Truth Be Told Mathew West

Alex is a young college student. Living with his two buddies, life seems perfect to him. One day, without even realizing, he felt in love. A girl so misterious caught his eyes on his way back to his dorm. Its an instant clicked. But, their relationship is deeper than that. Some secret are never meant to be keep forever. Little by little, his friends started to uncovers much hidden secret of the unknown girlfriend. She returns to seek vengeance on those who wronged her in the past. And Alex, now that he knows the truth, is willingly assisting her, unaware he too will perish.

Betrayed by his own family and left for dead, Desmond Ashford lost everything—his inheritance, his identity, his past, and even his memory. Forced to endure years of humiliation as a lowly live-in son-in-law, he later gets divorced by his wife and finally regains his memory and discovers the shocking truth: he is the rightful heir to an empire. With unlimited power and wealth at his fingertips, Desmond embarks on a path of vengeance, destroying those who wronged him. But just as victory seems near, a shocking revelation changes everything—his supposed brother was never family, and the mother he thought was long dead might still be alive.

He married into a family of power… but he holds the law, the secret, and the ultimate revenge. Akash Khan appears to be a humble, submissive husband, marrying into the ruthless and high-class Rathore family. Scorned, humiliated, and forced to endure endless cruelty, he seems powerless—but nothing about him is as it seems. In truth, Akash is a top undercover detective, secretly investigating the Rathores’ dark empire. Every insult, every slight, every act of humiliation is part of a carefully plotted plan. When a shocking revelation surfaces—that Akash is the long-lost son of the influential Singh family—he gains not only wealth and power but the ultimate weapon: the leverage to exact revenge on the family that mocked him.

SYNOPSIS In a realm where magic and martial arts reign supreme, Kaden's nights are haunted by shadows of his past, driving him to seek power in the ancient arts. Years slip away, and his soul remains locked, a prisoner of his own potential. Desperate, he retreats to a forgotten corner of the world, where hope seems lost. But fate has other plans. A chance encounter ignites a spark, and Kaden's ascent begins, hurtling him toward a truth that will shatter the very fabric of his reality. The Wheel of Time turns, and Kaden's destiny awaits – will he unlock the secrets of his soul, or be consumed by the darkness that haunts him?

Brian Hale was invisible—until the day he died. Beaten and left for dead by the very people who tormented him, his story should have ended in silence. Instead, it began again… with something unnatural coursing through his veins. Now faster, stronger, and infinitely more intelligent, Brian walks a thin line between human and something far beyond. As he rises through brutal fighting tournaments and uncovers the dark truth behind the experiment that saved him, enemies multiply—and so does the cost of his power. Because every evolution comes with a price. And Brian is running out of humanity to pay it.

In our era, where science and technology dominate, magic and the like are always dismissed as myths and legends, elements of folklore. However, a boy named Tom crops up from the rural areas of Detroit. Tom, was a lover of books, a science freak, and an ardent admirer of magic. During his high school days, Tom found a book from one of the world’s most secret occult groups; The Order of the Chalice. This book led him to an unprecedented adventure into the depths of the most hidden places in the world. Meanwhile, Tom’s unrequited lover, Heidi, was worried about Tom and insisted on pursuing him. Tom left home after hijacking his father’s pension funds in search of the Stone of Heka which the occult book told him of. Heidi, on the other hand, cut a frustrated figure as Tom eluded her. Sometime in the future, decades after he left his family, Tom resurfaced. But now, as the ‘vulle guze cha’; the magic Overlord of the Order of the Chalice. Many catastrophic events heralded his ascension and emergence. This caused the States, politicians, and the Order of the Chalice surviving members to become alert. The state thought that a major terrorist group had attacked, while politicians confused, concocted many conspiracy theories in pursuit of the culprit. However, the Order of the Chalice was frenziedly preparing for the homecoming and true ascension of the legendary ‘vulle guze cha’ who will lead them to the limelight, and bring back the golden era of magic. Heidi, who was done with her college education, has been in pursuit of Tom and is the only one who knows his whereabouts. Tom, however, seeks supremacy. He wants to rule the world. An inevitable war will ensue but only Heidi can save the day.

In a world where magic is everything and bloodline is destiny, one boy was born with nothing. Aethoria is a continent fractured by war five rival kingdoms each anchored to a unique form of elemental magic drawn from the Aeths, crystallized veins of life force buried deep in the earth. For a thousand years, the kingdoms coexisted in uneasy balance. Then the Solmere Empire began to burn. Karl Dun is seventeen years old when his village is set alight. He is a commoner, an orphan, and worst of all in Aethoria Aethless: tested twice and found hollow, incapable of bonding with any elemental magic. In a society where your Aeth-bond determines your value, your rank, and your right to dream, Karl has been told since childhood that he is nothing. But when a Solmere fire-officer seizes his wrist during the burning of Durnholt, something impossible happens. Karl absorbs the man's fire-Aeth. Not copies it. Not borrows it. Takes it and the fire burns in his veins as though it has always been there. Forced to flee into the cursed Grey wood forest, Karl encounters Sera ..a disgraced Deaven shadow mage wanted in four kingdoms who recognizes what he is before he does. She calls his ability Mirroring: the rarest, most feared power in Aethoria's history, last recorded three hundred years ago in the mage who ended the First Kingdom War. The empire hunts Mirrors above all else because a Mirror cannot be defeated by magic. A Mirror becomes magic. As the Solmere Arbiters close in and the other kingdoms begin to mobilize, Karl must learn to control a power he does not understand, survive an alliance with a woman whose loyalties are her own, and decide whether the prophecy that named him the Hollow King, the Aethless

Kaito Ran was only eleven years old when he watched his ailing father die. During his passing, Ran witnessed a djinn appear to take his father's soul to hell (NARAKU), but during the process, Ran caught a glimpse of hell before the spiritual portal dispersed. He saw that it was a realm, a place of material and magic. He saw nine cities and towers, mythical beings and doomed souls. He realized that he could go to hell and rescue his father. He met a monastery acolyte named Sōran Haru. Haru admitted he could help him save his father from hell. Ran asked how and Haru told him that his half-sister was a Lilim (Lilims are demonic children of Lilith and Satan). He offered to summon her so they can ask if she could take him to hell and help him save his father. They used a ritual to summon her. She appeared and agreed to help them find Ran’s father and even help return him to the Realm of the Living, but in exchange Ran must serve her In hell for twenty years. Ran, filled with so much love for his father, willingly agreed to this. Ran and Haru are taken to hell and found it to be a sinister world where there was no sun and the sky was in perpetual darkness, lit only by clouds of flame. It had its own rules and physical laws. They journey for what felt like days, but could not be confirmed. Ran found himself aging for years while only days had passed. Now they must survive the horror of hell, and Ran must also deal with going from being eleven years old to sixteen over a few weeks and the fact that he might be the son of the great deceiver.

He was nobody in the real world, broke, overlooked, and barely surviving. Until the day he woke up inside a mysterious game world… with no explanation, no allies, and only one rule: Survive or be deleted. Every monster he kills levels him up. Every quest changes his fate. Every death is permanent. But this isn’t just a game. Hidden beneath the system is a truth far darker than he imagined. One that connects the game world to his real life… and a secret that makes him more important than he ever should be. Now, to escape, he must rise from the weakest player… To the one who breaks the system itself.

Caden Kelly was an ordinary university student struggling with debt, an exhausting part-time job, and a mundane life—until one fateful night when he received a mysterious System Activation. Suddenly, he could see stats, unlock abilities, and receive quests. But unlike conventional systems, his came with an unexpected perk: The Bonding System—a unique ability that allowed him to grow stronger through relationships with women. With this newfound power, Caden is thrust into a world of hidden sects, ancient legacies, and dark conspiracies. As he navigates his way through increasing power struggles, he begins to uncover a shocking truth: the system wasn't just a gift—it was a curse with a purpose.