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"When gods whisper, the half-blooded lose their peace."Lucille Reyes never asked to be a demigod. The daughter of Apollo and a Filipina woman with her own tangled history of those in the Philippine Pantheon, Lucille is done with divine drama. After the Second Titan War leaves her traumatized and estranged from her absentee godly father, her mother drags her to Tierra Fuego-a sleepy Philippine town where the folktales are very much aliveHere, mortal lives intersect with the divine in ways both mundane and dangerous. The Mulawin, winged warriors bound to protect humanity, remain vigilant against threats to their forests while the Diwatas nurture their sacred groves, wary of mortal interference.Lucille doesn't care for any of it. She just wants to recover from her nightmares, find solace in her flute, and survive her visions-gifts from Apollo that feel more like curses. But her mother's old ties to the Philippine pantheon refuse to stay buried, and Lucille becomes tangled in the aftermath. Neither fully Greek nor fully Filipino, and all too mortal in the eyes of gods, she becomes a point of fascination for beings on both sides. With no grand prophecy guiding her, and no larger purpose to fulfill, Lucille must navigate a world she barely understands. But as strange alliances form and old wounds resurface, she begins to uncover truths about her parents' past-and her own. What if the peace she craves can only come at a cost she's not willing to pay?PERCY JACKSON meets ENCANTADIA and MULAWIN in this tale of myths and mortals, where a girl must forge her own path in a world that won't let her rest.…

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One would think that by the time Sakura has extricated herself from Team Seven, she'd be free of the team's infamous bad luck (or maybe, that was her mother's side of the family's luck making it's magic, but still!)But now, here she was, dimensions away from home, with no clue of how to return.[So what if she's a little depressed, or a little unstable? All's fair in (love and war[redacted]) the life of a shinobi.]…

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Claude's list of sins is as long as the history of the Empire - especially to his only daughter. Still, he's trying to make up for it (though how does one apologize sincerely for almost chopping their heads in the guillotine, really?), so that counts for something, right?OR, alternatively,How Claude de Alger Obelia loses his only daughter in a neverending list of fuck-ups.…

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A scheming clan, a divorce, and a mortal trial.Bai Feng Jiu returns to Qing Qiu 3000 years after her disappearance, now as a High Goddess, with her trial kept as a secret. For 10000 years, she lived in Qing Qiu in seclusion, until she comes to Heaven once again for a banquet.Old allies and enemies resurface once more.Romance blossoms. Jealousy unfolds.Is Bai Feng Jiu still the same person as she was 15000 years ago? No one can say for sure, even the silver-haired god she had once married.…