Three Thriller Novellas Boxed Setby Steve OraSteve Ora crafts short, propulsive thrillers where history's hidden corners collide with contemporary greed and ambition. His work centers on characters who stumble into secrets that powerful institutions would rather bury—journalists, curators, and scholars forced to choose between truth and survival. In The Second Vault, a hand‑delivered map fragment drags a reluctant ...

The Iris Kade MysteriesBook One: The Quartz KeyA short techno-thrillerby Steve OraA man vanishes from a sealed tent in the Iraqi desert. A5,000‑year‑old tablet erases an entire digital network.Dr. Iris Kade—codename NEXAL—is the world's most advanced cyber‑investigator,operating from a private airborne data‑lab that never lands. When a Sumerianartif...

The Coastal Library Mysteries. Book OneA cozy mystery short story collection by Steve OraIn Lantern Point, every secret leaves a trace—and every trace leads back to the library. Across these atmospheric coastal mysteries, veteran librarian Amalia Reid and her amazing cat Melvil uncover coded messages, hidden compartments, vanished ledgers, and crimes stitched into the quiet fabric of her town. Fog rolls in...

The Guardians of The Oldest TruthA thriller novellaby Steve OraA chamber sealed before history learned to speak. A manuscript that hums when touched. And a truth so old it no longer remembers being written. When Adrian Varga opens the first forbidden door beneath the Vatican, something stirs — not a secret, but a presence. It watches. It chooses. It follows. As custodians awaken and erasers drift through Rome like ...

The Codex CollapseA global conspiracy short thriller about the algorithm that broke the worldby Steve OraThe world didn't fall apart — it was calculated to.When mathematician Julian Savage unlocks a hidden algorithm inside a centuries‑old clock, he becomes the final variable in a conspiracy that controls global collapse. As cities drown and markets implode, Julian must choose: expose the Codex and end the w...

The Malta CipherA thriller short storyby Steve OraThe first crack in the limestone should have been nothing—just another whisper from Malta's buried past. Instead, it opens a vault that was never meant to see daylight, unleashing documents capable of toppling the world's most powerful dynasties. When the ancient order guarding those secrets floods the tunnels and releases their underwater predators, Jack Orwin and ...

The Second VaultA short thriller novellaby Steve OraThe world didn't lose the vault. It only lost access to it.Now the knowledge that could save—or end—humanity is waking again.When investigative journalist Elias Sterling survives the collapse of a secret underground vault, he uncovers a second, hidden installation buried deep in the Arctic. Inside lies a network designed to...

The Iris Kade Mysteries: Book 1–3by Steve OraA high‑tech, high‑tension thriller collectionDr. Iris Kade—codename NEXAL—is the world's most advanced cyber‑investigator, operating from a ghost‑black cargo jet that never lands and never leaves a trace. Armed with augmented‑reality vision, neural‑linked deduction, and a past she refuses to face, Iris hunts the kind of threats that move too fast for cameras and ...

Mara Quinn thought she was selling unused memory space.She didn't know she was selling her identity.When a biotech experiment promises quick cash for "leasing long‑term memory storage," Mara signs the forms and walks into the Mnemosyne Project. Three sessions later, she wakes with someone else's memories—of a murder, a cabin, and a man she's never met. The police have evidence. The memories feel real. And the woman who designed the technology is supposed to be dead....

The Breeder ProtocolA relentless eco-thriller with a terrifying biological twistWhen a flooded dam reveals a living experiment, a sheriff and a scientist race to stop a swarm that thinks as one.

When Margaret Thompson finds a drawing of her own face in her missing daughter's sketchbook, she uncovers a truth that blurs the line between memory and madness. The Other Margaret is a haunting psychological thriller about identity, family secrets, and the shadows that live inside us.

In the techno-thriller "THE OTHER USER," Carla Hartman believes she has built a high-tech fortress to protect her three sons from a traumatic past. But when she leaves them alone for a brief supply run, the sanctuary becomes a trap. A predator from her history, Victor Hale, has "grafted" himself into the house's nervous system, bypassing security protocols and using a vocal synthesizer to mimic Carla's voice to manipulate her children. As the lights die and the thermal cameras wake under a...