Bloom, for how hard he tries, isn't, as some would say, magically skilled as most other mages within Sanli Academy, one of the most prestigious magic academy's in the world. Regardless of how much he tries he can hardly muster the spells students of his grade level are able to do effortlessly. After a field trip gone aray, Bloom find himself in the possession of the Archean Stone. A strange mythical artifact from a long dead race of elves. The Stone bestows upon Bloom a unique power... something called the Archean System which allows him to grow his strengths at an exponential rate. With this sort of power, who knows how far he'll go? Only one way to find out.

🥇 Wattpad Amby Award Winner - 2023 Top Pick in Romance.🥇 ♥︎ Ren: I have to admit it... I never got over Giovanni. I thought I had moved on, even married another man. But just when I had my life all neatly put together, it all broke apart. Now, I'm nearly thirty, freshly single, and living back home with my mom in California. Then, as if by fate, Gio walks back into my life, his gaze licking up my body like fire, and Zap! All it takes is one look to feel the intense connection surging between us again... and I know he feels it, too, but whenever my heart leaps forward, he immediately takes two steps back. I give anything to be with him again, but will a man stay with a woman if she can't give him a family? ♥︎ Gio: At seventeen, Lauren captured my heart and soul. I naively believed we were soulmates until she shattered that dream and left New York, detonating a bomb of past trauma and heartbreak that turned my world upside down. My life spiraled into chaos, but since my recent diagnosis, starting therapy, and the right medication, I've finally regained my balance. Then she drops back into my life out of nowhere, primed to fuck all that stability up, and I'm supposed to jump back in where we left off? I don't think so. I'd be foolish to risk it, right? I'm so scared for her to discover what I already know-she wouldn't want the man I am now.

Takashi Watanabe's right foot won't stop tapping. The anticipation of being a first-time father wrestles with the anguish of his past. Just before he laid his eyes on his daughter, an Olympian deity plucks him out of time and space to drop him in a time of unforgiving warriors, cruel monsters, and the gods of Greek Mythology. Along with these obstacles, he must also confront his traumatic past. The one saving grace is a new ability that the Olympian wants to covet for their own desires. He must learn to master this gift in order to survive and return to his loved ones. Will he be able to overcome his fears or fall victim to them? First Place Fantasy Winner of 2022 Libra Awards and 2023 Serenity Book Awards!