Olive Smith The Love Hypothesis

In the underworld of ruthless power and unforgiving loyalty, I made an oath that would bind me for life—a blood oath sealed by vengeance, desire, and a woman who became my most dangerous weakness. They call me a monster, a king in a kingdom built on violence and fear. But I never asked for this life. I only wanted to survive. Then she walked into my world—fiery, untamed, and brimming with secrets. Our bond was meant to be temporary. A flash marriage. A simple alliance in a world where trust is a currency no one dares to spend. But with her, everything changed. The Mafia doesn’t forgive, and neither do I. She’ll learn that soon enough as I drag her through a storm of betrayal, bloodshed, and passion she never expected. Our marriage may have been a lie, but my hunger for her is very real. Now, we’re both trapped by an oath we can't escape, each step we take pulling us deeper into a world that only one of us will survive. And in the end, the savage honor I live by might just be the death of us both.

After general Jack died in disgrace, betrayed general Jack wakes up ten years in the past—before his kingdom fell and before his enemies destroyed his family. This time, he’s ruthless. He keeps his past-life memories, gains a mysterious divine system, and starts eliminating threats one by one. The world thinks he’s weak, but he’s already planning their downfall.

Robbin Vance, a disgraced, jaded Frontier Guard Captain, just wants to quietly get through his exile. When a lonely, remote mining colony falls silent, he and the keen-eyed young scout Elaine see what their eyes couldn't believe, a creature filled with bodies, rooted standing where they fell; their bodies welded, flesh to flesh and bone to flesh, with a weeping, black iron that glows with a pale, alien light in their eyes. General Alistair Thorne and his legendary lost legions have reemerged after one thousand years dormant in the earth below. No longer entirely human, they have become living dead soldiers fighting a thousand year old war to reconquer a continent, to destroy their long-time enemy, an empire the current modern world has unwittingly reconstructed itself around. To do so, Robbin Vance will have to work with Juliana, a natural philosopher with all the keys to the past, to mount a desperate colonial resistance against the brutal, snow-stained winter, and against these ruthless champions when the old world wakes up and finishes its war. To win the war, the living must learn to strike and defend what belongs to them.

Thorne Black died a nobody, just a desperate grave robber trying to reclaim dignity for his family after the Holy Kingdom of Solace destroyed their graves to build its shining cathedrals. But death was not the end. Reborn as an undead bound to the Necro Overlord System, he awakens with one terrifying power: to harvest souls and raise an army from the dead. As Thorne’s power grows, so does his ambition. Villages fall, outposts crumble, and battlefields rise again under his command as he builds a relentless undead legion to tear Solace apart. But standing in his path is Sister Elara, a death priestess sworn to guide souls to rest. Unlike the others, she sees something unsettling in Thorne, not just a monster, but a man shaped by injustice. As their paths collide, faith begins to crack, and the line between justice and vengeance blurs. If the kingdom that claims to protect the living is built on the bones of the forgotten, then who is the true villain, and when the dead rise to reclaim what was stolen, will Thorne become the savior of the fallen… or the very tyrant he set out to destroy?

'I didn't kill him' I whispered my camera shaking in my hands while I looked at the blood on the marble floor. 'I know' the man in shadows whispered, his voice like velvet on rough ground. 'But the world believes that I did and you are the only one to attest to my innocence'. Elara Vance is a forensic photographer of the wealthy; a woman who sees the truth through a camera lens, and Silas Vane is the heir to a bankrupt empire who lives off the carrion of his enemies (known as the 'Vulture'), but when Elara catches him in the act of a murder she isn't supposed to witness he proposes a deal: either become his bride and his 'Glass Alibi' or she is the next body he will require her to photograph. In a world of predators can the man keeping her prisoner actually be her executioner...or her salvation.

Rosalie is an independent, strong and ambitious woman who's a neurologist at a hospital. Her life doesn't remain the same when she crosses paths with one of her patients who then appears to be her cousin, Venturo Lombardi. He tells her that she's the daughter of the Cheif of The Lombardi Family, the biggest and powerful Vampire family. She is taken to her real family against her will where she has to struggle to become a part of them. Rosalie is recognized as the next heir of the Lombardi Family amongst the Vampires and Werewolves. With no escape, she has to adapt the new environment, find true love and become the next Heiress..

Samuel Jonathan was a poor orphan, who was struggling to attend college. However, falling in love with Amelia Rosenberg rendered him unable to pursue his college degree because he wanted to please her. He dropped out of school and was working to fend for Amelia’s fees and personal well-being. But one day, she dumped him for the richest guy in college, Derek Cole; after everything Samuel had done. Sam wasn’t only humiliated by his ex, he was constantly humiliated by his coworkers and his boss every day, just when he thought that the universe was against him, he discovered that he wasn’t really an orphan, and his father was the wealthiest man in Los Angeles.

He was born a traitor’s son. The academy branded him a failure. But an ancient king’s soul calls him Master. Seventeen year old Kael Ashford arrives at the prestigious Dragonspire Academy with nothing but a patched tunic and the heavy burden of his family's disgraced name. Branded as the son of the kingdom’s ultimate traitor, he expects to be rejected during the public Bonding Ceremony. He expects to return to his starving border village in shame. He does not expect a legendary, midnight-scaled black dragon,a beast thought to be dead for centuries,to crash through the glass dome, bow in absolute submission, and call him "Your Majesty." Before Kael can claim his destiny, a cloaked assassin slits the dragon's throat, and a forbidden royal crest burns itself permanently into Kael's chest. Sentenced to the damp, rotten Discard Dorms with the academy’s lowest failures, Kael quickly realizes the dragon isn’t completely gone,its powerful consciousness is alive inside his mind, acting as a secret mentor. To survive the murderous gaze of Headmaster Vance and the cold, vengeful blade of the brilliant Lyra Voss, Kael must fake his weakness while secretly siphoning forbidden magic. But as he uses a stolen silver key to unlock the ancient, hidden ruins built directly beneath the school, he uncovers a dark laboratory that shatters the history of the kingdom. Deep within the academy's forbidden underbelly stands a cage of pure magical energy. And resting inside it, is a boy who shares his exact face,a perfect duplicate whose pitch-black eyes are wide awake, whispering a dark warning that will change everything.

When a cosmic event called The Reset merges the digital and physical worlds, chaos consumes Earth. Each human receives a “King System,” granting unique abilities and the chance to become a ruler in this brutal new hierarchy. Leon Vale, a 26-year-old mechanic and outcast, awakens to find his system inactive. Mocked and left for dead, Leon discovers his “broken” system hides a forbidden protocol: the ability to absorb and steal the powers of other Kings. Armed with this gift — and a vengeance born from betrayal — Leon sets out to hunt the new Kings. Along the way, he allies with Iris Kade, an ex-soldier with a loyalty-based combat system, and forms a ragtag empire of survivors. As Leon’s power grows, he learns of The Architect, the entity behind The Reset, and uncovers a secret war between divine factions using humanity as their testing ground. From the ashes of civilization, Leon must decide: will he become humanity’s savior, or its final tyrant? The answer will shape the new age — and crown The Last King.

After been killed by his cheating girlfriend's heartthrob, Donald finds himself reincarnated within the body of a weak hunter in another universe. He somehow is bestowed with a system upon his death and got transmigrated by its powers. In this apocalyptic world where monsters and demons thrive, Donald must complete every mission the system asks him to do in order to become more powerful and have his revenge on those who scorned him—even if he has to destroy the world to achieve this. And even if he has to become a villain to become more powerful, he is willing to walk that path. After all, humanity is already sunken beyond redemption. This is the purpose of the system—the Renegade System with which he awakened!