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Reed Altius was the Hero's punching bag — a Summoner whose "junk" skill spat out wet boots and dead rats while Callum Drayne took the credit and the glory. Then they left him to die in a dungeon, his skill evolved to Mythic, and he started summoning legendary dead women from the system's sealed archives. Now the war he started is coming to a head.

She stands to lose everything…including her life. Cate Kensie’s joy over finding her missing best friend is short-lived. A shocking change in history leaves the former history professor scrambling to find a solution. As she faces the possibility of losing her home, she’s forced to make difficult and astonishing choices to salvage her life. With more threats looming on the horizon, Cate’s new circumstances leave her uneasy.

Stolen by the Orc Spymaster is the 2nd book in the series and is now a separate book and title. I volunteered to save my sister. Now, I’m running for my life from the Orc Warlord who wants to claim me. The Lottery was supposed to be a death sentence. When my sister’s name was called, I didn't hesitate to take her place. I expected to die in the frozen wasteland. I expected to be torn apart by the beasts that rule our world. I didn't expect him. Grimm Roth. The Warlord of the High Citadel. A massive, scarred monster of grey skin and muscle who looks at me with hunger in his glowing amber eyes.

Reed Altius has come a long way from the level 5 Summoner pulling wooden chairs from the junk pool. His garbage skill evolved to Mythic rank, his party includes three legendary women pulled from the sealed archives, and he just passed the Church's sanctioned Hero on the frontier rankings. Now the Church is calling him to answer for it. A formal investigation into his skill's access to sealed records. A hearing before the Fourth Circle Inquisitor.

Reed's summoning skill pulled a wooden chair during a boss fight. A chair. It sat in the summoning circle while a level 35 dungeon guardian tried to cave his skull in. He used it as a shield. That's what [Random Summon] was: 98% garbage, 2% barely useful, and the reason the Hero's party kept him around as a punching bag instead of a teammate. For two years, Reed took the beatings. The stolen loot. The healer who patched his bones but never asked who broke them. Then the Hero buried him alive in a collapsing dungeon and filed him as dead.

Recently divorced and struggling with her magic, water witch Juniper comes to town for a family reunion. After a night out, she stumbles upon a fur coat abandoned on the rocks near the beach and takes it home for safekeeping. The next morning, a gorgeous younger man appears on her doorstep, saying he is her new husband. Caspian never expected a witch to find and take his coat, but the moment he sees Juniper, he knows she’s the other half of his soul, his fated mate.

The archives are alive. The Church lied. And the man they tried to bury is standing at the gate. The capital doesn't work the way the frontier did. The enemies wear titles instead of armor. The weapons are subpoenas, tribunal votes, and forged evidence planted in guild offices. And the Seneschal has spent twelve years building the kind of institutional power that a level 63 Summoner can't cut through with a blade. So Reed brings his own arsenal.

A jealous husband put a knife in my gut. That should’ve been the end—except it wasn’t. I wake up in Castle Dominion, the place I once ruled as a feared Castle Core… before the Light Maidens banished me to Earth a century ago. Now I've returned—and I'm out for revenge. With Lilith and Desire at my side, I begin rebuilding my deadly domain. Adventurers flock to my halls seeking glory. Some find unique treasures. Others find pain. And the truly unlucky? They find servitude.

I was a blood slave in a vampire den, until a pack of werewolves “rescue” (kidnap) me and tell me that I’m one of them. Back at their lake house, Luca, a gorgeous tattooed werewolf, takes care of me while I detox from vampire venom. He makes it clear that he wants me, and I can’t help falling for him. Who can blame me—he’s pierced *down there*!

Vester's time as a receptionist at the Adventurer's Guild has led him to make some good friends and given him an opportunity to partake in a never before accomplished feat: Establishing a trading post within the Great Dungeon itself. Vester and his Party are going to need to venture farther into the Great Dungeon than they've ever managed before, and that means recruiting new members.

My lovely girls, Desire and Lilith, sit by my feet, ready to carry out my dark commands. We watch as the butcher’s son, the old soldier and the capricious witch clash with my monsters, testing their resolve against the dark power of my castle. In the upcoming days, true adventurers–Ruby ranked wizards and Emerald ranked rogues — will test their might against me. My deadly traps wait for them, ready to drive spikes into their chests or bathe them in beautiful fire.

Vester Gambit just wanted to drop some mail off with his twin brother. When a truck plows into the bus taking them to college, he finds himself embarking on an isekai adventure he never could have imagined. Ordinal is one world among a near infinite multitude, but it's a world where the gods have seen fit to institute a System to help guide people toward their full potential. The problem is, the gods don't want Vester anywhere near it.

An epic romantasy about defying fate and building found family. A suicidal princess hires a hitman to end her life… and meets the love of it. Princess Celestia von Levisdia has seen every way her future can go wrong. Tired of living through a thousand tragic endings, she puts a bounty on her own head. Enter our protagonist: Krimson—better known to the world as Bloodtrail, the greatest assassin alive and a chaotic-neutral knucklehead far too quick with a joke for a man who’s ended so many lives.

She killed all the malevolent gods, and now she deserves a break. At least, that’s what Godkiller Shallies planned when she started running a tavern to fulfill a promise to an old friend. Call it fate or destiny, but what was supposed to be a humble establishment for common people to enjoy food and drinks quickly morphs into a gathering hub for the new generation of heroes waiting to be trained. But Shallies knows that peace will never last, and that the gods will never truly stay dead. So she trains these new heroes to prepare them in time for the next Divine War. One meal at a time.

Ezekiel Coleman is no ordinary PI. Specializing in the supernatural, he's the man you call when the shadows start whispering or something crawls out of the veil. Arcane rituals? Malevolent spirits? Interdimensional horrors? Ezekiel eats that for breakfast—and chases it with bourbon.

Aaron Hueber witnessed the rise of demons from below and the invasion of horrors from beyond. He saw monarchs slain, champions betrayed, and worlds fall until reality itself was unmade. And then he began again. For this was the curse of the Saint of Time. While other saints shattered mountains or led armies, Aaron’s gift was more subtle and far more cruel. When the end came, he didn’t die. He returned to the beginning, memories intact, condemned to rewrite the failures and fight anew.

Vester and his Party are ready to defeat Sargo on their own and finally start delving deeper into the Great Dungeon. With the eleventh floor beckoning, Vester returns to the Trading Post to resume work and prepare for future adventures; and that is when everything takes a turn. Given a Quest he can't refuse by the God of Life, Vester has a wounded soul to protect and the Church of Light to avoid. His Party is more than ready to stand by his side, even against the Hero. But is Vester ready for a confrontation with a twin brother that can't remember him?

What do you do when your Best Friend and Roommate asks you for a life-saving favor just days before the Holidays? Well, if you're Me, apparently you agree to let him doll you up in a High-Tech, Next-Gen Female Bodysuit that makes you every bit as much a Woman as the real thing and Pretend to be his Girlfriend for two weeks over the Winter Holidays so that his Mafia Contacts don't discover that he's really an undercover agent for the FBI!

Ryan Carter has spent his entire life living in the shadows, partially by choice, but also by necessity. At least, that’s what he tells himself. As a shadow manipulator who’s reluctant to use his powers too openly, Ryan is scraping by delivering pizzas in New Avalon’s industrial underbelly. He’s seen what happens to people with relatively minor powers like him who get noticed by the teams, corporations, or criminal factions. They end up owned, imprisoned, or dead. But when a mysterious woman with her own abilities and seemingly unlimited resources makes him an offer he can’t refuse…

Instead of waking up eternally doomed to burn in the pits of Hell, I awoke in the courtyard of Castle Dominion. It is my very own loving succubus, Lilith, who tells me that I was once a feared Castle Core. So terrifying in fact—that my walls were torn down and the life force in my Core banished to Earth. Now along with my beautiful succubus and Desire—the first of my new dark harem—I will rebuild myself.