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Once inseparable, Abdullah, the Crown Prince of Daura, and Kulthum Muhammad, a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, had their love torn apart by a devastating lie. Fueled by fabricated evidence, Abdullah's trust was shattered, driving him to make a decision that exiled his wife and unborn children from his life. Six years later, fate intervenes when their son, Hudayfah, is hospitalized, and a twist of events leads Abdullah to discover the truth: the twins he doubted are undeniably his. Overwhelmed by guilt and love, Abdullah returns, determined to mend the fractured family he abandoned. But the road to reconciliation is not easy. While Jenna embraces her father with open arms, Hudayfah remains guarded, refusing to accept Abdullah fully into his heart. And Kulthum, hardened by years of pain and survival, struggles to forgive the man who once cast her aside. As past wounds resurface and truths are laid bare, Abdullah and Kulthum must confront the ghosts of their separation and the love that still lingers between them. Will they find a way to heal as a family, or will the scars of betrayal prove too deep to overcome?

In the forgotten high desert town of Tumalo, Oregon, a group of friends rises from nothing during the early 1990s to build hidden empires fueled by money, music, drugs, fraud, and power. What begins as late-night plans inside an abandoned barn slowly transforms into the most dangerous criminal network the Pacific Northwest has ever seen. Julian controls the streets and supply routes through a growing cartel stretching across Oregon. Cruise becomes both a famous music artist and a mysterious chemist producing hallucinogens deep in the wilderness. Quinton manipulates the legal system while secretly operating a fraudulent underground mafia. Around them, nightclubs, stock firms, auction houses, fashion empires, and scientific experiments become fronts for greed and ambition. As wealth grows, so does paranoia. Federal investigations begin closing in. Rival organizations emerge. Loyalty starts to crack under pressure. And the same friendships that built the empire slowly become the reason it begins to collapse. Set against the rainy cities, forests, highways, and deserts of 1990s Oregon, Pacific Vice is a cinematic crime saga about power, betrayal, brotherhood, and the cost of becoming untouchable.

In the kingdom of Orynthys, 14-year-old Albian Eizhard learns of his family’s ancient duty—to guard a powerful seal that imprisons monsters from an age long past. On the eve of his fifteenth birthday, he discovers the perilous awakening ritual that could either grant him the power to uphold the seal or take his life. But as the seal deep beneath their estate begins to falter, emitting a sinister omen, Albian is thrust into a dangerous mystery. Can he survive the awakening and uncover the truth behind the seal’s failing magic before it’s too late?

They called him evil, ruthless, cruel, incapable of mercy. Colder than anything in the realm of winter. Dark as the night sky in the realm of eternal darkness. He was unforgiving, forsaken and long past the point of redemption. He was real and he was here. Iyra couldn't believe the tales were true even after accounts of so many saying he was the one attacking cities and killing so many fae. She couldn't believe it, didn't believe it. Sticking to the idea it was rebels disguising themselves and spreading rumors. She was forced to believe it when he attacked her home. The heart of the winter realm. Doing away with the King and most of the court and royal fold. Forced to believe and live with the bond that exists between them.

SYNOPSIS Mature content:- 21+ The coming together of fire and ice. Tunde and Abby are two incompatible individuals with alpha personalities who bring out the worst in each other. He's cold and dangerous. Ruggedly good looking with devil may care attitude. She's vivacious and sassy. Her beauty's alluring, her personality, hot and fiery. She's broken by her dark past which threatened her future and he's the only man capable enough to make her heal. If only she didn't find him so annoying! The passion they emit is uncontrollable, and spellbinding. Will they find an equilibrium that works for them as they struggled to hold their love together, and bring war over their enemies?

My mother's need to control every aspect of my being led me on a difficult journey to independence and acceptance on the other side of the world, with plenty of painful and occasionally hilarious stops along the way.

While being pursued by other assassins, a bored assassin who unintentionally becomes quite invincible sets out on a quest to find fever and achieve inner peace.

i was created for a purpose but what is that purpose?

He wakes up on a riverbank with no memories, no identity, and two missing toes brutally torn from his foot. Before he can even process the agony, he is discovered by two children at the edge of a forbidden jungle. Who is he? Who did this to him?

Bai Su, who transmigrated into a book set in the interstellar Beast World, has only one interest: making delicious food at the orphanage, raising children, and enjoying her hard-won new life. Future's great villains? The cubs are all super well-behaved in front of her! The Federation Leader comes to freeload a meal, and his disability is cured! The business emperor comes to freeload a meal, and his infertility is solved! The obese little female gets thinner the more she eats, gradually growing into the number one beauty of the Beast World. She also attracts the number one genius doctor of the interstellar era and the interstellar great captain. The villainous cubs, driving warships and controlling ten thousand beasts: "If you want to get close to our Mom, you'll have to withstand our cannon fire first!" The Federation Leader laughs in anger: "You dare to bomb my armory? Courting death!" The gloomy and bloodthirsty emperor: "A bunch of little trash! You think I'm afraid of you?" The doctor's face turns ashen: "Either give back my research results, or die!" The interstellar great captain dangerously shoulders a Barrett: "I see you're all dying to get locked up." Bai Su smiles and peeks her head out, holding a gleaming kitchen knife: "Time to eat! What are you all doing?" The big shots and the little villains, harmoniously putting their arms around each other's shoulders in a picture of fatherly love and filial piety: "Coming~~"