Thriller

Dalton Reyes spent five years overseas, never imagining that his greatest battle would begin when he returned home. The moment he tries to access his bank account, he discovers that his money has been transferred into an estate managed by his younger brother, Nathaniel Reyes. The explanation is worse than the theft itself. Eleven days after Dalton's plane departed, he was legally declared mentally unfit, stripped of control over his inheritance, and erased from the empire his father spent a lifetime building. Nathaniel has everything Dalton once owned: the company, the estate, and the trust of their mother. He believes his brother is too far away to discover the truth, and too powerless to challenge the documents that have secured his position. With the help of Petra Lindqvist, a former colleague who knows how to follow a paper trail without leaving one behind, Dalton begins investigating the documents that destroyed his identity. What starts as a search for one forged ruling soon exposes a disturbing pattern involving a psychiatrist, a compromised notary, and other victims whose lives were quietly dismantled to serve Reyes Holdings. Each discovery brings Dalton closer to the truth. Yet the deeper he digs, the more dangerous the investigation becomes. His mother, Miriam, has been led to believe that her returning son is unstable and potentially dangerous. Meanwhile, suspicious movements around her home suggest that Nathaniel knows someone is pulling at the threads of his carefully constructed empire. Suddenly, the stolen inheritance is only one piece of a much darker puzzle. With Reyes Holdings beginning to crumble and Nathaniel moving to destroy whatever remains of the evidence, Dalton must put every piece of the investigation together before his brother buries the truth for good. Eleven days were all Nathaniel needed to erase his brother on paper.

Dorian Vale thought he had finally found his place in the family that raised him. Then, on the night of his engagement, his fiancée chose his adopted brother instead. Humiliated and heartbroken, Dorian leaves the celebration only to overhear a conversation that destroys everything he believes about his life. The Vales didn’t rescue him twenty years ago. They were paid to hide him. Before Dorian can discover why, someone tries to kill him. His car plunges from a bridge, and the world declares him dead. But Dorian survives. And the stranger who saves him calls him by a name he has never heard before. Cassian Ardent. The missing heir to one of the most powerful families in the country. Now Dorian must uncover why his identity was stolen, why his parents died, and who has spent twenty years making sure he never discovers the truth. But reclaiming his name won’t be enough. He must enter the empire that should have been his, defeat the people waiting for him to fail, and expose the traitor hiding inside his own bloodline. Because the family that buried him alive made one fatal mistake. They didn’t make sure he was dead.

PREMISE Damang, a former special forces operative (Military Scholar) who returns to his village in the interior of Kalimantan, finds his homeland beginning to "sicken." A multinational corporation called The Andalusian Order has arrived under the guise of a green energy project. However, Damang smells blood. Led by Elias Thorne, a charismatic occultist who possesses telekinetic powers and the ability to manipulate blood, the sect is actually searching for the "Heart of the Earth"—the largest spiritual energy point in Kalimantan—to awaken a dark entity from the ancient Andalusian era that they worship. The sect did not come empty-handed. They brought The Paladins, a mercenary force modified with dark magic, making them bulletproof and granting them abnormal speed. When his father (the Tribal Chief) is brutally slaughtered before his eyes using a magical ritual, Damang realizes that his assault rifle is not enough. Guided by the spirit of the Panglima Burung through blood-soaked dreams, Damang must undergo a forbidden ritual to awaken the Flying Mandau and master high-level invulnerability. A great war erupts: Machine guns vs. poison blowdarts that hunt their targets. European blood magic vs. the ancestral spirit powers of the Dayak. Damang must hunt down the sect members one by one within a jungle that can transform into a deadly labyrinth, before Elias Thorne completes the eclipse ritual that will plunge Kalimantan into eternal darkness.

When Detective Alex Mercer is called to a gruesome murder scene, he finds a single clue beside the body: an envelope marked ECLIPSE. At first, it looks like the return of a long-dead serial killer. But as more bodies appear, Alex uncovers a hidden network built on secrets, blackmail, and power—one that reaches deep into Ravenswood's police department. Then comes the impossible: a message from Daniel Cross, Alex's former partner who supposedly died five years ago. As the city spirals toward chaos and a mysterious operation known as Phase Two begins, Alex is forced to question everyone he trusts—including the people closest to him. But the deeper he digs, the more terrifying the truth becomes. Because Eclipse isn't just hunting victims. It's preparing to expose a secret powerful enough to bring an entire city to its knees. And someone Alex thought was dead has been waiting in the shadows all along.

Ashes of Her Name Some names are written in love, others in blood… When Clara Sterling returns to Hollow Creek — a town haunted by whispers and buried secrets — she intends to confront the ghost that’s haunted her for twenty years: the unsolved murder of her mother, and the father who vanished without a trace. But Hollow Creek is a place where memories bleed, lies linger, and no secret stays buried forever. Thrown into the path of Damien Creed, a brooding and enigmatic heir with shadows of his own, Clara finds herself entangled in a web of betrayal, forbidden desires, and long-forgotten sins. Together, they unravel cryptic clues and forbidden letters, piecing a truth the town fought to bury. As Clara draws closer to the identity of her mother’s killer, she uncovers a conspiracy darker than she ever imagined — one tied to the very roots of Hollow Creek. Loyalties will shatter. Love will be tested. And in a town built on secrets, the truth may be the deadliest thing of all. Ashes of Her Name is a breathtaking blend of romance, mystery, and spine-chilling suspense — a story about how sometimes, to find yourself, you have to burn down everything you thought you knew.

Daniel only wanted an ordinary day. Classes, a bit of hanging out, then home before the rain grew heavier. But that humid afternoon became the beginning of the apocalypse. Humans began attacking humans, and the transformation happened right before his eyes. “Monsters don’t need a screen to be real.” Daniel said quietly. “And now they’re here. Everything Xavier talked about has come true.” This was not an ordinary outbreak. The colder the air, the faster they evolved. An air conditioner left running could become a death sentence. Rain was no longer a relief, but a trigger for slaughter. Trapped on the upper floors of the campus building, Daniel survives with Chania, Bianca, Xavier, and Kimberly. Five people with different fears, ways of thinking, and moral limits. Outside, the monsters grow faster. Inside, human decisions become even more dangerous. Chania said, “He almost bit us.” Daniel replied, “Not almost. He stopped being human a while ago.” This is not a story about heroes trying to save the world. This is a story about survival as the temperature continues to drop. And about one rule that cannot be negotiated. In Degrees of Death, the ones who die first are not the weak, but the hesitant.

She buried her husband three years ago. She's been visiting his grave every year since, telling herself the same lie: that grief fades, that closure is real, that Adrian is gone. Then a photo lands in her phone. A billionaire at a gala, laughing at something off camera. Adrian's face, on a stranger's body, wearing a stranger's name. Elena tells herself it's coincidence, until she's sitting across from Damian Voss in his own office and he says her name, a name that was never on her business card. Damian doesn't remember her. He doesn't remember much of anything before the coma that rebuilt him from nothing, a new identity, a new life, built on top of a silence nobody in his life has ever questioned out loud. But somebody built that silence on purpose. And somebody is still protecting it. The closer Elena gets to the truth, the more it costs her, and the more it costs the people around her. Because the man who buried her husband's identity didn't do it to save him. He did it because a dead man can't testify. Some graves don't hold what you buried in them. Some marriages don't end the way you think they did. And some men come back not because they escaped, but because someone finally let them go.

Three years ago, billionaire Damien Hale died in a mysterious car accident. His family buried him, his company moved on, and his wife, Elena Marsh, was left with nothing but grief and betrayal. But Damien Hale is not dead. He faked his death after discovering that his powerful family was laundering money for a dangerous criminal network. Now, living under a secret identity, he has returned to New York with one goal: destroy the empire that betrayed him and expose the people who tried to erase him. His carefully planned revenge takes an unexpected turn when Elena resurfaces as Isadora Voss, a mysterious investor buying the very properties his family desperately needs. The woman he abandoned has become a dangerous opponent, determined to make the Hales pay for destroying her life. When Elena acquires Blackthorn Hotel, she unknowingly threatens the criminal operation Damien has spent three years investigating. Their separate missions begin to collide, drawing them into a deadly game of hidden identities, missing evidence, and carefully planned betrayals. But someone inside the Hale empire knows Damien survived. As witnesses disappear and a mysterious buyer sabotages their plans, Damien discovers that his staged death may be connected to a secret far more sinister than he imagined. To destroy his enemies, Damien must decide whether to reveal himself to the woman he once loved. Elena, however, may never forgive the man who let her mourn him while he remained alive. With the family's empire crumbling and a ruthless enemy pulling the strings, Damien must choose between completing his revenge and saving the woman he never stopped loving. He was buried as a billionaire. Now he's back to make his enemies pay.

Cain Mercer was the CIA's deadliest black-ops asset. He could enter any room, eliminate any target, and vanish without a trace. They called him a ghost—not because he was invisible, but because he left no evidence behind. Then the Siberia mission changed everything. An explosion at a classified research facility should have killed him. Instead, it unlocked something inside Cain's mind. Now he sees them: the Strays—flickering, predatory remnants of the dead that drift through our world like interference on a dying radio. They're invisible to everyone else. And they're hunting. The Agency branded him insane, locked him away in a deep-cover psychiatric facility. But when impossible assassinations begin targeting high-value global assets—each victim found with the same static-burn scar Cain carries on his chest—they have no choice but to unearth their broken weapon. Cain is offered a deal: track the killer, stop the attacks, and earn his freedom. But the deeper he digs, the darker the truth becomes. The Strays aren't random. They're being directed by someone inside the Agency itself—a ghost from Cain's past who knows exactly what he's become. To survive, Cain must embrace the very thing that terrifies him most: he's not just a ghost operative. He's the only one who can fight ghosts. And the war has only just begun.

Nathan has spent the last five years trying to leave his past behind. Once an elite operative of The Oath, a secret organization controlling world events from the shadows, he walked away, seeking peace. But one night, he wakes up in a bloodstained room with no memory of the last 48 hours—only to find himself branded as a terrorist and the target of a nationwide manhunt. On the run and unsure if he truly committed the crime, Nathan turns to Riley, a skilled underground hacker, for help. As they dig deeper, they uncover a terrifying truth—his memories have been altered. Clues left behind by Elias Graves reveal that Nathan once broke his unbreakable oath to the organization, but someone wiped his mind to keep him from remembering why. The conspiracy leads to Julian, Nathan’s former best friend, who is orchestrating a global web of deception built on manufactured threats and lies. Determined to uncover the truth, Nathan infiltrates The Oath’s headquarters for a final confrontation with Julian. But the shocking revelation leaves him shattered—Nathan wasn’t framed. He willingly took part in the crime but later chose to erase his own memory to escape the unbearable guilt. A recorded message from his past self forces him to face a critical decision: Expose Julian and bring down The Oath, risking global chaos. Take control of The Oath and become the very thing he once fought against. No matter what he chooses, the cost is high. If he exposes The Oath, the world is thrown into instability, and he is forever hunted. If he takes over, he sacrifices his own ideals, embracing the power he once rejected. In the end, as Nathan looks at his reflection, he sees Julian staring back—proof that the cycle never truly ended.