"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for her by others.

"You can't win this... You're not strong enough... People are going to for your failure... You're going to die for your own failure... What you want to do is impossible... I can feel your heart beating faster..." Seven wolves that torment Eragon when travels back to Varden with Arya after killing the Ra'zac with his cousin Roran. This contemporary poem is based on scene in Brisingr (chapter 'Shadows of the Past')..."It's not the wolves out there," said Eragon, hugging himself. "It's the wolves in here." He tapped the middle of his forehead. ~Christopher Paolini.

Royal Dark Gems are male magical beings, searching for their missing female counterparts known as Royal female Gems. After 1000 years of their absence on their home planet, Kiyr, Dark Gems finally locate the rare females residing on another planet; Earth. But are they the Gems they are searching for, or are they Star Cursed, reborn on another planet? Sapphire is a focus point for the Dark Gems as they believe she is their missing princess. Sapphire is abducted along with a selected group of forty-nine other females from Earth. Enslaved for the Dark Gem's selfish desires, will they manage to escape? Will they manage to unravel the mystery to their unknown past? -----this is a 12 chapter sample. 'Star Cursed' is complete and exclusive to the Radish Fiction app on the wait-to-unlock [1-hour] reading model @ CSW1995