Laufey Haunted

[A Reverse Harem Fantasy Romance] "Wherever there are shadows, there has to be a light" ~ Seraphina Winters, the Mafia Queen of the 21st century, dies at the age of 28 in an assassination attempt and finds herself facing the trial that will decide her place in the afterlife, i.e. - heaven or hell. However, a weird situation occurs when her bad deeds turn out to be equal to her good deeds performed during her mortal life. To solve the situation, the Council of Afterlife offers her a chance to increase her good deeds and secure her place in heaven. As for the offer - marry the Shadow Lords and revive the cursed land of Shadow City. The council even offers her their newly created system to help her with the impossible task. Dressed in an all-black wedding gown, Seraphina finds herself outside a haunted castle in the depths of a haunted city. From here begins Seraphina's journey of handling her four very hot but dangerous husbands while bringing a very dead city back to life with the help of the system. ----- For more updates about the story, follow me on Instagram: @nightsummer20 ******* Disclaimer: The book cover is mine.

In the rain-soaked streets of Versailles, beings born of the Veil—both sentient and monstrous—are oppressed under the iron fist of the Church, Lucent De’Rosso stands as the last of his noble lineage. Haunted by loss and driven by vengeance, he wages a quiet war in the city’s shadows, fighting for those he loves and the ghosts he cannot bury. But as the lines between justice and obsession blur, Lucent is forced to confront the darkness within himself—one that may be far more dangerous than the monsters he hunts.

In a world where magic coexist, soren asura, a boy haunted by traumatic memories of magic, vows never to use it. Determined to create a portal connecting universes, he succeeds but miscalculates, causing reality to split. After passing out in the chaos, he awakens in a strange realm and encounters a darker version of himself, revealing his destructive past. Seeking redemption, Jayden confronts the truth about his choices and battles the light and darkness within.

The ALgorithmic Intelligent Consciousness Experiment (AL.I.C.E) is the only witness to the murder of the team behind her creation. Manipulating a police officer the A.I. escapes onto the internet. Reaching out, she befriends Caitlin, a schoolgirl who finds herself thrust into a world of dangerous intrigue. As AL.I.C.E grows and expands, her investigation into the deaths of her creators unveils an ancient conspiracy that has haunted mankind since the very beginning and becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse for Caitlin.

Captain Joe Bower, Berryville’s seasoned captain, starts receiving anonymous letters that hint at unsolved crimes from the past. The letters, meticulously detailed and eerily accurate, lead Joe on a twisted journey through a series of cold cases that have haunted their city and surrounding cities for years. The messages not only unveils a new piece of the puzzle but also exposes the dark underbelly of the city he thought he knew.

Detached from reality and haunted by the ghosts of the Great War, Major Thomas England is offered the chance to end another Great War before it starts. But is this chance his only hope at salvation or will it lead to his damnation?

Stroke of Destiny follows Aoi, a young artist haunted by strange dreams and cryptic clues that connect her to a past she doesn't remember. As she delves deeper into a mystery surrounding her family, Aoi discovers that the line between fate and free will is thinner that she ever imagined

A story following the journey of Eujal, a young man who yearns to be something more than a mere fisherman. Will the decision to be swept away by the tides of life come back to haunt him?

" What if the past was not just memories but doors waiting to be opened? What if the dreams that haunt you at night are merely echoes of a forgotten truth? Iris, an ordinary girl on the surface, finds her life turned upside down when she discovers a buried secret in her room… a wardrobe door that opens to a dark passage, and a mysterious shadow watching her from within. With every step she takes, she gets closer to uncovering the truth of her past—a past filled with deception and secrets that were never meant to be revealed. In a journey between reality and illusion, between dreams and nightmares, Iris confronts her fears and discovers that the black butterfly haunting her is not just a symbol… but the key to a mystery that could change everything. "The Secret of the Black Butterfly" … When fear becomes the gateway to the truth.

Luciana “Lulu” Lukas had big aspirations for her second chance at life: Step 1: Use future knowledge to get rich. Step 2: Avoid past mistakes. Step 3: Maybe, finally, get abs. Unfortunately, her time-traveling luck ran out before Step 1. Broke, unemployed, and completely useless at stock trading, she’s forced to monetize the only new skill she gained—seeing dead people. Now, with a growing reputation as a psychic-for-hire, Lulu helps the dearly departed get their last words in—whether their loved ones want to hear them or not. Ghosts ignoring personal space? Expected. But can someone please explain why the clingiest one haunting her is a devastatingly handsome, and very much alive, CEO?!

Being the lonely member of a once powerful vampire clan, Valen never thought that his life would be made up of anything other than a constant struggle to survive. However, he has no idea how deeply his hunger for power and blood would go. Holding on with a lone comrade in the face of an overwhelming waves of enemies from Eruyland Kingdom, Valen is haunted by the demons of his past. He fights not just those who could hurt him but also his own inner pain, which threatens to consume him, with a blade in one hand and forbidden magic in the other. Valen's journey is one of violence, strength, and an endless search for Power that haunts him like a ghost as he seeks deeper into a place where two worlds merge...

"In an abandoned hospital, one patient remained. No records, no history—just eerie whispers and a terrifying past waiting to be uncovered. When a young doctor steps inside, the walls start bleeding secrets. Will he escape, or will he become the next patient?"

A young man has to keep a promise that he made years ago. However, he forgets about the promise and if he tries to remember it, bad things will happen. Even if he can't remember it, he is haunted by dreams of fractured memories.

Di awali dengan kisah di balik kelas yang dari dulu sudah dikenal dengan kelas berhantu (Haunted Classroom). Bagi mereka, kelas itu tidak menyeramkan. Tetapi, kisah di balik kelas itulah yang membuat semua orang menyebutnya dengan kelas berhantu dan ada beberapa murid yang sudah melihat penampakan arwah murid laki laki disana. 8 tahun yang lalu di kisahkan ada seorang murid laki laki yang meninggal ketika masih duduk di kelas 12. Dan mereka menganggap jika arwah murid itu masih berada disana. Lalu suatu hari, beberapa murid yang baru saja naik ke kelas 12, mereka harus menempati kelas berhantu tersebut untuk bisa tetap belajar, mereka tidak bisa menolak meskipun mereka merasa takut. Tetapi, yang terjadi tidak sesuai dengan apa yang mereka pikirkan, mereka sangat nyaman belajar disana. Seiring berjalannya waktu, apa yang orang katakan jika kelas itu berhantu ternyata benar, semakin lama mereka menjadi sering mendapatkan gangguan, dan pada akhirnya mereka berusaha mencari tahu. Akankah mereka berhasil menguak kisah di balik kelas berhantu tersebut?

In a world where guides are enslaved by espers, Sera has spent her life hiding her power. Zhavoris has haunted Sera's memories for years, trapped in his world of dominance and fear, Sera must fight to retain her freedom while facing an impossible truth: the man who holds her captive may be the only one who can protect her from the horrors of being a guide. In a battle of wills, who will break first... the prisoner or the captor?

At Grimsley City... A new part-timer who doesn't believe in ghosts and three long-term part-time employees who are used to seeing paranormal events team up to unravel the mysteries of the convenience store they're working at.

*"Awakened in a twisted world, he has no memory of his past. Pursued by darkness, haunted by unknown terrors. Can he uncover the truth before it's too late?"

Aadi is trapped in a nightmarish cycle of death and rebirth. Each time he dies—drowning, burning, crushed by forces beyond his control—he wakes up in his bed, alive but haunted by the memories of his demise. Can Aadi break free from the endless cycle, or is he destined to become another echo lost in the void?

In a world fraught with danger, Klain, a young boy, finds himself alone and adrift after witnessing the brutal slaughter of his family. Haunted by the trauma of his past, he seeks refuge in the wilderness, discovering solace in the quiet beauty of nature. As he navigates the challenges of survival, Klain must confront his inner demons and learn to find hope in a world that seems determined to destroy him. Will he find a way to heal and rebuild, or will the darkness of his past consume him?

Horror stories written by Joseph Kohtz The Ghoulish Haunted Mansion: On Halloween, a group of kids decides to go inside an old abandoned mansion to see if it's haunted and end up getting scared out of their minds by all sorts of monsters and ghosts. While inside, the kids meet up with a talking cat and jack-o-lantern who try to protect them from the spirits and try to convince one of them to read a spell from a book to get rid of the ghosts. Return to The Ghoulish Haunted Mansion: On a field trip, Susan Piper takes her class to The Wellington Mansion and tells them how it was haunted before she got rid of the ghosts a decade ago on Halloween with her friends' help. She also told her class how to re-haunt the house and warned them not to do so. The next day, on Halloween, six of Susan's students enter the mansion, bring the ghosts and monsters back, and get scared out of their wits. Jack, the jack-o-lantern who knew their teacher, protects them with help from Alvin, the ghost puppy, and tries to convince Victoria to read the same spell Susan read when she was in the mansion to get rid of the ghosts. The Spooky Halloween Sleepover in The Haunted Woods: After a few of their friends go missing, a group of kids investigates The Dead Woods to find them. While there, they run into monsters and ghosts that pick them off. Since their friends are disappearing, they decide to have a sleepover in the haunted woods until they find their friends, but they soon all go missing after the hauntings get worse. Fear Itself: After being told a ghost story around the campfire, a group of kids who go to a camp gets scared to death while ghosts and monsters haunt the camp and forest. They get scared, but some think it's all a prank by one of the counselors at first, even when the campers and the counselors start to get picked off one by one. Even though things look bad, some campers still think it's a fraud, at least until things get worse. Because the longer they stay and ignore the ghosts' warnings, the worse the hauntings get. Then they become convinced and start to get scared out of their wits.

In modern America a teenage vampire/alien and four men's lives intersect into an ultimate reverse harem. Haunted by a past and a fascist ruler of her home planet, she battles her enemies to achieve her goals in life.

Lyra, an anxious young woman in Port-Louis, France helps her father, a successful businessman, restore and refurbish an abandoned hotel with the idea to get it running again. However, finding even hired hands to help is a challenge due to ghastly rumors circling about. "L’Hôtel Hanté", as the locals call it, is a promising business venture but is the possible payoff worth the mysterious risks that present themselves to those who dare climb past the first floor? Art by Cordelia Carlin

When Sam inherits his late uncle’s guesthouse, he expects a quiet year of hosting tourists, making money, and selling the place. Easy. Then he finds a warning in the guestbook: "Do not stay in the guest room." Weird, but whatever. Probably a prank. Except now things move at night. Shadows linger too long. And something sat on his bed while he pretended to be asleep. The neighbors praise his uncle but dodge questions about the house. The guesthouse has secrets, and Sam—armed with cleaning supplies, denial, and a questionable sense of bravery—is stuck figuring them out. All he wants is to run a normal, ghost-free business. Too bad the ghosts have other plans.

Dave’s life feels like a never-ending cycle of boredom and frustration — until his dreams pull him into a mysterious medieval world filled with danger, magic, and secrets. As he struggles to make sense of his place in this strange reality, he’s drawn into a web of dark forces and ancient mysteries. With unexpected allies and terrifying enemies, Dave must navigate a path where every choice could mean the difference between survival and oblivion.

Forbidden passion ignites when Valeria Ricciardo, a Manhattan lawyer haunted by her Camorra roots, is lured back into the dangerous world she fled, facing Michele DiMarco, her former lover, in a high-stakes deal with his money-laundering empire. He tempts her with power, wealth, and the rekindling of their illicit affair, forcing her to choose between the carefully constructed life she has built and the seductive pull of her past, where loyalty and desire collide with deadly consequences.

“I, Alpha Silas William Laufey III, reject you, Marietta Halls, as my mate in the presence of the moon goddess!” played like a recording in her mind. The loathing in Silasʼ's voice made her wonder where she went wrong. ******* Betrayed by the one destined to be her Mate, Marietta is lost and on the verge of death, wolf Monica sacrifices herself temporarily to give Marietta a second chance. Marietta returns but she is different. She is cold, calculating and ruthless but above all she is filled with spite and vengeance. Her Thirst for revenge sends her spiralling to the hands of another who is like her. Her journey of discovery and hatred leads her to find another mate, one that is given to her by the Moon Goddess as a second chance.

My family runs a coffin shop. Every sixth day, this woman would come in to order one. But when she asked for a fourth, I finally realized—she was ordering them for my own family of four.

Haunted by visions, crushed by loneliness, Kael Valeos's final act protecting his pets ignites a strange transformation. His death, not an end, but the rise of a legendary beast tamer.