Mystery/Thriller

“You aren't destined to be rich. Stay poor, wear rags, and find women of your own caliber.” Those were the parting words of Jayden's girlfriend when she dumped him for a wealthy man. He had always noticed her shifting behavior, her expensive new outfits, and her sudden obsession with appearance—but what could a nobody like him do? He was just an ordinary worker grinding day and night at a local bakery. He had literally gone hungry just to please her, only to be cast aside like trash. Devastated and broken, Jayden returned to his empty room. Then, his phone buzzed. A single message changed everything. A bank credit with nine zeros. Before he could even process the impossible sum, a phone call came from a stranger—the Vice President of the world-renowned Apexium Conglomerate. But this wasn't a random stroke of luck; it was deliberate. It was a chilling realization that he was being watched, and that outsiders knew the dark secrets of his past better than he did. The call revealed a shocking truth that turned his ordinary life upside down: he was the sole heir to an untouchable empire. To claim his legacy and survive the corporate leeches waiting to end his life, Jayden must drop his simple existence and split his life into three ruthless identities: A life in the morning as an ordinary baker using his old life to quietly investigate, infiltrate, and gather evidence against his enemies. Life in the afternoon as the powerful, untouchable CEO exuding absolute confidence and authority in the boardroom. A life at night as a brutalized student pushing his body to the absolute limit, training in lethal martial arts under a ruthless master to survive the shadows. The game has changed. They underestimated him. Let's find out how wrong they were.

She buried her husband three years ago. She's been visiting his grave every year since, telling herself the same lie: that grief fades, that closure is real, that Adrian is gone. Then a photo lands in her phone. A billionaire at a gala, laughing at something off camera. Adrian's face, on a stranger's body, wearing a stranger's name. Elena tells herself it's coincidence, until she's sitting across from Damian Voss in his own office and he says her name, a name that was never on her business card. Damian doesn't remember her. He doesn't remember much of anything before the coma that rebuilt him from nothing, a new identity, a new life, built on top of a silence nobody in his life has ever questioned out loud. But somebody built that silence on purpose. And somebody is still protecting it. The closer Elena gets to the truth, the more it costs her, and the more it costs the people around her. Because the man who buried her husband's identity didn't do it to save him. He did it because a dead man can't testify. Some graves don't hold what you buried in them. Some marriages don't end the way you think they did. And some men come back not because they escaped, but because someone finally let them go.

Nathan Cross is a respected forensic accountant assigned to audit the country's most celebrated charity, the Soren Foundation. He uncovers a horrifying truth: the foundation is a front for laundering money tied to assassinations, political manipulation, and worse. Before he can report it, he's framed — his office raided, evidence planted, his name dragged through the media. His father collapses under the stress and later dies. His sister Chloe vanishes the same night he's arrested. In prison, Nathan realizes this was never about the money — someone needed his spotless reputation to make the lie believable, and now they need him gone. With help from a mysterious ally with their own agenda, he escapes during a staged ambush on a prison transfer. The world believes he's dead. Nathan watches his own funeral from a distance. Two years later, he returns to Blackridge under a new identity, quietly hunting the people who destroyed his life. He discovers they're all connected through a hidden network called The Ledger — and at its center is Victor Soren, the philanthropist everyone trusts. As Nathan dismantles Victor's empire piece by piece, journalist Elena Brooks — who built her career chasing "the truth" about Nathan's guilt — realizes the mysterious stranger she's investigating is Nathan himself. Together, reluctantly, they dig deeper: corrupt judges, bought police, a mentor whose loyalty is unclear, and finally, proof that Chloe is alive. As Nathan closes in on the truth behind why he was chosen to be framed, he must decide what kind of man his revenge will make him — and whether exposing The Ledger is worth the innocent lives it could also destroy.

William Scott is a British Man born with the powers of healing, when he was a kid he was taken in by the church but he ran away to forge his own path, It was said in a prophecy that the one true messiah would come back to man and save his people and as he was born he was thought to be the Messiah. He left the church wanting to start his own life so he used his powers for money, he healed people and resurrected the dead all for selfish gain as he became quite popular, people from all over the world came to him, the church had tried to stop him but all attempts had failed. One day he resurrected a man back from the dead but something strange happened, he bled from his nose which this hasn’t happened before, he decided to investigate this strange occurrence, but on one strange night, he met Ada Smith, a witch who had her own mysterious agenda but they had to work together due to circumstance. He made strange discoveries about his origin and why he got the powers in the first place, it turns out he was more powerful than he knew and then he was left with a question, was his powers truly divine or something far more darker than anyone realized. Note: This is a work of fiction, any resemblance to real life events is completely unintentional and coincidental.

Heinrich Aasen is a former elite mercenary who lost his family overnight. Grief and deep loss drive him to find the one known as Valkyrie. Fueled by revenge, he ventures into the most dangerous region of Europe, known as the ‘End of the World’. Along the Northern Route, Heinrich faces relentless terror, following Viking runic symbols that serve as clues to locate Valkyrie. Who is Valkyrie, really? Can Heinrich confront the truth and make the choices that will change everything?

The Heir They Threw Away For eighteen years, Evan Rourke lived as the unwanted son of one of the city's most powerful families. He endured their insults, carried their burdens, and secretly protected the Rourke empire from disasters they never knew existed. But the moment their supposedly lost heir, Carter, returns, Evan is discarded without a second thought. His fiancée chooses Carter. His siblings turn against him. His father orders him out. So Evan walks away. What the Rourkes don't know is that the son they called a parasite was the one secretly keeping their empire alive. And when the family begins collapsing without him, Evan has no intention of returning. Then a hidden birth record uncovers a devastating truth. Evan was never adopted. He was the Rourkes' true biological heir, stolen from them eighteen years ago. And Carter's return was never a miracle. It was a carefully planned betrayal.

Twenty-four years ago, a convoy was ambushed on a mountain road and every passenger was left for dead...except one crying infant with no name and no past. Raised by the wealthy Carter family, Ethan grew up tolerated, never loved, and endlessly reminded he wasn't blood. What the Carters never knew: their "burden" was secretly Evan Black, the anonymous founder of Aether Technologies... and their own company had survived for years only because he was quietly protecting it. The day their real son is found, they disown Ethan without a second thought. Strip his name. Empty his room. Throw him out with a suitcase. The next morning, from the top floor of Aether's headquarters, Ethan gives one order: cut the Carters off completely. As their empire collapses and the mysterious Evan Black finally steps into the light, Ethan discovers the ambush that orphaned him was no accident, it was an execution carried out by an organization still hunting the one survivor of a stolen dynasty. Every company he conquers, every enemy he exposes, and every truth he uncovers brings him closer to the people who spent twenty-four years making sure he'd never remember who he really is.

Marcus Chen is a failed building inspector with a dangerous secret. He can read the "structural memories" of any building he touches. When a luxury high-rise collapses, Marcus uncovers a fifteen-year-old murder buried in the foundation, and the killer is the city’s most powerful developer. Framed for the crime and hunted by corrupt police, Marcus must race to find the bodies hidden in the city’s skyline before the trauma of his visions breaks his mind.

Three years after civilization collapsed, Ethan Carter has learned one brutal truth: The apocalypse didn't destroy humanity. Humanity destroyed itself. While escaping a ruined city, Ethan discovers an underground facility containing a strange device capable of transmitting fragments of future events. Before he can understand it, the facility is attacked. Ethan dies. But instead of darkness, he opens his eyes in his own apartment. His phone shows the date. Seventy-two hours before the world ends. At first, Ethan thinks he's been given a second chance. Then he discovers something impossible. He remembers the people who survived the apocalypse. Not hundreds. Not thousands. Exactly 37 people. And every one of them played a role in shaping the new world. Some became heroes. Some became monsters. Some became rulers. And some betrayed everyone who trusted them. Ethan knows their names. He knows where they will be when the disaster begins. He knows which ones must be saved... And which ones must never be allowed to survive. But there is one problem. In his memories, Ethan Carter was not one of the 37 survivors. He died on the first night. Now he has only 72 hours to change his fate. As the countdown begins, Ethan races across the city, gathering the people he believes can survive. But on the second day, he encounters a woman who should not exist in his memories. She looks at him and whispers: "You came back too." Ethan freezes. Someone else remembers the future. And she knows something he doesn't. The apocalypse isn't supposed to happen in 72 hours. It's supposed to happen tonight.

In Halcyon, every crime hides a code. Adrian Cross, a disgraced cryptanalyst, wanted nothing more than to fade into obscurity. But when a string of murders leaves cryptic puzzles etched into the city’s walls, he’s pulled into a deadly game only he can solve. Partnered with Detective Iris Navarro, Adrian unravels a web of secrets spanning law enforcement, corporate power, and his own past. Each cipher cracked saves a life—but also reveals another victim. As the bodies pile up and the codes point closer to Adrian’s family, he realizes the truth: The city itself is a message. And decoding it may cost him everything. In Halcyon, knowledge isn’t just power—it’s survival.

A thousand years ago, the Strongest Demon Emperor, Xar'thos, nearly plunged the cultivation world into eternal darkness, only to be defeated and sealed by an alliance of holy sects in a heroic sacrifice. Now, after a millennium has passed, the Demon Emperor is reborn as a poor youth named Aron in a remote village—without power, without memories, and without any remnants of his past glory. The world has forgotten him, and the holy sects have enjoyed a fragile peace, establishing their dominance without threat. However, fate has other plans. As Xar'thos's memories begin to return, an ancient entity known as the "Demon Empire System" activates within him. This system is more than just a guide; it is the key to rebuilding his shattered empire, granting him unique abilities to revive forbidden cultivation techniques, recruit loyal followers, and most crucially, attract powerful women with demonic potential to become his Demon Consorts—the pillars of his new strength and authority. Starting from zero, Aron—who is now slowly reverting to Xar'thos—begins a perilous journey to reclaim what is rightfully his. Xar'thos's journey takes him from a helpless youth to a rising ruler of darkness, rebuilding his army from the shadows. He gathers followers, forms unexpected alliances, and establishes a hidden base of demonic power. However, his rise does not go unnoticed. The holy sects that once sealed him begin to sense the echoes of a long-lost demonic aura. They send agents to investigate, sparking initial clashes that reveal weaknesses and ancient secrets among his old enemies.

He can’t see the dark. But the dark can see him. When a cosmic eclipse rips humanity’s shadows away, they don't just vanish...they hunt. Across the vertical concrete jungle of New York City, billions of detached silhouettes are slaughtering their owners, stepping into their skin to become hollow, malevolent Mimics. For Zyrus Miranda, a blind martial arts master, the apocalypse is just another Tuesday. Immune to the psychological terror paralyzing the sighted world, Zyrus navigates the pitch-black ruins through pure vibration and lethal precision. Together with Dixy Alvarez, a fierce, quick-witted parkour instructor who becomes his eyes in the chaos, Zyrus builds an underground resistance, teaching survivors how to fight blind to survive. But Zyrus’s greatest battle isn't with the monsters outside...it’s with his own rogue shadow. In a breathless, pitch-black alley duel, Zyrus’s iron will achieves the impossible: he subdues his shadow, forcing it into a symbiotic, weapon-shifting duo. Now, with a lethal shadow-partner bound to his carbon-fiber staff and Dixy fighting at his side, Zyrus must launch a vertical assault up One World Trade Center to shatter the cosmic core. The light is fading. Can a blind man guide humanity out of eternal darkness?

Five years ago, Ethan Hayes was celebrated as the nation's youngest Supreme Commander. Then, during a classified mission, he and his eleven commanders vanished without a trace. The government declared them heroes who died in service. History moved on. Only one man knows the truth. They were betrayed. Living under a false identity, Ethan abandons his glorious past to protect the woman he loves. But on the day she publicly divorces him, calling him a worthless husband, the fragile life he built finally shatters. The world believes Ethan is a failure. His enemies believe he is dead. Both are about to discover the truth. When a routine identity check triggers an alert buried for five years, powerful generals, billionaire tycoons, intelligence agencies, and criminal syndicates realize that the man they erased from history has returned. Now, the commander who lost everything must uncover the conspiracy that murdered his brothers, exposed the corruption at the highest levels of power, and recover the legendary Sovereign Ledger—a secret capable of bringing nations to their knees. But every answer comes with a new betrayal, and the greatest enemy waiting in the shadows is the man Ethan once respected more than anyone else. Because some wars never truly end. And history has a way of reclaiming the heroes it tried to erase.

For seventeen years, Kael Ashryn has lived as an outcast in the Kingdom of Valenor. Branded the "Cursed Child" after his parents died under mysterious circumstances, he is blamed for every tragedy that befalls his village. Shunned, ridiculed, and denied every chance to prove himself, Kael clings to the hope that one day he will earn the acceptance he has always longed for. That hope is destroyed when a sacred relic vanishes from the royal vault. Framed by fabricated evidence and abandoned by everyone he trusted, Kael is convicted of treason and sentenced to a public execution. As he awaits death, an ancient seal buried beneath the execution platform suddenly responds to his blood, awakening the long-forgotten Shadow Monarch Core. The execution grounds erupt into chaos as living shadows slaughter the soldiers, allowing Kael to escape. Branded the greatest threat to humanity, Kael becomes the target of a continent-wide manhunt. Royals, powerful nobles, secret organizations, and mysterious cults all seek to capture him, each hiding motives tied to a forgotten past. While struggling to control his terrifying new abilities, Kael uncovers the truth behind history's greatest lie: the legendary Shadow Monarch was never a tyrant but a hero who sacrificed everything to imprison the ancient Void Sovereign. Joined by unlikely allies—warriors, scholars, mercenaries, and mages burdened with secrets of their own—Kael discovers that his parents were guardians of the ancient seal and that his entire life was orchestrated by those who feared his true heritage. Yet every new power he gains strengthens the whispers of darkness within him, threatening to consume his humanity. As kingdoms fall into war and ancient monsters awaken, Kael must master the shadows without surrendering to them. To save the continent from a returning nightmare, he must uncover the truth before history repeats itself.

Jack, a guy who was never really seen by his family, finally becomes a trillionaire following his late dad's map. When his dad dies, his step mom and step siblings take everything, leaving only a dirty old rusty box. When he opens the box, he realizes it is the box to all of his late dad's treasures worth trillions of dollars. His step family come back trying to claim it.

PREMISE Damang, a former special forces operative (Military Scholar) who returns to his village in the interior of Kalimantan, finds his homeland beginning to "sicken." A multinational corporation called The Andalusian Order has arrived under the guise of a green energy project. However, Damang smells blood. Led by Elias Thorne, a charismatic occultist who possesses telekinetic powers and the ability to manipulate blood, the sect is actually searching for the "Heart of the Earth"—the largest spiritual energy point in Kalimantan—to awaken a dark entity from the ancient Andalusian era that they worship. The sect did not come empty-handed. They brought The Paladins, a mercenary force modified with dark magic, making them bulletproof and granting them abnormal speed. When his father (the Tribal Chief) is brutally slaughtered before his eyes using a magical ritual, Damang realizes that his assault rifle is not enough. Guided by the spirit of the Panglima Burung through blood-soaked dreams, Damang must undergo a forbidden ritual to awaken the Flying Mandau and master high-level invulnerability. A great war erupts: Machine guns vs. poison blowdarts that hunt their targets. European blood magic vs. the ancestral spirit powers of the Dayak. Damang must hunt down the sect members one by one within a jungle that can transform into a deadly labyrinth, before Elias Thorne completes the eclipse ritual that will plunge Kalimantan into eternal darkness.

Ethan Carter’s life appears ordinary until a mysterious photograph arrives at his door in the middle of the night. The photograph shows Ethan standing beside an unknown man at an abandoned railway station seven years earlier—yet Ethan has no memory of ever being there. On the back are six disturbing words: “You promised you wouldn't tell anyone.” Seven years ago, Ethan survived a mysterious accident that left him with a serious head injury and erased almost two weeks of his memory. He always believed those missing days were nothing more than a painful chapter of his past. But when his younger sister, Olivia, receives a similar photograph and suddenly disappears, Ethan realizes someone has been waiting years for him to remember the truth.

SYNOPSIS: THE SEVENTH SCHOLAR A Discovery Adventures Novel Genre: Gothic Horror / Dark Academia / Adventure Logline: When a brilliant transfer student begins tampering with the architectural heart of their academy, a secret society of student guardians must ally with him to stop an ancient entity they’ve unleashed—a being that doesn't kill, but seeks to erase human memory and emotion itself.

The apocalypse didn’t fall from the sky. It was born from a needle in a quiet hospital hallway. Kang Jaemin was just a brother trying to keep his younger sibling safe when the world suddenly ended. But that one good deed cost him everything when a monster's teeth tore into his arm. Waiting for the end, Jaemin didn’t die. Instead, something else took root. He became "Specimen Alpha" a new breed of predator, half-man, half-monster, with the power to crush steel and an instinct for the hunt that was second to none. But in a shattered world, the living are far more rotten than the dead. So when the world’s corrupt elite the billionaires and military commanders try to crush what little family he has left and turn him into their weapon, they make the biggest mistake of their lives. They woke the wrong devil. Alongside a handful of hardened survivors, with his brother as the only anchor to his sanity, Jaemin begins his warpath. He’s not just surviving. He's hunting. He will tear down their high-tech fortresses and shatter their hubris with his bare hands. "You thought you were gods in this new world? Let me show you how a god can die."

Ethan Hayes was set to inherit everything — until his own family buried him alive to take it. Framed for his grandfather's murder and left for dead at a construction site, he's rescued by a reclusive billionaire and rebuilt over five years into one of the most powerful men in the world. Now Ethan is back in New York under a new identity, dismantling the empire that destroyed him with the help of Isabella Carter, the lawyer who never stopped believing him. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more it unravels: his brother, not his stepmother, has been running the conspiracy all along — and the mentor who saved his life had his own reasons for choosing him. Ethan finally has the power to destroy everyone who wronged him. The only question is what kind of man he'll be when he does.