because it's different. Can it be understood?

A haunted river. A grieving town. A detective running out of time. When the peaceful riverside town of Ọ̀yán is shaken by a string of mysterious drownings, Detective Kareem is assigned the one case no one wants. Each victim dies with the same haunting last word: “Ẹ̀nítàn.” What begins as a local investigation soon unravels a buried legend—of a betrayed river spirit, a sacred curse, and ancestral silence that demands to be broken. As Kareem digs deeper, the river begins to whisper his name too. Whispers by the River is a supernatural mystery inspired by African spirituality, where truth is hidden beneath water, and justice comes with a price.

Leslie began her writing career as a stay-at-home-mom. Her life-long love for reading lead to reviewing books for Goodreads, Amazon and Jillian Dodd's Author Blog. Leslie is also the cofounder of The Indie Bookshelf, which hosts yearly author signings, primarily in the Dallas/FT Worth area. When she is not writing, you will find her lunching with friends, sipping a cup of joe, binging on Netflix or working on a home DIY project. Leslie lives in Texas with her husband, teenage son and daughter, and two very silly pugs. He lifted his eyes to me. I was instantly captivated. He was sheer beauty in his black, hooded cloak. Was he real or just my imagination? It didn't matter. I had to know the mysterious man shrouded in darkness...

Born into a society tolerant of homosexuals, River Otter is confused by the white culture’s persecution of such men. As the war begins to wind down, Otter leaves the only home he has ever known to help Major James Morrow, commandant of Ft. Yanube, build a farm north of the fort. He begins a new life with the handsome major while coming to grips with growing hostility toward natives and rising danger from a local militia bent on eliminating all bloods from the territory.<br><br>As his physical attraction for the blond soldier slowly grows into a love perilous to both of them, Otter is distracted by personal challenges. As he struggles to survive the social and political upheaval sweeping the plains, can remain true to his own set of values?

When a mutilated corpse is found by a sacred river in a quiet West African village, a troubled detective teams up with a spiritual elder and a young woman with a mysterious past to uncover a centuries-old curse tied to a drowned river queen—one whose song was silenced, and who now demands the world listen.

Two years ago, Chris and his boyfriend left the city to settle in a small town at the US-Canada border. Eager to start a new life, Chris bought the Frontier Café, but a year later, his boyfriend dumped him, leaving Chris the only openly gay man in town. Nowadays he's resigned to a life of romantic solitude.<br><br>Hank spent the last years traveling through the country for his job as a water plant engineer. Deeply closeted, he's careful about the men he meets. Like the rivers he studies, he runs fast through the land.<br><br>In town only for a few weeks, Hank is intent on getting the job done and returning home out west to take care of his father. But Chris’s warm manner and decadent desserts are no match for Hank’s defense mechanisms. For the first time in his life, he finds himself wanting to go with the flow.

“Some homes wait for confession more than for return.” After years away, Amara Okon comes home to Grace River—a town that remembers everything. The clinic she once dreamed of reviving now needs her hands. The man she once loved, Daniel, has become a pastor fighting his own silence. And the bridge that watched her leave is still standing, waiting for its story to be finished. In a landscape where faith tastes like dust and mercy comes with conditions, Amara must decide whether forgiveness is an act of grace—or survival. Tender, slow-burning, and full of quiet revelations, Coming Home to Grace River explores how people break and begin again; how love asks not for perfection, but presence; and how sometimes, the only way home is through the water that remembers you.