the riddle of the sands

My name is Sandy Davies. I’m a half-breed Faery living in a pack of Werewolves. My mate, Sean, is a Second in the Candlewood pack triumvirate. With my older sister as Candlewood pack’s Luna, I wonder what I’m supposed to be doing with my life. Pretty normal, all things considered. Then a strange disaster takes Sean and me back to his childhood home in Desert pack, and everything gets turned on end, starting the minute that I meet Dorian McEttigan. His sexual intensity draws me like a magnet, and it stirs the possessive Were inside Sean to biting ire. Because the Moon Goddess Arianrhod doesn’t gift a Were more than one mate. She certainly doesn’t gift the same mate to brothers. Or does she? This story contains adult themes and language, mild violence and sexual content.

Gunshots waken Ian Tunbridge, an assistant curator of classical antiquities at the British Museum, on his first day on a dig in California. The only way to save his life is to run for it, but luck is not on his side. At least, not until he meets Lucas Arpini, the brash American photographer who seems to have some sort of clue what’s going on. Together, they’re supposed to be the tools in finding an artifact nobody believes is real -- nobody, that is, except Lucas and the man kidnaps them both.<br><br>Ian doesn’t know what to believe. His colleagues are dead, he’s injured, and he has no choice but to put his faith in a gorgeous stranger. Their escape should lead them straight to the police, but when Lucas shows him pieces of the puzzle they were meant to solve, Ian is too intrigued to walk away. He wants to solve the riddle as badly as Lucas does.<br><br>Unfortunately, they aren’t the only ones ...

In the endless desert of the Great Abyss, ruthless warlord Zhan Arkheis carves a bloody path to power, sacrificing cities and harvesting souls to fuel his dark ambitions. When he seizes ancient artifacts known as amplifiers, their whispers awaken visions of a lost civilization and a looming force—the Architect of the Abyss, a godlike entity tied to the desert’s buried secrets. As Zhan’s power grows, so does the toll on his army, his second-in-command Arkos, and his own sanity. Haunted by shadowy remnants and pursued by Nyrah’s relentless armies, Zhan must confront the amplifiers’ true purpose: they are not tools of conquest but keys to a cycle of destruction orchestrated by the Architect. Will Zhan break the cycle—or become its next pawn?

Stuart is a lone photographer based in Dunfermline, Scotland. His specialty; post-mortem photography. At the beginning of the 20th century, the custom of photographing the dead is at its dawn, but Stuart is an old-fashioned war veteran. He keeps the practice alive. His life starts changing after his brother's death. Stuart suddenly gets flashbacks of the past long forgotten. The dead subjects on his photos turn out distorted, as if moved... He meets Regina, a photography enthusiast herself. The two engage themselves in photographing crime scenes. More strange occurrences appear in their photos. Stuart is scared that someone is threatening him and his distant family. He aims to find a rational explanation while the ghosts from the photos are haunting him in his dreams. They're warning him there's something more dangerous than them he should be afraid of...

Do you seek comfort from the harsh world in the arms of others? The world has a way of pushing people into each other's arms. This erotica involves a fantasy version of an ancient Egyptian priesthood where people live under real gods. What to expect: At least 2 out of 7 chapters are erotic. There are some genuine action scenes. The cover is AI; the content is not.

Fortuna Sands is a popular Virtual Reality Game where everything is determined by a turn of deck of cards called the Deck of Fate. Cee is new player in FS learning the system allows the most fantastic of outcomes simply by drawing the right hand again the Luck of the Draw.With real world money on the line, and a clue that leads her to her mysterious family inheritance hidden in this VR world, she meets new characters both friendly and shady, she navigates this world to find the most unexpected of outcomes. As the staked get higher and secrets of this world go deep, she may discover that her own fate is tangle in this world much deeper than she can possibly imagine. Includes: Virtual Reality, Gambling, and Gaming System elements. Updates once every Friday.

This is a story that took place in ancient Egypt-464BC. In a time of slavery due to the falling away in Israel, many are left homeless and are forced to seek refuge...in Egypt. The Crown Prince originally shrouded in mystery, seemed like an enigmatic yet unpredictable person when Aria first met him and Aria felt an unusual pull to him going to places she shouldn't, meeting with a certain someone she shouldn't... Aria wasn't the strongest in her beliefs as a Jew. But what happens when what started as an innocent draw spiral into something dark, possessive and downright unholy? What happens when innocent fascination turns into fear and a cry for escape? An escape that came in the form of Ahmes. But little did Aria know that she wasn't quite done yet, her faith was revived and her doubts cleared but what happens when she's told to go back, back to the monster in human form who sees himself as god, and help him see... See what? That even God could love a monster, that his love, showed forth even then, extends to all people and that no one, including him, was beyond saving. Take a closer look in 'Sands In The Darkest Night'

Follow the lives of two boys, both orphans, who grew up together with only each other to depend on as they suffered through fear and prejudice, and then the discovery that they were in fact, truly powerful, magical,people. Follow them as they form a bond that even death cannot break Story made by athey on FanFiction.net

This will be the last time I let her down because it will be the last time she gives me the chance to.

This novel follows the anthology of tales of a kingdom of ancient Aitola who found immortality with a series of successive reincarnations, where he lives in a land of sand, among tales of love, desire, reincarnation, his prophetess and sorceress. He is called the lion of the desert, since he is immortal, since he is the Ayatollah, When long ago, a kingdom of desert and sand, ruled by a righteous Ayatollah, having happy days, when in a great invasion, he faced monsters, before they were vanquished, they cursed the Ayatollah's wife. in the midst of tales of past lives, in which he walks through the desert, like the great desert, in the midst of the adventures of the immortal sorceress, in which he now lives a thousand lives and a thousand dead. When now, with your sword, in which you pierced the creature, you defeated your enemies. He lives next to his immortal queen, his wife when in several lives, in one of them, his wife, went through difficulties, her health was fragile, she could die at any moment. Long ago, there was a beautiful kingdom of desert and sand, ruled by a righteous Ayatollah, who brought prosperity and peace to his people. When days were happy and people were happy, but one day there was a big invasion and the kingdom was attacked by monsters. In this present moment, of a thousand lives, when the Ayatollah fought valiantly, leading his army to victory, but before they were defeated, the monsters cursed the Ayatollah's wife. So in a story of adventures, romances, sacrifices, his great conquests and battles, when he now lives in his descendants, in a tale of love, desire and adventures, in a love that transcends the top, a love beyond time and of a thousand lives.