Fire Bender

Betrayed, abandoned, and branded a criminal, Adrian Kane lost everything, the empire he commanded, the woman he loved, and the very name that once struck fear and respect across nations. For three years, he rotted behind prison walls, shunned even by Elena Frost, the wife who turned her back on him. But the man the world condemned is no ordinary outcast. Beneath the scars of betrayal lies the truth: Adrian is no fallen convict, he is a Five-Star General, the nation’s deadliest weapon, hidden in plain sight. Now released, he reemerges into a world that no longer recognizes him. Enemies circle in the shadows. Old allies question his loyalty. And Elena, the woman who once shattered his heart, stands torn between the lies she believed and the truth bleeding before her eyes. As assassins strike and secrets ignite in fire and blood, Adrian is thrust into a war that will either reclaim his honor or consume him whole. But in this battlefield of betrayal and desire, Elena becomes more than his weakness, she is his greatest vulnerability. And when a masked enemy steps from the shadows, exposing Adrian’s true identity in the most brutal way possible, one question burns hotter than the flames surrounding them: Can a man who’s already lost everything protect the one woman he cannot let go, or will she become the weapon that finally destroys him?

Ethan Gray was considered the luckiest man in Portland, married to Vivian Ashford, the powerful CEO of the Ashford Group. Their marriage was hailed as a modern fairy tale. But the illusion shattered on their fifth anniversary. When thugs disrupted their celebration, Ethan shielded Vivian with his body, receiving a near-fatal stab wound. Waking up in his hospital bed, he overheard Vivian speaking sharply in German over the phone: "I hired those people to break up the anniversary. Jack is back, and I couldn't celebrate with Ethan. I only married Ethan because he looks like Jack. He’s just a shadow." She had no idea that Ethan had secretly mastered German over the last three months just to understand her world. Heartbroken and fully awakened to the truth, Ethan quietly gets a divorce. He packs his single suitcase, turns his back on her wealth, and rejoins Doctors Without Borders. He heads straight to a perilous, signal-free war zone, reclaiming his identity as a brilliant, life-saving surgeon. Meanwhile, Vivian believes his departure is just a childish game to seek attention. But when she finds his raw, devastating farewell letter in a hotel guestbook, realizing he understood every word of her betrayal, her world crumbles. The cold CEO is plunged into a frantic, desperate search—only to realize she may have lost him to the line of fire forever.

Since Kyle wanted more information, he was curious as to why Jareth was changing the subject.Consequently, you implied that I can and will use magic.How can you be sure?” "It comes with your title and is in your blood.Despite the fact that it has been suppressed for such a lengthy period of time, it is still present.It is one of the reasons why you must immediately begin training.It will help when you guarantee who you genuinely are.Those who don't know who they are don't like magic. "You talk about it as if it were alive." “It is.Magic is alive and well.Although we can learn to work with it, we will never truly have control over it.We can believe that it is within us and allowed it to direct us.At some point, you will have to say who you really are, and when you do, I imagine you will be a powerful magician. To this, Kyle had no idea what to say.Kyle discovered that he longed for what he had left behind because everything was so strange and new.He thought of many things that would be comforting as they rode on.He envisioned being before the warm fire in Danin and Jane's home.He found that he wanted warm bread and butter that was just made in Jane's kitchen.He recalled Katniss's supple hand and how it felt in his.When she gave him a kiss, he remembered how supple her lips were on his cheek.He nodded off for a split second, felt his eyes close, and almost fell off his horse, he caught himself.

Kyle had never had it easy. Orphaned young and bullied by everyone around him, he pushed through each day for one reason only—his little sister. She was critically ill, and the only thing that could save her was the legendary, impossibly expensive 'Moonlight Potion'. His one shot? Becoming a Hunter. With real power, he could finally rise above, earn enough credits, and save the only person who mattered. Everything depended on his eighteenth birthday—the day he would awaken his talent. The day everything was supposed to change. And it did... just not the way he’d hoped. While others awakened fire, shadow, and lightning... Kyle got 'Bubble'. A talent that didn't exist in any known class ranking—from mighty SS to pathetic F. Unrecorded. Unrated. Unwanted. Useless. Weak. Pathetic. That’s what they called him. No guild would take him. No party would have him. But Kyle? He just smiled. Because they didn’t understand. Not yet. 'It’s not about the talent you get. It’s about what you do with it.' Let them mock him. Let them call him useless. Armed with an unknown power and an unbreakable will, Kyle walked into the dungeon alone. The world might see him as nobody for now, but he would prove that even an unranked talent could rise—and that the underdog everyone cast aside might just become a legend.

Blurb Humble and wild power is inherited. Survival is earned. Love? That’s just collateral damage. In a world where dominance is defined by bloodlines and digital warfare, four criminal empires reign supreme—each ruthless, unchallenged, and bound by a single code: protect the legacy at all costs. From the frozen alleys of St. Petersburg to the scorched sands of the Nevada Desert, from the opulent vineyards of Tuscany to the blood-soaked hills of Sinaloa, four underworld kings stand on the brink of war. Mikhail Volkov—the Russian ghost who commands an empire built on intelligence and silence. Antonio Moretti—the Italian strategist whose charm masks a heart of steel. Carlos Hernandez—the cartel lord with a code of fire and loyalty. Jack Sullivan—the American tactician who turns chaos into profit. Each has a daughter—brilliant, defiant, and bred for battle in a world that sees them as bargaining chips. Forced into strategic marriages meant to secure alliances, these women become more than pawns—they become the spark that threatens to ignite a global mafia war. As secrets unravel, alliances fracture, and hidden enemies rise, these kings will face their greatest threats—not from rivals, but from within their own blood. Can an empire built on control withstand daughters raised to be wild? 200000 words. 167 chapters of raw emotion, deadly twists, forbidden romance, and high-stakes betrayal await in Humble and Wild. In the shadows of power, even the humblest heart can change the world—or burn it down.

In a fractured world stitched together by ancient contracts and the whispers of summoners, power is everything—and Ryan, a dirt-born runt from a nowhere village, wasn’t supposed to have any. When his body surges with a volatile current known only as Dioki, the arcane lifeblood of creation, Ryan is plucked from obscurity and hurled into the political meatgrinder that is Kuma Academy. But while other students shape-shift reality with vampires, elves, and demonkind, Ryan summons something that shouldn't exist: a colossal entity wrapped in time-stained myths and riddled prophecies—Sphinx, a divine beast of ancient fire and truth. Sidelined as a freak. Watched like a weapon. Revered by beasts. Feared by men. The world had rules, but Ryan’s presence is the motherfucking exception. And when an ancient war that bled the stars dry stirs again, it's not the princes or the council who will decide the fate of the realms. It’s the kid with muddy boots, bloodied knuckles, and the unshakable audacity to summon monsters the gods themselves abandoned. Unspoken Premise: “The Beast-Binder and the Cursed Blood” Ryan never asked for power. But when Dioki awoke within his bones, he was shoved into a world where summoning rituals shape empires, and bloodlines rule with iron, magic, and fire. Unlike his noble-blooded peers, Ryan’s magic doesn’t bring forth elegant fae or winged seraphim. He calls down the old ones—divine, brutal, and beyond control. With Sphinx, his first divine beast, kneeling beside him, and a war brewing in the shadows, Ryan must navigate deceitful politics, alien invaders, and a summoner’s hierarchy designed to break those who dare defy blood.

For eleven years Dane Marlowe fought a war the Republic never admitted it was in. He rose from a seventeen-year-old recruit carrying a disgraced father’s name to Marshal of Ashfall Command, unit that ended the Karsk War in nine days. He was never photographed. His file is sealed. On paper, he died in the last battle. Now he is home, with a duffel bag, two hundred and twelve dollars, and thirty days before the army calls him back. He has come for three things: his little sister; the truth about the fire at Pier 9 that put his father in prison and handed the Crane family the land their tower stands on; and the grave of the mother he was never allowed to visit. He finds Lia on her knees on the marble floor of the Crane Foundation gala, wine dripping from her hair, while Barrett Crane, heir to the richest family in the city, films her for his friends. Dane could end it in four seconds. He could end the Cranes in four days with one call to the Defense Ministry. But the army sealed his identity for a reason. Someone sold the names of his men, and three of them are already dead. If he reveals himself, the enemy will know exactly where to aim. So the Marshal takes a night job as a cleaner in Crane Tower, with no rank, no unit and no name. He mops the floors of the men who ruined his family. He lets them call him a beggar, a coward and a thief. And every night, in the basement archive, he reads what they believed no one would ever find.

For five years, firefighter Arga Pratama gave his wife everything he had: his loyalty, his patience, every rupiah from every double shift. It was never enough. Then, on the night he pulls strangers out of a burning luxury hotel, he sees Nadira walk out of its doors on the arm of Rendra Wijaya—a wealthy, polished philanthropist—holding the hand of a little boy Arga has never met. By midnight, her suitcases are gone. By morning, an anonymous message has led him to a notary's office, where he discovers his own signature on documents he has never seen. Nadira says the boy, Alif, is the child she plans to adopt. But Alif's name has been buried in Rendra's company records for two years. A frightened former foundation worker knocks on Arga's door with a story no one was meant to hear. And the trail of forged papers, missing files, and silenced relatives leads straight back to a warehouse fire Arga fought years ago—the night he lost a comrade, and a desperate father vanished into the smoke. As Rendra's charity mask begins to slip, Arga must decide what kind of man he wants to be: one consumed by revenge, or one who chooses the truth—even when it costs him the marriage he fought so hard to save. A gripping story of betrayal, buried secrets, and quiet courage, Five Wasted Years asks what remains when the person you built your life around was never truly yours—and whether walking away can be the bravest rescue of all.

Ling Feng was meant to be the undisputed heir of the Ling Clan, born with the legendary Heavenly Fire Spiritual Root. On the day of his awakening, everything was stolen away by his uncle, Ling Zhaoyang, who was driven by ambition and jealousy, betrayed him in front of the entire clan, forcibly stripping away his visible Root and casting him as a cripple. Branded as a disgrace, Ling Feng was thrown from the Cliff of Exiles, his death declared and his name erased from the clan But the ritual did not destroy him. It suppressed something far older and far more terrifying. Rescued by the reclusive master Yue Xuān, Ling Feng vanished from the world for ten years. In isolation, he cultivated the Void Heart Path—a forbidden system that commands nothingness itself, concealing his power so completely that even the heavens cannot perceive it. Now twenty years old, Ling Feng returns to the Azure Eastern Empire under the alias Mo Ying, an unremarkable nobody moving through a ruthless world of Hunter Guilds and elite academies. To survive, he must remain invisible, climbing step by step while those who ruined him thrive in the empire built on his blood. His purpose is simple: expose the traitors, destroy Ling Zhaoyang, and reclaim what was stolen from him. But as buried secrets surface, Ling Feng discovers his betrayal was only the beginning of a far greater scheme—one tied to an ancient entity clawing its way back into existence. His revenge is no longer personal. If he fails, the continent falls with him.

For years, Mikael Winston let the world believe he was nothing. He played the fool so his family would have one less person to fight over the inheritance. He buried his name, his pride, and everything he was capable of becoming just to keep the peace. Then, when fire tore through a burning building, he risked his life to save a woman— and paid for it with his face. The woman he saved married him anyway. At least, that was what he believed. One week was all it took for her to reveal the truth. She had gotten what she wanted: a fifty-million-dollar contract signed by his hands, her fortune secured, and no intention of staying married to the scarred man she'd once pretended to love. There had never been a real marriage. No vows that counted. No future together. Just humiliation. And somehow, through a cruel twist of fate, Mikael was legally bound to another woman instead—a young maid with nothing but a scholarship, a kind heart, and nowhere else to go. Like him, she had been discarded by the people who were supposed to value her. They laughed at them both. They should have been more careful about who they were laughing at. Because Mikael Winston was never the useless man they thought he was. The heir they buried had finally come home. He built Vivienne's fortune with his own two hands. Now, he'll tear it down the same way. Piece by piece. Deal by deal. Until her empire is nothing but ruins—and the only name anyone remembers is Mikael Winston.