Phillip Jefferson is a billionaire CEO known for one thing—he never loses.Cold, calculating, and ruthlessly ambitious, he built his empire by destroying anyone who stood in his way. Among his many victories was the downfall of the Greatman family, a respected business dynasty he dismantled without hesitation. Their company collapsed. Their legacy vanished. And within months, Elena Greatman lost everything—including her parents.Years later, Elena is no longer Elena Greatman.She is Elena Jefferson—the wife of the man who ruined her life.Their marriage is not built on love, trust, or even choice. It is a calculated arrangement born out of power, survival, and control. To the world, they are the perfect elite couple. Behind closed doors, they are strangers bound by a contract and silent resentment.Then everything changes.A mysterious accident leaves Phil critically injured—and when he wakes up, he has no memory of who he is.No memory of his empire.No memory of his past.And no memory of the woman he married.For the first time, Phil Jefferson is vulnerable.And for the first time, Elena has power.As Phil struggles to rebuild his identity, he is forced to rely on Elena—the one person closest to him. But while he begins to see her as someone he can trust, Elena sees something else: an opportunity.An opportunity for revenge.Enter Victor Kane—a rival businessman and silent enemy who has been waiting for Phil's downfall. Recognizing the perfect weakness, he approaches Elena with a dangerous proposition: manipulate Phil’s recovery, control his access to medication, and ensure he never regains his former strength.Or better yet—Ensure he doesn’t survive long enough to reclaim his empire.Caught between vengeance and proximity, Elena steps into a role far more dangerous than she anticipated. As she begins to tamper with Phil’s recovery, she gains control over his world—but also becomes entangled in it.Because the man before her is no longer the ruthless figure she once knew.He is patient.He is observant.And slowly… he is becoming human.As fragments of Phil's past begin to resurface, so do truths that threaten everything Elena believes. The line between victim and villain begins to blur. The man she set out to destroy starts becoming someone she doesn’t fully understand—and dangerously, someone she may not want to lose.But secrets cannot stay buried forever.And when memory returns, so does power.Now Elena must face an impossible choice:Finish what she started…Or protect the man who once destroyed her.In a world where ambition erases morality and love is born from betrayal, Fragments of a Forgotten Empire is a gripping story of revenge, identity, power, and the fragile line between hatred and desire.

BLURB I just can’t figure out why my father hates me so much or why he treats me the way he does, No need to bother when his wife and daughter are like vulture hovering around dead meat. Hold on I didn’t mean my father is dead meat but sometimes I just feel like he’s dead to me because there’s nothing of value that comes from him, yeah, except pain, disgrace, shame and above all ridicule which of course is engineered by his wife and daughter. This is my story. I am Eliora Jackson but I prefer to addressed as Eli because to have that last name Jackson attached to mine makes me feel so estranged to a father who has never fulfilled his duties towards me as his child so I prefer to just be known for who I am, and not wanting to be attached to him or in any way linked to his name or identity. I am a young, Smart, sexy and beautiful lady in my prime from a family that is birthed and deeply rooted in deceit, lies and hate, simply put a family that is hanging by a single thread of deceitful business survival instead of love, bond and family values. My father Duke Jackson, a business mogul and the Chief executive officer of Jack-bone industries which he co-founded with my late mum Clara Jackson “may her soul rest in perfect peace” is always interested in is what would fetch him money, so he’s only language is MONEY, getting it in high volume and amassing wealth. My step mother Judith Jackson whom I personally love to be refer to her as the witch used to be my father’s personal secretary but some crawled into my father’s life during the time of his grief at the demise of my mother and somehow manipulated my father to become his wife with the only mission to make my life a living hell ever since the day she step her foot into our home. My step sister Phil Jackson wired and structure from the womb of hate, competition and malice has never being a sister to me, instead she always goes after anything I have, want or interested in simply because she feels she’s the legitimate daughter and I am a bastard so she lives the entitled life while I get to live in her shadows and so whatever belongs to be is automatically an interest to her from toys to books to bags to cars to office positions and worst of men so she could own them for herself and she’s being doing a great job at making my life a living hell. Well, this is the summary of my life and everyone in it. All I need right is to either get married to a man who would take me out of the shackles of this family including the family business so I could breathe properly and start up something for myself or I work very tirelessly hard to impress the board so they can vote me a director, which would mean less office hours and time in shared space of either my dad or competitive step sister, reducing the time I have to copy with official family shenanigans.

A dying billionaire enters a contract marriage with a desperate woman—only to discover she is the key to a secret experiment that could either save him… or destroy them both.Adrian Vale, a formidable, ruthless, brilliant powerful billionaire and industry titan, is facing imminent death from a mysteriously rare and rapidly deteriorating illness that has weakened his body, making it to betray him because he no longer had control of it. Bound by a stringent inheritance clause that threatens to hand his empire into the hands of manipulative uncle and relations who had no plan of proper management but were ready to dismantle his empire upon his death, Adrian is forced into fulfilling the conditions of his inheritance—he must get married before he dies, an unconventional solution—marriage.Jessica Williams, a resilient young woman who is running out of time to raise money for her brother’s treatment is driven by desperation to save his life hanging by a thread, accepts an unthinkably lucrative contract marriage offer with Adrian a man whom she had never met or known, under strictly defined terms: no emotional involvement, no expectations, just the tittle, the fortune and ultimately—survival.However, what begins as a cold, calculated transaction soon evolves into something far more complex and complicated.As Jessica becomes embedded in Adrian’s world, she realizes that Adrian’s illness may not be of natural cause, she also uncovers alarming inconsistencies and deep conspiracy in his medical treatment. What initially appears to be a tragic illness reveals itself as a meticulously orchestrated plot—engineered by trusted insiders, including Adrian’s own physician, to accelerate his demise and to seize control of his empire.When an attempt on Adrian’s life nearly succeeds, the truth is revealed—his illness was engineered, his treatment manipulated, and his death carefully planned.Now bound by more than a contract, Adrian and Jessica forms a fragile alliance fueled by growing trust, undeniable attraction, and a shared need for survival.As betrayal tightens around them and enemies close in, their relationship evolves into something real—something neither of them expected.But love may not be enough.Because in a world where power is everything, and trust is deadly, they must fight not just for survival……but for the truth—and each other—before time runs out.

‎Adrian Vale a billionaire industrialist and the most feared negotiator in global finance—has spent his life building series of company which have all grown into a large empire defined by power, A man who stands in rooms where governments policies were influenced, multibillion deals were sealed by warm handshakes, captains of industries negotiating influence like their lives and companies depended on it in precision, elegance, intellect and financial control. Adrian Vale at the helm of affairs built his empire on power, control, ruthless precision, manipulation, and stone-cold decisions. Many rumored that he had no heart. But in the midst of all the glamour and fame was man who could no longer stand on his feet, a rare life-threatening degenerative illness had turn his body once energetic body to a prison, his legs useless and lungs unreliable, making every breath harder with numerous health complication in his body thereby stripping him of his wonderful and well organized life with a reminder that his life was coming to an end soon and leaves him with only months to live, that control over his world, empire and business begins to slip away slowly in the twinkle of an eye yet the world still wishers his name with reverence and fear but of these mattered any more as Adrian Vale still had one final condition to fulfil before he dies. Bound by a family’s clause written in blood which he laughed off and thought didn’t matter `In his word’s marriage didn’t matter, it was a distraction. The clause states that `No heir shall claim full control of the Vale legacy and fortune unless legally married`, Adrian must marry before his death or risk losing everything he has labored for, worked for and have built, his empire, fortune and his entire life’s work over the years to distant relatives circling like vultures waiting to dismantle it in months, with only months left to live, one condition stands between him and losing everything he’s ever built: HE MUST GET MARRIED. Meanwhile Jessica Williams who was no stranger to impossible choices. Struggling to afford life-saving treatment for her younger brother, she's now faced with a onetime life changing opportunity to make a life changing decision to accept an offer that sounds too extraordinary to refuse: a contract marriage worth 500 million, with very simple terms and arrangement: stay married until his death, and walk away with a fortune. No love, No expectations, just a temporary union until death, No feelings, No complications. Jessica never imagined her future would include becoming the wife of a dying billionaire, but with her brother’s life on the line and no meaningful options left, Jessica Williams agrees to a contract marriage with Adrian Vale—a powerful billionaire with a terminal illness and no time left to waste. she accepts the contract without delay. What begins as a calculated cold agreement soon becomes something far more complicated beyond words, as nothing about Adrian is simple because behind the cold exterior and high walls is a man fighting for more than just his failing body. Living under the same roof begins to change everything, a slow but steady connection becomes something deeper, something dangerous, something real due to close proximity and being under the same roof, guarded walls begin to crack in an inexplainable way, as tension begins to build, bond begins to form which leads to an unexpected connection. But beneath the surface, something isn’t right and behind the contract lies a dangerous truth: his illness may not be entirely natural but his condition continues to worsen, Enemies begins to close in, secrets unravel, as a deadly conspiracy unfolds within the walls of his own empire, trust is gradually becoming a weapon, and every ally could turn in to a potential enemy. Jessica begins to uncovers inconsistencies in Adrian’s medical treatment, a chilling truth is about to come to light as a terrifying possibility emerges, someone is making sure he doesn’t survive. She married him for survival while He married her to protect his legacy, neither of them expected to fall in love but the lines between obligation and desire begin to blur, Jessica finds herself drawn to the very man she was never supposed to care about, she needs to decide if she’s willing to risk her heart for a man who may not live long enough to keep it. Because sometimes, love comes when it’s already too late. A dying billionaire? Adrian on the other hand is running out of time, just as he discovers something he never planned for too. Now bound by a contract marriage neither of them imagined of, nor even wanted at first. Adrian and Jessica must work together to uncover the truth before time runs out. Because in a world built on power and betrayal, Love might be the most dangerous risk of all.

In a world where deceitful lies and deception seems to be the order of the day, everyone must tell a lie to sustain what he or she has going, a world where appearance and social status is key to being recognized. A young Chief Executive Officer of a multibillion company is both disabled and mean, needs to get married because he’s not getting any younger and is suspected to be dead in a few years due to health complications. Where would he find a bride who would want to be with a mean, cruel and disabled man in a wheel chair with no affection or humanity left in him, as none of the high ranking social family would allow their well trained daughter come close due to his ugly nature. There is little or no option left for him, would he die single or would have to lower his standards into settling for an illiterate girl from a poor background? And risk being mocked in the cooperate world for his short comings.

Class is a primordial essence of our modern day life style and anyone one without high standard or grace to be a part of the elite class is automatically segregated, hence love between the rich and the poor is almost impossible due to this thin line of social strata, class and circle, finding true love in our modern world is almost a mission impossible because you either all into the trap of money lovers, social climbers after reputation or influence. Modern day young adults popularly called the Gen-Z’s have always being prey to love traps while the millennia’s are a bit rational and thoughtful but it’s just a means to an end. This is a story of a young female Senior executive who’s gotten to the top of her career and the social ladder though partially deaf due to an accident, she was involved in, with three of her siblings which almost claimed their lives, her elder sister lost her pregnancy, her younger sister couldn’t graduate due to a head injury that made her comatose for month’s while her younger brother could not continue his football career for two year due to multiple fracture, for fear of losing her children to careless argument’s while driving between her daughters, while driving, her mother blamed her and pour every bit of her frustration on her because she came out of the accident without a physical injury aside the partial deafness. This led to her running away from home, family and love. Independence that brought in sauciness crept in her life as arrogance; unkindness and took over passion, love and humanity. She feels she has gained the best of what life has to offer through hard work, and money seems the ultimate without love, care and validation. Relationship, love and family no longer meant anything to her, it became a subject that was never to be brought up whenever and wherever she was, abandoned by their father, leaving their mother frustrated who constantly poured it out on them and the accident made it even worst as her mother’s words and action even fed the demon in her to grow bigger. Life on the streets taught her to be strong, independent and hard as these were the criteria for survival. She builds an empire for herself and also a high brick wall around her emotions and feeling never allowing anyone in not to talk of loving anyone. She never allows any man close to her, into her personal space not to talk of working for her, aside her driver and gate men who were both aged but the driver older and long overdue for retirement, she’s is now faced with either jumping from taxi to taxi or employ a young vibrant driver, who by the way was her first love unknown to the both of them, Sparks of love began to manifest through actions, words and ultimately feelings. Would she open her heart to the possibilities of love, care, family and humanity again? How then, would she ever learn to let down her guard and allow someone into her life, herein lies the problem, would she ever find love again and would the love of her, family, friends and ex-lover whom she bailed out on ever return to her?

Captain Jaice was very happy returning home to his fiancée in bandages and on a wheel chair after six months of being in a coma and two months of trying to make the doctors allow him go so that he could meet not with his family who had cried their hearts and eyes out over the no return of their only hope, A military personnel whose base was attacked at night, Jaice was eager to see his love Ophelea who meant the world and everything to him. Lea as he fondly calls her was the world the Jaice because she was his first crush and love and even his first and they had planned to get married on his return from his recent assignment out of town which was almost a year ago. On this fateful day of his return he was barely meters away from Lea’s House when Jaice and his team of soldiers began to hear sounds of joy and echoes of laughter, He said to himself maybe these sounds where coming from Lea’s neighbor or from the next street but as they came close to the apartment the sounds were evidently coming from Leas family apartment, Fear mixed with a tiny felling of hope and joy span through his vein sending chills through his body, At this point he was of the opinion that one of his team members had given the message of his return to Leas family who in turn were happy and they prepared a feast to welcome him but things grew out of his control and out of his imagination when they finally arrived and met themselves with wedding ceremony ongoing with the bride and groom already taking their marriage vows, it was first the groom who said “I DO” and there was a loud echo of joy alongside whispers and cheers to the groom, As they approached the centre of this eventful ceremony He was began to fantasize how himself and Lea would be so happy to tie the knot, what a day it would be with the love of his life, from that stance he gave an order to one of his men“ SEND A BOUQUE OF ROSES AND A CHEQUE TO THE COUPLE” My day would be here soon. The officiating priest turned to the bride and called her to take her vows.It was at mention of the bride’s name Jaice knew that something had gone wrong and shouted “WHATS GOING ON?” This sent a strong signal of disapproval and betrayal into the air making everyone present guests, family, friends and even well wishers including the bride and groom turning in direction of the loud and hurtful sounding voice. At first glance when the bride turned Jaice was almost fainting because it took every nerve, fiber and vein in him to be able to withstand, process and understand who he had just seen as the bride to be, His fiancée Ophelea in a wedding dress ready to declare her marital vows to another, On seeing the man whose voice had disrupted her most anticipated moment with Tim who was not just her Tech expert but also her knight in shining armor made her to lose breathe and weakened her knees making her to collapse sending even more confusion and fear into the air as family and friends swung into action trying to first prevent Ophelea from falling to the ground while trying to resuscitate her, the groom tensed charged towards the lame man in the wheel chair who was looking like a pile of useless bandage but Tim could not get his hands on Jaice because of his team who accompanied him as one of the soldiers reacted almost immediately taking hold of Tim’s elbow and twisted it backwards sending him to the ground with a loud cry of excruciating pains as he could not rise, More confusion and fear griped every one as another soldier brought out his side arm and let go of some bullets into the air, Those who had the space to evade the imminent danger ran for their dear lives while those who could not stood still and held their positions with their hands to their heads as if it was an armed robbery attack or a military hostile rake over from a democratic government, Toby the bride’s mother beckoned for help in a loud frantic voice she could no longer hold on to Ophelea’s lives less body which was becoming heavy for her to bare along as her siblings were all lying face down on the floor hands to their heads in fear and despair thinking some of Tim’s enemies or foes where bent on ending their lives on this auspicious day. Alex Tim’s father thinking it was an assassination ploy to take Tim out due to his newly signed contract rose up in courage demanding why men in military uniforms would want to wreck havoc on a special day as this but his question met with silence, More confusion, fear and this time with a stench of death looming in the air. Jaice roared in his military voice “ENOUGH” This is not how I pictured my return to Ophelea, How did all this happen, He cried and tried to reach out to Ophelea’s lifeless body but was refused access then he removed his sun glasses and face cap so Toby could see his face properly. Jaice, Alex shouted and walked towards him grabbing him like he was his lost and found son oh my… Your father and family thought you died in that attack on your base