British Crime

In Halcyon, every crime hides a code. Adrian Cross, a disgraced cryptanalyst, wanted nothing more than to fade into obscurity. But when a string of murders leaves cryptic puzzles etched into the city’s walls, he’s pulled into a deadly game only he can solve. Partnered with Detective Iris Navarro, Adrian unravels a web of secrets spanning law enforcement, corporate power, and his own past. Each cipher cracked saves a life—but also reveals another victim. As the bodies pile up and the codes point closer to Adrian’s family, he realizes the truth: The city itself is a message. And decoding it may cost him everything. In Halcyon, knowledge isn’t just power—it’s survival.

The world is a jungle and only the strong survive. After being framed at work and fired on the spot for a crime he didn’t commit, Dorian is given the hard side of life yet again, but a near-death experience brings him to contact something some would refer to as a blessing and a curse. The unfair world grants him a system. One that holds endless potential if utilized well and exploited to it’s fullest potential. Dorian would have rejected it, but he’s tired of being just another player in someone else’s story, He wants to rise above. Will he be able to? Watch as Dorian surpasses expectations, and becomes the most remarkable, most awesome, and most desirable man in any space he occupies.

Adrian Kane was thrown into prison for a crime he didn't commit, betrayed by his foster brother and abandoned by everyone—except his wife, Elena. She sacrificed everything to stand by him, losing her family, her status, and her future. But prison wasn't Adrian's end. It was his transformation. Something happened behind those walls. Something that changed everything. Now Adrian walks free, and his foster family mocks him. His wife's relatives demand divorce. Billionaires try to humiliate him in public. They think he's still nobody. They have no idea what he's become. The KING OF KINGS has returned. And this time, everyone will pay.

Elias Cross wanted nothing more than to disappear. Once the city’s most brilliant forensic architect, he vanished after a scandal that destroyed his career. But when an old friend turns up dead — and the body is staged inside one of Elias’s abandoned designs — he’s pulled back into a world he swore he’d left behind. Each crime scene is a building. Each building is a clue. Each clue points to an impossible blueprint for the city’s destruction. With only a reckless journalist and a washed-up detective by his side, Elias must outwit a ghostly mastermind known only as The Mason. But as the city becomes a maze of deadly puzzles, Elias discovers the final design isn’t about buildings. It’s about him.

Five years ago, Desmond Knight lost everything. His freedom. His dignity. His future. Thrown into prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Desmond was meant to rot and be forgotten. Instead, prison became his forge. Pain became strength. And an old man’s secret changed his fate forever. On the day Desmond walks free, he carries nothing but a vengeful heart and a code that leads to a hidden empire people barely knew about. He vowed to take revenge on those who had wronged him. Especially Cherry Vixen. But power never comes without a price. As Desmond steps into a world of wealth, control, and power, will he rise as victorious? or succumb to the dark side of his new self.

🏆[No.2 "Hard to Put Down" of "The Legendary Urban Man" Contest]🏆 Anthony Star has a dark secret that no one should ever find out, especially his in-laws.Everyday he’s treated worse than an infection by those around him but thanks to his wife he manages. She is his light in this cruel world but in a single day he’s shot, beaten, arrested, almost dies then finds out that his wife is missing!To save her, he returns to his past as a big-shot in the underground crime world and takes his revenge on anyone who has ever wronged him before. Welcome back Mr. Star Dust and if that wasn’t enough, he finds out the truth of who he really is. He is….

In the corrupt heart of New Avalon City, a slum rat named Lucien Kane is born into a world that despises him. Orphaned, beaten, and forgotten, he grows up scavenging scraps in the gutters, dreaming of power. When his only friend is murdered by street thugs working for a powerful crime family, Lucien vows revenge. But vengeance is only the spark. Through manipulation, alliances, and sheer will, he transforms from a street urchin into a calculating criminal mastermind. His rise cuts through bloodlines, corporations, and governments — until he controls everything: drugs, politics, law enforcement, and the hearts of men. But the higher he climbs, the more enemies he creates — and the shadows he commands begin to whisper his downfall. From the gutter to the godfather… from man to myth… this is the empire of shadows.

"Indeed, It Was A Crime Falling In Love With You." Eddie Maxwell left his father who he never realized was one of the wealthiest men in the world to follow his love, Clara. Helped her and her family undercover to rise in fame but instead, the credits were given to someone else and as they blew up in fame, they began to treat him as a piece of thrash finally, he was divorced from someone that Clara described as a real man. Unknown to them, he was the underrated sovereign, vast in deep and dark medical knowledge held only by two persons in the world and with martial acts skills that could not be compared to any. And with his father's wealth, he is ready to make a deadly comeback like never before. But some secrets locked around his past that must be uncovered.

He spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, taking the fall for his fiancée's brother to protect her family's reputation. He sacrificed his youth, his future, and a promising medical career, leaving his blind mother in their care. But it was all a lie. While he rotted behind bars, his mother was abused and cast out. The woman he loved betrayed him and chose his greatest enemy. Everything he sacrificed was repaid with cruelty. Now he's back. No longer the naive man they deceived, but the Divine Healer whose name shakes both the medical world and the underworld. This time, those who betrayed him won't be asking for forgiveness. They'll be begging for mercy.

This story is more of a hobby and this is my first time writing so don't expect too much also English isn't my first language. Jason is a 16-year-old boy trying to get through life with a father who expects him to be perfect and a school where everyone kind of hates him and bullies him with the exception of his two friends Jessica and Isaac. When he is falsely accused of beating up a student with the only witness to the crime Jessica his friend testifies against him and is expelled from school. On his way, home feeling betrayed and thinking about how to explain this to his father he is summoned to a dark cave where a being offers for him to become the champion of the Dark One