Liang Jian, a brilliant but burned-out IT engineer from Beijing, is just trying to survive another late-night gaming session when a power surge blacks out his world. He awakens to a chaotic scene: he's in the body of Donald J. Trump, just moments after miraculously dodging an assassin's bullet at a fiery campaign rally. Thrust into the center of a brutal American presidential race, Liang discovers his new reality is the ultimate strategy game. The relentless news cycle, the backstabbing political rivals, and a shadowy syndicate trying to kill him are just bugs in a system he is uniquely qualified to debug. Armed with a gamer's strategic mind and a programmer's cold logic, he begins to outmaneuver seasoned politicians who see only the blustering caricature he now embodies. His only potential ally is Emily Carter, a razor-sharp Secret Service agent who protects his body but grows increasingly suspicious of the new, terrifyingly calm and analytical mind within it. Meanwhile, halfway across the world, Donald Trump's soul awakens in a cramped Beijing apartment with a bad internet connection and an even worse diet. Trapped in the body of a powerless coder, the former president must navigate a world of instant noodles, tyrannical bosses, and a language he can't speak, all while desperately trying to convince someone—anyone—that he’s the real deal. As Liang uses his uncanny foresight to thwart assassins and win over voters, he must untangle a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power. Can a coder from China rewrite the playbook of American politics, or will he be the one who is ultimately deleted?

One moment, she was Tala, a California sweetheart cherished by her brilliant lawyer father. The next, a twisted verdict sentences her to life as a canary in the gilded cage of her estranged mother and new, powerful stepfather. She may be a victim forced into this conspiracy, but she's determined to be the player who overturns the entire board. From shattering the facade of a hypocritical dinner party to digging up the dirty secrets hidden beneath the family's glamorous surface, Tala arms herself with thorns, using her sharp wit as a weapon to tear everyone's masks to shreds. But as cracks begin to appear in the image of her "perfect" father, and she uncovers the real reason for her mother's hidden fear, Tala realizes the truth behind the trial is far darker than she ever imagined. In a war where no one can be trusted, her only light is the boy next door—the one person who sees past her hardened disguise. Navigating a world of treacherous family politics and dark secrets, she vows to take back everything that was stolen from her: her freedom, and the truth.

On her nineteenth birthday, the city's brightest heiress, Evelyn Sinclair, was thrown into the abyss by her own father. A single glass of drugged champagne was all it took to transform her from a cherished daughter into a plaything, priced and sold for an old man’s pleasure. At the edge of despair, she burned her last ounce of strength to escape, only to crash into another, more dangerous cage—the room of the city’s true king, Alexander Sterling. To survive, she traded a desperate kiss for one night of sanctuary. When morning came, she stole his money and vanished like a ghost, unaware she had also taken his only secret, a secret bound to her by blood. Five years later, she returns in a blaze of glory. No longer the lamb led to the slaughter, she is now ‘Nyx’, the enigmatic, bestselling author whose fortune and fame command the world’s attention. She moves in shadows, planning her retribution, ready to drag those who wronged her into her own custom-built hell. But the devil she fled has already laid his inescapable trap. He, Alexander Sterling, binds her to his side with a cold, cruel contract, forcing her into a sham marriage to punish the woman who dared to defy and ‘use’ him five years ago. He takes pleasure in her torment, completely unaware that the brilliant boy-and-girl twins who shadow her steps—the ones who share his stormy grey eyes and his shocking intellect—are the living, breathing truth of the night he’s never been able to forget. When the lies are peeled away, when his ‘prey’ finally reveals her claws, when father and sons meet for the first time on the battlefield of fate...This time, will his entire empire be enough to atone for his sins?