After Death

They assured us that memory would be our salvation. But they never asked at what cost. In the forgotten corner of Dustlight, where broken memories slumber beneath the dust, black market archivist Jacob Wilder uncovers a piece that cannot be. It holds voices that have been dead for centuries. It remembers his name. And it awakens something older than any Archive document—one older than the end of civilization. As Jacob partners with a bizarre kid and a former colleague turned skeptic, he must confront a truth long surgically removed from books: memory is not a tool. It is an essential force. And it wants to be free.

Three years after the exorcism of Asmodeus in the isle of mists, Alastair and Cara returns to a peaceful Elderien, free of all troubles. But when the king of the North mounts his army to conquer the world, Alastair realizes that peace is an illusion. Once again, the Grand Mage must take to arms and go extra miles to protect those he loves.

Professor Caelen Voss used to save lives on the operating table. Now, stripped of his medical license after exposing a high-profile hospital conspiracy, he spends his days lecturing cynical academy students—until a strange rift tears through reality, replacing Earth with a ruthless, high-stakes alternate universe. In this new world, status is determined by "Life-Span Currency," and a neon-red Death Countdown floats above every human's forehead. Worse yet? Caelen’s clock is ticking down from 23:59:59. When an arrogant elite doctor attempts to publicly humiliate Caelen and steal his rare patient case, Caelen’s dormant forensic system unlocks a hidden cheat: Death Reverse Diagnosis. By exposing the hidden causes of pending deaths and publicly face-slapping corrupt medical tyrants, he steals their remaining years for himself. To survive the countdown, Caelen must navigate deadly academy politics, outsmart lethal assassins, and unravel the dark mystery behind the world's expiration date—one stolen hour at a time.

After years of war, legendary commander discovers that he has a young daughter, and she has been kidnapped for an illegal heart transplant. Racing against time, he returns to his hometown, determined to destroy everyone standing between him and his child.

After surviving twenty-six years of an apocalypse, a ruthless assassin mysteriously returns to 3027. Armed with memories of the future and a desperate determination to save his younger brother, Killian refuses to let history repeat itself. Using his knowledge of evolution, extraordinary abilities, and impending disasters, Killian establishes an organization destined to become a formidable force in the apocalypse. As his power grows, the line between protector and monster begins to disappear. To save those he treasures, Killian is willing to become humanity's greatest nightmare. But the apocalypse is only the beginning. Beyond the endless hordes of zombies and mutated beasts, terrifying rulers are awakening, and the future Killian remembers is already changing. ━━━━━━ ✦ ━━━━━━ Every victory demands a sacrifice, every decision carries consequences, and even his knowledge cannot guarantee survival. He conquered death to rewrite his destiny—but can he save the people he loves?

Three weeks after his death, Adrian awakens inside a digital simulation with only the memories of a life he knows was his own. He remembers his apartment, his job, his best friend and the night everything went dark. What he doesn’t remember is dying. He expects answers. Instead, he discovers the impossible. His biological body is dead, his funeral has already taken place, and the person standing before the scientists is not the original Adrian Vale. He is a digital reconstruction. Created by Veyron Continuum, Adrian was never meant to exist beyond the company’s experiment. He was supposed to hand over the research stored within his consciousness and then be reset. Now Adrian has only three hours before Veyron deletes him. He escapes into a restricted network and contacts Daniel Reed, his best friend, who struggles to accept that the voice on the other end of the connection belongs to Adrian. Then Veyron offers Daniel five million dollars to help them track him down. Daniel has no idea that the device they give him is more than just a tracking tool. It’s a trap. When Adrian fights his way through the trap, he gains control of a physical device connected to Veyron’s network. But his escape creates a new problem. Deep within Veyron’s facility, another consciousness awakens. Another Adrian, another set of memories and this one believes he is the original. Now Adrian must uncover the truth behind his death, expose the company that claims to own his mind, and prove that he is more than a copy before Veyron finds a way to erase him forever.

When my daughter, Lila Haye, was declared brain-dead, my wife, Emma Hayes, urged me to consent to organ donation. Consumed by sorrow and struggling to cope, I uncovered a devastating secret: Blake Thompson, Lila’s attending physician, was Emma’s ex-lover. They had lied about Lila’s true state to coerce me into signing the consent form, intending to save Blake’s own daughter, Sophia. The sight of Emma lovingly holding Sophia while appearing like a perfect family shattered me. In a rage, I confronted them, only to be pushed from a building, resulting in my death. However, I was mysteriously given another chance, finding myself back on the day of the consent signing. As I gazed at Lila lying in the hospital bed, I vowed silently that this time, I would ensure both Emma and Blake faced the consequences for their betrayal.

Ethan Moore spent ten years being the perfect husband. He worked sixteen hour shifts so his wife Claire could carry designer bags. He paid off his mother in law's credit card debt four times. He covered his brother in law's DUI lawyers, his daughter's private school tuition, and every vacation, every spa trip, every brunch bill that his family racked up without ever once saying thank you. And when he lay dying in a hospital bed with three cracked ribs and a punctured lung, not one of them held his hand. "I called the insurance company this morning. The payout is $750,000, but with the accidental clause, it bumps to 1.2 million." His wife crossed her legs and scrolled through her phone without looking at him once. "What about the stock options from his company? Those vest on death, don't they?" His mother in law leaned against the doorframe with her arms folded. And then his daughter, the girl he carried on his shoulders at county fairs, the girl he stayed up with during thunderstorms, looked up from her phone and said the words that stopped his heart. "You know he's not even my real dad, right? I just want to know if I still get stuff. I really need a new phone." He woke up three years in the past with every memory of his deathbed burned into his brain and a system that returned every dollar he spent tenfold. The man who once apologized to a waiter for sending back cold soup now buys $400,000 suits without blinking. The man who skipped his own father's funeral because his wife said they couldn't afford the flight now carries $20 million in his back pocket. The pushover is dead. And the people who killed him don't even know he's coming.

At 11:57 p.m., every adult in Meridian City receives a countdown. When it reaches zero, the implanted System will stop their heart. Completing assigned missions earns time. Failing them costs it. A privileged few seem to have centuries. Everyone else has hours. Elias Venn has spent years hauling injured people out of the city’s condemned districts. He knows how to save lives without asking whether the patient deserves it. Then someone empties his time account while he is carrying a stranger to safety. With barely three minutes left to live, Elias accepts a hunter contract and learns a terrifying rule: the System pays more for a confirmed kill than a living capture. His first target holds evidence that time can be stolen from registered citizens. Worse, the theft is tied to Mara, Elias’s younger sister, whose own countdown has begun to collapse. Each level Elias gains opens a new route through a city divided into lethal missions, restricted districts, hunter rankings, and hidden administrative permissions. But greater strength brings greater temptation: he can buy time for Mara only by risking his own life—or taking it from someone else. An ex-System auditor named Tessa Rook offers him access to the records everyone wants destroyed. She distrusts hunters, and Elias has every reason to distrust the institution she once served. Their uneasy partnership deepens as they uncover a chain of contracts leading toward the people who designed the countdown. When a new mission appears offering Elias the hours he desperately needs, its target is not a criminal. The name on the execution order is someone he swore he would protect. And the System has already started the timer.

They thought the past was dead. They were wrong. When Dr. Adrian Cole discovers an extinct plant growing in the forest outside Evergreen City, he knows something impossible is happening. But the plant is only the beginning. Soon, creatures that vanished thousands of years ago begin returning, and a terrifying warning left behind by his father reveals that the danger will grow worse under the full moon. Nobody believes Adrian. Not the authorities, not the scientists, and certainly not the people who think his father's experiments were nothing but madness. With time running out, Adrian joins forces with four teenagers who share his passion for science. Their search for answers leads them to a restricted scientific archive, missing research pages, and a secret powerful enough to change everything they know about the past. Their only hope lies in an unfinished time machine and the truth behind his father's mysterious disappearance. But as the creatures grow more aggressive and Evergreen City edges toward destruction, Adrian discovers that the past has secrets no one was meant to uncover. To save humanity, he must finish what his father started before the world he knows becomes extinct.