Volume 1: Pickpocketing Living in secret and stealing to eat is a hard life , but it's all Kuro has ever known. Fear and necessity honed him from a young age into the finest young thief in in the wizard kingdoms. Nobody can hide forever, though, and a run of poor luck lands Kuro in a place where his quick hands and quiet feet count for nothing: Avalon Academy, school of magic. Out of his depth and unable to escape, can Kuro find a place among the other misfits at the school, or will his past return to ruin the one chance he has to leave his life in the shadows?

Forced into an engagement with a man she doesn't love, Reyna must ignore her bond with her father's general in order to avoid a war and save her throne. ***** As the first female heir to one of the great Northern Kingdoms, Reyna panics when her claim to the throne is threatened by the discovery that her father's general is her soulbound partner. She forces herself to ignore their connection, determined to be more than a general's wife, only for her father to manipulate her into a political engagement with a man she could never love. So to forge her own path forward, keep her throne, and confront her feelings for the general who owns her heart, Reyna must find a way to refuse this arranged marriage without destroying her kingdom in the process. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] ---------- Cover designed by Ren Tachibana

¿Y si tu primer amor te recordara... justo cuando está a punto de olvidarte? Nina lo tenía todo planeado: una vida ordenada, metas claras y una pasión secreta por un grupo de K-pop que iluminaba sus días. Pero el destino -caprichoso y silencioso- tenía otros planes. Un viaje inesperado a Corea del Sur se convierte en el punto de quiebre. En un intento por alargar su estadía, acepta un trabajo que jamás imaginó: enseñar español a los siete integrantes de una de las bandas más famosas del mundo. Entre ellos está él. Su primer amor, aunque él aún no lo sepa. Y también está ese otro chico... el que llegó sin previo aviso, con una sonrisa amable y un secreto bien guardado. Lo que Nina no imaginaba era que en medio de ese caos -entre aprendizajes, silencios y emociones contenidas- terminaría encontrando el amor. Uno tan real como inesperado. Uno que la haría sentir viva... incluso cuando también le doliera. Una historia sobre esperas que duelen, encuentros que sanan, segundas oportunidades... y revelaciones capaces de cambiarlo todo.