The Nightingale

For three years, Andre Nightingale endured humiliation as the city's most ridiculed live-in son-in-law. His wife's family treated him like a servant, society mocked him as a freeloader, and everyone believed he was nothing more than a burden. Then, the day he discovered her betrayal, he handed her the divorce papers himself. She thought she had finally gotten rid of a worthless husband. She had no idea she had just let go of the only heir to the Nightingale Empire, the wealthiest and most powerful family in the country. As Andre returns to reclaim his birthright, rival families, business tycoons, and those who once mocked him will learn a painful lesson. To everyone who once trampled on him... he is their worst nightmare. He is Andre Nightingale, and he is back!

Nathan Cole gave everything to his marriage. He turned down promotions. He emptied his savings. He woke up every morning and chose his family even when his family stopped choosing him back. For six years he told himself that love was a decision, not a feeling, and he kept making it long after Vivienne had quietly stopped. Then came the diagnosis. Progressive Myelin Decay Syndrome. Rare. Degenerative. Expensive to treat. And the optimal window for treatment had almost completely passed, because every time Nathan had tried to get Lily seen, Vivienne had told him he was overreacting. Lily was seven years old. She wanted one thing for her birthday. Not gifts. Not a party. Just her mother standing in the same room long enough to watch her blow out the candles. It should have been effortless. Instead Nathan watched his wife choose a man's son over her own daughter. Watched her dismiss a dying child's collapse as manipulation. Watched her drive away and leave them on the side of a road while Lily fought to breathe in his arms. He buried his daughter alone on a quiet morning while Vivienne celebrated someone else's birthday at home. ~.~ When a mother chooses the wrong child to save. And a father is left with nothing but a drawing and a promise he made while running. How do you rebuild a life from the wreckage of everything you gave away?

After dying of cancer, programmer Kai awakens as the sentient core of Eclipse Online’s deadliest dungeon. Trapped in a game he helped code, he discovers the Devs are using players as lab rats in a simulated apocalypse. To survive, Kai must master his dungeon, forge uneasy alliances, and expose the System’s lies, before his code is erased forever.

On the day his girlfriend decides to dump him, Manuel Reeves awakens his family heirloom. A Ring of Power that gives him incomparable strength. He discovers he is the heir of the biggest Conglomerate, the Nightingale Group of Companies. Now, he must alternate between his identity as Manuel Keith as the new Chairman of Nightingale Group and as Manuel Reeves, the miserable forsaken boy that got dumped by his girlfriend after donating Bone Marrows to her!

Nightingale city protects its inhabitants from the cruelty of the outside world. Everyone has their own place and is happy to live here until death. Just follow the rules. Pay no attention to the behavior of the locals. Do not try to learn the dark secrets of this City. Don't ask what happened in 1996, how the Masked Man and his Freak Circus are connected. Don't ask about witches. Don't go outside at night. Don't look for the truth. Otherwise, in the morning you will find a witch's pouch nearby. Or stay at the Circus forever