A Beta Before An Alpha

Taking place in Indonesia, Night Before Friday tells the story of Aji Saputra and his encounter with a Kuntilanak, one of the Indonesian supernatural creatures called Demit.

“You cheated on me, Sasha. You’re leaving me for him... just because I’m poor.” Lewis Reynolds is just an ordinary university student—broke, looked down on, and heartbroken. After being betrayed by the girl he loved and humiliated by his classmates, life hits him harder than ever. But just when everything seems to fall apart, an unexpected truth changes his fate. What if the boy everyone mocked is about to become the man no one can ignore? From rock bottom to rising power, follow Lewis's journey from rejected and broke… to unstoppable. “To the girl who betrayed me, and to everyone who laughed—I’ll make sure you regret it.”

After almost ten years of an epidemic that destroyed the balance of the world, now there was a new virus that had started to attack plants. The impact was that anyone who consumed the plant will die in just a matter of minutes. Ethan was a young man, the grandson of one of the most respected breeders in the district, who had thoughts on how to stop the virus outbreak which continued to reduce the population of living creatures in a crazy way before the year 3333 came. Until finally, he carried out a test on a substance that he had just obtained from the center of a very, very damp and scary forest. But the problem now was, no one wanted to believe Ethan, he was even considered crazy by some of the people living in the district. Ethan, who really wanted to convince everyone that his research had been successful, injected this substance into his body, and suddenly all the unreasonable things began.

Soren Whitaker gave everything to his wife's family. He worked for them. Protected them. Risked his life for them. When the apocalypse turned the world into a wasteland, he thought the Harringtons would finally see him as family. He was wrong. When their supplies ran low, they traded his life for the resources they needed. Soren died knowing the people he had sacrificed everything for had never valued him. Then he opened his eyes. Three months before the apocalypse. With the memories of his first life intact, Soren refuses to repeat the same mistakes. He cuts ties with the Harringtons, abandons the man they once controlled, and begins preparing for the end of the world. But this time, fate gives him something he never possessed before. A mysterious spatial ability. With an endless storage space, Soren begins stockpiling everything he will need to survive the coming apocalypse. Food, medicine, equipment, and resources disappear into a space no one else can access. He knows when the apocalypse will begin. He knows what will happen. He knows who will betray him. Or at least, he thought he did. The future begins changing. Disasters arrive earlier than expected. Someone else appears to know what is coming. Strange messages reveal secrets about Soren's death, while something mysterious waits inside his spatial ability. And the Harringtons, who once traded his life for supplies, are coming for him again. This time, Soren won't be their sacrifice. He'll be the one deciding who survives.

Three years ago, Adrian Cross vanished rather than stand trial for a double murder on Ashford Street, a crime he swears he never committed. He has spent every year since running, until a four-word anonymous letter, He knows you're alive, pulls him back before dawn, straight into a second crime scene staged with details from Ashford Street that were never made public. Journalist Elena Marlowe catches the connection first and starts digging, aided by her forensic-science friend Maya Bennett, uncovering a pattern of buried, near-identical crimes stretching back years. Detective Marcus Hale, who built the original case against Adrian, finds his own certainty cracking, even as his chief demands the case close fast and stay closed. Adrian's brother Noah guards a secret bought at a terrible price, one tied to a name absent from every file: Elias Voss. Businessman Victor Raines, long suspected, may actually be the next target, not the mastermind. As Elena and Adrian's paths collide and betrayals surface among those meant to protect him, they must expose a killer always one move ahead, before the next body falls, and before dawn reveals a truth that could destroy them all.

Some bloodlines carry legacy. His carries a debt. Kael returns home after a decade of exile to find his village in flames and his family marked by something ancient and hungry. He puts down the monsters alone. He slips away before anyone can ask how. But the past doesn't stay buried. And the shadows following House Varek are older than anyone alive can remember. To survive, Kael must fight his way back to a name worth carrying. But the deeper he goes, the more one question burns through everything else — Why are the gods everyone fears nothing more than the first lessons he was taught?

He died in the ice, carved up by the wife he'd fed for nine years while her lover held the bowl. Lin Chen gave the Su family everything: his money, his parents' house, his body scavenging through a frozen world. His reward was learning that the son he raised belonged to another man, and that he was only ever useful. Then he opens his eyes 92 days before the storm, pen in hand, about to sign the loan that started it all. This time, he tears it up. With his memory of the disaster, a mysterious pendant that hides a space of its own, and a set of lottery numbers burned into his mind, Lin Chen cuts the family loose, wins half a billion dollars, and buys the mansion directly across from theirs. Now he'll stockpile a world's worth of supplies, watch the Sus beg at his door, and decide who deserves a place in the shelter and who gets left in the cold. But the pendant wasn't made by chance. Someone chose him. And he may not be the only one who came back. Revenge is only the beginning.

"Drink up, brother," they said, passing me the poisoned wine. In my first life, I was the fool who conquered an empire only to hand it to my family on a silver platter. My reward? A silver goblet laced with nightshade, a dagger between my ribs, and the sound of my own brothers laughing as I choked on my own blood. They seized my throne, slaughtered my loyalists, and completely erased my legacy. Then, I blinked. I wasn't lying on the cold stone floor of a locked treasury. I was standing in the middle of the Grand Pavilion, ten years earlier, holding the exact same golden chalice. Julian was right next to me, patting my shoulder with his fake, loving smile. The universe had hit rewind. My body is ten years younger. My vast mana pools are gone, reduced to a flickering spark. I am physically a weak, untrained prince surrounded by apex predators. But I remember everything. Every hidden treasure, every forbidden spell, every upcoming disaster, and exactly how each of my brothers breathes. They think I am still their naive, easily manipulated pawn. They have no idea that the gentle prince died in that treasury—and a monster woke up in his place. I’m not going to fight them for this rotting kingdom. I'm going to let them starve. I will cross into the forbidden lands, awaken a dark system, and build an empire so terrifying it will swallow theirs whole. My name is Kaelen. They wanted my throne, but they will drown in their own blood to reach it.

I gave her everything. She gave me a grave. Jayden Cole died exactly the way he lived: sacrificing everything for the people he cared about. His girlfriend, Lilly. His best friend, Kyle. He gave them his loyalty, his resources, and ultimately, his life. But when the horde came knocking, they were the ones who unbolted the door and let the nightmare in. Then, he woke up. It was the same city, the same girlfriend, and the same best friend, smiling at him as if nothing was wrong because, for now, nothing was. Not this time. This time, Jayden isn't going into the fray empty-handed. While the rest of the world sleepwalks toward the coming outbreak, he’s quietly building an empire in the shadows, stockpiling supplies, securing safehouses, and amassing a fortune no one knows about. And when the system finally triggers, granting everyone the powers they need to survive the dead, his gift is different. He didn't get fire. He didn't get ice. He got the truth. Every lie, every ulterior motive, every mask Lilly and Kyle wear, he sees right through them. And the more his rage builds, the stronger he grows. All he has to do now is wait. They betrayed him once and called it survival. This time, he’s going to make sure they regret ever being born.

Ryan Calloway died betrayed by the woman he loved, abandoned to a world overrun by the dead. But death wasn't the end. He woke up thirty days before the zombie apocalypse, with his memories intact and his grandfather's mysterious pocket watch granting him access to an enormous storage dimension. This time, he won't make the same mistakes. With the world blissfully unaware of its impending doom, Ryan begins stockpiling food, weapons, medicine, and fuel while turning his home into an impenetrable fortress. He'll save his father, protect those who deserve it, and make sure the people who betrayed him never get a second chance to hurt him. Thirty days later, civilization collapses. The dead are coming. The living are worse. And Ryan Calloway is ready to make them all regret underestimating him.