Alternative History

Adrian Cain has no past. At least, not one he remembers. He woke up at eighteen with a name, a guardian, and a carefully constructed identity that led him to build one of the most powerful tech empires in the world. Now, as the CEO of CainTech, Adrian is feared, admired, and emotionally impenetrable, his past locked behind clinical amnesia, sealed files, and a steel wall he doesn't dare breach. Until the suicides start. After two employees from his most classified division die under suspicious circumstances, trauma counselor Sera Vaughn is brought in to assess the psychological impact on staff. But Sera has her own reasons for stepping into CainTech, her older brother vanished fifteen years ago, and the only lead she has left is a face in an old photograph: Adrian’s. But his name back then wasn’t Adrian. It was Daniel Ward. As Sera begins digging into Adrian’s history and as Adrian’s carefully managed psyche begins to crack, long-buried memories start surfacing: a mysterious basement, whispered codewords, and a girl calling his real name. What neither of them knows is that they were both part of a covert experiment known as Project Phoenix, designed to erase identities and rebuild human obedience from the ground up. Together, they uncover a trail of lies, altered files, and fractured lives along with a chilling truth: Adrian may have been programmed to forget what he did… and who he destroyed. Now hunted by the people who created him, stalked by a version of himself he doesn’t remember becoming, and drawn to a woman whose trust he doesn’t deserve, Adrian must face the darkest corners of his past before they both disappear into it. Because some memories don’t stay buried. Some were never meant to.

“Isn’t she bride having wedding anniversary? Where is she going with her bags?” “So she looked disheveled; did she lose a pregnancy or what?” These are the words that entered through my right ear and came out of the left ear. As I drag my luggages out of my matrimonial home on the night of my wedding anniversary, several tongues lolled at me as if I was not in my right senses. Yes you can say I am not in my right senses and my name should go down the history as the most foolish woman in the entire universe. I gave my precious left kidney for this two faced bastard but he threw my love back to my face. He promised me an elaborate wedding anniversary and marking night but he made it an elaborate disgrace day. Marking my stepsister right before me and gave me the divorce papers, what else should have been my reward for loving this man too much like a fool? He said he was sorry and there's no hope for me, I know I was foolish and there’s no remedy for my useless actions. But HE said “Are’nt you the woman I slept with last year?” I rolled my eyes but HE held me back and say, “I have been looking for you, be my Luna and I’ll be your slave, be my woman and I’ll be your guard, be with me, because you are my fated mate!"