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The most dangerous thing in this world isn’t demons. It’s the humans who own them.

I wasn’t forced into chains. I walked into them willingly.

For years, I was a ghost in the demon realm—an assassin, untouchable, feared. But power there meant nothing here. The human realm has different rules, and the only way in was through submission. So I let them collar me. I let them shape me into a weapon they thought they could control.

Now, I fight in their arenas, a spectacle for their amusement. I let them think they own me. Let them think I’ve broken. But power isn’t about strength—it’s about control. And I am done being controlled.

One brother keeps a tight leash on my darkness. The other wants to see what happens when it burns the world down. I don’t know which is more dangerous.

There are ways to win a game where you're the one being played. And I’m about to prove it.

🔥 A dark fantasy full of power struggles, slow-burn tension, and morally gray characters. Featuring a complex love triangle, BDSM-positive relationships, ace-spectrum representation, and the question: How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice to win?

⚠ Content warnings apply. This book contains themes of captivity, power imbalances, and violence.

Book 1 of the Grand Epic Elemental trilogy

In a world overseen by the goddesses of the four elements, Leiyu accompanies a trade caravan traveling westward to the Kingdom of Ishkhandar. Little does he know, he is about to meet someone who will change his life and embark on a journey to escape fate.

Riley:

When I was eighteen I made a huge mistake. Part of that error was a friendship tattoo that would link him and me together. That tattoo is a symbol of the worst wrong I made. Just simply looking at it is a reminder of what not to let ever happen again. I turned my pain into something positive. I went to college for art and created my own tattoo studio Linked By Ink. I'm now famous for friendship tattoos. I used my negative to build something positive from it. Now I have my own tv show. I travel across the world meeting people who want a friendship tattoo and hearing their stories. If I like their story and feel the relationship is positive I give them a tattoo. 

Lucas:

When I was nineteen I made a huge mistake. The only part that wasn't a full failure was the time we spent together and the tattoo I got with her. The tattoo is a reminder of what I lost from my wrongs. My tattoo is a symbol of her and wanting to find her again. I want her back in my life. I've hired many private investigators and not one has found her. I turned the negative I did into something positive. I wrote all my songs about her. Every song was an award won, some Grammy's, and every award won was a new tattoo I got in honor of her. I traveled across the world meeting people whom my songs and story have inspired.

Hopeless romantic Yu Junming is over the moon when he lands a job at the RomCon startup as a ConCoct agent. From meet-cutes to ultimate airport runs, he must re-enact surreal romantic scenes to fit a client’s dreams. Sadly, he botches his assignments and learns the hard way that romance needs a dash of practicality.

Despite his track record, he’s soon tasked to help his boss, Grayson Black - a die-hard cynic who dislikes him at first sight - to find love. Through disastrous dates, the two men grow closer and realize there’s more to each other than meets the eye.

Junming fantasizes about seeing even more of Grayson but he also finds himself drawn to Fernanda, a spunky and eccentric undercover reporter who masquerades as a RomCon client. When Fernanda unexpectedly ends up heartbroken after an awful date, she falls for Junming. Pitiably ignorant of her mission to dig up dirt on RomCon, Junming is stuck between two people and a hard place called reality.

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[BL | 18+] Ronan had no memory of his life before he became a siren. It wasn't a particularly solitary life; he often spent time in the quaint, seaside town people watching. But he felt a comforting peace amongst the waves of the ocean, particularly in the stillness of night while the town slept. But when an unfamiliar man collapses on the beach, Ronan feels drawn to him like the tide to the moon, and he quickly realizes there's more to life than the solitude of the ocean.

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