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...

On a fog-bright river between kelp and rookery, two houses learn to keep peace where law can be seen.When a Wolf house matriarch—the Sigidimnak'—and a sea-side k'uuljaad agree to cool a generations-long border quarrel, the work happens in public: witnesses fed first, copper cooled with grease, stones planted where water tells the truth. Across a year of fish runs and storms, gunboat visits and fort rules, a marriage is brokered, captives a...

They were promised colonization. They were delivered to a graveyard.The fleet that left Titan was told it carried settlers for a new world. In truth, it was an experiment—thousands sent into the heart of the Veil Nebula, where ships crash and time collapses. For two centuries, survivors built Haven, a fragile city among drifting wrecks, their lives bound by ash and tide, their children haunted by whispers of the dead.When a cryogenic engineer awakens, the s...

On a rain-washed Washington coast, firefighter Jack Reyes is finally the man he set out to be—reliable on scene, present at school concerts, steady for the two kids he co-parents with Dana, the woman he failed. But when a bachelorette-party clip of Dana goes viral days before their summer wedding, pride and old shame knock Jack sideways. He does the unforgivable: he walks away at the aisle.Rainfall Bay carries on. Jack moves into a studio over the hardware store an...

Chains of LightBy Guy RobertsThe world stopped turning—and humanity's clock began to run out.When Earth's rotation suddenly halts, the planet fractures into two extremes: one side scorched beneath eternal fire, the other locked in an endless frozen night. In the dying hours before both hemispheres collapse, cities descend into chaos, governments cling to power, and a desperate last-ditch A.I. project promises salvation… but only if it can be brought online in time.

Within Reason — Repair is our love language.Sera Malik organizes chaos for a living—an airport loyalty strategist who can turn delays into grace notes. Rowan Vale inspects the bones of a city—quiet, meticulous, and the kind of landlord who'd rather label a breaker than make a speech. They meet by accident in a Harborview mall, exchange quippy texts, and build something on purpose: two lanes (Housing and Not Housing), a shared "pause" button, and a ...

On Earth, famine spreads. On the Moon's dark side, vampires thrive in endless night. The relics are gone, but their echo carves scripture into stone and flesh. From this void rises a Black Throne, waiting for one to kneel.The five factions gather in the Obsidian Spire:The Ashen Court — demanding Kaelen's crown.The Hollow Kin — fractured between oath and hunger.The Blood Syndicate — empire of famine...

When a thirteen-second clip yanks speechwriter Elena Torres into the worst kind of fame—viral without context—City Hall wants optics, not truth. Enter Gabe Park, a rule-loving archivist whose natural habitat is quiet rooms and sharpened pencils. Their solution? A fake relationship that buys Elena time to work in the stacks—and puts the archive's rules on center stage.What begins as damage control becomes a document-driven mystery: a misfiled hydrol...

When a star-smith saves a volatile ingot from the river's edge, Ariadne Flint earns more than a ledger entry—she earns a partner. Lucian Orion, a fallen knight who broke his own blade rather than obey a tyrant, needs a maker who won't bow. Bound by a chain of their own design—ask / answer / affirm—they enter the celestial Accord, where champions and smiths shape law as surely as steel.Zenith's Regent, Severin Vale, gilds harm with spectacle, and illusionist Vesper Lux is his brighte...