Shadow Slave

Synopsis/Blurb In the fog-shrouded early 1900s, former detective Thomas Blackwood receives a distressing letter from his estranged brother, Elijah, beckoning him to the enigmatic Shadow Isle. Determined to uncover the truth behind his brother's plea, Thomas embarks on a perilous journey to the Ghostly Archipelago, accompanied by his steadfast assistant, Amelia West, and the weathered Captain Jonathan Pike. Upon their arrival, they encounter the sinister Marcus Graves, a wealthy landowner with a chilling hold over the island and its inhabitants. Despite warnings to leave, Thomas presses on, driven by a thirst for redemption and justice. As Thomas delves into the island's murky past, he uncovers a web of secrets and lies, each revelation bringing him closer to the truth—and closer to danger. Haunted by visions of his brother and tormented by the restless spirits that roam the island, Thomas races against time to unravel the mysteries of the Ghostly Archipelago. But as tensions rise and alliances are tested, Thomas realizes that nothing is as it seems on Shadow Isle. Beneath the surface of deception and darkness lies a truth more sinister than he could have ever imagined—one that threatens to consume him and all who dare to uncover it. In a pulse-pounding showdown on the windswept cliffs of Shadow Isle, Thomas must confront Marcus Graves and the malevolent forces that seek to destroy him. With the help of Amelia and his newfound allies, Thomas must face his own demons and confront the ghosts of his past if he is to survive the mysteries of the Ghostly Archipelago.

Introvert!? Me!? The hell am I an introvert? I stay indoors all day because I am afraid of getting my butt kicked. Until I contract my beast, I won’t be walking freely. This is a promise I made to myself. My name is Ryder, and I am black-marked. The planet where I live is dominated by summoners. If you guessed it, then you are right—we contract beasts from the Astral Shadow Plain and summon them at will after successfully forming a contract. A mark appears on the left shoulder of every human after a period of maturity, a mark given by the beast that chooses you. There are five different types of marks—the brown, the orange, the red, the black, and lastly, the white. Of all the markings, I was marked black. I was chosen by a supreme demon monarch of the Astral Shadow Plain—the Dracogon. There was only a 0.5 percent chance for me to survive the contraction process. However, with a slight twist in the original outcome, contracting a creature from the black-marked plain was nothing compared to the catastrophe I caused shortly after—I opened a link between the beasts of the Astral Shadow Plain and the planet of humans, Terra. Everyone on my planet has been endangered because of me. The fact that no one knows when the link will trigger and cause a breach that pours mindless creatures into my world makes it all the more unsettling. Now, with no other choice, I have to find a way to resolve the mistake I made—alone, just like I caused it.

In the Nine-Fold Abyss-Heaven, destiny is a game rigged by the powerful. Ten years ago, a ruthless transmigrator named Victor claimed the "Sovereign System," ascending to godhood by consuming the luck and souls of everyone in his path. To the cosmos, he is a righteous savior. To those beneath his boot, he is an inescapable nightmare. When Julian transmigrates into the body of a discarded, talentless mining slave, Victor instantly flags him as a cosmic threat. Instead of granting a quick death, Victor inflicts absolute suppression—slashing Julian’s experience gains by 90%, shackling his soul, and publicly subjecting him to suffocating humiliation. To the world, Julian is a broken, unranked insect destined to crawl in the toxic spirit-ash. But Victor’s arrogance blinds him to the true nature of Julian’s interface: The Ashen Balance. Unlike standard systems, Julian cannot level up through easy victories or safe cultivation. His cheat triggers only at death’s door, converting raw agony, suffocating despair, and cold fury into irreversible Defiance Attributes. Forced to cultivate backward by strengthening his mortal flesh against the very laws of heaven, Julian turns his suffering into an unyielding weapon. From the suffocating depths of the slave mines to the grand, mocking colosseums of the higher realms, Julian undergoes a grueling, weak-to-strong ascension. He will bleed for every single attribute point, rally the broken outcasts of the realms, and systematically dismantle the False Hero’s empire. Victor stole the heavens, but Julian will burn them down to pay the debt.

For the past seventeen years of her life, Heather had been treated as a slave in her own home. She thought everything was changing when her parents arranged a lavish eighteenth birthday party for her, attended by affluent members of society. They even promised to take her abroad to fulfill her dreams, but in reality they had sold her to an organ dealer. What happens when her spirit arises to take revenge? Will her parents be spared the knowledge that she has discovered their dark secrets? What of the organ dealer who took her life?

Calvin was wounded to his heart when his son dies and wife illegally divorces him for another man because he is poor, his mother in law, treated him like a slave and out of this death, Calvin gets chosen by a universal system force as he decides to inherit even his father's wealth, just so he could take his Revenge on all those that hurt him, and it gets more interesting when Calvin discovers he is an Elite owning countries with information that he still has a child that is still alive but in danger.

In 2045, the "System" turned Earth into a divine slaughterhouse. Silas rose from slave-gladiator to God-Slayer, only to learn the truth: the System exists to harvest humanity. To break the loop, Silas shattered the Supreme Deity’s heart, triggering a Chrono-Collapse. Now, Silas is back in the pits ten years earlier, slave collar and all. But he’s brought a trophy: the Divine Slayer Store, filled with the stolen powers of the gods he’s already killed once. By farming "Karma" through defiance, Silas will buy back his godhood and turn the System's "playground" into a graveyard for the Gamemasters.

"I am no longer the loser you can trample on. If the world wants me to be a monster, then I will give them the coldest hell!" Ethan Eldravar was just a poor young man who was insulted and ostracized in Lumireth market. However, as his father lay dying from King Axandra's cursed poison, an ancient destiny awakened within his blood. He was no ordinary human, he was the last heir of the extinct Dragon Rider clan. Alongside Nyxherion, a frost-fire dragon that continues to evolve, Ethan must traverse the deadly Shadow Path and the mysterious Valtherion Valley. Yet, in the midst of his struggle to save his father, betrayal emerges from the person he trusted most. Will Ethan choose to save his father, or succumb to the dragon's rage that demands revenge against the entire kingdom? In a world where power is everything, Ethan will prove that one Eldravar life is far more valuable than thousands of shadow warrior lives.

***Book 2 in the Adventures of the Crown series*** Nelson Whitefield, a man with a darker past than most, finds himself the new noble head of the Whitefield land. You might think being a noble he has it all, money, fame, subjects... but all he has is an old farmhouse and some pigs. He is a nobleman in name only. His mission, like it or not, find who his late father was in debt with and lure them out to get to the bottom of the current slave trade going on under the nose of the crown. To do so, he recruits some old friends from his life of crime and together they get into a sea of troubles.

They call him the "Watchdog of the West Gate." To the wealthy students, Alistair Cain is a joke—a dropout husband living off his brilliant professor wife, tasked with nothing more than checking IDs and chasing stray dogs off campus. To his wife’s powerful family, he is a stain on their reputation, a useless son-in-law who should have been discarded years ago. But they don’t know why the West Gate is the only place on campus where the shadows never move. They don’t know that the "stray dogs" he chases are actually Hellhounds trying to breach the mortal realm. And they certainly don’t know that Alistair is actually the Calamity Star—the exiled God of War serving a 1,000-year penance to suppress the ancient evil beneath the university library. When the seal begins to crack and the elite families of the city become pawns in a demonic war, the useless security guard finally stands up. "You can insult me all you want," Alistair says, adjusting his uniform cap. "But step one foot past this gate, and not even the Heavens can save you."

Beaten, branded, and left to die in the ruins of a fallen city, Kael Thorn should have been forgotten, another nameless slave buried under dust and debt. But when lightning strikes the ground beside him, a strange voice awakens in his mind: “System of Judgment Activated. Sin Level: 0. Begin the Trial.” Every injustice he exposes gives him strength. Every corrupt soul he judges feeds the power within. From the gutters of the empire to the throne of its ruin, Kael must choose, become the hand of justice or the monster the world made him. Because in a land where sins are currency, even redemption demands blood.