Is This Really A Game?!

Cast out as a child, betrayed by blood, and erased from his father’s empire—Adrian DeLuca was never meant to return. To the mafia, he was just a bastard, a mistake, a ghost better left in exile. But ghosts have a way of coming back. Now a cold and calculating lawyer with nothing to lose, Adrian returns to the city that abandoned him. He doesn’t come with guns blazing—he comes with something deadlier: a mind sharpened by years in the shadows, an unshakable will for revenge, and the hunger to tear down the empire brick by brick. His half-brothers rule the DeLuca syndicate with arrogance and cruelty. His father sits on the throne of blood, untouchable. But Adrian knows their secrets, their weaknesses, their sins. He will turn allies into traitors, rivals into pawns, and enemies into stepping stones. Every courtroom victory, every hostile takeover, every life ruined brings him closer to his endgame. But power has a price. The deeper Adrian dives into the underworld, the more dangerous the game becomes. Enemies close in, the law hunts him, and even love becomes a weapon aimed at his heart. In a world ruled by loyalty and blood, Adrian must decide: Will he reclaim the throne as the true heir… or burn the entire empire to the ground and bury his family with it?

Nathan Cole Whitfield lost everything before the old world even had the chance to end, his job, his career, and a strategy game he spent three years building alone that nobody ever noticed. When the sky finally cracks and the world truly ends, he's thrown into the Shattered Flats, a barren wasteland with no law except survival. But the moment his old design journal transforms into the system running this new world, Nathan realizes something terrifying: he isn't just a random survivor. This world was built from his own dead dream, and something, or someone, is hunting down anyone who figures that out.

Bullied, forgotten, and unlucky. That is the fate of Nao, a high school junior at the end of his rope. Destined to fade into the background as an average joe. Is this really what life is all about? Is this all there is? Maybe, but who has time to brood when you have a book store to explore. It's here where fate will bend the knee to a new master, the magic game system. How this will affect Nao and the world? Only time will tell.

Arthur was just a janitor in a secret research facility until a catastrophic containment breach turned his mundane shift into a deadly struggle for survival. When a mysterious holographic System interface hijacks his reality, giving him impossible missions and punishing him for failure, Arthur realizes his life is no longer his own. Now, he must fight through mutated horrors, navigate lethal booby traps, and outsmart a cold-blooded AI to find an exit that may not even exist. In this game of survival, the mop is mightier than the sword, and the cleanup is only just beginning.

All Zion wanted was to be useful. After dizzying amounts of studying, training all his clan had to say to him was ... ' What a useless waste. ' Since they think they do not need him, he will not look for them any more. He will grow step by step, with his own strength and skills. One day, he will make them eat their words ! Imagination is rich, but reality is skinny. That is until he realized his innate blood line . he will touch an iron ingot, and make an 'S' level sword. he will touch a random leather, make a space pocket ! In front of his overpowered, over geared self, he will see who has the ability to talk ! All the people who looked down on him, prepare to beg on their knees ! ------ Book cover image sourced from www.freepik.com

A young brilliant NASA astronaut who is determined to find an outer space substance capable of turning ordinary humans into humanoids. He called it vibranium. After proposing the research to NASA, it was rejected without any further ado(delay). As if it was trash. He resigned out of anger; however, the zeal to fulfill his dreams kept burning in his heart. Five years of building up his agency from scratch. Ten years of failed experiments on project Vibranium. He almost gave up on his dreams…not until 'Brendan Omar' came into the picture. A talented VR(Visual reality) gamer named Brendan Omar has made quite a show in playing VR games and is considered one of the best in the United States. He has no idea he's being watched by this ambitious QASA(Quantum Aeronautics Science Agency) for a long time. Brendan is now part of their plan.

Losing someone you hold dear right before your eyes is a painful experience. The frustration of not having the strength to fight back nor the ability to take revenge. Those are the suffering Feng Shaotian have experienced at the death of his brother. But with the hope of reviving his dead brother, Feng Shaotian swore to do everything he can to gather all the materials needed. He honed his martial arts skill and managed the talent fruit to gain strength. Will Feng Shaotian be able to bring a miracle and revive his dead brother? Or live in regret for the rest of his life?

Upon awakening his eyes, all of a sudden all the people important in his life were gone. He had no idea how he had led to the railing and how his fate had changed. Until he discovered that someone was controlling his life.

In The Culling Game, survival begins at the fall… but death waits at every step. Every year, two hundred lives are stripped from their homes and thrown into the arena for an experiment as old as fear itself. The Culling Trial This year, one name didn’t belong. Kae’s. Illegally marked by his step-aunt’s ruthless blackmail, Kae never should’ve been chosen. Yet he is plunged into the trial with the other candidates, thrust into a labyrinth where everything can kill and every alliance bleeds dry. With the walls of the arena shrinking, there is no place to hide. But the greater danger waits beyond the battlefield. Even if Kae survives the trials, his enemies outside the walls—will ensure he never sees freedom again. To survive, Kae must carve a path through a world designed against him before it's too late for him.

Mark Lawson was nothing, A poor delivery boy, A man everyone bullied. A son who couldn’t even protect his parents. Until the day fate forced him into a billionaire gambling war. When the legendary undefeated gambler Tom West humiliates his family, Mark steps forward to challenge him in a game worth hundreds of millions.