Shadow Monarch: Heroines Could Hear My Thoughts?!

"On the night Antonio Lavez planned to give his wife the world, she stole his soul. Betrayed, disgraced, and imprisoned, the billionaire genius was cast into ruin by the woman he loved. But some empires don’t burn so easily. From the shadows of exile, Antonio rises again with a new name, a hidden fortune, and a vengeance sharpened like a blade. Jolie thinks she has buried her past, but what she buried was a lion. And when he returns, no one will see him coming… until it is too late."

“Captain Spark, you’re insane,” Michael said hoarsely. “I’m an actor, not a cop. I’m not a monster.” “But you understand monsters, don’t you?” Ashley shot back. She pointed to the playback monitor showing his recent scene. “That look in your eyes, the way you enjoyed the kill… You’re more convincing than half the criminals in our files.” Michael had no response. Because she wasn’t wrong. The system made it easy, too easy, to empathize with darkness.

Seventeen-year-old Rune Weaver thought his biggest problem was surviving senior year at New Haven High. Then a shadow creature attacked him in the school parking lot, and a mysterious man saved his life by throwing fire from his bare hands. Now Rune knows the truth: he is descended from an ancient line of sorcerers called Etherwind, and the darkness that destroyed his ancestors five hundred years ago has returned. He is not alone. Four other teenagers across the city have just discovered their own magical heritage, each from a different Etherwind bloodline. Together they are the last hope against Grimfall, an ancient force of living darkness that feeds on fear and despair. But learning magic is not like the movies. Their powers are wild and dangerous, and every spell they cast brings them closer to the madness that consumed their ancestors. As the shadows spread across New Haven, turning ordinary people into mindless thralls, Rune and his unlikely allies must master their abilities before Grimfall completes its return. They have six weeks until the convergence, when the barrier between worlds falls completely. Six weeks to become the sorcerers their bloodlines demand. Six weeks to save everyone they love from being swallowed by eternal night.

Javad de Venta was once a professional doctor before he becomes a lived in son-in-law and then a Mafia Don. All odds were against him because he has a kind heart. Things however took a turn when he went to prison and return. In jail he acquired a revenge system that can supply strategies plans and resources for him to regain what he had lost. *** " Boss You only need to sign here and the Inheritance will be yours " " What if I said I want the whole world? " " Then you will have to possessed a black heart " Javad de Venta smirk at this and he nodded. " I want the whole world Cassius. About the black heart, i have it already "

In a world where darkness and light are intertwined, Ryu Tanaka, a young man shrouded in mystery, discovers his latent powers as a Shadow Weaver. With his newfound abilities, he's drawn into a realm of ancient magic and forgotten lore. As Ryu navigates this treacherous landscape, he's confronted by Hikari, a fiery antagonist driven by a burning desire for power. Their fates become entwined in a dance of light and darkness, with the world hanging in the balance. In a climactic battle, Ryu faces off against Hikari at the ancient ruins of Tenebrous Peak, but ultimately falls to his demise. However, his journey doesn't end there. Ryu's spirit is reincarnated into his own body, restoring his life and memories. Reborn with a newfound sense of purpose, Ryu sets out to prevent Hikari's destructive ambitions and restore balance to the world. With his shadowy powers reborn and his past experiences guiding him, Ryu is determined to change the course of fate. Will Ryu's second chance be enough to save the world from the brink of destruction, or will the shadows of his past define his future?

Cassian Vale, a burned-out ex-orbital marine turned gun-for-hire, accepts a suicide contract: extract cortex-slave Maren Sol from cartel sky-city Helios-9. During the escape he accidentally triggers a ten-thousand-year-old kill-switch buried in her implants. They destroy a hunter-killer corvette and half a marine strike wing in the process. Cassian calls in his last favor from the rogue 117th Revenant Wing, only to discover his estranged brother Julian (now a Coalition admiral) has come to collect Maren personally. Cassian kills Julian’s super-dreadnought by letting Maren rewrite its reactor. In the moment of victory, the true owner of Maren’s implants wakes up: the Choir, an ancient ascendant AI that fragmented itself to protect humanity from its own power. One of those fragments is Maren. It wants the piece back. The Revenant flagship is devoured. Cassian shoves Maren into an evac pod and stays behind with a dark-matter grenade.

Mafia revenge Kelvin woke up to a divorce paper already signed by his wife, because she feels like Kelvin does not fit in her popular social life. Maria made Kelvin go through a lot because of his sudden predicament. Kelvin signed the papers and moved out of the house, some men in black suit opened the door of an expensive car for him. Who could Kelvin be? ow come the sudden wealth of Maria?

Elias Cross was only nineteen when his life was stolen. Recruited for a robbery rigged to fail, he was abandoned at the scene as police swarmed, left to take the fall for a crime he didn’t plan. He was served thirty years but Elias refused to settle. Outside, Marcus the man who destroyed his life thrived, convinced his control was absolute but Elias escaped after five years and he returned not as a pawn, but as a storm waiting to strike. A high-stakes hijacking presents the perfect opportunity for the reckoning he’s been planning for years. What Marcus never realized is that the loyalty he demanded could be turned into a weapon. And this time, the one he thought he controlled holds all the cards.

What would you do if you realized that, the recently acquired freedom is just another netherworld! That, the things you hated most are your survival guides! Would you wish for one more lesson, or, what would it be… James was a young man fresh from school. He had exorbitant optimisms of freedom and a very bright future. Only to realize, the so-called freedom was proving to be human under siege. Life in freedom was worse than perdition itself and got him a visit to the reformatory. He was an innocent determined young man, whom, life taught a lesson the hard way. Never loosing desire and motivation, he still pushed on hard enough. Had this to be you, would you do the same, or… just give up! Did he survive the harshness of the biosphere? Did his efforts ever get to pay back? Did he ever get to live his dream? Find out more about James, After the Shadows.

Frank Tarrow never asked to be the world’s salvation. At fourteen, he’s already a healer, a fighter, and the last living child marked by Shadowfire, the most feared power in existence. Morgan Hale, a warrior haunted by past failures, is sworn to protect the boy destined to dethrone King Darrius, the immortal tyrant who rules the world’s underbelly through corruption, sorcery, and blood. But Darrius wants Frank dead before the prophecy can unfold. And Frank wants answers about the power burning inside him. When ancient magic begins rewriting the prophecy, Frank and Morgan must navigate assassins, forbidden realms, and buried truths that threaten to tear them apart. Because saving the world comes with a cost. And fate has chosen who must pay it.