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Long before the great stone walls of Hwanseong were built, before its royal banners fluttered above the mountains and its warriors became feared across the northern plains, there existed a kingdom whose name was spoken with reverence by every tribe beneath the heavens.It was called Aram.Aram was a land of fertile valleys, iron-rich mountains, deep forests, and rivers that glittered beneath the morning sun. Its people believed that the first kings had received their authority from the spirits of the mountains, and that the strength of a kingdom rested not upon the size of its army, but upon the courage of its ruler.For centuries, Aram had stood against invading armies. Its warriors were skilled with swords, its archers could strike a bird in flight, and its horsemen were trained to cross frozen rivers without fear.But no kingdom, however mighty, could remain untouched by ambition.In the thirty-seventh year of King Haejin's reign, the royal court was divided by a struggle that threatened to destroy everything the kingdom had built.The king had three sons.Crown Prince Gyeom, the eldest, was disciplined, intelligent, and merciless whenever he believed the throne was threatened. He had spent his entire life preparing to rule.Prince Muhan, the second son, possessed a calm nature and a reputation for kindness. Unlike his elder brother, he listened before speaking and preferred negotiation to bloodshed. Yet beneath his gentle appearance lay a determination that few people understood.Prince Seoran, the youngest, was charming, reckless, and fond of pleasures that the other princes considered beneath their station. He loved horses, music, and hunting. He avoided court arguments whenever possible, believing that the struggle for the throne was a disease that infected everyone who came too close to it.The king had never publicly declared which of his sons he trusted most.That silence had become the most dangerous thing in Aram.At court, nobles whispered behind painted screens. Generals secretly counted the soldiers who supported each prince. Foreign envoys carried reports to neighboring rulers, eager to discover whether Aram would soon become weak enough to invade.And in the northern mountains, where old temples stood abandoned beneath twisted pine trees, a blind priestess began to dream of a child born beneath a red moon.In her dream, she saw a crown broken into three pieces.She saw a river running black with blood.She saw a young man standing before a ruined city, holding a bow in one hand and a burning banner in the other.Behind him stood thousands of warriors.Before him knelt a king whose face had been hidden by shadows.When the priestess awoke, she found that the sacred lamp beside her bed had gone out.She called for her youngest disciple.“Send a message to the royal capital,” she ordered.The girl bowed nervously. “What message shall I carry, Mother?”The old priestess turned her blind eyes toward the eastern mountains.“Tell the king that the child has chosen his hour.”The disciple hesitated.“What child?”For a long moment, the priestess said nothing.Then she answered, “The one who will inherit nothing, yet conquer what no king has ever possessed.”
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THE BILLIONAIRE’S REVENGEBy Al AloryShe lost everything. Now she’ll make them pay.Three years ago, Charlotte Hayes watched her world collapse.Her father was accused of murder, her family’s reputation was destroyed, and the man whose testimony helped seal her father’s fate walked away untouched. Adrian Blackwood—the cold, powerful billionaire who seemed to own everything he desired—became the face of everything Charlotte hated.But Charlotte has never believed her father was guilty.Now she is back in Manhattan under a false identity, determined to infiltrate Adrian’s empire, uncover the truth, and make him pay for everything she lost.Her plan is simple: earn his trust, expose his secrets, and destroy the empire he loves.Until a dead man is discovered in Adrian’s private office.The murder weapon bears Charlotte’s fingerprints. Security footage places her at the crime scene before she even arrived. And an anonymous message warns her that someone knows exactly who she is.Suddenly, revenge becomes a dangerous game of survival.Forced to work alongside the man she swore to destroy, Charlotte begins uncovering secrets that threaten to shatter everything she believes. Adrian may be hiding the truth about her father’s case—but he might also be the only person trying to uncover it.As suspicion turns into attraction and hatred gives way to forbidden desire, Charlotte faces an impossible choice: trust the man who helped ruin her family or risk losing her chance at justice forever.But someone has been manipulating them both from the shadows.Someone powerful enough to rewrite evidence, silence witnesses, and turn lovers into enemies.And the closer Charlotte gets to the truth, the more dangerous her past becomes.Because the greatest betrayal may not come from the man she hates.It may come from the person she trusts most.She came for revenge. She found a dangerous love. And the truth could destroy them both.
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Amara Cole have to take care of her brother and mom... she's so broke that she have to sign a marriage contract with a billionaire but must not fall in love nor have any intimacy.... but they end up loving each other before the contract expired
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THRONE OF ASHES by Al Alory_In the palace of Zaria-Kan, seven black stones speak the law._Blood before crown.__Son before daughter.__Queen must obey King.__Slave can never be free.__True crown must stay buried._Kael is seventeen and has never been seen. Born to a washerwoman, raised with a broom, he is the boy who sweeps footprints — the invisible sweeper who reads murder in dust.When Prince Jalen plants stolen gold in his mat and tries to have him buried behind Stone 7, Kael does not die. The grave holds another boy. And in the dark, he finds the first key.With Princess Zara — who wants to be King, not Queen — blind General Kuro, and eight-year-old Amin, the lost prince believed dead for two years, Kael must hunt seven keys with colored strings, open an iron chest under the throne, and wake the true crown: an iron crown with seven stones that can break the seven laws.But the palace is hungry.Second Queen returns from the north with 100 soldiers. Baka the kitchen rat wants revenge. And the true crown itself kills anyone who wears it at night — taking one life for one law.To become free, Kael must stop sweeping footprints and start leaving them. In blood.
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ALFITYAN: GUARDIANS OF THE THRONEZariya has gold, but gold cannot protect a throne.Yaqub came from Tarka with torn sandals, a wooden carving, and one question: what happened to his brother Yusuf, who left for the city to find work and never returned?In the great Sultanate of Zariya, he finds an answer he never expected: a brotherhood.AL-FITYAN _ seven young men chosen by Sultana Hafsa herself to become guardians of her hidden son.There is Idris, the horse boy who is secretly Sultan Idris II, living as a commoner to survive.There is Khalid, cold son of the Grand Vizier, who was taught to be a tool, not a son.There is Faris the beautiful, Umar the funny, Bilal the shy, and Yaqub the bush boy.And there is Aisha — the healer's daughter with a sharp tongue, a green dress, and a cut lip that two boys want to heal.When Yaqub discovers his brother was murdered for knowing the Grand Vizier's treason — selling gold to Red Turbans to kill the Sultana's son — the seven boys must become men.Someone is burning their house. Someone is poisoning their Sultan. Someone is framing the girl they love.In a palace of blue tiles and blood, where friendship is treason and love is danger, Yaqub must learn to read, to fight, and to forgive a boy who is not his father.A story of brotherhood, betrayal, and a love that must choose between a Sultan who can give a palace and a bush boy who can give his whole heart.From the dusty market of Zariya to the scorpion caves of the north, from a midnight stable of secrets to a wedding day war — this is the rise of the guardians.He came to find one brother. He found six.
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He was called the useless prince.Yusuf ibn Hassan — 17 years old, son of a dead traitor and a concubine who lives near horses — cannot shoot 20 steps while his brothers shoot 100. Palace laughs. Queen calls him water carrier. King sends him to carry water.Until he finds his father's black bow — a crescent bow that only blood of Hassan can pull — and an arrow that flies 500 steps and lands on a cursed hill called Qura.On that hill, there is no gold. No army. Only 30 old bandits who were once his father's men, a 14-year-old slave boy Bilal he freed by taking a whip, a scarred warrior Umar who waited 20 years for his return, a fat cook Hamza who can cook 100 pots but shoot 0 steps, and one girl — Safiya bint Khalid — richest trader's daughter, who throws her cloth over him in market and says: _"Heart builds kingdom, not arrow."_Banu Fur palace sends 50 soldiers to kill him. He blinds them with salt.They send 200 with catapults. He breaks them with a whistle horses remember.They send 500. He puts mothers on the wall with bread — and 200 soldiers defect to eat mothers' bread free.Because Qura is not a kingdom of sword. It is a kingdom of:- *Water free* — even for enemy- *Bread free* — cooked by mothers who left palace- *Tax 0%* — guaranteed by trader girl with ledger- *No slave* — Bilal ibn Abdullah, slave of Allah onlyBased on the epic of Jumong — founder of Goguryeo — retold with Muslim names, Surah Najm, and the same stars that watched Najm become Zainab in _The Widow's Village_.This is not a story about a prince who learns to shoot.This is a story about a water carrier who learns that *useless prince is safe, until he shoots to protect.*Then 20 steps becomes 500 steps.And a cursed hill becomes a city.And a slave boy becomes a brother.And a trader girl becomes a queen.
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He shaved his beard to save his sister.Najm is a 17-year-old boy with Arab eyes and a Muslim heart, born between two worlds — Igbo mother, Ilorin father. When his sister Adaeze is poisoned with a chicken, declared a witch, and thrown into Umu Ada — the Evil Forest where widows are left to die — the village says she is dead.Najm knows she lives.But no man can enter the widow's village. The law says: any man who enters will be killed by the spirits.So he becomes a woman.Wrapped in a blue star wrapper, chest padded with cloth, voice softened to a whisper, Najm enters the forest as *Zainab — the tall, fine widow who snores like a man.*Inside, he finds not witches, but mothers. 23 widows who pound fufu, fetch water, and laugh too loud. And one girl —Layla Moon. 15, with a crescent scar on her cheek, the girl who was thrown away as a child for being different. She holds a razor and a bowl of shea butter. She is the only one who can shave Zainab without cutting his throat.Every morning she shaves him. Every night she teaches him widow dance. And under Mother Tree, he teaches her to read — Alif, Ba, Ta, and A, B, C — in the sand that wind will erase.But Obinna, the Chairman's son, is watching. The square day is a trap. One cloth breast falls during the widow dance. One cry too real. One razor too close.If they are caught, they die.If they are not caught, Najm must leave the forest — and leave Layla.
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*They buried her alive. They forgot she knows how to rise.*Adaeze taught their children. Fetched water for their wives. And they called her witch.On the day she was to be buried with her father, her brother returned from the city with a recording: "If I die, it is Nkechi."But the village still sent her to die in the Evil Forest.What they don't know: The Evil Forest has been waiting for its true daughter.And she is done being kind.
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She was buried alive by the man she loved most.Amara had a simple, happy life. She was a poor herb seller, married to Jalen, a kind carpenter. They had no money, but they had love. She thought that was enough.Until Jalen got a job in the royal palace.Princess Zara is beautiful, spoiled, and used to getting everything she wants. And the moment she saw Jalen, she decided he would be hers. She doesn't know how to love - she only knows how to own.When Jalen refused her, Zara gave him a cruel choice: _"Bury your old life. Bury your wife. Or I will destroy you."_Out of fear and weakness, Jalen took his own wife to the forest at midnight, dug a shallow grave with his own hands, and buried Amara alive while she screamed his name.He thought she would die there. He thought his secret was buried forever.He was wrong.A lonely hunter named Kian, who lost his own family to death, heard a faint cry under the earth and dug her out with his bare hands. He saved her life, nursed her back to health, and taught her how to be strong again.Amara is not the same weak girl who was buried. She is back. And she is not coming back to cry. She is coming back for justice.But the Princess is not done. And Jalen's betrayal still cuts deeper than any knife.Will Amara get her revenge? Or will love bloom again in the arms of the man who pulled her from the grave?
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*BLOOD BEFORE CROWN*In Kafin-Birni, the stool is never empty for more than 10 days.When Sarki Musa Danladi dies, he leaves behind two sons, two mothers, and one throne.*Yusuf* - the first son, the prayer prince. White kaftan, holy beard, loved by the old, married to tradition. He spent his youth in Egypt studying Islam. He has never touched money.*Khalid* - the second son, the modern prince. Black kaftan with gold, London MBA, Lebanese mother, loved by the youth, speaks the language of investors. He has never touched the farm.Both were told by their father: "If you both hold the stool together, it will not break."But in Kafin-Birni, a Governor needs the quarry, a Waziri needs 15 million, and Facebook needs a scandal.When secret files surface - Yusuf's hidden Christian marriage in Egypt, and Khalid's abandoned Igbo son in London - the saint and the businessman both fall in one day.When a horse kneels, when a voice note kills faster than a knife, when a mango tree becomes a palace, two brothers must learn: The crown can be stolen without a sword. And blood is heavier than gold.*BLOOD BEFORE CROWN* is a story of power, betrayal, forgiveness, and brotherhood in Northern Nigeria - where tradition and modernity collide, and where the throne does not want a perfect prince, it wants a repentant one._If you want to kill a prince, don't use sword, use his own secret._*By Al alory*
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