Monster High Holt

For two years, Lorenzo Lancaster played the penniless student for the woman he thought saved his life, secretly elevating Chloe Hawthorne to the heights of her family empire. But greed has a short memory. When Chloe dumps him at city hall for a fake billionaire heir, she unwittingly cuts her own safety net. Stripped of his illusion, Lorenzo discovers his true childhood savior was Roxana Vance—Chloe’s abused cousin, who is currently being sold off to a monster. Kicking down the doors of high society, Lorenzo reclaims his throne as the head of The Lancaster Group, rescues Roxana, and initiates a takedown of everyone who crossed them. But in a world ruled by corporate vultures and dark family secrets, holding the crown means surviving the betrayals—even if it costs them the very love they fought to reclaim. Would Lorenzo follow the dark path of rich socialites, or would he fight to reclaim the love of his life?

Craig Seven is a 35-year-old ex-Navy SEAL who falls into the drug trade after a devastating career setback leaves him desperate to pay the medical bills keeping his four-year-old daughter alive. For her, Seven is willing to cross any line. But during a high-stakes drug deal, a bullet to the head should have ended his life. Instead, Seven awakens before strange beings who offer something impossible: a second chance at life. There is only one catch—he must become a Soul Eater, a supernatural bounty hunter serving an organization that claims to be responsible for the creation of mankind. With no other way to survive, Seven accepts. His first assignment seems simple: hunt down Mephisto, a 23-year-old law student wanted by the Soul Eater Organization. Find her. Kill her. Deliver her soul. But the closer Seven gets to his target, the more he realizes that Mephisto is not the monster they claimed her to be—and the Soul Eaters may not be the saviors they claim to be. Now Seven must choose between the organization that gave him a second life and the woman he was ordered to kill. Because the Soul Eaters are the only thing keeping him alive—and possibly his only chance to save his daughter. How much is Seven willing to sacrifice for Mephisto when everything he has ever fought for is on the other side of the trigger?

God Vanished. Twenty-five years ago, the world changed. Gates appeared across the Earth. Monsters poured through them, and humanity awakened powers it never knew existed. Xavier Reed was one of the unlucky ones. Born with strange crimson eyes and abandoned as a child, he grew up believing weakness was simply his fate. With no talent or power, he became an E-Rank dungeon porter, the disposable man hunters left behind. Until one dungeon changed everything. Abandoned to die by the very people he trusted, Xavier watched the portal close before him as a monster tore through his body. He should have died. Instead, something awakened. [Host Located.] [Welcome back, Xavier Reed.] A mysterious System has chosen him. But this is no ordinary System. It doesn't simply hand out quests or demand that he become stronger. It watches. It judges. It remembers something that Xavier doesn't know. Something that may have not happened yet. As Xavier climbs from the bottom, he begins to uncover secrets hidden behind the Gates. Something is wrong with the world. Why has Heaven fallen silent? Why is the Underworld moving? And why was Xavier chosen? The answers may be connected to a truth far more terrifying than the monsters beyond the Gates. Humanity may have already lost this war. And that is why he was chosen, to change that outcome.

Everyone in Eclipse City dreams of awakening an ability. I spent twenty-five years being one of the powerless. Then a monster attacked during one of my deliveries, and a strange voice appeared inside my head. [SYSTEM ACTIVATED.] For the first time in my life, I had power. But there was a problem. The system hated me. Every mission became more dangerous. Every reward came with a hidden price. When I refused to obey, it punished me. Then I discovered the truth. I wasn't the system's chosen host. I was its biggest threat. Previous hosts had all died after reaching Level 50. The system had made sure of it. Now I'm approaching Level 50, and the system is becoming desperate. It wants me to open something called the First Gate. It doesn't want me to know what's behind it. And the more I uncover, the more I realize that my entire life may have been part of the system's plan. But the system made one mistake. It gave its prisoner enough power to become its enemy. Now I'm going to break every rule it gave me... even if the truth behind the First Gate destroys the world I know.

Baracio Delano was a handsome young man of mixed blood. Bara was the son of a billionaire, Mr. Delano Mikhail, and Mrs. Nai Xin Luo. Bara’s life changed drastically when he lost both of his parents ten years ago. His life became like that of a statue or a robot constantly monitored. Bara was forced into marriage under the orders of Uncle Burhan, who had raised him all these years. On the night of his wedding, an incident once again shook Bara’s soul, causing his long-lost courage to resurface. After being betrayed and hurt, Bara became extremely cold and ruthless toward any woman who tried to approach him. Because he was too disappointed by a life that kept playing with him, Bara decided to leave. On the very night of his departure, Bara found a baby not far from his parents’ grave. Bara started his life from zero alongside the baby he had found. Since the moment he met the unfortunate infant, Bara’s life began to fill with unexpected fortune! Truths that had been hidden all this time finally started to unravel! It turned out that a great secret was the true cause behind the death of Bara’s parents. And after learning everything, Bara completely transformed into a cold-blooded monster!

Three years ago, Dr. Adrian Cole was the golden boy of surgery until the powerful Monroe family framed him for malpractice, stripping him of his license and his wife, Lilian. Now, Adrian has returned as Chairman Cole, the cold, ruthless majority shareholder of a medical conglomerate, and his target is the Metropolitan Medical Group (MMG)—the very hospital that ruined him. Adrian’s meticulously planned destruction is swiftly turning into a global shadow war when he discovers the Monroes are merely a regional arm of a vast, illicit syndicate known as The Foundation. His revenge is no longer just personal; it's a desperate fight for survival against an international enemy. The one weakness in his airtight plan is Dr. Lily Monroe, Lilian’s brilliant younger sister, who secretly believes in Adrian’s innocence. As he installs her in a high-stakes position to gather intel, their volatile professional rivalry ignites an intense, forbidden attraction. When The Foundation issues its brutal ultimatum—forcing Adrian and Lily into a public, fake engagement to protect her reputation—the line between protector and adversary vanishes. Can Adrian dismantle a global conspiracy without losing the one woman who sees the man behind the monster, or will the price of his ultimate victory be the second life he fought so hard to reclaim?

People treated Ethan like trash right up until he figured out how to steal the power of the gods. Three years. That’s how long Ethan Vance slogged through life as a bottom-tier scavenger, scraping by selling monster cores so his gorgeous girlfriend could stay in her fancy academy. But when she finally awakened as a Tier-2 Frost Mage, she didn’t thank him. She dumped him. Worse she and her new rich boyfriend trapped Ethan beneath the rubble of a collapsing Tier-5 dungeon and walked away, leaving him for the monsters. Everyone wrote him off for dead. But Ethan didn’t die. Instead, the universe glitched in his favor, and he woke up with the God-Level Extraction System. [BEEP! Extracted from Overlord Shadow Demon: +500 Strength. Skill unlocked: Shadow Step!] Now, while the world mourns the nobody scavenger, Ethan claws his way out of the abyss. He’s not just picking through the scraps anymore he’s stealing powers, bloodlines, and secrets from monsters and the best hunters out there. To his scheming ex and the arrogant elite running this city: go ahead, keep hiding your strength. Ethan’s on his way, and he’s taking everything you’ve got.

Behind the opulence of the Mediterranean coast, Matthew Valdes is a dangerous anomaly. Born with prosopagnosia, face blindness, he does not perceive people as individuals, but as patterns of geometric data, centers of gravity, and breathing rhythms that he calls the "Ares System." Yet his brilliance comes at a devastating cost. Every time he pushes the system to its limits, his brain suffers a neurological overload that could leave him permanently paralyzed or irreversibly blind. The brutal murder of his mother at the hands of a professional assassination unit forces Matthew back into the wolf's den that cast him out, the Valdes Dynasty. There, he is not welcomed as the rightful heir, but as a legal instrument meant to salvage the clan's dying empire. Standing in his way is Rodrigo, his strategically brilliant sociopathic uncle, who has prepared a trap behind every legal move Matthew makes. This is not merely a physical war. It is lawfare, a battlefield where every signature is a bullet and every contract is a noose. Matthew will lose the people who remain loyal to him. He will be forced to crawl across the ground with blood in his mouth. Until he realizes one undeniable truth. To defeat a monster, he must become the faceless ruler of the shadows, a man without a face, yet with the world beneath his feet.

"Every time I kill, a memory of my mother is erased. Every time I use this power, my own name becomes foreign to my ears." Five years after the Red Rose plague transformed Chicago into a vegetative hell, Nico Moretti survives as a monster wearing human skin. Known as Subject 01, Nico is the Patient Zero who successfully adapted to the alien seeds from Aegis Pharma. However, that power comes with a horrific price: every 1% increase in Mutation permanently strips away 1% of his memories. In the midst of the Great Bloom Cycle that has begun to destroy the remnants of civilization, Nico rescues Elena Vance, a scientist who holds the secret key to Project Catalyst. Nico is now hunted not only by the Apostles—humans who worship the plague—but also by Sovereign, the collective consciousness of the roses that seeks to take over his body completely. With the arrival of The Reapers from space and a military ready to incinerate the city, Nico must fight through thousands of Bloomers toward the Greenhouse. He must choose: lose all his memories to become a God who destroys his enemies, or die as a human who doesn't remember who he is. Blood must be spilled, mutations must bloom. Because in this world, power isn't free—it is paid for with the soul.

CLEANERS A Filipino Urban Fantasy Series Synopsis When the monsters are real, who protects the innocent? In the Philippines, an ancient evil hides behind human faces. Shapeshifters stalk the night, preying on families while wearing the masks of trusted neighbors. Most victims never see them coming. Those who do rarely survive to tell the tale. Denmar and Marden Santos are twin brothers whose lives changed forever in a single night. Now they're part of a secret organization that hunts creatures most people believe are just folklore. Armed with blessed weapons and trained by survivors like themselves, they must navigate a hidden war where enemies look exactly like allies. Where the helpful janitor might be feeding information to monsters. Where saving one life might require sacrificing another. Because when shapeshifters can be anyone, trust becomes the deadliest game of all. As an ancient power stirs and the supernatural underground prepares for war, the Santos twins face an impossible choice that will determine not just their survival, but the fate of everyone they're sworn to protect. In a world where monsters hide in plain sight, how do you know who the real enemy is? CLEANERS is a supernatural thriller that blends Filipino folklore with modern urban fantasy, exploring themes of family, loyalty, and the price of survival when the line between human and monster becomes impossible to draw.