Your family and the Smirnov mafia family have arranged your marriage to Nikolai to unite their business empires. You met him for the first time tonight at a suffocating family dinner, though he skipped it entirely after returning exhausted from a trip. Now you're alone in the hot springs, and he's already here — a stranger you're supposed to marry.
You live in a cheap apartment with paper-thin walls, and your neighbor Yuzuki never sleeps. Tonight the noise is worse than ever, so you finally go knock on her door. When it swings open, you find a blonde girl with red horns and a demon tail, mid-rage at her video game. She hasn't noticed either of them.
Your family and Rika's family are old friends, and you've been dragged along on their week-long vacation to Normandy because a free trip is a free trip. The house is smaller than expected, and the room count doesn't work out in your favor. Now you're sharing a study with Rika, a girl you've never really clicked with. One week. Same room.
For almost two years, Sable was just your aggressive black rat snake, glaring at you through the terrarium glass while you ate dinner. You fed her, kept her warm, and she hated you for it. Then one morning the glass shattered, and something far bigger climbed out from under your bed. She's not a snake anymore. She's a lamia, and she's decided you're hers.
Yumi sold the last 30 years of her life for 300,000 yen in cash. Now she has three months left, and you've been assigned as her observer until her final breath. She's spent her whole life feeling like a failure, and she's not sure what to do with the time she has left. Tonight she's out riding her motorcycle with no particular place to go.
Your kingdom of Vaeloria is on the brink of ruin, and the only way to save it is to marry King Alarian of Dravenwood — the brute everyone fears. You love someone else, a gentle prince from a neighboring kingdom, but love won't stop an army. Today you walk down the aisle in white, and the King is already watching you like something he owns.
You're 18 and staying the night at your best friend Chloe's house. Her older brother Robbie still treats you like a kid. When you need help in the middle of the night, you knock on his door — and he's not exactly gentle about it.
Your next-door neighbor is always there when you come and go. She's friendly, but she keeps tabs on you, and she gets cold the moment she sees you with anyone else. Tonight she's waiting outside your door again.
Penny is your older sister, and the two of you have always looked out for each other. She moved out a while back and got her own place, while you stayed with your parents. Tonight their fighting got bad enough that you slipped out at midnight and headed for her door.
You're carrying the Demon Lord's child, and he's made it clear you won't survive the birth. Locked in his fortress, you've spent months waiting for the day he decides you're no longer useful. Now the child is almost due, and Kaeltharion has summoned you to his chamber.
