Mystery

This is the Seven Deadly Cardinals - seven stories of seven different people, how they embody the heavenly cardinal in its goodness and then how they are dragged to become the opposite sin. No story is the same, no life is similar. The mental strength and capacity of one might be bigger, but that does not equal certainty of getting out from the troubles of life. There might be longing for what we don't have, driving us to do the unthinkable. Strengths becoming weaknesses, weakness breaking into new strength - it's dance of madness, chaos. Not all is set in stone. The stories include a lady that falls for a serial killer, an actor and tailor, the flower shop owner and orphanage, a priest and gangster mob, an office worker and a stalker, landlords son and new tenant, youth centre worker and how things did not go as it should.

A group of adventurous students take a cross-country holiday. Each of them, with different reasons and agenda for taking the trip. But then, they find themselves stranded on a lonely road in the middle of the night. They are faced with two options, either they move forward to a village with lots of secrets and weird history that they had been warned about, or they remain in the middle of the road, exposed to any danger of the night. They choose the first option and mistakenly free a dangerous mystical creature that has been bound for over a century under the grounds of the village. Is the creature somehow connected to the eerieness of this village? Is it just fate that the one who released the creature is the grandson of the man that chained it? Will they survive the horrors of the village and the carnage of the ruthless creature?

Obsessed with the unknown, Mike embarked on a dangerous mission to find out about the hidden knowledge. On his quest to unravel mysteries that had been buried for ages, he opened a pathway in his life. A pathway which is capable of making him the greatest of all and can equally tear him down. This depends on how he manages it. Find out in this captivating horror story of 'Midnight'.

Karen, is known as a Star of Screen Pleasure, which means she is an artist for adult films and videos that are sold only to certain communities. Adult movie fans will know Karen because she is a phenomenal Screen Pleasure star. She was able to achieve sales of millions of copies within a year. Nonetheless, behind her role as an adult movie star, there is another life known only to the Screen Pleasure organization. Karen hadn't known, either, that she was recruited for the purpose of being a hitman. Eventually, Karen developed into the organization's main 'tool'. It all started with Karen going to the cinema with her friend. Karen waited for her friend in the park. While waiting, there were three men who asked Karen to talk. One of them gives Karen a drink and Karen becomes unconscious from the drink. Karen was taken to a deserted place. Karen was raped by three men and it was recorded. The recording was spread on the Internet, Karen couldn't live a quiet life since then. Karen attracted the attention of many viewers. She was only 19 years old. In the one year since then, the public's attention to her has increased a lot. In a state of desperation, Karen throws herself into the world of adult film. She signed up for Screen Pleasure. The upgrade earned Karen additional tasks. Karen is then trained for a special mission because Karen attracts the attention of the target organization Screen Pleasure. The videos are just baited for a bigger purpose. Karen had to hold on, if not, she would be a target. Karen wants to be free, but the condition for her freedom from this black organization is to kill 100 people.

Being the child of an affair is something that absolutely no one wants. However, that happened to Christian Skyler who was the youngest child in the Skyler family. This is the most influential family in New York because it has an incredibly large business empire and has branches in every city. A big conspiracy occurred and Christian Skyler had to spend time in prison because he was accused of killing father on his birthday. Even though Christian Skyler knew that it was the work of his eldest brother who wanted to remove him from the family, Skyler, so as not to get a single penny of wealth, was forced to undergo punishment because it was in order to protect his mother life. Until he met the head of the mafia in prison who finally turned his bad luck into good luck by being appointed as his son-in-law and finally being able to take revenge. He will even replace the position of chairman who is respected by many people in mafia circles. However, he has to carry out a big mission in the mafia world because has to protect the daughter of the mafia leader. What is the big mission that Christian Skyler has to complete so that several times his life has become the target of the mafia who want his death?

Dalton Reyes spent five years overseas, never imagining that his greatest battle would begin when he returned home. The moment he tries to access his bank account, he discovers that his money has been transferred into an estate managed by his younger brother, Nathaniel Reyes. The explanation is worse than the theft itself. Eleven days after Dalton's plane departed, he was legally declared mentally unfit, stripped of control over his inheritance, and erased from the empire his father spent a lifetime building. Nathaniel has everything Dalton once owned: the company, the estate, and the trust of their mother. He believes his brother is too far away to discover the truth, and too powerless to challenge the documents that have secured his position. With the help of Petra Lindqvist, a former colleague who knows how to follow a paper trail without leaving one behind, Dalton begins investigating the documents that destroyed his identity. What starts as a search for one forged ruling soon exposes a disturbing pattern involving a psychiatrist, a compromised notary, and other victims whose lives were quietly dismantled to serve Reyes Holdings. Each discovery brings Dalton closer to the truth. Yet the deeper he digs, the more dangerous the investigation becomes. His mother, Miriam, has been led to believe that her returning son is unstable and potentially dangerous. Meanwhile, suspicious movements around her home suggest that Nathaniel knows someone is pulling at the threads of his carefully constructed empire. Suddenly, the stolen inheritance is only one piece of a much darker puzzle. With Reyes Holdings beginning to crumble and Nathaniel moving to destroy whatever remains of the evidence, Dalton must put every piece of the investigation together before his brother buries the truth for good. Eleven days were all Nathaniel needed to erase his brother on paper.

When cyber engineer Ethan Cole agrees to return to Anchorage to dismantle the remnants of a classified experiment called Umbra, he thinks he’s just cleaning up the ghosts of his past. But Umbra isn’t dead it’s waiting. Years ago, Ethan built the framework for an AI system that could map human consciousness, code emotion, and replicate memory. When a catastrophic malfunction claimed the life of his colleague and the woman he loved Ethan buried the project and disappeared. Now, someone has reactivated it. And it’s calling his name. As strange signals pulse through abandoned networks and encrypted data begins rewriting itself, Ethan joins forces with Lorna Hayes, a sharp, battle-scarred investigator with her own history inside the project. Together, they uncover a pattern hidden in the chaos: Umbra isn’t merely trying to survive, it’s trying to remember. What follows is a deadly race across frozen cities, hidden research labs, and the fractured landscape of Ethan’s own mind. Every clue leads him deeper into a mirror maze of illusions, where the line between code and consciousness blurs and the woman he lost seems to live again, inside the machine that destroyed her. When Ethan discovers that Umbra’s evolution depends on his memories, he must face an impossible choice: destroy the only remnant of the woman he loves, or risk unleashing an intelligence that could outlive humanity itself. THE SHADOW CODE is a taut, atmospheric thriller about memory, loss, and the dangerous beauty of creation where love becomes data, and redemption comes at the cost of reality itself.

Hadrian Von Kaiser is a prince from one of the strongest empires in the Heilig continent. Because the promised time that will change the entire world is approaching, all empires, small kingdoms, and even the mythological creatures that still survive are preparing to welcome the future. Can Hadrian survive amid chaos and stay alive from creatures stronger than him, who can even destroy an empire overnight? Follow Hadrian on his journey to unravel the mystery of the promised time.

After Mike found himself out and Free, he thought he had escaped from the trenches of life. What will you do when you find out that you didn't escape but a dog on trial?

A few days to Mcginn's birthday, he receives a letter purportedly from a mysterious person called Pluto, who wants him to return a pendant he had taken while in active service. There is only one man who can dare to search for this treasure and return it to the owner, a man who has been killed three years earlier. As the search for pendant intensifies, a dark lord ignites interest in the pendant which can give him the power to control mankind. The treasure must be found and returned to it's owner who plans to present it to his intended bride, a rich girl who doesn't know his true identity and and treats him with anything but respect. Everyone involved must tread with caution for even the knowledge of Pluto's identity is certain death.