Urban

Framed for a crime he never committed, Alfred Hughes lost his name, his freedom, and the wife he loved, all in a single night. Four years later, he returns as the God of War, the most feared commander the city has ever known. But the woman he once called his wife is walking down the aisle to marry another man. He'll reclaim his wife, his son, and everything the Williams family stole from him and this time, no one will stop him.

Ezra Mahardika thought his 'Fin-Intelligence' AI for goldfish was a joke. Suthira Khem, the nation's most ruthless billionaire, thought it was worth $100 million—and his soul. Now Ezra is trapped in a corporate game of high-stakes lust and absurd business logic where his boss knows more about him than he knows about himself. In this startup, the dividends are heavy, the hours are long, and the merger is mandatory.

Caelen Blacksew gives everything to the sea, four weeks offshore, every paycheck wired home to the wife he thinks he's building a life with. She tells him she can't be touched, not while her career's on the line. What she doesn't say is who else gets to touch it instead. He walks in on the truth two days early. Fists first, questions after, and she looks him dead in the eye and asks why he'd dare hit her manager. He doesn't rage. He buys the company that made her. Now he owns her career, her manager's next move, and a war much bigger than one broken marriage. The only question left is how far he'll let himself go to win it, and who he'll lose along the way. He came home a provider. He's about to become the most dangerous man in Miami.

Marcus Kane spent three years as the Sinclair family's favorite punchline... the son-in-law with no job, no title, and apparently no use. When Gerald Sinclair finally forces the divorce through, the family celebrates like they've cut off a dead limb. They should have checked who owns the building they celebrated in. Marcus isn't unemployed. He's Meridian Holdings, the anonymous company that has spent a decade quietly buying up everything the Sinclairs depend on, and, as of eleven days ago, the controlling stake in Sinclair Group itself. He never wanted a war. He wanted them to stop needing him to be small. Now that they've made their choice, he's done pretending he doesn't have one of his own. One asset at a time, the headquarters lease, the country club, the merger meant to save them...Marcus takes back what was always his, all while sitting through Sunday dinners in the same worn jacket, letting them talk over him like furniture. Every man who thought he could take a piece of Marcus's world for free is about to learn there was always a silent owner in the room. He didn't come back to be loved. He came back to collect.

Nathaniel "Nate" Cole once designed skylines. Now he guards one at night, a security badge instead of a license, after his partner Preston Vale framed him for a bribe he never took and stole both his practice and his name. Working nights in the Meridian, the Atlanta tower Vale built from Nate's own blueprints, Nate discovers a floor that officially doesn't exist: a concrete corridor carved with binding runes, sealed behind a steel door that knows his name. Vale finally confesses the truth. The tower isn't just a building. It's a cage, built over a century-old tomb, designed with ancient containment architecture to hold something that has been quietly waking for eighteen months, feeding on the fear of every tenant who has died, vanished, or fled since the day it opened. The entity behind the door, the Hollow Word, has been shaping Nate's life far longer than eighteen months. It orchestrated the bribery charge that ruined him, steered him back to the one building only he can unlock, and now holds his younger brother Eli as leverage, offering Nate power, vindication, and revenge against everyone who ever wronged him, in exchange for one thing: help it walk free. With his brother's life on the line, a retired professor's fragments of the closure ritual, and a partner who refuses to let him go in alone, Nate must descend through the tower's hidden maze toward the tomb beneath its foundation. What waits there rewrites everything he believed about his own bloodline and why the Meridian chose him from the very beginning. Closing the door will cost him something he can never get back. Refusing costs everyone else absolutely everything he has left.

Felix Weaver was the last Archmage, a legendary wizard who sacrificed his life to seal away the Demon King. However, instead of dying, he awoke in the body of Kaelan Garrison—a genius college student who was murdered after being betrayed by the woman he loved and his own stepbrother. Now, with a fraction of his Mana Core remaining, Felix will reclaim his power, crush the traitors, and take back the stolen Garrison family inheritance. They thought Kaelan was dead. What returned... was the last Archmage.

Eryndra Maheswara was once the king of the business world until those he loved most tore his heart out and left him for dead. Now, back from the grave with five years of future knowledge, he won't just reclaim his throne—he'll burn down everything his enemies built. But as he navigates the cutthroat streets of the city, the untouchable Livia Arundhati becomes a variable he never expected, sparking a dark passion that threatens to consume his cold logic. In a game of power and lust, Eryndra must decide if his vengeance is worth the price of his soul.

Daffa Wicaksana is an overworked analyst whose only dream is to survive another Monday. Clarisse Bautista is the icy, high-maintenance VP who needs a fiancé to save her corporate empire. When an elevator malfunction turns into a scandalous HR nightmare, a contract is born: Daffa gets the money to save his family, and Clarisse gets her fake husband. But as the lines between corporate strategy and carnal desire blur, Daffa discovers that the most dangerous part of his job isn't the overtime—it's the woman he's sharing a bed with.