hellfire mantle

Power comes with a cost... and it was something she was willing to trade her soul for. A few nights before her wedding, Lauren sought a way to break her fourth engagement. Known for her bad reputation as the rebel princess, she was the only lady who had the guts to step foot on the Everston mansion, the house of a notorious warlord, in the middle of the night. She offered him a wicked alliance that the entire kingdom did not see coming: a marriage. A vixen pretending to be a damsel in distress and a man whose crimson eyes screaming for bloodshed. Could something blossom in this treacherous dance of lies and deception? -- "Are you upset?" She eyed him sharply. "Should I be honored that I got tricked by you, milord?" He drank the remaining wine in his glass with one gulp and put it on the wooden table. He stepped in front of her. His hand was on the rail on her side while his other hand grabbed her glass and finished her wine before putting it down. The way his Adam's apple moved with his every violent gulp made her feel a tickling heat around her nape. When he brought his attention back to her, he licked his lips to wipe off the trace of wine. "How shall I make it up to you then?" he asked with his deep voice, like a seductive devil asking his victim how she would like to be killed. Dangerous yet… enthralling. - Note: This is a dark fantasy-romance genre with a lot of gore, family feuds, steamy scenes, twists and turns, and other explicit content (no rape) that will rile you up and might give you a heart attack so basically this is not for soft-hearted ones, so read at your own risk!

[BOOK2] They said life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. I think that’s bullshit. Don’t get me wrong. I love fairy tales. I’m a bibliophile. In fact, I read about a hundred books a year. And in my life? I don’t marry my prince charming. I have to marry the big bad wolf. I’m not Cinderella. I don’t have evil sisters or a broken family. Actually, I grew up privileged in New York. I get what I want—most of the time, anyway. But that’s just how it is when you’re the daughter of New York’s Italian crime boss: Don Alessandro De Luca. Sounds like I'm a modern-day princess, don't I? But the truth is, in our world, I’m not free to do a lot of things. And the men in my life shield me from the family business. I get it. Restrictions keep me and my family safe. But it gets frustrating how they think I can't handle it. And now, I’m shackled to something I don’t have control over—unless I want my family endangered. I'm arranged to marry the grandson of the Morelli Family—our rival family who had been after my father’s seat for years. I would rather die than end up with the enemy. But everything changed in the blink of an eye. My prince charming died because of them. Now, I can’t escape it. Now, the only choice I have left is to marry the villain to save my family. So how can my life be a fairy tale when I’m living in a nightmare? Nevertheless... This villain will have to see. I can't be restrained. I'm born to be free. **Gabriella's Hellfire is Book 2 of The De Luca Mafia Series** _______________ This is my first published work that is written in first person P.O.V. Don't forget to follow all my socials for exclusive content, private insights on the characters, and other fun stuff that won't be posted in Webnovel. go to: nixvargas.com/links _______________ Other works: •Serendipity - A Chance Encounter (Complete-Ongoing revision) •Femme Fatale: The King's Deadly Temptress •Gael's Naughty Angela: A Mafia Prince Romance (Book 1 of The De Luca Mafia Series) •Giovanni's Black Heart: An Enemies to Lovers Mafia Romance (Book 3 of The De Luca Mafia Series) _______________ *Licensed cover image _______________

After a lifetime of fighting as the Hero of the Holy Gods, Althea finally managed to beat down the Darkness and Hellfire God. However, as she gave him the final blow, thinking that it was the end of her fight, the very Holy Gods that she had been fighting for, descended and betrayed her, taking her Holy Power and leaving her to die along with the defeated God, who only called her a foolish girl. From the darkness of death, she finds herself alive again in a completely unknown place, surrounded by artifacts she had never seen. Paintings that glow from black mirrors, large roads full of artifacts called ‘cars’, and an impossibly large city are the things that she is now faced with. Having her Holy Power replaced with Darkness and Hellfire, she has to choose between living free, getting vengeance, or becoming a hero once again in this strange world.

He stopped finishing his own sentences. He started finishing everyone else's instead. That's how the last man to wear the Mantle died. Mid-council, he went around the table naming debts and names and nights no one there had spoken aloud in years, until he asked the captain, by name, whether the captain's daughter had ever forgiven him. The guard killed him before noon. He hadn't been trying to hurt anyone. He simply couldn't stop seeing what was true, or stop saying it. That's what the Throne actually does. It doesn't grant power, it grants clarity: total, involuntary, and permanent. Every self-deception anyone has ever built a life on comes due at once, including the wearer's own. In four decades, no one has survived wearing it longer than three years, and it isn't assassination that ends them. It's what the crown shows them about themselves. Cassian Vantyr has spent two years making sure that fate never has a reason to look at him. He files down the tang of his own practice sword, the part hidden inside the hilt that no inspection ever reaches, just enough that it fails exactly when a duel starts to look too real. He does this three nights before every Proving. His own mother hasn't caught him. It works, until one reflex he can't fake his way out of. A blade meant to open his arm turns aside on its own, clean and exact, and for one second the whole yard sees exactly what he's spent two years hiding. His mother says nothing about it in front of anyone. Not until the fight is over and the yard has emptied. Then she looks down at him in the mud and says only: "You moved like your father moved. Before." Neither of them says the word that comes after. The trials to fill that empty throne have just begun, and Cassian is about to learn that everyone else in the hall is hiding something just as carefully as he is: a forger, a girl born with a splinter of the Throne's own fire, a scribe sitting on a cover-up with bodies under it. He's simply the last one to find out how many. The Mantle doesn't ask who deserves to rule. It asks who can survive being known.

~Mantle of Gods~ A beloved progression fantasy novel about four chosen heroes destined to save the world from an ancient evil. Too bad they're complete idiots who fail spectacularly, leaving reality to burn in eternal darkness. ...But why did I have to transmigrate into this doomed world as Jin Winters, a nameless extra not even mentioned in the original story? And of all places, why Vienna — one of four cities destined to be completely annihilated in the opening act? Armed with my meta-knowledge and a cancer survivor's stubborn refusal to die quietly, I awakened the mysterious "Mantle of Harvest" — a power system the protagonists never fully understood. But knowledge is only useful if you live long enough to use it. Ninety-one days until the veil falls. Ninety-one days to grow strong enough to change a fate written in blood. Ninety-one days to prove that sometimes the extra can rewrite the entire damn story. ...Wait, why are my "quest visions" missing critical information? And what's this about harvesting more than just crops? Daily chapters!!! Patreon: patreon.com/NekoSama9999 You can access: - Up to 20+ advance chapters - Updated Character Images (Free) - Fun and interactive polls - Private community - Fan requests - And MUCH MORE

In a world where individuals' status is determined by their inherent powers, we meet Aiden, a Giftless individual with an exceptional intellect. Despite his genius, Aiden lacks the ability to protect himself in this power-based society. However, everything changes when he unexpectedly awakens his latent Gift. Follow Aiden's remarkable journey as he rises through ranks, overcoming countless challenges, and striving to become the strongest. With his newfound power, he embarks on a mission to save humanity, becoming their ultimate savior. This is my first novel i hope you guys like it [THE COVER IS NOT MINE]

Abraham is a lonely and weak vagabond who traverses a world full of magic and monsters. But when he's gifted a sacred attribute from a shady chalice in a temple, everything changes. Pulse floods into him at a level that shouldn't be possible. And now, he's hunted by monsters and beings of almost divine power.

“Most men out on the frontier are hunting for gold. I'm hunting for time.” Arthur Mercer has exactly forty-eight hours before his own cells begin to liquefy. Afflicted with the terminal Black-Marrow Blight, his only life-support is the Hellfire Ledger—a spectral bounty system branded into his forearm. It doesn't ask for justice. It demands the souls of the wastes' most corrupted abominations in exchange for cellular stability. Every bounty he completes buys him more life. Every failure brings him closer to dissolving into nothing. Armed with a modified revolver and a coat full of volatile alchemical serums, Arthur hunts the worst horrors of the frontier—plague-smiths, mutated abominations, and things that should never exist. He isn't a hero. He's a sanctioned butcher. But survival has a cost. To stay alive, he must harvest organs, craft forbidden compounds, and turn himself into something less human. And now, a greater threat rises. An army of rot. A plague that cannot be outrun. A cure that might destroy what’s left of his mind.

Belia abandonó todo para buscar una vida normal. Dos años después, el destino la obliga a reencontrarse con Paimon, el hombre que una vez amó y el líder de los Hellfire Exorcist. Mientras antiguos enemigos resurgen y una conspiración relacionada con Lucifer amenaza al mundo, ambos deberán enfrentar heridas que nunca terminaron de sanar. Lo que comienza como una misión para salvar a una persona terminará revelando secretos capaces de cambiar el equilibrio entre el cielo, la tierra y el infierno. Porque algunas promesas sobreviven al tiempo. Y algunos pecados jamás pueden ser olvidados.

Radyn, a young man driven by the loss of his family, embarks on a journey to reclaim his honor and find his place in the world.However, lurking in the shadows are greater dangers than simple bandits—rumors of alliances between bandits and monsters hint at an impending threat that could change the fate of Elaria.