A billion-dollar clone, bought and raised as an extremely dangerous weapon, strikes out against those who manufacture and harvest clones for spare parts. ***** Duplicates are used for one thing: spare parts. Kept in Emulation Facilities, brain-dead and hooked to machines, duplicates never open their eyes. As a transplant nurse, Evette Ashford knows this better than anyone -- until a living, breathing duplicate shatters her life. Merely knowing he exists drags Evette into a deep, dark world of manipulation, danger, and control. Evette knows he just wants to find himself, but the corporation that created him are furious he's broken their control. So Evette must decide who to trust: the monster who forced her into this chaos or the monster who created him. [[IC Universe People's Choice]] [[1st Place, Writers' Olympics Dystopian Award]] [[1st Place, Oscar Sci-fi Award]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story is rated PG-13 for violence, language, and sexual content. This story will become free on January 31st!

Amelia, a normal university student, finds herself caught in a hostile conflict between an Elite Spy organisation - the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), and a wealthy, lawbreaking group - The Draconic Syndicate. After finding an interesting looking number, saved under the name of her dear father whom she had not heard from in years, she calls it out of curiosity. Calling that number had put on her the radar of the world's most dangerous syndicate. With her life suddenly in constant danger, a certain handsome Elite Spy is allocated with the mission to protect her with his life. He's introduced as River Pierce, the country's top of the range, leading Elite spy. However, due to their clashing personalities and interests, they just don't get on well. She finds him cold, annoyingly intelligent, and too authoritative. He finds her provoking, too inquisitive, and also, annoyingly intelligent. So no one was more surprised than them, when romance started to blossom between them. With danger and threats awaiting them at every corner, they're always on the run. She is forced to live in a dark, life threatening world where encountering powerful mafia and syndicate members is the norm. How do they react to the disconcerting secrets that have been hidden from both of them all their lives? Follow their drama filled journey, where they face painful betrayals, establish friendships and deal with the growing feelings towards each other.

"Do you have a death wish? You cannot seriously be thinking of going there? That place, those people... they are... not like us, not like other creatures of their kind either!" "He means to say that they are of a far more powerful than us. They are hybrids!" "Exactly. People of their own race fear them. The whole clan is dangerous. They wiped out an entire species for God's sake!" "There is a tacit rule in our world- Keep your hands off Lycorian gems and Lycorian girls." His friends were trying to talk some sense into him. But nothing could deter him because he had already made his choice. Sighing, he calmly stood up and then looked at them over his shoulders, "Their priceless gems are nothing to me; but their princess is everything to me!" ___ ©shruthii

In Olympus Academy, the first and only school to house Filipino demigods and mythological creatures, students are divided into four classes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Omega. Carrying one of the titles comes with great responsibility, especially to Reign, a girl who continues to live through the privilege and burden of being an Omega. All eyes are on her class as a new student arrives, bearing a legend that many do not believe and some, refuse to. Reign decides to dive deep into the legends of Olympus Academy, in efforts to understand their new member, and eventually she will. She will come to know two cruel truths about their very existence: Mythological creatures like her are being hunted for power. And as for the demigods who belong to the same class as her, they were a consequence, a threat, an ultimatum of what was once destined. To be the hunted or become the hunters? To be the protectors or become the protected? The Omegas need to make a choice. But being descendants of the original Omegas, demigods who defeated gods, titans, and even overcame Chaos, the first deity to ever exist in mythology... They know they're just as powerful to choose another option that's not given: Become no one but themselves.

As he took one last step closer, his muscles made direct contact with every fragment of my body, and I could feel my skin become ten times warmer. "I shall keep my word for you, as a car is waiting down for you and a cloth change has been prepared." He placed his left hand beneath my chin, arcing it up slightly and running his thumb quickly over my lower lip in the process. "But prior to leaving," I felt his right hand shift at that, as it moved to make contact with my.. my bare thigh. Either his long and well-steeped index and middle fingers moved, tracing up the side of my thigh and beneath... his thin shirt... "I have one last task for you." ~~~~~~~~~ 'Pain re-creates humans; shaping them differently as they try to adapt to it.' They say. Suffering yet another shock following her parents' separation, Charlotte now has to pick her broken pieces again and move on with her life. She has developed even further aims now -besides living a loveless, peaceful and happy life, she wants revenge. Between family bond, friendship, and love, the young, innocent, and naïve Charlotte will struggle to achieve her new aim while trying to keep her position as the perfect secretary of the one and only Rickard Ellington Conway! Follow Charlotte in her final journey, delving into the depth of human bonds, and enjoy her story -Charlotte's Story. Book III of the Charlotte's Story Series. Trigger Warning: This story may contain scenes/content of violence, vulgar language, and sexual scenes that might be triggering to some audience. ©️ 2018 Athenas

Order. Discipline. Silence. Those are the rules billionaire businessman Rikkard Ambrose lives by-at least until his wife Lilly presents him with the bundle of bawling joy that is his newborn son. Together, they embark on a new life of delightfully chaotic perfection, not knowing that, in the shadows, an old enemy is plotting. Can the little family defend itself against a web of intrigues and change diapers at the same time? The 9th volume of Robert Thier's "Storm and Silence" series.

It all started with a misunderstanding... It's not every day Claudia Romano gets an unusual request from her sister asking her help to avenge on the man who broke her heart and then cast her aside. No man will ever do that to her sister and can get away with it. So Claudia is on a mission to find this man and make him pay dearly for hurting her younger sister. Will it end with a happy ending...? Alfonso Orsini did not expect that the woman who demanded to see him and started accusing him of things that he didn't even do will be this enchanting creature with a fiery blue-green eyes. He will be stupid if he send her away faster than she arrived with her threats so he countered a sweet deal that she can't refuse!

2nd Book of A Secret Service one shots. The last chapter of the last chapter isn't even the last chapter because chapters keep appearing. #1 in Friendship Goals

His name is Jace Ezekiel Black. And to cut the long story short, my family blackmailed him into marrying me. But I wasn't supposed to be the one to get married yet. It was supposed to be my best friend. And when she disappeared the night of her engagement... apparently, I was the catch-all that had to take full blame. The perpetrator, the mastermind, the accomplice-- choose your pick. In fact, everyone believed my guilt. But my parents, as livid as they were, saw it as an opportunity to cash in big time on the public scandal. To think that they already had a foolproof plan lined up. Furious but without choices, the man had agreed to the marriage... believing I was in on the scheme that my family concocted. Even though I was just another victim. I am Isla Euodia Porter, and this is my story.

A hidden princess returns to the castle to take back the throne from her usurpers. The only problem? Her growing feelings towards her charming enemy, the king. Season 1 of Thread of Gold ***** Annalise Cidarius wants to take back the throne. It belongs to her: she comes from a long line of magical Nightweavers who ruled Winterlynn up until the day that her family was brutally murdered. A rebellion led by another magical group, the Dayweavers, usurped the throne and forced Anna to go into hiding...until now. Anna wants the throne back and has a plan to take it. Everything she needs is hidden inside the castle walls. But once inside, Anna realizes she has not accounted for her newfound feelings for the charming and handsome Dayweaver king, Ryne Delafort. Will Anna's greatest enemy also become her greatest love? Cover designed by Stefanie Saw