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Small town girl Song Hyejin grew up with a pair of scissors in her hand, spending her high school days in her father's barber shop cutting crew cuts for young men who were about to enlist in the army; this was how she was intending to spend the rest of her life. When top star Ares Hwang walks into the shop one rainy day demanding that she give him a haircut even though it's past opening hours, her life gets thrown straight into a raging hurricane known as the world of showbiz.========Enter Kang Hyunwon, hairstylist to the celebrities, touted by all the country's fashion magazines as the golden hands that could catapult anyone, literally anyone, from obscurity to stardom. When his limelight gets stolen unceremoniously by the head of hair atop one Ares Hwang (whom he had callously rejected to style just days before), his ego takes a beating that he will never forget.When he finds out who it is who was responsible for his humiliation, he vows to show this clueless suburban girl what it truly means to be hair-raisingly good with a pair of scissors...========Cover adapted from the artwork by @ClarissaNorth…

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Betrayed by the man she loved most and sent to the guillotine, a young girl embarks on a quest for revenge when she is given the chance to cheat death and be born again. *****Falling from heaven to hell, Han Zi-ning is falsely accused of treason and sentenced to execution when she is betrayed by the man she loved the most and the woman she once called sister. After the blade falls, she awakens to find herself five years in the past, a time before she became entangled in the political fight for the throne. Armed with the painful memories of her previous life, Zi-ning embarks on a quest for revenge, determined to change the future for herself and those she cares about, and to send those responsible for her suffering to the damnation they deserve.…

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When an infamous assassin meets a poisonous rogue, they find themselves entangled in a series of events hinging on a dubious prophecy that could spell the end of the five kingdoms as they know it.********Yuehwa is the Phoenix, a mercenary who snuffs lives in exchange for gold and good food. While she travels the five kingdoms tasting all the delicacies she can afford, she meets poisons expert Shoya - the White Scorpion - on board a ship to the island kingdom of Dahai, where the beautiful Rose Princess is to hold a tournament to find a worthy husband. What begins as a nosy bit of fun soon spirals into greater responsibility, and Yuehwa commits herself to helping the princess take control of her own fate. At the same time, she discovers that Shoya has infiltrated the Dahai palace and seems to be hiding a lot more than he has let on. With one thing leading to another, Yuehwa and Shoya are forced to juggle secret identities, navigate political schemes and fight insidious enemies in order to maintain a precarious balance across the kingdoms. But in order to win this war, they may have to sacrifice everything - including their own hearts. WHO RULES THE WORLD X THE RED PALACE********…

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How far would you go to chase back the one you love? For Alex Yang, the answer to that question is - anywhere in the whole wide world. After his long-time girlfriend breaks up with him, devil-may-care musician Alex feels like his life is over. However, when he wakes up one morning to find himself in a different body with a different face and a whole new identity, he begins to wonder if this is destiny's idea of giving him a second chance at getting her back.Adopting his new identity as a high-flying consultant by the name of Lee Daehyun, Alex embarks on a mission to hunt down his (ex)girlfriend, who has packed her bags on a trip around the world.His mission? To make her fall in love with him all over again. ========Last Flight Home is a 2021 Christmas novella that will be completed by Christmas Day xx…

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[Wattys 2022 Winner - Wildcard Category]Mereneith is a junior crystal keeper at the Temple of Ptah, the greatest of the temples located within the capital of Memphis. Bored with the mundane job growing and maintaining the Ak'heka crystals-the kingdom's prized energy source-Mereneith secretly pockets scrap pieces for her own research, her wild imagination conjuring endless possibilities for the Ak'heka crystal technology.When Mereneith's mentor is found dead in a temple well, leaving behind only a cryptic message, she sets out on a mission to uncover the truth behind his death. Accompanied by the fourth prince Kha, son of Pharaoh Sneferu and forerunner to inherit the throne of Upper and Lower Egypt, Mereneith's quest for justice lands her in the middle of a political storm, where one wrong move could spell the end of the empire - and her own life. ========Heretic of the Nile is Book One of the Sands of Giza Trilogy, a speculative historical fiction series that explores the origin of the Great Pyramid of Giza19.10.22 - Heretic of the Nile has been shortlisted for The Wattys 2022!…

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Lee Sol was a princess of the Baekje kingdom, her ethereal beauty unrivalled by any other in all the land. She grew up thinking that she would marry the boy she grew up with, the man of her dreams, the leader of the White Knights of Baekje. Yet a cruel twist of fate ended up with her standing at the bow of a ship, en route to Goguryeo to marry someone she had never met in her entire life. The irony? That she was being escorted there by the very man she believed she would marry. Would this mark the end of her happiness?Hye Ra was born with a gift-the gift to see into the future. Taken from her parents when she was only five, she grew up in the confines of the Goguryeo palace under the protection of the ten Black Knights of Goguryeo. The king only kept her alive because she was a valuable weapon with which he had wielded to conquer numerous territories, expanding to become the largest empire in the realm. The kingdom was preparing for a royal wedding, yet all she saw in her mind's eye were flames. Flames and destruction-the end of Goguryeo. Little did she know that with this vision, her journey had only just begun...This story follows the life and times of two extraordinary women and the men that they loved and lost - and the one god that witnessed it all. ========…

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A novice cupid needs to help a girl and a ghost fulfil their romantic destiny after he mistakenly ties one end of the red string to the wrong boy. *****What happens when your soulmate dies before you've even met him? The bookish Gemma Yang gets her shot at finding true love when novice faerie Jun is assigned to her case by the God of Marriage. All Jun has to do is one simple thing - tie the invisible red string of fate to the wrist of Gemma and her designated soulmate, the popular Hayden Chung, and let destiny work its magic. However, in a case of mistaken identity, he bungles things up by tying the string to the geeky Takahashi Ryu instead. To make matters worse, Ryu ends up being knocked down by a reckless driver outside the university campus minutes later - and dies. With this massive hot potato in his hands, Jun embarks on a mission to cover up for his mistake and return things to the way they should be - but things rarely go as planned, or do they?Content warning: This story contains mild violence (fight scenes)Cover designed by Ilafi Nastiti…