Second Chance

“Why, Leticia?” “Because you are a water boy and a lowly janitor. You can never give me what George can.” Those are the words that played over and over in Jake’s head, crushing his heart and soul. Ridiculed, trampled and scoffed upon, none as devastating as the betrayal of the woman he planned on spending the rest of his life with. With his head low and a thick skin, Jake’s rise from ashes is a spectacular sight that puts him on top of the food chain. What will he do when those who tormented him are now at his mercy?

Jack is eighteen, parentless, and invisible to the world. He sleeps under broken bridges, eats when he’s lucky, and survives by staying unnoticed. In a city obsessed with strength and success, Jack is nothing too weak to matter, too poor to be missed. That’s why he’s chosen. One night, Jack is kidnapped and sold into a secret experiment. When he wakes up, reality is gone replaced by a living video game world where stats decide worth, monsters hunt players, and death is permanent.

Ethan Blackwood, once the overlooked son of a powerful family, is betrayed and left for dead by his own kin. In his final moments, a mysterious system activates within him, offering a second chance at life and power. Now reborn with abilities beyond imagination, Ethan embarks on a journey to reclaim his rightful place and exact vengeance on those who wronged him.

Jonathan Wang was a young man from distant lands who ventured to the city of Elite Summit to forge his own destiny. After years of ceaseless toil and dedication, he successfully established a business empire valued in the multi-millions of dollars. Following his triumphant rise, he united in matrimony with one Orla William. Before long, however, his brother-in-law, Harding William, conspired to enact a most unsavory plot involving Adela Kyle - the youngest heiress of a wealthy family. Yet, rather than act upon his own malevolent intentions, he administered an aphrodisiac, leading Jonathan to share the bed with Adela unwittingly. Consequently, Jonathan was wrongfully sentenced to over six and a half years of incarceration on charges of rape. Upon his release, he discovered a truth that cut him to the quick: his child had been sold to the Thomas family by Orla, his wife, who harbored intentions of betrothing another man. This time, emerging from the cold confines of the prison, Jonathan returned with an unshakeable resolve to reclaim what was his and bring the William family to heel, along with the Thomas family, and indeed any house that dared oppose him. For he was now the reigning lord of Top-Sky House: the most formidable alliance in all spheres of commerce, military, and healthcare. He stood unchallenged at the helm, a titan fearing no one!

Jeremy Nicholas a poor young man is hit with the news of his mother's surgery and he struggles to pay the bills by heeding to his manager backbreaking offer but at the end, he is cheated and discovers that his girlfriend, Stephanie who he thought was faithful to him had been cheating on him with his manager. A twist of fate happens when he agrees to a contract marriage offer to Ariel McDonald and walks into a different life from what he is used to. He expects his in-laws to treat him with respect and love but he becomes the garbage where they spew insults and taunt him and his family`s status. Instead of his wife joining hands with him, she encourages her brothers and uncle to turn into a laughing stock. But what happens when Jeremy discovers that he is the sole inheritor to a wealthy business empire? What happens when he discovers that he has a family relative who can turn his fate around? Will he avenge those who ridiculed and taunted him? Find out in “The rise of Jeremy Collins” as you walk through the gripping pages!

Everyone in Chicago thought Keith Cross was nothing—a discarded war hero turned human blood bank for his in-laws. His wife called him a leech, her mother demanded he donate or die, and her new lover promised to "drain him dry." But what they didn’t know? That “worthless freeloader” they mocked… was the Miracle Doctor they’d been desperately begging to save their dying son. “You think you can throw me out like trash?” Keith says with a slow, deadly smirk. “You’ve been living off my charity this entire time.” When Keith flashes his black VIP card, the world shifts. Elite restaurant managers fall to their knees. Security guards bow. And his ex-wife? She drops to the floor, begging for mercy after publicly calling him a busboy in disguise. “You said I was a blood bag,” Keith says, towering over her. “Funny. You never asked whose blood ran this city's veins.” She called him weak. He became untouchable. Now he’s back—to take everything they stole, and leave them gasping in the dust of his name.

“Please… don’t kill me!” My voice trembles as I stare at the two people standing in front of me, my own brother and my wife, the woman I love more than my life. “Why…?” I whisper, my throat dry. My brother smirks and she avoids looking at me, as if I mean nothing to her. That silence… it breaks me more than anything. I step back slowly, but my foot slips near the edge. Panic rises in my chest as I realize where I am the cliff behind me, the darkness waiting below. “No…” I murmur, but it’s too late. A sudden push and I fall. The wind roars in my ears as my body drops into the abyss. Fear grips me, but stronger than fear is the burning betrayal inside me. My eyes shut as darkness swallows everything. They think I die that night But I don’t, I survive and I change. Years pass, and Now I return to the same world but I am no longer that weak man. I am something else… something darker. The city fears my name. The underworld bows before me. Power runs through my veins. Money, influence, control everything is mine now. And I don’t return alone. With a mysterious princess, beautiful yet dangerous, her secrets as dark as my past. She understands me in ways no one ever could. This time, I don’t beg. This time, I don’t fall. Because I am no longer the man they betrayed… I am the nightmare that has returned for revenge.

Julian Ashford spent twenty-six years quietly holding his adoptive family's company together, closing every major deal Halden Corp ever took credit for. Then a stranger named Preston walks in claiming to be Richard Halden's real, biological son, and in a single afternoon Julian is cast out of the house, stripped of his position, and abandoned by his own fiancée. What his family doesn't know is that Julian secretly built Sterling Vale Group, one of the country's most powerful investment firms, entirely hidden from them. When he stops holding Halden Corp up, it starts to fall, and Julian patiently uncovers a scheme by a corporate raider named Elias Marsh to steal the family's most valuable land. But exposing Marsh doesn't end anything. Marsh was never the top of the chain, and the man funding him will not simply disappear. A cornered Preston, desperate and out of options, makes a choice that nearly costs Julian his life. A forgotten branch of the family resurfaces with a legal claim on everything Julian has built back. And once Julian's empire becomes public knowledge, a rival chairman circling for weakness decides Sterling Vale is the next company worth tearing apart. Every time it looks like Julian has finally won, the war gets bigger. Stay tuned for this ride with Julian and the empire nobody knew he built.

'Game on' was quietly launched all over the world, infiltrating all virtual game servers. The game transported humans to a bright new exciting virtual world full of cultivation, mystery, and power. But what people didn't realize was that this game was a training ground,  for the Apocalypse, and not a virtual one, as humans would soon be teleported to this cruel new world, and when that happened, humans would only have one life, unlike in the game, resulting in a situation in which countless humans died because they couldn't stand up to the monstrosities in this new world. Vanya, who had led a sad and feeble existence during the Apocalypse, was sent back in time with all of her memories intact. Follow Vanya's exploits as she uses what she knows about the future to save her brother and other humans from the Apocalypse, as well as to discover why weak humans from Earth were transported to this horrible world known as Pangu world.

Beneath the city's skin, another city breathes. Every soul is a puppet. You just have to find the strings." Detective Davon Deshaun is a man built on rituals and "psychic bricks," trying to fortify his mind against the weight of every unsolved case he carries like a stone in his pocket. But in a city bleeding from a string of brutal murders, the "pattern" is a grim, tightening noose around the precinct’s neck. When a young woman is found mutilated at the upscale club Michelin’s—her body treated like a "twisted work of art"—Davon is thrust into a nightmare he can’t escape. Worse, he’s forced to partner with the only person who can find the cracks in his foundation: his former partner and ex-girlfriend, the cool, professional Claire McGuire. As they navigate the wreckage of their shared history, they are hunted by The Architect—a sadistic mastermind who doesn't just kill, but designs entrapment. Leaving behind charcoal sketches of his future horrors, The Architect is building a "custom-tailored prison" around the detectives themselves. Davon and Claire soon realize they aren't just the investigators. They are the centerpiece of a grotesque exhibition. In a game where the walls are already rising, can they find the man pulling the strings before they become the next "finishing touch"?