Rising Stars

Nie Wahnera served as Grand Duke Abuin Nehma's masseur for over a year before being dismissed without explanation. 

So why is it a month after his dismissal the Grand Duke wants to marry him? 

The Mafia's Sweet Pea 

Sawyer is an ordinary girl trying to get through school the best she can despite being bullied she needs to finish high school. She self harms, but can that final end when a dark haired, blue eyed tanned guy named Cristiano Caprioli saves her and offers her safety but in one condition she has to become part of his gang, little does she know who he is and want he is until he makes sure she is mafia made.

200 years in the future, the world is ruled by Cathleen Morsie, an evil woman with crazy plastic surgery to make her more powerful and imposing. Sage Cordell is a rebellious and sarcastic high school girl who is hard to contain. One day at school she breaks the rules so bad that she gets sent to Cathleen. Little did she know that Cathleen put a robotic cell in everyone's brains at birth, and is looking for those very few individuals who can resist it. After joining the gang, Sage realizes that Cathleen has no good intentions, and fights to escape the new hold she has on them.

Sage is a villain. Not by choice. It just sort of turned out that way, but hey, he's not complaining. Being bad is pretty cool, actually. And while by most people's standards his superpower is pretty lame - muting sound, of all things - he's found it pretty useful when robbing the rich. 

Most heroes ignore him. Except one. Lich, the necromancer. Sage didn't know how talking to the dead was considered heroic, but whatever. That's not the problem. The problem is that Lich apparently has a homing beacon locked on Sage specifically, and he keeps getting in Sage's way, despite most heroes not bothering to deal with the small-time villain committing petty theft.

It was annoying, but fine. Sage wasn't all that active in the villainy community anymore anyway. He had just turned thirty, and quite frankly, he was done with this shit. But still, he wanted to go out with a bang, so he planned his final heist: robbing the most powerful man in the city, the governor.

Except, when Sage broke into the governor's house all he found was the governor - dead as a doornail. What's worse is that for the first time in Sage's life, he was no longer invisible. He was found standing over the body, murder weapon in hand.

Now, the entire city of Fairview wants Sage dead, and the only person on earth who can clear his name is his very own necromancer nemesis. For how much they fight, Lich is surprisingly on board with helping Sage...

And so, the two embark on a quest to discover the real killer and clear Sage's name, but the trail leads them to discover some of Fairview's most well-kept and dangerous secrets...