Sound Final Chapter

I was with a fishmonger for seven years. Every night, he pinned me beneath him, reckless and wild. Until one day, he took off his bloodstained apron and came clean–he was getting engaged to Sophia, the Bilotti heiress. Only then did I learn that he was the Don of the Colleo family. “Hahaha! You fooled around with Ms. Mancini for seven years, only to take another delicate young lady’s hand in marriage. Surely, she’s going to come at you.” “Don Colleo, you should keep things sweet with her.” His men’s laughter echoed in my ears. “What’s the rush? I’ve broken her well enough these past seven years. If you don’t mind, you can have her for a couple of days. Evelyn… flexible.” On the day of Vincent’s engagement party, I handed the evidence of his crimes to the police. As the sirens ripped open the city night, someone called out my name. I smiled and leaped from the eighteenth floor.

This book is a Standalone, you don't have to read the first two to relate to what happened, though I do recommend it. Book Three of the Bloodlust Series “Is this some kind of joke?” Kiara asked frowning in confusion, waking up in the familiar podium where she once grew up watching people die in front of her as she herself fought for her own life. “I don’t know, but I don’t like this” Richard said from beside Kiara. The two were trying to process how they even got here to begin with. People around them started coming to their senses as they woke up inside the podium. “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Bloodlust Games, The final chapter” ************************* Re-entering the Bloodlust games was never an option in Kiara’s life. But when revenge is on the line and both she and Richard are forced into them, they have nothing to do but survive, for it was either play and live. Or die…

Oza suka mencuri pandang ke arah Bahrain jika mereka disatukan kala bertugas sebagai penegak disiplin. Gadis itu bukan orang yang suka mengumbar rasa suka pada orang lain. Kecuali kalau orang terdekatnya. Cara Oza memandang Bahrain tentu orang lain tak akan tau jika gadis itu menyukai pemuda yang sudah memiliki kekasih tersebut. Sampai suatu saat dihari ulang tahunnya. Pemuda itu mengajak sang kekasih datang ke acara ulang tahunnya. Dan itu membuat hatinya patah, sang kakak yang dengan sengaja memperkenalkan temannya itu membuat gadis itu merasa shock hingga tak bisa berkata-kata. Bahrain yang memiliki masalah dengan sang ayah mau tak mau mengurus anak perusahaan dari milik ayahnya. Karena dipaksa untuk meneruskan usaha orang tuanya, Bahrain merasa malas ketika mengurus hal itu. Namun demikian ia terkejut dengan kedatangan peserta didik pekerja lapangan yang dikirimkan oleh sekolahnya adalah adik kelas yang ia kagumi. Cinta Oza gak sampai di sana. Gadis itu sering sekali ambyar hanya dengan perhatian kecil yang ditujukan untuknya dari Bahrain. Gadis itu suka bercerita tentang kisah asmaranya pada Badra dan membuat pemuda itu merasa tak suka. Badra meninggalkan Oza disaat gadis itu mulai sayang dan melupakan semua kenangan tentang Bahrain. Badra yang terpaksa pindah harus rela menahan rindu selama belasan tahun. Karena sudah lulus sekolah. Bahrain masih tetap mencoba merebut perhatian dari Grilloza walaupun ia tau cinta itu bukan untuknya lagi. Bahkan pemuda yang sering datang kerumahnya itu, suka membawakan hal-hal yang memberikan efek-efek kenangan indah pada Badra. Cidera hati Oza tak mungkin lagi bisa disembuhkan. Gadis itu sering kali melamun sendiri dan memikirkan orang yang sudah tak ia harapkan lagi. Arasya tak menyangka bahwa pertemuan tersebut membuat hati sang adik patah sedemikian rupa. Dampak yang diberikan oleh Badra luar biasa dahsyatnya. Sang adik bahkan rela gap years demi menunggu seseorang yang tak pernah tengok dirinya lagi. Hingga suatu masa, Badra.

A young werewolf has been cast away by his peers because of his uniqueness. Kinsley has been unable to mindlink anybody within his pack, the Silver Pack. With this disability, he only hoped that one day, his own mate will accept him for how he was. While waiting for that fateful day, will Kinsley find solace in the eerie sound of silence?

The year Lawrence Scott and I were most in love, he died in a car accident. Everyone thought I would fall apart, but I did not cry, and I did not scream. Two years later, I ran into him at a private lounge: Lawrence was there, holding a young girl in his arms, kissing her passionately. His friends hurried over to explain: "Back then, Lawrence was badly injured in the crash and fell into a coma. He just woke up recently but lost his memory. We didn't tell you because we didn't want you to worry." Lawrence pushed the girl aside, frowned slightly, and looked straight at me. "So you're the fiancée I supposedly forgot? I don't remember you, but since you never gave up on me, I'll honor my promise to marry you." I smiled faintly and said, "They lied to you. We don't know each other." What Lawrence did not know was that on the day he faked his death, I received a video. In it, he was laughing and saying to his friends, "The thought of spending the rest of my life with only Yoana drives me crazy. I'll fake my death, take a few years off to have fun. Just keep her company so she doesn't do anything stupid." He also did not know that during those two years he was 'dead,' I had found someone else.

Buried in silence for centuries, Theron was meant to be forgotten—locked away as penance, left to starve until even memory surrendered. But when Nyssa tears open his tomb, she does more than wake an ancient hunger. She binds herself to the very ruin she thought she could resist. His blood vow is simple: protect her, claim her, keep her. But Theron’s protection is as dangerous as it is consuming, and every moment in his shadow tangles Nyssa deeper in a bond that demands surrender. She feels his hunger in her veins, his voice in her thoughts, his vow echoing sharper than any chain. And behind every promise is a reminder: Theron is not tamed. He is a killer, as merciless as the centuries that shaped him—and loving him means loving the ruin he brings. Torn between terror and desire, between the fragile life she knows and the eternity Theron offers, Nyssa must decide if she is strong enough to embrace the darkness she freed—or if his devotion will destroy them both. Because forever with a monster is not a promise of peace. It is a promise of hunger, obsession, and the kind of love that cuts as deep as it heals. A dark paranormal romance about hunger, obsession, and the thin line between protection and possession, The Sound of Ruin is for readers who like their monsters unrepentant, their heroines defiant, and their tension sharp enough to bleed. Expect enemies that burn into lovers, blood-soaked vows that refuse to break, and a gothic fantasy world where survival demands surrender and love is the most dangerous risk of all.

Georgina Meredith Sy is living the life. She grew up in comfort. Hindi na niya kailangan ng kahit ano. She's got a loving family; she's pursuing her passion and she's content with the few friends she has. But things changed when Austin Javier Uvero came into her life. No warning, no sign, no nothing. For the first time, she felt that her life isn't complete and is yet to be fulfilled. Everything started to feel right. Everything seems to feel like something straight out of a movie. But everything ends, right? The day ends. Time passes. People grow. Permanence is a myth. And when things start to fall into a swirl of betrayal, pain and breaking hearts, Austin Javier will have to hear the sound he never once dreamed of – Georgina's sound of walking away.

Alora Steppingstone spent her teenage life practicing in shooting range, boxing ring and running field. She moved to New York and trained by her uncle to be a great mafia herself to avenge once she gets back in the Philippines at 18 years old. Since her parents died in front of her, all she wants to do is to kill the family Spencer who lead the biggest assassin organization and the culprit of her family's murder case. She promise to herself that she will kill Mr. Robert Spencer including his family but when she met Calter Vin, everything has change. When Alora strives to unfold the truth about her family's death and set aside her romantic feelings, at the end of the story, the question is to whom will she shoot her final bullet.

I had been dating Andy Lawson for five years. He had gone bankrupt, and during the worst of it, we had to sleep in parks and scavenge leftovers for food. After a hundred days of that life, I was just going to the blackmarket to sell some blood for money when someone sent me a video. [Surprise.] It was a livestream site, set up for rich kids to prank the common folk—and a video of me was pinned to the top. My finger trembling, I tapped on it and saw myself hidden in a corner of a park, munching on leftovers to nourish my frail body. On the split video, Andy was reclining against the armchair of a five-star hotel and savoring his gourmet menu. "Oh, this is amazing! All Andy has to do is say that he's sick, and she's selling her blood for him!" "On the sixteenth prank, she fell into the ocean… And on the fifteenth, she was sent flying in a car crash! Why is she so hard to kill?" "Well, Andy already made it clear that if she survives until the end, he will marry her and swear off women!" "One month to go! Will she die from the pranks, or marry into the Lawson family with pomp and circumstance?" "I'm betting fifty mil that she dies tragically! Hahaha!"

In an East London lock up, two film makers, Jimmy and Sam, are duct taped to chairs and forced to watch a snuff film by Ashkan, a loan shark to whom they owe a lot of money. If they don’t pay up, they’ll be starring in the next one. Before the film reaches its end, Ashkan and all his men are slaughtered by unknown assailants. Only Jimmy and Sam survive the massacre, leaving them with the sole copy of the snuff film. The film makers decide to build their next movie around the brutal film. While auditioning actors, they stumble upon Melissa, an enigmatic actress who seems perfect for the leading role, not least because she’s the spitting image of the snuff film’s main victim. Neither the film, nor Melissa, are entirely what they seem however. Jimmy and Sam find themselves pulled into a paranormal mystery that leads them through the shadowy streets of the city beneath the city and sees them re-enacting an ancient Mesopotamian myth cycle. As they play out the roles of long forgotten gods and goddesses, they’re drawn into the subtle web of a deadly heresy that stretches from the beginnings of civilization to the end of the world as we know it. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing