books about absent fathers fiction

When ex-priest Mark Collins is suddenly catapulted to fame as a super-model he discovers there is more to it than he expected. With the help of Paul, his boss's assistant he manages to weather the promotional gigs. Then there is his blossoming involvement with Angelo, a police detective he met soon after arriving in the city.<br><br>Everything is thrown into disarray when he finds out his boss may be trafficking with the Mafia. When he's attacked, his life soon becomes a game of who to trust. Will it be Angelo or the very appealing FBI agent who puts him into protective custody to keep him alive until he can testify?

This isn’t a story. It’s a warning wrapped in fiction. A village no map dares to mark. Eight friends who never should’ve gone. And a truth that has no name—because no one lived long enough to speak it. They laughed at the legends. Scoffed at the tales of cursed soil and voices that echo without a source. They called it superstition, drama, a thrill-seeking detour before their return to deadlines and coffee breaks. But the moment they stepped into that village, it remembered them. Now, they’re vanishing—one by one. But not the way you think. Not with blood or screaming. Silently. As if they were never there. Their names fade from conversation. Their belongings are untouched. Their memories, misaligned. And worst of all—someone else takes their place. Every time. Ask yourself this: How many people walked into the village? Can you even trust your own count? By the time you reach the final chapter, you’ll look back at every line and wonder— How did I miss it? How was the truth hiding there the entire time? If you’re here for a ghost story, you’ll be disappointed. Because this isn’t about ghosts. It’s about you. Your memory. Your belief. And how easily they can be torn apart. Welcome to Bhairavpur. The village that never forgets. And never lets you leave… as yourself.

Ayaan is an athlete living a disciplined, ordinary life—driven by training, grounded by love, and guided by a father he deeply respects. To him, his father is a quiet man who values education over violence, control over chaos. Yet, at night, his father tells stories of a past that feels impossible to believe—stories of strength, dominance, and a time when an entire village depended on his presence. Ayaan never truly believes them. Until one night, he sees it for himself. When fragments of his father’s past begin to surface, Ayaan’s certainty about reality starts to crack. Questions he never asked before begin to haunt him: Who was his father before he became a parent? What kind of world shaped him? And what price did that strength demand? Then, in a moment driven by emotion, doubt, and regret, Ayaan is thrown back in time—into the era when his father was at his prime. Not as a son. But as a stranger. In a village ruled by fear, respect, and unwritten laws, Ayaan comes face to face with a younger version of his father—a black belt, a protector, and a man standing on the edge of becoming something darker. As Ayaan slowly becomes his father’s closest ally and best friend, he witnesses the incidents that shaped a legend—and the choices that led to irreversible consequences. But the past is not fragile. Every small change threatens to rewrite the future. Every intervention carries a cost. And saving someone may mean erasing himself. Back to My Father’s Prime is a grounded, emotional time-travel story about legacy, violence, love, and the thin line between protection and destruction—where understanding the past may be the most dangerous thing of all.

Aurora Song married the wrong brother to avenge her parents. When Elias, her framed ex-lover, crashes the wedding fresh out of prison, he offers a brutal deal: a fake marriage to reclaim his stolen company. Forced into a dangerous alliance, they uncover a conspiracy that destroyed both their families. Now, two broken souls must battle a common enemy and the burning truth—their love was the one variable neither saw coming.

“You make a lot of money, yet you’re too greedy to hand me some change on the sidewalk.” He waved the gun at the rest of them. “All of you. You walk right by me as I sit and beg. You spend more on fancy coffee than I do on meals. Why can’t you help the poor, the sick, the homeless?"

Magic and those who can wield it has always existed throughout the world. However in the modern age those who can hide themselves among human society. As they have grown to be feared, but they are far worse things that lurk in the shadows. The government organization known as Hidden Soul ss tasked with protecting human society from unknown magical threats. Henry is a boy with the ability to wield magic. His past was affected greatly by the mundane and mystical world. He faces the hidden horrors in the world while trying to figure out who he wants to be.

Doctor Elara Voss, a genius in genetics and neuroscience, was frozen for 25 years due to a rare illness. Before she was frozen, her eggs were taken and secretly used in an illegal elite reproduction program, due to the rarity of the genes her eggs carry. Now she wakes up after 25 years to discover what was done to her, and then she also finds out that she has multiple children with different fathers scattered across the globe. In her journey to find the truth of what really happened to her 25 years ago, she also finds out that there are more secrets she has to uncover, and more danger is still coming her way. Will she be able to save herself and find the identity of all her kids, W?ll she be abt Willfind love in the midst of all the chaos?.

An unexpected case lands Christa in Paris mysteries are unravelled and she stumbles upon Stephen Bruce aka Agent Delta. Together they work together to shut down HERBS Highly Experience Red Bandits a secret organization of assassins

Lust, Greed, Wrath and Pride. what if you meet the human embodiment of these when they're supposed to be protecting you?

Flora Bloom, who was betrayed and killed by her boyfriend in her past life, is reborn with a peerless spatial dimension back to the time before the crisis, hoarding food, raising a child, and tearing apart scumbag men and manipulative women. Originally, she just wanted to raise a child and low-key fight zombies and level up together with her family. But she discovered that she was unexpectedly falling step by step into a tender trap meticulously designed by a certain sly and scheming man. Flora Bloom looked at the vast space within her sea of consciousness; it had a farmhouse courtyard, fields, and a Spirit River, but it just lacked a bit of vitality. So, a fat, sky-flying mantis? Collect! A rare little white tiger that can discharge electricity? Collect! A behemoth spirit crocodile with its young? Collect! As long as it's alive and edible, collect, collect, collect them all! Endless scumbags and vile women, a shameless and deeply scheming leader, all wanting to use her to attack zombies and obtain more Crystal Cores for their own gain? Your shameless, worthless life? Hand it over.