After a near death experience, 16-year old Makiko Lombardi's celebrity father comes to Tokyo, but Makiko hasn't met him for almost seven years. To please her mother, Makiko refuses to see him. Ashamed about not speaking her mind, Makiko admires Cynthia, an old friend who helps teenage runaways exploited by Yakuza gangsters. When Yakuza follow them, both girls assume Cynthia's in danger, but someone powerful has a problem with Makiko's father and sees Makiko as a pawn. Meanwhile, neither girl believes rumors that a demon stalks and kills runaways. Until something sinister kills Yakuza outside Makiko's house, and a survivor warns her that the demon "likes" her. *** A first boyfriend. Yakuza with unknown plans. A killer demon who "likes" her. What's a quiet girl to do? Added to @AmbassadorsJP 's Kowai: Eerie Reads list - Sept. 2023 Featured on @StoriesUndiscovered Plain Janes? Not These Ladies - May 2022 Added to @Paranormal 's Paranormal Paramours list - April 2022 Notable Rankings: #1 meet-cute (March 14, 2022) #4 yakuza (July 14, 2022)

When you go to sleep, where do you really go? Xyler is a software developer creating a game involving a lucid dream. To be accurate to the source material, he wants to have a lucid dream himself. But once in his dream paradise, the lines between reality and fantasy begin to fade...

❝i might need a heart transplant, because you've just stolen mine.❞ ❝mr. davis, i'm your doctor.❞ - [BXB] Amos Singh is a resident doctor who just got out of med school. Though he thought he had prepared himself for the best and the worst regarding his job in the medical field, he didn't expect to come across a certain chocolate-skinned troublemaker who would steal his heart within their first few interactions. - copyright: all rights reserved. (completed)