Humans Can Lick Too

A Murder Mystery Set in a Cape Town Hospital Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, known for its world-class medical care, becomes the scene of a chilling murder. Dr. Alex van Wyk, a respected but controversial surgeon, is found dead in his office, his body carefully arranged as if he were still at work. The only clue? A cryptic message scrawled in blood on his desk: "Do no harm." Detective Siya Ndlovu, a sharp-witted investigator with a troubled past, is assigned to the case. As she delves into the hospital’s inner workings, she uncovers dark secrets, rivalries, malpractice cover-ups, and a black-market organ trade operating beneath the surface. The suspects range from ambitious doctors to desperate patients and even the hospital's board members. Tensions rise when a second body turns up, a nurse found in the morgue, her lips stitched shut. The message is clear: someone is silencing those who know too much. With the clock ticking and another potential victim in the killer’s sights, Siya must navigate a web of deception, greed, and medical ethics. Can she unravel the mystery before the hospital turns into a hunting ground? Or is the killer always one step ahead?

"I've been humiliated for too long. Now you will all pay. It will be my pleasure to return every spite you have directed at me, you damned losers."

"You think you can stop me, Aiden? You're nothing but a pawn in this game." Malrik's voice echoed through the cold, sterile darkness of the virtual world, laced with malice. "In The Abyss, I am the ruler. And you will fall, just like everyone else." Aiden Cross never wanted to return to The Abyss. But when his sister’s mysterious death resurfaces in the form of a cryptic message, he’s pulled back into the deadly virtual world he tried to escape. Now, he must navigate shifting alliances, face dangerous enemies, and confront a hidden AI that holds the key to everything. But with every step, the line between reality and illusion blurs—each move he makes seems to play into the hands of the malevolent forces that control it all. In the fight to uncover the truth and save humanity, Aiden will have to decide: is he a hero, or is he just another pawn in a game he doesn’t understand? But when the virtual world begins to merge with reality... Will Aiden be able to stop Malrik before it’s too late? Or will the game consume him entirely? The countdown has begun. The question is... who will survive the game?

What is Apocalypse? End of everything...! But it could also be the starting of a new leap. Ethan, a twenty-year-old crippled young man, with a heart full of determination, was caught in the thick of the alien onslaught. In the Apocalypse, the world was at the end of the game. He lost hope, and his dreams shattered but something miraculous happened when a system was introduced before him. Amid the chaos, a special force known as the Stellar Vanguard arrived. Nobody had ever guessed who was the mastermind behind all this not even Ethan. The Vanguard took in the surviving humans, including Ethan, offering them refuge aboard their vast fleet of starships providing them with a unique system. The Zodiac System. This system welcomed him with open arms, igniting a flicker of hope that would fuel his every step and make him strong as he embarked on his journey to Battle against those aliens who destroyed his motherland. But what would happen if he knew that the mastermind behind him was he, himself? Try a new and fantastic story of battle with the Aliens. Thank you for choosing my book, reviews and comments are all welcome.❤❤

Ethan Cole was looked down on by everyone. His in-laws treated him like trash, his wife never respected him, and the entire city saw him as nothing more than a useless son-in-law. He was nothing but a punching bag for those who thought they were better than him. But they never knew the truth. Ethan wasn’t just some ordinary man, he was the heir to the powerful Cole family, the wealthiest and most feared family in the country. Due to past mistakes, Ethan had chosen to live a quiet life, keeping his true identity undercover, but when they pushed him too far, they awakened the beast within him. Now, the same in-laws who used him as a punching bag are nothing but stepping stones beneath his feet. The so-called rich and powerful young masters who mocked him? They now bow before him, trembling in fear. His wife, who never saw his worth can only watch in shock as he becomes the most influential man in the city. Ethan is done being the fool everyone laughs at. He will show them what true power looks like. And this time, he’s the one throwing the punches.

When demon hunter Myles Cross is killed during a mission gone wrong, he expects hell—or worse. What he gets instead is an offer from the Lord of the Underworld himself. Reborn as the Hellborn, Myles becomes Hades’ last hope in a cosmic chess game where the Seven Trumpets—ancient relics powerful enough to trigger the apocalypse—have begun to surface. With one strapped to his wrist in the form of a mysterious watch, Myles must now face a brutal new reality: hunted by demons, betrayed by humans, and haunted by what he's becoming. As the Paragon—an elite faction sworn to exterminate all supernatural threats—capture him and question his existence, Myles finds an unlikely ally in the cold but conflicted Lieutenant Anna Storm. Together, they must survive assassins like the sadistic Kaelin, the shape-shifting shadow Nixx, and the monstrous Infernox. But as each trumpet awakens, the line between salvation and damnation blurs. And with his powers growing and his past life crumbling, Myles must decide— Is he the world’s last defense? Or its doom incarnate?

Too lighted in the green grasses, indeed the golden star and dazzling moon have combined their shining lights. Surprisingly, this forms into a classy and ravishing guy. His name is Aris who makes the world more bewitching.

"You can't subdue me to a position I've never dreamt of... To you, I'm worthless and poor, but I believe there's more to me being myself." "You should stop forcing me to turn, and going in from behind, I'm not an open door meant for every passerby..." These were the wailing and sobbing words from Kendrick, the trampled son-in-law. His world battered and soiled. Once a proud man, a family’s test found him a solace, entangled with Louis in a world of passion and pleasure. But as they say, "time flies." His newfound world crumbled, he finds himself, a maid to the Roger's family, pride succumbed by love, duty exchanged for servitude. Beaten and battered, mocked and humiliated, Vulgar words pierced through his eardrums daily, causing his eyes to widen in surprise, and his jaw to clench in pain. But then, the hands of time turned. Kendrick's resilience begins to awaken. With his secret heritage revealed, he prepares to reclaim his destiny. Will the Roger's family realize who Kendrick truly is before it's too late? Or will Kendrick’s transformation from humiliated servant to powerful heir shatter their world forever?

Marcus West was about to swallow a handful of pills when someone started pounding on his door. Three years ago, he had everything. A restaurant he built from nothing. A wife who believed in him. A future. Now he's got $186,000 in medical debt, a dead wife, and a condemned hotel room in the Tenderloin. Then Jerome shows up bleeding, holding a USB drive and gasping: "They did it to you too. Here's proof." Turns out Marcus's life didn't fall apart by accident. His restaurant was sabotaged. His wife was a federal agent murdered for protecting him. His father was killed for knowing too much. The same people destroyed all of them. Now Marcus has something they didn't expect: the Karmic Debt System. A power that turns suffering into currency. Every nightmare, every loss, every moment of pain—it all has value now. And Marcus has been suffering for a very long time. They took everything from him. He is about to take it back and with interest. Can Marcus tear down the empire that destroyed everything he loved before the debt consumes him? Or will his quest for vengeance cost him what little humanity he has left?

"Honey... Where have you been? Can you help me?" Glenn asked his wife; his body was completely paralyzed. "Don't 'honey' me, Glenn. I'm fed up with all this pretense. Why are you so stubborn? It would have been easier if you died in yesterday's accident..." Amber snapped, glaring at him, visibly frustrated. Glenn was surprised by his wife's words, and then Jason, his business partner, suddenly appeared and warmly embraced his wife. Glenn's world immediately crumbled. What betrayal cuts deeper than discovering those closest and dearest are the perpetrators? Glenn Smith knows it all too well. The revelation of his wife, Amber, deceiving him, fostering a secret love with Jason—his colleague—and Ethan not being his biological son but a product of their affair, shattered Glenn's world. The very individuals he lifted from poverty and elevated status stabbed him in the back. Yet, a life-threatening accident thrusts Glenn back in time to when he first encountered this deceitful duo; he seizes a second chance. Once a naive, unsuspecting man, Glenn now vows to metamorphose into someone unrecognisable, someone ready to retaliate against them!