manipulation

Dedicated to the 'Combine', Nurse Ratched has always been a stern figure of authority, bending the men in her psychiatric ward to her will. But one man, Randle McMurphy, was about to challenge the system she had meticulously maintained.

In the bustling corners of Florence, a young woman named Isabel Archer was embarking on an epoch of self-discovery. Having inherited a fortune, she found herself unchained from the constraints of her earlier life, burdened no more by the expectation of marriage. She was a woman with the freedom of choice that few of her time possessed. This newfound affluence, however, brought with it the insidious lure of exploitation.

The city of Washington DC never sleeps, neither do its attorneys, especially Clay Carter, a public defender in the Office of the Public Defender (OPD). Clay's life took a wild turn when he stumbled upon a case involving a pharmaceutical company, Ackerman Labs. A young man had committed a random act of violence under the influence of a mysterious drug, Tarvan, produced by this company. Investigating further, he discovered a secret clinical trial, dangerously unethical and scandalously covered-up.

In the glittering aristocratic world of late 18th-century France, a dangerous and captivating web of seduction, deceit, and manipulation was spun by the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont. Their game started when the Marquise desired revenge on her ex-lover, Comte de Bastide, who was about to marry the innocent and virtuous Cecile de Volanges. She enlisted the Vicomte, a notorious womanizer, to deflower Cecile before her wedding night in a debilitating blow to Comte’s pride.

Wormwood, the apprentice demon, was sure of his victory. He had been working tirelessly on his human subject, calculating his every move. His efforts seem to be finally culminating in success. The man, once a devoted believer, was now questioning the existence of God himself. Wormwood's master, Screwtape, would certainly be pleased.

In the far reaches of the Arctic, a discovery was made by a team of NASA scientists that utterly shattered our understanding of the cosmos. An unknown metallic object was found deeply buried within the ice, radiating an eerie, otherworldly glow. The nature of this object was indeed heavily reminiscent of the objects uncovered in Dan Brown's 'Deception Point'.