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Haunted Blood
Jul 14, 2026
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By Rory North

Haunted Blood

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Young Adult
Fantasy
Paranormal

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Jennifer Kay Trijntje BoermaanJul 14, 2026

Nowhere Sky Saga

Book 1

I spent decades collecting stories in my head before I decided to start writing them down. A witch, a dreamer,lover of storms and devoted believer that ordinary life is often hiding extraordinary things, I created the world of Nowhere Sky to explore places where friendship, courage, family and magic collide. When I’m not writing or reading, I enjoy walking through nature with my dog Missle. Also snuggling with my Mouse, aka Willow, my youngest granddaughter right now. I live in Minnesota with most of my family and where thunderclouds, moonlight and imagination frequently find their way into my next story.Read
Rory NorthJul 14, 2026

Saints of the Apocalypse

A new chapter is on the way — check back soon.

Science Fiction
Young Adult
Dystopian
Hi, I'm Rory North! I write sci fi and fantasy, study marine biology, and make art! My books are officially published and available in ebook & paperback format, but some are currently available to read for free here on Readerful as well. Check out my website www.rorynorth.com to find me on social media, sign up for my newsletter, and learn more about my books and what’s next!Read
Jesse penmanJul 12, 2026

Obey, or Fade Away

Obey, or Fade Away You were always meant for more


The Arc So Far
#1 — You Were Never Meant to Disappear opens the series with a confrontation: the reader has spent years learning to shrink, stay quiet, and erase their own edges in the name of safety. It names that erasure for what it is — not peace, but a slow kind of dying — and insists the reader was built with weight and voice, not built to fade into the background of their own life.


#2 — The Four Possibilities Beyond the Light pushes past the initial awakening into the terrain that opens once someone stops hiding. It maps out the different paths available once the light (the signal, the recognition) has been seen — suggesting that awareness alone isn't the end point, but a fork with several possible directions, each with its own cost and its own truth.


#3 — For the Ones That Stayed and the Witness Never Blinks shifts focus to endurance. It's written for the people who didn't leave, didn't disappear, didn't fade — the ones who stayed present through the discomfort. It introduces "the witness," an inner presence that tracks everything without judgment, watching to see whether the person will keep showing up for their own life even when nothing dramatic is happening.


#4 — When the Silence Answers deals with the strange phase where nothing external responds, yet something still communicates. Silence itself becomes the message. This piece explores the discipline of sitting with unanswered questions long enough that the absence of an answer becomes its own kind of confirmation — training the reader to stop needing loud signs and start trusting the quiet ones.


#5 — The Assignment names the responsibility that follows all that listening. Once someone has stayed, once they've heard the witness, once the silence has answered — they're handed something specific to do. This piece frames spiritual growth not as a feeling to chase but a task to complete: an assignment that requires real-world action, not just internal shifts.


#6 — The Shape of a Real Response (Time and Time Again) ties the whole arc together. It explicitly revisits the earlier stages — staying present, hearing the silence answer, acting on what's known — and argues that all of those were prelude. The real test is whether the change can survive ordinary life: everyday , errands, people who don't know your mythology. It introduces the phrase "obey or fade away" as the central law of the series — not obedience as submission, but obedience as full listening that produces movement. Coherence, this piece argues, isn't a comfortable alignment; it has teeth. It costs relationships, unmasks false loyalties, and forces the inside and outside of a person to finally tell the same story. The piece closes on the idea that the witness from piece #3 becomes an internal architect, and that the ultimate demand isn't belief — it's response.


Together, pieces #1–6 trace a single throughline: recognition, endurance, silence, duty, and finally, the demand for coherent action. Each piece raises the stakes on the one before it, moving the reader from "you matter" to "prove it with your life."


#7 #8 & #9 coming soon !!!!

 Obey Your Reasons

to Refuse !!!!

Fantasy
History
Mystery
Paranormal
Science
Self-Help
Adventure
Historical Fiction
New Adult
Philosophy
Science Fiction
Young Adult
I write about AI and what I know and how I work .Read
Maurice HuffJul 10, 2026

When the Time Comes (WTTC)

When the Time Comes is a grounded dystopian epic exploring how control is maintained not through open tyranny, but through comfort, fear, and gradual compliance. Following the collapse of traditional governance, the United States is reorganized into 9 centralized authoritarian districts under the Continuem of America. A regime promising stability and survival in exchange for obedience, surveillance and erasure of the old world. Behind the Continuem operates a technocratic cabal leveraging artificial intelligence, institutional capture and predictive modeling to shape outcomes rather than rule openly. The story centers on siblings Rose and Maurice, divided by ideology yet bound by blood, whose choices force them into irreversible defection and collision with resistance networks, nomads, and defectors-all making understandable but incompatible choices. Each book in the series is titled by the consecutive era's that occur within them.

Dystopian
Science Fiction
Published author of "17 Laws of Nature" (WTTC) "When the Time Comes" trilogy TCR, RFC, RSRRead
Rory NorthJul 9, 2026

Van Terra

Jasper Van Terra and her team of superpowered criminals seek revenge on the governor of city-planet Kronos.

Science Fiction
Action
New Adult
Cyberpunk
Hi, I'm Rory North! I write sci fi and fantasy, study marine biology, and make art! My books are officially published and available in ebook & paperback format, but some are currently available to read for free here on Readerful as well. Check out my website www.rorynorth.com to find me on social media, sign up for my newsletter, and learn more about my books and what’s next!Read
RevdougJul 8, 2026

The Canon

When President James Michael Kincaid begins challenging the foundations of that system, a conflict unfolds far beyond public view. Political ambition, intelligence operations, organized crime, journalism, and private influence converge on Dallas in November 1963, where one of the most consequential weekends in American history changes the nation forever.

Yet the assassination is only the beginning.

As official investigations compete with independent journalists searching for answers, the battle shifts from discovering what happened to deciding what history will remember. Witnesses disappear. Records vanish. Evidence is scattered. Competing accounts slowly fall silent until only one version of events remains.

Spanning nearly four decades, The Canon explores the relationship between power, memory, and history itself. It asks not only how history can be shaped, but how entire generations come to accept a single version of the past when every alternative has quietly disappeared.

In the end, The Canon is not simply the story of an assassination.

It is the story of how history is written—and how easily it can be forgotten.

Action
Adventure
Politics
True Crime
Drama
NSFW
an author from Indiana, and the writer of twenty‑two books spanning crime thrillers, speculative fiction, and character‑driven drama. My work is shaped by a lifelong fascination with human pressure points — the moments where loyalty bends, truth cuts deep, and ordinary people collide with extraordinary circumstances.Read

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