A dying Midwestern town. A terrifying midnight discovery. And a mystery that's about to turn deadly.In the desolate farming community of Prosperity, Nebraska, nothing much happens—until massive, intricate sigils are carved into the local cornfields overnight. Masked, glowing figures are warning the townsfolk away, and the rumors are running wild.For Marshall Reed and his friends, it's the perfect story. Operating out of a converted garage, their low-budget paranormal podcas...

In the frozen, working-class streets of Philadelphia, the underground club circuit is a dead-end road paved with shattered ribs and unfulfilled potential. Rocco Valente—a low-level enforcer for a local loan shark—is intimately familiar with both. Known in the rings as "The Philly Slugger," Rocco has spent his life trading heavy fabric strikes for pathetic payouts, swinging regulation twenty-by-twenty-six-inch synthetic down pillows until his hands bleed and his vision blurs. He's a club br...

Some towns are born bad. Others are just waiting for a match.In a remote West Texas oil boomtown, the law doesn't protect the innocent—it runs the extortion racket. Sheriff Harlan Vance rules his dusty, sun-baked empire with a heavy-gauge shotgun and a squad of ruthless deputies. But Vance's absolute authority is bleeding into the territory of Hector Salinas, an old-guard cartel sicario who controls the lucrative trafficking lanes running straight through the oil fields.The...

A kingdom poisoned from within. An enemy hiding in plain sight. A truth no one wants to hear.The prosperous Kingdom of Aldoria prides itself on its progressive tolerance, magical universities, and high culture. But beneath the veneer of absolute equity lies a creeping rot. The zealous Vokaran Empire, having failed to conquer Aldoria by force centuries ago, has found a deadlier weapon: ideological subversion. Disguised as desperate refugees, Vokaran infiltrators are...

In the elite, unforgiving world of professional dressage, champions are bred from flawless bloodlines, raised in pristine stables, and adorned with imported tack. They are not found abandoned in the dusty, forgotten stalls of rural auction houses. But Bellwether—a knobby-kneed, battered mount with a frayed mane and a scarred coat—possesses something aristocratic breeding can never replicate: a fiercely unbreakable heart.Dismissed by the establishment as lazy and physically inadequa...

Oakharrow was supposed to be celebrating the autumn harvest. Instead, they are bracing for a massacre. When isolated homesteaders stumble into the village—babbling of soulless black eyes, tearing claws, and rhythmic, guttural chanting in the deep woods—the villagers realize a horrific horde is marching on their home. The roads are cut off. The brutal winter is closing in. And they are completely alone.Seventeen-year-old Garrick has spent his life in the shadow of a legend. His fath...

Gary Pendleton has a Q3 budget review this morning. The fact that he died in his sleep is only going to complicate things.Operating on pure habit and corporate denial, Gary trudges to the office, ignoring his sudden pallor and the frantic screaming in the streets. But when his notoriously demanding—and newly bitten—boss insists on finishing a slide on Q4 synergy as the city burns outside their window, Gary's lifelong corporate conditioning finally snaps. Realizing his job is utterl...

Before he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson hunted ghosts.Williamsburg, Virginia, 1761. Eighteen-year-old Thomas Jefferson is a brilliant law student content in his world of books, music, and philosophical debate. His mentor, the esteemed George Wythe, has trained him to pursue truth through reason and evidence. But when the servants at the Governor's Palace begin reporting impossible occurrences—whispered voices from empty rooms, mechanical figures moving in ...

The prize is a dead man's gun.Luther Drake's Colt — custom-built for one hand only, odd-balanced, heavy on the trigger, impossible for anyone else to shoot clean. The man who could have used it has been in the ground for twenty years. When a young ranch hand named Audie McKay picks it up at a shooting contest, the crowd goes quiet. Then the shots start landing where they're supposed to, and they don't stop.The territory has been watching for someone like this. Audie doesn't...

Andy Becket wasn't paying attention. Four years on a carrier flight deck had turned vigilance into reflex and reflex into autopilot, and at 0200 in the Pacific, the deck collected on the debt. Jet wash. Chains still attached. The dark water closed over him before he understood what had happened.He sank. The cold came first, then the pressure, then the silence. Somewhere between consciousness and its absence, something vast stirred in the deep below him. Something that had been wait...

The war for the galaxy won't be won by gods. It will be won by a mechanic.Andy never wanted to be the spark that ignited a galactic rebellion. He just wanted to keep his sentient ship, Seven, flying and protect the small found-family he'd gathered along the way. But the ideals of freedom he shared with a desperate galaxy have taken root, and the resulting fire is threatening to burn the oppressive Stark Empire to the ground.Now, the empire is strik...

The pulpit is his cover. The Word is his weapon. The hunt is real.Dr. Silas Sterling is a man of contradictions. Under the blinding lights of his massive revival tent, he is a wealthy, charismatic Southern Baptist Televangelist who preaches the blood of Christ to thousands. But when the cameras shut off and the crowds disperse, he steps into the shadows.Silas is a former MACV-SOG operator, haunted by a classified Vietnam mission that exposed him to a truth too terrifying fo...