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Meredith Carter var engang sin floks stolthed – indtil Måneforhekselsen stemplede hende som ulveløs, uønsket og en skændsel. Ydmyget, forladt og afvist af sin skæbnebestemte mage troede hun, at Månegudinden havde svigtet hende. Men hendes forbandelse kom med en grusom bivirkning – vilde, ukontrollerbare feromoner, der gjorde mænd vanvittige af lyst og afsky. En duft så berusende, at den gjorde hende til et mål. Den aften, hun blev stødt bort, da hendes feromoner kom ud af kontrol, gjorde Alfa Draven Oatrun – den mest frygtede og urørlige Alfa i kongeriget – i stedet krav på hende. Men Draven ønsker ikke kærlighed. Han ønsker hende ikke engang. Hans grunde til at gifte sig med hende har intet med skæbnen at gøre. Kastet ind i en verden af hensynsløs politik, dødelige fjender og en mage, der kun ser hende som en brik i et spil, må Meredith kæmpe for at overleve, genvinde sin værdighed og afsløre hemmelighederne bag sin forbandelse. For noget er ved at vågne i hende. Noget magtfuldt. Noget… ældgammelt. Og når sandheden afsløres, vil ikke engang Alfa Draven kunne modstå, hvad hun bliver til. Afvist. Forbandet. Begæret. Udvalgt. Vil Meredith bryde fri fra sin skæbne? Frem for alt, hvad er denne mystiske kraft, der presser hende til at starte en krig? — Uddrag: "Du har måske gjort krav på mig," hviskede Meredith, hendes violette øjne brændende af trods, "men du kommer aldrig til at eje mig." Draven udstødte en lav, farlig latter. Hans gyldne øjne glimtede, da han fangede hende, hans tilstedeværelse kvælende. "Eje dig?" Hans stemme var fløjl og stål. "Lille ulv, jeg behøver ikke at eje dig." Han strøg en lok sølvhvidt hår om bag hendes øre – en berøring så let, at den alligevel sendte kuldegysninger ned ad ryggen på hende. "For om du kan lide det eller ej…" Hans ånde strejfede hendes hud. "Din krop reagerer allerede på mig." Meredith spændte kæberne og ignorerede den forræderiske varme, der samlede sig dybt i hende. Det var feromonerne. Det måtte det være. "Jeg hader dig," fremtvang hun. "Godt," smirkede Draven. For had var bare en anden form for besættelse.

Lola er et uønsket barn, der ofte bliver set ned på og udskammet. I en ung alder blev folk ved med at sige, at selv når hun blev gift, ville kun uduelige slyngler have hende! Flere år senere vender Lola tilbage for at kappe båndene til sin familie en gang for alle, da to børn klamrer sig til hendes ben og siger; “Mor, må vi ikke nok adoptere dig!” “Mor, far savner dig så meget! Han sagde, at han vil have endnu en baby!” Da alle kun var interesserede i Lolas elendighed, annoncerede den rigeste og mest indflydelsesrige rigmand: “Min hustru, kom venligst hjem.”

It's the year 3045 and the entire world is shrouded in a deadly fog. To escape its grasp, people flocked to New York where the fog couldn't penetrate. Unbeknownst to them, a sinister presence lurked in the once bustling city. In this morally grey society, cunning, influence, and aspirations dictate this shattered world. With a diverse group of characters each pursuing their own ambitions, there is a variety of personalities to connect with as their narratives unravel, leading to an inevitable conclusion.

New York: the financial heart of the world, a modern jungle forged from steel and glass. To the average onlooker, it is a battlefield of capital; to Shen Yu, it is a treacherous landscape of "Silver-Shredding Traps" and "Heaven-Cleaving Slights." As an authentic heir to Taoist tradition, Shen Yu possesses the heavy destiny of Wu-Earth. He originally intended to live a reclusive life of cultivation in this "Metal and Water" dominant city, only to be unexpectedly ensnared in a metaphysical conspiracy spanning over a century: Why did a top Wall Street venture capital firm collapse overnight? It wasn’t stock market volatility, but the glass curtain wall of the opposite building acting as a blade, severing the veins of wealth. Why does a dragon’s roar echo from the bottom of the Hudson River? It isn’t the subway; someone is attempting to refine the entire island of Manhattan into a "Dragon-Locking Formation" to imprison a nation’s destiny. And why does his silhouette appear in a photograph from a hundred years ago? When modern technology collides with ancient forbidden arts, and Western skyscrapers are transformed into Eastern altars, Shen Yu stands amidst the tangled desires of Manhattan. With a single copper coin in one hand and half a cup of black coffee in the other, he balances Yin and Yang, adjudicates life and death, and mends the dragon veins.

In the heart of New York City, where ambition bleeds into the shadows, an ancient power has arrived. Lin Mo, the last descendant of a forgotten Taoist lineage, sits in the shadow of the Wall Street Bull. To the world, he is a penniless vagrant in tattered robes. To the entities lurking beneath the subway grates and within the penthouses of the elite, he is the only thing standing between humanity and the abyss. When a wave of supernatural suicides plagues the city and the bronze icons of capitalism begin to thirst for blood, the NYPD’s Occult Task Force is forced to turn to the man they once tried to arrest. Armed with cinnabar seals, a peach-wood sword, and a sharp wit, Lin Mo takes on the demons of the New World. From the haunted alleys of Chinatown to the cursed boardrooms of the 1%, the game of Yin and Yang has begun. Welcome to New York. Mind the ghosts.

Can power kill? Can it be bought, like the most expensive sex toy, making it an inseparable companion? Can one be driven mad by it, lose oneself in this elusive desire that is born anew each time, only to return with even greater power? As Alexander, the protagonist of this story, used to say: 'Power is the heroin of the mind, love is the dealer of hearts'. It's a drug that sucks you in to the brim, changing your perception of reality, satisfying your thirst but leaving you hungry for more. You'll feel that ache, that emptiness, which only intensifies, leading to another dose. Once the darkest desires are in play, there is no going back. Life becomes an obsession. Every decision in this world is a choice between light and darkness. Death is just the moment when the light goes out and the rest turns into one endless darkness. And in that darkness - those who once were something more - wander. But can you escape what is already inside you? How far will you go to get what you want? How much are you willing to sacrifice to take control? This erotic thriller will transport you to the world of New York's elite, where nothing is what it seems. Where everything is for sale and prices have no boundaries - money, sex, power and, above all, lies. In the heart of New York, there are dark secrets that the most powerful are prepared to hide behind a facade of luxury. Where betrayal is the daily bread and everyone has something to hide, there is no room for honesty. In this world, law is just an illusion and morality is a relic of the past. Discover how far corruption reaches, how great the influence of evil is and how addictive it can be when only real power is at stake. The power to destroy everything that stands in its way, the power that pulls all the strings.

Vincent is just a regular Mexican American mechanic living in Harrison Minneapolis. But after dying by an unknown cause, he reincarnated in the Lower East Manhattan set in the early 2000's, where 50% of the population posses superpower's known as meta abilities. Now a half man/dog hybrid living with a mysterious sociopathic dad. Vincent has been abused and force to murder and eat people because his meta ability allows him to enhance his body by consuming human flesh and only human flesh alone. As he cannot digest anything other than that. Living 10 years under his roof until Vincent manage to cultivate enough strenght to kill his dad. Finally free from his influence, he strive to leave the apartment and redo his second life. Managing to apply as a mechanic again thanks to his new found friend and co-worker Dave, a caring and casual mechanic that has black scale's, a carapace that blocks his eyes and a meta ability that grants him enhanced hearing. Unfortunately. Vincent knows that his second chance in this world won't go well due to the cannibalistic side of meta ability. Leading him to a dark path where he hunt's down criminals, villains, thugs, drug lords and even some occasional vigilantes at night. Just to satiate his hunger. But will he be able to keep his secret and hunger intact? ( on hiatus )

Gripgaff Runtsmacker was a professional. Back in the grimdark far future of Warhammer 40K, his job was simple: scream at small green creatures, hit them with a spiked stick, and ensure they didn't blow up the camp before they could be useful. It wasn't glorious, but it was honest work. Then he died and reincarnated in the New York City sewers. Now, Gripgaff is an eight-foot-tall, muscle-bound Ork dealing with a fresh batch of manic, naked Snotlings who think Manhattan is their personal playground. Worse yet, this strange new "fleshy-soft" reality is completely infested with brightly colored humies in spandex who keep interrupting his official herding duties. Armed only with a crackling Grot-Prod, an iron Grabba-Stik, and the sheer, logic-bending power of Orkish belief, Gripgaff sets out to build a proper underbelly empire. From turning stolen Oscorp tech into a flying sewer-grate battle-wagon, to accidentally infecting Tony Stark's nanotech with diesel-powered thoughts, Gripgaff and his radioactive toddlers are turning the Marvel universe completely upside down. Can Spider-Man survive a zero-gravity gremlin ambush? Why is a naked Snotling joyriding through Midtown in the Hulkbuster armor? And how on Earth did a telepathic look into an Ork's brain turn Professor Charles Xavier into a wrench-wielding, soot-stained mechanic screaming "WAAAAAAAAGH!" through a traffic cone? Find out in the ultimate crossover crisis, where human physics are entirely optional, green is officially best, and the Avengers are about to learn that you can't defeat an enemy who runs entirely on pure, unadulterated nonsense.

In New York City, silence is a language the rich learn early. At Ashford Academy an elite high school built for heirs, legacies, and future empires Evelyn Hartwood arrives carrying nothing but her surname and a past no one asks about. Julian Ashford has everything. Wealth. Influence. A future already written. What he doesn’t have is the freedom to choose who he loves. As their paths cross in quiet hallways, crowded classrooms, and glittering social events, a fragile connection forms one that history has seen before, and destroyed before. Between old family expectations, unspoken rules, and the quiet cruelty of privilege, Evelyn and Julian are forced to ask a question no one at Ashford Academy dares to answer: Is love worth breaking a legacy? Some stories are loud. This one whispers and stays with you long after you close the page.

A mission gone wrong sends military doctor Han Lei tumbling through time, straight into the arms of a fallen Prince in a war-torn era. With a bizarre excuse to keep a doctor by his side, the battle-scarred general finds himself completely undone by her soft words and gentle hands. Han Lei's wish is to earn silver and marry a strong man. The Prince’s wish is to seek development and marry a gentle wife. Two people, four desires, who will bend first? --- She's a dignified modern woman who crossed through time. How could she stand by and let these ancient fools bully her husband? He's a national hero, yet nearly got himself killed over that damn loyalty of his. She asks him: "What are you thinking?" He answers: "My heart is dead, you know what I am thinking." She curls her lips, turns to leave a sentence: "Then what are you waiting for? Go do him now!"