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Lila Devereaux is a woman who has built an empire on ambition, control, and perfection. As the CEO of Devereaux Enterprises, she is untouchable, admired, and feared by those around her. But beneath the cold exterior lies a woman who has spent her entire life running from the ghosts of her past—driven by the weight of expectations from her powerful father and the relentless pressure to never show weakness. When Lila hires Ethan Blake, a seemingly ordinary man from a world far removed from her own, she expects him to be just another cog in the corporate machine. But Ethan’s quiet strength, sharp mind, and unflinching honesty challenge everything she’s built her life around. As he begins to navigate the complexities of her world with surprising ease, Lila finds herself facing the one thing she’s worked so hard to avoid—vulnerability. Caught between the high demands of her father, the unraveling pressures of her company’s expansion, and a growing attraction to Ethan that she can't ignore, Lila must confront the walls she's spent years constructing. Can she continue to hide behind her armor, or will she allow herself to be seen for the first time in years? Unlikely Orders is a gripping exploration of power, ambition, and the hidden cost of success. As Lila struggles with the balance between maintaining control and discovering trust, she must decide if she can let someone into her life without losing everything she’s worked for—or if love and vulnerability are luxuries she can no longer afford.

Title: Between Orders and emotions A steamy office drama of love, silence, and slow-burn obsession. Layla never planned to fall for her boss. Not when he made her job a daily battlefield of impossible tasks, cold stares, and barely-there words. Damian Days — 28-year-old tech billionaire and walking contradiction — built an empire from scratch, but couldn’t figure out why the presence of one woman disrupted his carefully controlled world. She’s just his secretary. But he hates the way other men look at her. He claims to hate distractions, yet makes her life revolve around him. When a business trip becomes an excuse for forced proximity, Layla finds herself questioning the walls around his heart — and hers. Just as she begins to understand his quiet torment, ghosts from the past, jealous women, and workplace politics threaten to destroy whatever fragile connection they’ve built. Damian doesn’t do emotions. Layla can’t afford another heartbreak. But what happens when the man who never wanted love… starts craving it in the one woman he shouldn’t? Set in a high-stakes corporate world full of secrets, obsession, and emotional tension, The Unwanted Want is a slow-burn romance that proves sometimes, the coldest hearts hide the deepest desires.

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Seth, a teenager, gets caught in an invasion incident in his hometown. Losing his family and his home, he has nowhere to return nor a way to survive. Unfortunately, he gets caught in a massive explosion and getting pinched in a ruined building which trapped him alive. An army unit passes by and saved him right before he meets his maker. Later on, he gets used by a scientist as his experiment subject illegally. After those scientists rewrite his memory, he decides to join the military and serves where he lives without knowing the truth. What will the future lead him into? Follow closely his adventures only on Future World Orders.

UPDATES: TBD When an abnormal surge of Dungeons begins spawning in the continent of Oriar, it's up to Imperium City's Investigation Corps to collect information on Dungeons before dispatching Adventurers to close them. Upon Royal Decree, Imperium City Guild Employee Arian Rai is one of many ordered to assist as an Investigator in exploring these Dungeons. Along with her assigned partner, the mysterious Adventurer Blank, the duo embark on their journey to look into the outbreak. However, the more they uncover from these strange Dungeons, the deeper into the rabbit hole they fall with secrets that might bring Oriar to its end. Warning: This is not a weak-to-strong protagonist story. This is not for the LitRPG fans. It's a modern-fantasy mystery that takes a twist on the usual. *No overpowered protagonist, no harem, no sex scenes, no power of friendship (or dues ex machina) *Note: For all you people who think this is going the harem route just from the first chapters, it will not! Just read and see. *Warning: High Author (Those who've read Heir de Winter know by now) *I do not own the cover art. All credit goes to the artist.

She was trained to keep her guard up. But he was never part of the mission. Ex–military captain Audrey Rousseau has bullets in her blood and shadows on her back. After a mission gone wrong forced her out of the French armed forces, she takes a high-risk job oceans away—protecting the dangerously handsome heir to a billion-dollar private security empire. Sebastian Donovan has more money than most countries—and just as many enemies. With that effortless charm and a habit of pushing limits, he’s exactly the kind of trouble Audrey promised herself she’d avoid. But when a hit team comes too close and secrets start bleeding from his father’s empire, protecting Sebastian means going off-grid... and toeing the line between survival and surrender. Every mission has rules. But in the heat of escape, in the silence between gunfire and glances, rules break. Walls fall. And what begins as protection becomes something far more dangerous. Because obsession doesn’t wait for permission. And love never asks for orders.

In the heart of the Seldon Empire, knights are not born....they are forged through blade, blood, and brutal competition. Megan Hunderah carries a lethal legacy. Born with "war in her blood," she enters one of the prestigious Orders of Seldon under the crushing weight of impossible expectations. To earn her place, she must survive rigid missions, and cutthroat rivalries from peers who want to see her fail. But there is little time for schoolyard games as deep in the shadows, a cataclysmic rebellion is brewing. Fallen nations plot against the empire. They will do everything to tear her apart, Seldon’s knight orders are thrust into the vanguard of a hopeless war. Megan is thrown directly into the jaws of the most brutal conflict the empire has ever faced. To survive the incoming slaughter, this budding knight must awaken the war monster in her, perfect her mastery of the blade, and become the very legend her bloodline demands. The academy rules end where the battlefield begins.

— Beyond the Orders The year is 3284 CE. Humanity has united under the United Stellar Federation, ruling thousands of star systems through unmatched engineering, colossal fleets, and towering mecha. Surrounded by rival galactic civilizations and an unforgiving frontier, survival depends not on strength alone, but on innovation, discipline, and unity. Seventeen-year-old Adrian Aurelius dreams of earning a place at Helios Stellar Military Academy, the Federation's most prestigious military institution. Born into a respected family of engineers and scientists, Adrian refuses to rely on his family's reputation. He believes that a true officer must earn every rank, every victory, and every ounce of respect through his own efforts. With only one month remaining before the academy entrance examination, Adrian's life seems to follow a predictable path—until a routine training expedition to a distant colony world takes a disastrous turn. Separated from his classmates by an unexpected cave-in, Adrian uncovers a forgotten underground facility untouched for millions of years. Hidden deep within its silent ruins lies A.S.T.R.A.—an ancient artificial intelligence that quietly binds itself to his consciousness. It grants him no overwhelming power, no instant mastery, and no special status. Instead, it becomes a silent guide, helping him learn, analyze, and uncover truths long buried by time. Determined to keep the mysterious encounter secret, Adrian returns to his ordinary life and enters Helios Stellar Military Academy, where thousands of gifted cadets compete for a future in humanity's armed forces. Between demanding instructors, relentless training, fierce rivals, loyal friends, and the weight of military discipline, Adrian begins the long journey from cadet to commander. Beyond the academy walls, however, the galaxy is changing. Ancient ruins awaken. Exploration fleets vanish without a trace. Political tensions rise between the Five Galactic Powers. Strange signals echo from the unexplored Outer Rim. And fragments of a forgotten history begin to surface—one that could change everything humanity believes about its place among the stars. As Adrian grows stronger, every promotion, Gene advancement, and command must be earned through sacrifice and hard work. His greatest challenge is not becoming the strongest pilot, but becoming the kind of leader who can make impossible decisions when there are no perfect answers. In a galaxy where every order carries a cost, the future belongs not to those who simply obey—but to those who know when to go beyond the orders.

When the natural order falters, the world demands a price. At the age of five, on the brink of death from a sudden asthma attack, a boy hears a voice no mortal should ever hear: "Do you wish to live?" Unaware of the cost, he says yes. That choice shatters the laws that bind life and death. Saved from the grave, he is marked-an anomaly in the weave of existence, a living flaw in the natural orders. But gifts from beyond are never free. As years pass, he begins to sense things hidden from mortal eyes: whispers in the silence, shadows that bend toward him, and truths that defy the will of gods themselves. Somewhere between the living and the dead, hunted by those who guard the balance, he must uncover the origin of the voice that saved him... and why it chose him.

Physically and mentally exhausted from the harsh labor of a toxic corporation, salaryman Yuji Sakamoto slams down his resignation letter. Seeking to heal, he goes camping, only to wake up in an unfamiliar new world. He is granted a unique ability: [Conve∞]*, an infinite web shopping skill that allows him to procure any item from modern Japan. Using this power, he begins a self-sufficient slow life—making a living by selling modern conveniences like shampoo, building his own log cabin, and cultivating a farm. The peaceful days spent with his beloved dog, Haru, slowly begin to heal his weary heart. However, shadows soon start to fall upon his quiet existence: a mysterious beast lurking in the forest and a new contract with the Merchant's Guild, who have taken a keen interest in his special ability. Will Yuji be able to protect the small happiness he has finally found and his peaceful life with Haru? This is the tale of a former salaryman's survival slow-life in another world—one that's not always so laid-back!