Fake Death

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.

Theodore Cordova lost everything for the sake of his love for Lily Spencer—an illegitimate daughter who, it turned out, was only after his wealth and power. Betrayed by Lily and her secret lover, Theodore was poisoned and died. Even in death, his body was not left intact—it was torn to pieces by wild dogs. However, fate gave him a second chance. Theodore awoke on the very day of his wedding to Lily, when everything could still be changed. This time, he was no longer the naïve heir to the North, blinded by love. Consumed by a burning desire for revenge, Theodore vowed to rewrite his destiny—and make everyone who had destroyed him pay a fitting price!

He died as the Emperor of the Underworld. He rose as the disgrace of his enemies. Don Vittorio Valdieri, a mafia legend feared for half a century, was betrayed and died at the height of his power. But death was not the end. His soul awakens in the body of Leo Ravelli, the grandson of his sworn enemy, a failure scorned by all and nearly destroyed by debt. In a modern mafia world that has evolved into a shadow corporation, Leo Ravelli slowly reveals fangs he was never meant to possess. Armed with the memories, strategies, and cruelty of a true Godfather, he rebuilds an empire from within the body of his own enemy. When old traitors resurface and a bloody war erupts once more, one truth becomes clear. A Godfather can die, but his power never truly leaves

"Even if I die a thousand times, I will rise again just to take revenge on those who stole my family’s wealth." Jay, the leader of this metropolitan bandit group, was actually the heir to two of the most powerful conglomerate families in Permata City. A conflict with his stepmother had led to an “accident” that sent Jay and his brother plunging off a cliff. Jay was declared dead. But fate had other plans. He had climbed back from the jaws of death, alive, furious, and ready to reclaim everything that was taken from him.

Framed for a crime he didn’t commit, Chay Patrick sacrificed his freedom to fund his son’s life-saving surgery. Instead, his wealthy in-laws abandoned the boy and handed Chay a fake death certificate. But Chay isn't broken. Discovered in his cell by his real mother, the anonymous founder of the world’s largest conglomerate, he emerges as a billionaire heir. Disguised as a low-level chauffeur, Chay silently watches his enemies celebrate their toxic ascent. He isn't rushing his revenge. He’s waiting for the perfect fall.

They discarded me like trash after I helped them reach the pinnacle of their business. It turns out I was merely a stepping stone to make their biological child's path easier. For years, I considered them my parents, but instead, they revealed the bitter truth about my identity as an adopted child, and worse, they slandered me. Now I'm out! But I will rise again and use the fire burning in my heart and soul as fuel to destroy them!

For twenty-five years, Benedict Vandross gave everything to the Ashcroft family. He sacrificed his dreams to build their billion-dollar empire, worked tirelessly to protect their legacy, and loved them as if they were his own. Yet to them, he was only the quiet young man who never complained, never refused, and never asked for anything in return. Then the family's "long-lost heir" finally comes home. Overnight, Benedict is cast aside. The father he admired no longer looks his way. The mother who unknowingly cherished him is told to forget him. The sister he protected turns against him. Even the woman who promised to spend her life with him chooses the newly returned heir instead. Humiliated, betrayed, and left with nothing, Benedict walks away without a single word. But the Ashcroft family has made one fatal mistake. The son they abandoned was never an outsider. He is the only one who carries the true Ashcroft blood. As old secrets buried for decades begin to surface, a ruthless conspiracy threatens to destroy the empire from within. The "heir" they welcomed may be nothing more than a carefully placed pawn, while the son they threw away becomes the only man capable of saving everything they hold dear. When the truth is finally revealed, will regret be enough to mend a family that buried its own heir? Or will the man they never valued choose to let their empire fall? Sometimes the greatest betrayal isn't losing your family-- it's discovering they never knew who you truly were.

"He died in prison." That's what they told the world after poisoning his father, murdering his mother, and framing Alexander Kane for attempted rape. Uncle Robert and stepmother Victoria thought they'd buried their problems along with the broken boy they left to rot in a cell. They were wrong. Five years later, the city's elite gather at a red-carpet banquet to meet the mysterious War God—the general who single-handedly won the nation's greatest conflict. Alexander Kane walks in with a coffin. "Good evening. I believe I was invited." The room freezes. Victoria drops her champagne. Robert's laughter dies when Alexander kicks open the coffin, revealing a corpse and ringing phone. "Where's your guard dog now?" "He's in the coffin." One by one, the liars fall. Bones break. Secrets bleed. When even General Hawthorne drops to one knee, calling him "Sir," the city finally realizes: The boy they buried returned as the man they fear. Now it's time for blood, justice, and retribution. Every debt will be paid. Every traitor will kneel. Because Alexander Kane didn't just survive prison—he conquered death itself.

BLURB Rylan Vane was born a noble but died a nobody. Stripped of his bloodline and cast into the lowest caste of vampire society, he survives in the shadows of the undercity, feeding on vermin and hiding from enforcers who would finish what his family’s betrayers started. He is weak, nameless, and forgotten. But when a brush with death forces him into the forbidden Catacombs of Flesh, he discovers something impossible: a Seal of the First Blood, an ancient heirloom forged by the progenitor of all vampires. The Seal should have destroyed him, instead, it bonded to him, awakening a power no vampire has possessed in a millennia, and a terrifying ability to hear the Echoes of other Seals scattered across the Dominion. Now Rylan must navigate a world that wants him dead. Noble houses will hunt him for the power he carries. The Empress, who has ruled for a thousand years through her own Seal, will see him as a threat to her throne. And the Seals themselves whisper to him, offering power beyond imagination, at a price that may cost him his soul. From the gutters of Nyxara to the heart of the Crimson Throne, Rylan will rise. But the question is not whether he can become powerful enough to survive. The question is what he will become in the process.

He wasn't supposed to remember what it felt like to die. Three centuries ago, Prince Kael Draven was cast as the monster responsible for the Great Demon War. Betrayed by his own father and executed as a public warning, his existence was systematically scrubbed from every history book that mattered. The world knows his name, but they’ve gotten everything wrong. Now he’s back. He’s sixteen, stripped of his power, and attending Eclipse Academy under the identity of a dead boy with a stranger's face. He isn't looking for a throne, and he isn't even looking for revenge, at least not yet. He just wants to understand why the world needed him to be the villain. But the world hasn't forgotten him, even if he can't prove who he is. A sealed sword vibrates with recognition when he passes. A demon exchange student turns pale the moment they lock eyes. And a professor who once investigated his "death" is starting to ask questions that could get them both killed. The lie that ended the war is the same lie that supports everything built in its wake. And the boy they buried is the only person alive who can tear it all down. He isn't just trying to climb the ranks. He's digging up a grave the entire world is standing on.