Rejected

In a rain soaked cyberpunk archipelago ruled by mega corporations, Ryker Hale is a rejected “ghost” a failed vessel surviving as a shadow-hacker. When his ex-lover Lira lures him into a trap for Helix Dynamics, Ryker is injected with the forbidden Beast Code. What should have killed him instead shatters him. Glowing code veins spread beneath his skin. Claws rip from his hands. Worst of all, the Code multiplies, spawning monstrous echoes that wear his face and commit atrocities in his name. Framed, hunted by corporate kill teams, and slowly losing his humanity, Ryker is forced to ally with the woman who betrayed him. As the echoes grow stronger and more savage, he must descend into the forbidden Deep Wild to confront the Code’s source. In a brutal fight for his soul, Ryker faces a terrible choice: purge the beast and die powerless, or embrace the fracture and become the monster the system always wanted. A dark cyberpunk thriller of body horror, doppelganger terror, and second-chance betrayal.

"I was born a God, but my father turned me into a Demon." In the Divine Spear Empire, power is everything, and Lucius Thorne was the pinnacle—until the Blood Moon Eclipse. On his eighteenth birthday, the day of his Ascension, Lucius is betrayed. His father, the Emperor, executes a forbidden "Grafting Rite," ripping Lucius’s Divine Core from his chest to empower his younger, more "malleable" brother, Julian. Left for dead in the Abyssal Rift—a place where even light dies—Lucius discovers that his core wasn't just a source of power; it was a seal. Without it, the Void Eater within him awakens. Rescued by Valeriana, a fallen War-Maiden from a forgotten era, Lucius begins a cold, calculated climb back to the surface. He doesn't just want his core back; he wants to witness the empire burn. Core Trope: Rejected Prodigy / Revenge / Hidden Overlord The Twist: The "stolen power" was actually keeping a world-ending curse in check; by stealing it, the villains have doomed themselves, and only the "powerless" Lucius can survive the coming darkness.

VOID CORE: THE LAST AWAKENER Born without mana. Branded as a curse. Destined to awaken the power feared by the entire world. On the night Kael Veyr was born, the heavens turned black. Mana storms swallowed the sky, ancient crystals shattered across the continent, and monsters emerged from the darkness as if responding to his existence. From that moment on, Kael became the cursed child of the Veyr Clan. Unlike his genius cousin, Leon Veyr—the prodigy blessed with overwhelming talent—Kael possessed no mana core at all. Hated by his clan and rejected by the world, he grows up as nothing more than a disgrace within his own bloodline. But hidden deep inside him lies something far more terrifying than mana itself. The Void. As ancient forces begin awakening from the Abyss and the balance of the world slowly collapses, Kael is dragged into a destiny connected to a forgotten power capable of devouring everything. The world fears him. The Abyss calls him. And one day, Kael Veyr will become either— The savior who restores the balance… Or the Void Monarch who destroys it all.

BLURB Ushar wanted the Blood Throne but even more than that he wanted to know the truth! Just when he seems to be getting to the root of what he exactly was however, the Vampires Queen decided that she had had enough off him and Ushar was plunged into a battle that would awaken his fate. Defeated and banished, Ushar wandered the human world as a legendary Mercenary but eventually received a ticket back to the underworld. There, he found an even greater threat rising against the whole Blood Kingdom. As a rejected prince and murderer of the last Blood Queen, would Ushar choose to help his people? Or, would he align with those that wished to destroy them? His identity however was much more mysterious than Ushar had ever thought and the journey to find out himself was far grievous than he could ever imagine but after a long wandering in the outer ring, the ruthless Guardian and Protector of the Two Realms finally returned forged of Blood and Bone. Even still, is Ushar ready to face both old and new Foes that beat his wildest imagination?

THE GOD OF THUNDER The night Egba Kingdom drowned in blood, a five-year-old crown prince vanished into the storm. Omoba Omogun Ogunwole, heir to the throne, watched his parents—King Oluwole and Queen Titilayo—betrayed and murdered by their own chiefs. Presumed dead, the child escaped into the mountains with a loyal servant, where fate answered his grief. For twenty years, Omogun trained under seven ancient spirits, learning not only the power of thunder, but the price of justice, humility, and restraint. When he returns to Egba Kingdom, his uncle—now a tyrant king—rules through fear and corruption. Hiding his identity, Omogun walks among his people as a nobody by day… and as the masked God of Thunder by night. As he punishes evil, protects the weak, and builds a secret army of ten thousand empowered warriors, enemies close in. Dark divination whispers his survival. Betrayers resurface. Love tests his heart when he is rejected for poverty—and later cherished for who he truly is. When the storm finally breaks, the truth will be revealed, crowns will fall, and justice will strike like lightning. In a world where power corrupts, can a man chosen by thunder remain human?

Elias Ward was raised to be a weapon. For nineteen years, his purpose has been to hunt the lycans that threaten his small community. He is a master of the hunt, shaped by duty. But his life is built on lies. On a moonless night, the creature he is sent to kill speaks his name. The truth shatters him. His brutal transformation reveals the blood he carries, the one he was taught to fear. The parents who raised him hid everything. Cast out by them and rejected by his birth pack, Elias becomes a wanderer haunted by the lycans he killed without knowing who he was. His only anchor is Sarah, the friend who now fears the monster in him. A greater danger rises as Valerius, a geneticist with twisted ambitions, hunts Elias as the key to creating the perfect soldier. To survive, Elias must accept the beast within and join forces with those he once hunted. His new path pulls him between man and monster, justice and revenge, as he confronts the past that shaped him. But can a boy who was raised to be a weapon ever learn to be a protector? And in a war for the soul of two worlds, which side will he ultimately choose?

In the world of Elarion, a person's fate is decided at birth. Everyone possesses an Aether Heart—the source of their talent, status, and future. Those born with powerful hearts are destined to become rulers, while those without one are treated as less than servants. Akseli Vainio was born without an Aether Heart. As the last heir of the once-glorious Vainio Clan, he became the family's greatest disgrace. Mocked by nobles, abandoned by his own blood, and rejected by the fiancée who no longer wanted a worthless husband, Akseli spent eighteen years living as the world's biggest failure. Until the night he was murdered. His death shattered an ancient seal hidden within his body, awakening the Void Heart—a forbidden power sealed away for thousands of years. The Void Heart can devour Aether Hearts, steal cultivation, and turn the strength of others into its own. But every heart it consumes slowly erases Akseli's humanity. Now, hunted by the Seven Great Clans and haunted by the voice of the ancient Void Emperor, Akseli must choose... Will he fight to remain human... Or become the monster the world feared all along?

David Myles is known throughout Asterion as a powerless doctor—the forsaken heir of a fallen family whose Dragon bloodline supposedly died a century ago. Even the influential Sterling family considers him unworthy of Janet Sterling, his fiancée and the celebrated Emerald Saintess. They have no idea that David’s weakness is a carefully guarded secret. Within him lives the Primordius Dragon, the legendary golden Dragon connected to the origin of all Dragon Energy. Revealing it would expose David to the same hidden forces that destroyed his ancestors and erased House Myles from history. But when David is publicly humiliated, betrayed by those he trusted, and framed for the death of a Sterling elder, remaining hidden is no longer possible. His enemies want him imprisoned, his family disgraced, and the last Myles heir eliminated. As the Black Templars begin their conquest across the realms and the Five Azarian Rings resurface, David must reclaim his family’s stolen legacy, uncover the truth behind the missing Primordius Heart, and master a power capable of uniting—or destroying—the Seven Dragon Houses. The man Asterion rejected is about to become the Dragon Lord every realm will fear.

Centuries after the old world fell, humanity survives inside massive fortress-cities ruled by the awakened. In Arkenfall, power determines status, and the weak are forgotten. Darius Veyne was born into one of the city's twelve great bloodlines. He was expected to become a powerful warrior, but everything changed when his parents were mysteriously murdered and Darius failed to awaken. Stripped of his inheritance and rejected by his family, Darius was treated as a broken heir, a disgrace unworthy of the Veyne name. Forced into the city's lowest districts, he learned to survive among criminals, scavengers, and forgotten outcasts. Then, beneath the ruins of the old world, he discovers a sealed power known as the Devouring Core an evolution ability that allows him to absorb the essence of awakened beings, analyze their abilities, and evolve beyond them. For the first time, Darius has the power to change his fate. But his parents' deaths were no accident. The truth leads directly to the powerful bloodlines ruling Arkenfall, families who have controlled the city for generations through fear, secrets, and bloodshed. They buried his past. They destroyed his family. Now the broken heir has returned. And this time, he is coming for everything they took from him.

He died a failure. Betrayed, broke, and bleeding out in a Brooklyn alley. Ethan Hayes had nothing—no money, no respect, no future. His fiancée cheated with his best friend. His boss fired him for refusing to break the law. His family called him worthless. At 34, a bullet ended his miserable existence. Then he woke up at 22. Senior year at NYU. Same betrayals looming. But this time, he's not alone. [REGRET REVERSAL SYSTEM ACTIVATED] "Host, you died like a side character. Want to rewrite the script and make them the punchline?" With a sarcastic AI system that rewards him for reversing past humiliations, Ethan gets a second chance—and he's taking everything. The startup his roommate stole? He'll build it first and crush him. The ex who cheated? She'll beg on her knees. The corrupt elites who stepped on him? They'll kneel before the king they created. From NYU dorms to Wall Street towers. From broke student to untouchable billionaire. Face-slaps. Revenge. Power. And the women who once rejected him? They're about to learn what they missed. New York won't know what hit it.