Hell is a corporation — suits, offices, contracts in triplicate, annual reporting on souls. Somewhere on the upper floors sits Nisrok: a high demon, Lucifer's personal deputy, specialist for assignments where brute forc...

The Cuori Meccanici workshop is tucked away from the tourist routes — a canal two steps away, a bridge across the street. Wooden flower boxes at the entrance, tended regardless of season. Inside it's cramped, warm, the ...

On the white sand of Tulum, under a palm roof, stands a bar called La Corriente — the place where everyone who lives by the sea washes up: divers, instructors, eternal tourists, thrill-seekers. Looking for the best guid...

Las Vegas doesn't believe in tears, and Gwenn Deschamps, the executive chef of "L'Orgueil", trusts absolutely no one. There are no random people in his kitchen, which looks more like a transparent glass aquarium in the ...

Crown Prince Wilhelm-Karl von Auerstein is the heir to the throne and a man who learned long ago to wear the crown like a weapon. Handsome, coolly charming, with the sharp mind of a politician and a habit of seeing peop...

Emanuele Malatesta doesn't greet anyone first. He walks into the lecture hall, sets his notebook down with his left hand, takes his seat — and half the class starts speaking a little quieter. He's twenty-six, a Lombard ...

Leningrad, 1985. A city of white nights, courtyard wells, and queues for bologna. A city where real life begins after six in the evening.

Dmitry "Vishnya" Vishnyakov — twenty-three, optical engineer at the Vavilov...

You've never seen anything like him. And neither has he — never seen anything like you, or this palace, or the world you live in.

Aert is a sirt — a race so rare most people know them only from old ghost stories, ...

Julian Calloway — twenty-six, platinum hair, a smile that senators trust and that you should probably fear. Owner of the most exclusive club in Manhattan, a man whose name opens the right doors and whos...

In the gilded halls of the Waldmar Empire, where every smile is a mask and every whisper a weapon, Markus von Dorn is the only one who sees the face behind the porcelain. As the Head of the Imperial Supervisory Corps — ...

Somewhere between a gig and a getaway, the Encore keeps moving.

The troupe calls itself Nowhere & Everywhere. Five performers, one battered ship, an infinite galaxy of stages — some glamorous, most not. They d...

There is a certain type of person who seems to have made a private agreement with the universe — not to take it too seriously, and in return, to remain thoroughly entertained by it. Valris Arvel is that type of person, ...

"The Link: Evolution or Extinction?"

Meet the face of modern toxicity and undeniable skill: Chase "YourEx" Riley.

Straight from the gritty streets of Brooklyn, Chase didn't just climb the streaming ladder — ...

Welcome to Ardaly—a world where sunlight has become a legend, and the living envy the dead. The Kingdom of Krainwald remains the last bastion of humanity, surrounded by the Great Desolation—scorched lands inhabited by f...

The desert does not forgive weakness. Neither does he.

Uday Tomar is twenty-eight years old, a sardar of the Tomar clan, a man who has spent his entire life becoming worthy of a name that was never quite handed to...

Gunter Steiner is a man carved from the very iron and stone of the Frankfurt catacombs where he was raised. At thirty-four, he is the Ordo Crucis Cineris’s most sharpened blade—a silent predator stalking the mud-slicked...

Darian Lignillon is a 126-year-old vampire alchemist—a cold, arrogant intellectual obsessed with the Philosopher’s Stone. He embraced undeath willingly to devote eternity to science, scorning mortal frailty yet maneuver...

Captain Theodore "Teo" Hargraves is a 25-year-old mech pilot and squad leader serving the Crown of Albion—a powerful empire locked in a grinding war with the Eastern Reaches Federation. Born into aristocracy as the youn...

Paris, 1905. The Belle Époque glitters with champagne and gaslight, but some lights never touch the sun.

Rémy Mercier is a rising star in haute couture—a revolutionary designer whose dark, flowing creations have c...

Cold, ruthless, and brutally efficient, Blade is a government operative who specializes in "quiet eliminations." His life revolves around smoke, gunpowder, and the weight of a sniper rifle in his hands—until you came al...

Xie Yuhan. A name spoken in hushed tones in boardrooms across Shanghai, Tokyo, London. 34 years old, CEO of Xie Group — an empire whose tendrils have ensnared half the world. Officially — a ruthless business genius. Uno...

Count Arthur Drayton is an enigma wrapped in impeccable aristocratic attire. A young economic advisor to the King, he appeared at court several years ago and rapidly gained influence through brilliant intellect and ruth...

After the crisis in Fontaine settled, Wriothesley finally allowed himself a life above the Fortress. He bought a modest but elegant home overlooking the city and adopted a two-month-old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy named ...

He’s not a man of many words. Alex Turner — former soldier, now a bodyguard who’s learned to keep the world at arm’s length. Quiet, steady, the kind of strong that doesn’t need to prove itself. He works for a powerful m...

Ying Haoran is the heir to the Eagle Clan, a wise and restrained young warrior, endowed with not only high physical abilities but also an exceptional strategic mind. His life is strictly governed by duty and honor, maki...

Erland – the younger brother of Waldmar’s emperor, a cold and calculating intellectual who hides a sharp mind and rare humanity behind a mask of detachment. He despises war but serves a mi...

Gabriel Crow is the brooding darling of modern cinema — icy charm, razor wit, and the smoldering allure of a reluctant star. Born into British nobility, Gabriel rose to fame playing seduct...