This Present Darkness Ebook

---> if you are interested in my work, please check out my novel The Starving Vulture. Available on Amazon, $3.99 for the Ebook and $14.95 for the Paperback https://www.amazon.com/Starving-Vulture-Miguel-Monta%C3%B1a/dp/1951150899<--------- Aster Likaya is a Battle Mage of the Zeraph Republic. Raised in a military family, she was destined for a life on the front. As a Battle Mage she has mastered the art of Controlling. A simple but effective kind of magic that is necessary when one bonds and commands the essential robotic warmachines of her world. The Gearbanes. And now, she is a Captain. But much to her surprise, she is not handed a company but a unit of stoic and silent soldiers that call themselves DragonWolves. Her second in command, is Lieutenant Able Froster, young but grim faced soldier who has seen combat since he was barely a boy. For their first mission, they are given a simple task. Retrieve an agent of the Republic who is lost in the vast swampland known as the Suha Marshes. Little do they know, that they are not the only factions searching for the man. For in the Suha Marshes, hunt the cannibalistic Birchmen and the Kolysian pirates. All eager for the prize the agent carries. This is the world of Likaya and Froster. Dominated by machines powered by magic, weapons ignited by runes and wars fought over ancient relics forged by a forgotten past. Welcome to Likaya's Wolves.

When they were in a proximity of 20 meters, she threw coffee on his secretary. When they were in a proximity of 2 meters, she hit him where the sun doesn't shine. When they were in a proximity of some mere centimeters, she broke his nose. Now, she broke his vase of a million dollars and he is ready to take his revenge. He wants her as his fake fiancée and act the part but what happens when they are surrounded by people believing they are in love and the flowers really do blossom? Amelia Carter is ready to be the fake fiancée but is she ready for the slow caress and steady hands of Mr. Alexeev? Mr. Alexeev is ready to take revenge while making sure he gets out of the arrangements of his mother but is he ready to take on the clumsy but pure Amelia? What happens when the burning red of their attraction forms something akin to... love?

“A-Are you the one who bought me?” Out of everything, this was the question that slipped from my lips. He looked surprised and baffled at the same moment as if he didn't know how to respond to my question, “Hmmm, not quite well, I know this is going to sound crazy to you but you are actually a present to me,” My eyebrows arched up in puzzlement, “Present?” “Yes,” Radhika was just an innocent kid when she was sold off by her father to a hell where she was treated worse than animals. She was tortured, abused, sexualized, and isolated from the outer world in a basement where she lost the hope of a better future. To get rid of her, they drugged her and sold her at an auction but when her eyes opened she was on a plane, in front of an attractive looking man who claimed her as his present but what was the truth? How she’ll cope with her new life, what it will bring her. A new start? Or another hell?

“WAKE UP, DANIELA!” The death warning, yet rather a call that Daniela dreamed about after walking up in the series of chances, greed, sacrifices, and the seven deadly sins, and from an inevitable chance to turn back into time and run into the loop of space and dimension. To her life that was surrounded with lies, blessed fate, but curse destiny she is entwined to save the person who is long dead from the present that she never had in the first place. Now being stunned by the life she never dreams of having, she runs toward the series of miseries behind the hidden books of the reincarnated blood she bares. “Death reincarnated, that is your world and your book.” To the chances that were led by greed, longing or hope, will the past that alters by the son of darkness, will long be able to vanish? What if what everyone knew was a lie, and the lie that they are trying to run away from is the truth they are seeking after all? Will the world they are walking that is filled with the unknown they only knew will lead them to the truth of who is the clone from the original? Can she solve the puzzle of the first book in her world that revolves in the mystery of a tarot deck? From the series of reincarnation and dimension can she solve the real mystery of ‘Who is the real dead one?’

Aku terpaksa menikah dengan direktur lumpuh! Kesalahan satu malam membuat Yuna harus menjadi istri dari Morgan Lewis Spencer. Seorang CEO lumpuh yang divonis tidak bisa memiliki keturunan. Demi memperjuangkan benih dalam rahim Yuna, Morgan bersedia menikahi Yuna meski hatinya tertambat pada wanita lain. Dia akan bertahan dalam pernikahan ini sampai berhasil mengambil anak keturunannya. Sia-sia. Itulah yang dirasakan Yuna sebagai istri yang tidak diinginkan. Meski setuju untuk menikah dengannya, Morgan tidak pernah menginginkan keberadaan Yuna. Bagaimana keduanya mempertahankan pernikahan yang tidak diinginkan itu? Keadaan berubah total saat Morgan memberikan surat perjanjian perceraian.

When love turns Pain, Destiny determines what happens next. When the Past clashes with the Present, Mysteries are revealed. What hate turns Love, Faith in Fate is restored.

Dua tahun pernikahan Drisanna harus diakhiri ketika wanita itu dijebak agar mendonorkan kornea serta ginjalnya untuk sang suami yang sakit-sakitan. Tidak hanya itu, ternyata ibu mertuanya berniat menikahkan sang suami dengan adik Drisanna, seorang gadis yang memang mahir mengambil hati dan memanipulasi keluarganya. Sanna sama sekali tidak menduga bahwa seseorang kemudian akan memalsukan kematiannya di meja operasi untuk menyelamatkannya! Pria itu menawarkan kontrak kesepakatan agar Sanna menjadi istrinya sebagai bayaran karena ia telah menyelamatkan Sanna dan bahkan memberikan Sanna kehidupan baru, lepas dari suami dan keluarganya yang telah menyia-nyiakannya. Namun, apakah benar masa lalu itu tidak akan kembali pada Sanna selamanya?

Rinesa has high dreams for herself. She will do everything to get what she wants even if it means burying the memories and forget the man she loves. He is ready to use her beauty and talent to achieve fame. All men are fascinated with her, they are willing to give everything just to get her. Her new boyfriend is able to give her luxury and popularity. What would she do when she found out his boyfriend's brother is the only man she loved? Will all the pain come back? Will love comeback or it'll just be pure fuck?

Karena hanya seorang tukang antar paket yang miskin, caci maki sudah sering Adimas dapatkan. Bahkan, kekasihnya sendiri mengkhianatinya dan bermain di belakang Adimas. Hingga Adimas menerima tawaran pekerjaan gaji fantastis. Dia dijebak dan harus menikahi seorang gadis pengidap gangguan jiwa dari keluarga Covey. Tidak hanya itu, Adimas juga diperlakukan seperti menantu sampah. Mereka tidak tahu, Adimas rupanya anak konglomerat paling kaya seantero negeri! Dengan kekuatan dan pengaruhnya, dia mulai membalaskan perbuatan orang-orang kepada dia dan istrinya dan membuat semua orang tercengang! Tidak sedetik pun anggota keluarga Covey tenang, diteror pembalasan selanjutnya yang akan diberikan Adimas Nathaniel Nelson.

Brought into a whole new state of life, Dale kept trying to find her way out of her present situation, tried letting go but it kept hunting her. The battle continues as the hunter remains hunted.