The trash isn't just piled up. It's holding the ceiling up.Harlan Jakes is a specialist in the unseen and the unclean. As a forensic cleaner, he has spent a lifetime wading through the wreckage of human lives, but nothing has prepared him for Blackwood Manor. Hired by the cold, enigmatic Elara Muntz, Harlan is given a strict 48-hour deadline to clear the sprawling, rotting estate in rural Pennsylvania before a court order seals it forever.But as Harlan and ...

Perfection has a price. And it is paid by the pound.The "Iron Vein" is not just a gym; it is a cathedral of flesh in the rotting heart of downtown Detroit. For Oren Hale, a disgraced former champion turned night janitor, it is a daily reminder of the glory he lost. But lately, the Vein has changed. The members are getting bigger—impossibly bigger—and the air is thick with the copper scent of blood and unwashed ambition.The source of this miraculous growth i...

Some networks are not built to be maintained. They are built to feed.Linus Gentry is a creature of the digital trenches. A seasoned low-voltage technician, he has spent fifteen years navigating the dusty, forgotten veins of corporate infrastructure. When he receives a lucrative, no-questions-asked contract to replace the aging cabling in the infamous Aethelgard Tower, he sees it as just another "ghost shift" in a dying building.But Aethelgard is not dying. ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Some networks are not built to be maintained. They are built to feed.Linus Gentry is a creature of the digital trenches. A seasoned low-voltage technician, he has spent fifteen years navigating the dusty, forgotten veins of corporate infrastructure. When he receives a lucrative, no-questions-asked contract to replace the aging cabling in the infamous Aethelgard Tower, he sees it as just another "ghost shift" in ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Perfection has a price. And it is paid by the pound.The "Iron Vein" is not just a gym; it is a cathedral of flesh in the rotting heart of downtown Detroit. For Oren Hale, a disgraced former champion turned night janitor, it is a daily reminder of the glory he lost. But lately, the Vein has changed. The members are getting bigger—impossibly bigger—and the air is thick with the copper scent of blood and unwashed a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The trash isn't just piled up. It's holding the ceiling up.Harlan Jakes is a specialist in the unseen and the unclean. As a forensic cleaner, he has spent a lifetime wading through the wreckage of human lives, but nothing has prepared him for Blackwood Manor. Hired by the cold, enigmatic Elara Muntz, Harlan is given a strict 48-hour deadline to clear the sprawling, rotting estate in rural Pennsylvania before a c...

Some masterpieces are not made. They are captured.In the fog-choked valleys of West Virginia, "The Stokehold" looms like a rusted cathedral of industry. It is a legendary porcelain factory known for its "Lifelike Series"—figures so exquisitely detailed they seem to breathe.Ewan Galt, a technician specializing in high-temperature industrial kilns, arrives at the isolated facility with a simple job: repair the massive, antiquated "Dragon Kiln" for the reclusi...

Desmond Blythe is a solitary film archivist working the night shift at a temperature-controlled, subterranean nitrate film vault. Surrounded by thousands of decaying, highly unstable cellulose reels, he is the guardian of forgotten history. But cellulose nitrate doesn't just burn—it produces its own oxygen, making it impossible to extinguish once ignited.The nightmare begins when Desmond inspects a newly donated 1920s reel on his editing table. The black-and-white silent footage sh...

"VISIONARY" and "ENTHRALLING"--Richard Bunning and Norm Hamilton, authors of Another Space in Time and From Thine Own Well*** FOREWORD INDIES BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST ***"These are works that nurture wonder and sometimes break hearts." -Foreword ReviewsREADER, WRITER, and MAKER: All three novels of the trilogy in one book.Speculative fiction with time travel, alien armageddon, metaphysical mysteries...

In this dark, dangerous, roller coaster of a debut, a young man sets out on a single-minded quest for revenge across a breathtaking multiverse filled with aliens, mind-bending tech, and ships beyond his wildest imagining. Essa Hansen’s is a bold new voice for the next generation of science fiction readers.Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his only hope for survival is a crew of misfit aliens and a mysterious ship that seems to have a soul and a un...

“This—THIS—is the cutting edge of science fiction.” —Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered CarbonHow do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Erioph...

Across the gulf of space lies a humming, perfectly balanced habitat—and a presence that has learned far more than we planned. Physics of Solitude is a sleek, unsettling sci-fi thriller about autonomy, control, and the thin line between stewardship and sovereignty. Come for the hard science and Martian mood; stay for the psychological chess and the slow, delicious realization that you are not in charge. Welcome to the habitat. House rules apply.