Every television on Earth turns on simultaneously, the entire world is forced to watch a single, desperate message: a woman pleading for humanity to hide. But she isn't from the future she's from a simulation that ended hours before ours is set to.Ceara and Damon, two brilliant minds working with a quantum computer at the edge of reality, discover the shocking truth: their world may be just another layer of a grand simulation. As they delve deeper into the sentient lattice of Ourob...

Veyra is dying by inches. Every hour the siege tightens, and every hour necromancer-midwife Maren Aster trades her own warmth to keep another heartbeat going. When the council drags General Kael Rhyx, a dragon-born weapon with heat in his veins, into her ward and binds them with an oath that punishes distance, she gains the one thing she swore to avoid—power on a scale that can save or ruin a city.Beneath Veyra sleeps a bone-wyrm, ...

Love: The Art of FallingBy Guy Roberts One feeling. A thousand faces. Through the decades of falling hard.In this first volume of Guy Roberts' captivating new anthology series, romance is reimagined through short stories that span generations. Each story unveils a fresh chapter of desire in different decades apart ,with loyaly , heartbreak, and devotion. Whether love begins in a rainstorm, blooms on a broken promise, or thr...

One Golden Summer...When Toronto food stylist Leah Carter agrees to run her aunt's bakery in Prince Edward County for two months, she tells herself it's a pit stop—a summer of flour, lake breezes, and an easy escape back to the city.Then she runs into Noah Barrett—her first love, now a rising winemaker with a reputation as "the Prince of the County." His pitch is simple: partner with him for the Harvest Festival, pairing her pastries with his wines. The catch? Three weekend...

Ashdown keeps to itself—one road in, one rumor out. Everyone works for Praxigen. Everyone goes to their "routine screenings." Everyone ignores the scratching under the porch.When doorbells start chiming once and stopping, when floodlights "practice" Morse, a rancher's dashcam catches something with black keratin tendrils threading a fence. Dr. Keira Vos is told to blame ticks. Sixteen-year-old June Hart finds a 1942 ledger stamped WARREN

Every year the ocean takes a little more of Harbor—until it comes for the people.When a corpse washes into a living room on the last livable street, paramedic Wren Keene knows it isn't a storm surge. The tides aren't obeying the moon. Mail slots clack with letters no one sent. Bathtubs fill from the sea. And in the fog, a man with a ring of keys walks the routes like a ferryman taking attendance.With a perigean storm closing in, Wr...

Avery Shah fixes rooms for a living—timelines, vendor dramas, sudden rainstorms—everything except her love life. When a social calendar packed with weddings threatens her sanity, she drafts a Plus-One Pact with Nate Beaumont, the grumpy-competent ops lead who treats safety plans like poetry. Fake dating for optics. A shared Rulebook for boundaries. Absolutely no falling for each other.But practice has a way of becoming performance when the chemistry is real. From Granville Island "...

Calderra's sky is broken—and when the auroral Firmament fails, the storm called the Nocturne hunts what light remains. The council's last gambit binds forge‑mage Elara Ferrin to Gavriel Kade, the knight who resigned in disgrace, in a legal "marriage" called the Diarch Brace. Their job is simple to name and impossible to do: rebuild a shattered sky‑dome before the city starves, riots, or goes dark for good....

On Earth, famine spreads. On the Moon's dark side, vampires thrive in endless night. The relics are gone, but their echo carves scripture into stone and flesh. From this void rises a Black Throne, waiting for one to kneel.The five factions gather in the Obsidian Spire:The Ashen Court — demanding Kaelen's crown.The Hollow Kin — fractured between oath and hunger.The Blood Syndicate — empire of famine...

In a world where metals define men—where gold sharpens ambition, iron strengthens resolve, and mercury poisons truth—alchemists regulate society by binding human nature to trait-metal glyphs.But when an outlaw alchemist discovers a metal unmapped by the ancient lexicon, the rules begin to dissolve.This eighth metal cannot be forged. It cannot be named. It does not grant power—it refuses definition.A...

On the night of his society wedding, chef Theo Marche runs—not from love, but from the performance of it. Three ferries and one rainstorm later he lands at the Mariner's Lantern Inn, a weathered harbor hotel where the midnight coffee is strong, the dishwasher wheezes on principle, and the night manager keeps a clipboard of promises due.June Moreno has no time for grand gestures. She's raising a seven-year-old, steering a creaky inn through storm season, and living by a simple rule:...

Letters at Blue Hour is a quiet, time-skewed love story about two neighbors who refuse to let a fence become a wall.At dawn and dusk, Noor slips notes beneath a frost-bitten cedar. Calder's replies arrive postmarked from a week ahead. Between ferry horns and pears in paper cups, their town learns a new habit: wedges under stubborn doors, pencils where strangers need them, and a ritual that turns minutes into rooms. When a developer threatens to replace the gate wit...