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...

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...

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, ...

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...

In ash, faith divides. In silence, war.When a luxury starship crashes on a hostile young Earth, its survivors awaken to a world of colossal beasts, endless auroras, and an oxygen-rich wilderness that magnifies every wound. Supplies dwindle, children starve, and fire becomes their only law. From the ashes of survival, myth takes root—and with myth comes war.Kaelen, the zealot crowned by shards, declares eternity written in fire.Jorran, the hunter scar...

In the spring of 1919 on British Columbia's Skeena River, a strike idles the cannery lines—and death rides the tide in the wake of influenza. Ailsa Penhaligon, a beekeeper-chemist raised on the docks, can buy the sick a few precious hours with a lantern ward of ash, honey, and breath. To ferry forbidden medicine past company patrols, she forges a "convenient" engagement with strike leader Theo Sorsa, a quiet boatwright who reads tides like blueprints.What begins as a ruse turns int...

When star goaltender Rhea Markham limps home to ferry-locked Powell River to rehab a bad wrist and outrun a headline, she expects solitude and a puck machine. She gets Noah Kincaid instead—a bladesmith/fabricator whose titanium cages and custom runners make goalies see sharper and move like rumor. In a town that smells like cedar and salt, they build a shared language of consent and craft: ask, answer, adjust, affirm, aftercare. Practice k...

In the caldera city of Khaldera, midwives keep the bones humming and the living breathing. Thalia Ilin is the Harbor's most notorious practitioner—necromancer, bell-ringer, and the only midwife bound by oath to Vokrel, the ancient bone-wyrm coiled above the Cathedral ribs. When a forbidden device detunes the city's marrow, Khaldera begins to fail in the quietest, deadliest ways.Enter Malach Rhost, a fallen general with a ledger for a heart and a past the Council would rather forget...

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...

Grace meets grit when an etiquette historian and a restoration blacksmith are forced to co-host a "Modern Manners" channel to win the job of a lifetime: rebuilding the city's beloved wrought-iron greenhouse.Iris Vale believes good manners keep people safe. Cal MacKenna believes good craft keeps stories standing. On camera, they spar like Jane Austen met a forge; off camera, they learn that the right kind of tension draws things tight.But sabotage, a leaked kiss, and a too-goo...

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...

In Chasma Run, Mars's grand canyon isn't just a backdrop—it's the arena where a new kind of sport decides what "beautiful" means.Aria Kade leads a relay team that vaults, wall-runs, and kite-glides along the shelves of Valles Marineris while G-tiles bend gravity in ten-second bursts and AI judges score flow over speed. When a notorious gap threatens to turn inclusivity into lip service, Team Kade rewrites the course—installing a braided