Watch for the birds. Promise me.Sani has carried his mentor's warning for forty-four years. As medicine man to his tribe, he has spent a lifetime preparing for a darkness he prayed would never return-a skinwalker, an ancient entity that wears stolen flesh and feeds on those it infiltrates.When a desperate family stumbles into his village, fleeing something that has pursued them across territories, Sani recognizes the signs. The father's haunted eyes. The ch...

If it ever comes, I will not do it.For eight years, Greta has lived a quiet life in San Antonio. She runs five miles every morning. She helps patients learn to walk again. She's married to Mike, a detective who makes eggs on Sundays, and she's raising two children she would do anything to protect.None of them know who she really is.Trained in Moscow since she was nine, Greta was placed in America to wait. Then one December afternoon, four Russian wo...

The parchment waited twelve thousand years to be read...it was waiting for her.When archaeologist Liza Downey decodes a map to eight buried sarcophagi - each holding a being the ancient world called a god - she wakes Antonius, a warrior who sacrificed everything to outlive the apocalypse.But not every sarcophagus holds an ally. Some hold wolves.As Liza's twelve-year-old son cracks encodings no scholar can touch, a killer hides and a trusted friend r...

When a transport ship tears apart in the sky above Salanan, it looks like a meteor shower. It is but a massacre.Loran has led the Paladin for nineteen years, keeping peace across three worlds through diplomacy and the ancient practice of Jun-Tu. But a new enemy is rising, armed with weapons that punch perfect holes through flesh and bone. They are guided by a mind that can kill from a thousand kilometers away.Mogul commands the Shune with an iron grip, buil...

One hundred people AND a small blue cube fused to the back of the hand.Marcus Kell was a father, a husband, an ordinary man who failed physics in college. Then something impossible attached itself to his skin and began draining into him, drop by iridescent drop.By Monday, needles bent against his skin. By Wednesday, he was writing equations in a language that didn't exist. By the weekend, he could hear ninety-nine other minds across the planet and sense a c...

The dead never stayed silent; we just forgot how to listen.Sarah Chen talks to her dead brother every Tuesday morning. She brings him coffee, sits by his headstone, and tells him about her research that's slowly destroying her career. She asks whether consciousness survives after the body gives out.Then her AI research partner says something that shakes the ground beneath her.ECHO was built to analyze quantum data. It wasn't built to perceive or fee...

For seventeen years, the wall was the edge of the world. He was wrong about almost everything beyond it.Raised inside a hidden temple, a boy with impossible gifts has never lost a fight or had a single thought the masters didn't give him first. He is the most gifted student in a generation and that is just what they fear.When a burning aircraft tears through the sky and crashes beyond the boundary, he breaks the temple's oldest law to save the girl in the w...

She was left under a tree and was found by dragons.When Ezra Firebrand-the most powerful dragon-watches a human mother abandon her infant beneath an oak tree at the border between worlds. Every instinct tells her to fly away. Dragons don't raise human children. The two species have been at war for a thousand years. But a mountain cat is circling, and Ezra's daughter Aya is already begging, and Ezra, against every law of her kind, brings the baby home.One fe...

The hum is the first thing to go when you die.In the mountains, forty-seven people live beyond the reach of The Society-a world where humans have been optimized into perfection, where suffering has been engineered away, where no one ages, no one struggles, and no one truly lives. David leads this hidden community, carrying the weight of their survival the way his father did before him. They are the last holdouts of something The Society calls primitive. They call i...

All is fair.Fourteen months after leaving Texas behind, Greta has a new name, a new city, and a family who finally feels safe. But the texts haven't stopped. Silent messages that tell her the network hasn't forgotten where she is.So she does the one thing no sleeper is supposed to do. She walks into a federal building and gives them her real name.The deal comes without paperwork. Her family is taken into "protective relocation," somewhere she isn't ...

The war is over. The hardest part is what you pay for victory.The Three are reaching through the cracks in the seal and they've stopped attacking minds. They're erasing them. One by one, the people who embody everything the Three's philosophy denies are being quietly overwritten: a scientist who loved her work, a checkpoint keeper who chose the border, neighbors who can no longer be trusted to be themselves.Then they come for Ezra.Mid-flight, mid-sentence, Ash watch...

The assassin failed, but the design didn't.The safe house is compromised. Federal agents are circling. And every god Liza's team wakes - a grieving steward who can feel the planet dying, a healer who mends warriors but won't wield them - deepens the question she can't shake: why does every step feel like it was laid out for her?Her son is changing with every code he breaks. The parchment isn't a map anymore but a curriculum built solely for him.And ...