The salt keeps the kingdom alive through the brutal winter, but under the reign of a greedy tyrant king, the price of survival is paid in human flesh. By royal decree, the seasonal Salt Tax has been raised to an impossible three silver marks per household. For the impoverished farmers of the outer settlements, it is an immediate death sentence. Those who cannot pay must surrender one able-bodied family member to the lethal, stagnant salt marshes for forced labor. Failure to comply means to...

When burnout gamer Levi spills a bottle of whiskey across his keyboard at four in the morning, he expects a ruined setup. Instead, he wakes up inside three hundred pounds of dark iron plate armour, trapped inside the high-level code of Fractured Realms.There is no logout button or system menu, only the unyielding fantasy ecosystem where a drop to zero health means a body bag in the real world.

Four middle aged lifelong gamers get pulled into the game of Dungeons and Dragons and become the characters that they had created to torture the habitants of the Northern Wastes. Now then must face the brutal consequences in an epic adventure to get out of the game and return home.

A fifty-five-year-old experienced blacksmith named Gideon operates an old-school stone forge in a freezing, mountain-locked Pennsylvania valley. His world is changed forever when a juvenile, fist-sized dragon with shimmering emerald-green scales appears in his charcoal hearth during a late-night shift. The creature possesses a high-frequency energetic stasis that is actively hunted by a ruthless corporate mining syndicate whose electronic tracking matrix locks onto any local thermal anomal...

Marcus Reed steps into an elevator after work, expecting another ordinary ride down. Instead, the elevator begins showing impossible floors, each one a completely different world with its own deadly rules.Marcus must survive floor after floor of increasingly twisted environments. From dense forests and endless oceans to burning deserts and frozen wastelands, every floor tests him in new and horrifying ways.Marcus must push himself beyond his limits, making impossible choice...

The longer you watch without being seen, the more points you score.In the quiet suburbs of 1970, twelve-year-old Tommy Ellis plays a game with his friends where points are earned by viewing the private lives of unsuspecting neighbours behind half-drawn curtains.But as Uncle Frank warned, the game isn't something you get tired of—it's a hunger that grows until it completely swallows you up.Fifty-some years later, Sarah lives a peaceful life in that same town, complet...

The pressure at the bottom of the ocean can crush steel. But inside the bubble, the real nightmare is waiting.When an elite marine recovery team spots a perfectly intact 1897 railway station and a six-car steam train resting on the North Atlantic seabed, it defies every known law of physics. Intrigued and heavily funded, the five-man expedition descends into the absolute darkness of the abyssal zone.

In a chillingly plausible dystopian future, memory is no longer a human right, it is a currency collected by the government. Fed into a supercomputer, the memories are converted into raw digital energy, fuel for the supercomputer to build a flawless future for all.Mara is an ordinary woman, scraping by on the lower tiers of society, who refuses to submit to the loss of precious memories. She makes a lawless, life-or-death decision to infiltrate the system, taking back memories that...

Every boot and shoe carries someone’s secrets. For a 65-year-old cobbler in 1715, touching the inside lining means experiencing the darkest sins and the warmest memories of it's townsfolk.

Behind towering wrought-iron gates is Blackwood Manor, a home constructed in 1830 by Lord Reginald Vance. The sprawling Victorian estate is a masterpiece of architecture, alive with hundreds of clocks synced to create a mechanical chorus throughout the manor.Arthur, a clocksmith, is hired to provide maintenance to the clocks, and arrives as Lord Vance is entertaining a group of five others, all waiting to hear of the Lord’s reason for the gathering. When a snow storm hits the manor...

Ethan is a brilliant teenager who discovers his late father's secret time machine hidden in the basement of their cabin. He embarks on wild adventures through past and future, making new friends that he brings back to his own time. Together they go on adventures both good and bad.

Luxor, 1962. For nineteen years, Caleb Voss has lived inside a fortress of absolute order. Under the iron rule of his archaeologist father, his entire existence is measured in sets of three. Three swallows of water. Three pieces of bread. Nine perfect numbers drawn in a perfect square. It is a rigid prison of arithmetic designed to do one thing, keep a cursed, dark entity asleep.When his father suddenly collapses dead at the mouth of an unmapped pharaonic tomb, the count is permane...