Lord Tanden is finally free. Free from his family's obligations, free to sail around the world, free to explore. It's all he's ever wanted, to be allowed to experience everything life has to offer, away from the stuffy meeting halls of his childhood. To indulge his wanderlust. However, wanderlust isn't the only thing he's after. Captain Tanden is rich, he's charming, and he's handsome. He knows he can get the prettiest girl or the most attractive man in every port. Yet, he knows that none of them will hold his interest for long. He's always moved quickly, from one country to the next, from one lover to someone else. No one can keep up, but he doesn't mind. Tanden's life and adventures are a game he's destined to play on his own. But then he meets Soren in a bar, and things change. Soren isn't just an excellent sailor and fantastic candidate for first mate, he might be capable of keeping up. He might be the only person willing to play Tanden's game.

Life has never been simple for Violet James--a woman with no memories before her eighteenth birthday. As a field medic for the government demon hunters, hiding on the shores of a new country as a civilian doctor would be simple. But an unexpected encounter draws Violet down a road that transports her to a whole new world. Struggling to understand her Nen and other abilities, she runs into an unlikely ally in Heaven's Arena: the mysterious and dangerous Hisoka Morou. Long-forgotten memories churn as her new surroundings evoke a nostalgia she could not understand. Unseen enemies from past and present align, corralling Violet into a dark future, promising blood and death. Would Hisoka sign Violet's death warrant? Or become her greatest weapon in the fight against the unknown foes pulling strings from the dark? ------ Rankings: #1 in Hisokafanfic (July/21), #1 in Hisoka (May, 14th/22) #33 in Strong-Female-Character (Sept/21), #8 in action-packed (Jan/22). WARNINGS: 🔞⚠ R rated for a mature audience. Strong language, gory imagery, death, violence, and explicit sex scenes and kinks (including some non-consent).

A sorcerer, a genie, and an outlaw - three individuals pulled together by fate through a winding tale of magic, curses, and arrows. Jafar is in search of power. As a sorcerer with the world at his fingertips, there isn't much that Jafar wants for in life but when a long-lost relic from his past emerges once more, he will stop at nothing until it's back in his hands. Karim is in search of freedom. As a genie who has been cursed as a slave to man, granting three wishes to each of his masters for over a thousand years, it's been a long time since Karim has been able to make choices for himself. But all that is set to change when he meets one legendary outlaw. Robin Hood is in search of a way back home to Sherwood. As an outlaw and a thief, Robin is no stranger to sticky situations but when a robbery gone wrong landed him in a foreign realm a long way away from the forest he knows and loves, he's desperate for any way to get home. When a sorcerer hires Robin to retrieve a cursed oil lamp, the legendary outlaw has no choice but to accept or risk never returning home to Sherwood ever again. Three men whose lives have been long fated to intertwine collide in this epic fairytale retelling. *** An ONC 2022 submission with prompt #43: click your heels together three times and say "there's no place like home". You did just that. But where you found yourself next...it was most definitely not home

Welcome to the Round Robin Reading Group, hosted by the Sugarbabes! 🌹The requirements may seem light, but we hope the substance is heavy🌹 In tournaments and such, round-robin scheduling arranges to have all players take turns playing each other. We think that concept would be pretty cool for a reading group where reading a variety of books might be fun. Hopefully in the Triple R Reading Group (Let's thank @BlameSaiki for the cool nickname) we can do more than just read and comment, we can pool our talents together to become better writers. Sound good? Then step inside...