Max has never felt like he belonged anywhere. Not in school, not at home, not even in his own skin. But when a strange mark appears on his hand, he tumbles into a world he was never meant to remember.Beneath the city lies the Secret Underground. A forgotten world of magic, rebellion, and prophecy. There, ancient runes glow with his touch, strangers whisper his name like a warning, and a war-scarred boy wearing a mask waits in the shadows.His name is Kane.His past is ...

Trig was built to obey. A memory-wiped enforcer for the elite, he collects debts in a poisoned city where sunlight is a luxury and children are currency. But when a mission leads him to a woman who claims to be his mother and reveals the Towers' darkest secret, Trig must choose between the system that shaped him and the truth that could shatter it.From the smog-choked slums to the glass spires of power, Above the Smog is a relentless, emotionally charged dystopian thriller about id...

Come on a journey through a collection of stories as varied as life itself.From heart-pounding thrillers and spine-chilling horrors to bittersweet family dramas and sharp witted comedies.These tales are bound together by their unforgettable twists and turns.Whether you're in the mood to shiver, laugh, or shed a tear, this collection offers something for everyone, with no story quite like the last.stories such as:The reflection - A man contemplating his ...

He is a devoted father navigating the hollow rhythm of a shared custody calendar.She is a woman searching for the person she used to be before life became a series of obligations.Strangers living in the same city, they are both caught in the persistent ache of modern loneliness, until a chance encounter in a neighborhood bar pulls them into each other's orbits.What is Love is a tender, deeply human exploration of the fragile timing that defines our lives. As an unlik...

FAIRVIEWFairview is a city rotting from within, ruled by corruption, crime, and fear. When businessman Sam Carter's family is brutally murdered, his grief gives birth to The Retaliator. The masked vigilante waging war against the powerful syndicate known as Olympus. But vengeance comes with a price. As Sam fights gangsters, crooked politicians, and media lies, he's forced to confront the darkest lies of his past: a childhood friend turned sadistic killer, a father's broken legacy, ...

James has always understood one thing better than anyone else: Silence.As a child, silence was his refuge from an abusive home. As a young man, it became an obsession. Order. Control. Precision. Every object in its place. Every thought carefully catalogued. Every emotion locked away where it couldn't do any harm.To the outside world, James is the perfect citizen. A devoted husband. A trusted school aide. A quiet man who would never hurt a soul. But beneath that carefully co...

Edward was never meant to survive. As a dying child, he became the sole success of an experimental medical treatment that should have killed him. Decades later, he is stronger than any ordinary man, heals from impossible injuries, and has never known illness. He always believed it was a miracle. He was wrong.When his young son develops the same mysterious illness that nearly claimed Edward's life, a desperate search for answers leads him back to the enigmatic Dr. Graham, the man wh...

MY EVERYTHINGDaniel was an average man. He worried about deadlines, traffic, and missing his kids' football games.Then the world ended.When an outbreak shatters London, Daniel's only thought is his family. But that is a single, desperate walk to the coast. His wife and children are waiting, hoping to catch the final evacuation ferry.There will be no pause.This book has no chapters.It is a single, continuous stream of consciousness, fear, and e...

Arthur: A Gentleman's DisasterArthur Winterbourne is the spy who shouldn't exist: charming to a fault, allergic to caution, and somehow still alive. When a mission on the Riviera tangles him with "Red Lips," an assassin as elegant as she is lethal, Arthur finds himself trapped in a game of seduction, betrayal, and bullets that stretches from Monaco's casinos to Marrakech's back alleys. With his misfit team, sharp-eyed Jane, sardonic James, anxious genius Steven, and razor-edged Sar...

You know the tired old tale—leave the big city to return to that sleepy hometown for the holidays, discover who you truly are, and find love where you least expected. But that’s the lastthing Mitch wants to do with his time off.Living in Hell’s Kitchen he’s happy with his life—great job, nice apartment, great friends. When his boss surprises the company with a full week’s vacation for the holidays, Mitch does theopposite of the hackneyed romcom fantasy. He doesn’t wan...

When States Take Rights Back draws on contributions by international experts in history, law, political science, and sociology, offering a rare interdisciplinary and comparative examination of citizenship revocation in five countries, revealing hidden government rationales and unintended consequences.Once considered outdated, citizenship revocation – also called deprivation or denationalization – has come back to the political center in many Western liberal states. Contrib...

A stubborn librarian. A grumpy billionaire. Three giant dogs. And a surprise blizzard. Nothing could go wrong here.Isa Garren is determined to save her small-town library. As the head librarian, she's nearly secured a grant, but she's just missing one key thing . . . a collection of first-edition books. Lucky for her, she's learned that a local billionaire happens to have one. Unlucky for her, she hasn't heard back from him after countless attempts to contact him. ...