A Dish Best Served Cold

Elias Cross was only nineteen when his life was stolen. Recruited for a robbery rigged to fail, he was abandoned at the scene as police swarmed, left to take the fall for a crime he didn’t plan. He was served thirty years but Elias refused to settle. Outside, Marcus the man who destroyed his life thrived, convinced his control was absolute but Elias escaped after five years and he returned not as a pawn, but as a storm waiting to strike. A high-stakes hijacking presents the perfect opportunity for the reckoning he’s been planning for years. What Marcus never realized is that the loyalty he demanded could be turned into a weapon. And this time, the one he thought he controlled holds all the cards.

Living a happy life as the heir of the Smith family and the wealthy son-in-law of the Martinez family, Richard's life suddenly takes a sharp turn when he is cheated by his siblings and left without a penny. Stripped of his inheritance, he ends up living a disgraceful life with disdainful in-laws who treat him like trash. Just when he thought his life was over after he was thrown off a cliff, it instead served as the start of his rise back to the top as he wakes up with a mysterious black phone that gives him money as long as he completes missions, unlocking a world once unknown to him, leading him down a path of riches and vengeance!

“I’m not here to stay her bestie, Aiden. I came back to New York to marry her.” Wesley slips a card from his pocket, holding it out like it’s radioactive. “This is me being generous. There’s a hundred thousand dollars loaded on it. Take it. Go home, pack your things, and disappear. I’ll tell everyone you left because life got too hard.” Aiden stares. Not at the money—he could buy a hundred of those cards without blinking—but at the audacity. Because if Wesley knew who he really was… He’d be the one begging to disappear. **** By day, Aiden is the fool. The humble househusband with a dish towel slung over his shoulder, humming as he mops floors, checks the stew, and gets barked at by his in-laws like he’s less than nothing. Everyone thinks he’s soft. Gullible. Replaceable. But by night? He becomes the man the city's richest fear. In a dark room filled with shadows and smoke, he gives orders—orders that no billionaire, no politician, no enemy dares question. They call him sir. But to his wife’s family? He’s still just the broke son-in-law. They don’t know the game they’re playing. Yet.

Ran, is a samurai from the Cliff Village Kingdom. The first two years when he served, his kingdom was overthrown by the rebels led by Garun. A criminal whose very high of level swordsmanship . The government also resisted. But it turns out that the strength of Garun's troops is stronger. So the kingdom fell. Leaving sorrow for the residents of Cliff Village. Ran was devastated because when he fought Garun, he lost. Garun didn't kill Ran. For ten years Ran burned the fire of revenge. During that time he was retrained by Goto so that his swordsmanship would be higher. When Goto felt Ran was strong enough, he allowed Ran to look for Garun. Now, Ran is a ronin, a no-man's samurai with a vengeance.

Finn Rowe’s life was ordinary. For three years, he quietly loved his wife and served her family, earning nothing but ridicule. But one morning, after being framed for infidelity, beaten, and publicly humiliated, he is expelled into the rain, stripped of dignity. Salvation arrives in the form of Darken Blackwell, the most feared man in Valia City and Finn’s long-lost grandfather. Finn learns he is the rightful heir to an empire of unimaginable wealth, but only if he can survive ten dangerous trials. Armed with awakened Auburn Eyes, a mysterious AI assistant named Venus, and unshakable determination, Finn begins a journey of revenge, power, and transformation. From house husband to feared successor, he will challenge elite families, expose betrayals, and rise above all who doubted him.

In the shadows of betrayal, Flynn Grayson loses everything—his wife, his job, his dignity—at the hands of the ruthless Hendrix family. But when a stranger reveals his true identity as Kace Cameron, heir to a vast empire, the discarded ex-military veteran rises from the ashes, armed with secrets from a shadowy military past. Five years later, Kace returns to Manhattan, a trillionaire tycoon with a vendetta. As he infiltrates the Hendrix empire, unearthing corruption tied to stolen weapons and a decade-old scandal at the military camp he served at, St. Maria, the lines between justice and vengeance blur. With enemies closing in and a trail of blood leading to the truth, Kace must decide: reclaim his honor… or destroy them all? Revenge isn’t just sweet—it’s lethal.

He risked everything for the gods. They took everything from him. Avalon was promised peace—a safe life for his family—if he completed one final mission. So he crossed into a forbidden realm, fought monsters beyond imagination, and stole the legendary Ascension Box. But when he returned home... his world was gone. His wife. His children. All murdered. Betrayed by the very gods he served, Avalon was stripped of his power and left to die like a dog. But death was only the beginning. Now, cursed and reborn in the place where gods are forgotten, Kael awakens with a new purpose. He won't beg for mercy. He won’t seek justice. He will bring vengeance. One god at a time.

After three years of hiding his trillionaire identity to play the "perfect husband," Xavier Knight is served divorce papers on his anniversary—only to be picked up in a convoy of Rolls-Royces by the woman who will become his new, more powerful wife. I gave Sarah Miller everything: my time, my heart, and three years of silent service while she climbed the corporate ladder. But on our third anniversary, she didn't bring home a gift; she brought a billionaire suitor and a divorce contract. She called me a "parasite." Her mother called me a "stain." They thought they were throwing away trash. Little did they know, the "delivery boy" they despised was the elusive Chairman of the Sovereign Group. Now, the trial is over. The lion is awake. And Sarah is about to realize that losing me was the most expensive mistake of her life.

In a world where memories are currency, what would you pay to forget... or to remember who you really are? Lyra Vale is a memory-thief-an illegal "shifter" who trades in stolen pasts for clients desperate to forget pain, shame, or secrets. In the gleaming, glass-domed city of Virelia, where the privileged buy perfection and the broken are erased, Lyra has always played by her own rules-until the day she steals a memory that belongs to her. Now hunted by the system she once served and haunted by fragments of a past she doesn't remember choosing to forget, Lyra must unravel a conspiracy that runs deeper than she ever imagined. Because the truth buried in her mind could destroy the city-or set it free. But time is running out. And in Virelia, remembering the wrong thing can get you permanently erased.

For a millennium, Cyprian Vane served as the Warden of the Hollow Gast, the silent protector who kept the Three Realms from dissolving into the void. He was the greatest strategist of the age, yet on the eve of his final victory, he was impaled by a Sun-Spike—a pillar of solidified light driven into his heart by the very immortal Lords he defended. They didn't want the world saved; they wanted it harvested. Cyprian wakes up nineteen years old, kneeling on the Stone of Penitence. It is the day of his Great Scourging, where his half-brother, Thalric, is set to brand him an outcast and seize his inheritance. But this is not the weak boy they remember. Cyprian has returned with the memories of a thousand wars and a hunger for the Ascension of the Marrow. He will not just reclaim his house; he will hunt the Lords of the Empyrean and shatter the throne that treats the world as a slaughterhouse.