Urban

Kellan Draik never truly died, only the world believed he did. After a bloody mission that wiped out his entire unit, Kellan was forced to stage his own death and live in the shadows. Behind his new identity as Sebastian Crowe, a powerful military investor, he watches from afar, over the family he left behind: a wife who now belongs to another man, and a child growing up without knowing his real father. But when his wife’s company is targeted by a shadowy corporate network, Kellan realizes one thing: the old enemies he buried on the battlefield are now wearing suits. And the war he once fought hasn’t ended, it’s merely changed its form.

Synopsis: The VIP Landlord Colter "Colt" Burke thought inheriting his grandfather’s property would solve his debt. Instead, he got a death sentence. The will is clear: manage a rundown apartment block for 100 days. No tenants can move, get arrested, or die. Fail and Colt loses the inheritance — and his life. The catch? The building houses the world’s most wanted fugitives. Room 301: Ines Mercer, an international assassin. Room 302: Linus Floyd, a federal hacker on the run. Room 303: Harlan Montgomery, a corrupt ex-minister who faked his death. They trust no one. Night one goes wrong when a body turns up in Ines’s room. As Colt scrambles to hide the evidence, ruthless attorney Mr. Henderson arrives for a surprise inspection. Then Henderson’s assistant, Duncan Briggs, betrays them and leaks the building’s location to the dark web. Now hit squads are sieging the building. To survive, amateur Colt must lead his dangerous tenants and use the building’s secrets — including a hidden 4th floor — against cyber attacks and a global war. As day 100 nears, Colt learns the truth. This isn’t just a safe house. It’s a fortress built to fight The Syndicate. And he’s in the middle of it. Genre: Urban Fiction / Suspense / Thriller-Action

Ethan Cole spent twenty-four years being treated like a nobody. Born into a wealthy family but abandoned after a mysterious incident, Ethan grew up believing he had been forgotten. He worked tirelessly, endured humiliation, and watched privileged people take opportunities that should have been his. Then, on the night he is betrayed and thrown out of the company he helped build, something impossible happens. [Hidden System Activated.] For the first time, Ethan receives a chance to change his fate. The system does not simply hand him unlimited wealth. It gives him challenges, rewards, abilities, and opportunities that force him to become stronger. Every achievement brings Ethan closer to becoming the man he was always capable of being. The man everyone once mocked soon becomes a powerful force in the city. Rivals who looked down on him begin fearing his name. But Ethan's greatest battle isn't against his enemies. Every new system level unlocks fragments of his forgotten past. Someone deliberately erased his memories, destroyed his family, and kept Ethan weak for a reason. As he builds his empire, Ethan uncovers secret organizations, dangerous enemies, and a conspiracy reaching far beyond the business world. His journey is no longer about becoming rich. It is about discovering his identity, exposing those responsible, and uncovering why the system chose him. But the closer Ethan gets to the truth, the more dangerous his power becomes. Because the greatest secret is this: Ethan was never chosen to inherit the system. He was chosen to become its ultimate weapon.

Ashes of the Forsaken Bride Amara Cole spent her life navigating the shadows of a family that viewed her as an invisible asset. When she is traded into a marriage with Damien Hartwell—the notoriously cold, brilliant heir to a multi-billion-dollar empire—she foolishly believes she is escaping a nightmare. Instead, she merely steps into a more glamorous cage. Behind the grand gates of the Hartwell estate, Amara finds a world defined by old-money malice. Her mother-in-law maps her flaws with clinical precision, her sister-in-law treats her presence as a joke, and Damien remains entirely untouchable, running their marriage like a bloodless corporate transaction. Yet, Amara clings to the fragile hope that if she just proves her worth, she can earn a place at their table. But in a world built on power, hope is a liability. When a calculated betrayal frames her for a corporate disaster, Amara is abandoned by the husband she tried to trust. Left with nothing, she vanishes into the night, leaving the elite social circle to believe she is gone forever. Years later, the ashes finally clear. The timid girl they dismantled never returned. In her place stands a woman the Hartwells could never have anticipated—stronger, wealthier, and armed with an international backing that rivals their own. Amara has forged her heartbreak into a weapon, uncovering the dark secrets that can bring down dynasties. As she steps back into the high-society spotlight, she isn't looking for a reconciliation. She is here to watch them fall. Damien is forced to confront the absolute worst mistake of his life, but when a ghost returns to claim what's hers, late-night regret won't be enough to alter the contract. This time, the price of his betrayal is everything.

********** For nineteen years, Philip believed he had the perfect family. He loved his three sons, Ethan, Daniel, and Ryan, and never once questioned whether they were truly his. But everything changes when he is forced to take a paternity test. The results destroy his world. None of the three boys are his biological children. Devastated and furious, Philip turns to alcohol, desperate to forget the betrayal of the woman he trusted most—his wife, Elena. But when he encounters Elena at the beach, she doesn't deny the truth. Her silence only deepens his suspicion. Who is the real father of her three sons? And why did Elena deceive Philip for nineteen years? As Philip begins searching for answers, he discovers that the paternity results are only the beginning of a much darker secret. The woman he loved may have been hiding far more than the identity of his children's father. Philip thought he had lost three sons. He doesn't yet realize he may have lost an entire life built on lies.

Edmund Holt spent thirty years being destroyed quietly. He left one envelope, one address, and one ability that has been waiting for the right hands. Riven did not choose the debt. He inherited it, along with every wrong it had been counting since before he was born. Now the ledger is open, his sister is inside the machine that built it, and the man who ordered his grandfather’s death is one floor above him. Collection has started.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

His unit was betrayed. His name was erased. His wife moved on. Five years later, Ethan Graves returns - not as the soldier they buried, but as the Ghost Commander, the most feared warrior in the nation’s shadows. The first thing his wife gives him is divorce papers. Then her wealthy lover humiliates him in front of everyone, certain that Ethan has no power left. They are about to learn how wrong they are. When a military convoy arrives and salutes Ethan as Commander, the truth begins to surface: his death was planned, his unit was sacrificed, and the people responsible still control the country. Ethan has returned for answers. But when he discovers who ordered the massacre, he will not settle for answers. He will make them pay.

Maxwell is a silent housekeeper in a brutal mansion, surviving daily humiliation from a wealthy family that treats him as disposable—except for one gentle child who sees his worth. When news breaks that a dying billionaire is searching for the son stolen from him decades ago, Maxwell feels an unexplainable pull toward the story. Digging into his past, he uncovers a truth that could change everything: he may be the missing heir to a global empire.

Laura Conti was forced into a marriage with Enzo, a mysterious stranger she had a one night stand with. After seeing his simple clothes and quiet demeanor, she immediately dismissed him as worthless and far beneath her aristocratic world. Determined to escape the marriage, Laura does everything in her power to force a divorce, treating him with nothing but cold disdain. What she doesn’t know is that Enzo is actually Marchese Enzo De Luca — the sole heir to the most powerful and feared dynasty in all of Italy. And while Laura fights desperately to get rid of him, Enzo seems far too calm for a man with everything to lose.

SYNOPSIS Beneath the shimmering lights of a city steeped in sin, Dante Rossi is a detective living in the shadows. He has successfully infiltrated the Valeriano family—the most feared mafia syndicate in existence—with a single mission: to gather the evidence needed to tear them down from the inside. As the personal bodyguard to Isabella Valeriano, the Don’s only daughter, Dante expects his greatest challenge to be the arrogance of a pampered heiress. However, behind the palace-like walls of the mansion, Isabella is no fragile doll. She is a woman of lethal intelligence, weaving her own web of betrayal. Isabella has known Dante’s true identity since day one, but rather than eliminating him, she transforms him into the primary pawn in her plan to overthrow her own father and avenge a childhood tragedy buried in blood. In this dangerous game of cat and mouse, the line between duty and desire begins to blur. Dante finds himself trapped between his oath to the law and a dark attraction to the woman he is meant to imprison. Meanwhile, Isabella begins to question if she can truly love someone destined to destroy her family’s legacy. When the night of the grand gala arrives, their secrets explode amidst the thunder of gunfire. Facing the barrel of a gun, Isabella and Dante must confront a bitter reality: in the world of the mafia, love is the deadliest weakness, and the only way to survive is to betray one another before the world destroys them both.

Damien Cross married into the Sterling family believing in love, but they only saw him as weak and useless. Humiliated, betrayed, and framed for a crime he didn’t commit, he lost everything overnight, his marriage, his dignity, and the home he once called his own. What they never knew was that Damien Cross was never ordinary. He is the hidden heir to a global billionaire empire, and now he has returned to the world he once left behind. This time, he will not forgive. He will not beg. He will rise… and the family who cast him aside will soon realize that the man they called worthless is the most dangerous enemy they could have ever made.

“What?! The useless pauper… is the son of Lord Crane?” The entire Lancaster family froze in horror when the shocking truth was revealed. For four years, Ethan Moreau lived in humiliation inside the Lancaster household. Mocked as a poor and useless son-in-law, he endured endless insults, betrayal, and cruelty from his wife Isabella and her greedy family. They never knew the truth. The man they called a worthless beggar… was actually the hidden heir of the Crane family—the most powerful and wealthiest dynasty in the world, controlling a trillion-dollar empire. On the day Isabella divorced him and threw him out of the house, she believed she had finally gotten rid of a burden. But that same day, Ethan’s real identity awakened. Now, the humble man they once despised stands at the peak of power. When the Lancaster family finally discovers the truth, their world collapses in terror. Isabella Lancaster—the woman who betrayed him—falls to the floor in shock. Regret comes too late. With the support of the legendary Lord Crane and the vast Crane Empire behind him, Ethan returns stronger, richer, and more powerful than anyone could imagine. This time, the man they once humiliated will make the whole world bow. And those who betrayed him… Will pay the price.

Julian Ashford spent twenty-six years quietly holding his adoptive family's company together, closing every major deal Halden Corp ever took credit for. Then a stranger named Preston walks in claiming to be Richard Halden's real, biological son, and in a single afternoon Julian is cast out of the house, stripped of his position, and abandoned by his own fiancée. What his family doesn't know is that Julian secretly built Sterling Vale Group, one of the country's most powerful investment firms, entirely hidden from them. When he stops holding Halden Corp up, it starts to fall, and Julian patiently uncovers a scheme by a corporate raider named Elias Marsh to steal the family's most valuable land. But exposing Marsh doesn't end anything. Marsh was never the top of the chain, and the man funding him will not simply disappear. A cornered Preston, desperate and out of options, makes a choice that nearly costs Julian his life. A forgotten branch of the family resurfaces with a legal claim on everything Julian has built back. And once Julian's empire becomes public knowledge, a rival chairman circling for weakness decides Sterling Vale is the next company worth tearing apart. Every time it looks like Julian has finally won, the war gets bigger. Stay tuned for this ride with Julian and the empire nobody knew he built.

I knelt in front of two hundred people and asked her to marry me. She left with another man before I even stood back up. ________________________________________________________ Richard Black had spent three years loving a woman who was never really his, and one humiliating night at a company gala to find that out. What he didn't expect was for that same night to end with a stranger's phone call revealing he wasn't the broke nobody he'd always believed. He was the missing heir to a billion-dollar empire his father built and disappeared from twenty-two years ago. His mother didn't die the way he was told. The grave he grieved at for years wasn't his father's. And the men now hunting him have been waiting for him far longer than he's been alive. Was this his chance to finally matter, or the beginning of a war he was never prepared to survive?

For three years Kai Mercer cleaned their cars, ate their leftovers, and answered to whatever name they felt like calling him that day. He let them. Not because he was weak. Not because he had no choice. Because the people who sent him into the Shen household told him to wait. To watch. To learn exactly how rotten their empire was from the inside before he burned it down. Then they dragged him out in front of three hundred guests, handed him divorce papers with his wife's signature already dry on the last page, and threw him into the street like he was never a man at all. That was the last mistake they will ever make. Kai Mercer is not who they think he is. He never was. And every person who smiled while they destroyed him is about to find out that the nobody they threw away was the only thing standing between them and the most powerful family in the country. He is not coming back for revenge. He is coming back to collect. And this time nobody is walking him to the door.

Five years ago, Jian “The Ghost” Mercer was the sacrificial lamb of the prestigious but corrupt Mercer family. To save his foster brother from a hit-and-run sentence, he was coerced into a high-security tomb known as “The Abyss.” There, instead of breaking, he met the Calamity Physician, a legendary prisoner who taught him the Divine Pulse—a medical art that can snatch lives from the gates of hell—and the Asura Strike, a martial style that turns the human body into a lethal weapon. Now, the gates have opened. Jian returns to a city that thinks he’s a broken convict. He finds his foster family living in luxury off his biological parents' stolen estate, while his wife, the only person who stayed true, is being auctioned off to settle a debt he didn't create. The king has returned, not for a crown, but for a reckoning.

A rain-soaked crash. His mother trapped and bleeding out in the wrecked car. Ethan Carter begs his glamorous wife Sophia to unlock the doors with one tap on her phone. At her luxury rooftop party, champagne flowing and new lover by her side, she laughs. Calls it a scam. Remotely locks the doors tighter. Leaves his mother to die inside. Ethan smashes the car open with his bare hands, carries his mom to the hospital—and gets the ultimatum: $100,000 surgery in 24 hours… or they pull the plug. Bloodied and desperate, he crashes her party. The crowd mocks him. Sophia forces him to his knees in front of everyone. He begs. She refuses. Calls him worthless. Then tosses back his mother’s cheap old necklace like garbage and ends the marriage. Back at his mother’s bedside, his genius sister helps him open the pendant. Inside: a tiny microchip and a note in his dying mother’s handwriting. “The chip holds everything—accounts, access, proof. Use it wisely, my boy. It’s all that’s left.” The man she made kneel and beg… now holds the key to a fortune so massive it could buy her entire world. And he’s waking up. One betrayal. One secret. One husband who’s done begging. How sweet will her regret taste when the beggar rises?

David Myles is known throughout Asterion as a powerless doctor—the forsaken heir of a fallen family whose Dragon bloodline supposedly died a century ago. Even the influential Sterling family considers him unworthy of Janet Sterling, his fiancée and the celebrated Emerald Saintess. They have no idea that David’s weakness is a carefully guarded secret. Within him lives the Primordius Dragon, the legendary golden Dragon connected to the origin of all Dragon Energy. Revealing it would expose David to the same hidden forces that destroyed his ancestors and erased House Myles from history. But when David is publicly humiliated, betrayed by those he trusted, and framed for the death of a Sterling elder, remaining hidden is no longer possible. His enemies want him imprisoned, his family disgraced, and the last Myles heir eliminated. As the Black Templars begin their conquest across the realms and the Five Azarian Rings resurface, David must reclaim his family’s stolen legacy, uncover the truth behind the missing Primordius Heart, and master a power capable of uniting—or destroying—the Seven Dragon Houses. The man Asterion rejected is about to become the Dragon Lord every realm will fear.

BLURB Alex had everything. A father’s name, a company built with his blood, and a home that was supposed to be his forever. Until Victoria came. In 48 hours, his entire world collapsed. His father died. The will left him with nothing. His name was dragged through the news for a fraud he never committed. And the only house left in his name became a trap with cops waiting at the door. He ran hrough empty streets, through the night, through a forest where no one could hear him scream. But running didn’t save him. A group of masked men found him first. When he woke up, he wasn’t dead. He was in a strange room with white walls, bandages on his arms, and two nurses who couldn’t be more different. One was kind, the other, Karina who turned out to be his first harem, looked at him like he was trouble waiting to happen. He was alive because of a man he’d never met. Mr. Giffs. The owner of this place. A man who rescues people “in need.” But nothing in this place is free. “You’re on the run, right?” Karina asks him on the third day, her red hair falling over her face as she sits on the edge of his bed. “Yes.” “Then Mr. Giffs thinks you’ll be fit for the circuit.” “Circuit?” . “The question is… are you willing to draw blood for blood?” Now Alex has a choice. Stay broken and let Victoria win. Or fight back in a world where the only way to survive is to become the very thing that tried to destroy him. A story of betrayal, survival, and revenge. When they take everything from you… how far will you go to take it back?

Ten years ago, Alastor Vikir lost everything in a fire that consumed his family and his home. With nothing but ashes and unanswered questions, he disappeared from the world, training under a master of survival with one singular purpose: find the truth and make someone pay. Now he's back in London, but the city he returns to isn't the one he left behind. Enrolled in university under a false name, Alastor watches over Chloe Everstone—the girl whose family saved his life when he had nothing. But protecting her means navigating a world of wealth, privilege, and secrets he never asked to be part of. Including an arranged marriage to Seraphina Belmond, the sharp-tongued heiress who doesn't even know who he really is. As old memories resurface and new dangers emerge, Alastor realizes the fire that destroyed his life wasn't an accident. And the people responsible? They're still out there. Some truths are buried for a reason. Some fires never stop burning. And some debts can only be paid in blood.