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Emma Reyes has built her adult life around Hartwell Gallery — the place that gave her purpose after a relationship taught her love meant managing someone else's feelings to keep the peace. Now a developer wants the building, and the landlord is listening. Emma has five months to help gallery owner Priya save forty years of her father's legacy. The night of her biggest show, Emma spills wine on a stranger's shirt. Jack Hayes is a painter with years of unexplained rejection behind him, more talented than he lets on, hiding "a thing in the fall" he's not allowed to discuss. They fall into an easy, charged connection — but Jack's habit of solving problems with reassurance instead of honesty becomes its own quiet warning sign. The secret surfaces at a street fair: a funded six-month painting residency in Paris. Jack hid it because he once gave up an identical opportunity for a partner who never asked him to stay — and lost the relationship anyway. Emma confronts him directly, refusing to let his fear decide things for her. They don't fix it in one conversation; trust rebuilds slowly. Emma's best friend Clara faces a parallel reckoning: a dream job in Denver collides with a relationship where her boyfriend has quietly erased his own ambitions to keep things easy. Their clean, mutual breakup becomes the mirror that helps Emma recognize the same pattern in her own relationship. The gallery's threat gets a face: Marcus Calloway, the developer's son, who does the assessments himself — reasonable, self-aware, and still won't walk away. A newspaper feature makes the gallery's deadline public as Emma organizes a benefit auction, Last Call. Jack's residency offer arrives the same week the auction closes in. Emma refuses to let him defer it for her — then calls him out again when his "support" reappears in a new shape: arranging visit logistics before asking how she's doing. Their first fight that isn't about a secret doesn't resolve same-night. They land on a real plan for the distance — but Emma privately wonders if a plan is enough. The auction is the book's first big set piece: Jack donates a fully unguarded painting of the gallery, with Emma quietly included in it — which tears during installation. Rather than hide the damage, he mends it visibly with gold thread, a kintsugi-inspired repair that becomes the night's most resonant piece. The auction raises real money — enough to buy time, not a full rescue. Jack leaves for Paris. Long distance tests everything they've built: a visit that surfaces real insecurity, a return home that curdles into a text argument. The low point arrives when Jack starts softening his own bad days on their calls so he won't add to her stress — the same avoidance pattern, wearing new clothes. After days of real silence, Jack calls first — unprompted — and says the hard thing plainly. It's the full payoff of his arc: the first time he's initiated vulnerability instead of being talked into it. The gallery's resolution arrives through combined effort: auction proceeds, sustained support, and a quiet tip from Marcus — who reveals he once wanted museum work himself before family obligation absorbed him — about a historic landmark designation that changes the building's economics for good. Jack's residency closes with an exhibition featuring his first painting that isn't a disguised self-portrait — an open piece about Emma. He comes home. Hartwell offers him his own show: Containing Multitudes, echoing his own line from their first night, closing the loop on where it began. The novel ends on an earned, plainly stated commitment between two people who spent a year learning that real intimacy isn't the absence of hard conversations. It's choosing to have them, every time, on purpose.

[ARCHIVE/CANCELLED ] After the catastrophic battle in which he was defeated by the Demon Dragon Zudomu, Zalmiuth found himself reborn as a small demon, back to where he had once started. Now, Zalmiuth's objective is clear: to retry everything and conquer the Demon Realm.

"Wake up to reality", u can never move on without seeing throughly the cursed world u live in, and when u look closer, then u will see that the only thing that exist in this cursed world are pain, anger and greed. And These were the last words he heard before his death.

Concorde, a nation built because of chaos, brought down because of chaos. Witness how Concorde rose to power and how it fell.

O que é concórdia? você está pronto? ninguém segura o que não pode ser contido, as coisas são como devem ser, as traições são escondidas e devem ser mantidas escondidas, os segredos mechem, abalam, quem meche com que não deve acha o que não quer. Venha, mergulhe e descubra todos os segredos que abalam um grupo de pessoas no interior do Brasil, que serão asoladas por um segredo antigo, algo que nunca deveria ter sido desenterrado, uma vez que você faz o que não não deve há um preço a se pagar. Uma coisa é certa, nada é realmente real, e se salva não será nada fácil.

Love in the Pacific Northwest has never been so complicated. After a chance encounter at Comic-Con. Harvey and Nora fall head over heels for each other. An emergency cuts their time together short and they have to return to their lives on separate sides of the Puget Sound in Washington state. A few months later fate pushes them back into each other's lives. They soon rekindle their passions for each other over a series of emails. Harvey tries to understand what love really is while dealing with his tortured past. Nora explores what it's like to balance her potential future at her dream job versus the pull of love at first sight. They soon find out that the fact that Harvey is a secret billionaire might be enough to keep them from going all in. Love in the Pacific Northwest has never been so complicated. Comic Connection is created by Benjamin Chapman, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Mia Rowan has no room for mistakes. As a scholarship student at the prestigious St. Aurelius Academy, she cannot afford distractions, scandals, or feelings. Her plan is simple: stay on top, protect her future, and never let anything get in the way. Then her closest friend, Ray Montrose, confesses to her. What should have stayed between them quickly turns into distance, tension, and rumors Mia cannot control. With the whole school watching, a student council president getting closer, and Ray becoming harder to understand by the day, Mia is forced to face something far more dangerous than failing. Her own heart.

“Some doors are locked for a reason. Some secrets survive because they were never meant to be found.” Thriller writer Nidhi Agarwal wanted only one thing from Manali — silence. A quiet guesthouse buried beneath snow seemed perfect for escaping deadlines, memories, and the noise of Delhi. Until she learns the lower wing isn’t empty. A man named Raghav Sheth appears at impossible hours, hides too many secrets, and watches the world like he’s waiting for something to happen. The locals avoid questions. Strange sounds echo through the wooden halls at night. And the deeper Nidhi digs, the more she realizes her fictional thrillers may have prepared her for one terrifying truth: Someone in that house is lying. As storms close the roads and danger inches closer, trust becomes a weapon — and attraction becomes the deadliest mistake of all. Because in Manali, buried secrets don’t stay buried forever. "CODE:FALCON". Every code has a price.

In 2085, the Institute of Quantum Physics in the Desert in Nevada, USA detected an abnormal time fluctuation. Astrophysicist Erin Carter discovered that Earth's time is reset in a cycle of 72 hours, and the only thing that retains memory is a group of "awakeners" whose brains are not erased by time due to the quantum entanglement effect. As the investigation deepened, Erin discovered that the source of the cycle was a "time cocoon" device from 12 billion light years away, deployed by an alien civilization called "Silent". The silent believe that any civilization that cannot break through the shackles of time should be eliminated to maintain the order of the entropy increase in the universe. Meanwhile, American society is in chaos due to the cycle: the rich try to monopolize reset the rules, the doomsday carnival broke out in slums, and the government plans to destroy the cocoon with nuclear weapons. Erin must join forces with the Awakener to crack the time code for a limited time and answer the ultimate question - is human beings worthy of being tolerated by the universe?

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?"