Crime

🏆[No.2 "Hard to Put Down" of "The Legendary Urban Man" Contest]🏆 Anthony Star has a dark secret that no one should ever find out, especially his in-laws.Everyday he’s treated worse than an infection by those around him but thanks to his wife he manages. She is his light in this cruel world but in a single day he’s shot, beaten, arrested, almost dies then finds out that his wife is missing!To save her, he returns to his past as a big-shot in the underground crime world and takes his revenge on anyone who has ever wronged him before. Welcome back Mr. Star Dust and if that wasn’t enough, he finds out the truth of who he really is. He is….

In the corrupt heart of New Avalon City, a slum rat named Lucien Kane is born into a world that despises him. Orphaned, beaten, and forgotten, he grows up scavenging scraps in the gutters, dreaming of power. When his only friend is murdered by street thugs working for a powerful crime family, Lucien vows revenge. But vengeance is only the spark. Through manipulation, alliances, and sheer will, he transforms from a street urchin into a calculating criminal mastermind. His rise cuts through bloodlines, corporations, and governments — until he controls everything: drugs, politics, law enforcement, and the hearts of men. But the higher he climbs, the more enemies he creates — and the shadows he commands begin to whisper his downfall. From the gutter to the godfather… from man to myth… this is the empire of shadows.

Once, Matteo Rossi was the right hand of Rome’s most feared crime lord.
Then betrayal turned him into a ghost. Left for dead in a warehouse fire, Matteo crawled out of the ashes with nothing but rage, a new name, and a plan. From the gutters of Naples to the marble towers of Milan, he rebuilds himself smarter, richer, colder. The underworld that buried him will learn that you can’t kill a man who’s already burned. But vengeance isn’t simple. To take back the empire, Matteo must play politician, businessman, and devil at once, outsmarting the Wolves who betrayed him while keeping the crown from turning him into the monster he once served. In a country built on bloodlines and secrets, power is never inherited—it’s taken.

This story is more of a hobby and this is my first time writing so don't expect too much also English isn't my first language. Jason is a 16-year-old boy trying to get through life with a father who expects him to be perfect and a school where everyone kind of hates him and bullies him with the exception of his two friends Jessica and Isaac. When he is falsely accused of beating up a student with the only witness to the crime Jessica his friend testifies against him and is expelled from school. On his way, home feeling betrayed and thinking about how to explain this to his father he is summoned to a dark cave where a being offers for him to become the champion of the Dark One

Sam's depressing life took a turn when an enigmatic old man pulled him to his blinding death. He is reborn in a new body and a system that will guide him to become a great sorcerer. Then things become more exciting for him when he makes a pact with a funny teenage demon. With a wise wizard system on one side and a damned demon whispering on the other, Sam is packed with three souls inside his body. Now, Sam must reclaim legendary wizard spells as well as gather demon essences to become the first and greatest demon sorcerer ever lived. Even with such a grandiose goal, Sam lives his new life in this fantastic world of magic and monsters mischievously and as he pleases. The first crime he committed was kidnapping a fire princess.

Betrayed by his noble fiancée, discarded by his family, and exiled to a slum clinic, Ray Graham discovers that his lifelong “illness” was actually a spell to imprison his true abilities, the powers of the mythical Celestial Healer, a being capable of rewriting fate and resurrecting the dead. As Ray heals the forgotten poor, his miracles draw attention from dangerous enemies… and awaken memories they tried to erase. He uncovers the truth: his ex-wife’s family sealed him as a child and stole his identity to hide a crime so ancient the kingdom nearly fell. When he learns that a catastrophic plague, engineered by his own clan centuries ago, is returning, Ray must decide: Will he save those who betrayed him… or watch the kingdom burn?

He serves time for Venerable Albert, his father inlaw. The deal is for a sum of money, one which he plans to start a new life with. Thus, he leaves his unborn daughter and lovely wife to be jailed for a crime that he didn't commit.  When he returns, the street has been taken over by outbreak of mafia households. Venerable Albert has become one and has given his wife to a colleague in the cooperate crime. When he asks for his money and justice, he was beaten to the point of death and this is when his household reaches him… "Caspian DiMarco, grandson of Matheus DiMarco, son of Sean DiMarco, you are to come to resume your place as head of the DiMarco Conglomerate!" Only then, he knows who he was and who he is born to be - A Baron!

Adanna Cole, a rising star in criminal law, has devoted her career to hunting the powerful crime syndicate that murdered her parents when she was 12. She finally gets her chance when the police arrest Ethan Cross, a charming, enigmatic businessman suspected of laundering money for the very syndicate she’s been chasing. But as she digs deeper, she discovers two dangerous truths: Ethan might be the only man she’s ever truly loved. He might also be guilty. She doesn’t know if he’s her greatest ally… or the enemy she’s been chasing all along. The deeper they go, the more the line between love and betrayal blurs. And in a city built on lies, trusting the wrong person could be the last mistake she ever makes.

Archer, the unapologetically bad son of a crime boss, meets Adele, an innocent girl who he falls in love with. After a drunken mistake, Archer breaks Adele's heart, and she leaves town. Years later, they meet again when Archer offers her a job in his biochemistry company. However, their past is still present as Archer's stepmother and stepsister fight over him, and things escalate when Archer's stepmother is found dead and Adele was arrested for drug-related charges. As tensions rise, Archer must navigate his family's criminal ties and his complicated past with Adele. Will she forgive his blood ties to a criminal empire, his part in her brother's death, and his whoring past which involved his step-sister and step-mother? Find out in this thrilling and steamy saga!

Zarek Voss was executed for a crime he didn’t commit—framed by the elites, erased like trash. But death didn’t end him. He awakens inside the System Nexus, a god-level terminal only legends speak of. A voice welcomes him: “Welcome, Glitch Protocol Activated. All limits removed.” Now reborn in a brutal world ruled by System-born tyrants, Zarek isn't a player in the game. He’s the God rewriting it. With the Godroot Core, he can steal skills, reroute power, erase bloodlines, and even crash the entire system’s rules. He’s hunted by factions, feared by immortals, and followed by rebels who whisper: “He’s not chosen. He’s the error that will end it all.” Zarek will not just level up— He will ascend. Or destroy the System trying.