Urbano

Kevin Brooks can see the expiration date of everything, including human lives. When he tries to cheat fate for his best friend, he discovers a terrifying cosmic trade-off: every life extended is a life stolen from someone else. Now, he must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice to play god.

Thirteen of the richest families in Calder Bay owe on debt they can never refuse, and it's sewn into the lining of Ezra Lockwood's coat. Ezra is just a tailors grandson until the night his grandfather is beaten nearly to death and Ezra is framed for it. Now he knows what the old man was hiding. Every family that ruled the city swore a favor to the Lockwood name, and every debt dies the moment Ezra does. His brother has betrayed him. A killer walks the hospital halls. And the ice-cold prosecutor who tried to bury him has one offer left. Marry her before nine. But someone had already cut out the thirteenth panel from his coat, the one stitched with the date his parents died.

I was just a poor man who struggled to give my girlfriend the life she wanted. I worked really hard I even broke my leg in the process due to pressure of loosing her. After working hard to buy her the designer bag she had always dreamed of, she threw it to the ground, humiliated me, and ordered her rich boyfriend to beat me up. But they had no idea who I really was. That same night, I discovered that I was the long-lost heir to the richest billionaire in the world—a man who was also a powerful mafia king. My grandfather took me into his world, where I was trained to become something far more dangerous than the poor, helpless man everyone had once looked down on. I disappeared from the life they knew and returned as a ruthless mafia boss whose name alone could make powerful men tremble. my ex-girlfriend who dumped me , is now back begging me to take her back. they don't know my return is the beginning of their downfall.

Roman Moretti was once the most feared man in the underworld, known as the Hand of Death. Then he fell in love. For his pregnant wife, he abandoned his empire and spent seven years in prison for a crime she committed. But when he finally returned home, expecting to reunite with his family, he discovered his wife had betrayed him, married her former lover, and abandoned their daughter to a life of misery. They thought prison had turned Roman into a nobody. They were wrong. His enemies have forgotten his name, his empire has fallen into the wrong hands, and his daughter has suffered enough. Now, the Hand of Death is back. And this time, anyone who dares to hurt his daughter will pay.

After being brutally betrayed by his ex-wife and left for dead while his mother becomes brain dead, Arthur awakens the Supreme Wealth System and discovers he is the illegitimate son of the world’s most powerful billionaire, setting off on a ruthless path of financial and personal revenge to systematically destroy his enemies.

Thirteen years ago, twelve-year-old Zale Alden walked into his family’s limestone estate to find a slaughterhouse. His parents and older brother lay cold on a blood-soaked Persian rug, brutally executed days after a major corporate expansion. Only his six-year-old sister, Lyra, survived—hidden in a floorboard hollow, catatonic with fear. Taken out of the country by a ruthless family ally, Zale was forged into an elite weapon in the freezing concrete training camps of Montenegro. He learned four languages, mastered corporate law, and trained his body to be a silent, precise executioner. Now, he is back. To his unsuspecting Aunt Vivienne and her powerful husband, Gerald—the corporate snake who secretly signed the execution order—Zale is just a spoiled, clumsy playboy heir returning from an elite Alpine boarding school. He plays the fool flawlessly, offering weak handshakes and empty smiles while counting the security guards in the room. But behind the mask, Zale carries a folded list of names written in his own steady hand. The corporate empire his father built has been stolen, and Zale isn’t here to reclaim it. He is here to eliminate every single soul responsible for the blood on his childhood floor. The countdown has begun, and the first target has no idea he's already dead.

Logan Winston, once the Supreme Commander of the Immortal Guard, sealed his blade six years ago and hides as a humble handyman at the Northern Wind Dojo. He wants only to protect his wife, Clara, even while her family mocks him as a coward. When Senior Brother Elliot forces him into a public match, and the Phantom Monarch closes in on his hidden identity, Logan must choose between his vow of silence and the woman he loves. Will Logan stay silent and let Clara's family humiliate him? How will they react when they discover the man they called a coward is the God of War?

Three years ago, the Whitlocks bought a dying stranger to marry their heiress and carry her curse to the grave. He was supposed to die before their third anniversary. At midnight, he's still breathing. Now the family has a drugged glass of wine, a car waiting by the river and a richer groom ready to take his place. Not one of them knows the man sleeping in their storage closet is Gideon Morrow, the heir to the province's most powerful trust, framed for his father's murder and hunted by the uncle who stole everything. His vow of silence ends tonight. And the people who bought him are about to learn exactly what they paid for.

Tristan, the Commander of the Pyreking Dynasty, hides his power to keep a deathbed promise to his fallen brother. He must protect Douglas's daughter, Chloe, even while her family treats him like a worthless freeloader. When he uncovers a plot to bankrupt her family and force her into marriage, no one believes him. He will expose the schemers, then give her a life no one can take from her.

James Carter spent three years enduring humiliation as the Anderson family’s worthless live-in son-in-law. Silent, mocked, and underestimated, he let everyone believe he was a failure. But when a powerful family suddenly appears and his buried past begins to surface, James decides to stop hiding. The man they treated like nothing is about to become the one who brings the Anderson family to its knees.

The elite of Kingsreach never murder their problems. They ship them to Black Toll, a prison island no one ever returns from. Eight years ago, Nash Redform was drugged on the eve of his wedding and became one of those problems. The order that sold him carried one signature, his fiancee's. He survived the pits, seized the island, and swore he would never go back. Then a new order arrives: a woman and a child, to be drowned on the way. The woman is Elara. The child is the daughter he never knew existed. Now the Drowned King is coming home, and everyone Kingsreach ever buried is coming back with him. But one question haunts him: why did the woman he loved pay to make him disappear?

Seven years ago, Declan Hurst was convicted of murdering his half-brother. Then the prison van carrying him plunged into the river, and the city buried him without a body. Tonight, he walks back into Fairholm Hall carrying a tray of champagne and a secret. He holds the ledger of debt that every family in Brackwell owes. He came only to watch. The he sees the woman who swore he was innocent forced to her knees, about to sign away her six-year-old daughter, a little girl with his grey eyes. One word from Declan can bring the city to its knees. But someone else has been buying up his debts, and that someone knew he was coming home.

On the night of Lucy Fashion's greatest victory, Desmond Bryant watches his wife give his $100,000 bonus to another man. Three years of loyalty. One ten million dollar deal that only he could close. And Lucy sees him as furniture. But Desmond saw this coming. A resignation letter is already in his drawer. The next morning, he walks out of the company and the marriage. Lucy laughs. She is sure he will crawl back by Monday. He never will. Outside, a black car is waiting. Inside sits Alexio, head butler of the Bryant family, carrying the secret Desmond ran from six years ago. His dead grandfather left him a vast empire, but only if he builds a ten million dollar business in one year. He has one million dollars, one empty penthouse, and no help from anyone. If he fails, he loses everything. Desmond hides his name and meets Kris, a talented designer about to be thrown out of her shop. Together, they become dangerous. While men like Thomas and Derek Cole mock them, the top floor of the untouchable Crown Center bows to its hidden owner. In one dinner, Desmond wipes out Kris's debt with a single sentence. Then the dominoes fall. Harold Sinclair, the most powerful distributor on the East Coast, drops Lucy Fashion and signs with Desmond's new brand, Aster. Lucy's IPO is only ninety days away, and her biggest client is gone. But Desmond is not the only one with secrets. Keaton hid the divorce papers. He wants Lucy married, weak, and under his control. And he has just found out who is behind Aster. The clock is ticking. The IPO is coming. And across the street, a tower Lucy does not understand is looking down on hers.

At 2:17 a.m., morgue attendant Kian Mallory unzipped a body bag and found his sister inside. She was still breathing. To the hospital, Kian is a medical school dropout who washes corpses for minimum wage. To the world's richest families, he is Charon, the masked physician whose single visit costs hundreds of millions, and those face no one has ever seen. Someone poisoned his sister with the same black lotus that killed his master and rushed her towards the incinerator before dawn. Now a billionaire dynasty wants her silenced, their private doctor is smiling at him across her bed, and the brilliant rival who once mocked him has started staring at the scar on his wrist. For three years, Kian hid among the dead. But the poison was bait, and by saving his sister, he just told his master's killers exactly where to find him.

When Raymond returns after years of being presumed dead, he saves Deborah Crane from a deadly assassination attempt—only to be met with suspicion, rejection, and the shocking revelation that she is the woman he was long ago promised to marry. Deborah wants nothing to do with the cold, dangerous stranger her father respects so deeply, especially when obsessed suitors like Darlington Hayes and hidden enemies begin closing in on her from all sides. But while Deborah struggles to protect her company, her name, and her freedom, Raymond is fighting a darker war—uncovering the truth behind the massacre that destroyed his family and the forces that now threaten hers. As danger intensifies and secrets unravel, Deborah must decide whether to keep resisting the man she fears, or trust the only man powerful enough to keep her alive.

"Lend me 800 million against the ring." At midnight, Selene Hartwell, Valemont's ice-cold CEO, stumbles into a slum pawnshop in a torn wedding gown. By noon, she must marry the heir who owns her company's debt, or her father goes to prison. The city calls the pawnbroker Rag Mercer, a nobody whose shop will be bulldozed by morning. No one knows that beneath his floor lies the vault, where the world's most powerful families have hidden their darkest secrets for centuries. And no one knows that Gideon Mercer is it's keeper. Her ring carries a ticket her murdered mother paid for twenty-one years ago, binding him to stand beside her until her enemies bow. So he married her. But the keeper has one rule: never use the vault for himself. Now the man who murdered his master wants his key, and the family that pawned him at birth wants him back

In his past life, Lucas Vance was a devoted husband, only to be betrayed, stripped of his dignity, and left to freeze to death in a -60°C global ice age by his ungrateful wife and her greedy family. ​Reborn ninety days before the apocalyptic Great Frost, Lucas wakes up with a powerful cheat: an upgraded Dimensional Sanctuary with infinite, time-frozen storage. ​Cutting ties with his toxic ex-wife and parasites, Lucas liquidates all his assets, takes out millions in loans from unethical lenders, and begins an unprecedented hoarding spree—warehouses of hot food, medical supplies, fuel, weapons, and atmospheric water generators! ​As the temperature plummets and humanity falls into despair, Lucas sits inside his impenetrable high-rise bunker, eating piping hot steak while watching his former abusers beg for mercy in the freezing hellscape. ​A fast-paced, high-satisfaction urban apocalypse story filled with ruthless revenge, infinite hoarding, and absolute dominance!

Once the most powerful man in the world through a mighty system, Richards Smith lost everything—including his memories—after a devastating accident. Seeing him wandering the streets, the wealthy Williams family took him in as a lowly gardener. Over time he married their eldest daughter and became their live-in son-in-law… only to be treated as worthless trash by the entire household. Three years later, a near-fatal head injury restores every forgotten memory. Now he knows the truth: someone tried to erase him from existence. He chooses to stay in the marriage—not only to repay his wife’s quiet kindness, but to hunt down the people who nearly destroyed him.

Synopsis What do you do when the ‘loser’ you divorced comes back as the most powerful man alive? Adrian was the husband Vanessa loved to humiliate — the “loser” she mocked, dumped, and replaced with flashier men. She thought she had made the perfect trade. But when her glittering world begins to shatter in public disgrace, the man she once called worthless reveals a power she never dreamed of. With their daughter’s tears fueling his resolve, Adrian, disappointed in his wife, agrees to divorce her. Little did she know that she had divorced the wrong man. A mistake that will haunt Vanessa forever. Who really is the man she threw away? Can she survive the truth? And how far will he go to make her pay? Strap your seatbelts on. This is going to be one hell of a ride!!!