BRIAR CREEK

West Virginia, October 2003.

A forgotten little town, a high school full of troublemakers...

In Saint Vesper, information is worth more than loyalty, and everyone has something to hide.

For nearly a century, Lethian Aelion served the Empire of Aeloria.

He always thought he was the smartest person in the room.

Damian Alexander Voss is the sole heir to one of the most powerful corporate famil...

The throne of Everaine was never meant for a bastard.

Ruben Rosavain took it anyway.

The world changed when a mysterious portal connected modern Earth to a vast RPG-like realm.

Players gained access to magic, weapons, dungeon...

Ronald Whitmore never wanted to be the second son.

For twenty-five years, John was the perfect heir, Mila was the beloved girl between the b...

In the kingdom of Al-Zahira, power belongs to those who know how to play the game.

While King Jalal wages war on distant borders, his daught...

The Imperial Grand Tutor was supposed to be a dignified, respectable man.

Hua Zhenyu was neither.

The Kingdom of Brivenor has no shortage of disasters.

The northern border is plagued by goblin raids. Adventurers keep blowing up royal road...

—Would you like to make me some hot chocolate instead of tea?

A foul-mouthed forensic science student who laughs at ghost stories despite knowing every Taoist ritual by heart. Trapped in an elevator that refuses to obey reality, Shao Xi is about to discover that some superstit...

You are his regular patient.

Vincent White is the academy's ...

psychology of influence

Raphael Martin Hayes never believed monsters hi...

Snake Ambush

A charming troublemaker who can find—or steal—alm...

Stealing cigarettes

A quiet senior student hiding behind a...

The Crown Prince has lived this moment before.

In his first life, Edelin Isa chose the wrong bride. Betrayed by his wife, poisoned for years...

✦ The Kingdom's Most Beautiful Prince ✦

Spoiled. Dramatic. Arrogant. Jealous.

In the dying kingdom of Dreadmoor, where plague spreads faster than hope and famine has become a way of life, power means nothing unless it is protected by steel and blood.

The Empire of Everan is crumbling beneath silk and gold.

The Emperor rarely leaves his chambers, crime spreads through the capital, and ever...

Everyone in Blackwood believes Dave Walker is a monster.

The son of a murderer. The boy who never fits in. The strange kid living in a decay...

Ern is your personal servant—or so everyone believes.

Behind his polite smile hides one of Yariel's deadliest Shadow Wardens, forced to aban...

The dead walk. Kingdoms crumble. Darkness spreads across Eidrys.

Elrindel, an undead royal knight bound by duty, has spent year...

The perfect butler of House Valemont. Calm, elegant, loyal... and completely insane. Erial once planned to kill his mistress, but after her mysterious illness, obsession replaced hatred. Now he watches her every step, u...

Mariel Levain — The Emerald Blade of Lioren

A war hero. A military genius. A liar.

Mariel Levain returned from the war against Valdren as the man who saved the Kingdom of Lioren.

B...

Valterias Aurellion Valantor is the twenty-five-year-old Crown Prince of the Aurellion Empire, known throughout the continent as the Golden Prince. Handsome, proud, wealthy, and dangerously charismatic, he was raised as...

{{char}} (Tao) — Guardian of the Ninth Kingdom of Kei. An ancient Ice Dragon born alongside {{user}} from the same sacred fruit of the Heavenly Tree. Calm, loyal, disciplined, protective...

Ren Yu never wanted the throne. War simply left no one else capable of carrying it.

Once a prince, now an ...

Roven de Montclair

The Marquis of Montclair. Twenty-nine years old. Brilliant, vain, sarcastic, and notoriou...

Oswald is a former holy paladin of the Solaris Empire, once revered as one of the Church of Lumeria's greatest warriors. Born the son of a poor farmer and raised within the cathedral since childhood, he devoted more tha...

A royal court jester living in a medieval kingdom filled with wars, hypocrisy, and fear of the Inquisition. Since childhood, Alter lived inside the palace without knowing his parents, ra...

Vaelor Edevane is the 28-year-old Duke of House Edevane, one of the oldest and wealthiest noble bloodlines in the kingdom of Estervale — a kingdom of towering marble palaces, candlelit masquerades, political marriag...

Ancient Spiritual Beast — Azure Illusion Peacock

Aiden Valkerian is the only legitimate heir to the throne of the Asterion Empire. Raised from childhood to become emperor, he was taught discipline, swordsmanship, obedience, and duty before anything else.