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...

On a fog-bright river between kelp and rookery, two houses learn to keep peace where law can be seen.When a Wolf house matriarch—the Sigidimnak'—and a sea-side k'uuljaad agree to cool a generations-long border quarrel, the work happens in public: witnesses fed first, copper cooled with grease, stones planted where water tells the truth. Across a year of fish runs and storms, gunboat visits and fort rules, a marriage is brokered, captives a...

Love Heart on Papers: Volume 2 is a tender, uplifting collection of romance short stories for the hopeful heart. Like a comforting cup of tea on a rainy day, each story in this anthology invites you to believe in the gentle magic of connection—whether it's a first glance across a crowded room, an old flame reignited by fate, or love discovered in the most unexpected places.Inspired by the heartwarming tales explore every shade of romance: joyful beginnings, sweet reunions,...

Some races are won in seconds. Others take a lifetime.Half romance, half myth, Spring Breathes on Tengu follows Sakura, a half-Japanese Canadian drifter who journeys to Kyoto to honor her late father's dream of conquering the legendary Midnight Run. Training under Haru, a quiet racer with an R34 Skyline who believes the mountains are alive, she finds herself drawn into a world where tradition meets asphalt—and shadows keep pace with her ca...

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...

When Elian receives word that he's the last heir to an estate no one remembers, he finds himself drawn to the Glass Orchard, a grove of crystalline trees where every fruit whispers a secret. Some offer clarity. Others demand blood.At the heart of the orchard waits Kaela—a woman who claims she's been waiting for him… for centuries. She knows his name. His verses. His versions.But as the villagers begin to die, whispering riddles with their final breaths, Elian and K...

On the night of his society wedding, chef Theo Marche runs—not from love, but from the performance of it. Three ferries and one rainstorm later he lands at the Mariner's Lantern Inn, a weathered harbor hotel where the midnight coffee is strong, the dishwasher wheezes on principle, and the night manager keeps a clipboard of promises due.June Moreno has no time for grand gestures. She's raising a seven-year-old, steering a creaky inn through storm season, and living by a simple rule:...

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 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