Snarls, Stitches, and the Tarnok Beast
By @john1208
Neyza Varteni’s life is falling apart. After burying her beloved mentor in the cold rain, she inherits a failing veterinary clinic in the lower rings of Oskara and a grumpy, three-legged mountain-lynx named Chulpan. When a massive, blood-soaked wolf crashes through her window during a storm, Neyza doesn't run. Hot-tempered and stubborn, she furiously scolds the terrifying beast to sit still while she stitches his wounds. To her shock, a deep, rumbling voice echoes in her mind: *'Must not snarl at the tiny healer. She is so fragile.'* The beast is Bozan Karsal, the ruthless Alpha of the militant Tarnok pack, currently preparing for a brutal supernatural war. Fascinated by the only human who treats him like a giant puppy, Bozan becomes her fiercely overprotective shadow. But Bozan’s cruel father, Dabrak, isn't worried about his son's new mate. He knows a lethal secret nobody mentioned: a human soul cannot withstand a Tarnok Alpha's ancient magic. Neyza has exactly three moon cycles before the bond burns her alive, clearing the way for a pureblood heir. Can Neyza and Bozan find a way to rewrite ancient pack law before her time runs out?
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The Artificer's Stolen Luck
By @john1208
Tavira Morzhan wakes up suspended from the ceiling of a flooded, abandoned clocktower with gravity reversed and no memory of how she got there. Told in alternating third-person perspectives between the hot-tempered tinkerer and her arrogant academic rival, Vadim, the story follows Tavira’s gritty daily life at the Galdurast Institute of Artifice. She only cares about two things: beating Vadim in the workshop and graduating to save her family from the toxic lower-city smog. She is completely unaware she is the protagonist of a novel, or that her transmigrated cousin, Lissea, harbors a parasitic System. To steal Tavira’s 'protagonist luck,' Lissea must physically pilfer her most cherished belongings. But every time Lissea steals a prized hammer or a lucky compass, a furious Tavira simply works twice as hard to forge a better one, inadvertently impressing the academy's masters and instantly unlocking greater opportunities. As the System's failures drive Lissea to desperate, easily exposed acts of sabotage, neither girl realizes the world’s plot has a hidden, unmentioned 30-day time limit before the city collapses entirely. Will Tavira’s relentless hard work be enough to arrest her saboteur cousin and halt the unseen countdown before everyone perishes?
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