Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

These files aren't for tourists, sweetheart." One sentence, and twenty-three of America's most elite operators laughed at the quiet woman in the doorway. They didn't know about Aleppo. They didn't know about the twenty-six missions that don't exist on paper. When the mission requires a 1,400-meter shot at night, in mountain winds, from a position nobody else can make — she says four words: "I'll take the shot." By the time she leaves FOB Echo, thirty-one men who mocked her will salute her at the

Ryker Jamison's mission becomes a nightmare when a wormhole throws his ship onto Kajirae-Gor—a world where uncollared women are hunted. To save his crew, he uses alien biotech collars creating permanent neural bonds. What begins as survival becomes Commander something deeper: four women discovering their truest selves through impossible choices. A story of trauma, healing, unconventional love, and family forged when surrender becomes freedom.

Before she died of cancer, Stephanie Barrett did one last thing for her husband Nathan—she found him a slave. She spent her final months training her young cousin Kiya to love him the way she had loved him, completely and without reservation. Kiya spent a year watching Nathan from a distance before walking into his life with a sealed letter and a truth she had been carrying for two years. "I am the slave she made for you”

In the spring of 1868, as the Shogunate collapses and three thousand women are expelled from Edo Castle, American silk trader Reggie Hemming spots a woman in blue and silver silk who stops him cold. Midori, the Shogun's former third concubine, is facing a world that has declared her obsolete. He follows her. She saves his life. He offers her a door, not a cage. What begins as survival becomes something neither of them planned for — a love built across two languages, two worlds, and one life

An American serviceman stationed in the Middle East yearning for a small Asian girl to love. A petite, slightly overweight Japanese girl with a terrible self-image longs for a guy to think she's pretty and worth loving. Both Christian, both pray. What's that the Bible says, "Ask and Ye shall receive?"

When a drunk driver destroys paralegal Ji-Eun Park's leg, attorney Brent Arnold refuses to walk away. Through agonizing recovery, brutal legal battles, and the fight to reclaim her independence, Ji-Eun discovers that rebuilding isn't about doing it alone—it's about finding someone who sees past the scars. A powerful story of resilience, justice, and the kind of love that stays when life gets hardest. Sometimes losing everything is just the beginning of finding what truly matters.

Shira Abrams was seven when her father began training her to kill. Forged in Israel's IDF and perfected in the U.S. Army, she becomes "Lilith"—one of the deadliest snipers in modern warfare. 96 confirmed kills across Iraq and Afghanistan. A Silver Star for heroism. A legend among Rangers. But after years of war, she faces her hardest mission: learning to be human again. Can a warrior choose peace when killing is all she knows?

Follow four young teenage girls in Japan whose lives are affected and shaped by bullying in the school system, and the Yakuza'a use of bullying to entrap kids right from the classroom. The facts about bullying and Yakuza's part are true. Warning: There are coerced actions as a result of bullying

A curse amended from the days of Zeus and , a curse of blessing to help the innocents of the early Lycans passed on through time. This time, to a lowly Omega

She made a promise at her father's grave — she would heal, never harm. For seven years and three deployments, Navy Corpsman Madison Veil kept it. Then came Mosul, a rifle in the dirt, and thirty-five seconds to decide. Now she carries two truths that will not reconcile: the promise she made, and the six lives she saved by breaking it. Some promises are not broken. They evolve. Madison's Promise is the story of how.