Mal And River

Ismael tenía 14 años cuando, cansado del maltrato físico y mental de sus padres, decidió huir de casa. Tres años después, un evento que marcaría su vida sería el catalizador para que nuevos problemas llegaran a su vida, y viejos fantasmas amenazaran con arremeter contra su futuro.

Un joven adolescente, era una persona que le gustaba salir a caminar y correr por su ciudad, un día como cualquier otro, algo sucedió en su casa, eso lo cambiaria física, mentalmente para siempre y su sentido de la vida tendría un gigantesco cambio.

Pendant six ans, j'étais Hazel, petite amie du futur Alpha, Julian. Je pensais que nous avions l'éternité, une place précieuse dans notre meute de loups, même en tant qu'humaine. Puis la Nuit de la Chasse aux Compagnons a tout arraché. Je me suis réveillée perdue dans la forêt, pour découvrir Julian avec elle – sa véritable compagne destinée. Ses mots m'ont frappée plus fort que le sol de la forêt : je n'étais qu'une 'remplaçante'. Six ans ensemble, et il m'a jetée, ses doigts meurtrissant ma gorge tandis qu'il grognait que je ne signifiais rien. Mon monde, mon cœur – brisés. Laissée pour morte, gelée et blessée, un prédateur d'un autre genre m'a trouvée. Un loup noir colossal, aux yeux d'or brillants, assez grand pour m'avaler tout entière. Mais au lieu de me déchirer, il s'est enroulé autour de moi, un bouclier chaud et terrifiant contre le froid mordant. Pendant un instant, je me suis sentie en sécurité. Cette sécurité s'est évanouie quand ma meute, ma famille, nous a trouvés. L'Alpha qui m'avait élevée, Maxen, n'a pas vu une survivante. Il a vu une déception. Il s'avère qu'il ne m'avait recueillie qu'en espérant que je deviendrais magiquement une louve comme ma mère – la compagne destinée qui l'avait rejeté. Quand je n'ai pas pu me transformer, il m'a chassée, me marquant comme oméga, le souffre-douleur de la meute. Maintenant, je suis moins que rien, survivant de restes et endurant leur cruauté. Ce qu'ils ignorent, ce que j'ignore, c'est que mon monstrueux protecteur n'est pas un simple solitaire. C'est Lykos, le loup de Kael, le Roi Lycan. Et Lykos a décidé que je suis sa compagne destinée – une humaine. Kael est furieux, mais son loup a sa propre volonté, entraînant le Roi lui-même vers ma meute abusive. Ma vie d'avant est terminée. Mon seul allié est une créature de légende. Et le Lycan le plus redouté de tous est en route. Vient-il me sauver, ou l'arrivée du Roi n'est-elle qu'un autre cauchemar qui commence ?

Tristan Bao is at the bottom of the barrel, broke, and stuck with a Spark so weak that he was disowned by his own father. But rent doesn't pay itself, and the only place that pays the best money is the Defenders. Life will be stuck in the Tower: a cursed labyrinth crawling with monsters, secrets, and power beyond belief. What should have been an easy E-rank run turns into a slaughter, and once the survivors leave, something comes out with them. He survived the Tower by pure chance, so what happens now? He was struck with such a harsh change to his body. How will he survive in this world now?

In a dystopian future where Vampires emerged from the shadows in order to stop humanity from becoming extinct, a young woman with a dark past meets a charismatic stranger. As time goes by Private Love Aikawa of military Unit 4-7, finds that she may not be as human as she first thought. Battling rogue vampires, mutated creatures and her own past, Love works to unravel the mysteries behind the secretive Helsing unit, and tries to become the bridge between humans and vampires in a world filled with discrimination. This novel starts intentionally slow through the exposition and the early world and character building, BUT everything kicks into gear after the turning point in the latter half of Volume 1, and especially Volume 2, where the tone of the novel shifts. So, I hope you stick with it and enjoy the wild ride! I also added some song recommendations along the way to listen to whilst you read certain chapters, I hope this helps boost the experience. Public Spotify playlist titles (all under the name LouLou): TLAR - Book 1 TLAR - Book 2 TLAR - Book 3 TLAR - A Fire in Their Wake This is rated 'No one under 17 permitted' for (very) mature themes, including drug use, SA, LGBTQ+ discrimination, very frequent strong language, violence etc. Please note that no storyline is chosen for shallow shock value, and most are taken from personal experience, and hopefully handled with the care, respect and sensitivity they deserve. Disclaimers are added against any chapter that may cause distress. The majority of Volume 1, in a different order and edited as a full novel is available free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/Loulou2

A haunted river. A grieving town. A detective running out of time. When the peaceful riverside town of Ọ̀yán is shaken by a string of mysterious drownings, Detective Kareem is assigned the one case no one wants. Each victim dies with the same haunting last word: “Ẹ̀nítàn.” What begins as a local investigation soon unravels a buried legend—of a betrayed river spirit, a sacred curse, and ancestral silence that demands to be broken. As Kareem digs deeper, the river begins to whisper his name too. Whispers by the River is a supernatural mystery inspired by African spirituality, where truth is hidden beneath water, and justice comes with a price.

In a world where strength is within everyone’s grasp, where it’s stolen, bought, fought for, two friends clawed their way to the top—only to discover they were still too weak. Defeated and out of time, they gambled everything on one desperate act: a return to the beginning. But the past isn’t so easily rewritten. Their memories are gone, their power reset—all that remained was a rough plan, the burning need to rise again, and prayers. Follow Theon as his once-familiar surroundings twist into something beyond reality, exposing him to a surreal world of cultivation that had thrived under his nose all along. Leaving him with a single choice. Survive or perish. Adapt or die. But for Theon, this is nothing new, the knife’s edge between life and oblivion. He’ll simply survive, just like he always has. Broken. Reforged. Betrayed and betrayer. He has experienced it all in the crucible of reality. And this time is no different. And in a never-done-before twist, you can follow the perspective of both protagonists. Check out Bearer of The Shattered Crowns: Futility’s Grace, written by my co-author CatOfSparks. Neither realizes their paths are already tangled—by choices they haven’t made yet. Will their second chance forge legends—or repeat their downfall? Current Chapter Upload Schedule: 3+ per week (planned to increase) Discord for Joint Verse: coming soon!

An Imperial Scholar by day. An assassin by night. The World of Cultivation has changed. Elemental Mancers. Flux Mancers. Spirit Mancers. Soul Mancers. Raining down fire and splitting oceans. Destroying mountains with a single stomp and calming skies with a glance. Controlling the tides of Karma, while wielding the souls of others like a puppeteer tugging on the Lines of Fate. The most mysterious of them all were Spirit Mancers, a truth that Theron was more than intimately familiar with. Due to one's Tribulation, his life was turned upside down. His family, his rage, his somber sadness becoming nothing more than Bad Karma's fuel for a madman. He was once a gentle young man, a non-combative Water Mancer who wanted nothing more than to read his novels to the sound of the rain and one day become an Imperial Scholar. But now... Everything had changed. He donned a cloak in the silent night as the clouds above gathered. Pulling its hood over his chilling blue eyes, he stalked off into the darkness. The first droplets fell. He would become the nightmare of his enemies, the blade hidden in the shadows of Heaven's tears. The River of the Night.

When a mutilated corpse is found by a sacred river in a quiet West African village, a troubled detective teams up with a spiritual elder and a young woman with a mysterious past to uncover a centuries-old curse tied to a drowned river queen—one whose song was silenced, and who now demands the world listen.

The River of Spirits doesn't flow with water - it flows with memory. And not all memories are merciful. Kael was born without a past. Or so he believed. But when a monstrous entity rises from the cursed river, something inside him stirs - a whisper, a fragment, a voice that should not exist. Now hunted by forgotten spirits and guided by a shadow that knows his name, Kael must face the guardians of the sigils: each one sealed with a painful memory he once begged to forget. Some memories are lost. Others are buried. And some... were taken from him for a reason. Would you reclaim your soul, even if it meant destroying it again?

Cynthia Fola is a woman who seems to have it all. A celebrated author. A loving wife. A devoted mother. Her books have touched hearts across the world, yet the story she’s never told is the one still bleeding inside her. Six years ago, in the silence of her apartment, she miscarried a child she never told anyone about. Not her friends. Not her therapist. Not even Damson, the man whose name she whispered through the pain. He left her soon after, never knowing what she lost. She never asked why. She just survived. Now living in quiet elegance with her husband Levi and their son Adam, Cynthia has carefully rebuilt a life that looks whole. But when a professional event in Dubai brings Damson back into view — older, bolder, and standing on the very stage she’s meant to own — the walls she’s held up begin to crack. Memories return with force. Her body remembers the ache. Her heart remembers the silence. And in the glow of chandeliers and applause, she is forced to confront the love that left her, the pain that shaped her, and the truth she buried beneath success. Cry Me a River is a lyrical, unflinching portrait of grief, motherhood, marriage, and memory. It is the story of a woman who gave everything to protect someone’s dream, only to nearly die in the process — and what happens when that dream returns, asking for her voice again.

In love with the goddess

Elestria waits for her mate for 240 full moons. This year, she was the gossip for being the only one without a mate. Tired and disappointed, she joined the palace forces to spy on the Seraphim Kingdom. Under the lunar eclipse, she found that special fragrance. For the first time, her body was deeply relaxed, but her mind was aflame. The wolf in her stirred with excitement. Elestria found him. His brilliant red eyes didn't blink as they locked gazes. In that very moment, they realized they had found each other as enemies.

River and Ganglion never knew each other. But who could ever predict such a far sought friendship could actually be possible.

“The river remembers what time tries to wash away.” In the shadow of 1910s Chicago, where expectations run high and secrets run deep, a quiet current carries two souls toward each other. Nell Whitmore, a young woman bound by duty yet driven by creative longing, finds her only freedom beside the river—a place where dreams take shape in ink and silence. Jamie Calloway, a reserved carpenter with his own quiet burdens, begins work near that same riverbank, never expecting to find something—or someone—that might change everything. As seasons shift and years pass, their paths tangle and fray under the weight of family, time, and the choices that define us. Framed through fragments of forgotten journals and memories, Mend in the River is a deeply romantic, achingly lyrical novel about love lost and found, the scars we carry, and the places that hold our truths long after we’ve gone.

Un juego simple pero peligroso. Una historia de amor y juego tronos que nunca debió salir a la luz. Nuestra hermosa Chloé sera bendecida por un hombre muy particular, poderoso, y con rasgos psicopaticos y sediente de curiosidad, le ofrecerá todo aquel que quiere obtener... ¿Pero a qué precio ? ¿Sexo? ¿Amor?¿Dinero? Poder... Esto va mas allá, el cuento de Chloé involucra, relaciones fallidas, traicion y venganza cruda. Un juego de poder sin filtros, donde chloé tendra que apañarse la sola para proteger a los suyos, como pueda. La reina perfecta, para el hombre lleno de dudas, que en las sombras es responsable de todos los males, que con una sonrisa al principio, decidió ayudar a una desconocida con una falsa amabilidad

In the ruthless world of the Chaotic Continent, Xio Tian was a cultivator consumed by ambition. Betrayed after inheriting the legacy of the legendary Red Demon, Asura, he met a tragic end. But death could not bind him. Reborn as a fallen prince in a cursed forest, Xio Tian awakens the Blood Devour Technique—a Supreme-tier cultivation method that feeds on blood, not energy. Stripped of loyalty, kinship, and mercy, he now walks the path of vengeance. Monsters fear him. Humans cannot understand him. And the world? It will remember his name—not as a man, but as a nightmare reborn.

Dans le royaume de Veldarion, un jeune homme nommé Kael Arvane est connu pour son cœur pur et son désir de rendre le monde meilleur. Orphelin et élevé dans un village reculé, il devient un héros après avoir sauvé des vies lors d'une guerre contre les "Lumières Déchues", des êtres corrompus par une ancienne magie. Avec le temps, il réunit autour de lui un groupe d'amis loyaux, chacun ayant une compétence unique : -Lyra, une guérisseuse douce et son premier amour. -Dren, un chevalier assoiffé de justice. -Talen, un mage génial mais envieux. -Silva, une espionne mystérieuse. Leur amitié semble indestructible. Jusqu'à ce que Kael découvre une vérité terrifiante : ses amis ont comploté pour le trahir. Ils ont manipulé ses idéaux pour atteindre leurs propres ambitions : le pouvoir, la gloire et le contrôle sur Veldarion. Finalement, ils le livrent à une ancienne entité maléfique, espérant se débarrasser de lui. Kael survit, mais son âme est consumée par la trahison et la magie noire de l'entité. Il émerge comme un antagoniste manipulateur, prêt à renverser ses anciens amis et à briser le monde hypocrite qui l’a abandonné

Synopsis – Ashes in the Riverwind Genre: Slow Fantasy / Character-Driven Mystery / Soft Magic In the mist-laden valley of Thornepass, life drips by like water through moss: slow, steady, and tangled in silence. The village of Edenrock is old—not grand, not poor, just old. Its people live close to the soil and closer still to each other’s secrets. They hold festivals for the changing fruit. They write poems in the bark of birch trees. And though the world outside has shifted—grown louder, hungrier, more mechanical—Edenrock remains untouched, or so its residents would like to believe. Then comes Nerin, a pale stranger with scholar’s hands and a satchel of half-scorched journals. He claims to be a traveling apprentice-scribe, assigned to copy the local stories and dialects. But his silences stretch a little too long, his gaze lingers a little too much on the half-buried stone obelisks, and his dreams seem too vivid for a man who sleeps so little. Still, no one pays him much mind. The Festival of Stonefruit is approaching, and there are tents to mend, bread to bake, and gossip to spread. The real story does not begin with Nerin. It begins with a toothless dog that keeps digging in the orchard. It begins with a little girl who draws dreams she should not remember. It begins with water that tastes faintly of ash, and a wind that carries words no one speaks anymore. Ashes in the Riverwind is not about saving the world. It is about noticing the slow rot in the walls before they fall. It is about people whose lives are so quiet, they barely hear themselves unraveling. Magic, if it exists, does not announce itself. It hums beneath the floorboards. Some things in Edenrock were never buried deep enough.

A Black Goat. In Black River. With a white girl.

O mal, criado pelos moradores de Rio Denso, anda livre pelas ruas da cidade. Ele perdeu sua família e seu coração está vazio. Suas veias pulsam vingança e a mente só pensa em sangue. De Sul a Norte, de Leste a Oeste, ele vaga aguardando os dias finais e a chave para espalhar as trevas. Trazido em quatro rodas de São Paulo, ele vem. O fim está próximo. O mal sorri.

A lyrical short story about a terminally ill girl and her final day with her younger siblings. Told with dreamlike beauty and emotional depth.

Bienvenue dans le monde sophistiqué de l'élite, où Seraphina Alaric, une jeune fille délicate et fragile qui dépend toujours de médicaments pour aller mieux, essaie juste de souffler un peu avant que sa vie ne soit bouleversée par un mariage arrangé... Sérieusement, qui a envie d'être enchaîné quand on essaie encore de déterminer ce qu'on veut dans la vie? Lors d'un banquet fastueux, elle rencontre le mystérieux duc d'Everwyn. Et la partie la plus folle? Elle n'a aucune idée de qui est ce gars - elle pense juste qu'il s'agit d'un étranger mystérieux. Sortie de nulle part, se sentant aventureuse (et peut-être un peu téméraire), elle suggère une liaison secrète qui chamboule son monde entier. Dans cet instant caché, Seraphina plonge la tête la première dans ses désirs les plus fous. Mais coup de théâtre - il s'avère que l'homme avec qui elle vient de passer la nuit n'est autre que son futur mari. Oups! Tant pis pour l'étranger mystérieux - elle vient de passer la nuit avec son futur époux! "Duc, ça fait mal..." vous invite dans un tourbillon de découverte de soi, de romance torride et du doux chaos de l'amour quand on s'y attend le moins. Seraphina pourra-t-elle se libérer des chaînes de la société, ou se retrouvera-t-elle empêtrée dans la toile même qu'elle a tenté d'échapper? Rejoignez-la dans ce voyage palpitant, et découvrez comment l'amour peut être à la fois libérateur et compliqué. Ne manquez pas ça - votre prochaine obsession n'est qu'à une page de distance!