The Mafia's Not So Fluffy Romance

Under the gray Scottish sky, Arthur McAlister had to swallow the bitter pill of life. Alistair McAlister, his power-hungry father, allowed his mistress, Evelyn, and his illegitimate son, Julian, to slaughter Arthur's birth mother and torture his younger sister, Lily, to the brink of death. Arthur, paralyzed from the waist down, could only watch with soul-crushing rage as he was abandoned on a desolate roadside. However, at the lowest point of his despair, an ancient digital entity known as the 'Vengeance Sovereign System' awakened within him. With the power to heal, manipulate shadows, and build an empire from scratch, Arthur swore to reclaim everything that was rightfully his and ensure his father's new family begged for death.

Ethan Cole returns to Crestfield City after five years of silence carrying nothing but a duffel bag and a debt that isn't his to pay. His father is dead. His family home has been seized. And the men he once commanded the brothers he bled beside are being decorated as national heroes for a mission that was his in every way that mattered. Nobody in Crestfield knows that Ethan Cole doesn't exist in any public military record. The name that exists classified, redacted, spoken only in the highest corridors of military intelligence is Ghost. The supreme commander behind three of the most consequential covert operations in recent history. The soldier four governments tried to eliminate and failed. The man whose real file carries a classification level that most generals will never hold clearance to read. Ethan isn't back for revenge. Revenge is beneath him. He's back because the people who destroyed his name made one critical miscalculation they assumed his silence was surrender. It wasn't. Working from a budget motel room and a mall security job, Ethan begins dismantling the corruption quietly and precisely freezing promotions, routing evidence to a journalist, cutting financial threads that connect his betrayers to a corrupt general named Hutchins who buried the true record of Operation Blackfall to protect his own interests. When Hutchins sends six armed contractors to silence him permanently, they end up on the ground in forty five seconds, and the footage reaches military high command before morning. The reckoning that follows is swift, public, and absolute. Hutchins is detained. Delta Seven faces tribunal. And in the middle of a half empty shopping mall, the second highest ranking officer in the country walks across the floor in full dress uniform and salutes a man in a security guard's uniform.

Marco, a poor student who struggles to make ends meet and win the respect of those around him. On the day of his 18th birthday, he is humiliated and bullied by a member of the basketball team while working to earn extra money. Just when he thinks his fortunes couldn't get any worse, he receives a phone call from a girl he has been trying to impress but instead is mocked by her. As he's about to give up, a message arrives showing that 100 million dollars have been transferred to his account. This sudden change in fortune opens up new opportunities for Marco, giving him the chance to pay off his debts, buy a new apartment, and even take the girl he likes to the cheerleading team captain's birthday party, showing her that he is more than just a poor loser.

Victor Langford, rightful heir to the trillion-dollar Langford Consortium in the futuristic metropolis of Aurelia City, had everything—until betrayal shattered it all. Framed for embezzlement by his ruthless uncle Harlan, publicly humiliated and abandoned by his fiancée Isabella Voss, and coldly disowned by the family patriarch Reginald, Victor was cast into the rain-soaked streets of the Shadow Districts like worthless trash. Five years of exile forged him anew. The trusting young heir vanished; a cold, powerful man emerged—armed with hidden wealth, iron resolve, and a thirst for retribution that knows no mercy. Now Victor returns to Aurelia City’s glittering heart. Boardrooms will fall silent. Fortunes built on his ruin will crumble. His betrayers will kneel, beg, and regret—too late. In a city of towering neon spires and opulent estates overlooking endless night, the betrayed heir unleashes absolute vengeance. But as old flames plead and darker secrets rise, will revenge reclaim his empire… or destroy the last piece of his soul? The fall was cruel. The return is merciless. The vengeance is inevitable.

Aidan knocked up a stranger from a one-night stand who turned out to be Erica from the powerful Hartford family. One thing led to another, he became the poor son-in-law of the Hartford family. If Aidan's life was miserable before, it was nothing compared to what his in-laws put him through. He was bullied and made less of himself because he was a pauper and had no ties to a rich family whatsoever. Because the family no longer wanted to be associated with his poor ass, they framed him up, took his child away, and got him arrested. His world turned sour in a space of hours until a man showed up telling him of his true identity, and that he was Aidan Ackerman, the only heir to the Ackerman dynasty.

Barned and rejected from entering into the king's palace, he became a live-in son-in-law of Lord Marcus. He was maltreated by his mother in-law, grandmother-in-law and wife's cousins. Fortunately, Charles had just received a letter of apology from the palace with a compensation of $900,000,000,000 for all damages caused to him and request for his ascension into the throne of The British Kingdom. Now, it's payback time to all who maltreated him as a live-in son-in-law and those who masterminded his banishment plots from the Palace which also led to his mother's death. "As long as I live, I must avenge Queen Ava's death!"

Within a world where humanity destroyed everything. Where World War V obliterated the whole planet from its central core, and possibly caused the downfall of the entire Solar System, or even the Galaxy. A being watching everything from a high stand point, beyond the constriction of Existence, decides to reshresh the whole Universe due to his deep love for his rebellious children. But this time, he sends them to an even grander world very similar to Earth, with three variables in hope to alter their Fate. The Seven Systems The Primordial Source. ...And a young man called Damien Gray. ***** ***** ***** Damien Gray was a very talented young man who went through a lot after the Genesis. He used his talent, potential and wits to survive in a world with seven protagonists and a terrifying omnipotent entity. But even then, even without being the main character, he finds an opportunity to make a wish from The Primordial Source. And his wish... was to be sent back in time, during the beginning of the Genesis, in hopes to give his race, Humanity, a second chance. Join Damien as this time, he sets a path of Absolute, Transcendence and Cosmic proportions for his entire race. Watch as he makes even the Seven protagonists seem like nothing but trash compared to him. Watch as he takes humanity to heights so high, not even the major races, the divine races and the outer eldrich races could try and compare. Watch as he becomes humanity's second chance.

Yan Ming the King of hell, Ruler of the abyss, one of the ten primordials was betrayed by three of his seven wives after a clash with his arch-enemy Ling Yi. Yan Ming fell to the assault but the three generals were unable to retrieve hell's mandate who deemed them unworthy of wielding it. Yan Ming reincarnates as a normal human with the mandate linked to him as a system guiding him to regain his powers with only one mission for him to fulfill. {Main Questline: Reclaim ownership of the infernal realm} {Time Limit: 5 years} {Penalty: Permanent loss of the title "King Of Hell, Ruler of the abyss} Guided by the mandate now recreated into a system, Yan Ming rises from a mortal body to reclaim control over hell and exert his dominance. During his journeys he discovers fragments of past events and uncovers his true desire, forfeiting the control over hell in pursuit of his own true desires and rewrite his own life from being chained down to an empty throne to become his own free man. Unbothered and unchained to no one and nothing he sets out for his journey to discover the origin of Dao and achieve the legendary final realm, the true pinnacle of cultivation! --- A book based on unraveling the different mysteries of cultivation and the universe, very fast paced and diverse. I'd recommend you check out the free chapters first and try making a guess regards the novels plot what do you think? The novel looks a bit slow in the initial arcs but eventually get better as it moves on, thanks for reading!

Who said destiny was in your own hands? Who lied to you? It was written on flesh the day you got your name. Slaves to a race of people that balance the karma of the cosmos... Yet abuse all it's power and gifts in their failed self gratification... Yes! It's true, all for their amusement. But now a boy considered as much an abomination as a hawk and a dog giving birth to a child, is born of high blood and seeks freedom from destiny's shackles. He roams planes and defeat opponents as he struggles to climb to the top. P.s. this is a fantasy earth. Also the book cover isn't mine.

After losing his wife to be to the hands of the crown prince, Keith's sister was murdered by the same prince... Not only does he want revenge, he wants Prince Edward to be so miserable that death would be far away from him... But how can he accomplish this if he's just a commoner?