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Xiao Yun's cheat system can only have one function - epiphany! Ordinary physique? Epiphany Chaos! Is it difficult to practice physical fitness? Epiphany perfection! Supernatural powers are difficult to repair? Epiphany and perfection! There is nothing that epiphany can't solve. If there is, then enlightenment ten times, one hundred times, one thousand times

Why do we love rock stars? Maybe it’s the tight pants, or the sexy way they play their instruments, pun intended. This box set explores love on the way to the altar for musicians, and the men who love them.<br><br>Within these pages, you’ll find the flawed and famous as ex-band mates work their way back to each other. Or a playboy rock star who has to convince his former lover that he’s changed. How about a keyboard player wooing the man of his dreams? Not to mention the famous singer who has to play dirty to get the man he wants.<br><br>Take a musical journey to “I do” with these four couples and find the beat of your drum, the keys to your heart, and the song of your soul, forever.<br><br>Contains the stories:<br><br><strong>Let the Music Say I Do</strong>: Jared Page and Joey Seever are ex-band mates and ex-lovers. The reason? Joey’s fear of marriage -- and then his cheating. Jared doesn’t know, though, that Joey’s been hurt in the past, and has never trusted in love. An accident and some harsh words bring these issues to the fore. Now, it’s up to Jared to convince Joey that it’s okay to love, and marriage is just the music to which you say, “I Do.”<br><br><strong>The Beat of His Drum</strong>: Dorian Seacrest is livid. Laramie Treble, leader and drummer of Caesar’s Flame is back in town, and wants to stake his claim -- on him, of all people. But Dorian doesn’t trust him, and his heart is leery. One round of heartache with Laramie is enough. Laramie is determined to make amends, however and won’t take no for an answer. All he has to do is get Dorian to dance to the beat of his drum.<br><br><strong>Keys to His Heart</strong>: While Grady Tremone helps his mom with rehearsal for a show, he bumps into Tim Hugo. The instant lust he feels for Tim almost blinds him, but Tim isn’t interested in casual sex. He wants a relationship. After some false steps, the two men decide to take it slow, and after a month of blue balls, they finally become intimate and Grady is convinced that Tim has the keys to his heart.<br><br><strong>Let the Song Last Forever</strong>: Evan Harper has deep feelings for Chuck Whistler. But being betrayed and outed in high school by someone he’d loved, has left scars on Evan’s heart. He cools things off with Chuck but despite his best efforts, Chuck won’t let things go. The two men have an argument, ending in a broken nose. When, after all that, Chuck still professes his love, Evan has to find a way to make things right.

As a professional pianist, it is only in music that Evelyn Bell allows herself to let go of reality. After the loss of her parents, Evey struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and remains fixated on an echo of the past—until her life is turned upside down once more. Trapped within a vision, she locks eyes with a mysterious young man. Without answers, time literally stops around her. Ailis is a woman of the Celts, the daughter of a chief. She must protect her people from invaders. When she loses her brother it is only the beginning. With help from other clans, she tries to keep her father’s alliance alive long enough to save them all. Will Ailis be able to protect her people against all odds? Evey and Ailis will fight for their freedom and embark on a journey through memories and strife where they must learn to embrace their true destiny. A Bell Sound Everlasting is created by J.Z.N. McCauley, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

Wishing Bell follows the story of a 17-year-old who, after being hit by a truck, hears a mysterious voice as he’s about to die. This voice leads him to a series of events involving wishes and supernatural elements. The protagonist encounters various characters and situations that challenge his understanding of reality and his own existence. As the story unfolds, he must navigate through the mysteries surrounding the Wishing Bell, the source of his newfound abilities, and the consequences of the wishes it grants.

Farmer is a pirate with a dark past. Initially, he did not want to leave his little fishing hamlet but the request of a beautiful young maiden could bring him close to breaking the curse that binds him as well as give him an opportunity to exact revenge on those who took everything from him. "The one born from the blood moon; the one who cannot die too soon. The one whose fate was a cursed dying breath; the one whose hand brings naught but death. The one whose blood and soul are tainted; the one whose death has not been fated…" Farmer is a powerful warrior. Such is his strength, that its depths are not easily fathomed. But he had to pay a heavy price for his power, and now that price is one that burdens him. Maybe it is his next voyage that will free him from his sins and allow him to roam the land once more. This story brings elements from both dark and eastern fantasy together in an effort to fuse the best elements of both worlds. My chapters are all between 2500-3000 words long. Sometimes more or less depending on the story itself or just my general feeling of laziness :)

There awaits many adventures for the good Detective-Doctor.

Abandoned in the most dangerous forest in the whole country of Eperlia. Alex was the only human in the forest. He had to survive by killing monsters and hunting for food. Until the system showed up.Find out what happens to him!

In the quiet town of Quill Point, Indiana, eighteen-year-old Lydia Bell's life of isolation takes a supernatural turn when she discovers she can raise the dead. As she develops her first real connection through an online romance with Timothy, her mother vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only cryptic warnings about ancient Titans and a dark family legacy. When tragedy strikes Timothy and their friends, Lydia's newfound power to resurrect the dead becomes both a gift and a burden. But an even greater shock awaits: her father is the charismatic leader of a cult determined to restore the Titans' rule over Earth, and he will stop at nothing to harness Lydia's abilities for his sinister plans. Now, with her resurrected companions and Timothy's love as her only allies, Lydia must unravel her family's twisted past while evading her father's relentless pursuit—before an ancient evil buried beneath Indiana's soil awakens once more.

Cassie McCarthy spent every summer growing up at Bell Lake Meadows, a small lake house community situated in a beautifully peaceful forest on the East Coast. Cassie, once a reserved and anxious teenager, recounts the tales of how she grew to love life and find inner peace each summer at her little slice of heaven - Bell Lake. Love, trauma, friendship, risk, adventure: Bell Lake gave Cassie everything she needed to find her place in this world and become who the Universe always intended her to be. From fairytale love to earth-shattering trauma, blissful summer afternoons and sleepless nights, Cassie reflects on her youth and captures some of life's most beautiful moments that helped her spark her inner flame and rise above the ashes. ***Summertime at Bell Lake captures raw & real stories from my youth. Some details have been changed / exaggerated for privacy & the sake of a good story, but the people, events, relationships, personalities, etc. are fully inspired by my true past & the lovely people in it***

Paulie Hajek has loved weddings since childhood, so naturally it makes sense that his current job is in the wedding planning business. Unfortunately, that also means he works with Van Tremaine, his boss’s brother and a former bed partner who refused to commit to something permanent, like marriage. Paulie has been heartbroken for a year, but he’s not giving up on happily-ever-after, though the gloss has dimmed somewhat.<br><br>Van has a lot to prove to Paulie, whose love-tinted view of the world once struck fear in his forty-five-year-old heart and made him act like a fool. It doesn’t help that Paulie catches him with an intern in a compromising position, either.<br><br>To prove he’s changed, Van resorts to a bit of trickery which, in the end, may or may not give Paulie what he’s always wanted, if he can forgive Van for being an idiot. Will he say yes?