Shifting Methods For Beginners

Calvin Mercer is an ordinary man living an exhausting life in Buffalo, New York, working double shifts to pay for his wife Nora’s chronic illness. He has no grand ambitions, only one wish: to return home to the woman he loves. Then, on a snowy night, Cal dies. Instead of finding peace, he awakens in the Hollow, a living darkness that offers him a second chance. To earn his return, he must enter the bodies of people standing at the breaking point of their destinies and resolve their unfinished business. Each completed mission rewards him with fragments of life, bringing him closer to the world he left behind. But every choice comes with a cost. Some hosts deserve forgiveness, while others have committed terrible wrongs. The cruel path sometimes promises greater rewards, while the right choice demands painful sacrifices. As Cal moves from one life to another, he inherits their memories and experiences, slowly losing pieces of his own identity. His only guide is the Intercessor, a mysterious figure with a shifting face and a voice that sometimes sounds strangely familiar. The figure explains the rules but hides the truth behind Cal’s death and the system governing his missions. One detail unsettles the Intercessor more than anything else: a streetlight going dark before a fatal accident. As Cal gathers fragments and uncovers connections between his hosts, he begins to suspect that his second chance is not what it seems. His memories of Nora are fading, and the face he desperately wants to remember is becoming a stranger. With every mission, Cal moves closer to his promised reward—and toward a final truth that could change everything. If returning home means losing the memories that made home worth returning to, how much of himself can Cal afford to sacrifice?

Heavy panting and footsteps could be heard as the criminal ran down the stone cold alleyway, trying and helplessly failing to get away from him. Of course he had heard of him, the one who always gets his target, the one so terrifying that he got the name the reaper but he had never thought they would meet face to face. ***** The reaper is a skilled assassin tasked with the task of killing Park Hajun an influential politician with a high bounty on his head. He is an untouchable killer who evades capture and always gets his target. As elusive as a ghost he comes and goes living no trace, striking fear in all his victims but one. Park hajun is determined to unmask the person who is trying to stop him from achieving his dream and he will use any means to unmask the reaper.

Derrick is the new CEO and dragon alpha of his father's pack who has kept his gay sexuality a secret, but things get steamy when his father remarries leaving him home alone with a stepbrother called Brian who becomes his roommate and loves to sleep naked, though its heat season and they're unable to control their secret sexual urges for each other, and as much as he tries to hide his gay nature... The Rainbow mating day is coming and he just discovered that Brian happens to be his soulmate which means that he would have to accept his sexuality and love for Brian been made public to the world, although his Mate isn't ordinary either as he is born with rainbow fire abilities.

On the continent of Fosack, the official history claims that magic never existed, relegating it to mere myths and sailors' songs. Progress and stability have been built on the pillars of science, an unquestionable truth taught at the prestigious Rixus Institute. However, Miguel, a young student from Abrak, has never accepted this version. Raised on rumors of a past where portals connected worlds and the sun shone blue, his curiosity leads him to question everything he is taught. His arrival at Rixus coincides with an event that shakes the foundations of his world: an ancient seal is broken in a forbidden ritual, unleashing an energy that causes power outages and strange phenomena across the continent. While the authorities, led by the charismatic Governor Edrian Veyra, blame "solar flares" to hide the truth, Miguel begins to discover the cracks in reality. An ancient mural seems to breathe at his touch, shadows in the hallways conceal watchers, and a secret invitation promises him the answers he so desperately seeks. Unknowingly, Miguel is at the center of the awakening of an ancient power known as the Cycle of Lumia and Noxis. His search for the truth will not only challenge the powerful Dynasty that manipulates history but will also make him the key to a rebirth that will change Fosack forever.