Brett Hand Inside Job

Ravenswood Boarding High School was a place where Axel Vega never felt safe. At seventeen, he was always the target, mocked and pushed aside by those around him. Every day felt like a battle he could never win. But one night, something strange happened. A sickness spread through the halls, and the once familiar faces of classmates and teachers turned into something terrifying. The school that had always been cruel to him became even darker, and Axel found himself in the middle of it. Now, trapped inside with no way out, everyone was desperate. Whispers of hope pointed at Axel, the boy no one ever cared about before. For the first time, the same people who once hated him now looked to him for help. But why him? And when the moment comes, will Axel help them… or let them suffer?

They betrayed him. He sacrificed everything to save the woman he loved, only to be thrown to the zombies by the very people he rescued. He died. But death wasn't the end. It was his awakening. Reborn as the world's first Zombie King, Chase Ryder discovers an evolution system fueled by crystal cores hidden inside powerful beings. Every battle makes him stronger. Every enemy becomes another step toward absolute power. As humanity fights to survive the apocalypse, Chase walks a far darker path—commanding the undead, evolving beyond human limits, and uncovering the terrifying truth behind the Blood Moon. The woman who betrayed him thinks he's dead. Soon she'll learn that some monsters never forget. And the king of zombies has come to reclaim everything she stole.

BLURB My Blood Debt System They beat him half to death in an alley over his father’s old debts then the system triggered. Cole Trenton has seven days to save his dying mother, and no way to pay the hospital bill. Bound to a cursed, blood-tied Debt System, he can claim every credit, every memory, every ounce of life owed to him… but every use burns him from the inside out. Ruthless crime lord Cade Morrow killed Cole’s father to steal the system’s core power. Now he holds Cole’s mother hostage, and will stop at nothing to complete the merge and become immortal. But Morrow doesn’t know the truth: the system answers only to Trenton blood. And Cole carries a secret heritage no one sees coming.

Jax Cole died like trash. In the end of the world, he worked like a dog for his wife's family. He found food for them. He fought monsters for them. He bled for them. And they killed him. They tied his hands and gave him to a group of raiders for two bags of rice. He died with hate in his heart. Then he woke up. He was back in his small apartment. Three months before the world ended. His wife was still calling him useless. Her family was still using him. But this time Jax remembers everything. This time he has a power. A space inside his mind that can hold everything. This time he will not save them. He will watch them beg. This is a story about revenge, power, and a man who comes back from death to become a god.

Paul Leonard never had life easy for him. His in-laws treated him like a mere peasant and forced him out of his marriage. His wife couldn't bear the sight of him and ridiculed him without mercy. His in-laws could seize the air he breathed if the chance came to them and they decided to frame him for a Ponzi scheme that ultimately saw him sent to prison. Just when Paul started thinking about how prison life was going to look like for him, there was a swift rescue, prompting the start of a turnaround for Paul. Revenge became the name of the game but how far would the burning fire inside of him quench his enemies? How much further can this new zeal take him as he battles personal and ancestral enemies on his way to the top?

When King Alden is murdered on his own throne, the royal court fractures overnight. Prince Elias inherits not just a crown, but a nest of enemies: his uncle Alaric moving soldiers in the shadows, nobles who trade loyalty for coin, and spies who turn every whisper into a weapon. Elias is young, untested, and torn between justice and survival. To protect the realm, he must learn faster than his enemies expect—burning illegal armories, unmasking traitors inside the council, and wielding deception as keenly as steel. But every victory costs him: friends, innocence, even mercy. “Trust no shadow,” his father warned—and in this game, even his closest adviser carries secrets that could shatter him. If Elias cannot master the game of knives played around his table, the city will bleed, the throne will fall, and the crown will be shattered forever.

Ezra Echelon, lost his family and the entire Echelon sect to the treachery of his former master. Reduced to a shadow of himself and branded as a living trash by the tyrannical Serpent Fang Sect that took over the Echelon sect. Ezra lived a life of torment. But in the darkness of this despair, a mysterious voice awakens a power inside him: the Echelon System. It promised him vengeance and transcendence, pushing Ezra onto a brutal path of strength and self-discovery. Armed with ancestral combat techniques, driven by the fire of revenge, he begins his journey to dismantle the oppressive sects ruling his world. Along with Mira, his trusted student, and Halak, the unlikely ally, Ezra must build a rebellion against a world steeped in corruption. He promises to avenge his sect and also set the world back on a right path of truth and justice

Leo lived an ordinary life in the modern world, buried in work and exhaustion, finding escape only in a fantasy novel he loved more than reality itself. But one day, everything changes—he is suddenly pulled into that very world. When he opens his eyes, he is no longer a reader. He is a character inside the story. Not a hero. Not a villain. But a side character fated to die early. Just when despair sets in, he awakens a mysterious system—one that grants him growth through survival, struggle, and combat. Now Leo must navigate a world he thought he understood, where every decision could bring him closer to strength… or death. Armed with knowledge of the story and a system that defies fate, he faces one truth: Die as written… or break the story itself.

Nathan Cross gave his wife everything — his love, his trust, his company, and the deed to the only home he had. In return, Serena betrayed him, stole his billion-dollar formula with her lover, and left him broken in a waste yard to die. But Nathan didn’t die. At the edge of death, an ancient bloodline awakens inside him, flooding his mind with lost medical arts, terrifying martial power, and secrets powerful enough to shake the world. When he rises again, he is no longer the man they threw away. Now, with revenge burning in his heart and a corrupt world built on greed in his sights, Nathan will crush everyone who betrayed him, his vicious ex-wife, her powerful allies, and the elite families who think they rule forever.

They should have made sure he stayed down. Seventeen-year-old Theodore Cross knows his place at the bottom. Bullied. Broke. Beaten. Working dead-end shifts to pay off his dead father's debts while his mother slowly dies from an illness he can't afford to treat. When gang enforcers corner him in an alley and beat him within an inch of his life, Theo accepts his fate. He's always been prey. This is just how his story ends. Except it doesn't. An ancient dying werewolf fleeing from hunters finds Theo bleeding out and makes a choice. With its final breath, it passes on something that hasn't been seen in five hundred years: a Royal bloodline. Theo wakes to a new reality. Enhanced strength. Supernatural senses. And a mysterious Blood Moon System that treats his life like a game with quests, levels, and abilities that grow stronger with every challenge he conquers. But this power comes with brutal rules: The Masquerade must never be broken. The Midnight Council rules with an iron fist. Born werewolves see him as an inferior mutt worthy only of death. And inside him, a beast grows stronger each day, whispering promises of violence and domination. The people who made his life hell are about to learn a hard lesson "Theodore Cross is done being prey." From underground fight clubs to pack politics, from gang warfare to supernatural hunters, Theo must navigate a hidden world where one mistake means death. He'll build his own pack from outcasts and misfits. Face enemies who've had centuries to perfect their cruelty. And somehow keep the monster inside from consuming what's left of his humanity. Because in the end, the real question isn't whether he can survive. It's what kind of monster he'll become.