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What happens when a young man ends up as a Dungeon master in another world with no idea what will happen and only a talking lizard for company? *I hold no writes to any media referenced or used in this story.

Monsters, humans, war. Within their shielded cities of Technomagi, the humans live their lives in small boxes. Only venturing out of their bubbles with gunslingers or mages trained to defend against the beasts outside. Teleportation to other cities is normal, done through square boxes on rails that are housed underground. These days, the disparity between humans and us has grown to a breaking point. In a single night: an entire nation of monsters vanished. A cloud and flash of light that all had seen. Only the strongest could survive against their might and stubborn ingenuity. Those terrifying, amazing humans. We had laughed at first. ‘What possible danger is there? They’re just humans’. That was centuries ago by this point, of course. We all realized the moment we saw that metal tube fall. There is something that only a human can accomplish, through their ability to see light even in the darkest situation. You don’t win against humans. You either die with them or live to serve them.

Every century always has a sliver of revolution, the French revolution, the American revolution, the Spanish revolution, the cuban revolution and so and so. This is a guide to a step by step to the undermining and infiltrating of governments to the extent they become nothing but figureheads. Join Jason Gideon as he uses his wealth to change the world.

When Evelyn Perkins walks into his cramped office at Pacific Assurance & Indemnity, she brings more than just questions about her husband's supposed suicide. She brings trouble. The police say Randall Perkins, a quiet accountant, put a bullet in his own brain. His widow says otherwise. As Slade digs deeper, he uncovers a deadly web of lies that spans from smoke-filled jazz clubs to the highest offices of City Hall. With a seductive sister-in-law, corrupt cops, and a notorious nightclub owner all playing their parts in this deadly game, Slade will need more than his Army training and investigator's instincts to survive. In a city where everyone has something to hide, the truth could be his last case. THE PERKINS PREDICAMENT is a hard-boiled noir thriller that weaves murder, blackmail, and forbidden romance into a tale of corruption that reaches from the gutters to the penthouses of 1950s Los Angeles.

A genius scientist who craves for the secrets of the Universe suddenly died and got sucked into a swirling blackhole that leads to his rebirth! Watch how he suffers into this new world that broke his concept of logic!

Layla, the main character, is faced with an impossible choice. She has a responsibility as well as her own feelings. Which should she choose?

Enjoy this story-driven tale as you take part in Hiro's perspective based on the personality of your own choosing. Yes, it's up to you reader to decide most of his story and the consequences that's included in his actions. Whether it's for the better or worse, that's entirely up to you. Hiro Nakamura arrives at Rurasa, a rural town filled with mysteries and intrigue. At the behest of his late mother, he was taken in by the Amakusa family, longtime friends of the Nakamuras. Join him in his tale as he unravels mysteries, get along (or not) with his schoolmates, forged friendships or rivalries, and pursue romantic relationships with your favored love interest (Male or Female).

This is the story of Shi-heum and Yoon-sung, who found themselves living together due to circumstances beyond their control.

In a world still healing from the Transparency Revolution that exposed global corruption, violence begins rising again across Mumbai—quietly, strangely, without warning. Ordinary people display inhuman reflexes, unpredictable instincts, and terrifying bursts of clarity in fights. Officials blame stress. The media blames unrest. No one knows the truth. Arjun is the kind of boy who should never be caught in this chaos—quiet, overlooked, bullied, living each day in survival mode. He’s not fast, not skilled, and not brave. Yet whenever danger closes in, something inside him reacts before he can think. A glance he shouldn't notice. A footstep he shouldn't hear. A punch he shouldn't avoid. Everyone around him is changing in violent, unpredictable ways. But Arjun… stays calm. When he survives an attack that should have killed him, he begins to notice the truth: the world is shifting, people are breaking, and whatever is happening to them… isn't happening to him. As more strange incidents spread across the city, Arjun finds himself caught between students who fight like cornered animals, strangers whose instincts feel manufactured, and forces far bigger than any schoolyard conflict. He isn’t trying to become a hero. He isn’t trying to understand the world. He just wants to stay alive. But survival comes with a cost—because once the wrong people notice someone who doesn’t break, they don’t let go. And Arjun is about to find out that the most dangerous thing in this changing world… is a mind that refuses to fall apart.

Bria Stephens was an artist once. She painted cities at dusk in colors no one else could see — until someone she trusted told her she wasn't good enough. She never picked up a brush again. Now she's a senior editor at Caelum Press, one of the most prestigious publishing houses in the country. Her colleagues call her the Ice Queen of the slush pile. Authors fear her rejections. No one knows she still sees the world like a canvas — she just stopped letting anyone see her. Ryan Malcolm wasn't always Ryan Malcolm. He was born Dante Wards, in a neighborhood that tried to bury him. He failed. He lost everything. So he left, changed his name, and rebuilt himself from nothing. Now he's the cold, elusive CEO of Caelum Press — the company he built with his own hands. The only people who know the man beneath the armor are the younger sibling he raised alone, and the anonymous scholarship he funds for kids from his old streets. When an anonymous manuscript lands on Bria's desk — a story about a young artist who stopped painting, written with details no stranger should know — her carefully constructed walls begin to crack. Someone inside Caelum Press knows her secret. Someone is watching. At the same time, an inquiry into the Dante Wards Scholarship threatens to expose the past Ryan has spent years burying. Forced together by the threats circling them both, Bria and Ryan discover what they've been hiding from the world — and from themselves. Two people who built the same walls. Two people who recognize the armor because they wear the same kind. The world has already written Bria as the villainess. Ryan has been written as a ghost. But the story isn't over yet — and some stories can be rewritten. The Color of Cold is a slow-burn contemporary romance about art, survival, and what happens when two people who forgot how to feel finally let someone in.