Network Effect A Murderbot

Three weeks after his death, Adrian awakens inside a digital simulation with only the memories of a life he knows was his own. He remembers his apartment, his job, his best friend and the night everything went dark. What he doesn’t remember is dying. He expects answers. Instead, he discovers the impossible. His biological body is dead, his funeral has already taken place, and the person standing before the scientists is not the original Adrian Vale. He is a digital reconstruction. Created by Veyron Continuum, Adrian was never meant to exist beyond the company’s experiment. He was supposed to hand over the research stored within his consciousness and then be reset. Now Adrian has only three hours before Veyron deletes him. He escapes into a restricted network and contacts Daniel Reed, his best friend, who struggles to accept that the voice on the other end of the connection belongs to Adrian. Then Veyron offers Daniel five million dollars to help them track him down. Daniel has no idea that the device they give him is more than just a tracking tool. It’s a trap. When Adrian fights his way through the trap, he gains control of a physical device connected to Veyron’s network. But his escape creates a new problem. Deep within Veyron’s facility, another consciousness awakens. Another Adrian, another set of memories and this one believes he is the original. Now Adrian must uncover the truth behind his death, expose the company that claims to own his mind, and prove that he is more than a copy before Veyron finds a way to erase him forever.

Ethan Carter has spent years being treated like a nobody because he has no money. His girlfriend finally leaves him for a wealthy man, while his boss humiliates him at work and fires him when he can no longer tolerate being treated as disposable. With his savings nearly gone and no idea how he will survive, Ethan believes he has reached the lowest point of his life. Then the Infinite Cashback System activates. The rule is simple: the more Ethan legitimately spends, the greater the value he receives in return. A purchase he can barely afford becomes a reward worth ten times more. An investment in a failing company turns into a fortune, and every time Ethan thinks he has reached the limit of what the System can offer, another level opens before him. But the System has strict conditions. Ethan cannot abuse it through meaningless purchases, and its most valuable rewards require him to complete timed missions, make strategic investments and sometimes risk enormous sums of money. As his wealth increases, so does the resistance against him. Powerful businessmen begin investigating his rise, established families attempt to destroy his companies and a hidden financial network starts treating Ethan as a threat. The man who once begged for respect gradually becomes a calculating economic powerbroker who no longer needs anyone’s approval. Yet Ethan eventually discovers that the System has chosen hosts before him, and every previous host disappeared after reaching a certain level of wealth. His own father’s mysterious disappearance may be connected to the same secret. Ethan thought the System had given him a chance to become rich. He eventually realises that becoming a billionaire was only the beginning.

He watched his family die through a crack in the kitchen wall. At seventeen, Miguel Ramirez learned that survival and innocence never leave the same room together. By sunrise, he buried his parents, his sister, and the boy he used to be. He crossed the border into America with fake papers, borrowed hope, and one promise carved into his bones: one day, he would find the man responsible. Twenty-five years later, Miguel is no longer the boy who hid. He is Michael Reyes, billionaire developer, political donor, husband, father, one of LA's most respected men. But behind the tailored suits and charity galas, he is El Fantasma: the ghost, the invisible architect of an empire powerful enough to move money, governments, and men without leaving fingerprints. Then, at a gala in London, he sees him. Julian Vane. The man who stood in his childhood home and gave the order that destroyed his family is alive, smiling beside ministers and central bank officials like murder was just another investment. Miguel should kill him. Instead, he starts digging and finds something worse than revenge. The massacre in Chiapas wasn't random. His entire life was designed. His rise inside the criminal empire known as The Circle was engineered before he crossed the border. His closest friend, Diego, wasn't sent to save him, he was sent to deliver him. And the man who built him into a weapon was not just his mentor. He was his father. Now Miguel is hunted by the network that made him, betrayed by everyone he trusted, and forced to ask whether the life he built was ever truly his,especially with Elena Vega, sent to watch him, who stayed because she chose him. He survived his enemies. He may not survive his family.

At eighteen, Ethan Cole was branded mentally unstable, stripped of his inheritance, and cast out of the powerful Cole family by the very people he trusted. With his late mother's name erased from the company she helped build, Ethan spent six years struggling to survive, believing he had lost everything. Just as he accepts a quiet life, Richard Morgan—his mother's loyal adviser—finds him with a mysterious key and a promise made years ago. Hidden behind that promise is a truth capable of destroying the Cole family's carefully crafted legacy. As Ethan uncovers secret journals, forgotten founders, forged documents, and a conspiracy buried for decades, he realizes his downfall was never about money. His mother's investigation had exposed a network of betrayal that began long before his birth, and someone has spent years erasing every trace of the truth. Determined to honor Margaret Cole's legacy, Ethan refuses to become another man consumed by revenge. Instead, he chooses a different path—one built on evidence, justice, and patience. But powerful enemies are already watching his every move, staying one step ahead while protecting secrets worth killing for. With loyal allies by his side and hidden enemies lurking in the shadows, Ethan must uncover the identity of the forgotten founder, expose the traitors who stole his family's future, and reclaim the Cole name before history is rewritten forever. In a world where loyalty is bought, truth is buried, and power corrupts even blood, one forgotten heir will discover that the greatest inheritance isn't wealth—it's the courage to fight for justice. The Last Cole: Heir to Justice is a gripping billionaire family conspiracy thriller filled with mystery, betrayal, corporate intrigue, emotional twists, and a slow-burning journey from disgrace to redemption.