Just when I thought navigating high school was bad enough, I woke up to a rotting, post-apocalyptic world! I thought that the poisonous swamp surrounding my small island would have protected me from all the drama, but what did I see staggering my way? A nasty, putrid zombie! With nothing left to lose, I shoved it away! To my surprise, it turned into a living, breathing, not-so-dead human!So, I have the power to purify zombies. And now I’m expected to save this unde...

A crash reverberates throughout the land. A nurse named Hana, who provides medical care in North Africa, is surprised when a stunningly handsome man who had been transporting relief materials is brought in wounded. It is Alim El-Kanar, a great hero from her home country. He is the sheikh who brought prosperity to his country, yet he is considered missing after having disappeared. Why is he here? If he is truly who she believes him to be, his presence alone puts them all in danger. Behind t...

Rachel is nearly attacked by a hoodlum on a dark street at night, but she’s saved by a man with an air of danger about him. He leaves Rachel, shaken from the sudden incident, without even giving her his name. The next day she learns that he’s Cullen Logan, a man everyone in the village has heard an unpleasant rumor about. But Rachel can’t believe that the man who saved her could be a bad person. He didn’t seem like such a scary person; he seemed reliable and honest. But maybe Rachel will g...

Since losing her family, Millie buried herself in her work as a way to cope. After her boss insisted she take some time off, Millie was trying to enjoy her weeklong vacation in the Caribbean. But when a man named Chase walked up to her and asked her out on a date, Millie tried to brush him off. In the end she changed her mind, deciding to give him a chance. After all, he’d made her smile after she’d closed off her emotions for so long, ever since the loss of her family… The next thing she ...

Janna, who works as a secretary for a temperamental author, is on a research trip with her boss when she meets a beautiful man at a hotel on the Cote d’Azur. The black-eyed stranger strikes her as arrogant, and she learns that he is the prince of a country called El Amara. He already knows about Janna’s background and asks her to go on a date. She doesn’t know what to do, so she accepts his offer, deciding to pursue the fabulous night of her dreams. But she never imagined she’d be taken to...

Drawing on qualitative research conducted in the impoverished areas of Manila, Philippines, Fuyuki Makino examines how experimental methods in modern architecture have helped form micro-relationships, social networks, and social structures among the inhabitants and considers whether the architects’ aim to promote certain social behaviors was successful or not.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Rigorous State-Based Methods, ABZ 2026, held in Tokyo, Japan, during May 2026.The 15 full papers, 3 short papers and 2 ABZ 2026 case study papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions.The ABZ conference series is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of state-based and machine-based formal methods. Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM,...

Safety assurance of software systems has never been as imminent a problem as it is today. Practitioners and researchers who work on the problem face a challenge unique to modern software systems: uncertainties. For one, the cyber-physical nature of modern software systems as exemplified by automated driving systems mandates environmental uncertainties to be addressed and the resulting hazards to be mitigated. Besides, the abundance of statistical machine-learning components massive numeric...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Rigorous State-Based Methods, ABZ 2025, held in Düsseldorf, Germany, during June 10–13, 2025.The 10 full papers, 4 short papers, 2 PhD Symposium papers and 5 case study papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The proceedings also contain one invited talk in full paper length.The ABZ conference series is dedicated to the cross-fertilization o...

Emily has been living with Marco Fierezza for three years. One day, she discovers that her businessman boyfriend is actually the crown prince of Niroli! Called back to Niroli, Marco, who has his own ideas for the kingdom, argues against his grandfather's focus on tourism. Old traditions get in the way of the growing feelings between Emily and Marco, and life gets even trickier when Emily discovers she's pregnant with Marco's child!

There is a noticeably beautiful woman at the victory party of Marco Moretti, star F1 racer. Her name is Virginia. She attends the party with heroic determination, which is to break the spell cast by her grandmother on the Moretti family. In order for her to realize her goal, she has to be impregnated by one of the Moretti men in a loveless marriage. Marco, who has no such knowledge, falls in love with her. Her plan steadfastly progresses.…

Zombies, cults, mutated animals, and now zombie catgirls and…dragons?Another world’s zombie apocalypse became my problem, and now I have to deal with what comes next! The kingdom is safe under the protection of the goddess, but the world is still infested with zombies. Now I must set out with my loyal knight to the other human and beast kingdoms to free this infected world. Oh how I wish this world’s zombie apocalypse was not my problem!