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He was a man who gave everything for his empire. They repaid him with betrayal and a blade. But death was not the end. Kael opened his eyes again — younger, weaker, but alive. The fire that once burned him now lived inside him. This time, he would not die a loyal fool. This time, he would see the truth, piece by piece, and tear down the rotten empire that broke him. He has no savior, no love story, no mercy left to give. Only purpose. Only resolve. From ashes to power, from ruin to rebirth — his second life begins.

Three children. One fire. A lifetime of scars. Jay and Chase Hamilton grew up side by side, brothers bound by laughter and games in the courtyard of their crumbling apartment complex. Anna Rivera, their neighbor, was the sparrow who trailed them everywhere — small, stubborn, determined never to be left behind. But one careless spark changed everything. The fire tore through their home, leaving ash and silence in its wake. Their mother never returned, and with her absence came unspoken blame. Chase carried the weight of believing she died for him. Jay took the guilt of failing to protect them both. Anna disappeared under whispers and shadows, her name cursed by neighbors who swore the fire had been her fault. Twenty-five years later, the past is still burning. Chase is now CEO of the family’s printing press, driven, distant, and ruthless. Jay is a photographer abroad, still chasing moments he can never hold onto. And Anna — under another name, rebuilt and unrecognizable — has risen quietly, her fate intertwined with theirs once more. But ash does not stay buried forever. When the truth resurfaces, it will test the fragile bonds of family, loyalty, and forgiveness. Ashes of Yesterday is a sweeping story of childhood lost, of wounds carried into adulthood, and of whether broken lives can ever be pieced back together when the fire never really died.

In 24 hours, the world will end. The only way to survive is to become a god. William lived through the Mana Calamity, saw humanity shatter, and died a villain. Now, he's back, waking up one day early, armed with perfect knowledge of the future. He knows the truth: when the apocalypse hits, every object on Earth will be converted into a collectible Skill Card, granting its owner superpowers. The clock is ticking. Before the cities crumble and the monsters awaken, William must execute a meticulous plan to claim the absolute cheat codes: the Infinite cards. His first target is the Infinite Mana card, held deep within the Statue of Liberty and protected by a monstrous guardian. He’s not the only one who remembers the past. With a powerful rival regressor already on his trail and the timeline accelerating faster than he recalls, William is forced into desperate fights, uneasy alliances, and an accidental romantic contract with a beautiful girl harboring a terrifying, beast-attracting curse. He has the knowledge. He has the ambition. Now, he just needs to survive One Day Early.

Marcus Carter has seen the worst in people. He was a mercenary who had been in a lot of wars and fought for causes he didn't believe in. He survived violence that would have killed most men. But after the fighting stopped, all he wanted was a quiet life, something like peace that he never thought he would have. But at home, peace is a luxury. When the criminal group that killed his team comes back, Marcus has to go back to a world of violence, corruption, and betrayal. He starts to take down the empire that ruined his life with his elite fighting skills and a ruthless desire for revenge. But revenge is just the start. Marcus learns that things aren't as simple as they seem as he gets more and more involved in the city's criminal underbelly. He never thought corruption would go this deep, and in the streets where loyalty is bought and sold, it's hard to tell who is a friend and who is an enemy. In a world where power is the only thing that matters, Marcus has to deal with dangerous alliances, shady people, and the harsh truth of the city. He learns that to stay alive in this harsh world, he has to follow rules that aren't very honorable as he builds his own empire. Marcus will learn that peace is not a place to go; it's a fight that never ends in the harsh city. Will he take over the empire and rule the underworld, or will the harsh reality of the city break him?

I remember the day everything burned like a wound that would never heal. Flames stole my family — my parents were ripped from me, my little brothers and sisters turned to ash — all because debts bled our name dry. They came in the night with torches and cold mouths, set our home alight, and watched the world I knew collapse into smoke. When I thought the world had taken its last piece of me, something — someone — stepped through the blaze. I could not tell if it was man or woman; the fire kept the savior's shape blurred and holy, as if the flames themselves had given birth to a protector. They pulled me from the ruin and vanished like a promise. For seven years I answered a different kind of fire. I joined the army and let the drill and the discipline burn the broken parts clean. My hands learned steel. My bones learned marching. My nights learned keeping watch. I learned how to turn pain into armor, sorrow into strategy. I was forged in training fields and battle lines until a new name fit me. I am Kaelor Thane now — not a child who once cried over ash, but a force that arrives on the war road without apology. They called me the God of War because I learned to move like thunder and strike like winter. I carry no mercy in my pocket; I carry only the weight of a debt to be settled. Those who think they can stand between me and what I owe will learn the hard truth: I do not forgive. I do not forget. I return to make the ledger even, and I will make them pay in ruin, pain, and a silence that remembers my name.

In the frozen heart of Midgard, Kratos and Atreus find themselves drawn into a nightmare that predates even the gods themselves. When entire villages begin vanishing into thin air—leaving only frozen blood and whispers in the wind—the Ghost of Sparta must confront a horror that cannot be killed by blade alone. Something ancient stirs beneath the Nordic ice. The Draugr no longer stay dead. The forests breathe with malevolent intelligence. And Atreus begins hearing voices that shouldn't exist voices that know his true nature, voices that call him by a name even Kratos fears to speak. As father and son venture deeper into cursed territories where reality itself fractures, they discover that some evils were buried for a reason. The lines between the living and the dead blur. Trust becomes a luxury. And Kratos must ask himself: what happens when you've killed gods, but the true monsters were waiting underneath all along? This is a story of survival, sacrifice, and the terrifying realization that in the world of Norse mythology, death is never the end it's just the beginning of something worse.

LEGACY UNCHAINED Born under a storm that silenced Atlanta’s skyline for exactly one minute, Kyle Harrison entered the world marked by a pulse no machine could measure. The Harrisons are a dynasty of prestige and power owners of multimillion dollar wellness corporations, admired for their philanthropy, and feared for something deeper: a secret inheritance passed through blood. To the public, they’re visionaries. Behind closed doors, they are the last living keepers of The Current an ancient force older than science, stronger than reason. But Kyle doesn’t want that life. Brilliant, disciplined, and kindhearted, he dreams of becoming a doctor, a man who saves lives with knowledge, not inherited magic. His parents, however, are bound by duty to the family’s covenant. They demand that he embrace his destiny as the next Conductor of The Current a role that would tether him forever to powers he doesn’t understand and to a legacy he fears will destroy him. When he refuses, the family turns on him. His education is cut off, his name blacklisted, and the empire built by generations becomes his greatest enemy. Stripped of privilege and protection, Kyle must navigate betrayal, ambition, and haunting discoveries about what The Current truly is and why it chose him. As he fights to reclaim his future, Kyle learns that denying his legacy won’t free him from it. The power in his blood has its own will and if he can’t master it, it will consume not only him but the entire city his family once ruled. Legacy Unchained is a gripping modern saga of power, faith, and rebellion a journey from destiny to self-definition, where family magic collides with ambition, and the price of freedom is written in blood.

They mocked him as a useless husband. They all laughed as he walked away with nothing. What they never knew was that Julian Crowe owned the world they stood on. After catching his wife’s betrayal and signing the divorce without resistance, Julian disappears from their lives...only to quietly return as the invisible hand controlling billion-dollar industries. Along the way, he shelters Iris Nolan, a disgraced woman destroyed by corporate conspiracies linked to his empire. As secrets unravel, identities explode, and enemies rise, Julian finally stops hiding. This time, he won’t explain. He’ll let regret do the talking.

Azeriel Dawnblade, the strongest Celestial Hero , was betrayed by the gods he served. His soul was shattered and cast into the Mortal Realm. Reborn as Kai Ren, a weak village boy with no future, he awakens a forbidden system: The Heavenbreaker Curse. A system meant to erase him, but it malfunctions and becomes his greatest weapon. Every betrayal makes him stronger. Every lie unlocks a memory of his past life. Every battle brings him one step closer to the truth behind the gods’ conspiracy. But the gods have not forgotten him. Assassins are moving. Prophecies are shifting. And a mysterious girl named Lira seems to know more about him than she should. Kai must rise from nothing, uncover his stolen identity, and reclaim the power the heavens tried to bury. The road to vengeance has begun

Beneath Manhattan’s glittering skyline lies the Silver District — an urban quarantine zone where the city hides its failures. Inside its shadows roam the Lycaon, humans mutated by illegal genetic conditioning. Governments insist they’re extinct. They are very wrong. Caleb Mercer — former security officer turned fugitive — survives on the fringes after escaping a classified experiment known as Program Howl. Every night, he battles a violent transformation ripping his humanity apart. Every day, federal strike teams hunt him as an “uncontrolled biological threat.” When an explosion tears through the Silver District, exposing the existence of a second generation of engineered shapeshifters, Caleb becomes the only one capable of tracking the outbreak’s source. He doesn’t want to be a hero. He just wants revenge — and answers. The truth? Something worse than werewolves is evolving in the city’s bones.