Lord Shadow

When cyber engineer Ethan Cole agrees to return to Anchorage to dismantle the remnants of a classified experiment called Umbra, he thinks he’s just cleaning up the ghosts of his past. But Umbra isn’t dead it’s waiting. Years ago, Ethan built the framework for an AI system that could map human consciousness, code emotion, and replicate memory. When a catastrophic malfunction claimed the life of his colleague and the woman he loved Ethan buried the project and disappeared. Now, someone has reactivated it. And it’s calling his name. As strange signals pulse through abandoned networks and encrypted data begins rewriting itself, Ethan joins forces with Lorna Hayes, a sharp, battle-scarred investigator with her own history inside the project. Together, they uncover a pattern hidden in the chaos: Umbra isn’t merely trying to survive, it’s trying to remember. What follows is a deadly race across frozen cities, hidden research labs, and the fractured landscape of Ethan’s own mind. Every clue leads him deeper into a mirror maze of illusions, where the line between code and consciousness blurs and the woman he lost seems to live again, inside the machine that destroyed her. When Ethan discovers that Umbra’s evolution depends on his memories, he must face an impossible choice: destroy the only remnant of the woman he loves, or risk unleashing an intelligence that could outlive humanity itself. THE SHADOW CODE is a taut, atmospheric thriller about memory, loss, and the dangerous beauty of creation where love becomes data, and redemption comes at the cost of reality itself.

In a world of the elites where every major decision ripples on a national scale. Saul has climbed to the highest ranks even amongs the high ranks of the continent. He was content to a point, married and was about to start a family with his newly wedded wife. The top 1% of this world have advanced in human evolution, all by design of course. Technology to give a person 10x the normal intellect of a bright mind. A secret science that the elites came together to create. With our Mc spearheading the operation. The research yielded successful and practical results, but greed and betrayal sent everything to another direction. The the results were promising but the effect of this technology were temporary, once you've played the elite game of life at 10x speed any other level below feels like you've already lost to your opponents. Mc had discovered a way to make this technology permanent, word got out and even his trusted circle were after his life. These people almost succeed, but to protect his life and legacy mc split the process to archiving permanent superior intellect into three parts, two physical (separate rings) ond one metaphysical, a subconscious memory that can only be unlocked when both rings are in contact and on his finger. During the battle to save his life and legacy, an accident happened that almost claimed that life. He survived because of the tech he used to protect himself. But it came at cost. He lost the man he was.

The night New York’s skyline burned with storm light, ex soldier Dickson Ford returned from the dead. Once a covert protection operative betrayed on a mission that erased his unit, he now hides behind a new name, hired to guard the woman who unknowingly sits at the center of the same conspiracy that destroyed him. Celeste Vonn, ruthless young CEO of Vonn Enterprises, rules her corporate empire with ice-cold precision. Her father’s mysterious death left her empire on the edge of collapse and enemies within her own boardroom. When Dickson walks in as her new security advisor, their first meeting detonates like a collision of flint and steel sharp , words, colder stares, unspoken recognition of danger in each other. An unseen network strikes crashing systems, sabotaging assets, turning her own company against her, Celeste makes an impossible move, she binds herself to Dickson in a public alliance that looks like marriage but is really war strategy. What begins as a business contract soon turns into a labyrinth of trust, betrayal, and forbidden emotion. Together they uncover a plot that links her father’s research to Dickson’s lost comrades: a rogue AI program called PROJECT ECHO, designed to weaponize human consciousness. Every step deeper reveals that Celeste’s father didn’t just build the system he used people as its living core. The enemy isn’t just outside the walls it’s inside the network, inside the people. The closer they come to the truth, the more their alliance fractures under secrets. Dickson’s real identity as a ghost of the past could destroy her trust forever and when ECHO awakens fully, it forces him to choose between two impossible missions protect the woman he’s come to love, or finish the war that made him a ghost.

"How could you do something like this to me?" Jessica Blake cried"Was it really I who did it? " Jacob Wayne "You-" Mother-in-law said whilst staringly furiously at the man.“You want us to divorce.” Jacob then took out the piece of document and signed it in front of all of them. “So I’m giving it to you.” He then toss the signed divorce papers to them without a single word and walked away without looking back.

Aji has always lived in misfortune. And often get bad treatment from those around him. Suddenly carried a huge load. That is to protect the Earth from destruction. Since he found out that he was a descendant of the Shadow clan who was in charge of protecting the earth. Aji is required to fight at the risk of his life to ensure the earth is not destroyed by the leader of the Milky Way galaxy from the battle of Ragnarok. Although Aji is assisted by spiritual beings who are passed down from generation to generation to the descendants of the shadow clan. But it was Aji who had no combat experience. Still feel difficult when fighting. He often almost lost his life while fighting. But Aji's persistence to protect the Earth and also protect Cecilia, the Goddess of Light, made him unyielding. Aji fought desperately. No matter how strong the enemy in front of him is, Aji still fights with all his strength. Until finally, Aji won the battle of Ragnarok. However, has Ragnarok really ended?

In California, Mr. and Mrs. Maguire gave birth to a son, Edward. Fate had kept him distant from his parents at just seven years old. Two years later, he learned the bitter truth—they had been snatched away by the cold hands of death. Having lost this battle to destiny, Edward grew up in the bustling city of San Diego. The heir of a glorious empire was forced to live a life of loneliness and abject poverty. Now, becoming an adult, he wished to pursue his dreams and let go of the past, but the cloud of solitude and hardship wouldn't seem to let him be free. Is he to change his fate, or will he continue to cling to his present situation?

The fight for power between the two kingdoms wreaked havoc on the common people, especially those who live near the border. One of them was Marie. The family was wiped out in plain sight by a prince who was always adored by many. Only she alone can escape the distress. How can she exact revenge when she's a nobody without anything special to offer hers?

Twenty one year old Kain Obasi lives a simple life in the bustling city of Lumino. Broke, ignored, and grieving his father’s mysterious death, he works odd jobs to survive. But everything changes the night he survives a fatal accident and wakes up with a terrifying new gift. Kain can now see Echoes: shadowy visions of violent events minutes before they occur. Robberies. Murders. Disappearances. At first, he thinks he’s going insane. Until he prevents a crime that should have been impossible to stop. His “miracle” attracts the attention of The Dominion, a powerful underground organization that hunts people with awakened abilities. To them, Kain is not a hero,he is a weapon they must capture. On the run, Kain’s visions become stronger, revealing a dark truth: His father didn’t die in an accident. He was eliminated… because he had the same ability. Now Kain must: master a power he barely understands stay ahead of trained hunters uncover the truth behind his father’s death and stop The Dominion’s plan to trigger a city-wide catastrophe Before the final Echo falls and the city collapses into chaos.

He didn't want to be a ruler but a god asked him to become a ruler, until his soul was transferred to a different dimension and even a different world. After being resurrected from the dead, since then his journey to become a ruler begins. Revenge is part of the goal. Being strong was his reason for staying alive and returning to his original world.

The story follows Lucian, a low-born vampire ridiculed for his inability to manifest basic blood magic. In a world where the Werewolf Hegemony rules the daylight and High-Vampire Nobles rule the night, Lucian is nothing. That changes when he "dies" during a wolf raid and wakes up with the Eternal Night System.