Grace Marlow knows two things with absolute certainty: data never lies - and people sometimes do. As a senior analyst working the National Missing Persons Database, she's trained to find anomalies, track inconsistencies, and repair corrupted records.But nothing prepares her for the night 3,847 impossible entries appear out of nowhere.Each case is complete. Detailed. Perfectly formatted.And every single person listed… never existed.

Beneath the humming neon glow of a forgotten bridge, people are vanishing.Rhea Ansel, an overworked social worker in a decaying American city, has spent years fighting for the unhoused community living under the Jefferson Street overpass. But when three of her regulars disappear overnight - leaving behind only a perfect circle of human teeth - Rhea becomes the sole witness to something the authorities refuse to see.As Rhea digs deeper, she uncovers a truth ...

Distance used to mean safety.Eli Turner has spent his life on the family farm, believing that land, hard work, and isolation could protect what mattered most. But when cities begin collapsing under the weight of a fast-spreading and unexplained illness, the illusion of rural safety begins to fracture.Hospitals overflow. Communications fail. Evacuations spread across the Midwest. And reports emerge of the infected behaving in ways that defy explanation.As neighbors v...

For forty years, the Storm Guild has kept the sea calm.From the cliffs above the harbor city of Kessara, trained binders perform ritual magic that suppresses the storms threatening the shipping lanes and farmland that keep the city alive. The storms are not destroyed - only delayed.And every delay carries a cost.When apprentice binder Liora Vale begins to question what that cost truly is, she uncovers something the guild has careful...

The dark doesn't end. It waits.At Bjørnfjord Research Station, the sun vanishes for one hundred and fifty-two days of polar night. Station lead Dagna Vasskog has survived Arctic winters before. She trusts systems, measurements, protocols, and the clean certainty of a written record. But this winter, the data stops behaving.A wolf circles the station. Then three begin appearing at the edge of the floodlights, night after night, always at the same time. A corridor turns inexp...