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Toronto, Canada, 2006. A few months after the worst year of the Iraq war.<br><br>Gabriel Navarro splits his time between his job slinging ink at the Atlantis Ink tattoo parlor, and working on his master’s degree in fine art. Gabe is twenty-two, sure of his beliefs and his artistic integrity, and na?ve enough to think he’ll never have to compromise. And then one night Jake MacLean walks into the shop and changes everything.<br><br>Jake Maclean is twenty-eight and a veteran American Army pilot. He's been staying with his ex-pat sister in Toronto while he tries to get his life in order. The problem is, he can't. After his disastrous final mission in Iraq, he's overcome with anger and survivor’s guilt, trapped in a losing battle to atone for a failure he’s sure can never be forgiven. Left without hope, he decides to have his memory of the mission tattooed on his back, with the condemning words: God Will Judge Me. He doesn't expect to fall for the tattoo artist.<br><br>Gabe falls just as quickly and deeply for Jake, though Jake's reluctance to talk about what happened frustrates and worries him. Gabe knows Jake isn't doing well, but accepting Jake’s claims that he's "fine" is far easier than dealing with the frightening truth. But soon it’s horribly clear Jake can’t control his panic attacks or flashes of violence, and he's getting worse. If Gabe can’t help him face his demons, Jake is headed for a crash -- and there’s every chance he’ll take Gabriel down with him.

"May the new Story become yours — The Last Tattoo Artist of Stories" The story tells about a girl named Calcium, a recluse with no big money in her pocket, drinking ale in a tavern and dreaming of more. But fate itself had descended upon her. She turned out to be a Tattoo Artist of Stories... and the latter, because in the world where she lives, there are only legends about such people, about people who can rewrite their entire lives with just one glance. Our glorious recluse will have to learn about her strength, become stronger, learn about her rewritten history and memory loss, and fight for her life. telegram: https://t.me/nikomela

When he woke up in a cellar, facing down a swarm of giant rats, Leo knew this wasn't his normal Tuesday. Transmigrated into the body of Elian, the orphaned dreg and punching bag of the Skyfang Aviary, Leo's new life is a brutal downgrade. He's weak, despised, and tasked with the most suicidal jobs. His only inheritance is a crushing debt of humiliation and a scheduled, early death by beast. But as the Dire Rats close in, a window of blue light shatters his despair. [Beast Taming Prodigy System Initializing.] Suddenly, the rules have changed. Leo can see stats, gain quests, and forge bonds with the monstrous creatures everyone else fears. While the arrogant tamers rely on force and fear, Leo has a strategy guide to their world. His first, humble tames? The very rats sent to kill him. His second? That’s where the real story begins. Assigned to feed the Aviary's most dangerous captive, a broken, furious Storm-Wing Gryphlet that has maimed every apprentice who approached it, Leo sees what others don't. Not just a C-class beast of legendary power, but a terrified, injured creature. Using his system not for domination, but for understanding, he does the impossible: he earns a flicker of trust from the un-tamable. Now, the Aviary's elites are watching. The Head Keeper’s suspicion is a knife's edge. And Leo is stuck between maintaining his facade as the "unassuming" dreg and unleashing the prodigy growing within. With a mysterious system glitching around his core affinity, a hidden bond with a legendary beast, and a hoard of system points burning a hole in his pocket, Leo must navigate a world of cutthroat tamers and soaring monsters. He'll have to forge his own path, because if they discover the truth of his power, the very masters he serves will become his most deadly enemies. In a world of Rocs and Rivals, one man with a system will rise from the dregs to touch the sky. --- What to expect: · A weak-to-strong protagonist who uses intelligence and a system over brute force. · In-depth beast taming, bonding, and evolution with clear stats and skills. · A unique, growing bond with a mysterious and powerful broken gryphon. · Kingdom and Aviary building elements from the bottom up. · A hidden system with its own secrets and a corrupted core affinity. · Plenty of progression, strategy, and satisfying payoffs.

*Please keep in mind that this book describes cancer, death, depression and self-harm in detail. Dawn Wood is a healthy girl, in the final year of high school. She always has prepared to be a kind girl. However, when she comes out as a pansexual and get diagnosed with small-lung lung cancer(SCLC), her life suddenly changes. Follow the story of Dawn and her caretaker, Lucas Johnson, through the eyes of Lucas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you'd like to contact me about this book, there are two choices! 1. Instagram: @whdmstn0805 2. E-mail: [email protected] Please keep in mind that it would take some time for me to check the DMs and emails, so I would just like you to comment on this book instead!

Benjamin was never meant to be a hero. He was just a bookstore clerk, a quiet dreamer who spent his life surrounded by fantasy novels, imagining worlds grander than his own. Then, one night, reality split open. A violent shift tears him from Earth and throws him into Khial, a world of ancient beasts, living forests, fallen empires, and powers shaped not by magic, but by Laws—fundamental patterns of existence that only the gifted can touch. In Khial, the Sages are not merely scholars. They are walking disasters, healers, warriors, and rulers of nature itself. They bend fire, life, energy, and resonance to their will, standing at the center of a hidden war that has shaped history for centuries. But Benjamin does not belong here. His soul does not resonate with Khial. The world should reject him. To its Laws, he is an anomaly. A ghost. An outsider wearing flesh. And yet, he has one impossible gift. He can absorb knowledge. Languages, histories, combat techniques, ancient theories, forgotten secrets—everything he touches becomes part of him. It should have made him powerful. Instead, it makes him dangerous. To others. And to himself. Seeking answers, Benjamin enters the Academy of Sages, hoping to survive long enough to understand why he was brought to this world. But power in Khial is never simple. Every secret has a cost. Every bond can become a weakness. And when Benjamin forms a connection with a young gryphon named Atty, he discovers that some ties are stronger than any Law. Then one mistake sends everything crashing down. Dragged into the depths of the Black Flame, a shadow empire that rules from beneath the surface, Benjamin is enslaved, broken, and stripped of everything but his will to live. Forgotten by the world above, he is forced to claw his way out of darkness one breath at a time. He will not rise as a chosen one. He will not rise as a noble hero. He will rise as something Khial never prepared for. His journey will carry him across brutal empires, ancient ruins, hidden battlefields, and truths buried before history began. At the end of it all waits Malachros, an entity that should not exist—the first Itharim to break free from the Maker’s will. But before Benjamin can face false gods, monsters, or the truth of his arrival, he must do the impossible. Escape. Survive. Protect the bond that saved him. And become more than what this world allows.

A series of unprecedented events occurred here, with various creatures going berserk and undergoing violent mutations, mercilessly slaughtering the once dominant species—humans. Conventional weapons were no longer humanity's trump card. Fortunately, humans also underwent mutations. At specific times, humans would experience bloodline awakening, gaining the inherited powers of various ferocious beasts. The transformation of Xu Mo, who gained a system, was even more incredible. He awakened the bloodline of the ten ancient divine beasts, leading humanity to reclaim their dominant position once again!

What happens when you lose everything even the memories of the ones you loved most? In a world where power is carved into skin and soul, every mark demands a price. Born to a painter, Kain Ardent never imagined that the very protectors of his land, the Council of Brands, would be the ones to destroy it. When they declare his mother a bearer of a forbidden taboo, she is condemned and burned alive before the eyes of her helpless son. As the holy flames consume his home, Kain is thrown into the darkness of a fracturing mind. When he awakens, his village is nothing but ash. The people he once knew are gone, and fragments of his memory have been stolen, hollow, unreachable, and cold. But on his forearm, glowing with a pulse like a chaotic heartbeat, is a tattoo he never chose: the Obsidian-class Ash Mark, bound to an equally mysterious System. The world wastes no time naming him what it fears most: a heretic. A bearer of a forbidden mark. Hunted and rejected by the cosmic laws that govern power, suffocating under trauma, Kain clings to the only constant left to him, his curse mark They call it a taboo. But to him, it is a promise. A weapon. A path to rise. He will make the Council pay with the exact same flames they unleashed upon his mother. He will make the entire world learn to fear his pain. But power always demands a toll, and the living tattoo etched into his flesh hungers for far more than mere vengeance. As the countdown on his soul begins, Kain faces a final, volatile choice: “Either the world burns… or I burn with it.” ======= LOOKING FOR A FRESH CHANGE IN POWER SYSTEMS? WELCOME TO A WORLD WHERE DRAWING POWER ALWAYS DEMANDS SOMETHING BACK, WHERE EVERY GIFT COMES WITH A BRUTAL CURSE. GIVE TATTOO OF TABOO A TRY, AND GET READY TO LOSE YOURSELF IN A DEEP, PROGRESSIVE WORLD-BUILDING EPIC. JOIN ME IN MY OBSESSIVE ADDICTION MAKING THIS BOOK, AND TRUST ME, YOUR NEXT OBSESSION STARTS HERE. NB; It's a slow paced novel, but trust me, THE WAIT IS WORTH IT!!

8 supernatural heroes scattered across the globe. When evil takes over, will they find out the hidden meaning of the tattoo they possess in time to save the world that are oblivious to the fact that they even exist?

Lisen Lee a young man carzy about his work and his hobbies gained himself the tattoo king title. Also a scerect owner of a multinational company. He chooses to keep in the shadows only comes out when necessary. Is suddenly breathtaken by a damsel he never seen before who becomes he's secret lover. The desire and passion to want becomes stronger. Yet there's tragedy as he soon to be wed and she has a less steady realtionship. What will become of the tatoo kings scerect lover. Will he own her or lose her. Will Lisa Emma give in or push him away

This story is about a 19-year-old female that had trouble right around the corner. Her name is Lilith and this is her new life