Some places disappear from maps. In Ilyen Vey's district, they are starting to disappear from reality.Ilyen is a provincial Keeper of Names, trained to trust records, forms and the ancient procedures that keep settlements, roads and boundaries fixed. When she is sent to a remote forest district, the failures look administrative: villages vanish from tax rolls, road lengths contradict the map, graves no longer match families, and people lose rights because their homes no longer offi...

AI is already showing up in children's schoolwork, games, phones, and everyday family routines. But how can you tell what it's doing--and help your children use it wisely? The Family AI Handbook is a practical, jargon-free guide for parents and caregivers who want to move from uncertainty to confident, thoughtful choices. Learn what common AI tools can and cannot do, why their answers may be wrong, and how to help children check claims, images, and videos. Set age-appropriate expectations ...

Your family's digital life is bigger than it looks. Email, banking, school portals, shopping, streaming, social media, and smart-home devices all create accounts to protect--and one weak or reused password can put more than one of them at risk. The Family Password & Privacy Handbook offers a clear, practical way to make your household safer online without turning you into a cybersecurity expert. Daniel Mercer explains passwords, account security, and privacy in everyday language, then help...

Scams can reach anyone--not just people who are careless or inexperienced. A convincing message can arrive when you're busy, worried, hopeful, or trying to help someone you love. The Family Scam Prevention Handbook gives your household a clear, practical way to pause and make safer decisions before money or personal information is at risk. Daniel Mercer's repeatable STOP → CHECK → PROTECT system helps you assess unexpected messages, calls, links, payment requests, and family emergencies. L...

When family members need help with a phone, password, app, or suspicious message, you may be the person they call. The Family Tech Support Handbook helps you answer with patience and practical steps--without becoming everyone's permanent help desk. Daniel Mercer offers a people-first approach to everyday technology support. Learn how to set up and simplify a phone, make email and video calls less frustrating, organize photos and backups, and help relatives manage accounts and passwords whi...

In the kingdom's oldest archival city, a house can keep its outer walls—and lose the meaning of inside.Ilyen Vey and Orren Cald arrive with one certainty: records can fail. They are not prepared for a city in which rooms connect to demolished buildings, corridors exceed exterior dimensions, families remember different children, and people cross thresholds only to vanish from the memories of those left behind.The central archives should provide answers. Instead, they contain...

A passenger ferry is burning in a Force Ten North Sea storm. Six hundred and eighty people are aboard—and abandoning ship could kill more of them than staying.When fire cripples the North Star, junior engineer Leah Kerr is trapped inside a cascading machinery casualty: propulsion is gone, electrical power is failing, seawater is spreading through the lower decks, and the ferry is beginning to list.Ashore, senior coastguard rescue coordinator Daniel Kerr must decide...

Aster Gate is losing water. According to every official record, it shouldn't be.Systems auditor Mara Venn finds a discrepancy buried between desalination output, district consumption and reservoir levels. It could be faulty telemetry. Theft. Corruption. Then disgraced field engineer Tarin Sol records pressure changes on an external main that the city's operating history says never happened.Six years ago, Mara's evidence helped end Tarin's career after an unauthorised divers...

What happens when a compliment makes it harder to say no? When an apology leaves the same behavior untouched? Or when someone’s version of events slowly replaces your own?The Quiet Mechanics of Dark Psychology explores how manipulation can take shape in ordinary conversations, relationships, workplaces, and online spaces. Through relatable examples, Daniel Mercer examines tactics such as manufactured urgency, shifting expectations, guilt, isolation, and attacks on a person...

Nathan Ward knows how to follow money. But when his younger brother is found murdered behind his flat, Nathan is immediately barred from the official investigation.Then he finds what Luke left behind.A concealed memory card. Six company numbers. Irregular payments linked to Calder & Rook Logistics. And a pattern of supposedly empty freight movements that refuses to make sense.Working outside the case that should have been his, Nathan begins rebuilding Luke's trail t...

A kingdom can survive invasion. But what happens when it can no longer agree what kingdom it is?Across the realm, border posts recognise obsolete frontiers. Roads reconnect according to older maps. Courts issue incompatible judgments. Soldiers hold oaths to different versions of the state. The crown still exists—but the shared identity that gives it meaning is coming apart.Ilyen Vey and Orren Cald now understand the terrible choice beneath the crisis: forgotten histories ca...

Four months after the crisis at Aster Gate, the unanswered problem lies upstream.A joint technical convoy is heading through the White Interior toward Kestrel Station, carrying the engineers, evidence, filtration equipment and repair stock needed to discover why communities along the Meridian Line have been receiving less water than the system should deliver.Nothing aboard is spare.Fuel, tyres, filters, medical supplies and drinking water disappear permanently when ...