Proeliator

She didn't come to win a game. She came to kill a billionaire. Twelve players – six famous faces, six ordinary people. One remote island in French Polynesia. A secret that will unmake the world. Proeliator – Latin for fighter – is a survival reality tv show that promises fame, fortune, and the ultimate perseverance challenge. Among the contestants is Reina Vega, a woman with a deadly mission: to kill one of the players – the billionaire Edmond Bisam – who took everything from her. But before the game begins, the production crew vanishes. All equipment goes dead. And the island begins to break. Hell has no fury like a woman torn. Reina is a Colombian immigrant who clawed her way from poverty and paramilitary violence to the boardrooms of America, building her life on the iron promise she made to herself as a frightened girl fleeing through the Darien Gap: never be powerless again. She kept that promise – until tragedy struck. Driven by grief and revenge, she joined Proeliator with one purpose: to look Bisam in the eyes and make him pay for what he did. But as reality around them begins to unravel and people start dying, Reina finds herself between vengeance and survival, between justice and annihilaton. And when the truth about the apocalyptic horrors they face is revealed, she will have to decide what she's truly fighting for. Proeliator is a genre-defying collision of survival thriller and apocalyptic science fiction, revenge narrative and cosmic horror, that weaves together themes of grief, family, faith, corporate greed, and social justice. It asks a question as old as loss: When everything has been taken from you, what is left worth fighting for? And it answers with a story that moves from the jungles of Colombia to the boardrooms of a tech empire to the edge of reality itself. Perfect for fans of The Mist and Lost. For readers drawn to surreal, terrifying world-building. For people who love high-stakes revenge narratives. For anyone who, exhausted by systemic inequalities, craves stories of justice.