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One day, Sam was flipping burgers. Next, he was leveling up to survive. Stuck in a dead-end job with no future, Sam longed for something more: power, purpose, a reason to keep going. The System gave him all of that and more... at a devastating cost. Humanity was nearly wiped out. Earth was shattered and reshaped into something hostile and unfamiliar, a testing ground in a war started by powers far beyond comprehension.

Rowan has won a battle, but not the war. With proper allies, Rowan’s armies could storm the demon stronghold, capture its ruler, and end the reign of demonkind. But while nations clash, a greater struggle lies elsewhere. In his desperate pursuit of Astaroth, Elias Bram scours the world for clues to the fiend’s true origins, identity, and purpose. His horrifying discoveries hint that not only is humanity at risk, but the earth itself. Its fate may depend upon three children. With their unmatchable skills, it’s up to Max McDaniels, David Menlo, and little Mina to tip the balance!

Trapped in the Hollow Earth for far too long, the sun calls to Karl Kingsley like a siren. But getting there may have a deadly price. Desperate for resources to fuel his growing tower, Karl finally discovers a way to reach the surface world, only to find it bathed in the cruel light of tyranny. The White Wizard rules with an iron grip, harvesting the land with the White Tower casting a dark shadow over the people.

When their father the king is assassinated in the palace courtyard, Frederick Belvare can do nothing to stop his older brother Matthias from plunging into the Blackwald forest after their father's assassins to bring justice and to retrieve his stolen crown. Only the Crown Prince does not return, and Prince Frederick must go to the Blackwald to bring his brother back. He enlists the help of his father's knights and sets off into the Blackwald, but rumors lurk of strange men and monstrous bear tracks in the snow.

FBI agent Garrett Mann is running out of time. His task force, ARTEMIS, is on the verge of disbandment, but he’s uncovered a sinister plot that could swing the upcoming presidential election. With a trail leading from Washington, DC, to rural Montana and finally to Tampa, Florida, Mann assembles a team of misfits and black-ops specialists to take on a shadowy conspiracy involving the CIA, a covert government contractor, and a third-party political movement.

His cultivation is broken. His soul fractured. And he is trapped—locked inside a realm ruled by an unseen force that plays with fate like a gameboard. The Incursion pulses through the land, each wave birthing stronger enemies and twisting the laws of reality. Li Wei stands alone, surrounded by beasts, cultivators, and otherworldly threats that only grow more relentless.

Join Li Wei once again as he risks everything he cares about. With the familiar system shenanigans and new hurdles to overcome, this tenth book in the series brings Li Wei to a game that everyone is hinting him about, but he never paid a thought to it.

Five dismembered bodies are found along the roadside, dumped in the middle of nowhere. This isn’t new to Special Agent Garrett Mann. Head of ARTEMIS, a specialized FBI task force hell-bent on hunting down cartel-related killings in the Southwest, Mann has seen this before. He and his team have been tracking similar kills along thousands of miles of rural roads running north, south, and back again. When the latest slaughter yields a key piece of evidence, Mann thinks he’s found the killer and solved the case. That’s when the nightmare begins.

Li Wei finds himself stuck in a cultivation bottleneck, due to complex rules of simultaneous qi and body cultivation. This predicament sets him on a challenging journey that will push him to his limits. With friends are in danger, and enemies are lying in wait, eager to take revenge, can Li Wei continue his cultivation journey against these odds, or will he suffer defeat under the cruel hand of evil? Join Li Wei once again as he risks everything he cares about.

The Green Woods is book one in Hidden Class: Pacifist, a new series featuring a protagonist who overcomes his anger management issues to become the most peaceful man on Earth. Join Roth on an epic journey through a unique blend of gamelit, cyberpunk, science fiction, and fantasy elements.

The next chapter in Roth's journey takes him to Hilsford. After getting his journey off to a good start and becoming friends with the ratans, foxes, badgers, corvids, and boars of the woods, it's time to take his journey to one of the big cities of AstroTerra, Hilsford.

Roth finally manages to leave the secret city of Antioch and is ready to start his life in the game anew in another region. However, when he finds that Loki has finally decided to pull the plug on him, he has to speed up his plans and find a way to escape his enemies' clutches. Thankfully, Roth is not alone. By banding together with his friends and all his allies, he can still make it.

After turning the world of AstroTerra upside down, Roth has no choice but to leave the verdant landscape of Green Country and venture off to the inhospitable Rock Canyon, a land of cliffs and slavers. Roth ends up finding a mysterious city filled with exciting sights. He makes new friends and finds a place where he can finally craft and play peacefully. Regardless of how much Roth tries to run, trouble keeps finding him. Why can't he just lie low? Why does he keep causing chaos wherever he goes?

He is well-connected with several powerful NPCs in the game, has a unique class, and has found his purpose. Additionally, since his friends and family have managed to come to his aid inside the game, he no longer feels alone. Alas, good fortune attracts envious eyes. As Roth's adventures and achievements cause ripples in AstroTerra, he enters the radar of some of the most influential organizations in the game. The clock is ticking, and the siege around Roth is tightening. Will he be able to make it out? How long can he keep playing the game without hurting others?

Reincarnated into his old self, Li Wei starts over at the lowest point of his life. Marred with a crippled body, he has to depend on his mastery of arrays and future knowledge to carve his own path in the brutal cultivation world. With his old friends and animal companions, Li Wei sets out on an epic journey to fix his past life's mistakes, achieve his dao, and fight the heavens. With a SYSTEM to help him, his journey might be easier this time. Or it might not be.

Karl always played it safe—coding by day, gaming by night. But when a mystical tower drags him into a world where spells are real and death is only a single mistake away, Karl must adapt fast. Thrust into a deadly war, he's forced to recruit allies, conquer dungeons, and defend his tower against relentless attacks. As the stakes climb ever higher, Karl quickly learns that in this game, there's no respawn. If his tower falls, it's game over—for good.

After the city-shaking battle, Li Wei has gained wings. Wings with which he can fly anywhere. Wings that the Wang clan have used to paint him as a devil. Through all the things that have happened to him since his reincarnation, Wei has learned that without power he can’t do anything, and to gain more power in a short amount of time, he has to walk on the path of arrays once again.

Thrown into a world far away from his own city, Li Wei has no choice but to take help getting back to Five Firmament City from whomever he can find. And with his body cultivation sealed, he has more obstacles than before. Can he find a way back home, or will he waste valuable time before his body gives up? It’s Li Wei’s race against the clock, and he has to win. There is no other option.

A week after the elections patch, the powers ruling AstroTerra shifted. Guilds have taken over much of the game's estate and are now focused on the mysterious location known as The Core. On the other hand, Roth has been making the most of his character's strengths. He has multiple quests to wrap up and has finally broken into the top 100 of the game. Freedom seems to be just within reach. But is it? Or are hidden forces conspiring to keep Roth in his digital prison forever?

After FBI special agent Garrett Mann executes a deadly raid on an underground facility in New Mexico, the sole survivor’s testimony reveals a greater threat to come. The covert lair was a training ground for hundreds of cartel sicarios, who have since disappeared into the US, their ultimate mission still unknown. When another FBI raid goes catastrophically wrong, Mann finds himself on the trail of the Bureau’s original target—a moonlighting serial killer who leads the agent into a nightmare that’s darker and more extensive than Mann ever feared.