The trash isn't just piled up. It's holding the ceiling up.Harlan Jakes is a specialist in the unseen and the unclean. As a forensic cleaner, he has spent a lifetime wading through the wreckage of human lives, but nothing has prepared him for Blackwood Manor. Hired by the cold, enigmatic Elara Muntz, Harlan is given a strict 48-hour deadline to clear the sprawling, rotting estate in rural Pennsylvania before a court order seals it forever.But as Harlan and ...

Perfection has a price. And it is paid by the pound.The "Iron Vein" is not just a gym; it is a cathedral of flesh in the rotting heart of downtown Detroit. For Oren Hale, a disgraced former champion turned night janitor, it is a daily reminder of the glory he lost. But lately, the Vein has changed. The members are getting bigger—impossibly bigger—and the air is thick with the copper scent of blood and unwashed ambition.The source of this miraculous growth i...

Some networks are not built to be maintained. They are built to feed.Linus Gentry is a creature of the digital trenches. A seasoned low-voltage technician, he has spent fifteen years navigating the dusty, forgotten veins of corporate infrastructure. When he receives a lucrative, no-questions-asked contract to replace the aging cabling in the infamous Aethelgard Tower, he sees it as just another "ghost shift" in a dying building.But Aethelgard is not dying. ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Some networks are not built to be maintained. They are built to feed.Linus Gentry is a creature of the digital trenches. A seasoned low-voltage technician, he has spent fifteen years navigating the dusty, forgotten veins of corporate infrastructure. When he receives a lucrative, no-questions-asked contract to replace the aging cabling in the infamous Aethelgard Tower, he sees it as just another "ghost shift" in ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Perfection has a price. And it is paid by the pound.The "Iron Vein" is not just a gym; it is a cathedral of flesh in the rotting heart of downtown Detroit. For Oren Hale, a disgraced former champion turned night janitor, it is a daily reminder of the glory he lost. But lately, the Vein has changed. The members are getting bigger—impossibly bigger—and the air is thick with the copper scent of blood and unwashed a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The trash isn't just piled up. It's holding the ceiling up.Harlan Jakes is a specialist in the unseen and the unclean. As a forensic cleaner, he has spent a lifetime wading through the wreckage of human lives, but nothing has prepared him for Blackwood Manor. Hired by the cold, enigmatic Elara Muntz, Harlan is given a strict 48-hour deadline to clear the sprawling, rotting estate in rural Pennsylvania before a c...

Some masterpieces are not made. They are captured.In the fog-choked valleys of West Virginia, "The Stokehold" looms like a rusted cathedral of industry. It is a legendary porcelain factory known for its "Lifelike Series"—figures so exquisitely detailed they seem to breathe.Ewan Galt, a technician specializing in high-temperature industrial kilns, arrives at the isolated facility with a simple job: repair the massive, antiquated "Dragon Kiln" for the reclusi...

Desmond Blythe is a solitary film archivist working the night shift at a temperature-controlled, subterranean nitrate film vault. Surrounded by thousands of decaying, highly unstable cellulose reels, he is the guardian of forgotten history. But cellulose nitrate doesn't just burn—it produces its own oxygen, making it impossible to extinguish once ignited.The nightmare begins when Desmond inspects a newly donated 1920s reel on his editing table. The black-and-white silent footage sh...

“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is the perilous and m...

"VISIONARY" and "ENTHRALLING"--Richard Bunning and Norm Hamilton, authors of Another Space in Time and From Thine Own Well*** FOREWORD INDIES BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST ***"These are works that nurture wonder and sometimes break hearts." -Foreword ReviewsREADER, WRITER, and MAKER: All three novels of the trilogy in one book.Speculative fiction with time travel, alien armageddon, metaphysical mysteries...

A spectacular, large-scale space opera - the ultimate galaxy-spanning adventureSix million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every two hundred thousand years, to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings...

An original novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!Stripped of armor, might, and memory, the legendary Forerunner warrior known as the Didact was torn from the physical world following his destructive confrontation with the Master Chief and sent reeling into the mysterious depths of a seemingly endless desert wasteland. This once powerful and terrifying figure is now a shadow of his former self—gaunt, broke...