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A few months before Emily turns 18, her father dies. She goes to Baguio to live with her mother, her stepfather Miguel, and her half-brother Migo. Emily misses her father terribly that she finds it hard to fit into her new home, despite her mother's sympathetic efforts and her half-brother's irresistible cuteness. Good thing, Emily seems to be friendly enough to have made new pals, like Denver, who, it turns out, sees her as more than a friend. Then Emily meets a mysterious young man who suddenly appears and disappears; and he's always dressed in black leather jacket and denim pants whom she gets to know as Lance Monroe. Emily is smitten by Lance's romantic gestures and protective ways. He teaches her to play the piano, and brings her roses, and he even rescues her from bad guys, and helps her overcome her fears. She feels she has found in Lance her knight in shining armor who will rescue her from her incurable loneliness and deathly sadness. But Emily's family and friends are alarmed that she has become secluded and deluded in her own imaginary world. In the end, she has to decide what matters most to her and where her heart truly is.

In the shadowy underworld of Manchester's college fraternities, the Blackwell Twins reign supreme. Ethan, a combat prodigy with the scars to prove it, and Alexander, a brilliant strategist with a moral compass that spins like a roulette wheel, have built an empire on force and cunning. Known to the criminal underworld as "The Apollo Twins," they find themselves indebted to a ruthless Russian mobster when a high-stakes gamble backfires. With time running out and enemies at every turn, the twins must navigate a labyrinth of deceit, betrayal, and hidden agendas. As a relentless detective closes in, drawn by a dangerous attraction to the very man she's hunting, “The Apollo Twins” will risk everything to stay one step ahead in a game where losing means death.

Dante Stormborn was unlucky. That’s all he ever saw himself as. In the year 2500, technology has risen to combat magic, and hierarchical systems are upturned. But Dante had no magic, and no money to get technology. Living in the lowest level in the City of Selene did nothing but remind him of why he was unlucky in the first place. Then, luck strikes. He gets an enticing offer that he can’t afford to refuse. But, it’s all a trap, and he’s broken and left for dead in a world he doesn’t recognize. In a world teeming with betrayal on every front, how do you know who to trust? Will he survive, or give up finally? In a world where magic clashes with technology, the world upturns itself. State against state, country against country, continent against continent. The corruption seeps into the fabric of the world, dyeing it red. Even the gods are not left out. Who’s left standing at the end?

In an alternate version of the future, the supernatural has manifested and a mysterious energy has been released as a result of a devastating war. Certain humans called Users have mastered use of this energy called the maegen, and after signing up as Wardens in the Maegen Guild, they join the fight against the Anomalies and Entities from the Veil. Half a century later, twin Warden Hunters Reon and Hikaru Rudson are given a new job by the Maegen: to hunt down the Entities that have escaped the Veil. They soon encounter a Rogue Hunter who is being targeted by an underground organization and who is in possession of one of the Entities they were sent after. Their mission begins to derail soon after: protect the girl and the creature, evade enemies from their past and discover the nasty truths behind their world.

Massimo was seated working late at his office when a bright light shove over him and he ended in another world of fantasy

In a quest for vengeance, Raymond joined the mafia. At the lowest point of his life, he met Dera. A few years later, he's left with two options; leaving the mafia to focus on his family or staying as an associate - killing for the sake of allegiance. Meanwhile, his departure from the mafia had a reward - death. Will respond choose Dera over the syndicate? What if he did, how would he escape the death penalty? Find out.

Jide wakes up from his University of Lagos dorm to find out that the world he knows is about to change forever. It started with a dark patch around his eyes and screams of terror across the dorm corridor; soon everybody develops a strange illness that turns some into raging mad zombie like creatures. In a world that soon became over run by raving mad flesh eating zombies, it took courage, love, and a hope that was more human than any creature in a presently dead earth to take the world from death to a new beginning. Join Writer Olujimi Ojikutu as he takes you through a fantastic world of flesh eating zombies, ‘living-deads’, and a single flicker of light in a world of darkness and gloom.