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
HAVELI is a high-heat, slice-of-life Punjabi romance following the unhurried life, wrestling conditioning, and intense private encounters of an eighteen-year-old estate heir. Packed with sharp domestic banter, territorial women, and explicit, uninhibited sensual dynamics that deliver on every promise.
A story in the World of Warmachines: Reforging a Legend Universe
Adrian Mercer is a former champion of the game World of WarMachines. He left the competitive scene after an unfair ban from the higher levels of the game. He's stuck making characters and WarMachines for other people. Elias Voss is TheNumbersGuy. He gets scapegoated for being right. Cut adrift. But the threads of fate are pulling them to form a guild together, and the game will never be the same again.
My life became a series of unexpected events when my grandfather passed away, and I inherited his businesses. I discovered things about life and sex that changed the way I thought. I learned my family engaged in a lifestyle I couldn’t imagine, but quickly embraced. It’s amazing what you can do when you have wealth. While I didn’t earn what I had, I was able to accept and enjoy it with the help of others. My greatest fear was becoming an asshole and treating others poorly.
I never thought I would see the splendor of New Mecca as not only was it deep in the heart of the Arabian Desert but off limits to infidels. So it came as a shock to find myself trafficked there to be a slave. The city was full of slaves and beautiful women that would be forbidden to me. Thus to save me from castration, my penis had to be securely locked by my firm-handed Arabian master. But with so many beauties to temp me, was it a mercy or a torture?
An obscure villain is given a second chance at being the most powerful being in Eternia, and the effects are far-reaching, altering the lives of Prince Adam and Princess Adora for good and ill alike,
In a small apartment at the edge of the city, life runs on quiet rituals. Kaori Mizushima packs lunches, shelves mystery novels at the neighborhood bookstore, and measures the year by the photo on the shelf—her late husband Yuto, work-rough hands, a baby Ren in his arms. Ren Mizushima is nineteen now, tall, careful, still home because rent is expensive and because this place still feels like belonging. He notices his mother more than a son should. He pretends he doesn’t...
It begins on a hot street with a sausage stall and a boy nobody wanted. Liu Xuan is eighteen, bruised, and already half-broken by a bully who only hits him. Then a woman steps into his life like smoke and silk—Liu Ruyan, the ice-queen CEO everyone fears, and the mother who has been searching for him since the day he was stolen from her arms. She does not only take him home. She feeds him, dresses him, and opens a private world of money, systems, and hunger. What should have been a reunion bec