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In Backgated City, the undocumented don’t exist, until they become useful. Thrown into the streets as a child with no birth record, no family, and no protection, Kairo Vale survives by listening more than he speaks and learning faster than the city expects. Crime syndicates, corrupt officials, and underground networks all circle him, each seeing something different: a pawn, a weapon, a mistake.

Elias Cross wanted nothing more than to disappear. Once the city’s most brilliant forensic architect, he vanished after a scandal that destroyed his career. But when an old friend turns up dead — and the body is staged inside one of Elias’s abandoned designs — he’s pulled back into a world he swore he’d left behind. Each crime scene is a building. Each building is a clue. Each clue points to an impossible blueprint for the city’s destruction. With only a reckless journalist and a washed-up detective by his side, Elias must outwit a ghostly mastermind known only as The Mason. But as the city becomes a maze of deadly puzzles, Elias discovers the final design isn’t about buildings. It’s about him.

Silas Prabuwijaya is the sharpest detective in the city, but even his logic fails when he meets the enigmatic Anastasia Kertawati at a blood-stained crime scene. Amidst a web of high-society conspiracies and lethal underground wars, Silas must balance his burning desire for the prime suspect with his duty to the badge. In a city where everyone is lying, the heat between them is the only thing that feels real.

Rafael Mendoza awakens with the world's most useless class: Cook. But in a city overrun by monsters, he discovers that the stronger the beast, the more potent the buff—provided he has someone to hunt them for him. Enter Kirill Sokolov, a battle-hardened hunter who finds Rafael’s cooking addictive, forcing a reluctant partnership that turns the city's monster hierarchy upside down.

He woke up in a city that doesn’t forget—but he remembers nothing. With a name that isn’t his, hunted by ghosts that wear familiar faces, and a past stitched into someone else’s war, Ethan Vale must navigate Echelon City’s labyrinth of lies to reclaim who he is. But the truth may be the deadliest weapon in a world built on deception. In the game of Lazarus, the first one to remember dies.

Idris Morrow built Ironwall Security from a $200 laptop and seven years of blood. In one night, Conrad Veil took it all. The contract. The company. The woman. The life. Then a dying billionaire pulled from a wreck handed Idris the keys to three billion dollars and told him the city was his if he could hold it. He didn't know he was walking into a war that had been running for eight years. He didn't know his predecessor had been watching him for months. He didn't know the woman in his bed was a planted asset, or that the man trying to erase him owned the judges, the registrars, and the Deputy Commissioner of City Oversight. He didn't know any of it. He found out fast. Now Idris has the estate, the federal filing, and the one board seat in the city that makes every development contract Conrad Veil has ever filed completely worthless without his signature. Conrad thought he was deleting a variable, hell no. He created a weapon. The city is about to find out what a man from the Wards does when he stops surviving and starts building.

Once, Fredricks Mayford was a boy who watched his family die. Now he’s a man the city whispers about in fear. After years in the shadows, he returns to Valemont City, no longer a victim, but a storm in human form. The men who destroyed his life have built empires on his family’s blood, and they still think he’s the same frightened child who vanished years ago. They’re wrong. Fredricks has learned the rules of power, and how to break them. Behind his calm eyes lies a mind sharper than any blade. As he infiltrates their world of wealth, crime, and corruption, he’ll pit his enemies against each other, turn allies into weapons, and bring the city to its knees. But vengeance has a price, and the ghosts of the past don’t stay silent forever.

Marcus Chen is a failed building inspector with a dangerous secret. He can read the "structural memories" of any building he touches. When a luxury high-rise collapses, Marcus uncovers a fifteen-year-old murder buried in the foundation, and the killer is the city’s most powerful developer. Framed for the crime and hunted by corrupt police, Marcus must race to find the bodies hidden in the city’s skyline before the trauma of his visions breaks his mind.

Elias is a Nullifier, the only person alive who can turn the city’s hybrid monsters back into helpless humans. He starts out just trying to survive, but when he accidentally strips a powerful Prince of his beast-form, he is forced to go on the run. As he fights back, he discovers that the city's leaders didn't kill his family just out of cruelty, but they killed them to hide the fact that their own power is failing. Now, the city is collapsing, and the Supreme Lord reveals a terrifying truth: if Elias kills him, the entire society will fall into chaos, but if he helps him, he might have to become the monster he hates. Elias must choose: destroy the corrupt system and risk total ruin, or fix the monster’s legacy and lose his soul.

In a civilization ruled entirely by Beast Tamers, social status, political authority, wealth, and survival are all determined by the spirit beast one awakens during the sacred Day of Summoning. Weak beasts condemn people to lives of humiliation. Legendary beasts create kings. Divine beasts shape empires. Jesse Fletcher, a poor orphan from the slums of Ashveil City, dreams of escaping the misery that has suffocated his life for years. But on the Day of Summoning, his awakening becomes the greatest humiliation in the city's history. While noble heirs summon terrifying elemental dragons, celestial wolves, and ancient war beasts, Jesse awakens a dying creature rejected by the system itself—a malformed black beast covered in broken golden chains. The elite call it a defect. The priests declare it cursed. The academy brands it worthless. They force Jesse to either destroy it or live forever as the city's shame. But Jesse refuses.