Crime

In Halcyon, every crime hides a code. Adrian Cross, a disgraced cryptanalyst, wanted nothing more than to fade into obscurity. But when a string of murders leaves cryptic puzzles etched into the city’s walls, he’s pulled into a deadly game only he can solve. Partnered with Detective Iris Navarro, Adrian unravels a web of secrets spanning law enforcement, corporate power, and his own past. Each cipher cracked saves a life—but also reveals another victim. As the bodies pile up and the codes point closer to Adrian’s family, he realizes the truth: The city itself is a message. And decoding it may cost him everything. In Halcyon, knowledge isn’t just power—it’s survival.

"Indeed, It Was A Crime Falling In Love With You." Eddie Maxwell left his father who he never realized was one of the wealthiest men in the world to follow his love, Clara. Helped her and her family undercover to rise in fame but instead, the credits were given to someone else and as they blew up in fame, they began to treat him as a piece of thrash finally, he was divorced from someone that Clara described as a real man. Unknown to them, he was the underrated sovereign, vast in deep and dark medical knowledge held only by two persons in the world and with martial acts skills that could not be compared to any. And with his father's wealth, he is ready to make a deadly comeback like never before. But some secrets locked around his past that must be uncovered.

He spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, taking the fall for his fiancée's brother to protect her family's reputation. He sacrificed his youth, his future, and a promising medical career, leaving his blind mother in their care. But it was all a lie. While he rotted behind bars, his mother was abused and cast out. The woman he loved betrayed him and chose his greatest enemy. Everything he sacrificed was repaid with cruelty. Now he's back. No longer the naive man they deceived, but the Divine Healer whose name shakes both the medical world and the underworld. This time, those who betrayed him won't be asking for forgiveness. They'll be begging for mercy.

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?

In Aurex, the rich rule, the poor kneel and omegas are disposable. Eren McPherson is a servant from the Lower Academy, forced to serve the most powerful elites. Betrayed, framed, and executed for a crime he never committed, his life should have ended in the dirt. Instead, he awakens with a forbidden system. A system that turns desire into wealth… obsession into power… and beautiful women into living assets. From seductive nobles and dangerous professors to icy heiresses and ruthless warladies, every bond he forms makes him richer, stronger, and more untouchable. The elites want to own him. The city wants to control him. And the women… want him. He refuses them all. Because this time, the omega won’t serve. He will buy the world instead.

Alois died in the summer of his 29th year. As a crime lord. But before he knew it, he had been transported back to the summer of ten years ago. To the very day he was forced into his father's underworld empire. The day he took his first step toward becoming a kingpin. He's had enough of that life, but those around him won't let him off the hook. The government's schemes, personal egos, and a thirst for wealth and power all toss Alois about. And standing in Alois's way is Felix, a federal investigator who pursues justice. Alois rises through the underworld to find peace, while Felix continues to pursue him. "I'll win that peace no matter what!"

Elias Cross wanted nothing more than to disappear. Once the city’s most brilliant forensic architect, he vanished after a scandal that destroyed his career. But when an old friend turns up dead — and the body is staged inside one of Elias’s abandoned designs — he’s pulled back into a world he swore he’d left behind. Each crime scene is a building. Each building is a clue. Each clue points to an impossible blueprint for the city’s destruction. With only a reckless journalist and a washed-up detective by his side, Elias must outwit a ghostly mastermind known only as The Mason. But as the city becomes a maze of deadly puzzles, Elias discovers the final design isn’t about buildings. It’s about him.

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.