Kate Schmidt Fear Street

The Blackwood empire was built on blood and betrayal. Damon Blackwood was about to learn just how deep the rot went. Damon was the overlooked "spare," the gentle heir content to live in the shadow of his powerful family. But at his own engagement party, his world shattered. His fiancée, Claire, publicly abandoned him for his ruthless cousin, Adrian. His uncle, Kane, framed him for a multi-million dollar theft. Beaten, disgraced, and hunted by the police, Damon was thrown into the street like trash. He was ready to die. But the gods had other plans. In the darkest alley, with sirens closing in, an impossible voice echoed in his mind: [SUCCESSOR OF WAR DETECTED.] A mysterious System claiming descent from Ares, the Greek God of War, has awakened in his blood. It offers him unimaginable power, instant healing, and a terrifying strength—but at a price. He must complete increasingly brutal quests for vengeance, or the power will consume him. Now, the gentle man is gone, replaced by a ruthless predator. His former fiancée, Claire,watches in growing regret as the man she betrayed transforms into everything she secretly desired. His cousin, Adrian,and Uncle Kane realize their political games have unleashed a monster far more dangerous than they ever intended. The System orchestrated his downfall, the betrayals, and the humiliation—all to forge him into the perfect weapon. Damon Blackwood faces an impossible choice:Embrace his dark destiny and claim power through violence, or resist the System and die as the weak man everyone thought he was. The game has changed. The System demands blood. And the God of War is ready to collect.

Leo was typical, overlooked and completely unprepared when a forbidden tome chose him and gave him the mark of a Warden and placed him under the Mage Academy. This school is an intermediary between worlds, a training ground where recipients of a gift of a System Interface, called a Codex, are trained. However, the file of Leo himself is empty, his Codex whispers that they are “unfinished,” and the elite at the Academy are watching him with suspicion and fear. Dropped into a realm of magical rank and fatal challenges, Leo is an exception. His magic is not dead, but a forbidden energy, which develops by consuming the magic and memories of others. In a maimed mentor who has an overabundance of knowledge, a genius competitor with a cursed lineage, and an ally with a talent to outwit the street, Leo discovers a rot inside the Academy. It is not merely teaching magic, it is harvesting it, it is tapping its students with the souls of its former students to feed its immortality, all managed by an enigmatic, manipulative Headmaster. As the boundary between the magical and the mortal realms collapses, Leo gets to know the horrifying reality of his destiny. He is a “Fractured Soul,” a descendant in an intergenerational cycle, who will either redeem the world or ruin it. In order to escape the cycle, he should learn how to overcome the same force that is eliminating his human nature and face the most outrageous truth of all: the man who has tortured him is his own father. The world has become the teacher, but Leo now has to rewrite the final lesson. Tags: Progression Fantasy, Academy Fantasy, Gaslamp Fantasy. Underdog Protagonist, Magical School, Forbidden Magic, System Interface, Conspiracy, Found Family, Cyclical Destiny, Tragic Romance.

When the world goes silent, survival begins. A global blackout ends everything — power, communication, and control. In one terrifying instant, cities burn and the modern world disappears. High in the River-mouth Mountains, Caleb Cross, a quiet hydroplant engineer, becomes the unwilling leader of strangers trapped in the dark. As panic turns to hunger and trust turns to fear, Caleb must keep them alive while the outside world collapses into violence. Every night brings new threats: desperate survivors, freezing storms, and the crushing silence of a planet gone dead. In the darkness, leadership costs blood. In the quiet, humanity is tested. And when the last light fades, Caleb will learn what kind of man survives after the quiet.

Kael was born without aura. In a world where power defines destiny, he was branded trash, mocked by peers, and abandoned by those who should have protected him. For fifteen years, he endured humiliation. Until the day death came for him—only to awaken something the world had forgotten. Not flame. Not lightning. Not sword. Dominating Aura. The moment it surged, mountains shook, the proud bent their knees, and the strong trembled. The boy they once spat on had become the storm no one could resist. But power draws enemies. Nobles fear him, elders seek to control him, and ancient beings whisper his name once more. Betrayal, blood, and destiny await as Kael rises from nothing to challenge the heavens themselves. For he was never meant to kneel. He was born to dominate.

In the divided land of Elyndor, power is everything. Whether born a mage, a monster-slayer, or a martial savant, your destiny is carved by the strength of your Core. Rashford Oakwood has none. Mocked and discarded, he faces a gruesome death at the hands of raiders only to awaken in the ruins of his village with an unnatural force coursing through his veins. His soul has been reforged. His enemies do not yet realize they’ve made a monster. But Rashford does not seek revenge alone. He seeks answers: to the secrets his father died for, the powers that fear his awakening, and the war tearing Elyndor apart. Each chapter draws blood. Each battle writes history, And Rashford’s story is only just beginning.

Kaelen is a traveling illusionist who wants nothing more than freedom: laughter, open roads, and a stage beneath the stars. But when his path collides with the political machinations of Eldralith, he finds himself pulled into a deadly game of empire. The Veyran envoys have come to claim Eldralith’s princess as a hostage-bride, a chain to bind the kingdom. But beneath the weight of diplomacy and steel, Kaelen discovers that the shadows hide something older and more dangerous than politics and that his tricks are fragments of a power the empires fear above all. He has no crown, no army, and no desire for war. But when illusions turn to weapons and laughter becomes defiance, Kaelen must decide: run as he always has, or stand and become the spark of rebellion.

“They said I was nothing, so I became everything they could never be.” *** Jake Miller, a broke university student who’s used to being bullied by his coursemates. Struggling just to survive, he faced daily humiliation, which led to his girlfriend dumping him for one of the wealthiest guys on campus. Just when things couldn’t get worse, a miraculous phone call changed Jake’s life forever. From being the poorest student on campus to becoming a mysterious young billionaire overnight, Jake is no longer the boy people used to laugh at. He’s the man they now fear, envy, and beg to impress. Get ready to witness a shocking transformation filled with betrayal, revenge, and mind-blowing twists as Jake Miller rises from nothing to everything.

Viktor Drichey has dedicated his life to becoming a magician. In his quest to end the world's pain and suffering and protect loved ones from him, he accidentally opens the door of a terror few sane men have ever seen: the door that gives access to the secrets of the world. death. Because necromancy promises despair for those who fail and unimaginable horrors for those who succeed. Shadow World tells the fate of this once noble man as he falls deeper and deeper into darkness. This intensely moving narrative leads the reader through looted cemeteries, where grave robbers carry out their macabre work, into the darkness of necromancy itself. The dead will rise from the graves. Fear the man who makes you walk

Ngwan Le, wielder of the divine light power, defended his world against extraterrestrial invasions, earning fear and respect across the universe. After ascending to the pinnacle of power as a throne god, he was offered the ultimate prize: godhood. "I won't become a monarch to my friends," Le declared. But Le's trust was shattered when a trusted friend struck him down. "Who could have imagined that the power of darkness, which I discarded, would bring me back to life?" Le mused, his voice now laced with a darker intent. Now, fueled by a burning desire - not revenge but something more woth it. Ngwan Le sets out on a new mission - to become the greatest villain the universe has ever known.

After three years of disappearance, the God of War returns to take revenge on those who framed and destroyed his family. Xavier Smith hides his identity from his family, his wife and his in-laws. He wanted to find out who was worth fighting for. Even though he had to swallow the humiliation of being a useless son-in-law to the Cooper family, and his household was almost threatened with divorce if Savana did not defend and protect him. Xavier promised to look after his wife and make her happy as compensation for her absence for years after their marriage. The fact that his twin hadn't committed suicide and that his parents' accident wasn't just an accident made Xavier furious. He finally decided to reveal his identity and make them fear for their lives.