Reclusive Master

For ten years, Ethan Vance gave everything to his six aristocratic sisters. He sacrificed his youth, his health, and his entire soul to build their business empire and fix their mistakes from the shadows. Then came the ultimate betrayal. The moment their biological brother is found, the ungrateful sisters strip Ethan of his name and cast him into a freezing storm like a stray dog. To make matters worse, Ethan has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, with only three months left to live. But the elite Sterling family has made a catastrophic mistake. They thought he was just a worthless street beggar. They have no idea that the discarded boy they threw into the mud is actually a multi-billionaire tycoon, the sovereign of the city's dangerous underground, and the legendary Divine Healer they desperately worship. No more mercy. No more sacrifices. The hidden master has awakened, and their total ruin is coming.

Lincoln was supposed to inherit a great legacy, but he was cast aside to die in the shadows. After his mother, a talented Forge Master, passed away, his stepmother Cressida and half-brother Angus stripped him of his title and banished him to an abandoned mine. Left with nothing but a dying servant named Santiago and the biting cold of an endless night, Lincoln faced certain death. Yet, his enemies made a fatal error. When his blood dripped onto his mother's ring, it unlocked a hidden system that allowed him to see the true nature of everything around him. He learned to fuse raw materials to forge items of power. Now, the mines are not his tomb, but his training ground. Lincoln has begun his climb from the depths, and he will stop at nothing to settle his debts. This is his story of survival and ultimate retribution.

On a storm-soaked night, Ethan Vale was betrayed by the people meant to protect him. Framed for a crime he didn’t commit, abandoned by his own parents, and declared dead to preserve a powerful family name, Ethan vanished without a grave—without justice. The world mourned him. His family moved on. But death did not take him. Ten years later, a man known only to the elite returns—cold, untouchable, and impossibly powerful. As a hidden billionaire and master strategist, he controls wealth, influence, and secrets capable of shaking the entire city. The family that erased him has no idea the king they now fear… is the son they buried. As truths surface and regrets come too late, Ethan must decide whether vengeance will finally free him—or complete his transformation into the very monster his betrayal created. Because this time, he didn’t come back to beg. He came back to judge.

Aidan Drake has spent three years as the Frost family’s laughingstock—the powerless, humiliated son-in-law, mocked by his wife’s family and despised by society. Every day is a reminder that he is nothing, a “stray dog” in a gilded cage of wealth and scorn. But beneath the surface, a secret roars—an ancient power sealed away at birth, waiting for the right moment to awaken. When a mysterious stranger appears and sparks the dragon within him, Aidan’s world explodes into chaos. Suddenly, the man everyone dismissed becomes a force no one can ignore. As his power grows, the Frosts’ mockery turns into fear, and the world that once crushed him begins to tremble. But Aidan’s journey is more than revenge—it’s a battle for control, identity, and destiny. Will the weak son-in-law rise to claim his throne… or will the world destroy him before he learns to master the fire within?

After years of renouncing his heritage and connection to voodoo, Sam Ethol, a fifteen-year-old is haunted by a mysterious voodoo practitioner that killed his father and multiple citizens of New Orleans. Through his journey to master the mystical arts, he finds many of his loved ones being targeted by strange mystical creatures. To stop these sadistic monsters, Sam joins a group of spellcasters who teach him how to properly use his magic to defend those he holds dear. The tribe warns Sam that as a member of their team, he must be willing to stop the mysterious voodooist who has claimed the lives of so many people even if it results in killing them. In time, Sam learns that the voodooist believed to be responsible for the killings is his estranged mother who has escaped from the local asylum. Will Sam be forced to take the life of the same woman who gave it to him?

Cedric Rivers has always escaped into his sketchbook — drawing deadly worlds, monstrous games, and a darkly beautiful villain named Baran. But when heartbreak drives him to throw his journal into a strange halo-shaped bin behind school, his fantasy doesn’t just vanish — it comes alive. The next morning, a red storm rolls over Alder High, sealing 500 students and teachers inside. The gates slam shut. The classrooms twist into battlegrounds. And a familiar voice welcomes them: “Welcome to the Survival Game.” Every game demands a sacrifice. Every rule is written in his ink. Now Cedric must face the twisted world he created — and the gorgeous, terrifying game master who calls him Creator. To survive, he must play. To win, he must destroy the story he once loved — before it destroys everyone he cares about.

In a grim world defined by the tyranny of five Blood Houses, Jon and his Outlander mercenaries, The Shattered Fang, survive by stealing, fighting, and relying on his impossible gift: Perfect Mimicry. But when their youngest sister, Mercy, is kidnapped and forced to be the prophetic weapon of the zealot House Orsaan, the Fang is thrust into an impossible quest to save their family. As the continent fractures into all-out war pitting kings against priests and assassins against warlords Jon's power unexpectedly draws the attention of every faction. His ability to mimic and master the sacred Blood Gifts of the Houses is not just a talent; it is an anomaly that threatens the very foundation of their control. Hunted by the immortal fanatic Valthorn and the desperate Hollow Legion, Jon must confront the true, terrifying origin of his power a heritage that the Houses committed genocide to bury before the war, the secret of his lineage, and his own desperate quest to save his sister tear their world apart.

In the world of wealth, elites and power, Alexander finds out that life isn't always black and white. The same day his wife, Fiona, humiliates him with divorce papers and her new lover, Alexander loses his job too, but little does he know it is all the beginning of a new life. Suddenly, he's being summoned by Pa Harry, a loyal servant of his parents and he discovers he is the grand master of the Sean family. But secrets are unveiled and he realizes that things aren't always as they seem. He begins to uncover the role his ex in-laws played in the demise of his parents. Chilling secrets about the six families all involved in the supreme dynasty is revealed. Alexander has to embark on a mission to prove himself worthy to the Sean family and ensure that his enemies both within and without do not triumph over him Six families, one throne, an endless fight for the Supreme Dynasty crown, but only the Ordained Heir will be victorious.

A change of epochs is coming, the nineteenth century from the Deposition of Kaphaeris is coming to an end, the twentieth century is already on the threshold. Starkrar, like the entire Meskian Empire, is preparing for the celebration of the bright holiday of Yule, to say goodbye to the old age and welcome the new one. But not only fog and frost walk along the snow-covered streets of the night capital. Something inhuman is hiding in the dirty alleys of the slums, waiting for its victims. Bloody massacres horrify the subjects of the empire, inflaming interspecies hatred, high-ranking officials die mysterious deaths in their own mansions, secret service agents disappear without a trace, and out of nowhere terrorists commit one horrific terrorist attack after another. Someone decided to shake the throne under the sacred person of the Emperor. Someone longs for the fall of Messiah. By the will of the monarch, Brian el'Moria - half-breed tencris, master of dark deeds and the first detective of the empire - takes up the investigation. From now on, he must either uncover the plot of a nameless enemy, or die.

Stripped of his title, bloodline, and dignity, Klaus Dravon was left for dead at the Silverstone Pack border. His brother’s betrayal was absolute, supported by the cold silence of the pack,including Liora, the warrior who never respected him. They expected the vampires to finish him. They were wrong. Waiting in the shadows was Seraphine, a vampire spy who has watched Klaus for years. She didn’t come to rescue him out of mercy; she came because the ancient, hungry power dormant in Klaus’s blood is finally waking up. Now, Klaus must navigate an uneasy alliance with the creatures of the night to master a force that threatens to consume his humanity. As Liora begins to uncover the truth behind the betrayal, Klaus prepares for a scorched-earth reckoning. He didn’t start this war, but he will burn his brother's empire to the ground to end it. In Moonblood Uprising, Klaus must decide if the monster within is his salvation or his ultimate undoing.