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He had deep and sharp eyes: a deal for a life. The Herring Group declared bankrupt. Her father committed suicide with a huge debt. To pay the debt, she had no choice but to be the mistress of the actual boss of the Full Bloom Club. He could do whatever he liked with her. He was powerful, bloodthirsty, and ruthless. Yet he was drawn to her when she danced. He kissed her hard. "Reyna, we're good if you listen to me." On the surface, she was obedient, but deep down she was unyielding. She was his mistress who had been together with him for the longest time. Every woman in the Hill City envied her. He doted on her and didn't mind about her betrayal. But she just wanted to run away from him. She asked, "When will you let me go?" He smiled evilly. "Have a baby for me and I'll let you go." But after she got pregnant, he changed his mind. "Reyna, my child needs a mother. I will never let you go since you have my kid." Leroy Malone, you bastard!

Sebuah cinta yang hadir dalam toko penjualan berlian. Lian, selaku pemilik toko menyelipkan kekuatan magis pada setiap berliannya. Hingga suatu saat, Lian tanpa sengaja menjual sebuah berlian dengan ramuan yang salah kepada Alka, yang seharusnya membuat hubungan Alka dengan kekasihnya semakin mesra, justru malah menjadi kandas.

Please be a bit patient for the first volume i.e 69 chapters which might be a bit stale, the first 69 chapters are used to build the characters around Rei and himself. Toujou Rei, a little boy obsessed with baseball, has always admired his father, Tensei. Wishing to follow in his father's footsteps, Rei dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. In turn, his son's starry-eyed admiration encourages Tensei to keep persevering despite issues, Unfortunately, Tensei dies while protecting Rei from a car accident, which leaves a mental scar on him making him unable to play his beloved baseball anymore, but after getting motivated more than ever, Rei works hard to carve his way in the baseball world by becoming one of the best baseball players as his dad wished. *Names, faces, and places aren’t real. A work of fiction. Nonetheless, it is my work of fiction so please don’t post it without permission. *I have also tried to not use any school names that do exist though, but I would like everyone to know that if they exist I have no affiliation with them. Nor do my views reflect their views.* PS- THE PICTURE FOR THE COVER WAS TAKEN FROM PINTEREST AND THE CREDITS FOR IT COMPLETELY GO TO ITS CREATOR NOT ME.

Far from the world he knows, he’ll find a home. Among strangers, he’ll find acceptance. And in the arms of an unexpected man, he’ll find love.<br><br>Young Billy Strobaw comes West to escape the stigma of his Tory family. In the Dakota Territories, he encounters the Yanube warrior Cut Hand. Billy’s attraction to the other man is as surprising as the Yanube perspective on same-sex love. Unlike Europeans, the Siouan tribe celebrates such unions. Billy and Cut Hand can live as partners and build a life together, which Billy agrees to do.<br><br>As Billy struggles to acclimate to a very different culture, quickly discovering the Yanube have as much to teach him as he has to impart to them, a larger struggle is brewing. The white man is barreling through the Great Plains, trampling underfoot anyone who stands in his way. As a leader of his people, Cut Hand must decide whether it will be peace or war.<br><br>In a historical romance taking place against the epic backdrop of the early American West, where a single spark can ignite a powder keg of greed, lust for power, and misunderstanding, one man must find his place in history and his role in the preservation of all he has come to value.

I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn. The blue joy is calling... but can Fresco survive it? "Do you know what happened to you?" Joey's voice broke a little. Fresco shook his head. The kid nodded, like it was no big surprise." Yeah, me either. No one seems to. We just have normal lives, you know? Then suddenly you wake up with this thing eating into you," he swallowed hard, "and that's it. The rest is Wasteland." Seventeen-year-old Fresco Conte is an ordinary All-American kid from an upper middle-class family. He plays football. His girlfriend is a cheerleader. Life is good. Until unexplained things, scary things, start to take him over. Like surviving an accident that should have killed him. Or hearing the thoughts of the people around him whether he wants to or not. When the men in the dark blue coveralls come for him, Fresco is forced into addiction to the blue joy known as Wasteland and set free on the street, with no answers and only his hunger to keep him company. Don't miss the rest of this dark YA urban fantasy series! Wasteland and Diamond City are now available.

"Football: Rejecting the National Team, I Join a European Powerhouse" Ye Chen returns to 2011, only to be expelled from both Manchester United's youth academy and the Chinese U17 national team at the very beginning! However, he refuses to give up. Traveling to Germany, he embarks on his professional career at Borussia Dortmund! A golden-scaled fish is never meant to stay in a pond; once it meets the storm, it transforms into a dragon! Bundesliga Golden Boot, European Golden Boy, Ballon d'Or... Sir Alex Ferguson: "The doors of Manchester United will always be open for Ye!" Cristiano Ronaldo: "Are you kidding? I'm great, but Ye is the ultimate striker!" Lionel Messi: "I long to play alongside Ye—he could be the core of Barça's Dream Team IV!" Joachim Löw: "I hope Ye will consider joining our national team—we are in dire need of a world-class striker!"

||Book 1 of the Diamond Series|| The world had fallen into chaos a long time ago. Creatures came and enslaved the human race: Vampires, Lycans/Werewolves and Demons. They took and slaughtered thousands of innocent people. Men, Women and Children. After suffering for ten years, another set of beings came. They had enormous wings and a shining silver rings floating above their heads. Rings that could be used as a weapon if necessary. These creatures were called 'Angels'. They were kind and honestly the opposite of every supernatural creature that existed in that era. They built their kingdom protecting as many humans as they could but the dark creatures had other things planed. There was a war that broke out. Every man for themselves or more specifically, every creature for themselves.The war went on for almost 500 years. Then there was a woman. She wasn't an Angel or Vampire or Lycan or Demon. Turns out she was a hybrid of all four. More powerful than anything. No one knows for sure how this hybrid was made and at some point, no one cared. Her name was Elaka. She was seen as a priestess. Elaka was the savior of all humans. She created a boarder and the world was divided in two: The Land of Light; was so peaceful that it had to be shielded from the world. Elaka had put a protective hidden wall around the kingdom so no one would come in unless brought in by the citizens. There were humans that lived there and their lives were a paradise. And total peace. And there was the Dark land. Where every other creature lived. The three major kingdoms tolerated each other for as long as they could. Years passed without war. Until Elaka suddenly vanished. Without her, the world would become chaotic again. The crystal was lost in the forest. So many have searched for it but never succeeded. Even if they ever found it, the legend says it was set in stone. It was glued to a tree and only 'The Diamond in The Rough' could pull it out. That person was never found.

Left for dead on a snowy mission, cast aside by her own master and the disciples she once called family, Li Shuang should have fallen into obscurity. But instead, she rose. Severing her past, she cultivates the Supreme Forgetting Love Technique, a path of clarity forged through heartbreak—not detachment. In abandoning the soul-bound Frostcut Sword, she finds something far older, far darker: the Black Abyss Sword, an artifact of lost history and buried power. Taken in by a new master and siblings who see her for who she truly is, Li Shuang begins to rebuild. But the world is far wider than one peak, and the continent is only the beginning. Cultivators travel between nations and empires. Mysteries simmer beneath the surface of every sect.

After Huo Yuhao ascended in the god's realm, His son Xu Yunhao who was born to the sun and moon empress Chengzi, Was Killed. Fortunately, a Blue-river grass queen saved prince Xu Yunhao's life with the grace of the gods. After 50000 years, A 6years old boy named jay forgot about his past and never knew who he really is. He only knew about his mother, who Taken care of him, but she was Killed by an empire army. without any parents, he grew alone hearing stories about tang san and the Shrek seven devils, so he named himself, Tang jay. he then decided to become a spirit master keeping Tang san as his idol. suddenly he comes to know that he is the son of the Empress of the sun and moon empire Chengzi and the God of emotion Huo Yuhao from 50000 years ago. What will his fate lead to? and how will his adventure continue?

"If she's the one you love then why married me?" "I didn't intend to keep it from you, true your elder sister is the one I love and I got married to you to seek vengeance on your father....but:" Was it her fate?, perhaps. Alice world fell apart after her family lost their empire and her father was alleged with the embezzlement of the company's wealth. With no aid, she signed a one time deal with the devil she thought was the angel. Followed she fought her way back into the company to proof her father's innocent and reveal the master mind behind everything. Unaware to her in order to know the truth she has to dig out a past she wished she never discovered. "This new world, everyone seek power, everyone wants a name higher than the mountain yet all I wanted was his love, all I desired was that one gaze to be laid on me as he does on her" (In a world where everything is not what it seems to be, people aren't what you thought they were, close ones become alien. Who do you trust?.)