What if the person you fell in love with disappeared every time you looked away?Nineteen-year-old college student Ethan never expected an argument over a convenience-store sandwich to change his life. Then he meets Mika, a mysterious girl with a sharp sense of humor, a talent for drawing, and one impossible problem.Whenever someone stops paying attention to her, she disappears.Photographs change. Conversations vanish from people's memories. Even the...

When Noah Mercer pulls back his shower curtain one morning, he expects a normal start to the day. Instead, he finds a witch asleep in his bathtub.Her name is Wren Bell. She is nineteen, sarcastic, strangely comfortable in porcelain, and hiding from people who already know exactly where to look for her.At first, Noah only wants his bathroom back. Then the floating toothbrush happens. Then the black birds begin watching his apartment. Then a mysterious woman named Adelaide Cr...

Satoshi thought winning a stay at Super Maid Mansion would be the vacation of a lifetime.Instead, he wakes in a decaying version of the mansion where windows open onto endless darkness, doors disappear, disturbing creatures roam the halls, and a blood-red warning waits at the entrance:DON'T GO OUT.When Satoshi returns to the normal mansion, everything appears perfect again. Ten cheerful maids provide food, entertainment, games, and every comfort he ...

The night shift was supposed to be boring. Then the new girl breathed fire on a frozen burrito.Eli Carter has spent nearly two years working overnight at Lucky Stop, a gas station where strange customers and questionable decisions are part of the job. Nothing surprises him anymore.Until Rhea Ash gets hired.She's hardworking, unusually strong, painfully honest, and completely unfamiliar with how normal people behave. She also happens to be a dragon.

Ben Carter thought he had found the perfect apartment: cheap rent, decent space, and just enough distance from his recent breakup to start over.Then he met Mara.She is sarcastic, stubborn, possessive of one particular blue mug—and very much a ghost.At first, Ben only wants to survive sharing Apartment 4C with a woman who walks through walls, changes the television by herself, and has strong opinions about everything he does. But somewhere between arguments, strange ...

Buying an entire town for one dollar seemed like the deal of a lifetime.Unfortunately, the town doesn't officially exist. And it doesn't want anyone to leave.When Noah Finch stumbles across a mysterious online auction, he makes an impulsive purchase that sounds too ridiculous to be real: an abandoned town called Bellwether.But when Noah and his older brother Jamie arrive to inspect their new property, they discover something impossible.The r...

The hallway is hungry. Whatever you do, don't feed it.When Mara Ellis moves into a cheap apartment at Southwell House, she expects noisy neighbors, unreliable plumbing, and maybe a few strange smells. What she doesn't expect is a bowl of cat food left outside an apartment that doesn't exist.Every night at 9:13, something in the hallway begins to eat.Nobody can see it. Nobody wants to talk about it. And the longer Mara stays, the more the building se...

Mia Harper's life is quiet, predictable, and painfully ordinary.Then a purple tentacle monster grabs her ankle at the beach.She names him Mochi, hides him above her aunt's bakery, and quickly discovers that her new eight-armed problem has strong opinions about snacks, stolen socks, romance movies, and Mia's love life.Especially her love life.When Mochi decides that Mia and her aquarium coworker Jonah clearly belong together, subtlety is not part of the plan....

Ethan Hale thought inheriting his grandfather's old house would be the beginning of a quiet, ordinary life.Then he found a demon sitting on his washing machine.Her name is Mara. She has horns, a tail, a surprisingly impressive resume, and one very unusual request.She needs a job.Not because she wants spending money. Not because she's bored. But because if she can't find legitimate employment and complete one full shift before her deadline, she'll be dragged ...

Ethan Cole's biggest problems used to be paying rent, surviving college, and dealing with difficult customers at his part-time job. Then a mysterious girl starts texting him warnings about his own death.At first, Ethan thinks it's a prank. But when her warnings save him from a bus accident, a collapsing ceiling, and an apartment fire, he realizes something is seriously wrong.The girl calls herself Iris Vale. She looks about nineteen, carries a black umbrella, and claims to ...

Six stories. One café. Countless ways for reality to go wrong.The Super Maid Café™ looks cheerful from the outside—pastel colors, arcade games, sweet drinks, smiling mascots, and the promise that everyone is welcome home.But behind the bright lights, something is wrong.In Shattered Realities, six unsettling stories explore different corners of the Super Maid Café™ universe. A quiet customer discovers that the café may be connected t...

Sarah has always been different.Her purple eyes make sure of that.After years of moving from place to place because of her father's work, Sarah finds herself starting over once again. New school. New town. New faces.This time, though, something feels strangely familiar.As Sarah begins settling into her new life and forming an unexpected friendship, unsettling events around her make it harder to ignore the feeling that something about her past doesn't add up....