the bleeding sands

[Mature Content] 1# To Love a Vampire. A marriage to cure a curse. An unwilling bride. When the first Prince of Vampires asks for her hand in marriage, Bel is repulsed by this and vehemently refuses. She always imagined her husband would be like her sister’s. A handsome man who shares similar interests with her. He doesn’t need to be royalty. All that matters is that they were in love. Davien got the handsome part down but unfortunately, nothing else. To top it all, he is a vampire. However, she won’t have minded his terrible traits if she loves him but she doesn’t, and neither does he love her. When her father says she has no option but to marry him, Bel vows to do everything in her power to make Davien hate her. If she can’t stop him from marrying her, she can at least make him end the marriage. She will be the worst bride ever. But what happens when Davien can handle her antics and shows nothing but love to her regardless of what she does? 2# To Want a Vampire A girl who won’t speak—or perhaps can’t—only shaking in terror but the scars on her body tell Stelian everything he needs to know about the horrors she’s endured. For Mallory, life has never been kind. Her mother’s death at age thirteen marked the start of her descent into further darkness. Two years later, her father would sell her to vampires, condemning her to unspeakable torment. After three grueling years, Mallory escapes, only to fall into the hands of vampires once again. But this time, she encounters someone different—someone without the red eyes she has come to loathe. Yet, when she learns that he too craves blood, just like those who shattered her body, spirit, and soul, Mallory must confront her deepest fears. Can she open herself to him, or will he become yet another nightmare in her endless cycle of suffering? (I’m taking a break to focus on my new book but will be back in the future.)

My name is Sandy Davies. I’m a half-breed Faery living in a pack of Werewolves. My mate, Sean, is a Second in the Candlewood pack triumvirate. With my older sister as Candlewood pack’s Luna, I wonder what I’m supposed to be doing with my life. Pretty normal, all things considered. Then a strange disaster takes Sean and me back to his childhood home in Desert pack, and everything gets turned on end, starting the minute that I meet Dorian McEttigan. His sexual intensity draws me like a magnet, and it stirs the possessive Were inside Sean to biting ire. Because the Moon Goddess Arianrhod doesn’t gift a Were more than one mate. She certainly doesn’t gift the same mate to brothers. Or does she? This story contains adult themes and language, mild violence and sexual content.

"Love makes you weak." That was the very first thing that Dawn had ever learned; the only thing her mother had taught her. Nix'Ryl had been a tough place to grow up. You could not trust anyone. People who dared to trust someone always ended up regretting it. That was why when the young shapeshifting king of Lumna offered her a way out she left with him. Home. It was something she longed for. And it was what he offered her to marry him. So she did. Though when he was alive she had spent a lot of energy pushing him away, when her husband is murdered she vows that those who dared take her provider away shall die. ......................... Raven could not remember anything about his life, himself, where he was from. How far away he was from home. Nothing but a beautiful face. A face that was constantly in his mind. If he could find the owner of the face, he might be able to find out more about himself. There was just one problem. He was blind. Completely unable to see. When the queen takes him under her wing he swears that he will return the favor. For though he cannot remember anything about his past, Raven knows that one should always pay a debt.

For fifty years, House Valdris and House Morryn have bled each other dry over an assassination neither side fully understands. Seraphine Valdris has built her entire reign on one truth: the Morryn killed her family’s peace. Caelan Morryn has built his on one wound: the Valdris destroyed his. They are wrong about each other. Someone has been counting on that. When a third faction emerges from the shadows cold, patient, and growing both bloodlines face a threat that fifty years of war left them too weak to survive alone. Forced into a temporary alliance, Seraphine and Caelan must work together long enough to find the truth buried beneath half a century of manufactured hatred. The enemy is not who either of them believed. And the longer they spend in each other’s presence, the harder it becomes to remember why they were supposed to hate each other at all. Throne of Bleeding Shadows is a dark vampire fantasy of blood politics, ancient secrets, and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance that begins in contempt and ends somewhere neither of them planned. The story continues in the side story Throne of Bleeding Shadows: What Began, following the charter, the sanctuary, and everything that grew from the war's end. https://www.webnovel.com/book/throne-of-bleeding-shadows-side-story_36846675308770405

In the endless desert of the Great Abyss, ruthless warlord Zhan Arkheis carves a bloody path to power, sacrificing cities and harvesting souls to fuel his dark ambitions. When he seizes ancient artifacts known as amplifiers, their whispers awaken visions of a lost civilization and a looming force—the Architect of the Abyss, a godlike entity tied to the desert’s buried secrets. As Zhan’s power grows, so does the toll on his army, his second-in-command Arkos, and his own sanity. Haunted by shadowy remnants and pursued by Nyrah’s relentless armies, Zhan must confront the amplifiers’ true purpose: they are not tools of conquest but keys to a cycle of destruction orchestrated by the Architect. Will Zhan break the cycle—or become its next pawn?

In a world where the sun has long since perished beneath an eternal cobalt night, every human is born with Lunar Ichor, a living essence etched with a unique Lunar Sigil, a sacred symbol engraved into the soul itself. Yet Lunar Ichor alone grants no true divinity. Only when it resonates with Divine Ichor through the sacred rite of Baptism does the sigil awaken, forging an Astral Card, the vessel of one’s ascension and power. But the heavens are broken. The Moons, fragments of Divine Ichor left behind by gods waging endless war, hang shattered above the world, bleeding their power into mankind while spreading corruption through the night. From these celestial wounds came the Howlings, monstrous echoes of divine ruin, and the prophecy of another Cataclysm, a calamity said to descend when the Moon Goddess Noxella awakens once more. Amid this dying world lives Clyde Nox Pvolae, a boy who never sought power, never desired ascension, and never wished to stand among gods. Yet when he discovers a forbidden book buried beneath ancient truths, his Lunar Ichor mutates into Hollow Star, an impossible anomaly that defies the sacred laws binding humanity to the heavens. As the coming Cataclysm draws near and the descent of Noxella threatens to plunge the world into ruin, Clyde becomes entangled in a fate older than the gods themselves. If the heavens once fell because of mankind’s arrogance, then what will happen when one human gains the power to defy the gods? Will history repeat itself? This story is officially published on Royal Road by Cyan_Yabby. Available on Patreon for early access to chapters and exclusive content: https://patreon.com/Cyan_Yabby?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

Far beneath the desert sands, buried under the weight of stone, a stele of golden-hued metal slept. On one polished face was a map of an alien sky: constellations displaced, their connections tangled, tiny lights smoldering in neat rows. Some had already gone dark. Another point trembled, flickered — and vanished. A ripple spread across the heavens, like water struck by a thrown stone. The world’s familiar pattern cracked. Her own kin betrayed her family. Her home was reduced to ashes. Now her path lies within the harsh lands of stone and wind — where hard labor and the study of runes forge greatness. A narrow trail hisses beneath her feet, while a thin thread of those gathering sacrifices for a dark ritual trails behind her. In a world where the Church and the gods play their own game, she is not one of prophecy’s chosen. She is the one they told, “There is no future.” To break the circle that has always closed around the defiant, she will have to carve her way through the prayers of others and pay a price dearer than gold. A dark fantasy about family, survival, and choice. Slavic motifs, dwarves, runes, cultivation, and a harsh road to power.

[Mature content ahead. 18+] Alex Norman studied history. Now he's rewriting it. Dropped into a broken Rome where Spartacus fights in the wrong era and Brutus rules from a blood-soaked throne, Alex must survive; the arena's cruelty, a system that punishes his defiance, and a love born from the ashes of a shattered empire. But when the woman he loves is taken from him, survival is no longer enough. Alex, The Ghost of Rome, will burn the empire down to claim its throne, only to find that sitting upon it feels more like a tomb. He will win everything, and lose the only thing that mattered. --- If you enjoy system progression, rich world building, visceral fast paced fights, a zero to hero story, an MC that earns every scrap,and revenge stories, then this is definitely for you.

Soul travels to the interstellar era, Yang Bo discovers that he can randomly obtain abilities from the objects he kills! Kill a goldfish, swimming +1! Kill a bat, Sound Wave Positioning +1! Kill a mouse, Dynamic Field of View +1!

Accidentally bound to a quick transmigration system, Ning Yue is resistant on the surface, but inwardly, she's screaming wildly: "As long as I keep completing missions, it's equivalent to gaining eternal life, I'm going to keep transmigrating forever!" In "True and Fake Rich Daughter," she is the fake rich daughter who was abandoned. She declares, "The wealthy family abandoned me, so I will create a wealthy family of my own!" In "Era's Blessed Child," she leads her entire family to build a fortune, turning the fake blessed child into a real blessed child. In "Flourishing Age of Shengshi," having transmigrated into the Empress who was turned into cannon fodder, she simply turns the ungrateful mother and son into cannon fodder instead.