Captain Liora Kade and her crew aboard the Artemis thought they were charting an uncharted sector of space. Instead, they encounter something beyond comprehension: a colossal, alien structure that defies physics, alive in ways they can't explain, pulsing with a mysterious intelligence. Drawn inside by enigmatic signals, the crew faces impossible corridors, shifting shadows, and visions that test their deepest fears, memories, and choices. The structure doesn't just challenge them—it probes...

Thordin Jax always gets what he wants. He's rich. He's gorgeous. He's the heir to one of the most powerful families on the planet. But when his body comes alive at the sight of Faith Jones, it will take every ounce of seduction and skill he possesses to get into her bed.But there is a traitor under his roof. A very dangerous adversary. And his beautiful, mysterious new mate is hunting him...alone.Download now as Faith and Thor's adventure continues!

The traitor within the Jax household has been found, and the repercussions are staggering, with Faith barely surviving and their mating destroyed. But Faith has always been unpredictable—just ask her sisters— and nothing will stop her from getting what she wants…and she wants Thor. Even if it kills her.Download now for the exciting conclusion to Faith's story!

A miserable phone tech by day and a dedicated gamer by night, Sol Daniels doesn't have much of a life. Now because of a werewolf bite, he's out in the streets in the middle of the night, looking for some action with another shifter to ease his ache. He's not hoping for much. Sol knows he isn't a catch, so he's surprised to hook up with leather-wearing werewolf Detective Aries Sanders.Aries has been looking all over the city for the man he bit. It's just his luck he sees Sol slumped...

A Dark Mafia Possessive Romance with Obsession, Power, and Forbidden LoveHe doesn't ask. He takes. And now… he wants her.Isolde is no stranger to secrets. Raised in a world where loyalty is currency and betrayal runs in blood, she's learned to survive by staying sharp and guarded. But when she crosses paths with Darian—a ruthless mafia king who rules the underworld with iron fists and velvet promises—her world burns to ash.Darian doesn't believe in accident...

In "Mr. Spaceship," humanity is at war with an alien race known as the Yuks. Conventional mechanical spaceships prove to be inadequate for the complex maneuvers needed in combat, leading to significant losses. To solve this problem, the protagonist, Philip Kramer, suggests a radical solution: integrating a human brain into a spaceship to leverage human intuition and decision-making capabilities.Kramer and his team choose the brain of an aging but brilliant professor, his former mentor, who...

Maintaining her healer status is a struggle as Madison slogs through her required training classes. There's so much to learn and so little time for herself or her roommate. When burn-out catches up, her world tips sideways. A Healer who can't heal themselves has no business healing.Can she find a way to get back on track? Or will her dreams crumble into the shadows—just like everything else?

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by Ashok K. Banker ("The Goddess Has Many Faces") and Bogi Takács ("Four-Point Affective Calibration"), ...

Sometimes you just need the right person to come along at the right time......While Lilly is struggling with life and loss a surprise encounter helps her find peace.

Quiet horror short packed with emotion and suspense.Ryan didn't know why he'd come back. He just had to see it one more time. Echo Lake waited all of these years for his return. It knew he would.The tragedy that happened there was still alive and well in Ryan's mind. His little sister drowned in that damned lake. She was not the first, probably wouldn't be the last.He'd come back because of her, because of that day. Something else was there that day. Something in th...

The first in the Wild Edged Magic series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper, this is a story of magic, death and hope in a world where magician's face consequences for every spell they cast.First paragraph:Raymond's aura fizzled over his skin like twisting green lasers, the potential power mocking his sagging flesh. Even now, with my father's tired eyes staring down at me, I felt anger rising instead of sadness, or even love. Stupid old man with a brilliant mind. He w...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 5.Commander Ryan Nash and his friend Jabo have become separated from their friends. Jabo, who has been transformed into a cyborg, half men and half machine, implores Ryan to kill him. For he is afraid of losing his fight against the program in his head and turning into a killing machine. But then Ryan and Jabo are attacked by a real monster: the "Long", a man-eating behemoth. During their headlong flight through the corridors...