uncanny valley effect

Rancher Stetson isn’t happy to meet city girl Jennifer, who’s been sent to audit his farm by a bank. But when a washed-out road forces Jennifer to spend the night at the ranch, passion results. Will their romance be able to last?

Sudah sepuluh tahun sejak Cien Millard terjebak di dalam Death Valley. Tempat terkutuk yang dijauhi oleh semua orang. Hanya mereka orang gila dan putus asa yang berani masuk ke sana. Tepat dipenghujung hidupnya, dirinya yang dikira akan mati ternyata malah mengingat kembali seluruh kehidupan sebelumnya di Bumi. Dengan ingatan baru dan ponsel yang kini ada di tangannya, Cien bertekad untuk bertahan hidup lebih lama lagi demi bisa bertemu kembali dengan keluarganya. Hanya saja, berbeda dari cheat-cheat yang biasa dia baca, dirinya hanya mendapatkan permainan mengelola toko sebagai senjata untuk bertahan hidup. "Apa kau gila?! Orang stress macam apa yang mau belanja ke tempat terkutuk seperti ini?!"

The marriage of the two family has been going for so many year. the second young master of the Smith family and the daughter of the Lawson family. They were engage since they were young. But the faith have made a turn. The second son of the Smith family was involve in an accident and become disable from that day. The Lawson family can't break the off the engagement and didn't want them to be wed their beloved daughter to the disabled man. So they choose a girl, who is needed a money. For them to give the money that she needs, she needs to married to him instead of their daughter. Everyone think that when they change the bride, the groom will hate the girl and not give her a nice and peaceful life and get bullied.

It has been ten years since Cien Millard was trapped inside Death Valley. A cursed place shunned by everyone. Only those crazy and desperate people who dare to go in there. Right at the end of his life. Cien, who he thought was going to die, turned out to be remembering all of his previous life on Earth. With new memories and a cellphone now in his hands, Cien is determined to survive to be reunited with his family. It's just that, different from the cheats he usually read, he only gets the game managing a shop as a weapon for survival. "Are you crazy?! What kind of madman would shop in such a godforsaken place?!"

Talia Ashford has spent fifteen years hiding behind a glamour charm that makes her look plain, weak, and forgettable. Her stepmother, Vivienne Cress, reduced her to a servant after her mother disappeared in a mysterious fire. The pack believes Talia is worthless. On the day the Alpha of Shadowfang arrives, Celeste hits Talia and blames her for bad luck. But when Talia is called to the bonding ceremony, the bonding stone reveals a shocking truth. Talia is already bonded to Kaelen Frost, the cold and powerful Alpha of the Shadowfang Pack. Now Talia must survive her stepmother's schemes, hide her true powers, and uncover the truth about her mother – all while convincing the most dangerous wolf in the territory that she is not the weakling everyone believes her to be.

Long time ago, Four Kingdoms continues to fight to seek for a higher power and dominance with each other. They even kill mercilessly inorder to survive the chaos being held in the co-kingdoms. Sky Flame Kingdom, Sky Ice Kingdom, Hollow Earth Kingdom and Wind Fury Kingdom, these kingdoms never ever back down to their feet and will never ever makes themselves look into the ground. It is said that the appearance of Dou City who brings peace to these lands in up to this days due to the Treaty of these four kingdoms. But how long could be a treaty will be effective or how could this piece of contract could longer sustain the upcoming wars would be plotted by each kingdoms to the other Kingdoms they held grudges? At the age of six, young Li Xiaolong realized the hardship of their lives caused by the bad and cruel treatment of the Sky Flame Kingdom that covered their clan which is the Li Clan. This is rumoured that their Li Clan in the past does make Sky Flame Kingdom enraged to them and until now it remains unsolved resulting to some devastating and misfortune of Li Clan in the hands of this kingdom. Li Clan considered to be a progressive clan in the past . Having some great achievement and foundation in those lands residing in those progressive clans but now they are being dumped in the barren lands in the Green Valley where they have to start to live again and continue with their own living. What used to be said to be in a prosperous life is now entrenched in the kingdom. Could they really survive in the hands of those high ranking officials of Sky Flame Kingdom if they are getting bolder and bolder each passing days and making some evil tricks up to their sleeves?! Besides that, they even recruit those martial artists who have a decent talent in their ceremony. There are double-faced people wants to get those martial artists of Li Clan but what is the benefits for them? There's none and peace will never go on like this between these two parties.

Noel Arden just wants to disappear. As a member of a prestigious and influential family known for producing powerful espers and guides, Noel’s D classification is an embarrassment. Determined to work as a guide despite his father’s opposition, Noel spends his days in the D-suite of Halo, the largest, most successful Paradigm agency in the country, keeping his head down and enduring the less pleasant aspects of his job. It’s not a bad life; he likes his coworkers, he doesn’t have to rely on his increasingly hostile father, and he’s almost never deployed to Fray sites. As long as he steers clear of his S-class esper half-brother, he can just melt into the background and pretend to be a normal, low level guide, just one of hundreds in Halo’s bottom ranks. Invisible and unremarkable. Exactly the way he wants it. Then an emergency situation during an unexpected deployment forces Noel to shatter his quiet, boring life with his own hands and thrusts him directly into the notoriety he’s worked so hard to avoid. When he witnesses Jade Ransom, Halo’s star esper and one of the only S-classes in the country, melting down from corruption overload, Noel has no choice but to use the ability he swore to never reveal in order to save both Jade and the city from destruction. Jade, desperate after a life of guiding intolerance, latches onto Noel as the only guide he’s ever properly synced with and insists on being exclusive partners. With his back against the wall and his pesky conscience whispering in his ear, Noel agrees. Struggling to balance his secret, his normal job, and his connection to Jade, Noel finds the stable life he worked so hard to build crumbling around him. And as he and Jade grow closer, Noel has to reckon with the vast differences between them and decide if he’s prepared to burn himself out just to let Jade shine. #GUIDEVERSE #ESPER #SLOWBURN [ADULT LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT MATTER] *original cover by me

Ren dies without warning… and wakes up inside a novel he once read. Not as the hero. Not even as a side character. But as Kael Ardyn, a useless, disgraced noble destined to be disowned, humiliated, and eventually reduced to a beggar crawling in the dirt. A character so insignificant… that even his death was forgotten. But this time, the story won’t go the same way. Because Kael awakens something no one else has, a System that rewards entertainment. Every shocking action, every unexpected twist, every moment that captures attention… earns him power. And beyond the world he now lives in, higher beings are watching. To them, his life is nothing but a show, a game, a story meant to entertain. So Kael makes a choice. If his life is going to be a spectacle, then he will become the most unpredictable, most dangerous, most entertaining existence in the entire story. At Astral Academy, where geniuses, nobles, and monsters gather, Kael will rewrite his fate. He will break the plot. Outplay the protagonists. And turn every destined tragedy into his stepping stone. Because in a world where death is scripted… He will become the one who controls the narrative. **** Bonus Chapter Goals 250 Golden Tickets → +5 Extra Chapters Dragon Gift → +1 Bonus Chapter Castle Gift → +3 Bonus Chapters Tonight You get to choose one side character to suffer a permanent consequence. Spacecraft Gift → +5 Bonus Chapters Tonight You can create a permanent supporting character (subject to story balance). Gachapon Gift → +10 Chapters That Night You gain influence over the next 15 chapters' storyline (within the established rules and worldbuilding).

Alisa,An undercover private detective lost her parents at her teen years by inhaling an illegal drug now twenty years later she is enstranded with a mafia boss Dante, who is a prime suspect in her parents case. would she chose love or avange her parents death?

This novel was originally conceived and written in Italian, my native language. This is a self-translated version in American English. In a dying frontier where dust, blood, and bullets rule the land, Jayla survives as a ruthless bounty hunter, feared, alone, and hunted by her own past. Nineteen years ago, a girl ran through the night carrying a dying child, chased by something that sounded like thunder… but wasn’t. Now, the valley is changing. People are vanishing without a trace. Bodies appear twisted, rotting from within, as if something unnatural is spreading beneath the surface. No one knows where it comes from—or what it wants. As old debts close in and a violent world begins to crack, Jayla is forced to confront the truth buried deep inside her forgotten past. Because whatever is coming… it started with her. And it’s not done yet.