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Asher Donovan is a living legend—the darling of the Premier League, the (arguably) greatest footballer in the world. But his reckless antics and recent team transfer have caused much controversy, and when his feud with his rival-turned-teammate costs them a championship, they’re forced to “bond” during off-season cross-training. Surviving the summer shouldn’t be hard…until Asher meets their new trainer. She’s beautiful, talented, and no matter how hard he tries, he can’t take his mind off her.

As the captain of Blackcastle Football Club and one of the highest-paid athletes in the game, Vincent DuBois should be on top of the world. But when his fame brings danger to his doorstep, he finds himself in a nightmare scenario―sharing a flat with his coach's daughter, knowing full well she's far too big a temptation for him to resist. When his new living arrangements escalate into a bet that throws them even closer together, he realizes he's in deeper trouble than he thought.

After Ryder Copeland wakes in a hospital after a suicide attempt, two people immediately try to murder him. A woman named Juliet saves his life and then reveals that he succeeded in his suicide after all. They’re both dead, but a mad god has granted them five more days of life... if they’re willing to kill for it. Thirteen teams of former suicides now have five days to kill each other, after which Lyssa, the divine progenitor of this death game, will reincarnate the single surviving team into luxurious new lives.

Every thirty years, an ancient god hosts a very dangerous game. After Ryder Copeland wakes in a hospital after a suicide attempt, two people immediately try to murder him. A woman named Juliet saves his life and then reveals that he succeeded in his suicide after all. They’re both dead, but a mad god has granted them five more days of life... if they’re willing to kill for it.

I have never been favored by the gods. Far from it, thanks to Zeus. Living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves, I just keep my head down and hope the capricious beings who rule from Olympus won’t notice me. Not an easy feat, given San Francisco is Zeus’ patron city, but I make do. I survive. Until the night I tangle with a different god. The worst god. Hades. For the first time ever, the ruthless, mercurial King of the Underworld has entered the Crucible—the deadly contest the gods hold to determine a new ruler to sit on the throne of Olympus.

In the sun-scorched future of 2442, survival takes the form of a game—Krieg Chess. More than a simple board game, it's a high-tech fusion of strategy and combat, demanding intellect and brute force in equal measure. Players wield advanced technologies and unearth latent abilities, transforming from pawns to knights, rooks to kings in a brutal ballet of power and progression. Against this backdrop emerge two extraordinary players: Charoen and his sister, Jessie, refugees from a camp outside Oslo, lifted from obscurity by the enigmatic billionaire Virgil.

Welcome to the DisDisPodcast! What happens when gods are stripped of their divinity and forced to walk the world as mortals? That’s the question at the heart of our Dungeons & Dragons actual-play podcast, where six players step into the shoes of divine beings, unaware (at least at first) of who they truly are. Guided by our Lady Dungeon Master, this story is filled with high-stakes adventure, secrets waiting to be uncovered, and the clash of celestial destinies with mortal vulnerabilities.

Contains books 1 and 2 of The Game of Gods series. The Beginning, book 1: The gods have gotten bored, and humanity is the answer. Charles earns the ultimate surprise one morning when he awakens to discover the world has ended, or rather the gods of old were bored and decided to redesign how it worked. Only Charles gets cursed by the gods. The Death of Champions, book 2: The gods have begun to change Earth, leaving humanity confused and desperate. Charles and Alli have managed to survive the first week of the apocalypse; unfortunately for them, it isn't over yet.

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women. This is not fiction. For two years, bestselling author Neil Strauss lived among these men. Using the pseudonym...

After surviving two death games, they’ve finally earned a vacation. Ryler Copeland and Juliet Cooper might not be mortal any longer, but they’re still madly in love, even if they can only see each other once every few months. After months of toil in the Greek underworld, Ryder has finally earned enough vacation time to visit Rome and vacation with Juliet and their friends. It’s all going quite well until they both end up stuck in an otherworld called limbo.

Juliet Cooper’s life isn’t exciting, but it’s secure. She works at a sandwich shop, babysits her little brother, and helps her parents out with the bills. She also has no idea she used to be dead. One dark night as she heads to her latest tabletop game, sinister men rise from the darkness and chase her down. After she’s rescued by two old friends, Juliet learns that a life she no longer remembers has caught up with her. A bloody life or death contest in Washington DC was only the start.

Ade, il dio dell'Oltretomba, ha finalmente conquistato Persefone. La notizia, però, scatena la furia di Demetra, decisa a distruggere la loro unione e a gettare la Nuova Grecia nel caos. Determinato a proteggere Persefone e il loro futuro, Ade sa che non tutti gli alleati sono come appaiono, e la fiducia è un lusso che il dio dei morti non può permettersi. In un gioco di astuzie e tradimenti, Ade e Persefone dovranno lottare per il loro amore e per la sopravvivenza stessa dell'Olimpo.

As the dust settles in the wake of their meteoric rise, Charoen and Jessie stand at the threshold of Krieg Chess' Minor League. Their raw talents, honed by relentless training, face a grueling ordeal against towering rivals, escalating stakes, and the intoxicating allure of fame and glory. Virgil, their enigmatic benefactor, continues his cryptic guidance, drawing them deeper into the high-stakes world of professional Krieg Chess. Yet, every triumph illuminates a disturbing reality—they are pawns in a grander, more malevolent game.

Who, What, Where is God? Who am I? Why am I here? Am I awake? Are you awake? What is being awake? What does it truly mean to be Enlightened? Is any of this real? Is this just a game? Are we living in a dream? Or a simulation? The spiritual journey, the path to Enlightenment or Ascension can seem long and daunting and riddled with twists and turns, ups and downs. Join me, Angela Book (author of Script Your Own Life), as we learn to navigate the world of spirituality with ease and bring our human existence into balance.

Hades, God of the Dead, has finally made Persephone his in every way possible. With their wedding on the horizon, the couple should be ecstatic. But Demeter is wreaking havoc on their bliss by battering the whole of New Greece with erratic and dangerous weather. At the same time, Theseus continues with his agenda against the Gods, allying with the hate-group Triad in an effort to bring down all of Olympus.

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It started out like any other Tuesday. I spent 12 hours writing algorithms for one of the largest companies in the world and then came home to work on a pet project of mine—feeding facts about the men I knew into a formula to find my perfect match before my twenties came barreling to a close.

Ricchi e intelligentissimi, i fratelli Lively - Hades, Apollo, Hermes, Aphrodite e Athena - sono i più popolari di Yale: nessuno osa avvicinarli, ma tutti li conoscono e li guardano da lontano. Ogni venerdì sera organizzano quelli che sono diventati famosi come i Giochi degli Dèi, in cui all'avversario non si riserva nessuna pietà. Batterli è impossibile. Quando Haven arriva al campus come matricola, rimane affascinata da loro, anche se un po' impaurita, finché Hades si accorge di lei... L'amore che scoppia tra i due è irrefrenabile, ma si rivela ben presto una vera e propria discesa all'Inferno.

His vengeance against the gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive...and teach his son to do the same. This startling reimagining of God of War deconstructs the core elements that defined the series - satisfying combat, breathtaking scale, and a powerful narrative - and fuses them anew.

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