To prove myself, I hid my father's identity when I went to Norfolk. He was a four-star general at the Pentagon. I met Rear Admiral Lachlan Whitaker, the base's deputy commander—my boyfriend, my boss, my world, for five years.He never once took me to his family's home in Richmond. I thought he wasn't ready. The truth was worse: his family, big names in Southern military and political circles, would never see me as good enough.On the night he failed to come home for the ninet...

What if the memories that made you human were the very thing keeping your kingdom alive?For three centuries, the people of Veyra have lived beneath the Veil—a vast silver barrier said to protect humanity from the monsters that destroyed the old world. Every citizen must surrender one memory each year to sustain it.Love. Grief. Childhood. Family.One memory at a time.Seventeen-year-old Elian Voss has never questioned the system. As an archivist inside the Mini...

I was a world-class criminal profiler for the FBI, loaned out to a local precinct. Then I asked for a transfer to become a janitor. Even my boyfriend, Detective Derek, said in front of everyone: "That useless piece of trash is finally gone."Only one person ran after me—Eve, the woman who claims she can talk to the dead. My fiancé's "soul mate." Ever since Eve showed up, she always said my profiling conclusions before I could. The media called her "The Psychic Detective." Derek took...

My family never remembered my birthday. Ethan got a private steakhouse dinner for his; Chloe got a Six Flags trip and an Instagram carousel captioned "our little princess." Mine falls on July nineteenth, mid-summer vacation, and always passed without notice.I thought turning eighteen would be different. Instead, Mom left to take Chloe to dance, Dad and Ethan left to play ball, and I spent the day alone. I texted the family group chat: "I'm eighteen today!" No one replied.Th...

What if an entire city lost one hour every night—and no one remembered it?At exactly two o’clock each morning, every clock in Bellwether stops.For sixty minutes, cameras fail, records vanish, and the entire population forgets what happened. Then, at three, time begins again as though the missing hour never existed.No one questions it.No one except Mara Venn.Fifteen years after her father mysteriously disappeared, Mara discovers a strange silver pocke...

The night her fiancé went to spend the night at his club, Mara didn’t chase after him. Instead, she started accounting for every last dollar in the house they owned together. Grant said he needed space. Mara decided to give him the rest of his life.She switched on the study light and pulled out the bank statements, the home purchase contract, and every receipt from the renovations. They had both contributed to the down payment, and over the years she had poured a significant amount ...

My husband had just accepted a dare from his childhood sweetheart, Tessa: tomorrow, in court, he would prove I was unfit to be a mother."Don't make that face. Everyone's watching. I can't back down now." He said it as if my fitness for motherhood was just another chip he could cash in for a night of applause. He'd even planned the ending for me—raise a few "small concerns" at the hearing, then walk it back next week.But tomorrow was my final adoption hearin...

At the bridal shower, my fiancé's childhood best friend took one look at me and decided I was a gold digger. "To get a ring on your finger that fast, you must be very good at proving your worth." My fiancé pulled her aside, then came back to smooth things over. "She's just blunt. Don't take it personally." So in his eyes, humiliating me was just being blunt.I heard her using me as a case study for someone else. "The jewelry, the designer labels… it doesn't line up with her known in...

When I discovered that West, Alpha of the Blackthorn Pack and commander of the Northern Border Joint Defense, had listed Laura, the student he’d been funding for years, as his official mate in the command registry and not me, I didn’t scream. I didn’t make a scene.I just gathered the shredded pieces of my heart and left Blackthorn Pack in the middle of the night without a word to anyone. lone, I found a new territory and started a new life.The next time I saw West was seven y...

On the day of my Marking Ceremony. My brother splashed a glass of red wine down the front of my white ceremonial gown.“Lenore.”“You knew Wren liked Joren, but you still insisted on making this ceremony so grand. ”“What are you trying to prove?”The voice from the doorway was as cold as ice. My fiancé, the Alpha heir of the Asterhold Pack, was leaning against the doorframe, not even in his formal suit. The pine and tobacco scent that always clung to him had faded,...

A delightful and fascinating story that will inspire and entertain young readers, whilst introducing them to the new world of artificial intelligence and the valuable life lessons that come with it.

The ruins of the Bamiyan Buddhas lay still under the twilight,shadows stretching long over the dusty ground. To Agent Wei Liang,the scene felt like a wound that could never heal. For Liang and asmall group of operatives within the Ministry of StateSecurity—operatives who were also devout Buddhists—this wasn't justan act of vandalism. It was an assault on their identity, on historyitself.Liang had always been an enigma within the agenc...