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...

They were the invitation. Now the guest is arriving!A year ago, a hundred ordinary people woke with a blue cube on their hands. Now they live in a compound in the desert, half-worshipped and half-feared, guarding a secret the world cannot be trusted with, and reaching every night toward the vast presence they were made to answer.Then the presence turns toward them. And speaks.But the nearer the two worlds draw, the more glaring the truth becomes. Th...

The guest arrived. Now it wants to know what we'll do with what we were given.The gift is fading. Drop by drop, the enhancement that rewrote a hundred lives is receding. With the network thinning, the impossible perception is going quiet.Then the truth dawns: the cubes were never vessels but templates: the alien mind's own architecture, grown from the only hundred humans close enough to carry it. The Effected weren't chosen to do a job. They were chosen to ...

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...

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...

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...

She was twelve years old when she stopped growing. That was three hundred years ago.Naya never asked to become a vampire. Plucked from the brink of starvation by the ancient Edward, she was turned into an immortal predator trapped forever in a child's body-old enough to hunger, too young to be taken seriously. For centuries, she has played the role of obedient daughter while protecting a remote Transylvanian village, feeding only on the elderly and dying offered as...

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 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...

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...

He crossed the wall expecting the world to destroy him. Instead, the world made him an offer.Free at last, the boy discovers what his gift was truly for... He can read three million strangers like a single open page and see the hidden machinery beneath cities, markets, and lives. And for the first time, the light beneath his skin burns warm.Then a letter arrives, written in a language only three living people can read.There's another boy who walked ...