Protective

Two centuries after the Echo Collapse tore reality apart, fractured versions of people Echoes walk the earth, each a distorted reflection of who they once were. Memories can be stolen, rewritten, or weaponized. In the city of Korr Vale, survival depends on knowing which version of someone you’re dealing with… and whether it’s even really them. Dren Auren is one of the rare few born with the ability to resist full Echo corruption though it comes at a cost. Haunted by unstable flashes of lives he never lived, he works as a rogue operative, hunting dangerous Echoes for the highest bidder. But when a failed mission draws the attention of Echo Prime, a godlike Echo claiming to be Dren’s own future self, his life fractures beyond repair. Echo Prime’s plan is simple: fuse every version of Dren across the timelines into a single, “perfect” being. The process will annihilate all other selves including the Dren who stands in his way. Dren’s only hope is Veyna, a resourceful fighter with secrets of her own secrets that tie her fate to his in ways neither of them understand. Together, they must navigate a city riddled with political betrayals, memory storms, and Echo-controlled territories, racing toward the Breach the tear in reality where the war began. But the closer they get, the more Dren begins to question who the real enemy is. Is Echo Prime just another fractured soul fighting for survival… or is he the only version of Dren willing to do what’s necessary to save them all? In a world where identity can be stolen and love may not belong to the person you think, The Echo War asks one question: If you could destroy every version of yourself except one… would you?

After being fatally struck on the head and presumed dead, Zach awakens in the morgue—alive and puzzled. Instead of relief, his wife is horrified by his strange awake and demands a divorce. Despite years of sacrifice to give her the life she wanted, she tosses him aside without remorse. Hurt by betrayal and grieving his mother’s death while his sister remains in danger, Zach feels his world collapsing—until a mysterious, stunning woman appears, claiming he is the lost leader of the country’s most powerful organization. Thrust into a life of unimaginable wealth and influence, Zach discovers the true extent of his power. No longer the man they once discarded, he sets his sights on vengeance. The people who wronged him and his loved ones will now be the ones begging for mercy in hot tears.

Suddenly appearing in a different world, it looks like I got caught up in a Hero Summoning. And of course, I’m not the Hero, but it’s another guy……and while being very cautious and scared of the cliche-like development, I was thrown into the maelstrom of war……or not. The Demon Lord? It was defeated a thousand years ago. Hero? He’s just the main actor in a festival. Nobles? They’re kindly taking care of us. The Demon Race? They have good relationships with Humans. Wars? It’s already 800 years since the last one. Monsters? The Guild and Order of Knight are taking care of them. Return to Earth? It is eventually No-Risk. What I’m planning after being caught up into this? I’m gonna enjoy the life in a different world as much as I want to, go on a cultural exchange and sightseeing, and after experiencing the festival that is only held once every ten years……I shall go home safely. The other world was――at Peace. A kind world where the three races, the Demon Realm’s Demons, the God Realm’s Gods, the Human Realm’s Humans, they are kind neighbors to each other, with everyone living a peaceful and fulfilling life. But although I wished to peacefully spend a year before my return, for some reason, the heavyweights of this world keeps gathering around me....

Ethan Cross was no ordinary mercenary. Beneath his skin, something ancient lurked — a fragment of divinity long thought destroyed. He was Aurelian, the Warlord of the Sun, a god exiled from Heaven for daring to defy the divine order. Now reborn as a man, he has no knowledge of his pasty life, his power sealed across six celestial locks, he walks the human world as both weapon and curse. But when a mafia heiress named Elena Vitale saves him from the brink of death, everything changes. In her eyes, he sees the spark he lost — compassion. Humanity. And something dangerous: faith. He was ready to endure anything for her, including the degradation and humiliation her family put him through until he could take it no more and when all six locks sealing his powers were broken, his memory returned, he decided to fight the world back with his divinity and power.

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!!!

BLURB Alexander Morello has mastered the art of surviving in silence—until survival means swallowing one humiliation too many. At Winston College, he's the outcast, the charity case, the punching bag for Paxton Jennings, the school's golden quarterback. But when a cruel assault on his dignity crosses the line, something in Alexander begins to crack.

Kelvin Hughes, a brilliant but jaded young spy, is sent on a dangerous mission to dismantle the powerful drug empire of Victor Alonso. What begins as a simple infiltration spirals into a deadly game of deception and survival when Kelvin discovers that his own agency has betrayed him. Hunted by his enemies and his allies, Kelvin must uncover a web of corruption that reaches the highest levels of government. As he navigates this treacherous world, Kelvin finds an unlikely connection with Maria, a mysterious woman tied to Alonso’s syndicate. But when Maria’s true loyalties are revealed, Kelvin is left questioning everything and everyone he thought he could trust. With the agency’s top operatives hunting him down, a dangerous romance brewing, and a mastermind known only as "The Architect" pulling the strings, Kelvin races against time to expose the truth. Along the way, he uncovers shocking secrets about his family’s history, forcing him to confront his past while fighting for his future. In a world where betrayal lurks in every shadow, can Kelvin survive long enough to bring the real villains to justice? Or will he become just another pawn in a deadly game?

Jason Moretti was never meant to inherit his father’s empire. Abandoned, humiliated, and branded a disgrace to the Moretti Mafia bloodline, Jason walked away from the underworld, until betrayal, bloodshed, and the kidnapping of the woman he loves pulled him back into the shadows. In a desperate bid to save Valentina Russo, the fierce daughter of a rival Mafia family, Jason uncovers a dangerous secret: his father wasn’t just a Mafia kingpin, he was one of seven Gatekeepers of an elite global syndicate known as The Raven Circle, a secret society that manipulates governments, wealth, and war from the shadows. Now, Jason is caught in a game of power older than the Mafia itself, where allies can’t be trusted, enemies wear familiar faces, and love might be his only weakness. As he builds a covert rebellion with the help of Eva Russo, a rogue assassin and Valentina’s estranged sister Jason must fight to unravel a web of lies, bloodline secrets, and elite betrayal. With each mission, he rises from pawn to leader… from outcast to legend. But when a devastating betrayal comes from within his own crew, Jason must make a final choice: Rule the empire that destroyed him… or burn it all to protect the ones he loves.

When his daughter Aurora drowned seven months ago, Mateo Cross felt he lost her. Now his other daughter Ivy claims that something visits her bedroom precisely at 3:33 AM. The same thing that took her sister. Mateo finds a spiral inscribed on the wall behind Ivy's bedroom and hears of Ashwick Hollow, a haunted village that offers one child as A sacrifice every seven years, he realizes Aurora did not drown by accident. She was taken. And Ivy now comes next. Mateo has to enter the Veil, a nightmare world where 48 kidnapped souls are imprisoned and an ages-old monster, in order to rescue his daughter. The starving mother longs one more. The truth is, though, the further he descends seven layers of psychological purgatory: the only means to spare them all is to give up something much worse than his life. What would you do to save your child? Would you pay it if the cost was erasing yourself from their memory forever?

Waking up mysteriously in a morgue, Carl Gerald is slapped in the face with a divorce from his wife Tiffany Raymond, a woman he had given his whole life to after suffering from Amnesia. As if that wasn't enough his mom is killed and burnt alive by a notorious assassin group and his sister adopted the same night Tiffany Raymond divorced him. Now that Carl Gerald knows who he really is, he is on a mission to protect his sister and his family, and to find all those who obilerated his family and send everyone who had ever disdained and humiliated him to a watery grave.