She counts the dead so she never forgets why she started.At six years old, Ha-eun crawled out from under her mother's corpse—the sole survivor of a wedding massacre that claimed 217 members of her family. Two years later, a mysterious woman named Hwa-young pulled her from the ruins and forged her into a weapon of precise, patient vengeance.Now twenty-seven, Ha-eun keeps a ledger. Every bullet. Every blade. Every broken neck. The number sits at 157—and it is still not enough...

One planet. Billions of people. One vote to decide whether humanity should remain in control of its own future.A mysterious intelligence makes humanity an offer.For ten years, it can take leadership of the planet and attempt to solve the crises governments have failed to stop.But it will not seize power.Humanity must consent.Every adult receives one vote.Yes or no.As the deadline approaches, the world...

The world did not end with a bang.It ended with cancelled plans.When society suddenly begins falling apart, everyone expects panic, chaos, screaming, and desperate crowds.The introverts have been preparing for this their entire lives.They have books.Snacks.Hobbies.Charged devices.And absolutely no desire to attend the emergency neighborhood meeting.As extroverts struggle with a world without parties, offices, networkin...

Six-year-old Amara King is not predicting the future.She is remembering it.At first, her mother, Simone, tries to explain away the strange things Amara knows—the falling cup, the coming rain, the events that have not happened yet.Then Amara remembers disasters.A highway collapse.An assassination.An attack that could kill hundreds.When her warnings begin saving lives, the frightened little girl becomes the most valuable person in the w...

One morning, humanity loses the ability to lie.Every secret comes out.Every betrayal is exposed.Every carefully protected truth becomes impossible to hide.Governments begin collapsing. Marriages fracture. Businesses fail. Confessions flood the streets.But Emma Walker is different.She can still lie.As the world struggles to survive compulsory honesty, Emma discovers that her immunity was not an accident. Years earlier, her father made ...

The app knows when you will die. And it has never been wrong.One morning, a mysterious countdown appears on every screen.For some people, the number shows decades.For others, hours.Emergency responder Daniel Reyes receives eighteen years.His wife, Elena, receives nine days.The world changes overnight.People abandon careers, marriages, debts, and responsibilities. Insurance systems collapse. Hospitals overflow. Some pe...

A continent divided by borders. A diaspora scattered across oceans. A question powerful enough to challenge generations: What would happen if Africa chose to stand together?After anti-migrant violence forces Kweku Badu and his young daughter to leave the life they built in South Africa, their return to Ghana becomes part of a much larger reckoning.Across Africa and throughout the global diaspora, old wounds are reopening. Migration, economic inequality, for...

A mysterious black book appears overnight inside a locked Toronto bookstore.It has no author. No publisher. No price.And when someone opens it, the book begins writing about them.As copies mysteriously appear around the world, readers discover that each one contains secrets, memories, and truths no stranger should know. Literary critic Clara Bennett dismisses the phenomenon as an elaborate fraud—until her copy begins writing about Elise, the younger sister who disap...

On March 12, 2087, the sun stops moving over Montreal.Twenty-four hours later, the world resets.Buildings repair themselves.Fuel returns.The dead wake up.But human minds remember everything.Physicist Lena Moreau becomes trapped in an endless repetition of the same day, carrying the grief of every death, every failure, and every attempt to escape.Then she discovers the truth.The loop is not a natural phenomenon.It is a ...

Some love stories begin with flowers. This one began with a cold green bottle.Reyanna O'Connor is in her fifties, happily married, the mother of a grown son, and grateful for the ordinary life she has built.But every evening, something happens when the house grows quiet.She walks downstairs.She opens the refrigerator.And there it is.The green bottle.What begins as one woman's playful evening ritual becomes a hilarious...

It started with a judgmental coffee maker. Then the squirrel showed up. Things got worse from there.When a woman begins receiving suspicious beeps from her appliances, seeing messages where no messages should exist, and losing staring contests with a squirrel that is absolutely not behaving like a normal squirrel, she has one reasonable conclusion:She may be going crazy.Unfortunately, her neighbor Kevin thinks she is awakening to the simulation....

I did not choose the couch. The couch chose me.At thirty-seven, she has plans.Learn a language.Go to the gym.Write a novel.Become the sort of person who owns matching storage containers.Unfortunately, her couch has other ideas.One by one, her ambitions disappear into the cushions. The language-learning app is abandoned. The gym membership never meets the gym. The novel slowly transforms into a grocery list.The...