Lord Alder is the richest man in the kingdom, and on a crusade to end slavery. So he says. Mid-wife Kara and her family are at first impressed but increasingly they become wary. When Alder mounts a coup, they have to decide where they stand.
One Witcher is a hunter. One Astartes is a god of war. Lannor is both. In a world of cruel peasants and tyrannical nobles, Lannor stands apart. With two hearts, three lungs, and the brutal training of the Bear School, he is the ultimate predator. As the Conjunction of the Spheres leaks horrors across realms, this superhuman warrior purges the darkness with silver, steel, and transhuman wrath.
Lydia Taylor, brilliant son, Carl, who is about to go to college is bullied at school by a lowlife and his friends. After dropping her son off to leave for two weeks she decides to go and confront the parents of the bully. The parent is an ex-con who loses it when she threatens to get the cops involved. He and his two sons subdue her. They decide they are going to train her to be their plaything and a series of humiliations quickly ensue.
SAPS Airwing pilot, Lt-Col. Timothy Duncan gets an unexpected appointment by the SACAA as lead investigator to investigate the tragic crash of a Beech King Air. Armed with the first data report, he sets off to the Drakensberg in KZN, South Africa, and meets the team of experts he will be leading to unravel the mystery. But why do the fiery red head Airworthiness Engineer, Dr. Megan Forsyth “play solitaire?” And how is the mysterious green box they discover in the wreck connected to the crash.
Captain Alex Donovan has a reason to hate pirates and slavers. He also has a hot ship under his command. Can he ever get enough payback to live up to his ship's name? If his new crew have anything to say about it, he will!
Lisbon, 1943. The last neutral capital in Europe, where tungsten buys both sides and every café hides a courier. Calvin Brennan files for the Chicago Tribune and quietly works for the OSS. Then he meets Vera at the Casino do Estoril—Polish, beautiful, and held on a leash he can't yet see. She says she's been sent to work him. He believes her. The only way out runs through a man Berlin wants kept breathing. A twelve-chapter serial: espionage, slow-burn romance, and gallows wit.
In a world where magic and industry collide, a reborn man finds a mysterious Black Stone glowing with forbidden golden light. Armed with modern knowledge, he turns coins into weapons, laundromats into empires, and federal agents into pawns. He doesn’t want to rule the world. He wants the world to need him. The only sin is playing small.
At the start of the story, Larissa is a young woman failing to cope with Covid. The story trace's Larissa's growth through the challenges of Covid and marriage with Julian, and the lives of people around her, ending with Larissa and her friends changing the nature of Australia
In this world, cultivators and mages fought for thousands of years to prove who was stronger. Cultivators could live very long and kept getting more powerful over time, while mages died much sooner even with special potions. Because of this, cultivators slowly became much stronger and mages lost their old power. Then a poor young boy from a small village got a special system that lets him become stronger by doing perverted things, and it all started when he accidentally saw his mother fingering