BILLY AND OTHER SHORTS is a collection of short film scripts written by A.E. Williams featuring stories of various genres.In "Tome," a young man seeks out his mother to obtain an ancient magical tome, but he must face a painful and depressing encounter."Alice" features a young woman hoping to claim her magical inheritance, but it means opening up troubling repressed memories."Hacker" shows a young man's struggle with agoraphobia. However, when a more skilled hacker ...

Like its predecessor, Death on the Pearl River**, this thrilling murder mystery promises to "deliver a multitude of pleasures!" (**The New York Times).Ben Canaan is riding high on the recent string of cases he has solved successfully on the payroll of Her Majesty's Executive. Then a notorious crime boss is found murdered on the city streets, the latest in a series of brutal killings targeting the most powerful men...

North King has always been quieter and more reserved, but the youngest of the three King brothers is ready to take his place on the throne.Content with fading into the background, North just goes through the motions of life, enjoying his family and his work.That is, until he meets the quick-witted, charismatic Aspen Frost. Everybody knows her, but only a few see her for who she truly is, a deep well with dreams and plans of her own. Ready for a different pa...

Why did the demon cross the road? Apparently to escape Kyle McKinley. Which is more than fine with her.The last thing she wants is to be dragged into another supernatural crisis, but the Fates have something different in store for her. Trina, a young shifter girl she helped in the past, is being stalked, and Kyle will do whatever it takes to protect her.The secretive shifters reluctantly agree to allow Kyle and her vampire and demon teammates to investigate. Are poachers tr...

"A ruthless meth dealer is torching Atlanta's streets, and God and Day are striking back with two of Hollywood's legendary pyro experts."The war raging through Atlanta isn't just about drugs—it's about power, leverage, and survival. God and Day's task force is the only barrier standing between a growing plague and the city's safety.Wes and Law, childhood friends turned blacklisted pyrotechnic rivals, are hiding out in Atlanta until the fire they started in ...

They thought they had lost everything…but love and faith still had the final word.Crossed Destinies is a true story of love, exile, and redemption set in 1970s Miami.Susana and Alejandro, both marked by displacement since childhood, meet in their youth and fall into an intense love… until one mistake changes everything.Newly married, Alejandro is sentenced to prison.Their dreams shatter. Their future disappears.Through real letters written fr...

She was sent to betray him.Blind since she was eight, scarred, and unwanted, Shen Qingyin has spent ten years waiting for her father to find a use for her. He finally does. An arranged marriage to Lu Chengyuan, the empire's most feared general, a man in disgrace with secrets worth killing for. Her orders are simple. Marry him. Watch him. Report everything.So she reports everything. What he eats for breakfast. The weather. The dog.Chengyuan buried one wife already an...

Someone is missing. And the world goes on as though it had the right to.This book does not want to explain grief. It does not sort it into stages, does not measure it, does not try to speed it up. It contradicts the quiet expectation that pain ought to grow softer after a reasonable interval.In thirty chapters it speaks of what is rarely spoken about: the first morning without him, without her. The exhaustion no one sees. The silence of others, when nobody asks anymore. The...

Some worlds only hold as long as no one asks.In Helix, robots are the rule and humans are legend. MARA-7 is a mother, LUMI-2 her child, their housing module fully compliant with city regulations. A normal family in a city that has turned the word normality into a duty.Until the Museum of the Biological Era puts a child on display that breathes.What looks like an oversight is architecture. Helix has a programme: Houseline. Human children are built into synthetic fami...

Big Brother never had to re-educate us. We fed the beast ourselves. Berlin. Shanghai. Nairobi. Three teenagers in the year 2027, caught in the net of a seamless AI surveillance state. In class, they are told to measure George Orwell's 1984 against their own reality — a reality in which three hostile tech superpowers and their autonomous security AIs scan every movement, every pulse, every thought. Supposedly for our safety. But when Maya, Chen, and Sarah feed the system a forbidden questio...

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Tess made a wish she had no business making.Drunk and furious on the dock where her parents used to take her, on the anniversary of the day they died, with six months left in her skull and a diagnosis she never asked for, she looked up at a falling star and wished for the end of everything. She wanted ruin. She got it.He arrives wearing the shape of a man and the patience of something that has watched the world end a thousand times over. He is every car wreck and every collap...