Pandilla

Twenty strangers. Ten million dollars. A single survivor. For bankrupt author Kurt Hayes, the luxurious and isolated Grand Hotel Summit seemed like the answer to all his debts and the end of an impending ruin. The invitation was simple: stay confined in the mountains for a few days in exchange for a life-changing reward. But as soon as the heavy oak doors lock shut and the windows are barricaded from the outside, the rules change. Under the command of an enigmatic, faceless voice, a thirty-minute dinner window becomes the prelude to a psychological nightmare. Through a sequence of sadistic games rooted in trust, betrayal, and raw survival, the guests discover a terrifying truth: their selection was not random. As the body count rises brutally and the hotel corridors are stained with blood, a trail of clues reveals that everyone in the room shares the blame for a tragedy that occurred ten years ago. Amid fragile alliances, perverse manipulations, and secrets unraveled piece by piece, Hayes must confront not only the killer instincts of his competitors, but the ghosts of his own past. Because in this game, the Host’s justice isn't just looking for a winner. It is looking for blood. "For one to win, the others must lose. Let the judgment begin."

Arcana High is known as the greatest magic academy in the Bluestar World. It is prestigious, disciplined, and supposedly safe. But when a group of ordinary teens accidentally breaks into the academy’s restricted library, they uncover something no student was ever meant to see: A living, ancient map that chooses them as its “Special Players.” From that moment on, their lives changed into a strange, game-like reality where hidden, forbidden regions appeared all around the Bluestar World. Monsters, Mutated Beasts, Zombies, and unknown monstrosities roam the world. Every basic spell evolves like a skill tree. And the map keeps issuing quests with one warning: “Level up… or die.” Forced to team up despite their clashing personalities, the teens must explore the world's hidden regions, unlock ancient magic, and complete trials that push them far beyond their limits. But the deeper they go, the more they realize: The map is just a trial ground for divine beings called the Naphil. Entities powerful enough to rewrite the structure of the Bluestar World. And now, they want to filter out the strong players from the weak. If humans can't level up fast enough, Arcana High won’t be the only thing that falls…The entire realm will.

Kaelen Vance was the crippled dishonor of the elite Vance Sword Clan—born with a shattered spirit core and reduced to a low-level servant. On the eve of his eighteenth birthday, his own stepbrother stabs him in the chest, framing him for treason and throwing his body into the abyss of the Abyssal Rift. Instead of death, Kaelen awakens the Abyssal Sovereign’s Grimoire—a primordial weapon system that feeds on dark spirit energy and converts every fatal blow into sword mastery. He returns under a shadow mask, armed with an ancient style long thought extinct. To his former family, he is dead trash. To the underworld, he is the masked executioner known as the Shadow Blade. He will scale the ranks from lowest outcast to invincible Sword Saint, cutting down corrupt patriarchs and corporate overlords until everyone who trampled him kneels.

From Erwin Wickison I never asked to be here. One moment I was living my life, and the next I was dragged—along with millions of others—into a place ruled by a system that treats us like pieces on a board. Every Game is built to break something, whether it’s a body, a mind, or the small parts of myself I keep pretending are “good.” I’ve watched people die. I’ve watched people change. And I know I’m changing too. I just hope there’s something human left in me by the end… if there’s even an end. WARNING. This book contains smut, psychological decay, moral collapse, human intimacy twisted into survival, and a variety of horrors that do not wait for your permission before sinking into your mind. It will not hold your hand. It will not apologize. And it will not stop once you open it. If you continue, you’re choosing to step into a sequence of events designed to peel apart the comfortable assumptions you rely on to feel “safe.” Some of you will be fascinated. Some of you will be disturbed. Most of you will not remain the same. I’m not here to reassure you. I’m only here to tell you one thing: Whatever you think this is, whatever you think you know… you don’t. And once you begin, you can’t go back. — Welcome to the Games

Adrian Kaine was once the deadliest operative in Shadow Unit, a black-ops division buried so deep in the government that most agents never lived long enough to speak of it. But when a mission in Kargath Province turned into a massacre, Adrian became the sole survivor, then the government’s most wanted traitor. His squad was slaughtered. Evidence was planted. His name was erased. And those who orchestrated the betrayal made sure he was declared dead. They miscalculated. Eighteen months later, Adrian resurfaces as a ghost in the ruins of his old headquarters, hunting for the truth buried beneath the ashes. But he is not the only one searching. Marcus Hale, his former teammate and supposed friend, now leads a covert kill team tasked with eliminating him. Above Marcus sits Colonel Mason Kade, the official who signed the order that condemned Adrian’s entire squad. And watching all of them from the shadows is a faceless mastermind known only by a single encrypted codename: Cipher. As Adrian follows a trail of classified leaks, dead operatives, and impossible coincidences, he uncovers a horrifying secret: a covert plan known as the Ashen Protocol, designed to rewrite the balance of global power—using bodies like his as the foundation stones. But the deeper he digs, the more the truth twists around him. Old allies hide new agendas. Enemies speak with familiar voices. And the real traitor may be closer than he has ever imagined. Hunted by governments, mercenaries, and a ghost from his past, Adrian must become something colder than a soldier and deadlier than a weapon. He must become the nightmare they tried to bury. And this time… he’s not the one running.

Thrown into a savage world with nothing but a tattered tunic, a rusty sword, and a mysterious RPG-like Character Sheet, Rob must fight, bleed, and survive to uncover the secrets of Ixatan. Every step brings death, disease, and monsters that defy imagination—and each victory comes at a painful cost. With his strength, wits, and will tested to the breaking point, Rob must learn fast: in a land where life is measured in Levels, only the relentless survive… and even then, the true battle may be within.

When the Gate Event tears the sky apart, monsters, dungeons, and a mysterious System descend upon the modern world. Every surviving human awakens with a Class, and while Warriors, Mages, and Rangers are celebrated as humanity's new hope, Kade Ferris receives the one class nobody wants: Scavenger. With no combat skills and no stat bonuses, Kade is mocked, abandoned, and written off as useless. But Kade soon discovers that Scavenger is not truly a weak class. It can salvage damaged weapons, discarded skills, and broken abilities, then combine them into something entirely new. What begins as a desperate attempt to survive becomes an impossible path to power. As Kade turns discarded fragments into increasingly powerful abilities, he discovers that his class can do something the System was never designed to allow: break its own rules. But his growing power attracts the attention of powerful factions, dangerous monsters, and a mysterious entity lurking beyond the Regional Rift. While everyone struggles to understand what Kade is becoming, he must uncover the truth behind the Gate Event before the force controlling it destroys what remains of the world. They called him the worst class. They abandoned him to die. Now Kade is about to show them what happens when the world's greatest mistake learns how to evolve.

Twenty-four-year-old Lucien Moreau has spent his entire life believing he was the son of an ordinary mechanic. He struggles to survive, works odd jobs, and dreams of giving his sick mother a better life. Then, on the same day she dies, a stranger arrives in a convoy of black Rolls-Royces. He kneels. “Young Master… the Devil has fallen.” Lucien learns his real father was Dante Moreau, the most feared mafia emperor in modern history. A man so powerful that governments negotiated with him instead of fighting him. Twenty years ago, Dante disappeared after being betrayed by the leaders of the world’s Eight Mafia Families. Before dying, Dante hid his only son. Lucien. Now the underworld has found him. Some want him on the throne. Most want him dead before he can claim it.

Daren Hu's life is simple — school, his mother's noodle shop, the quiet ache of a father who left and never came back. Then one night, a light pours into his sleeping mind, and he wakes up in a world that shouldn't exist: a violet sky, two moons, and a village that wants him gone. He's trapped — pulled from his world into a realm of gods and monsters, summoned by Solenne, Goddess of the Sun, who tells him the truth without softening it: he cannot wake up until his mission is done. The Veil-Lands are dying by inches, worn down by the Demon Lord Mordrach and the horrors he sends across the border. The gods who should defend it are bound by ancient law — forbidden to fight, able only to guide. Unable to bear an heir of her own, Solenne has reached across worlds and chosen Daren instead. Now training under Vasha, a fierce swordswoman, and Lyset, a sharp-eyed sorcerer who senses there's more to him than even the goddess knows, Daren must become something he never asked to be — a weapon, a hope, a son not born but summoned. He didn't choose this war. But it's already choosing him.

THE HIDDEN EMPIRE OF HARVEY KANE For a year, Harvey Kane has endured humiliation as the useless husband of Jane Ross, the brilliant billionaire CEO of Harvax Inc. Her wealthy family despises him, believing he is nothing more than a worthless man living off his wife's success. Even on their first wedding anniversary, they mock his gift and demand that Jane divorce him. But they have no idea who they are dealing with. Behind Harvey's ordinary appearance lies the mind of a legendary cybersecurity genius and the founder of a powerful empire stolen from him through betrayal. Framed, ruined, and forced into hiding, Harvey sacrificed his identity to protect the woman he loved. All the while, he secretly defended her company from cyberattacks, allowing a deceitful executive to steal the credit. When a devastating attack threatens to destroy Harvax, Harvey finally steps out of the shadows. He saves the company, exposes the first cracks in a conspiracy, and becomes the target of enemies who thought they had buried him forever. Now, his former betrayers are back. A ruthless rival corporation wants his technology. A cunning woman from his past is determined to finish what she started. And powerful figures will stop at nothing to bury the truth. As fabricated evidence threatens his freedom and his marriage teeters on the brink, Harvey must fight a war on every front—corporate, personal, and digital. But the deeper he digs, the more he discovers that the conspiracy that destroyed his empire reaches far beyond business. With his wife's company on the brink of collapse and enemies closing in, Harvey faces an impossible choice: protect the woman he loves or reclaim the empire stolen from him. They called him useless. Now, they will learn why they should have feared him.