Second Life Neon

When one of the world’s deadliest contract killers is betrayed and executed by a colleague, he expects death to be final. Instead, he awakens in the body of Reid Ashford, a young, soft-spoken heir to a powerful old-money dynasty in the tropical coastal city of Solace Bay. The original Reid has just died of heart failure, overwhelmed by stress, alcohol, and the weight of his family’s failing business empire. The hitman finds himself in a body he doesn’t recognize, surrounded by people he doesn’t know, and embedded in a life of wealth and power he never imagined. Though stripped of his original identity, his tactical instincts, discipline, and survival mindset remain intact. The inherited knowledge and memories of the original Reid provide him with names, locations, passwords, and company secrets, but none of the feelings or emotional attachments that once came with them. Now armed with privilege and access instead of weapons and silence, the new Reid begins rebuilding from the inside. He trains his unfamiliar body to regain lethal precision. He studies the crumbling Ashford businesses, identifying weak links and silent betrayals from within the executive ranks. Loyalists like the family’s lifelong butler Charles and veteran bodyguard Connor suspect a change in him, but say nothing. Outwardly, he is still Reid Ashford. Inwardly, he is something else entirely. As he navigates the expectations of high society, social contracts, political families, old rivalries, and an engagement to a beautiful but entitled socialite he no longer tolerates, the new Reid uses every tool at his disposal to seize control of his surroundings. He cuts off opportunists, refuses shallow manipulations, and begins carving a space for the life he never had. But the city remembers the old Reid. And the world he’s inherited is full of watching eyes, ambitious enemies, and buried sins. In a city where money shines and power flows at night, Second Life Neon follows a man without a past forging a future through calculated ruthlessness, cold precision, and the slow discovery that luxury, control, and even connection are not weaknesses, unless he allows them to be.