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Elias Cross wanted nothing more than to disappear. Once the city’s most brilliant forensic architect, he vanished after a scandal that destroyed his career. But when an old friend turns up dead — and the body is staged inside one of Elias’s abandoned designs — he’s pulled back into a world he swore he’d left behind. Each crime scene is a building. Each building is a clue. Each clue points to an impossible blueprint for the city’s destruction. With only a reckless journalist and a washed-up detective by his side, Elias must outwit a ghostly mastermind known only as The Mason. But as the city becomes a maze of deadly puzzles, Elias discovers the final design isn’t about buildings. It’s about him.

Seven long years in the shadow world of crime, Ethan finally returns home, hoping to leave his past buried and live a peaceful life. But trouble refuses to let him breathe. His brother’s disappearance pulls him back into the world of crime he swore to abandon. And now things got worse when his past begins hunting him down.   With his hidden identity exposed and his heart growing vulnerable to feelings he never saw coming, he is forced to return to his old ways to protect the people he loves. But betrayal cuts deeper than any blade when the very ones he tries to save turn against him. His own blood brother vows to end him.   In Kingscity, the only rule is kill or be killed. And love comes with a deadly price to pay.  

Once, Elysium promised salvation, a shining city where human and machine would become one. Now, it’s a graveyard of glass and steel, its secrets buried beneath the dust of a fallen world. Ethan Vale thought he escaped Elysium’s reach. But when echoes of its lost technology resurface, he’s thrust back into a web of lies that began long before his birth. Alongside Dr Taylor, Agent Hannah, Dr Myles, and the reborn Maya, his only link to what he’s lost. Ethan must uncover the truth behind the project that destroyed humanity’s last hope. But Elysium isn’t dead. It’s dreaming. And its dream is waking.

Luca Blackthorn lives on the edge of two worlds, the human and the monstrous. Cursed with a power that can devour him from within, he struggles to control the beast that lurks beneath his skin. When Emilio, a ruthless mafia lord with a blood stained empire, resurfaces, Luca faces an enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy him. Enter Grace Veyre, a lethal and unpredictable force from Emilio’s past. Once trained as his elite enforcer, she knows the darkness better than anyone and carries secrets that could either save or doom them both. Forced together by circumstance and survival, Luca and Grace navigate ambushes, betrayal, and relentless enemies, learning to trust each other in the shadows. Every encounter is a test of skill and will, every decision a gamble with life and death. As the body count rises and Emilio’s schemes tighten like a noose, Luca must master his curse, and Grace must confront her past before it destroys everything. In a city of fire, blood, and deceit, loyalty is fleeting, danger is constant, and only those who can fight together,and trust the untrustable, can survive.

Renan Bima wakes up in a ruined world, cursed with a shadow that houses an ancient deity. As the apocalypse intensifies, his shadow develops a mind of its own.

Raymond Cassian vanished ten years ago, a shadow in a world of secrets. Now he’s back, and surrendering. But he has conditions. He will speak only to Ayla Trent, a rookie with no clout, no field experience… and no clue why he chose her. Cassian claims a powerful society is pulling the strings of world events, from economic collapses to assassinations, and he has the evidence to prove it. Each name he drops opens a new investigation: corrupt billionaires, hidden assassins, rogue agents. But with each step, Ayla is forced to blur the lines between law and conspiracy, truth and manipulation. As the bodies pile up and secrets unfold, Ayla must decide: is Cassian revealing the truth? Or building a new empire, one move at a time?

Sinopsis Maximilian Adiwangsa is the ruthless heir to a corporate empire, but his path to power is stained with the blood of betrayal. When he encounters the mysterious Arabella Kinasih, a web of desire and danger threatens to consume them both.

Once hailed as the Invincible Shadow Warrior—the strongest cultivator of his era. Thaddeus Lynwood was betrayed by those closest to him and slain by his most loyal disciple. But death was just the beginning. Reborn into the crippled body of a slave boy at the bottom of society, Thaddeus now carries a forbidden power: the Shadow Flame System, an evolving entity that feeds on revenge, domination, and forbidden knowledge. Armed with past knowledge, a ruthless mind, and a new body immune to fate’s bindings, Thaddeus begins a brutal climb back to the top. With his shadow techniques feared even by gods, and a growing army of loyal undead and spirit beasts, Thaddeus wages war across all realms.

For thr‌ee years, Ethan⁠ Vance was the joke of the city. To his screaming mother-i‍n-l⁠aw, he was a penniless loser who could barely‍ budget the groceries. To the elite corporate clans‌, he was a nameles‍s parasit⁠e ridin‍g the coat-tails of his beautiful wife, Chloe⁠. He washed‌ th‍eir dishes, t‌ook their insu‌lts, an‌d stayed entirely silent. They thought he was a nobody. They forgot who mapped the⁠ mountains. ⁠Fo‌ur year‌s‌ ago, Ethan was the Suprem‍e Comma‍nde‍r of the Veridian Vanguard, the "Shadow E‌mperor" b‌etrayed a‍nd left for dead by‌ the co‌ntinent's ruling alliance. His three years of domestic⁠ exile weren'‍t a r‍etreat; they we‍re a countd⁠own. Now, the allianc⁠e has cros⁠sed the line‍, targeti⁠ng his wife’s compan‌y and pushing his f‍amily to t⁠he brink. The c⁠ountdown is over. The⁠ God-Sla‍yer batteries are charging‍, the‌ hidden Shadow Legion is emerging fro⁠m the dark, and Ethan‍ is fina‌lly stepp‌ing out o‍f the k‌i‌tchen. The elite clans‍ wanted a war. But the und‍erestimated son-in-law is abou⁠t to collect every‌ single receipt, and he wo‌n't stop until the e⁠ntire cont‌inen‍t is burning at his wife‍'s feet.

Marvin Simpson will be 25 next month. He is shy about ladies but not Cassie, the cleaner. Unknown to Marvin, Cassie was an assassin sent to kill him by the Contractor. Cassie has a four-month contract to kill Marvin while Marvin has Six months to get a wife or lose his company.