Freedom

THE HIDDEN EMPIRE OF HARVEY KANE For a year, Harvey Kane has endured humiliation as the useless husband of Jane Ross, the brilliant billionaire CEO of Harvax Inc. Her wealthy family despises him, believing he is nothing more than a worthless man living off his wife's success. Even on their first wedding anniversary, they mock his gift and demand that Jane divorce him. But they have no idea who they are dealing with. Behind Harvey's ordinary appearance lies the mind of a legendary cybersecurity genius and the founder of a powerful empire stolen from him through betrayal. Framed, ruined, and forced into hiding, Harvey sacrificed his identity to protect the woman he loved. All the while, he secretly defended her company from cyberattacks, allowing a deceitful executive to steal the credit. When a devastating attack threatens to destroy Harvax, Harvey finally steps out of the shadows. He saves the company, exposes the first cracks in a conspiracy, and becomes the target of enemies who thought they had buried him forever. Now, his former betrayers are back. A ruthless rival corporation wants his technology. A cunning woman from his past is determined to finish what she started. And powerful figures will stop at nothing to bury the truth. As fabricated evidence threatens his freedom and his marriage teeters on the brink, Harvey must fight a war on every front—corporate, personal, and digital. But the deeper he digs, the more he discovers that the conspiracy that destroyed his empire reaches far beyond business. With his wife's company on the brink of collapse and enemies closing in, Harvey faces an impossible choice: protect the woman he loves or reclaim the empire stolen from him. They called him useless. Now, they will learn why they should have feared him.

A million years have passed since the war that shattered the harmony of Caelestia—the once-divine realm that shimmered with eternal light. The Divinomachy. It began with a betrayal. One of the Supreme Emperor’s most powerful and revered archangels, corrupted by pride, jealousy and ambition, raised his blade against his Creator. His defiance was swift and infectious—many of the Emperor’s faithful servants followed him, seduced by whispers of freedom, power, and a new order. Thus ignited a celestial war — Divinomachy. For one hundred years, the heavens trembled under the weight of clashing divinities. Brother turned against brother. Skies once filled with song now roared with the cries of battle. At last, the Supreme Emperor, weary of endless bloodshed, brought the war to a bitter close. With a divine curse, he cast down the traitors into a prison realm he created—Phlegethon and sealed their leader—while some escaped. Their punishment was eternal. Once-angelic beings were twisted into demons. Their silver skin blackened and grew scales. Their radiant wings darkened into shadows, and crimson replaced their once pure silver eyes. Even their hands bore the mark of damnation—silver claws sprouting where gentle fingers had once been. And when the fallen archangel was finally struck down, a prophecy echoed across the universe—spoken through the Emperor’s oracle: “When the stars realign and the seal weakens, the fallen one shall rise again. But from the forbidden love of both light and darkness shall be born a child—a hybrid. He shall end what the traitor had begun.” Though Caelestia was rebuilt, its wounds never fully healed. For prophecy does not forget, and the chains that bind the fallen grow weaker with every passing age. The ones who escaped hid themselves across the universe, patiently waiting for the return of their master.

I've never wanted this life for myself—this life filled with perils and evil. It's like a dream I can never escape from—a dream which I'm forever stuck in. Heh, no one ever wanted this life or ever wished for it. You'd be either insane or extremely evil to wish for this kind of life—the life where you don't have a choice over anything—the life where you're bound by your deepest desires. I never wanted to enter into the supernatural world. I never wanted to come across the Crimsones[1], Lycanthropes[2], demons and the rest. I never wanted to be involved in anything pertaining to the dark and supernatural world. I had always yearned for freedom and not servitude. But of course I was wrong all along. I had been delusional, thinking I'd be able to escape it all—to escape from fate. I never knew I would be pulled into this mess, becoming one of those dark creatures which roam about in the ungodly night. I never wanted to be a merciless predator who was also a prey to another predator (what a food chain!). But all is good. No matter what I shall not alli myself to degenerate into a heartless monster who only knew how to tear flesh, spill blood and break bones. I cannot allow my desires to pull me down. I cannot be corrupted by the abyss! My name is Daniel Stark and what I'm about to tell you is a real life horror. I don't know what you call horror or romance or fa Intasy but this story I'm about to tell you, you need to listen attentively and not miss a bit of information. This is my story—one beginning with pain.

Lord Dryk and all his followers were defeated centuries ago. Or so the white mages believed until the reincarnation of his very own mistress, Ramona and her campaign to resurrect the dark lord. Yet darkness could return without the promise of a savior. Wayne a mage born without the gift was shipped off to stay with his uncle Alard and his daughter Calley, another abomination to the line of magic, while his father goes off with the other mages to find the savior and bring an end to the campaign of Ramona. But in the rarest of times, when no one expected, Wayne’s gift awakened, not in the manner which everyone thought it would be, and no one sensed it except Alard, yet that wasn’t all, Calley also awakened the gift like every other mage in history attracting the eyes of both good and evil, forging the prophecy to take a form no one saw coming and with it, the beginning of a long-avoided war. *** “I am tired of waiting for saviors, Fifteen years they have searched and found nothing. My father risks his life on a prophecy that may be empty. And we sit here like sheep, praying some child will appear to save us.” “In the old tales, it was not only mages who broke Dyrk’s host at the Battle of Broken Chains. It was the swords of men, thousands of them held the line while the archmages sang their spells. Common steel bought the world its freedom when magic faltered. If this Ramona comes again, let her face more than spells. Let her face men who will not wait for miracles.” Alard studied him for a long moment, something unreadable moving behind his eyes. “And what would you have, nephew?” “Train me,” Wayne said.

“Your family’s blood runs thick with treason.” The words seared into young Thorne Valtor’s mind as he watched his world crumble. His uncle’s guards dragged his father away in chains, accused of murdering the grandfather Thorne barely knew. His mother lunged forward, desperate to stop them, only to be cut down in a spray of blood right before his eyes. “Mother!” Thorne’s scream echoed uselessly as blades flashed again. His father broke free for a heartbeat, grabbing Thorne in a frantic escape attempt, but arrows felled him mid-stride. Thorne crumpled beside his father’s body, the warmth of life fading under his small hands. The uncle’s shadow loomed over him. “You’re no longer needed here, boy.” Sold into slavery to the neighboring kingdom of Eldoria, Thorne toiled in the brutal depths of their mining pits, his body scarred by whips and his spirit hardened by years of endless labor. Freedom came not from mercy, but from chaos: Eldoria fell under siege by a nameless horde wielding forbidden dark mage powers, their shadows twisting reality itself. Thorne fled through the carnage, crossing borders back to his homeland of Valeria, where he sought refuge in his father’s hidden sanctuary,a forgotten cavern etched with ancient runes. There, a sealed door his father had once whispered about beckoned. “It will open when the time is right.” The time was now. The door yielded, revealing five ethereal thrones occupied by spectral ancient mages. “He has returned, the chosen one.” They descended, pressing a glowing tome into his hands. “Within lies powers, Use it wisely, heir of the clovers. “Do the right thing.” Read on to unravel a tale where betrayal forges heroes, magic awakens legacies, and one boy’s choice could shatter empires or mend them.

Seventeen year old Kelvin Katz has never known what it feels like to belong. After the death of his biological father, his mother remarries, hoping to give her family a fresh start. Instead, Kelvin grows up under the constant emotional abuse of his stepfather, who treats him like an unwanted burden while showering love on his two younger half-siblings. Determined to protect his mother from more conflict, Kelvin endures the pain in silence, never realizing that he has been hiding something far more dangerous than his broken heart. When a terrifying supernatural power suddenly awakens inside him, Kelvin's ordinary life comes to an abrupt end. Secret government agents arrive within hours and take him to Antherion Tower, a mysterious fortress where teenagers with extraordinary abilities are confined. Believing the Tower is nothing more than a prison disguised as a school, Kelvin struggles to survive its brutal training, strict rules, dangerous rankings, and powerful students who constantly fight for dominance. Inside the Tower, he forms an unbreakable friendship with the fearless Raze Calder, the brilliant strategist Mara Sinclair, and several other gifted students who all share one dream—to escape and reclaim their freedom. As their bond grows stronger, so does Kelvin's determination to break out of the Tower, no matter the cost. But freedom comes with a devastating price. Beyond the Tower's walls waits The Dominion, a ruthless organization that hunts gifted individuals and transforms them into weapons capable of destroying nations. Kelvin uncovers the truth that changes everything: Antherion Tower was never built to imprison supernatural children—it was built to protect them from the horrors waiting outside. Now, with war approaching and loyalties tested, Kelvin must choose between escaping the place he hates or fighting to defend the only sanctuary standing between humanity and a terrifying new age of chaos.