Mystery/Crime

The Empire Within
Story Description

Elena Cruz has it all—a billion-dollar tech empire, a corner office in Manhattan, and a reputation as one of the most brilliant CEOs of her generation. She built CruzTech from the ground up, transforming her father's modest import business into a global powerhouse. But success comes with a price she never imagined paying.
When her father, Antonio Cruz, is found...

FBI Agent Sarah Mitchell thought she'd left her dangerous past behind when she took a desk job after her messy divorce. But when a federal witness under her protection is murdered, Sarah becomes the prime suspect—and the next target.
Enter Jake Thompson, an elite bodyguard with a reputation for keeping his clients alive at any cost. Assigned to protect Sarah while Internal Affairs investigates her...

He was a genius. He read through an entire library in six months.

He thought he had it all — a good family, a bright future, and a life everyone believed would lead to greatness. He believed it too. Until everything was stripped away from him.

His entire family was killed in a single day, yet powerful figures quickly ruled it a suicide. The public slandered their name, and he was left alone to b...

Six years ago, I died.
At least, that is what everyone believes.
I staged my death to escape a powerful family, a violent past, and the secrets that nearly destroyed me. Since then, I have lived quietly beneath a stolen name, careful never to give anyone a reason to look too closely.
Then my boss calls me into his office and places a photograph of my funeral on the desk.
He knows who I am.
Worse, ...

When Grace Parker witnesses a brutal murder in Chicago, she thinks her biggest problem is staying alive long enough to testify. But when the witness protection program relocates her to the sleepy town of Cedar Falls, she discovers the killer's reach extends further than anyone imagined.
Sheriff Jake Morrison doesn't trust the beautiful city woman with too many secrets and a fake identity. But when...

They destroyed his father. Now he's riding straight into the heart of enemy territory.

Zed Chen has one rule never let them see your face. As the underground racing legend Ghost Rider, he's untouchable until a rigged race tears off his mask and exposes his identity to the worst possible person. Dax Steele, VP of the Iron Wolves MC. The club that bankrupted his father and drove him to an early g...

Tori Hayes was unstoppable on the hockey ice. And it was her breathtaking goal that sent St. Bernard into the championship final.
Minutes after her winning goal, her teammate is found murdered in the equipment room.
When the killer threatens someone she loves if she plays the championship final, Tori chooses fear over hockey.
And it was her absence that cost her team the cup.
Her coach turns ag...

Twenty-year-old rising TV reporter Alisha Murphy seems to have it all—beauty, brains, a perfect career, and an attractive boyfriend. But her latest assignment takes a dark turn when she investigates the chilling disappearances of eleven young women, all with the same initials: A.M.

As she follows the clues, she uncovers a terrifying pattern that leads back to one place—her boyfriend’s bar. What ...

Jane Finley carries only two things into the wolf-royal court of the Royal Pack: a sharp, unforgiving memory, and the quiet rage for her sister Claire. Once a seamstress in the palace’s gown chambers, Claire was ruined by Prince Rowan Vale, silenced by his mother Sabine, and buried under the lie that shame had driven her to her death. No plea ever reached Queen Elinor. No soul answered for her.

J...

Rue thought her biggest challenge would be keeping a smile at her father's wedding anniversary, enduring her stepmother's cold stares and her stepsister Cassie's provocations. But when her most trusted friend Jessica sends out a distress call, everything changes.

It was a trap.

When Rue awakens, she finds herself betrayed by her closest friend, her reputation destroyed, and even her father force...

Bella Tom has spent her entire life fighting to survive.

Raised by a struggling single mother in a small apartment, she grows up knowing hunger, sacrifice, and heartbreak. When her mother dies, Bella is left completely alone, forced to work endless jobs just to keep a roof over her head. But when she loses her last source of income, she finds herself standing on the edge of homelessness with nowh...

HIS WIFE FOR ONE YEAR

He wanted a wife. She needed a miracle. Neither expected to find forever.

Amelia Hart never imagined that the worst day of her life would lead her into the arms of the most powerful man in the city.

With her family's home on the verge of foreclosure and no way to repay their crushing debt, Amelia is desperate enough to accept the one offer she should have rejected.

Marry ...

Detective Lana Seo wakes up in a stranger’s body with no memory of how she arrived there. Each day, she inhabits a different person’s life — some allies, some adversaries — all connected by a sinister conspiracy lurking beneath the city’s surface. Haunted by fractured memories of her true self and pursued by unseen enemies, Lana must navigate shifting identities and hidden truths to uncover the da...

"They say that you killed my best friend, Julian," I whispered, pressing against the wall of the quiet library, having nowhere to escape.
"They say a lot of things about me, Chloe." He responded, his fingers gently tracing the corner of my lips, making me shudder.
"Did you? Did you kill her?" I found myself asking, and his lips lifted in a smile as his fingers travelled down my throat.
"Will yo...

Lexi Volkova arrives in Chicago as the premier draft pick of a brand-new expansion franchise. The Chicago Vixens are new, underfunded, and invisible. Then Marco Rossi walks into her life with a smile, a genuine love of a game he was never allowed to play, and a last name that owns half the city.

Behind the galas and charitable foundations, Vincenzo Rossi runs Chicago's underworld, and he sees in ...

One of the twins died on top of her after their one-night stand……

He kept planting kisses on her neck, down to her bosom. Out of pleasure, Rachael closed her eyes, letting herself feel lost in his slow caress. The euphoria was cut short when he suddenly stopped kissing her and flipped her around aggressively. Rachael panicked.

"What is it?" She said breathlessly, trying to discern what he tried ...

“Welcome to Oakhaven, Detective. Try not to let our quiet charm bore you to death.”

Rhys Kincaid, a cynical city detective exiled to a town draped in mist and polite whispers, snorted. “Quaintness doesn’t usually hide dead bodies, Officer Vance. And I prefer my cases with a little less smiles” His new partner, Officer Elara Vance, was all sharp wit and disarming smiles, a local golden girl he imm...

Claire Monroe was once a rising star in the LAPD, engaged to the man she thought she’d spend her life with. In a single night, everything shattered—her career, her love, her world. Seeking refuge, she arrives in Grayhaven, a coastal town located in California.

At first, she brushes aside the uneasy glances and whispered warnings, but everything changes when in 48 hours of being in town. She disco...

Embrey Ericson was taken when she was 16, now she’s 21, between halfway brainwashed and manipulated and the bout of amnesia she’s been suffering she doesn’t remember anything.
Finally, when the newest girl shows up, she’s very vocal and manages to tell the girls that none of them belong there. There is a total of 6 of them 3 of them don’t remember much. Embrey decides to run to get them help she m...

Elena Santos thought she was fleeing the corruption of Los Angeles when she moved to the quiet coastal town of Moonfall Bay. As a former LAPD detective turned private investigator, she wanted nothing more than easy cases and peaceful nights.
She was wrong.
Within hours of arriving, Elena finds the body of seventeen-year-old Chloe Martinez washed up on the beach. The neighbors whisper about acciden...