backwards gisney

Wow I died! I was just organizing my files and a truck-kun came through the window and now I’m meeting a “Boundless Worlder” and rebuilding another world! What events lay ahead of me might be something that one would read in only comics or manga.

A struggling bookstore owner accidentally summons a grumpy, undeniable sexy, and extremely dangerous entity who has been cursed to serve whoever speaks its name. As she searches for a way to break the bond, she starts to wonder if she really wants to let him go.

After running away from her abusive captor at fourteen years old, Haven has to cross a world of hurdles to survive--all while carrying her abuser's child. Years later, Haven still lives with nightmares of her past. Though she escaped the physical torture, the mental trauma has taken it's toll.

Originally born into a world of cultivation, Kai had been successful in achieving immortality... Only to realize it realy sucks! No one said that only the sole can become immortal! After living and dieing in several different worlds she has become bored and now tends to look at each life from a different perspective, casting herself and the people around her as characters in the hellish play she is forced to continue. will this new life have a new plot? Or will it be annoyingly predictable like the last few?.... Wait.. did you say women are in charge of everything? ok, this may be interesting... I'll stick around this one a while.

Will not be updated for the foreseeable future. Planning on finishing in a few years when I am a better author.

In a world unlike any other, people were born with random powers. From the moment they took their first breath, their abilities were apparent, some could fly, some could manipulate fire, while others could communicate with animals. No one knew why this happened, but it was accepted as the norm. The world was a beautiful and dangerous place where survival was not guaranteed, and having a power could mean the difference between life and death.

Avery is viciously assaulted by her ex boyfriend. While she is in the hospital, she finds out she's pregnant.

In a world where truth is not decided by reality, but by what is most widely recorded, history is fragile—and powerful. Lys Ardent is known across kingdoms as the Unfailing Prophetess, a woman whose prophecies always come true without exception. Kings obey her words, churches worship her writings, and wars begin or end based on her “divine predictions.” But there is one secret no one suspects. She cannot see the future. She only writes prophecies after events have already happened. By documenting completed disasters, wars, and miracles with perfect precision and releasing them as sacred revelations, Lys manipulates a hidden law of the world: what is widely believed and recorded begins to reshape reality itself. History is not fixed. It is corrected. And once her writings spread, reality quietly adjusts—ensuring that the “prophecy” she published becomes true in every future reflection of the world. To society, she is a saint of fate. In truth, she is an editor of existence. However, a single anomaly appears— a Hero whose actions refuse to match any recorded history. For the first time, Lys faces something her system cannot fully rewrite. Because some truths are not meant to be recorded. And some futures refuse to be written backwards.

Suzy Su is forty years old, single, and has spent the last twelve years in the same Silver Lake apartment, building a life that looks stable from the outside. She's an immigration attorney at a small firm — good at her job, respected by her colleagues, and invisible to everyone who matters. She has a mother in Pasadena who knows she's gay but never talks about it. She has a set of rituals — coffee, work, a run she never enjoys, a plant she keeps forgetting to water — that she calls a life. She is not prepared for what comes next. Routine bloodwork reveals she is HIV-positive. The viral load and CD4 count suggest she's been infected for three to seven years. In that window, she's had four sexual contacts: Shelly, the older woman who taught her how to be a lesbian in a world that didn't want her; Claire, the high-powered corporate attorney who mirrored Suzy's own ambition so perfectly they became each other's walls; Kevin, her oldest friend, the only man she's ever trusted, and one night she's never talked about; and Kate, the auto mechanic who showed her that happiness could be easy — and then left her because she couldn't figure out how to be happy back. The novel follows Suzy over the course of one month as she contacts each of them, telling them they may have been exposed. But the investigation into the virus becomes an investigation into her own life. She realizes she's been building a case not against a person, but against a way of living — a life built on avoidance, on never wanting anything too much, on keeping people at a distance where they can't hurt her. Each former partner forces her to confront a version of herself she's tried to outrun: with Shelly, she's the frightened twenty-three-year-old who didn't know how to be loved; with Claire, she's the thirty-year-old who was too proud to be vulnerable; with Kevin, she's the woman who uses intimacy as anesthesia; and with Kate, she's the person who let the best thing in her life walk away because she didn't believe she deserved to keep it. The suspense structure follows a classic Agatha Christie trajectory: the suspects are introduced, red herrings are planted, and the reader — along with Suzy — is led toward a conclusion that seems inevitable in retrospect. But the novel subverts the whodunit form. There is no villain. The person who gave Suzy the virus did not know they had it. And the question Suzy has to answer is not "who?" but "what now?" TRACE BACK is a literary suspense novel set in contemporary Los Angeles — a city of highways and hidden lives, where people reinvent themselves for a living and the past is always just a few exits away. It explores the gap between the stories we tell ourselves and the truths we refuse to see, the particular loneliness of the Asian-American experience in queer spaces, and the strange, quiet grace of learning to live with something you can't undo. Told in present tense with a propulsive, emotionally precise voice, the novel moves between Suzy's present-day investigation and extended flashbacks that form complete narrative arcs. Each relationship is a novella folded inside the larger story, and each one redefines what the reader — and Suzy — thinks they know about love, trust, and the difference between being hurt and being harmed. At its heart, this is not a story about a virus. It's a story about a woman who has spent forty years building walls, and who finally — through an accident of biology and a series of difficult phone calls — learns to let them down.

Stella Sterling, born into wealth, had always followed the rules. Jaded by the hypocrisy of high society, she suddenly had a whim one day to have an ordinary romance. Thus, a fabricated rumor that Stella Sterling had spent a fortune to hire a Matchmaker from a dating site to find her a partner quickly spread through her circles. Those on good terms with her teased and watched the fun. Those on bad terms with her waited to see her become a joke. Later, an employee from the dating website revealed, "The company was acquired with an investment from a Vicenzan tycoon, and the profile of a certain female member with the surname Sterling was hidden overnight." The public speculated wildly about the identities of the Vicenzan tycoon and the female member with the surname Sterling. - Later on, a candid street photo that was accidentally captured went viral. In the dense night of The Spire on Vesper Island— Beside a Benz, a handsome, composed, and dignified man lifted a striking beauty in a red dress with one arm, pressing her against the car door and lowering his head for a deep kiss. In the faint light and shadow, the woman's flowing hair was swept by the wind, wrapping around the man's finger, which wore a pinky ring. Like a footnote to a romance, and even more like a vintage film frame etched into the axis of time. Someone immediately dug up the man's identity based on clues from the photo. The eldest son of Vicenza's Rhodes Family—low-profile and inscrutable, cold and untamable, and also the powerful contemporary authority of The Vesper Circle. And the alluring, glamorous belle by his side was none other than Stella Sterling. When the street photo spread to the mainland, everyone excitedly exclaimed: "The case is solved, the case is solved—"