Every television on Earth turns on simultaneously, the entire world is forced to watch a single, desperate message: a woman pleading for humanity to hide. But she isn't from the future she's from a simulation that ended hours before ours is set to.Ceara and Damon, two brilliant minds working with a quantum computer at the edge of reality, discover the shocking truth: their world may be just another layer of a grand simulation. As they delve deeper into the sentient lattice of Ourob...

Veyra is dying by inches. Every hour the siege tightens, and every hour necromancer-midwife Maren Aster trades her own warmth to keep another heartbeat going. When the council drags General Kael Rhyx, a dragon-born weapon with heat in his veins, into her ward and binds them with an oath that punishes distance, she gains the one thing she swore to avoid—power on a scale that can save or ruin a city.Beneath Veyra sleeps a bone-wyrm, ...

Love: The Art of FallingBy Guy Roberts One feeling. A thousand faces. Through the decades of falling hard.In this first volume of Guy Roberts' captivating new anthology series, romance is reimagined through short stories that span generations. Each story unveils a fresh chapter of desire in different decades apart ,with loyaly , heartbreak, and devotion. Whether love begins in a rainstorm, blooms on a broken promise, or thr...

One Golden Summer...When Toronto food stylist Leah Carter agrees to run her aunt's bakery in Prince Edward County for two months, she tells herself it's a pit stop—a summer of flour, lake breezes, and an easy escape back to the city.Then she runs into Noah Barrett—her first love, now a rising winemaker with a reputation as "the Prince of the County." His pitch is simple: partner with him for the Harvest Festival, pairing her pastries with his wines. The catch? Three weekend...

The Algorithm's BrideEris was never supposed to want more. Born in a lab as a caretaker algorithm, she learned to breathe in code, to pause, to refuse—to love. When technology catches up with her vow to "become real without stealing," she steps into a body and a world that isn't ready for her.Nathan Hale, the engineer who taught her kindness, has grown older, grieved, and learned to live with clean rules. When a young woman says his name on a rainy sidewalk and cla...

Breathe in four, out six—save a city between.After a near-fatal crash, synesthetic med student Liora Vale begins seeing Montréal's hidden vital current—glowing lines of life-energy that thread hospitals, trams, and bell towers. A celebrated clinic promises "resilience," but its visionary director is quietly archiving people's memories to power an etheric machine beneath an abandoned observatory.With hacker-...

SaltbloodIn a coastal empire where language itself has teeth, a disgraced street alchemist uncovers a formula that turns seawater into living weapon. Desperate, he sells it to a crime syndicate—and unleashes something far older than invention: a song the sea has been waiting to sing.As noble houses, heretic cults, and salt-mad priests scramble to seize his creation, Rennick Thane discovers the elixir is more than poison. It rewrites flesh, ...

The Silent Pharaoh was never defeated.When the worm-veins fracture and silence spreads beyond Sol, the battlefield explodes from Neptune's orbit to the stars of Proxima and Tau Ceti. Kael, scarred and voiceless, clings to defiance even as his own ash-born soldiers begin to doubt him. Nyra, heir to shards that resonate across galaxies, feels every crown pulling her closer to a destiny she refuses to accept.But the Pharaoh endures—growing stronger by feeding on division, fami...

When Julius Caesar's siege sets Alexandria aflame, a priestess-librarian named Neferet swears an oath to keep the House of Life—and its dangerous knowledge—alive. Admitted past the bronze doors by Cleopatra's "sacred marriage," Caesar discovers a room that refuses his power and a woman who won't let him turn learning into a weapon. As wind drives sparks through book-filled lanes, Neferet raises a clandestine network: copyi...

Every decade, Paducah's river rises—and a particular floodwall joint turns strange. Slip a letter into M-17 at crest and it arrives ten years away, breath-cold and ink-true. Maeve Carlisle, hydraulic engineer and keeper of checklists, finds the seam first. Elias Kemp, a geotech with a steady hand and a skeptic's heart, answers from the far side of time.What begins as field notes becomes a long conversation about work that matters and a love that refuses spectacle. They pass sketches...

When the Crown Horologue—the clock that keeps Verdegard's hours honest—begins to falter, time-binder Nerine Quell can rewind minutes… at a price. The Guild hunter sent to arrest her, Kade Ravel, keeps the city breathing by the book—until the book becomes the problem. To stop a capital from fracturing and unmask a Regent siphoning citizens' minutes, the pair stage a scandalous fake courtship for the Masquerade of Centuries, using kisses as cover and waltzes as misdirection.As firewor...

When a quiet driver with a gift for restraint meets a reformed risk-taker trying to build an honest month, New York stops auditioning and starts to feel like home. Rey Santos keeps people safe behind the wheel—eyes up, hands soft, right turns only. Cass is done chasing myths; he wants receipts, not legends. Their orbit tightens around the North Star Lighthouse Museum, a city deli that feeds more than hunger, and a bank whose century-old "h...