《While We Wait (August Alsina + India Love)》Eighteen.
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Halfway to Home
Sam is stuck. The Nalitokk have collected a variety of races, aliens of all colors, shapes, and forms. Of those, humans are hardly the most unusual. In fact, ever since waking up in their clutches, Sam has been working hard to make sure humans appear entirely unremarkable. Years have whiled away as the inquisitive aliens have come to regard their newest test subject as defective. Damaged. Little more than a pet. As much as it hurts, Sam knows it's the only way to keep surviving - for the time being. But times are changing, and Sam can’t live under the Nalitokk’s radar forever. When things come to a head, Sam has to make some hard decisions about how to break free of their grasp. Decisions which change everything - from the Nalitokk’s view on humans, all the way down to Sam’s humanity itself. With the Nalitokk hot in pursuit, Sam breaks free with one singular goal - home.
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My Dear Alice - A Dark Awakening
He’ll cross a lethal land to bring her back home. But is she willing to be found? Appalachian Wasteland, 2072. Jamie Henderson wants to forget all about his ex-girlfriend Alice. Except this nonviolent fixer has been hired to find her after she went missing in the ongoing AI-controlled war. But his quest through the hostile post-apocalyptic terrain turns deadly when a roadside raider attack sees him captured by a terrifying matriarchal clan. Stranded in dangerous territory, Jamie’s jaw drops when he discovers his ex among their numbers. But with her personality split and scattered, his own survival will depend on reaching through her fragmented mind… Can this pacifist hunter make the truth known before he’s sentenced to death? My Dear Alice is a fast-paced companion story that bridges Seasons 1 and 2 of the gripping Cyber Overture dystopian series. If you like complex character studies, gritty worlds, and shocking twists, then you’ll love D. B. Goodin’s outlander opus. Note: This should be read after Sonorous. This story has been published, but I'm adding it here for Royal Road readers to enjoy.
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The Arbiter: Midgard
Tiberius Stone, aka Toaby, is an honest man. A loving husband and father who works hard as a senior accountant to provide for his family. He works for Techavant, the world's largest tech company. That was until he uncovered something the company wanted to stay hidden. Coming home to find his wife murdered, Toaby takes the fall and is sentenced to life in prison. Forced to take an alternative form of punishment, Toaby's mind is uploaded into a virtual prison while his body is destroyed. The prison is run by AIs who take form of the Norse Gods and offer him a unique class opportunity. They offer him to become the Arbiter. A class focusing on bringing law and order to a virtual world full of the world’s worse criminals. Toaby is reluctant at first but agrees when offered the chance to communicate with the real world as a reward for a job well done. Can Toaby bring justice to a land full of the lawless? Will he ever be able to convince his daughter he's not guilty? Can he bring down the corrupt organization that sentenced him to an eternal life in prison? Can he simply survive amongst the world's worst? Find out this and more in, The Arbiter!
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Endless Essence
"Essence is a link, a chain, a river. It flows through the world and makes us part of it. Through it, we evolve. With it, we mix with those close to us… " Endless Essence tells the journey of a young man in search of his savior, a woman of unknown origins yet profound means. His fate will intertwine with others, forging bonds, revealing a world full of legends, goals, curses and people worth being loved. "Essence… is a kind of story. It collects our tales, puts them together, then passes them onto those who seek the truth." His world will also expand, beyond what is known, beyond what is hoped, and he'll soon learn wisdom is not made of a great amount of knowledge, but of courage and humility in front of being wrong. And so, he'll forge ahead, Without looking back, Relentlessly. Known by many names, He'll keep his own close to his heart, Yet the one ever present in the center of his being... Will be hers.
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Mortal's Game (Gods Online)
Some outside the box thinking gods decide that they would like to spark some life into the other deities. They create a competition between themselves that may or may not spiral out of control. A new VRMMORPG suddenly hits the market, Gods Online. Bored rich boy Michael Estrisden joins. In game he meets someone... interesting and realizes that the game isn't as simple as it seems.
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Unearth The Shadows
Fantasy novel | gay romance sub-plot| poc main character. An heir to a monarchy threatened by a popular revolution forges an alliance with an amnesiac man with forgotten links to the rebellion. • • •Heron, Monarch-in-Prospect of Ceres, lost his mother to an icy storm. Two years later he still battles with the grief. The storm is back. And Heron finds a man trapped unconscious in the middle of the cold winds. His vital signs are odd and the only thing he remembers is his name : Davir.Heron provides Davir with medical care and finds in the stranger the opportunity to have a pawn in the royal guard. An alibi to buy himself liberty from the control of the ruling council of the capital. An indebted man is a man easy to persuade, and Davir acts as intended. As a popular rebellion against the Monarchy festers in the capital, Heron's new-found liberty soon leads him to cross paths with the rebels. An unsettling discovery comes to the surface: he'd been lied to about the death of his mother by the ruling council. Suspicious that he's, too, a pawn trapped in a tangle of political interests he cares little for, Heron is determined to get to the bottom of the secrets kept from him. Davir's military abilities could be of great help. Davir, too, needs Heron's ressources to discover his forgotten identity. An alliance between the two is then formed. But the clues leading to Davir's past point toward where they shouldn't : the rebellion and dark, sinful, supernatural arts of soul eaters.____________________________________©Copyright A. Gonçalo. All rights reserved.
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