The Plot

[No.2 "An Intrigue Read" Novel In "Leap To The Top" contest] Lucas Baron grew up very poor and had to fend himself. One day he fought with a big shot and ended up going to jail. Whoever knew that it would turn out to be a blessing in disguise because his birth mother located him and revealed to him that he was the son of the richest man in the country. Lucas was happy to have found his real parents who happen to be rich but when he approached them, they insulted him and rejected him. Since then, Lucas decided that they would pay the price of leaving him when he was young and rejecting him now

Picked from the gutter, he felt alive knowing at least he can get a drop of water to quench his dried throat not knowing the worst is about to befall him, this is no other person than Scandious. Scarlett who despised him with passion swore to make his life a living hell at all costs. For no just reason, he was Chased out of the house there and then, he realized what they had been saying is nothing but the truth "He's a cursed child". Determined to end his ill-fated life, he went to the mountain there he meet a man named Zack who saw the sadness in his eyes and took him in. One faithful morning he meet a young man who addressed him as the Crown Prince of the great Chankus empire bowing consecutively for him. Scandious walked away, calling him an insane man not ready to believe such lies, not somebody as poor and worthless as him. After much persistence, he gave it second thoughts and he was taken to the palace, seeing such a gigantic building frightened him the most. With time, he came to understand he was the Crown Prince which got him excited knowing his sad days are gone and replaced with joy. All this was cut short when a sudden attack was launched on him with a warning to leave the palace as soon as possible else he will be a dead man as if that wasn't enough, he discovered they tried murdering him three years ago. Who do you think is behind it and what's the King saying about it?

Death was never meant to be played with — until he made it a game. Draven Kaine, once the Empire’s most feared necromancer, was executed for treason after raising the dead army that destroyed his own homeland. But when the veil between worlds cracks open, he awakens in his own coffin — alive, cursed, and bound to the ghost of the man he murdered. To survive, Draven must hunt the escaped souls that now haunt the living. Each spirit carries a secret piece of a greater puzzle — a game orchestrated by an ancient god who calls himself The Reaper King. Every round of this deadly game demands a sacrifice: a memory, a life, or a soul. But when Draven discovers the Reaper King’s final target is the woman he once loved, he must decide… Will he play by death’s rules — or rewrite them?

Five strangers rush to the last subway train. One is in a hurry to leave the country. The second is running from the police. The third is trying to push off the bottom. The fourth is running away from the past. And the fifth - from itself. A sudden stop in the tunnel crosses out their plans ... And somewhere on the surface, the captain of the investigatory committee, plunging into manic schizophrenia, receives a strange task - to find the daughter of an influential general who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The footprints lead him to the subway.

BLURB Caleb Lane gave everything to the woman he loved. His money. His company. His whole life. And she repaid him with poison. “I was never your childhood sweetheart,” Brielle whispered, watching him bleed. “Mason told me every detail of your little love story, and I played the part perfectly.” In his final moments, Caleb spotted a matching pendant on the one woman who actually fought for him. Ava Cross. His real soulmate. Dead on the ground because of him. Then he woke up. Three months before the apocalypse. Three months before the world burns. Armed with a mysterious trading system, a hidden pocket dimension, and the burning memory of everyone who betrayed him, Caleb has one mission. Find Ava. Protect the people who matter. And make sure Brielle and Mason never survive to see the new world. “There’s not going to be an engagement,” Caleb told his best friend. “Not tonight. Not ever. I’m done with Brielle.” This time, he knows exactly who to trust, who to destroy, and how the world ends. This time, the apocalypse plays by his rules.

Prologue   Maverick Michelson, a young man in his early twenties who was struggling at the bottom of society had his world shattered when his family died and he learned that his girlfriend used and betrayed him.    Weak and without strength, he was going to be cruelly tortured to death after learning about his girlfriend's betrayal but at that time, a mysterious artifact hidden within his soul called a system awakened and granted him the strength to free himself and escape.     Maverick had lost his family, and his love and no longer had the will to live but with the help of the system, not only did he rise from the ashes, he also attained the capital to seek revenge.      Maverick strives to attain strength with the system to seek revenge and make his girlfriend and all those who were involved suffer a fate far worse than his family had.

Logan is poor and bored, and agree with his friend to summon elves to grant them what they wished for. Logan thought it would be a silly game but it was real and two Dark Elves were summoned. Now he had to learn about magic and start training because lord Voidmoth and indeed the Dark Queen is out for his head. Time for him to unlock abilities and summon more Dark Elves to build his harem before full battle began. Passion and magic, Logan would do anything to keep his women safe and.... Satisfied. 18+

Liam Carter spent two years working double shifts and selling his belongings to support his girlfriend, Chloe. When a polar storm drops the world to negative sixty degrees, she repays him by locking him out in the blizzard so her new lover, the wealthy Julian, can stay warm. Liam freezes to death with one thought burning in his mind: revenge. He wakes up thirty days before the ice age begins. That same night, he tracks Chloe to Julian's suite at the Sterling Hotel and confirms his memories are real. He walks away calmly, then spends his last $1,000 on lottery numbers he remembers from his first life. The jackpot is $300 million. Liam wastes no time. He hires an elite security firm to turn the lot across from campus into a geothermal, steel-reinforced survival bunker and orders a warehouse worth of food and water. When Chloe and Julian discover he is rich, they decide his sudden wealth is a "loyalty test." Chloe tries to win him back, and Liam slaps her in front of the whole student elite. He slaps Julian too, then stares down campus security with a wall of private mercenaries. Julian refuses to accept defeat. Believing Liam will pick a new girlfriend to spite Chloe, he gets Liam's kind coworker Maya fired and blackmails her into seducing Liam and draining his fortune. Liam, who remembers Maya as the one good person in his past life, answers her call as she begs for help.

The edge of the Attorgron forests lay about fifty miles to the east.I could get good water there, and it was closer to me than the other water source I was going to, but it had its own set of issues.One reason would be that my pursuers would expect me to head there for water, in addition to the cover the forest could provide us as we headed north; however, I would unavoidably run into the Attorgron people at some point along the way. I was a wanted man with a bounty on my head to them.Because of that, I was well worth the effort it took for them to locate me and inject me with one of those poison darts they were so fond of.Thank you;Instead of dying from poison burning my insides, I would take my chances out in the open.

Nathan Hayes was born an heir, but returned a convict. After years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, Nathan is forced to serve the very family that betrayed him. Mocked as a servant, stripped of his legacy, he faces off against Liam, the golden boy who stole it all, and Cassandra, the fiancée torn between love and loyalty. But with a hidden journal and a hunger for revenge, Nathan will rise from the shadows… and bring the Hayes empire crashing down.