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...

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, ...

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...

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...

When the Crown Horologue—the clock that keeps Verdegard's hours honest—begins to falter, time-binder Nerine Quell can rewind minutes… at a price. The Guild hunter sent to arrest her, Kade Ravel, keeps the city breathing by the book—until the book becomes the problem. To stop a capital from fracturing and unmask a Regent siphoning citizens' minutes, the pair stage a scandalous fake courtship for the Masquerade of Centuries, using kisses as cover and waltzes as misdirection.As firewor...

In the quiet seaside town of Edenbrook, the Benton family looks picture-perfect from the outside. But beneath the surface, cracks are spreading.Mark Benton is fighting his way back from the darkness of alcoholism and betrayal, desperate to prove he can be the husband and father his family deserves. Sarah, still reeling from the wounds he caused, struggles to trust again—even as she clings to the faith that once held them together.Their children carry their own storms:

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...

When a star-smith saves a volatile ingot from the river's edge, Ariadne Flint earns more than a ledger entry—she earns a partner. Lucian Orion, a fallen knight who broke his own blade rather than obey a tyrant, needs a maker who won't bow. Bound by a chain of their own design—ask / answer / affirm—they enter the celestial Accord, where champions and smiths shape law as surely as steel.Zenith's Regent, Severin Vale, gilds harm with spectacle, and illusionist Vesper Lux is his brighte...

We Who RemainThe signal is gone. The city is silent. But memory never forgets.After the collapse of Project Ascension and the fall of the synthetic soul network, the city of Metronova is quiet for the first time in decades. No lifescores. No god-tier modifications. No echoing voices whispering from beyond the grid.Kairo Verin has survived—barely. Split from the AI entity he once merged with, hunted by versi...

Avery Shah fixes rooms for a living—timelines, vendor dramas, sudden rainstorms—everything except her love life. When a social calendar packed with weddings threatens her sanity, she drafts a Plus-One Pact with Nate Beaumont, the grumpy-competent ops lead who treats safety plans like poetry. Fake dating for optics. A shared Rulebook for boundaries. Absolutely no falling for each other.But practice has a way of becoming performance when the chemistry is real. From Granville Island "...

In the deep wilderness of ancestral land, the forest chooses its protectors.For generations, the Grove has kept its secrets—and its prisoners—hidden in roots of living amber. Aiyana, a humble herbalist, never expected the forest to call her. But when the Grove's hunger begins stealing lives from her people, she must journey into its heart with a band of warriors, risking not only her life but her spirit.Inside, they find a truth older than memory: the Grove'...

Seven Miles DownSome doors were never meant to open.When an experimental deep-sea mining rig implodes in the hadal zone, the surviving crew finds themselves stranded in a trench where no rescue can reach them. Oxygen is dwindling, pressure is crushing, and the only structure within range is impossible—an ancient, flooded city, hidden seven miles beneath the ocean's surface.Engineer Mara Kim is the first to swim through its massive stone arcs...