Nikolai Volkov isn't hard to please, really. It isn't often that he wants for something he can't or doesn't already have. Growing up in Russia, he and his found siblings used to spend their nights quietly imagining what their hero names would be if they had been born into a different life... a life with loving families, full bellies, gentle hands, or warm beds. If they were lucky, maybe all four. So yeah, he's easily pleased by his life as a hacker contracted by the heroes of Japan to do their dirty work. Well, work that has the potential to become dirty. Nikolai doesn't often want for something he can't or doesn't already have... until UA (Japan's best hero school) propositions him with a teaching position that pays handsomely. Suddenly the first thing on his mind every morning? Shota Aizawa. Ah yes, there's the something he can't or doesn't already have.

UA's Support Department has seen all kinds of eccentric inventors, but none quite like the masked, welding-gear-wearing student who becomes Bakugo Katsuki's personal go-to technician. She works fast, doesn't ask questions, and never wastes his time-already making her rarer than most of Class 1-A combined. Bakugo doesn't know her name, doesn't know her face, and honestly doesn't care. They talk shop, exchange gear, and go their separate ways.

Amid the vastness of the universe, a human is found-fragile, out of place, and wholly unprepared for the dangers of an unforgiving world. A single act sets events into motion, binding predator and prey in ways neither can fully comprehend. As alliances shift and hidden truths unravel, the line between myth and reality begins to blur. The tale of The First Hunter is whispered-a story within a story, holding answers that could reshape everything. But some legends are not meant to be uncovered, and the greatest mysteries hide in plain sight.

Crash. Survive. Do not become prey. For Specialist Romilda Kross, a hardened soldier of the elite Vantaris regime, mission parameters are a priority. But when her ship undergoes a catastrophic crash landing onto an unmapped death world, things become much more complicated. The jungle is a suffocating forest of deadly monsters, but they are nothing compared to the nightmare that tracks her from the canopy. He is an eight-foot monument of brass armor, lethal wrist blades, and terrifying predatory instinct. He is not kind. He is not soft. And he is absolutely not gentle with his prey. Captured and stripped of her weapons, Remi is dragged into the dark of a mountain cave, bound with biting wire to a stone pillar. There is no communication between them. No shared language. Only a silence broken by rhythmic clicks and low guttural rattles behind his mask. But Remi won't go down without a fight. She resists with every ounce of her training, throwing her fists, her boots, and her fury against his unyielding armor. They are opposites in every way, but when an ambush forces them to work together, their violence turns into a perfect synchronization. And beneath the blinding glare of the planet's dual suns, the thin line between enemy and friend burns away. Every interaction is a collision of teeth, claws, and breathless defiance, yet neither of them can seem to stay away. A connection grows, and suddenly the roaring, primitive heat between them demands total surrender of her body. ------ Alien Romance 18+ A short story Enemies to Lovers

In a isolated cabin nestled deep in the woods of Oregon, Lucia woods dedicates her life to her work and the small things in life. Getting to where she is now wasn't easy, but she's glad that she finally found a place to call home. Little does she know that the quite life she has built for herself, is all about to change. For the better? Only time will tell. Above all the chaos and mystery, Ka'renok watches silently from above. Sent here to complete a mission that will bring up things from his past, he must do it all despite the secrecy surrounding it. He has earned his rank in his clan, and will not risk giving up the freedom it provides him. However, when a certain human woman unkownly put herself directly in his path, he must decide on how he chooses to end this hunt.