Truth Be Told Mathew West

Humiliated by his cheating girlfriend and beaten like a nobody, he thinks he has hit rock bottom, until one phone call reveals the truth about his birth. Overnight, the broke waiter becomes the hidden heir to an empire powerful enough to make an entire city bow.

Adrian Kelevra was supposed to die the night the underworld burned. An explosion wiped out an entire Mafia family, leaving him as the only survivor. With no memory of the truth and every crime syndicate hunting him, Adrian becomes the most dangerous question in the underworld: Who is he—and why does everyone fear the answer? Quiet, calculating, and impossible to kill, Adrian rises from a nameless street ghost to a ruthless enforcer. But the deeper he climbs, the more he realizes someone has been guiding him from the shadows… and that the blood in his veins is tied to a vanished dynasty feared by all—the Black Throne. Betrayal, secrets, and power games swirl around him as enemies fall like dominoes. Every victory reveals another lie. Every ally might be a trap. And every step closer to the truth pulls Adrian into a war he was born to end. When the final mask comes off, the entire underworld will learn one thing: A king can be forgotten—but his bloodline never dies.

The most beautiful memory in the world of love is that every young girl hopes to meet true love, but Eleanor's love is winding and unfortunate. Her boyfriend Logan is a man with a family, and she has become a third party. She only learned the truth after being threatened by Lawrence Willow. Stella is Logan's wife, Lawrence Willow is Stella's sister, Alpha of the werewolf. In order to help Stella, he found Eleanor and threatened her. When Eleanor was still a child, she remembered her neighbor Mrs. Howard grabbing her husband and other women together. The people in the town cursed the woman who ruined other people's families and marriages. However, due to Logan's deception, Eleanor became the most annoying person. After learning all the truth, Eleanor was unable to continue this relationship. But things are not that simple The appearance of Lawrence Willow changed Eleanor's life. How was she manipulated by fate?

"He died in prison." That's what they told the world after poisoning his father, murdering his mother, and framing Alexander Kane for attempted rape. Uncle Robert and stepmother Victoria thought they'd buried their problems along with the broken boy they left to rot in a cell. They were wrong. Five years later, the city's elite gather at a red-carpet banquet to meet the mysterious War God—the general who single-handedly won the nation's greatest conflict. Alexander Kane walks in with a coffin. "Good evening. I believe I was invited." The room freezes. Victoria drops her champagne. Robert's laughter dies when Alexander kicks open the coffin, revealing a corpse and ringing phone. "Where's your guard dog now?" "He's in the coffin." One by one, the liars fall. Bones break. Secrets bleed. When even General Hawthorne drops to one knee, calling him "Sir," the city finally realizes: The boy they buried returned as the man they fear. Now it's time for blood, justice, and retribution. Every debt will be paid. Every traitor will kneel. Because Alexander Kane didn't just survive prison—he conquered death itself.

In a dying world where survivors fight for scraps, Santiago Reyes possesses a power that turns laziness into godhood. The less he does, the stronger he becomes. Branded as a useless parasite by his peers, only the enigmatic Nikolai Sokolov sees the terrifying truth behind his stillness.

Everyone thought Brandon Scott was a nobody — a broke, discarded son-in-law not worth a second glance. Even Sophia, his wife, and her family mocked and looked down on him. What happens when they find out the truth that the man they’d humiliated was the true power behind it all?

Cael Rourke spent four years in a unit that officially never existed. When a mission went wrong and four of his men died, the record was sealed, and he was discharged. Eighteen months later, the civil case he fought to bring the truth to light is dismissed before he even reaches the courtroom. Out on the steps, a stranger hands him a phone. On the screen is a photo of a woman named Nadia Voss, and address, and a single line of text: Stay away from her, or the sealed record becomes a conviction. Nadia is a private investigator working an embezzlement case that has nothing to do with Cael. Or so she thinks. As Cael digs into the company that built its reputation on the graves of his team, their paths keep crossing. What begins as distance turns into a shared fight against people who have spent years making sure the truth stays buried. Some records are sealed for a reason. Others are sealed because someone is still afraid of what they contain.

Reborn as a physics prodigy falsely accused of fraud, he gains a system that can tell truth from error. Knowing the answers is only the beginning—he still has to prove them. As his breakthroughs shake the academic world, the university that threw him out may soon be teaching his work.

They took everything from him, then they framed him in debt and told him to figure it out. Hiroshi Tanaka has three days to come up with three million credits or his mother dies. The Kuroda family did all of it. They set him up, drained his accounts, and got his own girlfriend to stand up in court and lie about him. Now they're sitting on the one thing he can't walk away from, the machine keeping his mother alive. Then something appears in his vision that shouldn't be there. [Gratitude System Activated] [Rule: Protect. Receive. Grow.] He doesn't understand it. He doesn't trust it either. But when a debt collector shows up and starts pushing his childhood friend around, something in Hiroshi breaks open and the System drops money into his account that has no explanation and his body and strength change in ways he couldn't understand. The Kuroda still think he's a broke student with nowhere to go. They didn't know a gratitude system had been activated for him which made him richer and stronger. He will soon make them regret using him.

He was at the verge of securing the contract that would change his life, the contract that would prove to everyone that he wasn't just the worthless house husband, but suddenly he received a call. His wife was shouting over the phone, calling for him to attend to his sick daughter. Without thinking, he abandoned the opportunity of a lifetime, only to go to the hospital and find no one. When he went home, a party was being held without him. His child looked healthy, and his wife had another man's arm around her waist, the same man she'd told him was nothing but business and they were celebrating the same contract that phone call had made him lose. Ethan lost it. He'd spent 9 years living as a ghost because he believed he could build something outside of his family's wealth, with a woman who he'd loved right from campus. But the world was cruel to an honest man like him and now, he'd have to turn to his past and face the very thing that made him walk away from a dynasty, only this time, there is much more darkness to it that he must face.