The raging storm is locking everyone inside. But something far deadlier is trying to get out.In the water-laced province of Morrowfen, licensed ferryman Easton Evans has spent his life cultivating the persona of a universally loved host. But when a massive, relentless flood traps a desperate group of travelers inside his sprawling, heavy-timbered ferry house, Easton's comfortable illusion is shattered. While completing his provincial manifest, he discovers four for...

A dead woman's secrets. Three conflicting wills. A valley choking on cursed magic.Genevieve Grace is a provincial inheritance auditor who prefers the cold certainty of ledgers to the messy realities of human emotion. When she arrives at the sprawling Vale Abbot estate in the water-laced province of Morrowfen, she expects a routine division of assets. A wealthy matriarch has died, leaving behind a legendary crescent orchard and a brood of entitled heirs. But the dom...

A corpse that refuses to decay. A seamstress hiding from her past. A forbidden sanctuary in the shadows of a moss-choked crypt.Rowena Roseblood survives by keeping her head down. As the mortuary seamstress for a settlement choked by freezing fog and the fanatical dogma of Priestess Mia Montgomery, Rowena knows that defying the church means burning at the stake. She tends to the dead in solitary silence, using her craft as penance for a past act of cowardice.

In a village built on polite lies, the truth is a dangerous spark.Welcome to Brindlewake, a rain-soaked province where domestic magic reigns and the dead do not vanish until their stories are settled. Bryony Bracken is an apprentice memory-glassmaker, weaving ashes and intentions into beautiful lanterns that guide departed spirits to rest. For a girl who fears conflict above all else, crafting quiet resolutions is a perfect life. But when she binds the ashes of a g...

In a sinking city fueled by ritual murder, a bone-mason unearths a monster bound in silver—and chooses to save him.Saint Mire is sinking. Plagued by the corrosive black waters of the Hush Tide, the cliffside principality survives only through strict adherence to the covenant economy—a ruthless system of magical bindings, noble bloodlines, and dark sacrifices made to appease the eldritch horror sleeping beneath the harbor. Lenore Locke is just a municipal bone-mason...

A devastating debt. A stolen identity. A living, breathing mansion where the walls listen to your every lie.Echo Eclipse is a master voice-thief, surviving the brutal harbor slums of Saltgrave by erasing her identity and becoming whoever desperate, grieving people want her to be. But when her ruthless underworld creditor demands an impossible payoff, Echo is forced into her deadliest con yet. She must travel to the isolated, cliffside estate of Crowsilk Court and i...

In the frost-locked city of Orsym, survival is a matter of taste—and the ingredients are unspeakable.Dominic Silva is the celebrated ecclesiastical chef of a starving aristocracy. In a gothic metropolis carved from the calcified bones of elder beasts, the elite are sustained by a single, horrific resource: leviathan nectar, siphoned from a gargantuan, suffering monster imprisoned beneath the ice. Dominic's job is simple but essential. He must use his unparalleled c...

The monsters didn't fall. They surrendered.For centuries, the religious courts have preached that the massive, terrifying beasts haunting the continent are mindless abominations, driven purely by violence and born of unholy corruption. Brilliant scholar Stephen Vickers has built his entire academic career proving that these creatures are nothing more than biological tragedies, devoid of reason or a soul.But everything Stephen believes is a lie.In

A flawless lie is the only thing standing between a desperate street thief and a gruesome death, but how do you con a house that listens to your every heartbeat?Echo Eclipse is a hollow shell, surviving the ruthless underworld of Saltgrave by stealing the voices and identities of the deceased. But when a massive debt to a lethal crime syndicate comes due, Echo is forced into the greatest performance of her life. Her mission: infiltrate the isolated, cliffside estat...

In a village where magic records every human emotion, a deliberately blank lantern isn't just an anomaly—it's a crime against history.In the quiet, magical valley of Lanternvale, the truth is indisputable. Memory lanterns hang above every street and shop, their enchanted glass absorbing ambient human emotion and reflecting it as a brilliant, shifting tapestry of light. This emotional residue forms the objective historical record, meticulously transcribed by senior ...

He traveled across the mist-choked valleys to execute a monster, but the true horrors wear the robes of the righteous.Gared Greymantle is a lethal instrument of the ruling clergy, a seasoned guild hunter bound by a rigid doctrine to eradicate cathedral abominations. His latest bounty brings him to a vulnerable, isolated settlement hiding the behemoth known as Isolde Ironspire—a towering marvel of alchemically branded flesh and staggering destructive power.W...

The ruling clergy promised that the holy beasts were willing sacrifices. They lied.Novice caretaker Fiona Finch survived a childhood fire only to be swallowed by a different kind of nightmare: the grueling, silent servitude of the Cathedral of Unquiet Flesh. Here, the ruling priests demand absolute obedience, protecting the continent from deep-earth horrors by allegedly binding the flesh of willing martyrs to ancient, violent forces. These transformed beings, the h...