Contemporary Death Countdown Web Novels & Stories

Nathan Hills was seventeen when General Kael Varric burned his entire city to ash because they refused to give up their ancestral land. He survived by hiding in a well, listening to his family scream. Three years later, Nathan is no longer a boy. He is a ghost, hunting down everyone who lit the match, one by one. And he is not alone. His childhood girlfriend Ashley Cole stayed behind in the ruined city. Her house was the only one the General spared. She is his eyes, his informant, his last piece of home. She gives him names. He makes them disappear. He thinks he is getting close to the General. But Ashley is hiding who her father really is. And the last name she gives him is not the General at all. It is an innocent man she needs dead. When Nathan pulls the trigger, he finally understands he was never hunting the General. He was being used by him. Now he must take out the real General, not with anger, but with the same cruelty the General showed his city.

"Sign it, Seraphine. Marguerite is waiting." That was the last thing he said to her before the crash. I know because I read it, word for word, on a train that carried me home for the last time. I hated that ending. I cried over a stranger's death and fell asleep cursing the man who let her die. Then I opened my eyes in her bed, with her wedding ring on my finger and her unborn child beneath my palm. "Welcome, Host," a cold voice whispered. "You have ninety days before the plot claims you." Ninety days. One husband who has never loved her. One ending that has already been written in blood. But I know what happens next. I know who smiles at the funeral and who really pulled the strings. And this time, the wife isn't begging. "I want a divorce, Evander." His face goes white. Good. Now he is on his knees in the rain, crying out for the woman he threw away, while she walks away with his heir and no intention of looking back. He wrote me out of his life. I'm rewriting the ending.

Camille Vance was supposed to die that night. After a mission gone horribly wrong, the Shadow Organisation gives its failed agent two choices: disappear forever or accept one final mission. Camille chooses the mission. A new identity. A dangerous family. Three mafia brothers who trust no one. Her orders are simple—enter their world, earn their trust, uncover their secrets, and get out alive. But the deeper Camille goes, the more complicated the game becomes. Every smile could be a lie. Every secret could get her killed. And every move she makes puts another chess piece exactly where she wants it. She thought she was the one playing the game. Until one of the brothers discovers who she really is. And instead of exposing her, he whispers— "How long were you planning to fool us?"

I always thought the end of the world was supposed to be fiction. At least until I woke up inside the movie. Now, the city is drowning in a sea of deadly green vines, the rain can kill, the sun is dark and the man I was supposed to marry is the last person I can trust. I know how this story was meant to go.But the Green Tide has arrived too early, the plot is already falling apart, and survival is about to become a very different kind of game. This time, I'm not playing the helpless villainess.I've never been good at taking orders, and I'm certainly not dying for a plot that was never written in my favor. If the world wants to take everything from me, it can get in line. If this world wants a monster, it can have one.

Despite of being cold and cranky, Levi cares a lot. The unexplainable ability of him to lucid dream helped him to discover how and why people committed suicide. However, he didn’t expect that he would be using his gift to know the reasons behind why his friends and loved ones took away their own lives. The aftermath of it is slowly killing him—that he forgets that he doesn't need to save them all by himself.

Katherine Hall has spent six years trying to forget Heath Moore. The video he leaked when she was seventeen destroyed her family—her father died the from shame, her mother fell into debt, and Katherine's future was ripped away. Now she's back in London, desperate and broke. Her mother is in the ICU with £43,000 in medical bills, and the clock is ticking. The only offer that can save her comes from the one person she swore she'd never see again. Heath Moore is offering her a job. It's a fortune. It's a trap. It's everything she hates. But the deeper Katherine falls into Heath's world, the more she realizes nothing is what it seems. Strange encrypted files. Mysterious shell companies. A project codenamed MARIS with ties to a global conspiracy. And Heath—cold, guarded, and watching her every move—is hiding something. When she's abducted and interrogated about MARIS, Heath arrives to save her, and he finally tells her the truth: He built MARIS. It's an autonomous targeting system that feeds assassination orders to drones and military networks. He never meant for it to be used this way. And now, the people controlling it will kill anyone who tries to stop them. Katherine agrees to help him destroy MARIS. But she has one condition: when it's over, he disappears from her life forever. As they race across continents, hunted by assassins and betrayed by allies, Katherine discovers the one thing she never expected—the man she hates is the only person she can trust. And the love she buried six years ago is the only thing that can save them both. The truth is never as clean as the story they tell you. But love is the only thing that makes it worth finding.

Elsa Harper has two problems. The first is blood. The second is Christian Loren. As a brilliant medical researcher, Elsa can spend hours studying deadly viruses without blinking. But put a tray of blood in front of her, and the woman who can solve impossible medical mysteries becomes a trembling disaster. Christian Loren, on the other hand, has no fear of blood. As a newly promoted Army General, he has spent years facing death without hesitation. Dangerously calm, Christian has no time for a doctor who nearly faints at the sight of a syringe. Until the world falls apart. When monstrous creatures suddenly invade the capital and a mysterious virus begins spreading across the country, the military is ordered to protect the scientists searching for a cure. Christian is assigned to lead Elsa's team into the infected territories. Neither of them expects to fall for the other. But somewhere between escaping monsters, sharing stolen moments in abandoned buildings, and fighting to survive another night, Christian begins to see the woman beneath Elsa's fear. And Elsa discovers that behind the General's cold exterior is a man who would risk everything to keep her alive. His arms become her safest place. Her smile becomes the one thing he cannot afford to lose. But the closer Elsa gets to uncovering the truth about the virus, the more terrifying the truth becomes. The monsters aren't attacking by chance. The virus isn't spreading naturally. And Christian may have been sent to protect Elsa for a reason that neither of them knows. As civilization crumbles around them and death closes in from every direction, Elsa and Christian are forced to choose between the mission that could save humanity... and the love that could destroy them both. When the world ends, will they still choose each other?