The King's Shadow

The King's Shadow

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Introduction

They called me Specter. The King of Assassins. The deadliest blade in the Viper Syndicate's history. I never knew fear—until the day my own brother in blood put a knife in my heart and threw me off a cliff.
I should have died.
Instead, I woke up in the body of Liana Vex—the discarded, illegitimate daughter of the most powerful duke in the kingdom. A girl so broken by abuse and grief that her spirit had already faded. In her final moments, she left me one desperate wish: Make them pay.
So I made a pact with a ghost. Her pain would become my fuel. Her enemies would become my prey.
Now I walk among the nobility in a body everyone calls weak. They see a fragile girl who should have died in the gutter. They don't see the killer standing in her shadow.
My former organization thinks they buried their king. They're about to learn that dead things don't always stay dead.
My new family thinks I'm a ghost they can ignore. They're about to discover that ghosts make the worst enemies.
And then there's him—the rogue mercenary with the sharp smile and sharper blade. The only person who sees through my masks. My rival. My equal. The wolf who should know better than to chase a shadow.
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. I intend to serve it frozen, bloody, and with interest.
The Viper Syndicate took my life. The Vex family took Liana's. I'm going to take everything they have.
And this time? I won't miss.

Chapter 1

The blade went in between my fourth and fifth ribs.

I recognized the strike right away. I'd done it myself hundreds of times. The angle and pressure were unmistakable. The steel slid through muscle, found the gap between bones like it knew the way. Killing was never random. It was like building something. You didn't just stab; you created death. Carefully and deliberately. With a craftsman's patience.

Only a master could make murder look merciful.

Corvus had learned well.

Too well. The betrayal stung raw, thrumming in my bones, a pain sharper and colder than any blade. For a moment, all I could feel was shock and disbelief flooding through me. Rage and grief mixed, aching in my chest, almost eclipsing the physical pain.

"Sorry, Specter." The tone of his voice was soft, almost gentle, the kind of tone you use when putting down a wounded animal. Not cruel. Not gloating. Just regretful. Like he wished things were different. "The Syndicate has a new king now."

I looked at the hilt jutting from my chest. Blood, so much, saturated my garment, hot and sticky. The dagger was mine. I'd carried it for fifteen years. I'd ended lives with it beyond counting. He'd stolen it from my belt while I watched the sunset. While I trusted him. Betrayal cut deeper than the blade.

Twenty years.

Twenty years building the Viper Syndicate from the ground up. Turning gutter rats and desperate killers into the continent's most feared group. Every drop of blood, every sacrifice, every hard choice aimed at one goal: creating something that could outlast me. And now this.

Now him. Every memory of trust and loyalty twisted with sudden bitterness. My heart pounded with anger, regret, and something hollow, like loss.

The boy I'd pulled from a gutter at twelve. I still remember that night: the reek of garbage and rot, his snarl when I lunged at him. He was so wild that he tried to bite me. He'd been starving, half-dead, eyes glaring with desperate fury. Rage like that either burned out fast or turned into something unbreakable.

I'd seen myself in him. The same rage. The same hunger. The same spark that would not die.

So I'd saved him and trained him. Fed him. Gave him a name, a purpose, a future. Made him my shadow, my second, my heir.

He'd learned everything I knew.

Then he'd acquired patience. He learned to smile at me across the dinner table while calculating the right angle to end me. He learned to wait, plan, and hide ambition behind loyalty.

I'd taught him all of it. The cliff edge was three steps behind. Wind pulled at my back. I tasted river mist, smelled pine, stone, and maybe smoke from a distant fire. The full moon painted everything in silver and gloom. I'd chosen this spot to sit and pretend, for a moment, I wasn't what I was. He'd chosen it deliberately. Of course, he had.

"Any last words?" He asked it like he actually wanted to know. Like we were still brothers and he'd carry my final message to someone who cared.

There was no one left who cared. Corvus made sure of that. My inner circle was dead or bought. Each loss is a twisting knife. My contacts were compromised. The network I'd spent two decades building now answered to him. Isolation was complete. Hopelessness threatened to swallow me.

I loI looked at him. The dark hair I'd once cut for him at twelve, teaching him to steady the scissors. The eyes I'd taught to go cold for his first kill, a merchant who refused protection money. I taught him to hold a blade steady, even while taking a life. He was beautiful, in the way of young predators. Sharp. Deadly. Utterly without conscience, I had made him think. Regret pierced me, jagged as broken glass. Guilt tangled with sorrow, each emotion pressing down until I could barely breathe. Knowing I'd shaped my own betrayer hurt worse than any wound.

I smiled. It wasn't a nice smile.

"The new king," I said, blood bubbling past my lips, "should watch his back."

Then something flickered across his face. Not fear; he was too well trained for that. But maybe surprise, maybe a shadow of respect. I saw, even now as I died, his acknowledgment that he faced not just a victim, but the person who made him. Even in my weakest moment, I was still threatening him. And somewhere inside, that sparked a bitter pride mixed with heartbreak.

Then he moved forward and shoved.

The fall was longer than I expected.

The fall was longer than I expected. Long enough to feel regret, the kind that guts you and has no end. I grieved each choice, every mistake, feeling sorrow gnaw at my insides. Rage so strong it nearly eclipsed the pain followed, rage at myself, at Corvus, at the sheer waste. I watched the stars wheel overhead and thought: This is how it ends. Not in battle. Not in glory. Thrown away like garbage by the only person I ever trusted. Each thought cut deeper, sorrow giving way to anger, anger bleeding into despair. The emptiness beneath me became a mirror for the emptiness inside.

Long enough to wonder if anyone would remember me. If anyone would mourn. If anything I'd built would survive the night.

Long enough to see her face.

A woman I didn't recognize stood at the cliff's edge where Corvus had been just before. She was old, ancient really, with eyes that gleamed in the moonlight, akin to silver coins. She was watching me fall and watching me die.

And she was smiling.

Then the rocks reached up.

Everything went black.

I roused to coughing.

Not my coughing. Someone else's. Fragile, wet, pitiful coughs that scrapled in a chest too small tobear tThe kind of cough from drowning lungs, from a body too ruined to fight.ght.e.

I tried to move. My body howled in protest. The pain was wrong, too light, too small. When I managed to lift my hands, they were pale and thin. Nails bitten to the quick. The hands of a child. Hands that never held a weapon, never thrown a punch. Never done anything but survive, in the smallest, most desperate way.

What—

The coughing came again. Closer. Inside my head.

No. Inside my ears. Someone was coughing nearby. But also not nearby. The memory of coughing. The ghost of it. A sound that existed somewhere between the present and the past, between my consciousness and something else's.

I forced my eyes open. The ceiling above me was rotting wood. Sunlight came through gaps, dozens of holes worn by weather, illuminating dust particles that glided like tiny spirits. The air was redolent of mold, sickness, and a faint sweetness underneath. Decay. Flowers kept too long in water, the fragrance of something beautiful that had died while no one was watching.

This wasn't the riverbank. This wasn't the base of the cliff. This wasn't anywhere I'd ever been.

I sat up, or tried. My body refused. Three times I struggled before my head rose. The room whirled. Nausea surged. Spots blurred my vision. I grabbed the edge of my pallet, a thin mat crammed with straw, and waited for stillness.

It didn't. Not really. But after a long moment, I could at least look around.

A shack. I was in a one-room shack, barely furnished. An unstable table with one leg shorter than the others, propped up by folded paper. A chair with three legs, the fourth snapped off, rested nearby. A window with no glass, just wooden shutters hanging crooked, letting in slivers of cold fall air.

A small hearth, cold and dark, with a few scraps of kindling that wouldn't last an hour if lit. A bucket in the corner that served as a chamber pot. A single shelf with a few pieces of cheap pottery, a cup, a bowl, a plate with a crack running through its center.

And a mirror.

It was small and cracked, propped against the wall as if someone had formerly cared about their reflection. The glass was spotted with age, the frame chipped and peeling, but it still worked. Still showed whoever looked into it the truth of their face.

I dragged myself toward it. Had to use the wall for support. My borrowed legs trembled with every step. Each movement sent fresh waves of weakness throughout me. This body had been starved, abused, and neglected. It was a miracle it was alive at all.

The face that looked back at me wasn't young. Seventeen, maybe eighteen. Dark hair stuck to a pale forehead, lank and greasy from days without washing. Sunken cheeks that indicated months, maybe years, of not enough food. Dark circles under the eyes that were silver. I bent closer, squinting against the dim light. Not brown. Not the ordinary brown I'd had my whole life. Silver. The color of moonlight on water. The color of the older woman's eyes as I fell. I fell.

I fell backward, smacking the wall as panic tore savagely through me. Cold sweat beaded on my forehead, my breath coming in ragged sobs. The vivid memory of the old woman, her grin, those merciless silver eyes sent terror spilling icy through my gut, shaking apart everything I thought I was. Helplessness and confusion crashed over me, leaving me trembling, barely holding myself together.

She was here. She was watching. She did something.

The memories came to me then.

Not mine, hers.

They crashed through my skull just as a wave hits a sandcastle, and I grabbed the edge of the table to keep from falling. Images. Sounds. Smells. Emotions so strong they were about to drown me.

A grand estate. Marble columns and rose gardens, fountains which sang in the sunlight, servants in pristine uniforms hurrying through corridors polished to a gleam. A woman with warm eyes and a servant's uniform, holding a little girl's hand, leading her via a hidden passage behind the walls.

"This is our secret, Liana, just ours. When the world gets too loud, you come here. Understand?"

The little girl nodded, silver eyes open, trusting completely.

A girl, now ten, maybe eleven, is watching from a balcony as guards drag her mother away. The woman's tender eyes are wild with fear, her servant's uniform torn, her hands reaching back toward her daughter even as the men pull her through the gates.

"Liana! Liana, my love—"

The gates slam shut. The woman disappears.

A tall man with cold eyes watches from an upper balcony, doing nothing, saying nothing, just watching.

The little girl screamed, a raw, animal sound, torn from somewhere deeper than her lungs. It ripped at the walls, shredded her throat. Agony, shame, and hatred exploded together in that one, shattering wail.

Years of loneliness. Years of hiding in corners, learning the secret passages her mother taught her, using them to avoid servants who'd once been friendly but now looked at her with cruelty. Years of watching her half-sister, beautiful, golden Seraphina, receive everything while she got nothing. Dresses. Jewels. Tutors. Love.

"The bastard," Seraphina calls her, laughing with her friends. "The lowly bastard who thinks she's family."

Liana doesn't cry. She learned long ago that crying changes nothing.

A fever. Burning and freezing at the same time, her body wracked with chills, her skin soaked with sweat. No one comes. No one brings water. No one cares that she's dying alone.

She calls for her mother. For the with warm eyes who'd held her hand and shown her secret passages and promised that everything would be alright.

Her mother doesn't come.

In her final moments, Liana Vex feels one thing more powerful than fear, more powerful than grief, more powerful than the fever consuming her.

Rage.

Not at her mother, never at her mother. At the man who'd let her die. At the sister who'd laughed at her pain. In a world that had decided she didn't matter.

"Make them pay," she murmurs to the empty room, to the darkness, to whatever gods might be listening.

No one answers.

She dies alone.

I gasped and let go of the table, reeling backward until I hit the wall. My breath came in labored gasps. My heart, her heart, pounded upon my ribs like a caged animal.

Liana. Her name was Liana Vex.

And she was dead.

The body I was wearing? Dead. The girl whose memories were invading my brain? Dead. Died of fever in this shack, this very shack, hours ago, maybe a day. Died alone, forgotten, abandoned by the family that should have protected her.

But I was here. Specter, King of Assassins, traitor's victim, and cliff-diver, was breathing in a dead girl's lungs.

How?

That old woman. The silver eyes. The smile as I fell.

She'd done something. Something impossible. Something that shouldn't exist.

I placed a hand to my chest, feeling the heartbeat that wasn't mine. And felt something else.

A presence. A heat. Someone.

Hello? I thought, not words, but intention, stretching forth.

Warmth answered. Not words, not yet. But awareness. Recognition. The ghost of Liana Vex was still here. Still watching and still wanting.

Make them pay.

The words weren't spoken. They were felt, a final prayer from a dying girl to a cosmos that had never listened. A trace of the last conscious thought she'd had prior to the darkness took her.

The natural world hadn't answered her prayer.

But I had arrived.

I pushed away from the wall and stood upon my own. My legs shook. My head spun. My stomach cramped with hunger. Yet I stood.

"Alright, Liana," I said to the empty room, to the ghost whose body I now wore. 

"I don't know why I'm here. I'm not sure how this happened. But I feel your pain. I see your memories. And I know what you wanted."

I looked at my image within the cracked mirror. These silver eyes stared back, scared and fragile, yet with something new glimmering behind them. Something cold. Something deadly. Something that had learned, over twenty years of killing, that fear acted as a tool, and weakness was a choice.

"Your father thinks you're dead. Your sister thinks you're nothing. Your mother's murderers think they got away with it."

I smiled. It was the same smile I'd given Corvus before he pushed me. Not nice at all.

"They're wrong."

The spirit in my chest appeared to settle. Not disappear, I didn't think it ever would, but settle. Rest. As if it trusted me to keep my word. As if, in its final moments, it had reached out to whatever might be listening, and something had actually answered.

I turned away from the mirror and began to inventory my new situation.

Food: None. A quick search revealed a few crusts of bread so old they'd turned green, and a bowl of something which might once have been soup but was now just mold and memory.

Water: A bucket in the corner contained rainwater, but it was brackish and foul. Drinkable in an emergency, but not for long.

Weapons: None. Not even a kitchen knife.

Money: Three copper coins hidden in a crack in the wall. Enough for a loaf of bread, maybe.

Information: Liana's memories were a rich source. The layout of the Vex estate. The names and faces of key players. The secret passages her mother had taught her paths through the walls that even the Duke didn't know existed. And most importantly, the knowledge that Liana's mother had been executed for treason on evidence that Liana hadhad consistently believed was forged.

Physical condition: Abysmal. Malnourished. Dehydrated. Weak. This body had never trained, never fought, never done anything more strenuous than walk and hide.

Enemies: The Vex family. The Syndicate, if they found out I was alive. Corvus, if he ever learned the truth. The lady with silver eyes, whoever she was.

Allies: None. Liana had no friends. No one who'd notice if she lived or died.

Perfect.

I'd started with less.

The door slammed open.

I spun, dropping into a crouch, my hand stretching for a weapon that wasn't there. But the figure in the doorway wasn't a threat, not immediately.

A girl, maybe twelve, stood outlined against the overcast morning brightness. She was thin, dirty, and dressed in rags. Her hair was a matted mess, her face spotted with dirt. But her eyes—

Her eyes were silver.

The same impossible silver as Liana's. The same silver as the old woman on the cliff.

She stared at me for a brief moment. Then she pointed at my chest. Right where Liana's ghost lived.

"She's there," the girl murmured. Her speech was rough, unused. "The dead one. She's inside you."

I went very still. "Who are you?"

The girl bowed her head, considering. "I don't know. I've been following her for days." She pointed at nothing, at the ghost, maybe. 

"She was dying. I watched. Then you came." Another tilt. "You were dying too. Somewhere else. Then you were here."

My blood flowed cold. "You saw that?"

"I see things." The girl's silver eyes were ancient, knowing, terrible. "I always see things. That's why they threw me away."

She moved into the shack, moving past me like she owned the place. She sat on the floor, cross-legged, and looked up at me with those impossible eyes.

"My name is Pip," she said. "I think I'm supposed to help you."

I looked at this impossible child in my impossible new life.

The old woman on the cliff. The silver eyes. The spirit in my chest. And now a seer child who'd watched me die twice.

Nothing made sense. Everything was in disorder.

I started to laugh, a hollow, fractured sound which surprised even me.

"Help me?" I said. "Child, I don't even know what's happening."

Pip shrugged. "That's okay. Neither do I. But the voices say we're supposed to find each other."

"Voices?"

"The ones in the walls. The ones in the water. The ones that whisper when I try to sleep." She said it casually, as if this were normal. "They've been saying your name for weeks before you were here. Before she died." She pointed at my chest again. "Specter. They kept saying Specter."

I went cold.

No one in this city knew that name. No one in this life knew that name. The Syndicate was hundreds of miles away. Corvus thought I was dead.

But this child, this impossible, silver-eyed child knew.

"How?" I demanded. "How do you know that name?"

Pip looked at me with those ancient eyes. "The same way I know you're going to burn down a house full of golden people. The same way I know a wolf is going to find you in the dark." She paused, head tilting again. "The same way I know the woman with silver eyes is watching us right now."

I whirled toward the window, heart beating.

Nothing. Just trees and silhouettes and gray morning rays.

When I turned back, Pip was smiling.

"She's not here yet," the child said. "But she's coming. They're all coming. The golden sister. The wolf. The woman who burns." She stood, walked to me, and took my hand. Her grip was surprisingly strong. "But first, you need to eat. You're no good to anyone dead."

I should have been terrified. Should have run from this strange child and her impossible knowledge.

Instead, I felt something I hadn't sensed in years.

Hope.

"Alright, Pip," I said. "Show me where to find food."

She nodded, satisfied, and led me out of the shack where Liana had died and I had been reborn.

Behind us, in the darkness of the trees, something moved.

Silver eyes gleamed.

And the old woman beamed.

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The original Aria's life was a nightmare. Humiliated when golden boy Kai Matthews posted her love letter online, then shoved to death by his girlfriend Bella Morrison. But that's not all her family faces:
"You got until Monday," the tattooed gangster sneered at Aria's mother. "Ten grand cash. Or I'm taking collateral—your kids' organs fetch top dollar. That pretty daughter of yours? She could make us money another way too."
Now Angelina's lethal combat skills awaken in this fragile body. No more hiding. No more fear.
Armed with an Alpha's ruthlessness and a mysterious blood-red pendant, she'll dismantle everyone who hurt this family—one calculated move at a time.
Goddess Of The Underworld

Goddess Of The Underworld

726.8k Views · Completed · Sheridan Hartin
Left at a pack border with a name and a stubborn heartbeat, Envy grows into the sharpest kind of survivor, an orphaned warrior who knows how to hold a line and keep moving. Love isn’t in the plan…until four alpha wolves with playboy reputations and inconveniently soft hands decide the girl who won’t bow is the only queen they’ll ever take. Their mate. The one they have waited for. Xavier, Haiden, Levi, and Noah are gorgeous, lethal, and anything but perfect and Envy isn’t either. She’s changing. First into hell hound, Layah at her heels and fire in her veins. Then into what the realm has been waiting for, a Goddess of the Underworld, dragging her mates down to hell with her.

When the veil between the Divine, the Living, and the Dead begins to crack, Envy is thrust beneath with a job she can’t drop: keep the worlds from bleeding together, shepherd the lost, and make ordinary into armour, breakfasts, bedtime, battle plans. Peace lasts exactly one lullaby. This is the story of an orphan pup who became a goddess by choosing her family; of four imperfect alphas learning how to be better. Steamy, fierce, and full of heart, Goddess of the Underworld is a reverse harem, found-family paranormal romance where love writes the rules and keeps three realms from falling apart.
The Prison Project

The Prison Project

1.1m Views · Ongoing · Bethany Donaghy
The government's newest experiment in criminal rehabilitation - sending thousands of young women to live alongside some of the most dangerous men held behind bars...

Can love tame the untouchable? Or will it only fuel the fire and cause chaos amongst the inmates?

Fresh out of high school and suffocating in her dead-end hometown, Margot longs for her escape. Her reckless best friend, Cara, thinks she's found the perfect way out for them both - The Prisoner Project - a controversial program offering a life-changing sum of money in exchange for time spent with maximum-security inmates.

Without hesitation, Cara rushes to sign them up.

Their reward? A one-way ticket into the depths of a prison ruled by gang leaders, mob bosses, and men the guards wouldn't even dare to cross...

At the centre of it all, meets Coban Santorelli - a man colder than ice, darker than midnight, and as deadly as the fire that fuels his inner rage. He knows that the project may very well be his only ticket to freedom - his only ticket to revenge on the one who managed to lock him up and so he must prove that he can learn to love…

Will Margot be the lucky one chosen to help reform him?

Will Coban be capable of bringing something to the table other than just sex?

What starts off as denial may very well grow in to obsession which could then fester in to becoming true love…

A temperamental romance novel.
The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

The Pack: Rule Number 1 - No Mates

2m Views · Ongoing · Jaylee
Soft hot lips find the shell of my ear and he whispers, "You think I don't want you?" He pushes his hips forward, grinding into the back of my ass and I groan. "Really?" He chuckles.

"Let me go," I whimper, my body trembling with need. "I don't want you touching me."

I fall forward onto the bed then turn around to stare at him. The dark tattoos of Domonic's chiseled shoulders, quiver and and expand with the heave of his chest. His deep dimpled smile is full of arrogance as he reaches behind himself to lock the door.

Biting his lip, he stalks toward me, his hand going to the seam of his pants and the thickening bulge there.

"Are you sure you don't want me to touch you?" He whispers, untying the knot and slipping a hand inside. "Because I swear to God, that is all I have been wanting to do. Every single day from the moment you stepped in our bar and I smelled your perfect flavor from across the room."


New to the world of shifters, Draven is human on the run. A beautiful girl who no one could protect. Domonic is the cold Alpha of the Red Wolf Pack. A brotherhood of twelve wolves that live by twelve rules. Rules which they vowed could NEVER be broken.

Especially - Rule Number One - No Mates

When Draven meets Domonic, he knows that she is his mate, but Draven has no idea what a mate is, only that she has fallen in love with a shifter. An Alpha that will break her heart to make her leave. Promising herself, she will never forgive him, she disappears.

But she doesn’t know about the child she’s carrying or that the moment she left, Domonic decided rules were made to be broken - and now will he ever find her again? Will she forgive him?