Night

Samuel Gray is no one special. Just another forgotten soul in the lower levels of Novus City a place where dreams are traded for survival and even hope comes with a price. Each day blurs into the next as he delivers packages to people who don’t see him, eats food that barely tastes like anything, and falls asleep wondering if this is all life has to offer. But everything changes the night he tries to help a stranger and bleeds out in an alley. On the edge of death, a voice echoes in the darkness. > “Vitality Critical. Initializing Ascension Protocol. Do you accept?” In that moment, Samuel awakens something unimaginable: a system interface that turns the laws of life into a game complete with stats, quests, abilities, and something far more dangerous purpose. Now marked by a power that shouldn’t exist, Samuel must navigate a world where reality bends, imagination has weight, and forgotten dreams can become weapons. But the Ascension System didn’t choose him at random. There’s a reason he was chosen. There’s a cost to rising. And someone or something is watching.

A very large empty house located at the end of the Dusun Sentani road holds a big mystery. Shrubs and old banyan trees in the courtyard of this empty house add to the awesomeness of the house which is now empty and uninhabited. Village residents do not dare to approach the road in front of this empty house because it is always dark at night, especially at the end of the hamlet is the Sacred Forest which is very feared by the villagers. Residents often see apparitions of the Ghost of the Red Dress in this empty house, as well as indistinct whispering voices that further add to the eerieness of this empty house. The death of one of the hamlet residents makes Dusun Sentani a Haunted Hamlet because many spirits roam this hamlet at night. Clara, a beautiful student who returns to visit the hamlet of her birth with her boyfriend, also encounters many strange occurrences. The villagers who reject her presence for no apparent reason, as well as the secrets of Clara's dark past in this village make Clara feel trapped in Sentani Hamlet. Will Clara be able to unravel all the mysteries surrounding this haunted hamlet? Or will Clara be trapped in the curse that accompanies the Empty House and the Haunted Hamlet?

On our third wedding anniversary, I lit candles, cooked her favorite meal, and waited. She said she was working late. I went to surprise her. Instead, I found my wife walking into a hotel with another man—laughing, kissing—while I stood in the street like a fool. That night, I filed for divorce. The next day, her lover shoved me into traffic. The car should have killed me. Instead, I woke up with a power I can’t explain—five frozen seconds where the world stands still, and only I can move. Five seconds to expose a lie. Five seconds to ruin an enemy. Five seconds to make them choke on every ounce of humiliation they gave me. They took my love, my trust, and the life I built. Now I’m taking everything from them—slow enough that they’ll see it coming, and fast enough they can’t stop it. She betrayed me. They tried to bury me. But I’m not the man they remember. I’m the man they’ll regret ever crossing.

Five years ago, Leon Bartlett was hit on the head when he tried to help an old man from getting robbed and as a result, he lost his memories and turned into an idiot with the IQ of a child. To repay his kindness, the old man took him in and married his granddaughter to him. A year later, the old man dies and his family begins bullying Leon and his wife. Bullied by his brother-in-law one night while climbing up the stairs, Leon falls down the stairs and hits his head on the floor which happened to restore his memory. Right there and then, he recalled he was the founder of Kings Technology Group, the largest and wealthiest company in Wentworth! But after discovering his wife was just waiting for him to regain his memories to divorce him, he keeps it a secret from her and continues pretending to be an idiot as he waited for the perfect time to tell her. In the meantime, he'd just protect her from her vile family and trample down on those who thought it was fun to humiliate people simply because they were from a lowly background.

Lucas Moreau spent three years as a live-in son-in-law to the Beaumont family — enduring daily humiliations, silent cruelties, and the slow erosion of his self-worth. When his wife, Céleste, betrays him in the most devastating way possible, Lucas walks out with nothing but his name. Or so he believes. That same night, a silver-haired man in a black Bentley finds him on the rain-slicked streets of Paris. The message is simple: Lucas's estranged grandfather, the patriarch of the Moreau dynasty — one of the oldest and wealthiest families in France — is dying, and he wants Lucas home. Armed with a centuries-old fortune, a brilliant mind sharpened by years of humiliation, and a fury that refuses to cool, Lucas does not simply reclaim his birthright. He dismantles every person who ever looked down at him — piece by piece, deal by deal, smile by cold, calculated smile. But as Lucas rises, he finds an unexpected compass in Isabelle Fontaine — a sharp-tongued master pastry chef who refuses to be impressed by wealth and sees through every one of his carefully constructed walls. In a world of glass towers and old grudges, can Lucas keep his humanity? Or will the hunger for revenge consume the one thing worth having?

Mike went through the trouble of working day and night for 6 months to surprise his wife, Stella, only for her to bail out on the day he planned the surprise. After spending every penny he had to impress her, he discovered that she prioritized another man over him. Caught up in a fight with the man Stella cheated with, Stella hit his head with a vase causing him to sustain a bad injury. He bled and was dizzy. Waking up in the hospital, he discovered that he needed blood and he had a rare blood type. Unfortunately, there was only 1 percent of people with his blood type in the country. News reached the Duncan's villa that St Michael's hospital needed a blood donor. Mr. Duncan instantly felt alive in believing that the patient might be his grandson. After confirming the great news, Mike is led into a world of power, wealth, and fame. What happens when Stella finds out about her husband's new fortune? And everyone who bullied and mocked him ended up in his mercy. Scroll through the pages of this book to learn about Mike's story.

"Pardon?" Keegan pinched the bridge of his nose. "We were supposed to do this subtly, Eva. You don't just drop this kind of news like a bombshell." Eva didn't look remorseful. "He needs to know the truth." "Truth? What are you talking about?" Travis asked. Realizing Eva's hand was still in his, he withdrew it. Keegan shifted his gaze to Travis. He sighed and took out his phone. He said as he typed. "This is the DNA test result we carried out with your sample." He handed him the phone. With a frown, Travis's eyes scanned the screen. His eyes widened. The results stated that their DNA samples matched. How could he be a child of the Novaks? *** Travis's life was pretty much ordinary and average until one fateful night took the life of his adoptive father. He woke up in a mansion and they told him his biological father was the head of the Novaks, one the most influential family in the country. But it isn't a dream come true. Is he ready for the dangerous game of wealth, betrayal and secrets that comes with this new heritage?

The year is 3040, The place is Temple City, a sprawling metropolis in the heart of a vast valley surrounded by sea on one side and desert on another with a mountain range smack on the far end making traveling to the place on whim a difficult venture. Despite being a former vacation spot for the wealthy and powerful, Temple City is not at all a place for the faint of heart. With every step one can find dirty dealings with extensive consequences from seedy night joins, numerous rackets, drug pushing, sextrafficking, and any kind of illicit act one could think of in a place of sin and vice. Like most places, Temple City is home to sinner and saints alike and the saints composed of the working class and the downtrodden always seem to find their way to Det. Ian Baddwulf's front door when the police conveniently forget to search the nooks and crannies of the forgotten places for the missing and the dead, the people call on Ian Baddwulf to do a bit of snooping now and again. His tendency to sniff out trouble and to stick his nose where it didn't belong have made him an invaluable asset in his profession not including his skills pertaining to his inherited infliction with Lycanthropy.

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.

System, Game, Action, Fantasy, Urban Adventure. Liam Parker is just a broke teenage boy from a poor family, bullied at school and crushed at home. After losing his father, he and his mother are treated like dirt by their own relatives. When his greedy uncle and cold grandmother try to sell their only home, Liam finally snaps but he’s powerless. That night, everything changed. He receives a strange invite to a new online game called Nexus Trials, created by a mystery organization known only as The Nexus. All he has to do is wear a strange wristband—and suddenly, he’s no longer in his world. He’s on a never-ending bridge… with ten thousand other players. When the bridge starts breaking apart, panic breaks out. Only 2,578 make it to the other side. Then a voice speaks: “Welcome to the Nexus. This is not just a game. If you die here, you die in the real world.” From now on, Liam must fight to survive through 10 brutal levels filled with monsters, mind games, and player-vs-player battles. Each level is harder. The rewards are great—but so is the risk.