Dark Deception Characters

“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.

Reed has left behind his past, the life of a scavenger, for a fresh start with his wife and lovely daughter - or so he thinks. But an ugly conspiracy breaks out at work that threatens the life he's built for many years. After saving an employee from harassment by his corrupt boss, he's accused and sent to jail unjustly. His wife divorces him and denies him custody of his daughter, his only reason to live. With his life crashing on all sides, his mother's ill health, and his daughter's poor standard of life, he has no choice but to go back to the life he had vowed he was done with. There's an outrageous bid on the dark market for the best killer to take down his former boss, the man who sent him to jail, a drug dealer who will stop at nothing to end him permanently, Reed sees an opportunity to regain his lost glory. As shocking discoveries are made about his ex-wife's new interest, a rival, and his untraceable source of wealth, a gang of killers emerges to challenge Reed and take his place as the best assassin in the city. Reed finds out that the client ordering the hit on his former boss is nothing but a college girl. In a twist of events, she ends up being his savior and takes his daughter in. Reed navigates the treacherous world of gangs, assassins, traitors, and greedy power-drunk men. Fueled by his love for his daughter and anger at injustice, he stands up to himself and lets the shadows of his past lead him yet again, embracing the SCAVENGER he's always been

By night, the frozen kingdom of Vatala is a realm of terror, where legends feed on fear and blood. Axil and Faris are lured by duty into ancient shadows of deception and madness. The icy chill of dread howls as cursed Vikings ravage the western sea, a knight cloaked in dispair transverses the twisted Forrest and a black blade echoes chaos. Thundering horse hooves, the clang of rusty chains, a stench of scorched blood – all evil began as something else...

Abandoned, unwanted, Theodore has moved places since he was born. He is considered a monster because he has eyes that are different colors from each other. This starts from 3,000 years ago, an event occurred that would change history. The Earth is about to experience an apocalypse when a meteor shower hits. The cause was a collision between two giant meteors in space, adjacent to the Earth's orbital line. Almost 50% of living things on Earth died. But it was not the only impact of the meteor shower of the time. Anyone who can survive will have tremendous strength. The power of the so-called Odd Eye or another name for Tyr Gods Syndrome. Each owner of this power can manipulate human brains to kill each other, or something that normal humans cannot think of. And anyone with Tyr Gods Syndrome has a characteristic, which is that their two eyeballs have different colours. That is what distinguishes them from ordinary people. Then someone tried to manipulate his power to rule the world. Can Theodore fight the villain? He's a fifteen-year-old boy defeating evil in the world?

Kuro Usagi, a teacher from his previous life, has been killed by a truck. And when he opens his eyes, Kuro becomes a gun and is being held by a princess from a distant Kingdom named Chloe! Unfortunately, the world Kuro reincarnates is currently at war against various Empires and Kingdoms! Will the two find their way across the border of the cities, gather more allies, starting a magical journey of guns versus magic, and end the war through a peaceful resolution? I do not own the book cover.

In a silent hall, confused voices rose, expressing disbelief and recounting tragic deaths—stabbing, plane crash, shooting. Amidst them stood a man, contemplative. Memories surfaced, hinting at a shared fate. Recognizing a pattern, he scanned the room, finding an angelic figure named Aurelia. Ethan, one of the survivors, felt a surge of fear and hesitation. What fate awaits our hero?

Marcus, a pauper and a rag in the eye of everyone ascended to the ladder of success, activating a strange system that allowed him have revenge and earn Trillions of dollars after completing a task. That was after his wife betrayed his love by cheating on him with her new lover who pushed him off from the upper floor of a storey building. They thought he's dead and gone but he was reborn in the body of a strange man, a soldier who was betrayed by his folks at war front. “I shall return to cripple them and make them beg on their knee till they bleed and plead for mercy!!" Marcus swore. Unbeknownst to him, enemies lurk behind dark corners, waiting to hunt him down. Will Marcus vanquish them?

Aiden Reyes, a lowly bartender becomes the live in son of the Reyes family, he doesn’t have a penny to his name and his wife, Amelia despises him greatly. After they had a one night stand, Amelia is discovered to be pregnant, she had no choice but to marry Aiden and birth the child to protect the family reputation.  Aiden is charged with taking care of the chores and his daughter, there are no feelings between him and his wife and the only thing that binds them together is the child. Out of frustration and anger, he agrees to sign the divorce papers and leave with his five years old daughter. On the day of their divorce, he runs into a group of people who address him as the missing young master of the most prominent family in the country, Romanov family.  Aiden is stunned and confused, he only recalled growing up in an orphanage. In a bid to provide a good life for his daughter and get revenge on the people that looked down on him while he was in his lowest, he agrees to follow them. Aiden is thrust into a different world filled with lies, deception and secrets, he has to become manipulative to avenge himself and his parents and also protect his helpless and young daughter.

Death, as the guide of all the souls leaving the physical world, takes the form of a human to speak with them. He has been wandering for a very long time that he, himself, doesn't know about his own existence. Ferrying billions of souls of humankind to the other side has been his job in a forever state that he can't escape. He considers himself a mere bystander, a storyteller—seeing histories unfold before his eyes, witnessing eras and wars end, watching humankind thriving. Endowed with a power of bringing deaths to humans upon touching them, he constantly seeks the feeling of physical human touch. Not until he meets Fivrelle, an immortal lady who desires death. The world is continuously evolving and growing. But to what extent? No matter what the world has become, Death will always be there, waiting.

Elliot scanned his eyes round Lexa's curvy body, making her nervous. “Wow. Such beauty,” he said, with the most glorious smile. “A-are you him?” Alexa had never felt so weak. “What was I thinking? I forgot I can’t kill royals so easily. I definitely won’t want to kill you.” He bowed before her. “I’m sorry your majesty. I forgot you were royalty.” Alexa gulped. He moved like flash, appearing here and there within the twinkle of an eye. He sped to her back and held her waist. She whimpered. “I know everything about you and I know what you want,” he whispered in her ear. “I know you want me.” She pulled away from him. He smiled… a deadly smile. Alexa wanted to be strong, she was a Queen after all. “If you know what I want then you must tell me what you want in return.” "Everyone knows that the devil wants," Elliot said, smiling with great lust. *** Will the love between the devil and a prized angel ever succeed? Will a prophecy overrule a witch's curse? Will Elliot be given an second chance into holiness? Will their love prevail and will their forbidden love be accepted by the realms?