Black Beauty

I knelt in front of two hundred people and asked her to marry me. She left with another man before I even stood back up. ________________________________________________________ Richard Black had spent three years loving a woman who was never really his, and one humiliating night at a company gala to find that out. What he didn't expect was for that same night to end with a stranger's phone call revealing he wasn't the broke nobody he'd always believed. He was the missing heir to a billion-dollar empire his father built and disappeared from twenty-two years ago. His mother didn't die the way he was told. The grave he grieved at for years wasn't his father's. And the men now hunting him have been waiting for him far longer than he's been alive. Was this his chance to finally matter, or the beginning of a war he was never prepared to survive?

Three years ago, Qing Zilong was the genius hawk, the pride of the clan, whose wings were cunningly broken by Wang Li's poison. Living a life scourged by suffering with completely ruined meridians, Zilong was humiliated by many young members of other clans. However, an accident became a blessing for him. In the deepest darkness of the Black Mist Forest, Zilong's death blood instead destroyed a one-million-year-old ancient jade seal. A seal imprisoning the soul of Su Qian, the legendary former Sword God from the Immortal Realm who chanced to be betrayed by the alliance of the Gods. Qing Zilong was dead. Yet from the remaining ashes of his life, Su Qian took over the body. With a Dantian reforged by ancient purple Qi and bones formed into a perfect sword vessel, the Sword God was ready to restart his steps from the mortal world. "A blood debt must be repaid with blood... Touching Zilong... Is the same as touching me, SU QIAN, the Peerless Sword God!"

What happens if the one transcendent being that truly cares for mortals fell and got a second chance in a world full of magic, danger and possibly even friendships? Does the past determine the future or do we all write our own destiny? Come along for a ride through space and time. Watch Cassandra Pendragon grow from a kingdom-less princess to a force that might change the cosmos.

Nathan Dawson is a 25 years old handsome young man, struggling to find a decent job to fend for his family. Every attempt led to nothing. In an attempt to save his house from being demolished by someone powerful Nathan encountered 40 years old Laura Larson, a beautiful, multi-billionaire CEO widow. A woman who ruled with an iron fist., proposed marriage to him in exchange for getting him out of prison Left with no choice, Nathan agreed to the proposal, however, the new entry to the Larson family was disliked when secrets lurking in the shadows threatened to resurface.

In the parking lot of Ifewood University, students were trickling in and out of the Mozambique hostel for female students.  James Keenan, a charismatic postgraduate student of business known as a "Campus Bad Boy," was infamous through his undergraduate days as a con man, sly, and a member of the university cult, The Eagles.  His piercing eyes rove up and down the road as he tries to select his pick for the night. The Eagles were throwing a party on the outskirts of town tonight.  Most students had returned home as school was officially on summer break.  James sat in Shane's car with Gabriel, Austin, and Shane, all members of the same cult, smoking, and each man nursing his own thoughts about the party tonight. Beatrice Kenan was coming back from the library, dressed in a simple yellow tank top, blue jeans, and denim canvas. Her bag was strapped to her shoulder, and her mind was in turmoil. She wondered, How on earth could she fail the simplest of her courses? Professor Bam must definitely be a certified bastard to have failed her. How is she ever going to pass this course without succumbing to his threats and advances? Just as she thought of picking up her phone from her bag to call her friend Yvonne, she came into James's vision. Who is she?  Definitely the one.  As far as James was concerned, the night was set for the Eagles. None of them could have imagined what destiny planned for the future, as love, betrayal, and deception set the pace in this love triangle.

Micheal, an orphan who lost his parents early faces a difficult childhood with his adopted poor family, his father an abusive man and a drunkard leads Micheal to become a school dropout, his mother having had enough commits suicide, leaving him and his brother with a ruthless father, things became challenging as the adopted dies leaving them in a mountain of debt. Micheal left with no choice, along with a group of accomplices plans to rob a jewel store belong to the Ashford family, in their surprise, the store has an advanced scanning technology protecting a room filled with priceless diamonds but the heist takes an unexpected turn as one of Micheal's accomplice triggers an alarm, leading to his arrest. Placed in a holding cell contemplates the choices that brought him to this point, as he faces the possibility of a long prison sentence just as micheal expects a lengthy prison term. He is unexplainably released, confused and disoriented. he walks out of the station seeing a black limo with several SUVs waiting for him, as it is revealed that his true identity is actually the heir to the Ashford family.

To save his grievously ill mother, broke college student Alex takes a shady deal to test black market software for a mysterious hacker. He must install the illegal update in his favorite virtual reality game, Elysium Quest. But Alex quickly realizes the hacked program triggers consequences reaching far beyond just getting his gaming account banned. Soon he's battling ruthless gamers determined to exploit the technology at all costs, evading escalating legal investigations, and making dangerous choices that push his moral limits. In a world where virtual and reality intertwine, Alex will risk everything to acquire the funds for a miracle cure. Along with help from his quick-witted childhood friend Emma, Alex is thrust into a high-stakes adventure full of combat, intrigue, and life-altering twists. As he masters new abilities, uncovers hidden truths, and fights for more than just survival, he learns what power and integrity mean when your back's against the wall.

In a civilization ruled entirely by Beast Tamers, social status, political authority, wealth, and survival are all determined by the spirit beast one awakens during the sacred Day of Summoning. Weak beasts condemn people to lives of humiliation. Legendary beasts create kings. Divine beasts shape empires. Jesse Fletcher, a poor orphan from the slums of Ashveil City, dreams of escaping the misery that has suffocated his life for years. But on the Day of Summoning, his awakening becomes the greatest humiliation in the city's history. While noble heirs summon terrifying elemental dragons, celestial wolves, and ancient war beasts, Jesse awakens a dying creature rejected by the system itself—a malformed black beast covered in broken golden chains. The elite call it a defect. The priests declare it cursed. The academy brands it worthless. They force Jesse to either destroy it or live forever as the city's shame. But Jesse refuses. Unknown to the world, the creature is not a defect. It is a sealed primordial entity erased from history after the Ancient Beast Wars. A forbidden existence capable of devouring evolution itself.

Ethan Black died a forgotten man. After sacrificing everything — his dreams, savings, and dignity — for the woman he loved and her ruthless family, they discarded him like trash at her engagement party to a richer man. One final "favour" later, bullets ended his pain… or so he thought. Reborn as Vesper Kane, the tyrannical villain of the novel his late father gifted him, Ethan wakes up with a System and a death sentence: 365 days until his fated execution. With a survival probability of just 0.01%, the entire world — the Hero, Heroines, King, and even his own family — wants him dead. The story itself fights to restore the original tragic ending. Armed with future knowledge and a sharp, sarcastic System, Ethan must rewrite destiny itself. Every deviation makes him stronger… but the world pushes back harder. From hunted fugitive to shadow emperor, this is the story of a discarded man who refuses to die on schedule. The countdown has begun. Will he break the system… or will the system break him?

I am just so weak right now but when the time is right, I will change the world. **** For sixteen years Rafael was haunted daily by this dream of being chained opposite a scary sculpture on the wall but yesterday a very pretty girl who was sure older than himself in real life visited him and the feeling of being with someone who could listen to him in that cold room for the first time made him feel better than living in a world where he was rejected and his views no longer matters. His ears picked up footsteps approaching and his wandering thoughts jolted back. When it became louder his heart began to beat now he could spend some more time with the beauty who visited him last night but his joy did not last long because instead of a slender looking lady with an endearing smile, a hoarse cough was heard and thereafter an evil looking plump man walked in. "For the first time I have met you awake." He laughed. "And it tracks since it will be rude if you are not informed before your are executed. Even though you are an anomaly your majesty, your mother was a queen so it is wise if you are atleast honored as a prince for the rest of your days!"