A hired gun hooks up with girl for rough sex. She doesn't do attachments. But things don't stop there. ... more>>

A trans lesbian story.

Inspired by / in conversation with unreleased work by @NightAnemone (twitter handle)

_Content Warning_
* One use of the T-slur
* Mild description of rough sex <<less

Losing her parents and turned into a lab rat by scientists, Natalie, now burdened with the powers of the divine interveners, sets off into this bleak and ever-changing world to get revenge; this quest for vendetta, however, soon grows bigger than herself, when she crosses horns with a powerful and foreboding man who holds the same powers of divinity she was given. ... more>>

With defeat still fresh in her mind, Natalie and her childhood friend Andrew uncover a breadcrumb trail of clues that lead them to believe that there targets next move will be to destroy one of the safest villagers in the world.

As they make heist to the village, however, run into another crisis and are forced to make a choice; either stand by and help the people before them. Or prioritise their original goal, knowing that acting too slow to save one might doom them both.

Being a victim of similar a choice made in negligence, Natalie strives to do what’s best for all involved.

But will this be enough to save everyone? <<less

Rich land owner, Grimwald, once leisurely spending his time hunting and practicing with a sword, with nary a worry in the world, all of a sudden became riches to rags after a painful familial betrayal.
With no one there to protect him from a cruel technicality, and only able to take what he can carry from his land; he sets out with little more than clothes on his back, provisions and bitterness. His life turned into a monotony of dealing with low-lives, greedy merchants and shady characters.
Like in a mad unending loop, he resentfully struggles to find a way to make enough coin for day-by-day life.
After taking out his pent-up anger on a... more>> couple belligerent drunks, a mysterious man sat next to him.
"Wouldn't you rather do something that matters? With a band of loyal brothers?" He asked.
"Oh yeah? Like what? You've got something better to do?" With a gulp from his tankard, Grimwald dismissed the man.
"Things you can't ever tell anyone." The man, unbothered by his attitude, continued.
A brief exchange occurred, after all. Grimwald questioned, and the man answered.
"The Empire's good people can sleep, because our enemies are afraid to."
"Afraid of what?" Grimwald asked, his interest now captured.

"Do you want to find out?" <<less

(tl;dr John Wick Isekai)... more>>

The deadliest assassin in the modern world is dead — but not for long! Jon Fuze has a new employer, and she can give him anything he wants, but as with most things,

... it doesn't come for free.

• A world of powder and magic
• Dank cities, harsh deserts, icy mountains, lush forests, and fiery realms
• Magical martial arts vs. trash, elites, supermen, and dragons
• High-ranking targets—all the way to the throne!

How will someone who has always just been a pawn adapt against the motions of a much bigger world?

One man lured by a single hope and wish.

— One life for 10,000 —

How far is he willing to go?

Who does he need to kill?

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Totally Not a John Wick Isekai
Also on Royal Road as "A Journey of 10,000 Kills". <<less

A butch mechanic has her garage invaded by two catgirl assassins. Luckily, she is smarter than she looks.

A young provincial thief of no particular renown has his life of crime changed in a day. He ‘stumbles’ upon a huge pile of gold for starters and soon after a dead man carrying a letter of 'royal' interest. Literally. While at it he ‘earns’ a title of sorts, along the promise of a life out of the gutter. Before he can properly appreciate the dramatic turn of his fortunes, he’s drawn into a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to embroil two continents in a devastating war.... more>>

The whole affair seems to cry out for a gallant hero of old, or failing that a cunning diplomat, but he’s neither. Perhaps a lying scoundrel, which our lad definitely is, would have to suffice. He does ‘acquire’ a dagger that knows a dead language after all and that must count for something.

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I) Touch O' Luck is the prologue (or opening act) to the Old Realms series of novels
(Hint O' Magic,
Lure O' War,
Wings O' Fate volumes 1-3)

II) All tags are relevant, but most chapters are not too extreme. Fair warning dear reader, this is an 'unfiltered' story, sometimes sweet, others bitter, touching some heavy subjects or problems, like crime, war, betrayal, lust, pride, politics, revenge etc set in a Epic Fantasy backdrop with shades of Grimdark. In its heart of hearts though, it is an adventure.

I) chapter specific maps of the Realms
https://theoldrealms.blogspot.com/p/maps-of-realms.html <<less

Her life was complicated as it was and adding in a mix of jealous girls was a stress she didn’t need. ... more>>

Eighteen-year-old Jaiyana Cardinal is an assassin protégé with a future ahead of her in the Blood Mafia under her mother Cardinal.

Sent to live and train under the mafia’s terrifying Rosales-Snipe couple, she not only explores life as an average teenager in between her duties.

Her last year of high school is in for a ride as she meets Harlyn Cross, who demands her attention, emotionally and sexually.

Harlyn is the type who likes drama and even if she doesn’t want it and its drama, Jaiyana does not need.

With their ups and downs, can Harlyn keep Jaiyana’s love or will the mafia take her away? <<less

Neo Akihabara Meipouchou is a story about maids, martial arts, magical girls, love, politics, mecha, catpeople, and growing up in a society based around anime. In the far future, anime fans have annexed Paris, renaming the city to Neo Crystal Tokyo and ruling the populace with advanced military technology and private maid armies. Trained in the arts of cooking, cleaning, and assassination, these elite maid soldiers serve powerful politicians and their families, acting to further their masters' interests. Political alliances are beginning to fray, and maids from different houses increasingly find themselves at odds with one another—and with underground liberation movements.... more>>

Aina Dufort is a new maid in the education minister's household. Her incredible strength makes her an ideal maid-in-training, but she'll have to learn to control her power—and her emotions. She'll contend with powerful enemies, fight for love, and struggle to survive in a world that sees her as a tool of death. <<less

A soldier, Lys, becomes the bodyguard of the Princess and her lady-in-waiting.

Rapture is a young man born into a small world. A hut, a lake, a forest, all barred with walls of towering wood, that is all he has ever known.... more>>

Yet the day soon arrives when those walls must come down, and the boy is thrust into the wider reality that lay beyond.

The world outside is vast, yet cold and empty. Bathed in the ashes of the world tree, more than mortal men toil at the mercy of oft indifferent and sometimes malevolent Gods.

There are those who fight those Gods.
There are those who worship the Gods.
Then there are those who care nothing for the Gods and bid to fight amongst each other instead.

Many vast Empires and great Kingdoms litter the dying landscape of this world, with more to come as the tides sweep in, then leave in their wake the ruins of decimated civilisations.

This is the world into which Rapture wakes, a world into which he must now find his place, and a world for which his mere existence will ripple into war, a world that was already on the brink of ruin before he even awoke, and will likely not be made better by the path he is destined to tread. <<less

A princess expecting twin boys is devastated by her husband's death at the hands of a sinister plot. With her kingdom in turmoil due to... more>> her brother's evil plans, she escapes with her maid's help, only to be pursued by assassins. Rescued by a barbarian couple, she dies giving birth to twin boys who grow up as veteran warriors. Discovering their true heritage, they return to avenge their parents and restore justice to the kingdom. With themes of betrayal, honor, and triumph, this story is a captivating tale of courage and destiny. <<less

Sabine has spent the past decade hiding from the Wild Hunt. But when a charismatic stranger recruits her to retrieve an invaluable artifact, she’ll have to finally reveal her identity… and her dark secrets.... more>>

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The darkness holds more than just secrets...

Marked for death, Sabine escaped from her home more than ten years ago.

But the Wild Hunt will never give up.

It should have been easy to stay hidden. All Sabine had to do was keep her head down, avoid telling anyone about her past, and above all else -- not let her glamour drop.

Even the best-laid plans eventually fall apart.

When a charismatic stranger arrives in the city, Sabine finds herself unwittingly drawn to the power she can sense hidden within him. Keeping her distance is nearly impossible, especially after a life debt is called due and she’s tasked into helping steal a rare artifact.

Sabine is the only one who can break the magical barriers protecting the item, but that means revealing the truth about her identity and exposing her darkest secrets.

Unfortunately, the Fae aren’t the only ones hunting her.

And the most dangerous monsters aren’t always confined to the dark. <<less

I sighed softly as I unwillingly left her embrace, I smiled happily as her face frowned with discontent, I always loved how I could easily read her and she knew that.... more>>

Crystal is everything to Alice not even being kidnapped was going to keep her away.

Additional tags: NTR. <<less

In a world where an Iron Empire stretched across a continent there is a land on the other side of the great sea. A land... more>> where fae queens sit on thrones of glass and gold, and the faeries dance through the forests. A land where little folk live underfoot and sprites flit about the canopy. Where the things that go bump in the night wander and trees can grow beneath mountains. Come to a land where legends are made flesh, come to Dianais and see what awaits you.
Watch as the three lost queens, heirs to an ancient power, are thrown out of their lives and onto the path that leads home.
Cinis Sarnifease, the King's blade has been a hunter for so long, but when someone from her past takes off her mask she is forced to confront the life she ignored.
Lily Crescentre has been living in a brothel for ten years, but when her madame is decides that she needs money for rent and sells Lily as a slave to the mines Lily is shown the plight of the world that was stolen from her.
Elexis Hynopae, leader of the rebellion against Galcinar, and a Queen of Altoness, the summoner of the tides and storms, has discovered that her sister previously thought to be held captive might in fact be someone entirely different, now she is forced to take action to save someone she thought she wanted dead. <<less

Everyone knows that being the lover of a gangster was equal to giving up your life. To be in a relationship with someone of the underworld has its perks but when the man in question chooses everything except love they can be lonely but just when he is continuously begged to get a partner, he still refuses but after seeing him - Just Maybe.... more>>

Oneshot

Cover done by: the_nerd.artist <<less

| Book 1 of the Night Crawler Chronicles |... more>>

After being rejected by the man he thought he'd marry, Jesse travels to DeiganLupus for the Grey Moon Ceremony. However, when the ship he was supposed to take is lost at sea, he boards the Silver Treader to reach his destination. But the Galleon turns out to be carrying more than military and medical supplies, and the prisoner in the brig knows his name.

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Without the determination or skillset to join his family's hunting business, Omega wolf Jesse makes a last-ditch effort to find his life's meaning. He travels to DeiganLupus for the Grey Moon Ceremony, a yearly celebration where most rejected and unwanted wolf walkers like him find their soulmates. However, not only is the ship he was supposed to take lost at sea, but the only way to get there is on board a military vessel carrying supplies...and a dangerous prisoner.

The moment Jesse boards, his instincts warn him of nearby danger, but they also urge him to follow a mysterious voice echoing through the vents. After crossing paths with Ross, a wolf walker on trial for the murder of hundreds of his own kind, Jesse's objective to reach DeiganLupus is overshadowed by the possibility that this criminal might be the very wolf he'd come looking for.

But when he learns that Ross is the Alpha of an outlawed pack that his family have been hunting for years, he is faced with a gut-wrenching decision: hand over his mate and hope it's enough to prove his worth to his family, or stick with the man whose soul is tied with his and turn his back on his family for good.

◯ FTM Trans MC ◯ MxM Romance ◯ Fated Mates ◯

Word Count: 38,365
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✵ NumenVerse year: 1050

**Also available on RoyalRoad.com and Inkitt <<less

In a world where weapons are ineffective, people naturally developed other ways to off each other.
Torturemaster was someone who lived a long life and killed a lot of people. This led to him having lots of enemies.... more>>

Note:
This is my take at SSSC-V's 1st prompt.
For me, this is a learning experience.
Any comment is appreciated. <<less

Aria, old grand-mage, enters seclusion to bring her spells to the next level. She gets interrupted by her grand daughter. A short story.

Commander Liao Shan gets back to the Imperial capital with his cavalry troop after a month in the badlands, to find he has a new mission: escorting a convoy of treasure to the Kingdom of Qiu, an ally of the Empire in the far north-west. To complicate matters, the treasure includes the beautiful young Sixth Prince Yan Jinhai, forced against his will to enter the harem of the vicious King. As the journey progresses, Liao Shan finds his conscience and his heart increasingly in conflict with his orders. And it doesn’t help that the young Prince, kept a virtual prisoner in the Imperial Palace, is hell-bent on escape.... more>>

As the journey continues and the relationship between them deepens, events are building which will rock the Empire and turn both their lives upside down. <<less

"Johnny, don't leave me, you said you will love me forever!"... more>>

Those words didn't stop Johnny Morrel from leaving the elf mafia boss Filarion Elathana, the head of the Elathana family. And, over what? Just because of the small family business that Filarion is running. He just supplies adventurer's guild drop-outs with weapons and potions. It is a lucrative business, by far. One that has spread all over the Roarin Empire.

"You said you are no fool, that you are not a chump"

Those words ended up with Johnny warding his house, and sending Filarion's things back via a delivery man. Maybe, if Filarion had not held a knife at Johnny's throat as he said them, things would have gone differently, but Filarion was an optimist.

"I will have your heart on a platter!"

These words were followed by a court order, a restraining order, and the emperor looking into Filarion's dealings. Now, the Elathana family is at risk of being exposed, and send to prison. So, Filarion sent Johnny one last letter, to express his fillings for the human adventurer, who moonlighted as a tank.

"They will bust your knee caps!"

A short note, but from the heart. One that made Johnny hire a necromancer to guard him, as much as Adam doesn't like the job. Or Johnny's paranoia.

A crack novel, with a yandare male elf, who wants to get back together with his human lover, despite his tendency of putting his foot in his mouth. With adventuring and yes, redemption. For once, a happy ending for the yandare.
Inspired by the song Bust your knee caps, by Pomplamoose
Updated daily at 11 am ESST. <<less

Young man named Jennifer goes from a semi-dystopian mundane life into a war between oligarchs and rebels.

Cami, a Girl and a Planet. Synopsis
On TI LEPUS, a planet in a galaxy called Markers Star, one of many galaxies and planets that... more>> are part of an Empire ruled by The DARK LORD, thirteen year old CAMI SIS NEP takes a lunch to her mother where she is working. While there, CAMI is surprised to be asked to carry out a simple duty, one which she does not realise is actually a test. After leaving her mother, CAMI worries about what happened and thinks over her life. This leads her to the decision that she will do whatever she needs to do to better herself and resolves to let nothing get in her way.
The surprise test results in CAMI being offered a contract in a salon called the Trigon Club located in LEPUS MAL the capital of TI LEPUS. These salons are a way for young girls to enter houses of people of high status or gaining other contracts. After she turns fourteen CAMI moves to the capital where she works at the club and meets CHEAINE DRESSILER, the wife of RENTAP DRESSILER. CHEAINE takes an option on CAMIS contract and returns the next day with her husband. They accept CAMIS contract and she becomes part of their family.
Life is good for CAMI and it seems that she has obtained the first of her goals, that is bettering herself, but there are other forces at work. Unrest, fostered by professional agitators NIKIE and KIRKRUP DI FRIM, is becoming dangerous. The two work undercover for Councillor LEJA LEVES who is the actual leader of the agitation and is hungry for power. NIKIE, who knows and hates CHEAINE, has another idea, to create and train a group of suicide assassins.
The DARK LORD has sensed all this and returns to Tihab, the administrative center of the empire. With him are some of the LADIES OF THE CIRCLE who are his closest advisors. In a bid to reduce the tension and unrest he sends six of the LADIES as his ambassadors to Ti Lepus. Before they can arrive, the DRESSILERS and LORENA MAKAPET, Rentaps mistress are murdered in an act of terror inspired by NIKIE DI FRIM. CAMI SIS NEP escapes and go’s on the run. She makes her way to NETHER WEST where the underclass, who are workers of the lowest status live. ILARI NE PATOR, one of the leaders of the underclass tries to help CAMI but she is stabbed in an attack. The DARK LORD arrives, heals CAMI using his powers and then returns to his palace on Tihab taking CAMI with him.
While CAMI is convalescing in the palace, the Ambassadors arrive at Ti Lepus to try to negotiate with LEVES. Meetings between the ambassadors and LEJA LEVES, now Chief Minister, are unsuccessful and a deadline is imposed. Before the deadline expires, the DARK LORD arrives and speaks with other leaders of the planet who are opposed to LEJA LEVES. These include TREM DE MARKUS who has organised a group of the planets leaders as they realise that LEVES will also murder them. The DARK LORD also brings CAMI SIS NEP who speaks to all the planets population explaining what happened and revealing who ordered the murders of the DRESSILARS as well as speaking against all their societies’ unfair rules. She is so effective that her speech sparks a revolt against the many problems that plague their society. TREM DE MARKUS and his supporters begin the process of reforming the planets society. The DARK LORD gives them one thousand years to complete the process and hides the planet behind a story that he destroyed it.
CAMI leaves TI LEPUS with the DARK LORD as she realises that if she stays she would become the focus of resentment and a focal point for the forces that will be resisting change to rally against. The DARK LORD sends her, her two sisters and two of her brothers who he has collected along with some others to another planet in another galaxy. There she finishes growing up and finds love. <<less

Two lovers, a compassionate union, and a forbidden love. Loki, blood brother to the All-Father, and Aletheia, an Atlantean Dikastes; two Isu realms, two hearts, one unbreakable bond. This is their story.... more>>

Based on Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and commissioned as a five-part story. <<less

Taylum Rayleigh born into an elite family had autism all his life and because he had special needs he was treated as a baby until a handsome Korean boy sits down beside him in class and saves him from a bully and feels that he could be safe with this person. Gathering as much courage as he could Taylum asks him to be his boyfriend and flustered by the sudden question he accepts but just what does this autistic boy have planned for him?... more>>

Cover art by: the_nerd.artist <<less

Thank you for coming to my novel!... more>>

This is the old version! You can find the new one in the "Re-release" chapter! <<less