Urban

Twenty-four-year-old Lucien Moreau has spent his entire life believing he was the son of an ordinary mechanic. He struggles to survive, works odd jobs, and dreams of giving his sick mother a better life. Then, on the same day she dies, a stranger arrives in a convoy of black Rolls-Royces. He kneels. “Young Master… the Devil has fallen.” Lucien learns his real father was Dante Moreau, the most feared mafia emperor in modern history. A man so powerful that governments negotiated with him instead of fighting him. Twenty years ago, Dante disappeared after being betrayed by the leaders of the world’s Eight Mafia Families. Before dying, Dante hid his only son. Lucien. Now the underworld has found him. Some want him on the throne. Most want him dead before he can claim it.

Framed for a crime he didn’t commit, Chay Patrick sacrificed his freedom to fund his son’s life-saving surgery. Instead, his wealthy in-laws abandoned the boy and handed Chay a fake death certificate. But Chay isn't broken. Discovered in his cell by his real mother, the anonymous founder of the world’s largest conglomerate, he emerges as a billionaire heir. Disguised as a low-level chauffeur, Chay silently watches his enemies celebrate their toxic ascent. He isn't rushing his revenge. He’s waiting for the perfect fall.

2053—The year of Global Famine. The government of UNC locked 81% of the population inside their homes and left them to starve. Officially it was "resource management," but in reality, the rich had sealed the poor and average while keeping themselves free with the last remaining food. Oscar Kingston was one of the locked-up majority, expected to rot quietly in his apartment with the little provisions he had. But he was going to dig himself out of the locked apart. While digging beneath the house he found a large sealed box. Inside was the entire outside world in miniature—every city, every starving street, every collapsing government. Everything happening beyond his walls was happening inside the box. Realizing this, Oscar decided to become God. When the people outside cried for water, Oscar dipped a plastic cap of a Coca-Cola bottle into his last reservoir and dropped it into the center of the miniature world. In the real world, the grounds of the country shook violently. A massive water tank the size of a city block suddenly dropped from heaven in the middle of the dying country. When they cried for rice, he placed one boiled grain of rice on the surface. In reality, the earth buckled again. A hundred-foot mountain of rice crashed down from the sky—enough to feed the entire nation for a month. The survivors fell to their knees in the dust: “What God is doing this? Can you hear us?” “God, what is your name?” “God, how do we worship you?” In the dark of his ruined apartment, Oscar smiled. He would tell them to gather every scrap of gold, food, clothes and every remaining bill they still possessed… and leave it all at Apartment 101, Swamp Estate. That was his address!