elemer of the briar

Elian was done with the Guild. Ten years of thankless labor as a merchant clerk was enough. He spent every copper he had on a deed to the Oaken Hearth, a waystation situated on a "busy" road just a week from the capital of the Boundless Wilds. The merchant lied. The "busy road" is a rutted track through ancient timber. The tavern is a ruin. And the previous owner didn't vacate for a "family emergency"—he was eaten. But Elian is an architect of survival. He doesn't need a paved road; he needs a sturdy foundation. By trading leafy greens for Fire-bite peppers and watered-down ale for magical Ember-Draft, Elian begins to turn the Oaken Hearth into a sanctuary for the lethal denizens of the Wilds. There’s just one logistical error he didn't account for: Beastkin biology. As the tavern fills with dominant monster-girls and primal instincts, Elian quickly learns that dealing with his new clientele requires a completely different kind of customer service. From the seven-foot-tall Frost Wolf Alpha who has decided the human clerk is her new mate, to the Centaur caravans seeking a safe harbor, Elian will prove that in the Boundless Wilds, a human's greatest weapon isn't a sword—it's high-tier plumbing, a properly reinforced floor, and furniture built to withstand the affections of his monstrous patrons. (Cross-posted on Royal Roads and Scribblehub) Copyright 2026 Arcane Accord Enterprises LLC. All Rights Reserved.

In which a not-so-human girl finds herself in the painful cycle of eternity, after asking the man she loved for the simple gift of having more time. Now she has to choose. Either the girl can get her revenge that she had been craving for in her many years of being trapped or she could choose a budding romance between one of two handsome suitors. "One of the most important things I've learned in life is to ignore most of what people say. I watch what they do instead."

Jordan Silver is the author of more than one hundred and fifty novels and novellas spanning multiple genres including romance, erotica and new adult fiction. All works feature over the top alpha males and the women who love them, with a happily ever after guarantee. The small town of Briar Reef is shaken to its core when one of its leading citizens is found dead in the woods with her face missing. Detective Celia Sparks is working her first murder case in the town where she had come to escape but this big city cop has her work cut out for her. The more she uncovers the more questions they are than answers. In a town that’s known for burying its secrets how will she ever find the truth?

Everyone says opposites attract. And they must be right, because there’s no logical reason why I’m so drawn to Colin Fitzgerald. I don’t usually go for tattoo-covered, video-gaming, hockey-playing nerd-jocks who think I’m flighty and superficial. His narrow view of me is the first strike against him. It doesn’t help that he’s buddy-buddy with my brother. And that his best friend has a crush on me. And that I just moved in with them. Oh, did I not mention we’re roommates? I suppose it doesn’t matter. Fitzy has made it clear he’s not interested in me, even though the sparks between us are liable to burn our house down. I’m not the kind of girl who chases after a man, though, and I’m not about to start. I’ve got my hands full dealing with a new school, a sleazy professor, and an uncertain future. So if my sexy brooding roomie wises up and realizes what he’s missing? He knows where to find me.

A late night trip through a back street alley for Boba, an architecture student, and a supposed escaped psych patient.

A story about a fox girl surviving the fantasy world as she looks out for friends and enemies. All while trying to take back her place as Inaris royal guard. But Itazura has never seen Imari as she only guards the door. Where has insti been?

Each and everyone look at her with a disgusted face...the newborn baby looks ugly. Everyone expects a child like a moon goddess but this....even her mother...

A girl who goes from happily ever after to a great tragedy, will she be able to fix her life? Or will she just keep making things worse the deeper she digs?

When children across Briar County, West Virginia begin sleepwalking into the surrounding forests—returning barefoot, vacant-eyed, and with no memory of where they have been—Sheriff Dale Moody assumes the worst and steels himself for the kind of evil he understands. A predator. A cult. Something with a human face and a human motive. He is not prepared for what he finds. The effigies come first: crude figures of bundled twig and hand-drawn wire, hung from branches near the places where the children are recovered, each one bearing a carved facial likeness of terrifying accuracy. Then the children begin to change—subtly, quietly, in ways that are almost impossible to name but impossible to ignore. And then Moody's own niece walks into the dark, and does not walk back out. The Hollow Men of Briar Country is a novel about the things that occupy the negative space between trees. About the parts of children that exist before language finds names for them. About cycles older than any living memory and a land that has never entirely belonged to the people who settled it. It is also, at its marrow, a novel about a man who refuses to stop looking—and the precise, permanent cost of that refusal. Haunting, unhurried, and deeply rooted in the American rural gothic tradition, The Hollow Men of Briar Country announces itself as a work of sustained dread—the kind that does not announce its arrival and does not entirely leave when the book is closed.

Sophie Wexler transmigrated into a novel about The Galaxy, becoming the vicious, F-rank Healer-class cannon fodder. The original owner constantly caused trouble and made things difficult for the female lead, earning her the hatred of the entire internet. Upon transmigrating and seeing that everything had been ruined by the original owner, Sophie's only thought was: "What kind of nightmare start is this?!" To escape the original owner's fate, Sophie Wexler worked diligently, conducted herself conscientiously, stayed away from the male and female leads, compensated the soldiers harmed by the original owner, and strove to be a model citizen of The Galaxy, absolutely refusing to be the cannon fodder 'offed' by the Imperial Marshal! Broke and powerless, Sophie also had to support a man who'd been innocently dragged into the original owner's mess. She had no choice but to hustle. She started live streaming, became a masked singer, and held concerts. At first, netizens were scornful: 【Tsk, how good can she possibly sound?】 Later, the netizens were forced to eat their words. 【Damn, that's so good I'm on my knees!】 【What the hell, the violent episode of my Disorder Period has actually been soothed?!】 【The toxins in my Spiritual Sea have actually been eliminated!】 Her live streams went viral, the masked singer became a huge sensation, and tickets for her concerts were snapped up across The Galaxy. Sophie was content, thinking, "This time, I must have finally escaped the original owner's fate, right?" But what do you know, the man I've been doting on and supporting is actually the Imperial Marshal?! --- One day, Yancey Forrest came home to find that the boisterous person who was always claiming to be good to him was gone. His eyes darkened. Provoke me and then think you can leave? After catching her, Yancey traced his fingertips along Sophie's neck, smiling gently. "Why run?" Sophie trembled. "You... you're the Imperial Marshal?" His identity exposed, Yancey Forrest took her hand and slowly placed it on his own neck ring. "You know I won't kill you, don't you?"