Southern Reach Trilogy

21 century Wall Street financial analyst Victoria Clarke travels to the American South in 1861 in a car accident and becomes the infamous widow Eleanor Van der Lyn-a serpentine woman recorded in history as having been “hanged by the neck on the eve of the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln for treason”. Lincoln on the eve of his inauguration for treason”. She looks in the mirror at her original character's flaming lips and waist, and sneers, “A villain? No, I'll make both the North and South kneel and tremble under my skirt!” Clutching the mysterious diary left behind by the original owner in her left hand (which records the dirty dealings between the Southern aristocrats and the Northern politicians), and carrying the three mysterious “adopted sons” in her right hand (which are actually the artificial war machines in the Southern secret laboratories), Eleanor kicked away Alexander Hawthorne, the plantation owner who tries to control her by marriage, and threw the champagne into her hand, and then kicked her out of the room. Hawthorne, who pours champagne on a slave-state legislator's marriage agreement: “I have only two rules for parenting: teach my children to level slave estates with dynamite, and teach them to turn Northern generals with love letters.” --When the New York Times ridiculed her as a “slut stirring up the war through nepotism,” she took her adopted children to burn cotton fields live and force Lincoln to sign the Early Emancipation Proclamation; when Northern spies kidnapped her children, she backhandedly exposed the gold smuggling chain between General Grant and the Bank of the South, which was featured in the Washington Post. When Northern spies kidnapped her children, she backhandedly exposed the gold smuggling chain between General Grant and the Bank of the South, making headlines in the Washington Post: “Thanks to the arms sent by the enemy, I am now the first female arms dealer and interim Secretary of State of the United States of America.

This book is the completed first book of the Drowned Flame Trilogy. Audra never asked for power, nor the sorrow that shadowed her every step. Forced to leave everything behind when her mother falls ill, she seeks normalcy in a new country, where love and belonging finally seem within reach. But fate has other plans. A mysterious force tears her from safety, thrusting her into a perilous struggle where survival means outlasting the relentless pursuit of those who would claim her for their own. As war looms and treachery festers, Prince Malik will stop at nothing to bring her home, even as his kingdom teeters on the brink of chaos. With her freedom slipping through her fingers and the weight of destiny pressing upon her, Audra must decide—will she fight for her fate, or be consumed by the tides of sorrow that threaten to pull her under?

It was the best cheat in the vast and ancient world! Its origin could be traced back to Trailokya and it was the highest law! … Three years ago, three living creatures fell from the sky. King Monroe of West Ridge got one of them and he conquered six countries to unite West Ridge. Wu Zhao of the Big Zhou Dynasty in the Southern Wasteland got another one of the living creatures. She dominated all 19 clans there and became the top figure in that region. Owen Bertram also got one of the living creatures. Yet three years had passed and he was still a nobody. Nothing had changed for him. However, he soon realized that the tiny loach that he got three years ago was actually the biggest cheat in the world. Moreover, it led him on a non-stop journey of becoming the biggest winner in life!

As everyone knows, there is a power in the southern region that absolutely cannot be provoked—the Grass Hall. The eldest disciple is the Sword Saint of the southern region, with a godly understanding of swords. The second disciple is the Eternal Empress, who ruled an era. The third disciple is a great scholar of the current generation, the reincarnation of the immortal of literature. The fourth disciple is the reincarnation of a demon god, suppressing the Nine Hells. Lu Changsheng: Me? I'm nothing special, just their master.

A little blood sucking, with a touch of BDSM. Kelly, Ryder, and Pandora recall their parts in the coming apocalypse. Delve into the scene with Kelly and Marcus, as they explore new fetishes. Ryder and Catalym spice it up with sex magic. And finally, Pandora and Kevlar’s explosive love affair burst off the pages. Join this coven of vampires, as they navigate sex, love, and the dangerous world they live in.

The story about a girl in 11th standard named 'Ara Rao Reyes'[Filipino - Indian]. She is trapped in a web of secrets. Her journey to reach the truth is not that much easy. And the love of her life 'Aarav Isha Singhaniya', should ara is able to reach to him?? There is a one more person named 'Ethan Kai Rylan' is able to reach his love?? In the Campus 'Aurora International Academy' (AIA) with lots of friends with lots of lies with lots of secrets with lots of happiness with lots of love should Ara reach her life dreams?? To reach the unrevealed secrets? The truth is hidden.... Keep reading to uncover it.

In a world where magic thrives and mythical beasts lurk in the shadows, Tohgi Akura is born into the unforgiving southern district of Vandekar—a lawless land ruled by bandits and plagued by poverty. Despite his humble beginnings, Tohgi harbours an audacious dream: to achieve recognition not for himself but for the overlooked and downtrodden people of his homeland. To realize this dream, he must become a Knight, a title synonymous with honour, power, and nobility. Tohgi’s raw talent rivals the elite, but his lack of noble heritage leaves him scorned by the privileged. Yet, his unwavering determination and resilience catch the attention of influential figures who see potential in the unrefined boy. With their guidance, Tohgi rises through the ranks, challenging a society built to keep people like him in the dirt. However, ambition has its price. As Tohgi carves his path toward greatness, his defiance of the status quo ignites conflicts that spiral into devastating wars. In his quest to protect those he loves and uphold his ideals, Tohgi must grapple with the weight of his choices and the sacrifices demanded by his legacy. The Journey of Tohgi Akura: 1. The Knight’s Path. 2. A Knight’s Dilemma. 3. Terrorist’s Mirror. 4. The Dark Truth. 5. National War. 6. Rise of the South. 7. The World Engulfed. Tohgi’s brilliance and strength make him a natural leader, but his journey is defined by contradiction. His moral ambiguity, reliance on intellect, and tendency to isolate himself complicate his path. Beneath his unyielding exterior lies a man burdened by the pain of his people and the weight of his choices. As he battles societal rejection and his inner demons, Tohgi’s story asks: Will he be remembered as a hero… a tyrant… or… just another man? Tohgi’s Odyssey is a tale of ambition, loyalty, and the unrelenting cost of dreams—a story of a boy’s rise from the shadows of poverty to the heights of power, and the tumultuous legacy he leaves behind. Do not hesitate to comment your thoughts at any point in the story, it would bring me great joy to be able to interact with readers of my work. I hope to see you on the other side. PS: Bold text indicates the use of magic, parenthesis () indicates thought. Thank you! Enjoy! :)

Asin and Oliver were living a lavish lifestyle thanks to their family fortune..from the outside looking in. But it was a part of a whole.. Their other lives involving fast cars, illegal racing scene, dangerous rivals and Unknowns .. and now marriage? Yet there is such a thing as the perfect plan for even such a situation is there not? This is not that plans story.

I am taking a 1/2 week break due to multiple life important matters, that randomly appear during my free time. I can't take it all with my psychological state, being overwhelmed quite heavily. Growing up without Bloodline Mastery exposed piling up difficulties. Being at a high school for talented adventurers wasn't a great idea, but no other school could accept a no-name orphan. No, seriously. His name was Shay. Nothing more, nothing less. The school allowed him to at least study the way of the sword, in which he excelled. Although being geared after leaving school wouldn't make much for a living. It 'seemed' to be an inevitable path. [Merging System - Unlocked!] —————————————————— Thanks to Tsukiyu for helping me with the book cover! :)

Trillions of years into the future, Earth is gone and the fringes of civilization cling to remnants of what once was. Lead only by the mythologies of the past generations, the future looks bleak until the discovery of a timeless obelisk. The Symphony calls another to the frontiers of space-time, but will this be enough to save an already dying civilization in a universe on its last breath?

Donovan and Zoephie's relationship is like the four seasons: winter, where life is never within reach, and as they search for it, their loneliness and struggle prolong like Fall. Together, will they reach Spring while racing through Summer?

A fortress, 10 floors, and one goal: Reach the top! After becoming trapped in Invicta Arx, the main 'stage' of Sword Dance: The Unbreakable Fortress, Edward finds himself caught in a battle to escape the game. The objective? Defeat the 10 guardians, reach the 10th floor, and obtain the "key" guarded by the final boss, (????). The fate of Triangle depends on it. But it won't be easy. In this game, defeat means death, and no one knows if dying in the game means dying in the real world. Only one thing is clear: YOU CANNOT ESCAPE. Welcome to Invicta Arx, The Unbreakable Fortress.

Title: Abyssal Chimes Genre: Cosmic Folk Horror / Time-Bending Thriller *Synopsis:* In the fog-shrouded valley of Corpse Falls Town, where pagoda trees bleed and construction sites exhale the breath of the dead, antiques dealer Lin Moyu becomes entangled in a temporal curse older than the Ming Dynasty. When a smuggled Bronze Bell covered in corpse wax appears in his shop, its cursed chimes fracture reality, revealing three overlapping timelines: a 15th-century massacre of shaman priests, a modern archaeological expedition’s disappearance, and Lin’s own complicity in a catastrophic urban development project three years prior. As the Bell’s vibrations summon corpse soldiers from limestone caves and warp digital devices into occult artifacts, Lin discovers every victim’s skull sprouts bronze roots connecting to an underground Bone Pagoda. The town’s "residents" are revealed as echoic phantoms—their deaths endlessly reenacted through cursed objects: QR codes that rewrite memories, livestreams broadcast from decaying eyeballs, and concrete mixed with ground funerary coins. Key horrors unfold through fractal revelations: - The Bell’s Sanskrit inscriptions are quantum codes predicting Lin’s own autopsy report - Construction blueprints from 2021 contain hidden blood sacrifice diagrams - Missing archaeologists are found fused with Ming dynasty burial silks, their smartphones playing war drums from 1423 The cosmic truth emerges through temporal bleeding: Corpse Falls Town exists in a "wound" between timelines, sustained by an ouroboros of guilt. Every character is simultaneously victim and perpetrator across centuries—Lin’s father designed the dam that awakened ancient curses, while Lin himself becomes the Ming general who first ordered mass executions to silence the shamans. *Themes:* - Guilt as a self-replicating cosmic force - Technology as modern necromancy (5G towers as spirit poles, cloud storage as soul jars) - Archaeological colonialism’s cyclical violence *Closing Paradox:* In the fractal finale, Lin must let the Bell annihilate all timelines—including his own birth—to break the curse. Yet the final page reveals this manuscript itself is a cursed object, its words rearranging to implicate whoever reads it in the next cycle of atrocities. *Comp Titles:* - *Annihilation* meets *The Ring* in Guillermo del Toro’s *Pan’s Labyrinth* - *Dark (Netflix)* collides with Junji Ito’s *Uzumaki* - *The Southern Reach Trilogy* rewritten as Ming dynasty occult procedural Hook: Every technological artifact you use—from subway QR codes to wireless earbuds—becomes a gateway to ancestral horror in this narrative ouroboros where reading the book implicates you in its curse.

The world is cruel, and everchanging. In a world where the Fallen- humanity's enemy- threaten to consume all life, A boy named Light is chosen to become an awakened by fate. Gifted with his Blessing- Soul Chain, he must find a way to survive. Follow him as he uncovers the truth of the world.

This is the introduction to my trilogy: The Eight Descendants, The Horizon Star, and The Young Martial Heroes. It contains the character description and episode summary. Contains spoilers, reader discretion is advised.

"Everything shall be yours in times to come." "A stories from a distant past will bring light to the future. And among every stories, holds a secret of truth." ******* A soon to be the next ruler and his friend rescued a lad who doesn't remembered some memories. A story of a ruler who wants to make differents and create a new life for the people he cares about after his closest friends died. He vowed to change what his ancestors could not changed which his grandparents left everything in his hand. A huge decision that will change the course of his land, a change that would mark in history. She, whose families and friends were killed lost all hopes and dreams she had, and thought her life was curse as death follows her. He, whose life evolves only on making his empire a place of peace which he dreams, like what his grandparent's hopes he can accomplish. Would he be able to restore the hopes that was all lost by an unfortunate fate? Will she be able to find new dreams in her life? ****** "Would you do me the honor of this last dance.", he said giving her his hand that's holding a middlemist rose which she remembered reading it on the book. She look to him confused while pointing at herself in which he just smile and nodded, thus reluctantly she took the flower and his hand nervously. While dancing with the melody, and moments after she heard him sigh and says, "Next time, don't go roaming around the mansion alone with a man that you don't know. Understood?" "B- But he's a guest." "Even so. You didn't even know him, and you even talked and letting him kissed. Were you trying to seduced the man?", he asked coldly looking down at her. Shocked! She look at him wide eyes. Her hazel-brown eyes paired with his dark red eyes, which captivate her. In a whispered while averting his gaze she said, "I do not! I'm not that kind of woman. I'm not raised by my family that way! And besides I will hold this curse of fate to myself alone." "Alone?", he said frowning. Twirling her, his hand on her back pulling her closer. Pairing his dark red eyes at her. "You saying..."

What if a whole race once immortal, the Sperides, was now cursed to not know whether each one of his members will die or not? While the mystery of their lives and their origins unfolds, rooted in the beginning of the Empire itself, society and politics in the Porea continent change rapidly on the background of the lives of heroes, strategists and poets. A double murder in a small provincial town seems to be linked with an imminent change in the assets of the far away capital city, Stone-eye. Two best friends, parted by destiny, begin their unexpected journeys far from home. Three noble families vie for the power of the Capital, and many other landlords seek fame and wealth in the rest of the continent. A far deeper and older mystery hangs over all of this, that of the venerable Porzia family, disappeared along with the Ancient Republic, and the unreachable southern peninsula of Kelya which they came from.

An accident granted Su Hao the ability to be reborn infinitely. But who could tell him why he couldn't live beyond the age of five each time he was reborn? The world is dangerous and extremely unfriendly to children. Su Hao set his first small goal: to reach adulthood. "How could I possibly fail to reach adulthood!" Over millions of years, Su Hao reincarnated time and time again. After acquiring an abundance of knowledge, he found a way to become a god. This is the path for a mortal to become a god. Perhaps... you can do it too!

Rod so Big it can reach the heavens! Rod so Powerful it can tear the hell! Jack transmigrates and gets a big and powerful Rod.

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"Patriarch Sun, your sect is now a well - known Sword Sect in the cultivation world of the Northern Region. How do you evaluate Dean Xu?" "I often tell experts that Dean Xu is my idol. When others were hunting him down, he instead tried to make friends and forge partnerships. The disciples he trained were sold to other sects once they reached the Foundation Establishment stage. Now, his disciples are everywhere, and he has a vast network of people." "Then, how do the senior figures of the Demonic Path here view Dean Xu? He has been hiding his identity and mingling in the Demonic Path for several..." "Reporter, stop talking nonsense! Our sect master is the most famous demon in the Southern Border. The person you mentioned has nothing to do with him!" "All right, all right. Then, I'd like to ask Acting Patriarch Qin. As the largest sect in Xize, the Illusory Sea Sect. Dean Xu is secretly in control behind the scenes and has carried out financial frauds, involving countless sects. Now, the creditors are protesting outside our venue. How do you respond?" "This is ridiculous. Our sect master doesn't even have the surname Xu. Besides, we have no creditors at all. The creditors all died in the scramble for the ancient cultivation inheritance. Those people outside are just rival sects trying to cause trouble for us on purpose." "But according to our investigation, the ancient cultivation inheritance is a new grave built by Dean Xu, and not everyone inside was killed by the explosion..." "I'm warning you! This is blatant slander!" "Let's put this question aside for now. So, how do the demon tribes in the Eastern Wasteland view him?"

In the Holy Continent, those born with the ability to manipulate nature are seen as Cursed and are hunted down the entirety of the land with a religious fervour that spans over a century. Phillipa, a young girl of fifteen is then born in the Holy Continent with the Curse. This causes her to live the first fifteen years of her life on the run until her mother and the members of her camp decide to head for the Shore where they could get rescued by their people from the Island. Their journey however is met with an attack from the Evangelists who wipe out her camp and take her to the place every Cursed One feared, the Tower. In that Tower Phillipa has to not only survive but live long enough to escape it with herself and her newly born child.

"Since the moment I was born, I have been 'haunted by a hundred ghosts,' and it seems that my fate was sealed — I was destined to become a Taoist priest. Vengeful spirits, vengeful ghosts, snake spirits, hungry ghost graves... These are mere trifles. Miaojiang poison arts, the mysterious corpse-raising grounds in southern Sichuan, and the widely circulated but rarely spoken of legend of the 'Immortal Village Chief'? The Taoist arts — divination, medicine, destiny, fortune-telling, and physiognomy — each slowly unveils its mysterious veil... The Taoist tradition has been passed down for thousands of years; not everything is just a legend. My years as a Taoist priest will reveal to you an unknown and mysterious Taoist world!"

Rezen suddenly found himself transmigrated in the parallel earth where magic is possible with the help of Mystic Gems. He was excited to reach the top when life slaps him hard and gave him the lowest level of talent Fortunately, Rezen activated his Farm System. So what if he does not have the talent for cultivation? His crops are more than enough to make up for the lack of talent! —- Please check my entry for WSA 2025 titled: Spirit Serpent Art: Journey to Divinity. You might also like it, thank you.

In the icy land of the Southern World, the Kingdom of Alderon is being attacked by a mysterious enemy. King Zepharos Erandor, desperate to save his kingdom, decides to offer his daughter, Princess Lya, in marriage to the powerful Nerathian Kingdom, even though they hate each other.

The light is here because the darkness exists. Just like that, the human realm exists because the demon realm is here. And in the great palace of the Blade Empire, a crown touches the peak of its glory before it falls from its grace. Lush Von Blade was the royal crown prince of one of the greatest empires on the southern continent. He is loyal but betrayed. On the other hand, where even the Gods fear to set a foot on, a demon lord abides. His grace and cruelty have been unseen for centuries. He is the supremacy in the three realms. While Lush is the light, he is the darkness. Each exists because the other is here. *** Special Chapters Announcements! Per week- 8 Chapters [Regular] 50+Power Stones= 1 Chapter [Bonus Per week] 25+Golden Tickets= 1 Chapter [Bonus Per month] Super Gift= [Fan's requested chapters]