Fast Learner

Death was never meant to be played with — until he made it a game. Draven Kaine, once the Empire’s most feared necromancer, was executed for treason after raising the dead army that destroyed his own homeland. But when the veil between worlds cracks open, he awakens in his own coffin — alive, cursed, and bound to the ghost of the man he murdered. To survive, Draven must hunt the escaped souls that now haunt the living. Each spirit carries a secret piece of a greater puzzle — a game orchestrated by an ancient god who calls himself The Reaper King. Every round of this deadly game demands a sacrifice: a memory, a life, or a soul. But when Draven discovers the Reaper King’s final target is the woman he once loved, he must decide… Will he play by death’s rules — or rewrite them?

Five strangers rush to the last subway train. One is in a hurry to leave the country. The second is running from the police. The third is trying to push off the bottom. The fourth is running away from the past. And the fifth - from itself. A sudden stop in the tunnel crosses out their plans ... And somewhere on the surface, the captain of the investigatory committee, plunging into manic schizophrenia, receives a strange task - to find the daughter of an influential general who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The footprints lead him to the subway.

He's back, and he will destroy them all! ****** Alexander Winthrop was the son of a powerful aristocratic family, the richest in the country. However, after his mom died, he was set-up, and exiled at the age of seventeen to cater for himself, without a penny. With his hardwork, he saw himself through school and established a multimillion dollar pharmaceutical company. The fast rising company arose greed which made his girlfriend conspire to send him to prison, deceiving him into signing his wealth to her. When he discovered her treachery by a stroke of coincidence, his broken heart turned into a nightmarish dark one. ***** And now… They call him god because there was nothing he could not do. He was incomparable, unfathomable and mysterious. No one knows the full extent of his powers or wealth. If he says he will make blood rain down on Capitol or make it snow in Sahara desert, it damn well would! He was an existence all others can only look up to. But his cold, merciless heart was not always so dark. People made people change into the demons they became. And so he arose…. A demon created by a thirst for vengeance, and the blood of the betrayers around him. A mad killing machine with infinite powers and wealth, commanding fear and awe in the hearts of men. He was Lord Dracula, the king of hell. A demon called god.

BLURB Alexander Morello has mastered the art of surviving in silence—until survival means swallowing one humiliation too many. At Winston College, he's the outcast, the charity case, the punching bag for Paxton Jennings, the school's golden quarterback. But when a cruel assault on his dignity crosses the line, something in Alexander begins to crack.

Prologue   Maverick Michelson, a young man in his early twenties who was struggling at the bottom of society had his world shattered when his family died and he learned that his girlfriend used and betrayed him.    Weak and without strength, he was going to be cruelly tortured to death after learning about his girlfriend's betrayal but at that time, a mysterious artifact hidden within his soul called a system awakened and granted him the strength to free himself and escape.     Maverick had lost his family, and his love and no longer had the will to live but with the help of the system, not only did he rise from the ashes, he also attained the capital to seek revenge.      Maverick strives to attain strength with the system to seek revenge and make his girlfriend and all those who were involved suffer a fate far worse than his family had.

Eryk Wayland returned to Black Lake City after receiving news that his grandfather had died. His uncle sent two men to pick up Eryk at the airport. They kidnap and lock Eryk in a warehouse. The uncle forced Eryk to sign a letter of inheritance. The two men then killed and disposed of Eryk's body in the Rockwool City landfill, a wasted city. Erick is dying. When he was about to die, he was found by a summoned spirit in the form of a white owl. The owl offers a life-and-death contract to Eryk. "Give me your soul, then you will hold the world in the your hand!" From that day on, the owl kept following Eryk wherever he went. Eryk was also suddenly able to speak and understand the language of birds. He can also summon and control summoned spirits as a source of power. However, a group of destruction summoners is hunting for Eryk. They wanted to seize the power of the strongest summon spirit that Eryk didn't realize he had. Can Eryk survive in Rockwool City—the city of summoners, save himself from the destructive summoners, and return to Black Lake City to avenge the people who slaughtered his family?

Nathan Hayes was born an heir, but returned a convict. After years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, Nathan is forced to serve the very family that betrayed him. Mocked as a servant, stripped of his legacy, he faces off against Liam, the golden boy who stole it all, and Cassandra, the fiancée torn between love and loyalty. But with a hidden journal and a hunger for revenge, Nathan will rise from the shadows… and bring the Hayes empire crashing down.

The edge of the Attorgron forests lay about fifty miles to the east.I could get good water there, and it was closer to me than the other water source I was going to, but it had its own set of issues.One reason would be that my pursuers would expect me to head there for water, in addition to the cover the forest could provide us as we headed north; however, I would unavoidably run into the Attorgron people at some point along the way. I was a wanted man with a bounty on my head to them.Because of that, I was well worth the effort it took for them to locate me and inject me with one of those poison darts they were so fond of.Thank you;Instead of dying from poison burning my insides, I would take my chances out in the open.

She was a destitute woman whose life was dependent on others. She was forced to be a scapegoat and traded herself, which resulted in her pregnancy. He considered that she was the ultimate embodiment of evil as she was greed and deceitful. She tried all her efforts to win his heart but failed. Her departure made him so furious that he searched through the ends of the world and managed to recapture her. The whole city knew that she would be shredded into a million pieces. She asked him in desperation, “I left our marriage with nothing, so why won’t you let me go?”In a domineering tone, he answered, “You’ve stolen my heart and given birth to my child, and you wish to escape from me?”

For five years, architect Ethan Cole designed the buildings that made his wife a billionaire. When she divorces him and burns his late father's unfinished masterpiece: a revolutionary design. Ethan walks away with nothing. Until a rival dynasty heiress recognizes his "signature" in his ex-wife's award-winning tower. Now, as structural flaws in his ex's empire begin to surface, Ethan must decide: save the buildings that bear her name, or let her legacy crumble, literally.