Tag "Angst" - Works and Original stories

Her hopes for finding love at the Officer's Academy hadn't come true. She had wished and hoped but they had not come true. With the advisers restless, she turns to the only man she know won't backstab her: Hubert.

She never realised how treasured those days would become… Those carefree years with her siblings especially Tobias. Now she’s trapped, trapped within her own mind. The eagle’s bells have remained silent for two years, ensnared within the bird’s madness.

In a world woven from the god’s rhythm, music once held the mountains in balance. As old powers awaken, Tarin must learn whether his voice is a gift… or the world’s undoing.

*Trigger Warning* This book depicts suicide and mental illness. Some souls are born to break the cycle. Others were never meant to live at all. Seventeen-year-old Ellie Lucas never asked to inherit a legacy of death. But after her mother's mysterious suicide and a cryptic note left behind, Ellie's world spirals into something far darker than grief. Haunted by visions, pulled into weekly therapy sessions that she dreads, and shadowed by a boy from her past with secrets of his own.

In the heart of human suffering and doubt, there is a hidden voice calling for redemption. Hwang In-ho is a smoldering man, not living but existing, entangled in a web of dangerous games and delusions, searching for meaning where there seems to be none. Can light break through the darkness, or is he doomed to remain in this endless nightmare? Open your soul and understand that the game continues, and the price of victory is high... What if In-ho is not the torturer, but the tortured?

Alessandra Reinhardt, a highly-trained Italian field agent of Legio, arrives in Virtue City, the superhero capital of North America, in search of her missing brother, Markus. Trained since birth in hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, and rapid combat assessment among other things, Sandra thinks she has what it takes to find a hardened rogue agent. What she doesn't know is that Virtue City itself will test her resolve, her ideals, and what it means to be a hero...

“We want the best for you, Mike. They will help you become normal again.”

Venita manages Jan’s cyber store from her cozy houseboat, but after a heated argument, she storms out into the cold night to think. She’s torn between quitting and her growing feelings for Jan. When a man attacks her, Jan—who’d followed her—shoots him dead, then forces Venita's prints on the gun, blackmailing her into joining a secret vigilante group. Now Venita must find a way to escape before it’s too late.

Once at the hotel, I have no choice but to continue my exploration and unravel the mysteries of its inhabitants. But it would be easier with a friend, right?

Every night on the anniversary of his younger brother Leo’s disappearance, he came here, to this derelict estate on the city's outskirts that had once belonged to their family. Leo had vanished here, among these very plants—then still tended and lush, not drowned in weeds.

Ginny is for rent. Not her apartment, not her car, but herself. Her renter must be a woman, but otherwise Ginny is pretty much open to whatever her buyer may have in mind for fun and games... Until the nightmares begin.

"It's just a body," I dictate myself as I look down and see the thing I despise the most.

Satan choosed a poor place for his workout livestream - and a bad moment for that, as his detractor was near and pushed him down to a pool.

Odysseus slaughtered all the suitors. But Antinous has returned as an unquiet spirit. He has one final matter to settle.

Rain is blackmailed by a woman who forces her into submission under threat of killing her husband and exposing a compromising photo. After moving to escape, the stalker resurfaces. Fleeing cross-country, Rain befriends a new doctor who becomes dangerously obsessed. When Rain’s husband is murdered, she suspects the madwoman again. Following a breakdown, Rain is hospitalized, where nurse Elizabeth cares for her—but can she keep Rain safe from the nightmare that never ends?

In scorching Arizona, fiery Teresa becomes obsessed with Sabrina, the alluring new security guard at her apartment complex. Though Sabrina is tempted, she’s devoted to her steady partner, Carly. But Teresa’s fixation spirals out of control, and Sabrina’s unease turns to terror when Carly is found dead, leaving Sabrina to wonder if love has turned lethal.

Drifting through life with no family or direction, Keri Warner decides to travel—only to be kidnapped and imprisoned in Pakistan. There, Officer E. Ahsad, a compassionate guard, protects her from abuse, and an unexpected bond grows between them. As trust turns to desire, Keri learns that Ahsad harbors a secret that could shatter her fragile world forever.

Newly divorced Renee becomes a live-in nanny for her ENT’s young daughter in a luxury high-rise. She bonds with neighbor Aisha, and attraction sparks. When Renee discovers the doctor’s cash-filled safe, her perfect pitch helps her crack the code. Faced with temptation and the promise of a dream home, she must decide—do the right thing or risk everything for the fortune inside.

When 23-year-old Shania McCarthy earns a promotion, jealous coworker Maureen conspires with her uncle, psychiatrist Dr. Jonas Hoffritz, to have her committed to his California mental hospital. Trapped and betrayed, Shania falls for her therapist, Lauren Cohen, and together they escape after an earthquake devastates the facility—only to find that someone seeking revenge is still on their trail.

First she had to bury her loved one. Then she wound up stranded in a foreign country. Could Emilie, a former cyber crush, save Marguerite from further devastation? Or would Emilie take Marguerite’s downfall as an opportunity to be self-serving?