Catandmouse Stories

Under the city lights of Tokyo, there lives a 26-year-old detective, Reiji Kurozawa, who tends to be a prodigy in solving mysterious cases. Though he is well-known for his amazing skills, one specific criminal kept on playing tricks in his mind: Riku-a sly, silly phantom theif. Reiji's goal is to capture Riku and put him in his place, before he steals something more than just jewels...

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲. In a city that eats the innocent alive, 𝐋𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢 learned to become the predator. She doesn't have a job - she has disguises. By day, she's just a tired single mother with a daughter to raise and a past that won't stay buried. By night, she's the whisper in Manhattan's penthouses - a conwoman who seduces, steals, and leaves her sins gift-wrapped in diamonds. New York taught her how to survive: weaponise silence, smile like sin, and make danger fall in love with her. Some people run from their past. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬. "𝐈'𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠." Because healing was never the plan. Revenge always was.

"You like being chased." "And you like chasing." _____________________________________ Eight years. Two rivals. A moonlit highway. A race to the death. Starts: August 1, 2025 Will End: August 5, 2025

Title: Telepathy: The Hidden Truth Five years ago, a single, brutal murder shook the city. The victim was gone, unrecognizable, and the killer vanished without a trace. The police had no leads. The city whispered his name in fear - Soul Mark. Now, Detective Ju Jingyi possesses a rare, dangerous gift: she can hear the thoughts of criminals. When she reconnects with the unsolved case, she discovers the mind of the killer - brilliant, manipulative, and closer than anyone could imagine. As the lines between hunter and hunted blur, a deadly game begins. Every thought becomes a trap, every step a risk. Can Jingyi outsmart a killer who has already marked the city with fear... before she becomes his next target? Dark, psychological, and suspenseful - the cat-and-mouse game has begun.

WARNING: Description contains spoilers for the previous book, Clashing Obsessions. -- After fleeing Japan two months earlier, Kalix lives in London under the fake identity Elizabeth Nightingale. In an attempt to lie low and avoid attention from the authorities, she's signed off the dark web chats, instead working as an IT specialist in a computer repair shop in Soho and hiding from the law with the help of newfound friend and fellow hacker Darien Quintrell. In Copenhagen, Agent Rachel Cassanova has taken a leave of absence from the UNBI after cybercriminal xCodebreaker01 managed to slip from her grasp. But with new evidence coming to light, she is drawn back to her job and obsession. After his new corporate sponsor's failure to capture the ideal human test subject for his bioengineering experiments, Dr. Rovart Blayne returns to work, struggling to move past the setback and impatient to get what he wants. Now that he's finally began to make progress, another halt in his life's work seems intolerable. When a bored teenage girl becomes an international fugitive, a workaholic investigator becomes the UNBI's most obsessively clever disaster, and an ambitious researcher becomes a globally controversial mad scientist, normalcy has long been left behind, in favour of something else: Infamy. (Book 2 of 3)

In the occupied village of Harlob, silence is the only law that matters. Fifteen-year-old Alfred Minger knows the cost of defiance; he watched the Ugan occupation erase his father, leaving behind only an empty chair and a terrified mother. But when his childhood friend vanishes into the hills to join a whispered rebellion, and the grip of the occupiers tightens, Alfred realises that keeping his head down might be the most dangerous choice of all. Enter Doran Karder, a Ugan educator who dissects his students with a gaze that misses nothing and wields silence like a noose. Karder isn't just teaching a new curriculum; he is hunting for the spark of insurrection, meticulously recording every hesitation and glance in his black ledger. As Alfred is drawn into a covert web of resistance, he finds himself locked in a high-stakes psychological duel with Karder. One where a single slip of the tongue, a muddy boot, or a misplaced drop of ink could doom everyone he loves. Trapped between a mother begging for submission and a ghost pointing towards the hills, Alfred must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice for the truth. In a world where the past is being erased one lesson at a time, Alfred must find the courage to write his own future before the fence closes around him for good.

𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ 𝐀 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 ִֶָ ࣪ ˖𓂃 ↳ ❝𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏❞ "Love was not a promise - it was a weapon wrapped in warmth." ❖ 𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒂 𝑽𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒉𝒂𝒏 ❖ She speaks in calm fire and walks like consequence. A woman made of glass and flame - too soft to break, too sharp to hold. Once betrayed, she turned her pain into an empire, and her silence became the loudest threat in every room. ✧ 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐚 ✧ He wears his sins like a crown. Cold hands, cruel eyes, and a voice that sounds like temptation. The world fears him, but only she ever dared to touch the man beneath the monster. For power he ruled, but for her-he'd burn it all to ruin. 𓂅 ──────────────── 𓂅 ♡ 𝑻𝒊𝒔𝒚𝒂 𝑽𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒉𝒂𝒏 ♡ She's all trembling heartbeats and stubborn faith. An intern who believed in saving everyone- until danger wore the face of her destiny. Her courage was quiet, but it echoed louder than screams. ☾ 𝑨𝒂𝒚𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑳𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒂 ☾ The savior no one asked for. His love is a scar-gentle, possessive, infinite. He found her in fear and turned her world into safety, even if it meant becoming the darkness she ran from. 𓂃 ★ 𝑫𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑶𝑮𝑼𝑬 ★ 𓂃 Selena: "You still think you can own what doesn't belong to you?" Lucian: "I never owned you, Selena. I just never learned how to let you go." Tisya: "You don't even know me." Aayden: "I know how you breathe when you're scared. That's enough." ヽ(^○^)ノ Two pairs. Four fates. One empire carved beneath skin. "Where vengeance kisses devotion, and love wears the face of sin." If love and ruin share the same heartbeat- which one would you choose to keep alive?

Vienna Becker might be the world's most reluctant jewel thief. After years of high-stakes diamond heists, she's ready to walk away. But when the exchange on her final job goes belly-up and her partner-in-crime, Scarlett, vanishes without a trace, Vienna is forced back into the game. All she has is a chilling note: steal an object-no one knows what or where-or Scarlett's life is at stake. With no idea where to start, Vienna turns to her street-smart hacker friend, Nyx. And then there's Henry. The bumbling (and suspiciously handsome) new neighbour who keeps showing up at just the right time, always willing to lend a hand. As the clues spiral into a dangerous web of secrets, murder that leads straight to the heart of the U.S. government, Vienna realises someone's playing a much bigger game-and she might be the pawn. Because Henry isn't who he claims to be. And with a relentless FBI agent closing in, Vienna may finally be caught. The stakes? Scarlett's life. Vienna's freedom. And a truth no one is ready for.

When rising ballerina Rivette dies mid-performance, the Opera mourns a star lost too soon. But her best friend Zenia knows it wasn't an accident. It was murder. As buried secrets resurface and an old string of killings returns to the spotlight, Zenia dives headfirst into a world of obsession, betrayal, and deadly rivalries. In a theatre where every mask hides a motive, she must outdance a killer - before she becomes the final act. The stage is set. The killer is watching. And this time, it's personal.

"Love isn't lawful. It's dangerous, twisted, and worth losing everything for." She's a criminology student with a mind sharper than her heart. He's a Bachelor of Design student whose mind plays dangerous games. What starts as a game of manipulation turns into something neither of them can escape. Slow burn. Emotional warfare. Secrets that will break you. This isn't your typical romance - this is Lawless in Love.

This is a unique dungeons and dragons campaign it basically incorporated an idea of an internal cat and mouse game within the party and having the actual adventure be either seconary to the main point or rather more of a huge mob show with big mega encounters that ae challenges but will hint at and give false hints at the real culprit their are some power issues lik I would not run this with a party of three or with players who aren't regular in attending as the neromancer and paladin dynamic requires that oth be present but I hope you read and enjoy

❝You just never saw it. ❞ Sure, working at a theme park for some extra cash to blow with your besties in summertime sucks, but it's so much better than having to play peekaboo with a blood-thirsty monster. Beomgyu x Reader *Y/N can be any race/ethnicity (;*

When the news starts reporting that America is under threat of nuclear bombing, no one believes it. But when the sirens go off, Apollo and his friend, Alex, must survive. But Apollo has another problem. He can't find his parents, and Alexes are in the military. However, there is no way they have time to find their parents, when men wearing white start chasing them. In this ultimate game of cat and mouse, who will win.

Having been abducted along with two others we are forced to play a game. Will I choose to be hunted or killed to save one of the others.

I've spent my life chasing shadows; tracking killers, following leads, trusting my instincts. But this case is different. I've been assigned to catch a mastermind, a killer moving in the shadows, leaving a trail of death and chaos. Corrupt politicians are falling one by one, and no one has a clue who he is. Everyone fears him... except me. I'm determined. I'm ready. I have to be. And then he appears. Darien Kael. Mysterious, magnetic, impossible to read. Every encounter with him feels like a game I didn't agree to play. I think he's just someone special. Someone I might even... trust. But something about him is dangerous, and I can't tell if it's the kind of danger I can survive or the kind I can't resist. Jealousy flares. Secrets simmer. The tension between us is electric, unpredictable, and suffocating. Every step I take, every clue I uncover, drags me deeper into a world where nothing is simple, nothing is safe, and love itself might be the deadliest risk of all.

Melissa Collengar has just started her internship at an institution for the mentally troubled. Shortly after her start, she was proclaimed as a false prophet and being the reincarnation of a powerful priestess. Having no knowledge of the priestess, Melissa digs into the very foundations of the Un Ilcontra that has been ever so eager to capture her to uncover the truth, and what she finds is blood curdling. Every maneuver being life or death. "For some to thrive, others must die," speaks the priestess.

our protagonist, often fails to catch a serial killer that's been terrorizing the protagonist's city. the clue to killer and the end of this cat-and-mouse is not in crime spot, or witness to crime or anything, but in the past of pur protagonist.

Treasa Stewart a law abiding citizen at day and peace keeper at night that's how she likes to explain herself. But who was to know the terror she was in dark, notorious for being merciless. Arsenio David Carson the spoiled child of the head of "The Spades" a lady killer and psychopath. The Spades has only one golden rule "LOYALTY" and they potentially hate the idea of lone wolfers who don't know better, Arsenio was no exception to those rules. Who is to know what will happen when two worlds collide will the stars gaze upon the whispers of threats or love.

> A killer no one suspects. A man trying to solve what can't be seen. She folds paper moths after every murder. He collects evidence that never leads anywhere. And somehow, they're texting. One of them is lying. One of them is next.