THE ADLER WITHOUT WINGS
By Carlos L. Ponce
Copyright:
All Rights Reserved. © Carlos L. Ponce 2025.
Disclaimer:
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
In the world of the Fortuna-Adler elite, money is power, and the Fortuna conglomerate is the ultimate prize.
Celestt Fortuna Adler once reigned over this world, but now she is trapped—a translucent spirit, a Hidden Identity, haunting their mansion in the city while her comatose body lies in her private residence in South Korea. She watches, unheard, as her husband, Harry Adler, launches a treacherous, functional Divorce, using her incapacitation to seize the Fortuna empire.
Unseen by all, she watches her world burn.
Her handsome, seemingly loving husband, Harry Adler, reveals his true face. With Celestt incapacitated, he begins a hostile takeover of the Fortuna empire, seeking to seize everything she built. His last obstacle is their only son, Hugo Adler.
Harry's weapon is a threat far more cruel than any corporate maneuver: he will condemn Hugo's life and bloodline. He promises to whisper a truth into Celestt's comatose mind—the secret of Hugo's bisexuality and his love for a man. Ensuring her permanent rejection of their son and the Adler bloodline's demise.
Caught between a father he must betray and a legacy he must protect, Hugo's only hope is the faint, spectral whisper of his mother.
Celestt must now find a way to break the confines of her ghostly state, turn her desperate defense into a brutal counterattack, and guide her son to save the family before Harry destroys their future, their legacy, and Hugo's heart.
The battle for the Fortuna name will be fought by a son under siege, at the whispered instruction of a woman who cannot wake up.