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Africa in the 13th century lay in ruins due to countless civil wars and the ensuing famine. Amid the hopelessness arose a man who began to rebuild the ravaged diaspora. He instituted a government that was so efficient at managing the country of Mali that soon it was the most progressive nation on the continent. Not long after, one by one, the neighboring countries began to join the fold, until all of West Africa constituted a single empire.

Hannah hadn't been particularly fond of the thought of yet another cold Christmas vacation at the family cabin. That's why she intended to spend this year on the beaches of Maui with her best friend, Catherine. That was until she found out that her stepbrother Michael would be attending the gathering.

When she is taken from her home and forced to work in the powerful city of Chandros to pay the debts of her small farming community, 20-year-old Iona Meers is furious. After an intimate, humiliating medical examination conducted in full view of Chief Inspector Xane - the man she considers responsible for her predicament - her seething anger turns into outright defiance.

Barnabas Jack lived a simple life as an ordinary Japanese salaryman. Life was good in his suburban utopia, until he died, of course. Imagine his surprise when he opened his eyes to a middle-aged male goddess who had given him the gift of reincarnation to new worlds. But there was one catch: Whatever killed him the past life is what he became in the next. With this knowledge, Barnabas Jack embarks on a personal journey to die at the hands of a cute girl or a handsome man. But for now, he'll just have to settle with being a car.

For Marc, a human-dinosaur hybrid, love has always seemed out of reach. He must take the only work available to him as a bouncer for an underground dino-fighting syndicate. It's illegal, but his tiny T-Rex arms forbid him from following his real dream of becoming a firefighter. Emily has a bioengineered quirk of her own, but her true problem lies in her undercover work for the Station Authority. When her budding relationship with a certain human-dino hybrid puts him at risk, she's forced to make an impossible choice in order to save her lover.

Marie tries desperately to balance school life, her relationship with the naughty professor, and being pregnant in her third trimester. She struggles to accept how the people around her see their relationship, along with being pregnant, and is soon plagued with doubt as well. She wants to be as good of a mother as she can, and finds difficulty believing in herself or even Mark. She wants the baby to have more than she did growing up, but can she be strong enough for her and the baby just in case Mark isn't in the picture?

Merry was a quiet, peace-loving girl, just graduated college, when her mom talked her into coming to exotic Abu-Dhabi to try out for a role in a Formula One racing team. Preferring a slower pace of life, Merry was reluctant, but felt she had to come to meet her mother's new fiancé. Soon after arriving, Merry is saved from harm by the sexiest man she'd ever seen. He stirs feelings inside her, thoughts she'd not had in years, even though he acts like a tool toward her. Her mom then introduces him as her stepbrother, Troy.

Lucy has spent the last few years avoiding her family. It isn't even really her family. It's her mom, her new husband, and his two annoying twins. Things change though, when she's kicked out of college. With nowhere to turn she finds herself back in the family home with a secret. What did she do to get kicked out college?

Valmont is a boy when sees his mother killed by people in this village. As an orphan he grows up with the help of Mrs. Dora and her daughter, Aphrodite. Valmont is grateful to them, and his life will have more meaning after the discovery of his first love. As the years pass by, he starts dreaming of blood, a strange man, and a throne of blood. He doesn't know he is a prince. Not just any prince but a vampire prince.