Once Bitten Twice Shy

For Shaden, his life had already crumbled the moment his father was sentenced to life in prison. There wasn’t a single day he could live in peace—everyone looked at him with hatred, as if he were a repulsive insect. He had nothing, except for an old book left behind by his father, which he read every time he longed for him. But one day, the world changed. Things that were once impossible suddenly became real. And that book of his was the key to everything. Can Shaden survive the ruin and save the world? Or will he perish along with it?

Black Hollow is a town built on secrets, where the past lingers like smoke and whispers of the dead weave through the wind. When Evelyn Drake, a 32-year-old trauma psychologist, inherits her estranged grandmother's abandoned estate, she plans to sell it and never look back. But the house, once ravaged by an unexplained fire, holds a history as twisted as the town itself. Evelyn soon discovers that her grandmother, Vivienne Hale, was a Soul Keeper, a guardian of spirits trapped between life and death. Her return stirs something ancient and angry. The spirits of Black Hollow awaken, their vengeance unresolved. When burned corpses begin appearing, each victim bearing the same eerie mark, Evelyn realizes she’s entangled in a crime that refuses to stay buried. Teaming up with Detective Ethan Calloway, a hardened cop haunted by his own past, Evelyn must uncover a decades-old conspiracy, a forgotten fire, and the true purpose of the Soul Keeper’s legacy. But not every ghost seeks peace. Some crave revenge. And in the ashes of the past, a killer still walks among the living.

Tiana thought she had risen to the top and no longer needed her poor husband – Jalen. Jalen is humiliated, divorced and kicked out of the house. As if to stamp the final seal, Tiana pulls out a check from her purse. She extends it towards him. “Three million dollars,” she said. “For everything. Take it and leave.” But fate has a different story install for her. She doesn’t know her so-called poor husband is a secret billionaire; the one who secretly pushed her to the level she is now. After casting Jalen away, life begins to happen; life handed her a bitter dose of reality. Now struggling to keep her company, Black Blossom, afloat, she finds herself standing in front of the one man she never imagined she’d see again... her ex-husband, now a powerful billionaire. “How are you the president of this company?” she whispered, eyes wide. Jalen’s lips curved. “You left me broken. Now you’re here for crumbs.” Old wounds reopen. Pride clashes with regret. But what happens when the tables turn and the man she once walked away from now holds the key to her breakthrough?

Logan Brooks was the man everyone overlooked. He was scorned by his wife’s prestigious family and ridiculed behind closed doors. To them, he was nothing but a burden! Unknown to even his wife, Logan was a master strategist with wealth and power hidden beneath a calm exterior. When they pushed him to the edge, he didn’t fight back with words, he responded with results! One shocking revelation after another, Logan turned their world upside down, until the very people who once mocked him began to tremble in his shadow!

Antonio was mocked, dismissed, and treated like nothing, until the world discovered who he really was. Now, the same people who once looked down on him are scrambling to kneel at his feet. Their arrogance shattered, his rise begins!

“You went to prison for me, Marcus... and I still chose him. What does that make you now?” “A God,” he replied, eyes glowing with divine fury. “One you’ll live to regret betraying.” After three years in a prison he could have shattered with a single thought, Marcus Kane—known once in legend as the God of War—returns to a broken world. His family, ruined. His mother, blind. His honor, mocked by the woman he sacrificed everything for. But behind his calm eyes now burns celestial fire. While mortals whisper rumors of his past, Marcus walks among them with godlike power cloaked in human skin. When thugs threaten his mother, they kneel. When doctors fail, he heals with ancient arts. When traitors laugh at his downfall—he answers with divine retribution. “You dare call me a beggar?” “You’re lucky I don’t call down heaven itself.” From luxury mansions to blood-soaked banquets, Marcus reclaims his destiny. As he crosses paths with powerful CEOs, martial masters, and an infuriatingly stubborn heiress named Valentina Romano, one thing becomes clear— They mocked the man. They will worship the god.

After years of hustling just to survive, working odd jobs, skipping meals, and enduring constant mockery. Max had accepted that life would never give him a break. One night, after a humiliating betrayal by the one person he trusted most, his girlfriend. Max lost all hope and stepped into the road, ready to end it all. But fate had other plans. An accident meant to end his life became the very thing that transformed it. When Max woke up, he wasn’t just alive; he was a billionaire. Suddenly, the boy they once laughed at now owned everything they could only dream of. It’s time for Max Luckey, the Undisputed Student Billionaire, to rise and make every single one of them regret ever crossing him.

In a world where abilities determine status, Leo Bradley was once the most promising student at Avalon Ability Academy. Everyone believed he would awaken a powerful talent—until the awakening ceremony proved them wrong. His ability was ranked the lowest, and in an instant, everything fell apart. His girlfriend left him for someone stronger, his friends turned away, and he became the laughingstock of the academy. But what no one knew was that Leo had awakened an SSS-rank ability, hidden even from the system itself. Now, forced to keep his true power a secret, he must train in the shadows while the world looks down on him. As he struggles to find his place, an old enemy resurfaces—Abyssal Demons, creatures thought to be long gone. With danger closing in and a conspiracy brewing among the elite, Leo realizes he must rise, not just for revenge, but to protect the world that abandoned him. They thought he was nothing. They were wrong.

In a world where memories are currency, what would you pay to forget... or to remember who you really are? Lyra Vale is a memory-thief-an illegal "shifter" who trades in stolen pasts for clients desperate to forget pain, shame, or secrets. In the gleaming, glass-domed city of Virelia, where the privileged buy perfection and the broken are erased, Lyra has always played by her own rules-until the day she steals a memory that belongs to her. Now hunted by the system she once served and haunted by fragments of a past she doesn't remember choosing to forget, Lyra must unravel a conspiracy that runs deeper than she ever imagined. Because the truth buried in her mind could destroy the city-or set it free. But time is running out. And in Virelia, remembering the wrong thing can get you permanently erased.