[THIS STORY WILL BECOME FREE ON THE 5th OCTOBER 2023] Fara's husband, the Prince of Azura, is murdered and she's enslaved by his killer, Theodan, a warrior fighting a war he doesn't believe in - until her. ***** Following the assassination of her husband and the invasion of the kingdom of Azura, Princess Fara is forced to go into hiding. She disguises herself as a lowly servant, determined to escape the war-torn capital, only to catch the eye of Theodan, the commander of the invading army that killed her family. Taken as his slave and a spoil of war, the last thing Fara expects is the forbidden connection that grows between them, compelling Theodan to protect her at any cost. But when Theodan discovers her true identity puts a target on her back, he will have to decide between saving the woman he loves, and betraying all he has ever known. [Wattys' Shortlist] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]

He has just settled from a dark past and struggles to live a new life, but one day, as he stops at one of his favorite coffee shops, he is given a free grab bag to help in a promotion thing. On his way home he realizes there was a peculiar handbook with a handwritten message inside. The next morning he finds a note at his door in the same handwriting and so he thinks of his dark past being in the hunt for him and an unfinished business that needs to be settled but little did he know he was seeing the light at the end of a tunnel....

El día después de las fiestas de año nuevo, no hubo rincón de la ciudad que no se encontrara de luto, la tranquilidad de la bella Vancouver se vió perpetrada por el brutal asesinato de la pequeña Sarah Humprhey: una dulce y carismática niña de 6 años, hija de uno de los más importantes abogados canadienses. Sarah se caracterizaba por unos cautivadores cristalinos, así como aquel océano en el que su cuerpo inerte vagaba. Lo suficientemente encantadores como para que su asesino decidiese despojarlos de sus cuencas, aún estando viva. La detective Vera Acker, tomará el caso decidida en la captura de "Blindness". Aquel nuevo asesino que se encargará de acabar con la cordura de la agente.

In the realms of existence, a cryptic truth lingers: they say the dead are oblivious, and the living, in turn, are ignorant of the deceased. But what if? What if there were those who defied the inexorable pull toward the supposed world of the dead, choosing instead to linger in the realm of the living? As wandering souls, these renegades shroud themselves in the obscurity of the darkest alleys, infiltrating the very sanctuaries we call home. They reside in the shadowy recesses of our minds, whispering eerie and malevolent thoughts, like wraiths tempting, binding, and feeding upon our inner demons and desires. Fear not, for we stand as their guardians-the watchmen, the gatekeepers of the world of the dead, sworn to protect the delicate boundary between two worlds...(φρουρός)