Aurora Harper had lived her childhood in the confines of a small room with parents who had mostly given up hope and relatives who knew nothing but scorn. Aurora Harper had found glory in her teenage, being celebrated as a gem of the theatre. A performer extraordinaire. She lived in a villa with parents who wanted to suck her dry off opportunities and relatives who knew nothing but bootlicking.
At twenty, in another housefull theatre of Harper Productions, she faces an ambiguous death and wakes up in the body of a scrawny five-year-old with no future or fortune in sight. Iris Bernadette.
To add fuel to destiny's arson that was her life, Iris also happens to a thief!
Given a blank canvas of a character with no background of the world or the people in it, how long can Aurora Harper ad-lib her way through life?
She finds herself caught up in a flurry of manipulative bets set forth by the young, fun loving and curious Ducal Prince, Arcel Maynard, and the suspicious mannerisms of a lurker of the shadows, Vasil.
There is a gorgeous Duchess and her stolen necklace. There is magic, a hunt for a soul and a Priestess. There are faeries, mermaids, ghosts, dragons and murders. There are schools, churches and strange new lands with treasures. There is adventure, romance and deceit. But there is no war.
There's also illiteracy and poverty but that isn't life threatening for Aurora, yet.
Plummeted into a new world order with a constant existential crises in hand, will Aurora be able to save herself with only her dramatics to get her through?
Or will she fall in the web of this Aurora - Iris paradox and succumb to the whims of the people who want to control her?
Oh- also, she needs to earn a whole lot of money and get rich. Fast! By any means possible. Will you stay to see her get rich? For if you don't, she'll keep failing thoroughly.
Once upon a time, in the hills of The Gilded Kingdom, lived a Princess raised with the purpose of one day becoming The Greatest Queen of Aurelia.
As a proper royal, she must dress well, behave well and attain all the knowledge from the piles of books in the shelves of the Great Library and, of course, find her People's future King through a traditional ball hosted in her home as a pretense for a contest among all the nobles that must prove themselves worthy of her hand.
But what happens if the Princess prefers swords rather than dresses, or adventures rather than balls? And one night she wishes not to hold her title anymore.
In the twists and turns of the pretentious aristocrats that now occupy her home, the Princess might find true love or a broken heart. Each way shall guide her to the life she ever craved for - or so she thought.
A new journey begins in a frigid evening of crimson snow when the nine kingdoms rise from all the corners of the world.
#1 of The Gilded Kingdom series
During the aftermath of the 100 year war. Which led to the planet's armed forces toppling its monarch. Elias Caine, the worlds smartest man and greatest engineer has been working hard on rebuilding the damaged land that the war touched over the past 100 years. Some would say he helped make that damage. He'd maybe even agree. Well see, he's made weapons for that monarch for years against his own will. And has been trying to cleanse himself of that sin ever since. The problem is maintaining peace and normalcy requires more patience in this world and not all people have the same patience as Elias. A scramble of power and a arms race of thievery and greed happen every day with unsuspecting attacks. And new threats rise everyday to take their shot at being the next monarch. Those who fail become criminals of the underworld. Which is why the world government offers Elias a contract every month to defend themselves. And he turns it down every month in fear of his ideas being stolen. The planet hasn't experienced peace like this for quite some time in the past 100 years. However with peace also comes crime and corruption. quarreling ideas of maintaining that peace also provide a problem for Elias. In this new world as the population of criminals, wanna be warlords, and monarchs rise up. How long can Elias play the peacekeeper and let his friends do the fighting until he decides its time to fight back?
Trusting people can be hard when there's someone trying to murder you on the loose. Especially when that someone tried to kill you on a trip only a few people were supposed to know about. Scarlett has to find out who is trying to murder her, but that's hard to do when she has so many people who are out to get her. And the fact that she's been known to be a ruthless ruler to her people doesn't help her case. With the help of a new friend and some old ones she starts investigating. Along the way she realizes she has loosened the reins on her feelings for her new friend, but will this affect her?
Jesus!
It stood 10 ft tall, it's not a man, my God it's a Sasquatch...
A big hairy Bigfoot!
My knees buckled causing me to fall again, I think I must have scream because a startled look flashed across his face..
As I ran past my wife, I looked backwards to see if it was chasing me, but only rustling and heavy thumps in the thick bush was heard...
We need to call for backup," said one officer, frantically searching through his jacket for his radio.
"No! Damn it!" We can't risk exposing ourselves!" We were supposed to steal all the cash and drugs, replied another officer. Tightly still holding onto his police walkie-talkie and staring intently at the others.
Captain: (excitement growing)Aye, fire the X-Tron electromagnetic pulse gun! We need to kill that monster.
[The rail gun fires, sending a powerful, blue, electromagnetic pulse towards the Sea Monster, momentarily stunning it.]
As the sea monster recoiled from the electromagnetic pulse, the crew of the Starlight saw a faint, glimmer of hope. Captain Williams seized the desperate opportunity, barking out orders to his crew.
"Watch out Micheal!" Micheal instinctively ducked just in time to avoid a eight foot steel rod thrown at him. He looked to see the producer had returned with a vengeance and was using powers...
Five King cobras appeared out of thin air, hissing and striking at him with their venomous
fangs.
Larus stood up and yelled, "What in the Hell is going on!" And what do you want with me? Instantly the creature flew down and completely enveloped Larus in it's wings.
In silent horror, Larus watched his body start to shrivel and decay with frightening speed.