Lily's stuck in a shitty debt trap at The Copper Lily inn, as the inn's popular "nightly company" to pay off her father's mess. She fakes her way through it all until she spots Ronan, a Blackpelt hunter known for his loyalty. Figuring he's her ticket out, she skips the usual precautions and ends up pregnant, betting he'll claim her and their child to break her free. Her friends, Lira and Sylvie get dragged into the escape, dodging bandits, goblins, and whatever else that comes in their way. There's a fruity side pairing if you don't like that then don't read 15 chapters

Lucy works intake for hell. She processes the dead. Her companion files the paperwork. Lucy keeps her gloves on and makes sure the system keeps moving. The rules exist for a reason, and Lucy follows them just enough to stay employed. When a train full of passengers arrives, Lucy handles it like she always does. Fast enough to be done before her dad's birthday party starts. Then the system glitches. A human shows up who shouldn't be dead. A soulmate mark Lucy was never meant to have reacts. And her brother disappears into Down, a level no one from HQ returns from. Lucy is ordered to descend and fix the mistake. She brings Jamie, her rule-bound companion who panics at the wrong moments. And she brings the human, the proof that the system makes mistakes. She breaks every rule she helped enforce. And she falls for the one thing she has always hated. Hell is a well-oiled machine. Lucy's emotional intelligence is not.

When a zombie outbreak turns a Connecticut community college into ground zero, four students are forced to survive it together as the infected evolve into something far worse than mindless hordes. With voice-stealing mimics, predators that stalk in silence, and a city that collapsed way too soon, survival becomes less about killing zombies and more about impossible choices. Because in a world where monsters smile before they kill, the real danger isn't the dead. It's the humans stuck surviving in it