My Sister Stole the Future, So I Stole a Dead Girl's Life
By @john1208
I was the ghost of the Vlasov family. While my parents were busy building an industrial empire around my sister Alina - a 'prodigy' who miraculously predicted every market trend and technological breakthrough - they simply forgot about me. They forgot my birthdays, left me at the academy during holidays, and eventually, forgot to register my life-saving medical treatments. Then the black courier box arrived at my dorm, meant for the girl who had just bled out on my rug. It contained a biometric masquerade drive and an invitation from Kazimir Rostova, the city’s most feared billionaire, to claim her place as his heir. I didn't scream. I didn't call the authorities. I put on her face and walked right into Rostova's empire. Now, I am the untouchable darling of the underworld. But as Alina’s stolen future begins to unravel, my biological family is desperately begging Rostova for a bailout. What will they do when Alina's lethal fraud is exposed on live television, and the ruthless heiress pulling the strings turns out to be the daughter they left behind?
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Echoes from the Winding Pass
By @john1208
The freezing rain on the Black Pine Pass washed away the evidence of my murder. When my husband Jarek staged the car crash, he thought he had buried me and my family's legacy forever. Instead, I wake up a year earlier, staring at the flashing cameras of the Voskarian Winter Gala, enduring the public humiliation of Jarek stripping my family title while his mistress flaunts her fabricated pregnancy on the red carpet. But the woman behind my eyes is no longer his fragile victim; I am a ghost demanding absolute ruin. I begin a silent, meticulous war, pulling strings through a double agent to leak his vast embezzlement files to the city's most brilliant, melancholic detective, Casimir Olenic. Casimir thinks he is hunting a white-collar thief; I think I am exposing a greedy cheat. But as we dissect the shadows together, bound by a bittersweet, unspoken tension we cannot afford to act upon, the ledgers reveal a chilling twist: the embezzled funds and Casimir's unsolved string of gruesome disappearances are the exact same case. With Jarek's family banquet approaching - the perfect stage to expose his mistress's fake child - will we unmask a mere cheat, or corner a serial monster before he kills me twice?
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