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After the divorce, I wanted only three things: peace and quiet, freedom, and a little witchy revenge on the ex-husband who’d left me without a home, without money, and with barely enough strength to keep going.

He's died more times than he can count — and remembered every single one. Every night at midnight, the world resets. Everyone dies. Everyone forgets. Roy doesn't. He's watched his own family slaughter each other in the dark, over and over, for thousands of loops — and woken up the next morning to a mom who has no idea it happened. This time, something breaks. His memories don't wipe. The loop has a crack in it, and he's standing in it. He's not the first to escape — they call themselves Breakers, people who slipped the leash of the reset and are still alive to talk about it. Power here isn't trained, it's eaten. Monster hearts, brains, eyes — swallow it raw, or stay weak forever. Roy's done being weak. He's pulled into a world of zombie revenants who can't die twice, S-rank elders who speak in riddles, kings who weaponize mass murder, and one woman who seems to exist somewhere the universe forgot to finish. One goal left: get strong enough to tear the loop apart from the inside — or die trying, again and again, until it stops counting. A progression fantasy with a body-horror power system, a slow-burn mystery, and a protagonist who's already failed a thousand times — and is done pretending that's the end of the story.

Victoria is a strong willed, bold, pampered girl, to put it kindly. After her sister ran away from marrying the young CEO of their company's rival, she had to take her sister's place.

Gale Foster works in a secretive underground facility, bored and isolated, until the day the alarms blare and chaos erupts. When strange creatures attack, Gale discovers hidden files revealing the facility’s dark secrets. With his friend Bobby, Gale navigates the facility’s treacherous halls, evading danger and uncovering the truth about the Vanguards and the mysterious “red man” who has a dog from seemly hell. As the facility’s horrors close in, Gale must decide who to trust—and how far he’s willing to go to survive.

Maximilian, brought into a God's rat race to fill the numbers, was transported into another world. Nothing like the brilliant contestants that fill the other spots, Maximilian was an afterthought in the God's game. Confronted with the frustrating reality of being boiled down to three statistics, Maximilian needs to get his act together, or the worlds he's found himself in might very well suffer for it.

A vengeful love tale

Jake Morrigan was always able to read minds, or at least until he met Rachel. Though something about her makes her so inviting, there is something that makes him so uneasy about her. He can't read her mind. Not knowing that meeting her would plunge him into the deepest, darkest secrets that would change his life, and open his eyes to something that is Unwicked.

This story contains a lot of tragic events

Lucien Salvatore, a high school student, was killed in a grizzly bear accident, but he awakens immediately to learn that he may not be like all other humans. Instead, he may be a mysterious, almost immortal being granted not only the powers of rejuvenation but the other unknown abilities. Frightened, he flees, and is helped in his escape from society by a mysterious man and brought him into a new world that he could never imagine.

The tears she sheds daily in silence, hoping that someone would notice. The emotions of an orphan are unimportant. They are known as the undesirable and unwelcome. For all she knows, nobody wants her. Hazel and her closest friends have persevered through the challenges of growing up in Bright Orphanage by keeping their eyes on the future. Another strength of theirs is their ability to support each other no matter what and to mask their pain with a smile. What happens when a couple from the world's most powerful and affluent families decides to consider adoption, ends up at Bright Orphanage, and develops feelings for a particular girl? Then there are the two wealthiest teens in the world, who are the most beloved, desirable, and eligible of all, and they will stop at nothing to hold her. Fascination, deceit, and hidden truths await her in a world she never knew existed. With all of her hidden wounds and the emotional and mental anguish she's currently experiencing, how will she make it? And who will succeed in winning her heart?