"You did not leave."A grief-stricken marine biologist inherits a decommissioned lighthouse on a remote Oregon coast expecting solitude, paperwork, and enough distance from the life he lost to keep moving forward.Instead, Owen Mace discovers he isn't alone.The lighthouse already has a resident: an ancient, multidimensional entity known only as the Curator. Older than the lighthouse itself, the Curator has spent centuries watching over a cove where the sea be...

"The file on Riven Salas was forty-seven pages. It was the smoothest thing he had read in four years."In Brussels, two operatives from rival intelligence syndicates are forced into a joint operation to bury a politically explosive death. Riven Salas is a ghost — meticulous, unreadable, a woman who has spent nine years mastering the art of leaving no trace in a life she has carefully emptied of everything that could be used against her. Cael Mordren is the man who was sent to read h...

"I don't make mistakes," Callum says.The documents say otherwise.Forensic accountant Callum Reyes has built his career on precision—following paper trails, exposing fraud, and closing cases cleanly. When he's sent to a remote mountain territory to untangle a decades-old land trust scheme, he expects complexity. What he doesn't expect is a case that refuses to stay contained—or the man assigned to watch him.Matteo Varga has spent his life protecting his Pack and the l...

"The company needs work."Miles Calloway has built his life on order—crisp suits, color-coded grief, and a career as a brilliant London divorce attorney who knows exactly how to keep his heart in legal quarantine. But when his late best friend's will drops one catastrophic surprise into his meticulously controlled existence, Miles is forced into a year-long co-guardianship arrangement inside a probate-frozen family home with thirteen-year-old culinary critic Wren Osei… and Declan Fo...

No romantic or sexual relationships between housemates.Ren wrote the rule years ago, after the kind of heartbreak that does not leave loudly. It simply stays behind in the corners of a home, in the old mug nobody moves, in the whiteboard everyone learns not to question, in the quiet systems that keep a shared house from falling apart.For four years, Ren has been the one who holds the house together. He knows who needs tea before they ask, which stair creaks, how th...

"I'm not getting back on that court."Six months ago, Nico Reyes was one victory away from another Grand Slam semifinal. Then his knee gave out in front of thousands of spectators, ending his career before he could play a final match, choose a farewell, or imagine who he might become without tennis.Now thirty-five and trapped inside a body he no longer trusts, Nico wants nothing to do with the sport that took everything from him. But when he is offered a job as a mental-perf...

"I'm not your prisoner.""No," he says, watching me like I'm something he's already decided to keep. "You're something much more interesting."Dario Reyes has spent nine years becoming exactly what the Order needs—precise, controlled, and utterly expendable. When he's assigned to infiltrate the inner circle of a centuries-old vampire who has outlived every attempt to destroy him, Dario does what he always does: he makes himself the perfect weapon. Even if that means letting hi...

"Are you going to hurt me?"It is two in the morning, and Arthur Voss is alone in a locked library basement with something that has seventeen eyes.He asks the question the way he does everything: precisely, directly, without drama. Because that is Arthur — thirty-one years old, night-shift librarian, a man who has organized his entire life around the careful management of not being seen. He knows every patron by habit and heartbeat. He has not given anyone the same courtesy ...

Six years of posts. Two hundred and thirty thousand followers. And not one word he'd ever said directly to the person who mattered most.Dominic Reyes runs @novaarchive — a wildly popular fan account dedicated to NOVA, the K-pop group he has spent the better part of his adult life writing about from a careful, considered distance. He knows their discography by heart, their stage presence down to the light cues, and the particular quality of silence each of them keeps when n...

"It's probably nothing."That's what Sebastián Reyes tells himself when a routine algorithm audit at Harlan Logistics Solutions reveals a hidden classification buried deep inside the company's routing system—one that shouldn't exist.Cal Mabry has spent his life learning the cost of noticing dangerous things. Laid off, burned once before for exposing corporate corruption, and determined to survive quietly this time, Cal should walk away when Sebastián sends him a file that do...

"You know where to find me."He says it every time — and every time, Wei Jinghe sheathes his sword and walks away. Four hundred years of this. Four hundred years of divine mandate, of standing close enough to end it, of watching the man he was made to kill turn and disappear into the lower realms like smoke. Four hundred years of telling himself that his hands are steady, and refusing to ask why.Wei Jinghe is Heaven's Sword of Judgment — the celestial court's most p...

He should have stayed a past-tense problem.Marco Reyes has always known his role: steady friend, emotional translator, late-night responder, the person everyone trusts to keep the group intact. In his tight-knit chosen family, he is the one who notices the silence before anyone names it, the one who remembers what hurts, and the one who knows exactly how to hold everyone else together.Especially Dex.Two years ago, Nate Calloway vanished from Dex's life with...