Arcane Tower Bernard Answers

The things we want are so very rarely the things we need. Clifton Heights, a modest Adirondack town, offers many unique attractions. Arcane Delights sells both paperbacks and hard-to-find limited editions. The Skylark Diner serves the best home-cooked meals around, with friendly service and a smile. Every August, Mr. Jingo’s County Fair visits, to the delight of children and adults. In essence, Clifton Heights is the quintessential small American town. Everyone knows everyone else, and everyone is treated like family. It is quiet, simple, and peaceful. But shadows linger here. Flitting in dark corners, from the corner of the eye. If you walk down Main Street after dark, the slight scrape of shoes on asphalt whispers you're not alone, but when you look over your shoulder, no one is there. The moon shines high and bright in the night sky, but instead of throwing light, it only seems to make the shadows lengthen. Children disappear. Teens run away. Hunters get lost in the woods with frightening regularity. Husbands go mad, and wives vanish in the dead of night. And still, when the sun rises in the morning, you are greeted by townspeople with warm waves and friendly smiles, and the shivers pass as everything seems fresh and new... Until night falls once more. Handy's Pawn and Thrift sits several blocks down from Arcane Delights. Like any thrift store, its wares range from the mundane to the bizarre. By daylight, it seems just another slice of small town Americana. But in its window hangs a sign which reads: We Have Things You Need. And when a lonely traveling salesman comes looking for something he desperately wants, after normal visiting hours, after night has fallen, he will face a harsh truth among the shelves of Handy’s Pawn and Thrift: the things we want are rarely the things we need. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

My husband was an air traffic controller. In our past lives, my daughter had a heart attack when the flight we were in faced a thunderstorm. I contacted my husband at the control tower to arrange for priority landing. At the same time, the other flight that my husband's soul mate was in crashed after being struck by lightning. My husband acted normal after that incident. However, later on my daughter's birthday, he locked my daughter and I in the house, and we were burned to death. "If you hadn't asked for priority landing, Kelly's flight would not have crashed! I don't think there is anything wrong with your daughter. You only did that out of your jealousy for Kelly, you caused the death of a few hundred innocent lives." My daughter and I did not manage to escape, we died horribly. The next time I opened my eyes, I returned to the day when my daughter was having a heart attack again. This time, my husband disconnected my call to the control tower completely. However, when he learnt that our daughter had died from a heart attack, he went crazy.

Sixteen-year-old Vera Moonlock has survived the slums of the imperial capital by wit and stealth—but when a drunken soldier targets an innocent child, her dormant power erupts in a flash of psychic fury. Branded the “dream witch,” she’s dragged to the feared Judgment Tower, where the empire confines its most dangerous Alphas. There she meets Lucien Thornehart, the legendary Mad Wolf King, whose mind teeters on the brink of madness. Bound by necessity—and a fragile pact woven in the dream plain—they shatter their chains and ignite a rebellion under the rising Blood Moon. From the Howling Spire to the storm-lashed heights of Skyforge Citadel, Vera and Lucien must master their mismatched gifts: her star-blood dreamcraft and his feral alpha wrath. As they breach iron gates, outwit psionic dampeners, and rally hybrids and humans alike, they discover that the true enemy is not a single tyrant but the systemic fear that binds them all. In a final reckoning on a frozen lake, they redeem a fallen prince, unite former foes in the Constellation Accord, and found Ember Tower Academy—where the next generation will learn to guard freedom with fang and dream. *Dream Sovereign: Chronicles of the Blood Moon* is an epic saga of power, mercy, and the unbreakable bonds forged in shared nightmares.

I, Opal, was tossed into the Seven Tower Gate prison by my father, the ruthless Alpha. The world thinks I'm dead- a lie to keep me hidden. Cursed by a witch's hex, I'm a hurricane of destruction. My father wants my power, drained and gone. But I'm his worst nightmare. Six days left with the crescent moon closing in, I catch a scent. My wolf roars, everything shifts. "Mate," it growls, changing the game. Salvation or demise, the choice is mine.

Her life was a hell, living like Rapunzel kept in the tower. But when her parents finally decided to let her see the other side of the walls, she began exploring, doing what she wants to do like there is no more tomorrow. Like a captive that has been freed, Ylona Olivares started to live her life to the fullest. She met people, a love of her life to be exact—Gray Rhodes from the same class section. And inside the tower of hell she used to live, she finally found a heaven . . . only it's in the bed.

J'étais enceinte de quatre mois de l'héritier de l'Alpha lorsque ma meilleure amie, Adrienne, m'a percutée. Elle a prétendu qu'il s'agissait d'un « accident ». J'ai perdu le bébé. Mon frère, Guillaume, a tenté de la dénoncer aux anciens de la meute. Mais il a été accusé à tort de trahison, dépouillé de son titre de Bêta et jeté dans un cachot de la meute. Je me suis précipitée vers mon compagnon, l'Alpha Bernard, pour lui demander de l'aide. Il m'a serrée dans ses bras et m'a juré qu'il sauverait Guillaume. Le lendemain, j'ai trouvé Guillaume dans le cachot, enchaîné avec des chaînes en argent, à peine vivant. Le cœur brisé, je suis retournée voir Bernard pour trouver un moyen de prouver l'innocence de Guillaume. C'est alors que je l'ai entendu parler à son bras droit. « Alpha, si Luna découvre que vous les avez laissés piéger Guillaume... elle vous détestera. » La voix de Bernard était empreinte d'épuisement et de douleur refoulée. « Je sais comment elle est. C'était le seul moyen de lui faire pardonner Adrienne lors de la Cérémonie de la Lune de Sang. Adrienne m'a sauvé la vie. Je ne laisserai pas cela la détruire. » Il a marqué une pause, la voix complètement froide. « Quant à Sandrine... Je me rattraperai auprès d'elle. Elle ne saura jamais la vérité, jamais. Pour l'instant, elle doit simplement... obéir. » Le compagnon à qui j'avais confié ma vie... Il a jeté ma famille aux loups, tout cela pour protéger la femme qui avait tué notre enfant. Mon cœur s'est brisé. Tremblant d'une rage que je n'avais jamais connue, j'ai appelé la personne à qui je n'avais pas parlé depuis sept ans, mon père, Alpha Claude. « Père, j'accepte l'alliance stratégique, le mariage que tu souhaitais. Mais j'ai une condition. J'ai besoin de ton aide... pour réduire la Meute du Bois Noir en cendres. »

The city sleeps under his dominion. He stands at the top of his tower, watching the skyline he built on corpses and contracts. A power play gone wrong leaves blood on his hands and a name on his conscience—the woman he was never meant to see again. Below, she moves through the city unseen, carrying evidence that ties him to a crime buried a decade deep. Their collision begins not with love, but exposure. She’s the variable that can end him—or save him from what he’s become.

On the day Louisa discovered that her boyfriend had cheated on her with another girl, a red diamond worth one million reais was placed into Louisa's coat without her knowledge. Before she knew what had happened to her, she and her roommate, Bernard, were kidnapped by a mafia leader, Ace. After the red diamond goes stolen, Louisa becomes caught in the crossfire between mafias. In the midst of the mayhem while searching for the red diamond, Louisa begins to develop feelings for Ace, something she did not anticipate to happen, but those sentiments were not reciprocated by Ace. On the one hand, she works hard for her love, while on the other, she assists him in finding the red stone. Will the mafia leader, Ace, abandon her after the stone is found? Will Louisa get heartbroken again by the newfound love? 

I'm reincarnated a week before the college entrance exam. Despite being the soon-to-be top scorer, I stab my eye with a syringe. In my past life, Marianne Quentin, my boyfriend Lance Russell's childhood friend, reported me for cheating off her during the final mock exam. The teacher compared our papers and found that my essay was identical to hers. He harshly criticized me and warned me not to repeat my mistake. However, Marianne reported me for copying her answers again during the math exam. Once again, my answers were found to be identical to hers. The teacher scolded me for being incorrigible and sent me home to reflect on my actions. I couldn't understand what had happened. Clearly, I'd never cheated, but my answers were nearly identical to Marianne's, whether in writing and language or in math. As the SAT exam loomed over me, I could only suppress my doubts as I stepped into the exam hall. I finished the writing paper and thought I was safe. However, Marianne stepped out and accused me of cheating again. I tried to defend myself, yet the answers on my paper were identical to hers. In the end, I was disqualified, kicked out of the exam hall, and banned from taking any exams in the next two years—just because I "cheated". I succumbed to despair and leaped from the rooftop. When I open my eyes again, I'm back to one week before the SAT.

All her life, Veronica Vane has always been an unstoppable force of nature, in battle, strength, arcane magic, and wits. That is until the tables have turned on one mission that completely changed her life: destroying Nuella Sangre, a union between Werewolves and Vampires. No matter how strong Veronica was, it backlashed against her when she found herself falling for one of the richest businessmen in the world, The Prince of Nuella Sangre, Giovanni Felix Thorn. As she was falling in love, she realized how wrong she was, and fought alongside Nuella Sangre when it was threatened by her own half-sister, Elspeth Vane. For failing her mission, the evil forces of Dexo Fernia have rallied to end the reign of their own Queen, Veronica Vane, for her vulnerability. Little did they know, they will enter the lion’s den, as Veronica unleash the oldest magic amongst them; Yxorix