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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.

Dans l’ombre des serments impossibles, deux cœurs s’unissent malgré la perte annoncée, aimant dans le silence et se promettant fidélité même lorsque le monde exige la séparation, car leur pacte naît de la douleur, se nourrit du sacrifice, et trouve sa beauté dans ce qui ne peut durer.

[ATENÇÃO: CONTEÚDO MADURO] "Eu te amo, apesar dos sinais de perigo." ____ Abigail, protegida e inocente, está com uma doença terminal. Ela sabe que morrerá em breve, então antes de morrer, ela quer realizar seu único desejo - se apaixonar. Ela quer experimentar amar alguém romanticamente. Mas com uma condição estranha - ela quer um homem que não se apaixonará por ela, porque ela não quer que ele sofra quando ela se for. Ela conheceu Alexander Qinn, o homem frio e misterioso. Ele a adverte desde o início de que ele não faz amor e que ele é perigoso. Mas isso o tornou o homem perfeito para Abigail. Ele era exatamente o tipo de homem que ela estava procurando. Alexander ensinará a inocente Abigail sobre seu tipo de prazer, enquanto Abigail mostrará a ele a alegria de fazer coisas simples na vida. Seus mundos completamente diferentes colidem, a doença de Abi e os mistérios sobre Alexander serão lentamente revelados. Abigail consegue lidar com o próprio inferno dele? Alexander conseguirá lidar com a luz dela? ___ VOLUME 1 [HISTÓRIA PRINCIPAL] - STATUS: CONCLUÍDO Uma história de uma garota com doença terminal e um homem sem coração. ____ VOLUME 2 [SPIN-OFF] - STATUS: CONCLUÍDO Uma história de um príncipe vampiro e uma garota humana rica e atrevida. ____ VOLUME 3 [SPIN-OFF] - STATUS: CONCLUÍDO Uma história de amor não correspondido de uma bruxa antiga. ____ VOLUME 4 [SPIN-OFF] - STATUS: CONCLUÍDO Uma história de um fantasma e um príncipe vampiro. #inimigos-para-amantes ____ A capa é minha, então não a use. Conta do Instagram: kazzenlx.x página do Facebook: author_kazzenlx Servidor do Discord: https://discord.gg/UGTA3A4

In her past life, Tang Mo accidentally lost her own Space Jade Pendant when the apocalypse began, losing her biggest golden finger. Afterwards, her superpower training went awry, she lost her loved ones, suffered from ostracization, and utterly ruined the good hand she was dealt, ultimately dying at the mouths of mutant beasts. Opening her eyes again, Tang Mo was reborn one week before the start of the apocalypse. None of the tragedies has happened yet! How will she seize the opportunity and walk her own path to becoming a powerful figure in the apocalypse?