Book Four: The Consuming CurrentSome things don't attack. They just get closer. The Antecedent is coming, carried on the consumingcurrent, making its closest approach in three hundredyears — and the Veil's buffer has never been weaker.At twenty-four, Lyra leads the most dangerousoperation of her life yet: six days, the full commission,the Undivided's cooperation for the first time ever.What the current leaves behind isn't destruction ...

Book Two: The Broken AccordSome treaties were never meant to survive the truth.A year later, Lyra is the reason the Conclave can't look away. The Article Nine review has split the Conclave in two — a reform faction against an old guard three centuries in the making — and when she and Cael recover the second Binding document, they learn what the Antecedent really is, closer now than in three hundred years. On the solstice, in the grove, Lyra opens every gift she has, and for...

Book Three: The Waking DarkNot every darkness is the enemy. Some of it just needs tending.Lyra is twenty-one when the Aethon's dreaming reserve proves more fragile than realized — restoring it means holding the convergence six unbroken days, longer than any Binding-holder in history. It's also six days that finally name what's grown between her and Cael. But the replenishment reveals something else: a shift on the far side of the consuming current, vast and unprecedented. W...

Book One: Blood and StarlightSome inheritances you don't get to refuse.On the summer solstice, seventeen-year-old Lyra Vayne feels all three of her bloodline gifts wake at once — and nothing in her life with her foster mother Cass explains why. Beneath the grove, something ancient stirs for the first time in three centuries, just as the two-century-old Accord comes up for review. With Cael, the Nocturi archivist who reads what's buried as sharply as she does, Lyra starts pu...

Hollow Echo: Death and Rebirth – A Journey Through Trauma and HealingThis novel by Wayne Shira explores the intricate psychological landscape of Nora Voss, a woman haunted by childhood trauma and her fractured relationship with family and self. Through a blend of metaphorical "Hollow World" sequences and grounded therapy scenes, the narrative unfolds Nora's internal struggle with abandonment, self-worth, and the work of healing over time. The story poetically intertwines themes of ...

Hollow Echo: A Novel of Family, Identity, and Artistic StruggleThis narrative explores Mara Parrish's journey of self-discovery, familial conflict, and artistic integrity, weaving the tension between personal authenticity and familial expectations. Through vivid metaphoric spaces—kitchens, theaters, dressing rooms—it portrays Mara's internal and external struggles to be seen as herself rather than as a performer of expected roles.

A psychological horror book about a monster induced apocalypse with massive monsters, with 7 main characters who all die throughout the script In horrible ways except for one who is attacked but lives, the monster are as follows-The Threshold — 400ft, 16 limbs, 14 independent eyes, a face that opens like a flower and fires infrasound that stops heartsThe Choir — translucent swarm units that speak to you in the voice of your dead loved ones, then dissolve youThe Deep One — a...

Before tragedy left her crippled, Artemis “Temi” Sidaris was a world-class tennis player at the height of her career. The sport was her passion, her dream, and all she ever wanted to do. Fighting monsters… was not part of the plan.But when a pair of pointy-eared strangers offers to heal her injury if she’s willing to wield a powerful sword to protect humanity… how can she resist?Destiny Unchosen is a 21,000-word novella that takes place between Torrent and the forthcoming T...

Learn how to build all of your favorite houses in this all-new guide for Minecraft. Houses included in this guide are a mushroom hut, a tree house, a floating house, a cobblestone and glass home, a rustic countryside house, a medieval style house, and a lighthouse!Conquer Minecraft with your very own tree house!

Eizo is a middle-aged, overworked software engineer who loves cats. One night after working late, he saves an injured cat from a speeding truck. The cat survives, but Eizo does not... Luckily, that cat turns out to be a god-like being who offers him a second chance in another world! Eizo decides that he wants a slower life, one where he can live off the things he creates with his own hands. So, why not become a blacksmith? He does have one other stipulation: a cat companion for his quiet l...

Ryoma returns to Gimul after his successful business retreat, having discovered and evolved new slimes and found uses for them along the way. Unfortunately, crime has skyrocketed in Gimul during his absence, to the point where even the familiar Morgan Company has suffered an arson attack.Ryoma attends a meeting of small business owners in the city to address the rapid increase in crime, but when the host of the conference appears untrustworthy, Ryoma decides to take a stand against ...

Accused as witch, Eileen must flee for her life, leaving her village and true love behind. With her pursuers closing in, she chances across a strange black horse - but does she dare to pay the price of escape?Fae Horse is a short story of 5k words (about 23 pages) in the traditional dark faerie tale style.