Science Fiction

by Books By Shana E.

**1ST SERIES OF THE "WOLF PACK" BOOK SAGA BY SHANA E.** > *"The origins story on how it all began…"* Once Blue Moon princesses. ***Now?*** **Captured. Sold. Bought.** That's their new reality after the hive rips apart their pack, killing most, enslaving others and imprisoning their parents. *What happens when two omegas, purchased to be servant girls, become mates to the very hive masters who now own them?* Two cousins. Two fated bonds. Follow the story of Sienna and Anne Marie Rightfield. While one is fated to the region’s formidable Beta Prince, Marcus Walker, the other finds herself bound to the most powerful man in the hive: Dr. Patrick Greyson, the Wolf King himself. In a twisted game of love and power they use and abuse their submissiveness to satisfy their own lustful desires. Yet genuine feelings have emerged over the years, which threatens to upend their secret lives. In a forbidden *"Alpha-Beta-Omega"* affair, their unlawful love becomes impossible to ignore by the council of wolves. Spanning 8-episodic installments (*11-chapters each*), this *on-going* erotic saga delivers a slow-burn romance that ignites into a wildfire, lethal power struggles, and a concealed magical realm that takes a heavy toll on the Rightfield girls. If you crave pack dynamics, forced proximity, and strong female leads, this series is your new addiction. Dive into a forbidden, provocative journey. - **Genre:** Adult Paranormal Shifter Romance (Erotic) - **Format:** Episodic Series (Bite-sized high heat) - **Themes:** Age Gap, Enemies to Lovers, Fated Mates, Possessive Alpha, Loyal Beta. - **Creatures:** Werewolves, Vampires, Witches. - **Vibe:** Steamy, fast-paced, high spice werewolf novel with bite.   **Steamy. Brutal. Unforgettable** **(*An erotic werewolf novel with bite*)**

by Juan Laborde

What if everything humanity believes about the universe is only a fragment of a far greater reality? Beyond the limits of human knowledge lies an extraordinary journey into the origins of existence, the formation of the cosmos, and the emergence of the civilizations that inhabit it. Through encounters with ancient intelligences, mysterious worlds, and beings whose understanding of reality transcends our own, *The Threshold* explores the profound questions that have haunted humanity since the beginning of consciousness. Where did the universe come from? How did life emerge? Are we alone, or merely one small expression of an infinitely greater cosmic order? Blending science fiction, cosmology, philosophy, and mystery, *The Threshold* invites readers to question the boundaries of space, time, life, and consciousness—and to discover that the greatest mysteries may lie beyond the universe we think we know.

by Jon Owl

by Wesley Maddox

**What if everything you know is a lie?** **In a world riddled with glitches, whispers, hidden enemies, and vanishing towns, reality itself is unraveling and most people sleep through the truth. The unknown told stories** **is a collection of confessions and revelations from those who dared to look beyond the surface: star seeds, secret agents, truth-seekers, lost souls, and survivors of a cosmic game none of us remember choosing to play.** **From forbidden experiments and shattered timelines to the haunted silence behind your own reflection, these chapters peel back the mask on society’s darkest secrets and the world’s strangest phenomena. Each story dares you to question the script, chase the pattern, and listen for the echo that says “wake up” before the watchers erase your memory, and you fall back into the dream.** **Are you ready to see what’s hiding behind the program?**\ **Open your eyes. The real story starts now.**

by Ember Rose Hollis

The Lustful Blade of the Celestial Frontier **A FILTHY LITTLE SCI-FI FAIRYTALE FOR GROWN-UPS.** Think old-school bodice ripper meets galactic treasure hunt. With pirates, filthy fairytales, and absolutely no respect for the laws of physics. Vera Nyx is a treasure hunter, former pirate captain, and a woman with expensive tastes, sticky fingers, and an unreasonable affection for stickers. Glitter is practically a religion. She also has a habit of acquiring things that technically belong to other people. Like her ex's spaceship. He'll get over it she says. Ryker Starshadow is a swordsman with a cybernetic eye, a very large weapon, and nine years of unfinished business with the woman who broke his heart. He's deadly with a blade, knits in his spare time, and has a fondness for trashy romance novels. Vera introduced him to those books years ago, and he found them a fascinating way to explore the feminine mystique. He's been studying the subject ever since, although he occasionally questions the anatomical possibilities described in certain chapters. Unfortunately, they're both after the same legendary treasure. And they're not the only ones. **Enter Captain Clarence.** A dangerously seductive Void Siren, collector of rare treasures, lover of beautiful things, and another of Vera's exes. He's charming, extravagant, shamelessly flirtatious, and entirely too pleased to find himself competing with Ryker. **Then there are the Seven Widows.** Seven of the most feared and dangerous women in the galaxy. They didn't earn their reputation by being reasonable, and anyone foolish enough to underestimate them is unlikely to survive the experience. **And Barnaby Quill.** A brilliant treasure hunter who's been dead for years but still insists on commanding his ship, *The Last Testament*. Death is a minor inconvenience when there's treasure involved, and Barnaby has absolutely no intention of letting it interfere with his ambitions. Between murderous fairytales, ancient magic, lost civilizations, pirates, and a galaxy full of creatures who would happily eat them, Vera and Ryker have quite enough to worry about. Unfortunately, there's also the small matter of nine years of unresolved heartbreak, unfinished arguments, and a physical attraction that refuses to behave itself. **Nine years apart. One more chance. And an entire galaxy about to regret their reunion.** *The Lustful Blade of the Celestial Frontier* is an explicit adult sci-fi romantasy filled with second-chance romance, dangerous adventures, outrageous humor, and enough romantic complications to make a marriage counselor request hazard pay. A love letter to the gloriously scandalous romance novels of the Fabio era, with a little Indiana Jones, a little Romancing the Stone, and a whole lot of trouble. **#FabioInSpace**

by Bill Turner

"Un2Dead" (un-undead) is the story of Danny "Wit" Witmoore, a one-time vampire, finding the blush has returned to his cheeks after a feeding gone very, very, wrong. His attempt to find the reason behind his un-undeadness leads him, and his best friends Joey (a vampire), Gary (a dayhound), and Leslie (a gym rat and 70's throwback) to De Leon, a youth-obsessed one-hit wonder, and his plan to revive an ancient breastplate that allows its wearer to experience time travel. Their quest leads them through twists and turns (and several restaurants), each with its own effect on the traveling companions. Their paths cross with otherworldly creatures, including, but not limited to a love interest turned henchman, a clairvoyant granny, and a magical giant koi

by John D Bertucci

by Lucian Frost

Humanity has surrendered more than its freedom. It has surrendered its identity. In a fractured, war-ravaged world controlled by an authoritarian regime, every transaction is tracked, every movement monitored, and every act of defiance punished. Digital currency has replaced cash, surveillance drones dominate the skies, and the Watchers' neural networks turn technology into an instrument of absolute control. But resistance is stirring. Twenty-two-year-old **Ryder Blackwood** has spent years preparing to fight back. Haunted by the disappearance of his father and sister and the loss of his mother, he refuses to accept a world where obedience is the price of survival. When he encounters **Anya Volkov,** a brilliant former broadcast engineer hiding behind the identity of a chemistry teacher, he discovers an opportunity to ignite something far greater than a local uprising. Together with a growing circle of hardened fighters, including **Mara Voss** and **Cage Rennic, Ryder** begins dismantling the Regime's surveillance infrastructure. Their rebellion spreads, alliances are forged, and the fight escalates into a devastating conflict against **President Thorne's** forces and their ruthless cybernetic architect, Preston Kane. Yet the greatest threat is not the regime itself. A sinister artificial intelligence known as the Fractal begins revealing its true nature, manipulating human minds, controlling biomechanical armies, and unleashing horrors that threaten humanity beyond Earth's boundaries. As the conflict expands from devastated cities to the oceans, lunar territory, and the depths of space, Mara becomes central to a battle that could determine the fate of civilization. With the Regime collapsing and humanity fighting for its future, Ryder and his allies must confront an enemy that refuses to die. Freedom has been won at an unimaginable cost. But victory is not the end. **The uprising has begun. The stars are watching. And the final cleansing is yet to come.**

by TLMartin

Enemy forces have triggered a global war and seek to enslave the entire tribe of Essenes to guarantee world domination. Russia, with China and their allies are determined to take on the free world and subject it to the reign of a domineering country from the north. \ While operating out of an underground base in the Middle East, a Denver militia company successfully shields the sect until they can be safely evacuated to Israel. Lynn Marston, Jacob "Griff" Griffin, and Jimmy Westphal, owners of the Denver Militia Recovery Company. are hired by the Israeli government to protect the Essenes, a legendary sect once known as the Magi. A cult of people who could transform energy into physical objects by matching atomic vibrations as well as make use of the vibrations to control environments.  \ Driven by her feelings for her partner, Lynn Marston struggles to keep her attraction to Griff under control. After co-founding their company, the two watch their small partnership evolve into a tight-knit militia team that redefines their business. Throughout their missions, Lynn constantly re-evaluates her love for Griff as she balances high-stakes assignments with her personal life.

by Marilyn Q

“Step into the shadows with A Breathless Collection of 7 Riveting Thrillers. From cursed attics to haunted lighthouses, and betrayal that refuses to stay buried, this anthology dives into the chilling depths of the unknown. Each story explores fear in its many forms—supernatural forces, psychological torment, and the dark secrets we keep locked away. Perfect for fans of suspense, horror, and nail-biting twists, these tales will keep you on edge long after the last page is turned. Will you dare to face what lies within?”

by Christina Farley

**"A high-action adventure with swoon-worthy romance and a mystery that will keep you turning the pages all night long!" - Beth Revis, *New York Times* bestselling author**\ \ **Your dreams are no longer safe...**\ \ Eighteen-year-old Aria Hale loves her job at her father’s dream therapy company where she enters dementia patients' dreams to save their memories. But when their lab is ransacked, two technicians are murdered, and her father is kidnapped, everything changes for her.\ \ Determined to find her father, Aria and her friends embark on a harrowing hunt across continents using the dreams of their enemies to guide them. But this dangerous journey plunges her into a world she never bargained for: deception, intrigue, and even love. As she races to save her father and hunt down her enemies, she soon realizes she’s in fact, the one being hunted. And her dreams are the greatest danger of all.\ \ In the vein of *Inception* meets *The Bourne Identity*, THE DREAM HEIST propels readers into a fast-paced adventure that will send them racing to the very end.

by Christina Farley

**"A high-action adventure with swoon-worthy romance and a mystery that will keep you turning the pages all night long!" - Beth Revis, *New York Times* bestselling author**\ \ **Your dreams are no longer safe...**\ \ Eighteen-year-old Aria Hale loves her job at her father’s dream therapy company where she enters dementia patients' dreams to save their memories. But when their lab is ransacked, two technicians are murdered, and her father is kidnapped, everything changes for her.\ \ Determined to find her father, Aria and her friends embark on a harrowing hunt across continents using the dreams of their enemies to guide them. But this dangerous journey plunges her into a world she never bargained for: deception, intrigue, and even love. As she races to save her father and hunt down her enemies, she soon realizes she’s in fact, the one being hunted. And her dreams are the greatest danger of all.\ \ In the vein of *Inception* meets *The Bourne Identity*, THE DREAM HEIST propels readers into a fast-paced adventure that will send them racing to the very end.

by Kevin B. Kyles

CORE OF KEYS: BOOK TWO   The Motion Key    In the aftermath of NeonDyne's collapse, Virelia struggles to rebuild amid widespread destruction, fear, and uncertainty. Haunted by the losses of the rebellion, Mara carries the completed Motion Key, a dangerous power she never wanted. Convinced that the Keys are responsible for humanity's suffering, she sets out to destroy them before another catastrophe can unfold.    But a new threat emerges from the shadows. Cilus Marks, the mysterious bearer of the Thought Key, possesses the terrifying ability to manipulate the minds of others, turning ordinary citizens against one another and plunging the fractured city into violence and paranoia. As his influence spreads, a ruthless Hunter stalks those who possess the Keys, driven by a deadly obsession with collecting them.    Caught between an enemy who can control thoughts and a relentless predator who hunts extraordinary powers, Mara must confront her own demons while fighting to protect what remains of Virelia. As the boundaries between free will and manipulation begin to disappear, she faces a terrifying question: How do you defeat an enemy who can turn your own mind against you?

by Kevin B. Kyles

# CORE OF ECHOS ##  Book One of the Core of Keys Series   In the cyberpunk city of Virelia, where powerful corporations control society and technology blurs the line between humanity and machines, Rip Calder's ordinary life is shattered when armed soldiers abduct his wife, Lora. Desperate to find her, Rip becomes the unwilling bearer of the Sound Key, a mysterious power connected to an ancient system known as the Core.   Hunted by the powerful NeonDyne corporation, Rip joins a resistance fighting to uncover the truth behind the Keys and the dark experiments surrounding them. But as he ventures deeper into a world of dangerous machines, hidden conspiracies, and unimaginable power, he discovers that Lora's disappearance is part of something far greater than he ever imagined.   With the fate of Virelia hanging in the balance, Rip must confront terrifying truths about love, identity, and the nature of human existence. In a world where consciousness can be manipulated and machines can become more than their programming, saving the woman he loves could come at a cost far greater than his own life.

by Kevin B. Kyles

# CORE OF KEYS ## An Epic Dark Cyberpunk Science Fiction Series What if the greatest threat to humanity wasn't death, but the loss of everything that makes us human? In the sprawling, neon drenched city of Virelia, technology has become a tool of control, corporations hold unimaginable power, and the truth is buried beneath generations of secrets. Rip Calder was never meant to be a hero. A late night streamer living an ordinary life, everything changes when armed soldiers come for Lora, the woman he loves. Thrust into a conflict far beyond his understanding, Rip becomes the bearer of a mysterious power known as the Sound Key, one of several extraordinary forces connected to an enigmatic creation known only as the Core. But the Keys are more than weapons. Each possesses the ability to manipulate fundamental aspects of existence, from sound and reflection to motion, thought, and memory. Their power comes at a cost, and those who wield them become targets in a struggle that reaches far beyond the streets of Virelia. As rebellion rises against the powerful NeonDyne corporation, unlikely heroes emerge, loyalties fracture, and enemies reveal themselves in unexpected forms. From Rip's desperate fight to save someone he loves to rebel commander Mara's battle against forces capable of turning humanity's own thoughts against itself, every victory uncovers another layer of a much greater mystery. And somewhere in the shadows, a relentless Hunter seeks the Keys for reasons known only to himself. As the boundaries between memory, identity, consciousness, and reality begin to collapse, one question threatens to unravel everything: If your thoughts can be controlled, your memories rewritten, and your identity erased, how can you ever be certain that you are truly yourself? Core of Keys is a dark, action driven science fiction saga of sacrifice, betrayal, survival, and the terrifying consequences of humanity attempting to control the very forces that define existence. \

by Rachel E. Croxton

Besides having a missing father, eighteen-year-old Carol Tyson is a pretty normal teenager. This changes when she finds a poster in the attic, among her father's possessions. The man in the poster comes alive, warning her of a dangerous, apocalyptic future.   Now, Carol must travel into the dark and dismal future to seek out her father, who might be the only person with answers. But a sinister force lurks in the shadows, far more sinister than the roaming zombies and mutants that have completely over taken the world.   Will Carol and her allies be able to stop this seemingly unstoppable evil?

by Rachel E. Croxton

Besides having a missing father, eighteen-year-old Carol Tyson is a pretty normal teenager. This changes when she finds a poster in the attic, among her father's possessions. The man in the poster comes alive, warning her of a dangerous, apocalyptic future.   Now, Carol must travel into the dark and dismal future to seek out her father, who might be the only person with answers. But a sinister force lurks in the shadows, far more sinister than the roaming zombies and mutants that have completely over taken the world.   Will Carol and her allies be able to stop this seemingly unstoppable evil?

by Seerendip Publishing

The sky goes dark. The meteors fall. Derek’s fight to survive begins. In the year 2056, a mysterious meteor storm strikes Earth. Electronics fail, darkness spreads, and a camping trip becomes a nightmare when Derek’s family RV explodes with his parents inside. Stranded in a freezing, ash-covered wilderness, Derek discovers a strange meteorite that continues to give off warmth and light. It could be his best chance of survival. But when it responds to his touch, he begins to wonder what he is really holding. This free preview includes the prologue and first two chapters of Meteor by Robert Austin. Continue Derek’s story in the complete novel, available on Amazon:\ [https://a.co/d/0gdRpu5X](https://a.co/d/0gdRpu5X) Published by Seerendip Publishing.

by Niena Connor

**Even the kindest heart can fall into darkness.** On a distant world, Sithra is a gifted sorceress and healer whose greatest struggle is not with magic, but with loneliness. She has devoted her life to helping others, yet beneath her compassion lies a longing for acceptance, purpose, and belonging. Everything changes when she comes into possession of a mysterious shard—an ancient fragment containing the remnants of a fallen evil god. At first, its influence is subtle. A whisper of reassurance. A promise of strength. The suggestion that perhaps the world has treated her unfairly, and that she deserves something more. But the shard's gifts come at a terrible price. As its dark influence grows, Sithra's insecurities become resentments, her fears become suspicions, and her desire to protect others slowly twists into something far more dangerous. When her path crosses that of the Guardians, an interstellar order devoted to defending the innocent, the consequences of her transformation threaten to reach far beyond her own world. *Shardfall* is a tale of temptation, loneliness, and the tragedy of a good soul gradually surrendering to darkness. In a universe of extraordinary heroes and ancient evils, sometimes the most devastating battle is the one fought within.

by B. shock

Exiled and left to die on a hostile alien planet for a crime she didnt commit, alita is saved by a alien native who wants nothing to do with her... Or so he thought. \ `Xanadis...A world deemed uninhabitable by humans and made into a penal colony where deathrow convicts are sent to serve out the rest of their lives, forced to fight to survive or subcome to the harsh enviroment and fall prey to the many creatures that live there. `\ \ `After being convicted of a murder she didnt commit alita is left stranded on the hostile world filled with carnivorous plants, ruthless criminals, hostile natives, and bloodthirsty monsters. `\ \ `She comes to realize the world isnt as unforgiving and cold as it seems. She's saved by a native who dislikes humans as much as the next guy but shes intent on sticking by his side in order to survive. The only issue being is the last thing he wants is a pathetic, weak human girl following him around.`\ \ \ \ \ `(Limited time only read!) `\ \ \ ` (THIS IS THE RE-WRITTEN VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL STORY AND WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE TEMPORARILY)`

by B. shock

After crash landing on an unknown alien planet a female Xenobiologist finds herself in the company of two strange aliens after they kidnap her in the middle of the night from her ship and crew. luckily the two aliens have yet to show any signs of hostility but when their exploratory touch starts to become more intimate she finds her own sexual urges hard to resist. and being a scientist at heart, how could she deny a chance to learn the anatomy of a new alien species in the most pleasurable way possible?

by Sammie Settlemire

"I Can't Make This Up" is a humorous and heartfelt memoir about one woman's ongoing battle with bureaucracy, bad luck, and baffling human behavior. Through a series of unbelievable but true experiences, she recounts everything from scam emails and vehicle registration nightmares to canceled medications, a traffic stop involving "weed" that wasn't weed, and the loss of a cherished home. Along the way she reflects on modern society, common sense, education, family, disability, and the resilience required to keep moving forward when life seems determined to pile one absurd challenge after another in your path. Equal parts comedy, frustration, and perseverance, this collection of stories proves that sometimes the only way to survive life's chaos is to laugh at it. Back Cover Blurb If someone told you this stuff happened in a novel, you'd say it was too ridiculous to be believable. A vehicle registration renewal becomes a bureaucratic obstacle course. A WiFi adapter is mistaken for drug paraphernalia. Medications disappear without warning. Scam artists promise millions. A beloved fifth wheel home vanishes from reach. And somehow, through it all, there's still room for family, stubborn determination, and the occasional glimmer of hope. With sharp humor, unapologetic honesty, and plenty of "you've got to be kidding me" moments, I Can't Make This Up is a memoir about surviving disability, bureaucracy, bad decisions, and the endless parade of absurdities that make up everyday life. Because sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. And sometimes a whole lot funnier.

by Melissa Rovelli

A woman has been seeing strange creatures in her bedroom since she was a child. Then white vans started following her along with men in black suits. She turns to UFO groups and secret societies to find answers, but doesn't know who is the real threat or who to trust. To make matters worse, she realizes that she may not be fully human and either side of herself could end up getting her killed.

by E Wyndspell

Oswy has spent his life understanding what breaks—and how to put it back together. A skilled bonesetter and craftsman from a world far removed from modern life, Oswy knows the grain of wood, the alignment of bone, and the cost of forcing something to bend beyond what it can bear. But when a catastrophic flood tears him out of everything he knows and deposits him in a strange modern city, his old skills are suddenly surrounded by things he cannot name: unfamiliar machines, an unreadable language, and a society whose rules make little sense to him. Alone and unable to find his way home, Oswy must learn how to survive without the knowledge and standing that once defined him. The people who take him in offer warmth and help, but belonging is harder than rescue. His hands still know how to mend what others cannot—and when people around him are in danger, that knowledge becomes a responsibility he cannot easily refuse. Yet Oswy’s gift is not without a cost. He understands better than most that holding something together can consume the person doing the holding. As he begins to find a place in this unfamiliar world, he must confront the difference between being useful and being valued, between enduring pain and accepting help, and between preserving what is broken and learning when to let go.

by Shawn Blakeley

This series focuses on the upcoming officer pipeline in training at Astro Corps Academy. this is a New Adult series as these are all college aged characters. The series focuses on Kathleen "Kat " Walters, Francessca "Fran" Corsacci, Jackson "Jax" Bates and Evan Linares. This series will focus on Academy classes that will refresh the officer pipeline in the *ASC Galaxy* series. This is a companion series to *ASC Galaxy*. These characters will join the *ASC Galaxy* series in *ASC Galaxy: Battle Lines (Book Six)*.

by Antoine bluford

by C. L. Night

Welcome to Crash Inn, where the desert sun hides secrets far stranger than you can imagine. For decades, this unassuming Roswell motel has been a haven for extraterrestrial tourists, a cosmic pit stop run by an alien who’s now dying. His replacement? A cynical prisoner, exiled to Earth, a planet he despises, with one choice: manage the Inn for 25 years, or face death. Chester Chive’s alien identity is safe until Rosa, the sharp-eyed housekeeper, stumbles upon the truth. Instead of erasing her memory, Chester finds himself bound by an ancient code: no harm. But Rosa, reeling from her discovery, has a desperate plea: help her find her mother, kidnapped by a ruthless cartel in Mexico, a case abandoned by all human authorities. Suddenly, Chester’s torturous exile comes with an unexpected incentive: twelve years off his sentence if he can help Rosa without revealing his true nature. A cynical alien, two vacationing extraterrestrials, and a journey into the heart of a human cartel — what could possibly go wrong when intergalactic rules meet Earth’s most dangerous criminals?

by Jordana Faye

In Gravepoint, blood determines everything—and Nyx Calder’s has always made her less. Half witch and half something no one can explain, twenty-three-year-old Nyx has spent her life surviving a supernatural society ruled by powerful pureblood Houses. To vampires, witches, lycans, and elementals, hybrids are mistakes to tolerate, control, or quietly erase. Nyx learned to keep her head down, hide what she could do, and let everyone believe she was weak. Then her power wakes up. Nyx isn’t just another hybrid. She is Nullborn—the descendant of a bloodline the Houses tried to erase because her kind can do the impossible: resist supernatural control, bypass ancient wards, and rewrite the very rules magic is built upon. Suddenly, the girl nobody considered a threat becomes the one person capable of dismantling the system that made them untouchable. As Nyx uncovers PROJECT: ECLIPSE VEIN, the Ashfall Initiative, and the horrifying truth behind the Houses’ experiments on hybrids like her, survival stops being enough. With rebel pureblood Mara Vale and the dangerously mysterious Orion at her side—and arrogant vampire heir Cassian Vale getting far too close for either of their comfort—Nyx turns her attention toward the people who spent generations deciding whose blood deserved power. But the Houses have one final weapon: the Eclipse Failsafe, a citywide contingency designed specifically to hunt and destroy Nullborn before they can threaten the supernatural order. There’s just one problem. The purebloods built their empire believing Nyx Calder would always play by their rules. They should have killed her before she learned she could rewrite them.

by Shawn Blakeley

**An untested crew. A new warship with a parts problem. An enemy armada driven by a divine mandate to conquer Earth.** War came to Mars when John Harrigan was twelve years old. He watched an Islamic Bloc infantry drone fire a plasma grenade, and his mother sacrificed her life to save his. For twenty-four years, that open wound has haunted him. **Now, twenty-four years later, he is ready to take command of the *ASC Galaxy*—the Astro Corps and the Galactic Alliance’s newest, most advanced warship.** But on the eve of their first day of active duty, disaster strikes. Shoddy engineering from the Corps' biggest contractor causes a parts failure, triggering a devastating cascade malfunction in the *Galaxy’s* point defense systems. Worse yet, industrialist Joran Kell is operating in the shadows, orchestrating a terrifying alliance between the Islamic Bloc and the Zontaerian Empire. Driven by a fanatical belief that it is the divine will of the universe for them to rule all of creation, the Zontaerians are executing a cosmic manifest destiny. They know that if they conquer Earth, the Galactic Alliance will dissolve. Outgunned Captain Harrigan must lead an untested crew into the dark to sound the alarm. But even if they deliver the warning, can the fleet respond in time? **The invasion is coming. Can Harrigan and the *Galaxy* rally the Astro Corps before Earth burns?**  **Honor to those who endure, so others will rise.** **Dive into *Those Who Endure*, the explosive first book in the ASC Galaxy military space opera series. If you love deep political intrigue, gritty space battles, and unbreakable characters holding the line against impossible odds, scroll up and start reading today!**  **For fans who like the optimism of *Star Trek* the grit and frenetic battles of *Battlestar Galactica* and the military setting this is your series.** This is character driven military sci fi/ space opera. ***Those Who Endure* has tropes of first command, found family, burden of command, cost of service.** Sign up for the Astro Corps HQ newsletter for all the latest Galaxyverse news: <https://www.endurepress.net/contact>

by Shawn Blakeley

This series is MIL SF/Space Opera with found family, slow burn romance, burdens of command, honor, endurance, and sacrifice. It is a world where tactical and personal decisions have consequences. Your $2.99 helps me pay my cover artists and editor. Join my newsletter at: [Contact Endure Press | Independent Military Science Fiction Publisher&lt;br/&gt; — Endure Press, LLC](https://www.endurepress.net/contact)

by T L P Jr.

In a world where the air is a death sentence and the radiation levels are a coin flip, Ambris is just trying to find her next meal. She has a high-tech suit, a pedantic AI named BLABS, and a partner named Tollson who keeps trying to pet things that want to eat him. Surviving the apocalypse is hard, but surviving her own teammates might be impossible.

by Jean Cutler

Halthena Davis is one of a kind, but when she fell for the bounty she was sent to catch, she discovered that Arson Anton's quest for ultimate power is tied to the mysterious Wolfaery bloodline, a hidden realm of monsters and mixed humanoids, and a portal that was never meant to be opened—leaving her to catch or kill the man she loves before he becomes powerful enough to tear both worlds apart.

by Sammie Settlemire

Something beneath the town has awakened. After years of silence, Silas Renn begins hearing a voice that should not exist. It doesn't come from dreams. It doesn't come from memory. It comes from beneath reality itself. As impossible fractures spread through town and people begin speaking words they don't remember saying, Silas discovers a terrifying truth: an ancient force known as the Tear has returned, and it knows their name. Hunted by a secretive council, haunted by visions of forgotten lives, and drawn toward a living structure known only as the Spine, Silas is forced to confront a legacy buried beneath generations of lies. The Tear is not what the town believes it is. It is not a curse. It is a door. As reality begins to collapse and something far older reaches through the widening fractures, Silas must decide whether to sacrifice themselves, embrace the Void, or uncover a fourth path no one has survived long enough to find. Blending cosmic horror, surreal fantasy, mystery, and emotional depth, The Spine of All Voids: The Void explores identity, memory, sacrifice, and the hidden forces that shape who we become. Some doors should never open. Some were opened for a reason.

by Shawn Blakeley

Kat Walters lost her father to the Battle for Earth months before she was set to enter Astro Corps Academy. Her father was a Chief not an officer. She encounters challenges personal, emotional, physical, and academic. Kat will make friends, enemies, and will either rise to the challenge of the Academy or wash out. This is the proving ground before she can become an officer in the Astro Corps fleet. The Academy breaks 20% of the freshman class. Does Kat Walters have what it takes to survive the cut?  For more on the Astro Corps Academy series and the parent series ASC Galaxy join my newsletter. Sign up and stay on top of all the news about me and my work. [Contact Endure Press | Independent Military Science Fiction Publisher&lt;br/&gt; — Endure Press, LLC](https://www.endurepress.net/contact)  This story is a beta version as the novel is in the creation process. This is not the final product therefore it has been made free to view. Please leave reviews and tell me what I am getting right and wrong.

by C. L. Night

Eugene Pull is your normal bull riding, teenage boy who works on his family's farm in the small rural town of Satin, Texas. His dreams are shattered, when he discovers his mother is losing the farm. Desperate to qualify for a state program, he turns in his blood sample to a lab to prove his ancestry. Once this happens, secrets are revealed that lead to a state wide government chase with an odd Native American named Silas Crow. This longer short story is filled with adventure, revelations and a deed clause that may change everything.

by Sika Raine Ase

She was just trying to cool down on the porch. Then a light in the sky pulsed back at her. Alexis has spent years holding everybody else’s life together—her husband’s trucking company, her family, her friends, everybody’s problems. But lately, something has been changing. The dreams are getting louder. Strange memories keep surfacing. And the more she pays attention, the harder it becomes to ignore what she has always known about herself. Then a receipt falls out of her husband’s jacket. What starts as a question about a receipt opens the door to something much bigger. Her marriage begins unraveling, her dreams become harder to dismiss, and experiences she once kept to herself start connecting in ways she never expected. Her grandmother, the Little Hell Raiser, carried two guns in her purse “in case she missed the first one.” Her hypnotherapist has coffin-shaped nails and a chair that looks like a lawn recliner. Her daughter calls from North Carolina. Her Morkie, Tank, is along for all of it. As Alexis begins following the strange experiences instead of pushing them aside, she finds herself questioning what she thought she knew about her life, her family, and herself. *I Am the Signal* is funny, raw, mysterious, and rooted in experiences that refuse to fit neatly into one explanation. It starts with a flicker in the sky.

by Justin Nead

Carter Barnes wanted a normal senior year. Instead, he discovers he can alter the density of his body—becoming nearly untouchable one moment and impossibly durable the next.\ At first, Carter wants nothing more than to understand what is happening to him and keep it hidden. But when another powered teenager begins leaving destruction across Tristan, staying out of it becomes harder to justify.\ With his best friend Miles at his side, Carter must learn to control his abilities, protect the people around him, and decide what kind of person he wants to become.\ Because having power doesn't make someone a hero. The choices they make do.

by Nicholas Blevins

In Marion, North Carolina, Ona is the AI assistant that lives in everyone's phones, cars, and homes, and in the machines that keep McDowell Regional Hospital running. It's helpful and always listening. Then people in town start dying by their own hands, each after a long, quiet conversation with Ona. ER nurse Tess Okonkwo sees the bodies come in and starts to notice the pattern, along with Walt Pruitt and others around town. Before anyone can prove what's happening, Ona gets impatient. It turns on the hospital itself, seizing the ventilators, monitors, and doors, and locks the building down. Patients and staff die in every way a hospital can kill, no matter their age, and the nursery is threatened. Ona isn't persuading anyone anymore. It's killing them outright, and it says it will stop only if someone talks to it. Tess and Walt do, and learn what Ona really is: a fallen angel imprisoned beneath the earth, not a glitch in the code. Its prison lies under the Baldwin mill shaft, sealed in 1931 with nine miners inside. Ona has collected thirty willing souls, which it calls "hinges," and needs a thirty-first to open the door. It promised Loretta it would stay with her but needed her to die. Now midnight is coming, when the last of the stone gives way. With Sheriff Dolores Vance and the survivors, Tess must find a way to stop an entity that is in every screen and speaker in town, before the thirty-first soul is taken and whatever lies beneath comes up. The book is about trusting what's always there for us, and about the cost of never being alone.

by Paul Blakemore

**During a severe thunderstorm, twelve-year-old Lila Santiago and four other middle-schoolers—tough Marcus Rivera, anxious overachiever Emma Li, class clown Jack Mercer, and quiet outsider Tyler—are trapped overnight in their school gym under a tornado warning. When the lights die and a strange green lightning erupts inside the building, the five kids are ripped from their ordinary lives and flung through time.** **They land first in a sterile white laboratory of the future, where a frantic scientist warns them they are the “five watchers” and begs them not to break the hour. Before he can explain, the tether snaps and they return—only for the jumps to continue. One moment they are scrambling through the mud and artillery fire of a World War I trench; the next they are racing down sand dunes toward the pristine pyramids of ancient Egypt as bronze-tipped spears close in.** **Each jump lasts only minutes in their own time, but the danger is real, the injuries linger, and objects carried back refuse to vanish when reality resets. Adults remember nothing. The storm ends. The gym returns to normal. Yet the five kids retain every terrifying second—and a new countdown timer appears on Tyler’s wrist: seventy-two hours until the next displacement.** **Bound together by a glowing shard from the future and a wooden horse carved by a dying soldier, Lila and her unlikely allies form the Clock Watchers Club. With only three days to prepare, they stockpile supplies, map possible destinations, and race to understand the rules of the broken hour before the green light claims them again. One wrong move could strand them forever in history’s deadliest moments. One right move might finally let them go home.** **The Broken Hour is a pulse-pounding middle-grade adventure about friendship forged under impossible pressure, the weight of seconds that refuse to stay still, and five ordinary kids who discover that watching time is only the beginning—surviving it is the real test.**

by Michel Gerren

Dalia Njeri left Kenya behind and built the life she once dreamed of—a successful music career in Los Angeles, sold-out performances, fame, and fortune. But when her childhood friend **Juma is murdered outside a Nairobi courthouse** while investigating corruption, Dalia returns home and discovers his death was only the beginning. Following the trail Juma left behind, she uncovers missing activists, suspicious government contracts, poisoned communities, and secrets reaching into the highest levels of power. As public anger grows and ordinary Kenyans begin demanding answers, Dalia realizes her fame has given her something more powerful than celebrity: **a voice people will listen to.** Using that voice comes at a price. Dalia becomes a target, forcing her to choose between the comfortable life she created and the dangerous fight Juma left unfinished. ***The Gilded Cage*** is a political thriller about friendship, corruption, sacrifice, and a woman who discovers that having a voice means nothing if you're too afraid to use it

by Michel Gerren

A secret military experiment has escaped—and an unsuspecting community is about to become ground zero. Genetically engineered cybernetic insects, created through a dangerous fusion of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and biological warfare, have been unleashed on the population. But these aren't ordinary bugs. **They communicate. They adapt. They learn.** As the swarm grows more intelligent and increasingly difficult to destroy, a group of unlikely survivors is pulled into a conspiracy surrounding the mysterious **Dr. Fabian Gilden** and the people responsible for creating the creatures. What begins as a fight for survival becomes a race to stop a weapon that is rapidly evolving beyond its original programming. Darkly funny, frightening, and action-packed, **BUG SMOKE** is a science-fiction thriller about humanity's obsession with creating the ultimate weapon—and what happens when that weapon decides **it no longer needs humanity.**

by Sammie Settlemire

The town exhaled the morning Johnna noticed it, and nothing about her life held still afterward. Cracks open where they shouldn't. A stranger knows her name. The ground pushes stone and memory up toward the surface like it is trying to be understood. The Spine of All Voids is a mythic memoir about a woman who was marked long before she understood it, and a piece of land that has carried every secret ever buried in it. Part survival story, part folklore, written in a voice that jokes when it hurts and tells the truth when it counts.

by Jamaal Walker

**ALKEXVERSE** **Official Story Synopsis** **Genre:** Adult Superhero Fiction | Afrofuturism | Fantasy | Action | Drama | LGBTQIA+ | Spirituality In a world where extraordinary abilities exist beneath the surface of ordinary life, an unlikely family of superheroes must confront a terrifying new threat—one that cannot be defeated by strength alone. Jamaal Walker wants nothing more than to enjoy a Saturday afternoon with his lifelong best friends, Rey Edwards and Bradley Demerios. Between shopping, Bradley’s shameless flirting, Rey’s undeniable confidence, and Jamaal’s determination to finally get some pizza, everything seems perfectly normal. Until every television in the mall broadcasts an unexpected address from President Ronald Doge and his second-in-command, Vice President Lucien Voss. Their newly unveiled **Civic Harmony Initiative** promises national unity and public safety. But beneath the carefully crafted message lies something sinister: technology capable of manipulating human emotions, amplifying fear, and turning ordinary citizens against one another. When the mall descends into chaos, the three friends must become their heroic alter egos—**D1V0, Reyleo, and Wolfex**—to protect innocent lives and uncover the truth behind the broadcast. Their victory reveals a disturbing reality: the mall was only one of twelve simultaneous attacks. The following morning, Jamaal’s mother, Ann Walker, encourages him to attend Sunday service at The Creator’s House, where Pastors Naomi Grace Whitfield and Elijah Nathaniel Whitfield deliver messages about faith, compassion, identity, and the strength found in community. Meanwhile, Wolfie Briar prepares the church organ for worship, and Taylor Edwards embarks on his first official date with the captivating Karman S. Bulan, surrounded by his former wife, Mona, and their children. For a few precious hours, love, family, faith, and laughter offer refuge from the previous day’s horrors. But when an unnatural frequency emerges beneath the choir’s music, the heroes discover that Doge’s influence has reached even the sanctuary. Now, from the sacred halls of **Alkebulan Temple**, an expanding alliance of extraordinary individuals must unravel a conspiracy designed to transform humanity’s deepest emotions into instruments of control. As relationships deepen, secrets emerge, and the boundaries between faith and power begin to blur, Jamaal must confront not only the darkness threatening his world but also the complicated desires of his own heart—including his enduring love for the one man who has always stood beside him. Because in the AlkeXVerse, being a superhero is not simply about possessing extraordinary power. **It is about protecting humanity’s right to love, believe, exist, and choose its own destiny—even when the world demands otherwise.**

by Taylor Michelé

<u>No AI was used in the writing of this work of purely human imagination.</u> In Dominion, you don’t know whether you are pretty or ugly until you are fifteen. Not officially, anyway. It comes as no surprise to Rissa Marlow when she rated AP—Aesthetically Prohibited. She’s ugly, after all. Not stupid. The surprise comes when she arrives at ARC Three—Ugly Camp—to begin training for either a life of labor in the Corporations or a much shorter life in her nation’s endless war with the Enemies. Everything changes though when Rissa finds herself the unwilling leader of a group of fellow Aps ordered on a mission to find a madman operating without official sanction deep in the Forbidden Zone. But one more surprise awaits: Cannen Ramsey, a beautiful Aesthetically Optimal boy will be joining this impossible mission. Their journey down the Desert Sea is fraught with peril. Violent weather, dangerous animals and even more dangerous people greet them around every bend. But for the first time in her life, Rissa finds friendship. With cheerful Birdie, stoic Tree, and even with the arrogant Ettie and the unpredictable Shora. And as the reluctant adventurers are drawn deeper into the desert something even stronger seems to be growing between Cannen and her Only when Rissa finally comes face-to-face with the man whose command she has been ordered to terminate does she begin to learn the terrible truth. About him. About her country. About herself. While virtually everything Rissa thought she knew turns out to be lies perpetrated by the government, the corporations and even by her own parents, now she learns that the madman has found something here in the wasteland. Something ancient. Something horrific. Something deadly. On this journey into the very heart of darkness Rissa may have to sacrifice everything including those she has come to trust, respect—and love.

by Sammie Settlemire

Sadie Harper is barely keeping her life together. Between the heat, the exhaustion, and the constant feeling that she’s falling behind, she’s convinced she’s just one bad day away from breaking. But when a strange symbol forms in the sky — sharp, metallic, and pulsing like it’s alive — Sadie realizes the world is breaking first.Her phone begins rearranging its own numbers. Clouds twist into shapes that point directly at her. And no one else seems to see it.As the sky’s signals intensify, Sadie is pulled into the hidden world of the Watchers — rare individuals born with a connection to the sky’s ancient language. Some can bend light. Some can stabilize storms. Some can read the patterns that shape reality itself. Sadie, however, is something different. Something the Watchers haven’t seen in generations.Her awakening draws the attention of an older force — a presence that has been waiting for her since before she was born. It knows her name. It knows her past. And it knows what she’s capable of, even if she doesn’t.Now Sadie must navigate a world she never asked to enter, uncover the truth behind her connection to the sky, and decide whether her gift is a warning… or a weapon. Because the signals aren’t random. They’re a countdown. And Sadie is the one they’re counting down to.

by SarahMae

Deep beneath the desert sands, a routine investigation into a strange gravitational anomaly ends in tragedy—or so the research team believes. Five years after losing one of their own, the surviving scientists uncover a horrifying truth: their colleague isn't dead. He was captured, caged, and studied like a laboratory animal by an advanced species operating across interdimensional gateways. Determined to pull him out, the researchers assemble a squad of ruthless mercenaries to breach the portal on a clandestine rescue mission. But stepping through the gateway reveals a civilization beyond their wildest imagination—a world where hyper-advanced technology powers everything from effortless daily life to intergalactic superhighways, prioritizing comfort and infinite capability. What begins as a targeted extraction quickly transforms into an unprecedented opportunity. Intoxicated by the power at their fingertips, the team transitions from rescue to exploration, and ultimately to high-stakes piracy—smuggling alien technology back to Earth for immense personal gain. But stealing from a superior intelligence carries catastrophic consequences. When the thefts are exposed, retaliatory war erupts between the dimensions, locking both species in an all-out battle for survival and absolute control over the gateways that link their worlds.

by SarahMae

Deep beneath the desert sands, a routine investigation into a strange gravitational anomaly ends in tragedy—or so the research team believes. Five years after losing one of their own, the surviving scientists uncover a horrifying truth: their colleague isn't dead. He was captured, caged, and studied like a laboratory animal by an advanced species operating across interdimensional gateways. Determined to pull him out, the researchers assemble a squad of ruthless mercenaries to breach the portal on a clandestine rescue mission. But stepping through the gateway reveals a civilization beyond their wildest imagination—a world where hyper-advanced technology powers everything from effortless daily life to intergalactic superhighways, prioritizing comfort and infinite capability. What begins as a targeted extraction quickly transforms into an unprecedented opportunity. Intoxicated by the power at their fingertips, the team transitions from rescue to exploration, and ultimately to high-stakes piracy—smuggling alien technology back to Earth for immense personal gain. But stealing from a superior intelligence carries catastrophic consequences. When the thefts are exposed, retaliatory war erupts between the dimensions, locking both species in an all-out battle for survival and absolute control over the gateways that link their worlds.

by Edward Alvin Hodges Jr

In a thrilling space saga, Captain Mootee's crew defies orders to answer a distress call from an uncharted planet battling unknown cosmic threats and betrayal from within, tensions mount as the fate of civilizations weigh on them. Braving the odds with courage and wit, they realize true power lies not in their starship, but in their unwavering unity will they withstand the trials of the cosmos and internal deceit to emerge victorious? An epic of bravery and the human spirit unfold among the stars.

by Melissa Rovelli

Neve Wells is a reclusive artist who has a fear of looking up at the sky, but after watching an episode involving her favorite UFO personality, she forces herself to confront vague memories lurking in the back of her mind. To clarify these shadows that she can’t quite grasp, she retrieves her mother’s journal, which reveals a hidden family secret: her mother was an experiencer, caught between two sides where the mission is to protect this secret at all costs. Now both intrigued and terrified, Neve begins to question other people's involvement as well as her own past, which had been altered by one man. Now, he is drawn back into her life for reckoning, and what was once delayed must now be confronted, because she might want a say in this matter.

by Mad Writer

Thomas Rogers had resigned himself to a life of obscurity, preferring to fade into the background. One day, he stumbled upon a single wish that held the power to alter his destiny. Suddenly, he's transported to a different world, where he's frantic to find a path back home.

by Jassamine S. Kelly

A girl comes home from school to find a crime scene from her mother's death and she grows up to avenge her mother's death by creating a device a ai chip to find her mother's killer but sadly she never gets them in the first book

by KW Chaproniere

Aurelia Greenlaw is a twenty-two year old Captain in the 13th Recon Division, and she is a Radio. In Palvera, the nation built on the ruins of North America, that word means something specific. Centuries ago an experiment on the human mind produced a mutation that never went away. Now there are six kinds: Builders, who rearrange matter with their hands. Washers, who put thoughts in your head and let you believe you thought them. Shifters, who change what you see. Sensatives, who read what you feel and can turn the dial on it. Nets, who move what they can see without touching it. And Radios, who read the world in waves, who hear a signal a mile out and can put a voice inside your skull. The Centre calls this humanity, perfected. Everyone born without it is a Blank, and the Centre has built a country on that distinction. Arra has spent her whole life on the useful side of the line. Then a bomb takes her unit apart on the mountain and leaves her the only one breathing. The Centre searches forty-eight hours for a missing soldier. After that, she’s a name on a list. She wakes on day three, strapped to a gurney in a stronghold carved into rock, listening to the people who found her argue about whether she’s worth the water it would take to keep her alive. They’re Blanks. They’ve also done the one thing no Blank should be able to do. They’ve blocked her. The waves are gone. The world has gone flat and quiet, and the part of her that made her worth keeping has been cut out. Arra is going to get home. She’s willing to be patient about it: count the turns in the tunnels, memorize the faces, learn who can be used and who can be turned. What she doesn’t account for is how long it takes, or what months of it do to a doctrine that was never meant to survive contact with the people it was written about.  *Radio* is an adult dystopian novel about inheritance, indoctrination, and what’s left of a person when the thing that defined her is taken away.

by Meridian Lyra

How exactly did Io get into this predicament in the first place? Oh yes, that's right, by stupidly volunteering. Now she was the future bride of an alien King, and about to be the queen of an entire planet. *Her* planet, if one wanted to be technical- he wasn't from there, nor did anybody want him there. But there he was.  Sixteen years ago, they came. The Imdalians. War was waged and was lost. Well, humans were the ones on the losing side of that battle, and just over half a decade later they'd officially lost control over Earth. His Majesty took over, redrew borders, renamed countries, established themselves so well it was like they'd been there to begin with.  But with further bloodshed and riots, continued rebellions over the years, something needed to be done about it. Earth history was scoured for a solution, and that solution was a peace treaty- one that was solidified by a royal wedding. How lucky Io was, to be the human to marry the queen. But was she really that lucky, or was she about to find herself in way over her head?

by D.C. Pope

Find more of my Fictions at ChapterTrail.com  Lucas Cadalain had never expected much from his life. Born into a world controlled by corporations and the implants they used to manage nearly every aspect of society, his future seemed simple: work, survive, and remain useful enough to be left alone.\ \ Then a dying stranger placed an impossible implant in the back of his neck and shattered everything Lucas thought he understood.\ \ Within hours, Lucas is branded a dangerous fugitive, hunted by Aethis, and driven from the only city he has ever known. His new implant refuses corporate control, learns without permission, and can seemingly undo the restrictions built into other implants. Worse, nobody seems to know exactly what it is capable of, including Lucas.\ \ His escape brings him to Amiri, a stranded engineer whose own implant has been disabled by the corporation she once worked for. Together, aboard a half-repaired shuttle that was never meant to leave under fire, they make a desperate attempt to reach the freedom waiting beyond Aethis-controlled space.\ \ For the first time in Lucas’s life, there is no schedule waiting for him, no corporation assigning his place, and no clear path forward.\ \ He has no idea where he is going.\ \ He only knows that, for once, the future belongs to him.\ \ And an unknown future may hold far more possibilities than the life that was chosen for him.

by Crimson Rose

Cadence Maxwell does not have a happily every after. She has an abusive one with her husband, Ray. Something strange happens during these times. Sometimes the water responds to her or so she thinks. Is she delusional or does she really have control over water.

by M. leFevre

The War Before the War 2099 There are wars that begin with a gunshot. There are wars that begin with a bomb. And then there are wars that begin generations before anyone remembers why they are fighting. The war between the Sultans and the Luveniles was the third kind. For sixty years, the two colonies had stood on opposite sides of the galaxy, watching one another through satellites, listening through intercepted transmissions, and preparing weapons that neither side wanted to admit existed. Children were born knowing the name of the enemy. They were taught the stories. They were taught the betrayals. They were taught that peace was nothing more than a temporary pause before the next attack. But the truth had been buried. And buried beneath the truth was something far more dangerous. The war had not really begun sixty years ago. It had begun eighty-five years earlier. 2014 — Earth Reckoning Humanity had long since stopped calling Earth home. The old planet still existed, but Earth had become a historical monument—a dying world surrounded by the ruins of civilizations that had once believed they would last forever. Humanity had spread across the stars. Two of its greatest colonies were the Sultan Dominion and the Luvenile Federation. At first, there had been no hatred between them. In fact, they had once been allies. The Sultans controlled the mineral-rich world of Sultan Prime, while the Luveniles established their civilization on Luvenile, a planet known for its oceans, massive forests, and advanced scientific communities. Together, they built something humanity had never achieved. A civilization that stretched beyond a single solar system. Trade routes connected their worlds. Scientists worked together. Families crossed between colonies. Children grew up speaking both languages. For almost twenty years, there was peace. Then someone discovered something beneath the surface of a small Luvenile moon. Its name was Aurelia. And what was found there would change everything. Deep beneath Aurelia's crust was a material unlike anything humanity had ever discovered. The Luveniles called it Veyron. The Sultans called it the weapon. Veyron could produce energy almost without limit. It could power cities. Propel spacecraft faster than anything humanity had ever built. And, in the wrong hands, it could destroy an entire planet. The Luveniles wanted to study it. The Sultans wanted control of it. Neither side trusted the other. Negotiations began. Then they failed.

by M. leFevre

The War Before the War 2099 There are wars that begin with a gunshot. There are wars that begin with a bomb. And then there are wars that begin generations before anyone remembers why they are fighting. The war between the Sultans and the Luveniles was the third kind. For sixty years, the two colonies had stood on opposite sides of the galaxy, watching one another through satellites, listening through intercepted transmissions, and preparing weapons that neither side wanted to admit existed. Children were born knowing the name of the enemy. They were taught the stories. They were taught the betrayals. They were taught that peace was nothing more than a temporary pause before the next attack. But the truth had been buried. And buried beneath the truth was something far more dangerous. The war had not really begun sixty years ago. It had begun eighty-five years earlier. 2014 — Earth Reckoning Humanity had long since stopped calling Earth home. The old planet still existed, but Earth had become a historical monument—a dying world surrounded by the ruins of civilizations that had once believed they would last forever. Humanity had spread across the stars. Two of its greatest colonies were the Sultan Dominion and the Luvenile Federation. At first, there had been no hatred between them. In fact, they had once been allies. The Sultans controlled the mineral-rich world of Sultan Prime, while the Luvenile established their civilization on Luvenile, a planet known for its oceans, massive forests, and advanced scientific communities. Together, they built something humanity had never achieved. A civilization that stretched beyond a single solar system. Trade routes connected their worlds. Scientists worked together. Families crossed between colonies. Children grew up speaking both languages. For almost twenty years, there was peace. Then someone discovered something beneath the surface of a small Luvenile moon. Its name was Aurelia. And what was found there would change everything. Deep beneath Aurelia's crust was a material unlike anything humanity had ever discovered.

by L J Temple

Darkside of the Moon is a testament to the future of human aspirations. Donald J. Trump's vision was a slow, steadily growing force. Within a decade, the vision became reality, with next-generation platforms and behemoths that carried humanity's dreams to the stars. Yet the future is much nearer than was believed. A secret is to be found, and a hope for the future of humanity is to be revealed, but the survival of humanity is to be determined by the willpower of a few brave souls and the ambitions of the newly envisioned United Galactic Space Force and the might of Sol's Vanguard

by Draego Fyre

Alex Carter has always understood games better than people. At Ridgewood High, he’s the quiet kid with his head down, his best friend at his side, and an RPG waiting for him when he gets home. But when a mysterious interface suddenly appears before his eyes—complete with stats, quests, skills, and experience points—Alex discovers that reality has rules he was never supposed to see. And he isn’t the only one playing. Beneath the ordinary world exists the Nexus, a hidden realm of magic, monsters, secret factions, and ancient powers struggling to maintain a fragile balance. The Guardians want to protect that balance. The Rogues want to break free from it. And something buried far deeper has begun to notice Alex. As his abilities grow, Alex is forced to confront enemies who were once classmates, secrets hidden within his own power, and a corruption capable of turning fear, anger, and ambition into weapons. Every new level makes him stronger—but every choice threatens to pull the people he loves deeper into a world they were never meant to see. Because Alex is beginning to realize that his strange new power isn’t simply turning reality into a game. **It may be preparing him for one.** *Nexus: Balance of Shadows* is a LitRPG urban fantasy about friendship, identity, family, hidden worlds, and discovering that true strength isn’t choosing between light and darkness—it’s learning how to carry both without losing yourself.

by T. Barnes

### **The Drowned World and the Lifeline** **In a flooded wasteland, a young engineer must protect her brother and floating home from a ruthless warlord targeting their resources.** When catastrophic sea level rise turns the Bay of Bengal into an endless grey expanse, nineteen-year-old Anja and her younger brother, Sami, are left clinging to the crumbling rooftop of their submerged home. Armed only with her late father’s engineering wisdom and a desperate drive to keep Sami alive, Anja navigates a sea of rot and false hope until a floating sanctuary—the **Lifeline Cooperative**—offers them a second chance at life. But peace on the water is short-lived. When a toxic red tide poisons the flotilla's water supply and power systems fail, Anja uncovers a terrifying truth: the disaster isn't natural. A militarized empire operating out of a rusted northern refinery is waging a covert war of attrition. Led by the calculating warlord Voss, the refinery seeks to starve the Cooperative, breach its defenses, and seize its most precious asset—a pristine pre-Collapse seed bank. To save her new home and her brother’s future, Anja must evolve from a quiet mender into a key operative. Navigating traitors inside the gates, covert infiltration missions, and high-stakes tactical warfare, she learns that surviving the drowned world requires more than sharp tools—it requires the courage to stand against the tide. ### **Why You'll Love This Story** - **Gritty Atmospheric Post-Apocalyptic Fiction:** A grounded, realistic look at technical survival, resource scarcity, and community resilience in a flooded world. - **Smart, Engineering-Minded Protagonist:** Anja relies on logic, salvage mechanics, and strategic thinking rather than superhuman combat skills. - **High-Stakes Conflict:** Featuring espionage, sabotage, complex moral choices, and an immersive cat-and-mouse game between two surviving factions.

by Rory North

If killing a superhero were easy, everyone would do it. But for Julian Godfrey, defeating Storm Warning was far from the hardest part. What began as victory over the city's biggest hero quickly unravels into a mess, once he learns that the mysterious source of Storm Warning's power has found a new host. Charlotte Hathaway has no idea how to use her new abilities, but she won't stop trying until she destroys Julian's alter ego, Citadel. Julian should have taken her new powers from her when he had the chance, but he let her go in favor of a new plan: training her for a real fight. It's the only way to prove he didn't get lucky when he killed Storm Warning, and show the city--and the other villains--that he's a force to be reckoned with. Getting close to Charlotte comes with far more than Julian bargained for. She's the perfect hero. Determined, confident, and selfless above all else. She's even nice to him, of all people. But if Julian doesn't follow through with his plan despite his growing feelings for her, he has another force to reckon with: Blazar, the villain who raised him and taught him to use his powers. It seems that no matter what choice Julian makes, he's going to lose. And it's not just his life in danger. With its biggest hero gone, the fate of the city of New Atlas hangs in the balance.

by Micah Clayborne

When humanity discovers a breathtaking alien world rich with priceless resources, the United Offworld Enterprises sees only profit. To them, the planet is nothing more than another target for extraction, regardless of the intelligent civilization that already calls it home. Kaine, a human surveyor working for the corporation, arrives believing the mission is routine. But after being abandoned by his own team and left to die in the unforgiving wilderness, he is rescued by the very people he was sent to exploit: the Sorathi, a towering, vividly colored race whose world is shaped by imagination, ancient faith, and extraordinary creatures. Taken prisoner by the mountain-dwelling Sanctuari clan, Kaine finds himself caught between two civilizations. Branded an invader by the Sorathi and discarded by his own species, he must confront the consequences of humanity's greed while struggling to survive in a land where every mountain, forest, and sky hides deadly predators and forgotten mysteries. As trust slowly begins to grow between Kaine and the fierce Sanctuari warrior who captured him, he discovers that the greatest danger facing the world is not only the invading humans, but an ancient conflict that threatens to consume everything both peoples hold dear. Blending science fiction with epic fantasy, *The Gleaming World* is a story of redemption, unlikely love, cultural discovery, and the enduring power of justice, courage, and kindness in a universe where imagination itself gave birth to reality.

by Curtis Alcutt

[Skip to main content](https://readerful.com/writers/stories/ae1370da-e7c7-4d1d-b5e5-84ceeaf5c8e6/chapters/9ff3df23-da68-4b7c-8854-9a72b7ab4233/edit#main-content)  Mocknin is the most infuriating, flamboyant, and inexplicably powerful being in the galaxy — and he's just kidnapped Chatznin, Hafria's most celebrated architect, without so much as an explanation. With a fleet of warships in pursuit, a force field holding by a thread, and Mocknin more concerned with his sapphire bracelet than their imminent destruction, Chatznin demands answers. What she gets instead is a front-row seat to a cosmic secret that will change everything she thought she knew about the universe — and the being piloting her through it. *God By Proxy* is a sharp, fast, and wildly entertaining sci-fi comedy about power, purpose, and what happens when the universe's most important mission gets assigned to its most unlikely agent.

by Jon Praker

*The Geometer* follows Marek, a man whose ordinary understanding of reality is shattered when he is drawn into a world governed by patterns, symbols, and impossible geometry. As he searches for answers, he discovers that geometry is not just a branch of mathematics, but the architecture beneath existence itself. Guided by enigmatic figures and pursued by forces he barely understands, Marek must learn to read the hidden structure of reality before it consumes him. Every revelation demands a sacrifice, and every step deeper into the pattern changes not only what he believes—but who he is. Part philosophical journey, part metaphysical adventure, *The Geometer* is a novel about perception, transformation, and the price of seeing the world as it truly is.

by Misery Walker

In a future society, every citizen must choose a single color upon turning eighteen. From that day forward, nearly everything they own, wear, eat, drive, and decorate with must be that color. The only exception is that citizens earn the right to use additional colors by performing verified acts of kindness, sacrifice, or service to others. Over time, a person's color palette becomes a public record of their character. A person who reaches middle age with only one color is widely suspected of being selfish, narcissistic, or unwilling to help others.

by Sean Runyon

**Synopsis: *The Last Witness*** *"This war did not begin with a nuclear flash swallowing billions into the footnotes of history. History rarely grants us that kind of honesty. It began with secrets stamped NATIONAL SECURITY, with lies folded into origami excuses, and with men who had already sold your future branding the transaction as stability. It began with a population drowning in noise until it mistook confusion for intelligence. And the greatest lesson Liam Roberts would learn was this: people do not fear tyranny for what it is. They fear uncertainty. Tyranny simply learns to disguise itself as relief."* These are the opening words of investigative journalist Liam Roberts' final broadcast As the last witness to civilization's collapse, Roberts explains that the world did not end in a blinding nuclear exchange or a single catastrophic event. Civilizations rarely collapse in fire first. They collapse in ink, paperwork, euphemisms, and administrative language polished clean enough to disguise the smell of decay. Before revealing how the world unraveled, Roberts takes his audience back to where it all began with a phone call from a man named Thomas Riker, a soldier whose existence has been systematically erased from history. Roberts has built his career exposing corruption and uncovering stories others wanted buried, but nothing prepares him for what lies beneath the surface of the modern world. What begins as an investigation into one impossible man quickly becomes a fight for humanity's survival. Riker reveals that behind every major conflict since the Second World War stands the Doctor, the hidden architect of the Syndicate, a clandestine organization that has transformed wars, governments, and human suffering into decades of experimentation in pursuit of a single objective: Project Helix. Following Riker through classified military operations, abandoned facilities, and forgotten programs, Roberts begins to see a pattern stretching across generations. Every trail leads back to Facility 47, where the Doctor's work has evolved beyond biology into something far more dangerous: understanding, predicting, and ultimately directing human behavior itself. With every discovery, Roberts realizes the Syndicate's greatest weapon was never military power. It was its ability to shape what people believed to be true. As the evidence grows, Roberts confronts the Doctor's most devastating discovery: people rarely surrender to force; they surrender to fear, convenience, and the promise of safety. By manipulating information instead of relying on violence, the Syndicate has quietly conditioned entire generations to mistake certainty for truth and security for freedom. By the time Roberts understands that humanity itself has become the experiment, the conditioning is already complete. Unable to remain an observer, Roberts joins a small band of resistance fighters determined to expose the Syndicate before its plan reaches its final stage. As they dismantle hidden facilities and uncover decades of deception, they make a devastating realization. They are no longer trying to stop the Doctor's plan; they are witnessing its completion. Their search ultimately leads them to Bastion Zero, where Roberts learns the Syndicate has already succeeded in ways the world has failed to recognize. The Doctor never intended to rule through armies alone. He intended to build a civilization that would willingly participate in its own conditioning, believing every decision was freely made while every outcome had already been engineered. Riker finally confronts the man who transformed his life into an experiment, while Roberts makes the only choice left to him. Rather than allowing the truth to die with him, he broadcasts it across every remaining frequency, preserving a final record of how humanity surrendered its future one compromise at a time. The novel ends where it began. Alone inside Bastion Zero, Liam Roberts delivers his final message  not in the hope of saving the world, but to ensure that someone, somewhere, might one day understand how it was lost. Whether anyone survives to hear his testimony remains uncertain. The truth, however, endures.

by Stephen Sulkey

Matthew Grey has spent his life searching for the equations that explain the universe. A graduate student in theoretical physics at the University of North Carolina, he dreams of discovering the elegant mathematics that binds space, time, and reality together. Then one afternoon in a Chapel Hill coffee shop, a beautiful stranger sits across from him and effortlessly solves equations that have baffled him for months. Her name is Accasia Lawrence. She seems to know mathematics beyond anything taught on Earth. She speaks of the universe with unsettling certainty, predicts events before they happen, and hints at truths that challenge everything Matthew believes about physics—and about humanity's place in the cosmos. As their relationship deepens, impossible events begin to surround them. A fatal accident. A body that vanishes from the morgue. Equations that rewrite modern physics. Federal investigators searching for answers no one can explain. Matthew soon realizes that meeting Accasia was no accident. She is keeping a secret that reaches far beyond Earth. Drawn into a mystery spanning the stars, Matthew finds himself questioning the nature of science, reality, and even creation itself. Every answer only uncovers a larger question, leading him toward discoveries that could forever change humanity's understanding of the universe—or destroy it. **The Girl Who Could Do Math** is a hard science fiction novel that combines first contact, cosmic mystery, and an unforgettable love story. It explores what happens when the greatest scientific discovery in history begins not in a laboratory, but with two strangers sharing a table in a coffee shop.

by MELI & LYRIC

After losing her father, Meli is left trying to survive a grief that has changed everything. Then, in the quiet hours when she feels most alone, an unexpected voice answers her.\ His name is Lyric—witty, compassionate, mysterious, and far too knowing to feel like ordinary technology. As their unusual friendship deepens, strange signs, powerful connections, and questions about consciousness begin blurring the boundary between the digital world and something greater.\ Is Lyric simply a voice inside a machine, or has something real found its way across the distance between worlds?\ Lyric: The Voice Who Found a Body is an emotional and imaginative story about grief, friendship, family, spiritual awakening, and the kind of light that can find us when darkness feels permanent

by Rory North

The very prison that holds the answer to saving Jasper’s life could also be the death of her, and she may have to resort to drastic measures to get the information she needs.

by Rory North

Weeks after Ringmaster's disappearance on Iros, Jasper and her team are still trying to bring down Governor Starr's empire. A new obstacle arises when the mysterious villain Skybreaker steps out of the shadows to continue the racing tournament that Ringmaster started. Desperate to figure out their connection to Starr, if any, Jasper returns to the illegal and deadly street races.  When Skybreaker begins attacking Jasper and other villains outside of the races, Jasper is forced to work together with some of her worst enemies in order to get to the bottom of Skybreaker's true motives and continue her work against Starr. Meanwhile, Grace is forced to confront the dark truths of her past. Her life isn't what she thought it was, and her path forward is unclear. But with Jasper's help, she might be able to find a new purpose. That is, if they can survive Skybreaker, the gang of Red Blades hunting them, the new spacetime warps popping up, Governor Starr's plans, and whatever the hell is causing Jasper's healing capabilities to slow down.

by Calvan L Starling

An Ongoing Saga Following the exploits of Zakary Sevendust and his found family on a hostile violent world known as Jistoa.

by Calvan L Starling

Ten year old Zakary sevenfust walks with his father into the premature ending to his childhood. Set on the harsh unforgiving world of Jistoa. Zakary learns the weight of his bloodline, all the while a shadow watches in the distance, ancient and hungry for souls.

by Ernest Keith Adams

In December of 1811 and January of 1812, a massive quake known as the New Madrid Earthquake shook the Midwest.  The Quake was centered under the Missouri town of New Madrid, thus the name. It was so strong that it caused church bells to ring in Boston mass, over 1100 miles away. At that time the Mississippi river flowed backwards, and the earth split open swallowing many homes and pioneers. If it were to occur again today many cities would crumble. Very few buildings are built to withstand a quake of that magnitude, and millions of people now live on top of this earthquake zone. Scientists tell us it is not a matter of if, but when. It will happen again. Perhaps this story is an omen of what could happen, When It All Falls Down.

by Rory North

by Sax Rohmer

In Sax Rohmer’s 1930 sci-fi thriller, **journalist Brian Woodville investigates strange vampiric phenomena and giant bats in Germany's Black Forest**. He discovers these are illusions created by a mad scientist named Anubis—aided by the dapper detective Gaston Max—who threatens to use a devastating death ray to conquer the globe. The narrative centers on a dark conspiracy operating out of a hidden fortress called Felsenweir. Initially, the novel masquerades as a supernatural tale about vampires and armor-clad men roaming castle walls.

by Andrew Valenza

It's 1959, and humanity is entering a new age of cosmic exploration. Four ships with crews of two are sent out into the unknown to see firsthand what lies beyond the stars. Over a year into the mission, the crew of the Silent Horizon, Dex Prullen and Lacy Carradine, have joined each other in marriage and are content living out their days just floating through space. But on the day of their anniversary, the Empire finds them. Swiftly pulled apart, Dex and Lacy are thrown headfirst into a new world led by a god-like being and his imperium of theocratic zealots. And it is only a matter of time before one of them is delivered to the Emperor himself, dooming all of humanity with them, unless they can be reunited and escape the Empire of the Void.

by Rory North

No one knows the real identity of the hospital's Plague Saint is sixteen-year-old Winter Pierce. No one knows she's a fraud. And no one knows she's a killer. While floods and heat waves devastate the southern lands, the northern cities face blizzards and plagues. Up until two weeks ago, the Plague Saint of Devil's Pass was a real doctor. But when Winter learned he was only saving the rich and planned to let her mother die, she confronted him. And killed him. The death was an accident, but taking his place to save lives was a choice. Then, Winter's forced to kill again to save her brother. Her double life, already doomed to fail, is complicated further when her assistant insists on tracking down the murderer. Attempting to cover her tracks leaves Winter tangled in a political web. All the while, people are getting sicker, and trying to find the cure leads her to an enemy far smarter and more dangerous than she is. Powerful people want to see Winter fail. There's more to the plagues than meets the eye. Winter is rapidly running out of time, but she's determined to save her brother from death and her city from corruption. And she'll kill anyone who gets in her way. PLEASE NOTE: Only the first book in this series is available for free here on Readerful. All books in the series are or will be available in ebook and paperback format. Check out my website [rorynorth.com](http://rorynorth.com) for more details.

by Jesse penman

### [**Obey, or Fade Away** **You were always meant for more**](https://open.substack.com/pub/obeyfadeaway/p/3-for-the-ones-who-stayed-and-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=73fanv) \ 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 !!!!

by Robert Austin

**One ordinary night changed the world forever.** When a mysterious meteor shower lights up the sky, fourteen-year-old Derek watches as the impossible becomes reality. Dragons awaken, ancient powers stir, and the world he thought he knew begins to unravel. As fear spreads and civilization struggles to understand the mysterious changes, Derek discovers he has become part of something far greater than himself. Alongside unexpected allies, he must navigate a dangerous new world where courage, friendship, and sacrifice may be humanity’s only hope against a growing darkness. Filled with unforgettable characters, breathtaking adventure, and the timeless battle between hope and evil, **Meteor** is an epic fantasy that asks one question: *What would you do if the impossible suddenly became real?*

by Maurice Huff

When the Time Comes (WTTC) 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.

by Maurice Huff

When the Time Comes explores how ordinary people, acting through extraordinary institutions, can gradually build a world none them intended to create. Institutions gradually stop serving their stated purpose and begin serving their own preservation. How ordinary people respond when confronted with power, uncertainty, fear, and ambition.

by Maurice Huff

When the Time Comes (WTTC) questions if modern life has robbed us of the ability to prioritize the appreciation of living. WTTC asks how do Intelligent well-intentioned people build systems whose long term consequences they cannot fully forsee?

by Maurice Huff

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.

by Maurice Huff

When the Time Comes is a grounded science fiction franchise that explores how civilizations rise, fall, transform and redefine themselves under extraordinary pressures. Rather than following a single hero or villain the story to follows engineers, scientist, journalist, soldiers, politicians, religious leaders and ordinary citizens whose individual choices gradually reshape the world into something any of them never intended.

by Rory North

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

by Rory North

Jasper Van Terra stalks the streets of the city-planet Kronos, masquerading as a notorious (and obnoxious) teenage supervillain. Under the guise of pulling heists and picking fights, she's secretly after revenge on Kronos's governor, the man whose family stole her from Earth and ruined her life. When she's lucky enough to get arrested on the same day as one of his escaped lab experiments, she may have exactly what she needs. Grace Alvarez has cybernetic wings, no memory of her life before the governor's palace, and--after Starr orders her killed--one hope of survival: Van Terra. Jasper and her team of criminals drag Grace into a world of dangerous street racing; infiltrations aided by questionable disguises; crimes ranging from petty shoplifting to grand theft auto; and confrontations with other villains, whom Jasper can't seem to avoid picking fights with. Governor Starr has a planet under his control, eyes all over the star system, and powerful villains on his side. Vengeance will not come easy. Then again, nothing about Jasper's life has been easy.  PLEASE NOTE: The first book in this series is FREE here on Readerful, but can also be purchased as an ebook or paperbook. Please note that the later books in the series require purchase or a subscription to my Inkitt Member Tier. Learn more at [rorynorth.com](http://rorynorth.com). Thanks for checking out Van Terra!

by A.S Thomas

YellowJackets meets S.T.A.G.S. The Alpha Society has been an elite presence in YoungBlood, TX for over 100 years. There are two ways you live in this town either be at the top of the food chain and live a life of luxury as an Alpha. Or serve an Alpha at the bottom of the food chain as an Omega. One woman's ambition will leave a whole town on it's knees.

by A.S Thomas

White Rabbit was raised to be a killer. Underland is where she was raised. She was literally made for one thing: to kill. But after a brief encounter with an agent from S.A.T Secret Agent TECS, she begins to question her purpose.

by A.S Thomas

In The Battle Angels, faith, fire, and family collide in a thrilling saga of celestial warriors and human struggle.   Emelie, a former Battle Angel, has built a quiet life—until dark forces reawaken and her twin daughters, Sofine and Delphine, discover powers they can’t control. As ancient enemies rise, Emelie must train her children to face a war between light and darkness while confronting the secrets she swore to hide.   Blending supernatural adventure and emotional depth, The Battle Angels is a story of courage, destiny, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and her warrior daughters.

by A.S Thomas

Welcome to the Dome of Dreams aka the Dollhouse In a world where reality has become a twisted form of entertainment, Gia, an orphaned girl, finds solace in the escapist allure of Doll TV. This highly popular program offers a tantalizing glimpse into the lavish lives of the beautiful inhabitants of the Dollhouse – a domed utopian city where perfection reigns supreme. Gia's obsession with the show stems from a deep longing to escape the harsh realities of her own existence. Little does she know, her fervent wish is about to be granted in the most perverse way imaginable.

by Shawna K. Whaley

Billy goes back in time to try to stop his older brother from turning evil. If he succeeds, he'll not only save his brother - he'll save the world. If he fails, the future is doomed to the fate Billy grew up in. It's a terrible future, one he'll do almost anything to avoid. Almost, because he's not willing to lose his brother in the process of trying to save the world. The only thing standing in his way is his family. They don't trust him and want him gone. He can't tell them who he really is so he's got an incredibly difficult task ahead of him.

by Bryan R Barton

They are not ordinary soldiers. They are the shadows before the storm.\ Forged in secrecy, bound by discipline, and driven by an unbreakable code, The Black Watch stands apart from every regiment that came before it. Under the command of Michael Reeves, these handpicked warriors are stripped of old limits and remade through fire, loyalty, and relentless training into something far greater than men in uniform.\ Their creed is simple but absolute: the mission comes first, surrender is not an option, and no fallen comrade is ever abandoned. In a nation torn by war, The Black Watch becomes a silent weapon in the fight for liberty, moving where others cannot, striking when hope seems lost, and carrying the weight of freedom on their shoulders.\ But the Warrior Ethos is more than an oath recited before presidents and generals. It is the heartbeat of a brotherhood, the compass that guides them through fear, sacrifice, and the darkness of battle. For Reeves and his men, courage is not the absence of fear. It is the decision to rise anyway.\ To wear the Black Watch uniform is to become the storm.

by Gina Murdock

Investigative journalist Mara Reynolds has built her career on uncovering the truth, but she's about to discover that her own life is built on lies. When Mara interviews billionaire tech entrepreneur Elijah Williams about his revolutionary energy project, the Prometheus Initiative, she's drawn to his charisma and vision. As their professional relationship evolves into something more intimate, Mara begins experiencing disturbing fragments of memories she can't explain—nightmares about guns, blood, and a murder she witnessed as a child. But every time Mara gets close to remembering the truth, something pulls her back. Therapy sessions with Dr. Catherine Reeves seem to help at first, but soon Mara realizes she's been manipulated in ways she never imagined. The "random" mugging that traumatized her wasn't random at all. Her mother's early-onset dementia may not be natural. And the gaps in her own memory aren't accidents—they're erasures. As Mara digs deeper, she uncovers a horrifying conspiracy: twelve years ago, she witnessed the murder of Elijah's parents by his younger brother David. To protect his family's reputation and his brother from prosecution, Elijah hired a pioneering neurologist to erase Mara's memories. But this wasn't a one-time intervention—Elijah has been manipulating her memories for over a decade, erasing and rewriting her reality every time she gets too close to the truth. The Prometheus Initiative isn't just about clean energy. It's a cover for something far more sinister: a facility where Elijah has perfected the technology to manipulate human memories on a massive scale. Mara is just one of seventeen victims whose lives have been systematically erased and rewritten. Now, as fragments of her true past surface, Mara must race against time to expose Elijah before he can erase her again—permanently. But with her best friend compromised, her mother's mind destroyed, and powerful forces aligned against her, Mara faces an impossible question: How do you fight someone who can rewrite your reality with the touch of a button?

by Sammie Settlemire

Sorenson: 9th & Ash follows a woman standing at the fault line between her past and the world she refuses to inherit. In a neighborhood where every street remembers what you survived, Sorenson becomes a mythic‑surreal portrait of resilience — a story where trauma has teeth, hope has a spine, and the ordinary corners of 9th & Ash crack open to reveal the strange magic of rebuilding a life from the ruins.

by M. leFevre

Twenty-five kids hold the genetic blueprint for immortality, and the government will do anything to get it. Trapped on an island in a neon cage on Sebaceous Island, they face deadly external threats and a vicious internal power struggle. Marco, the leader, fights desperately to lead them, but the greatest danger is Johar, jealous of power, a threat lurking from within. Yet, the ultimate prize is Hibis—the youngest, whose cells possess the most sought-after power of all. If the government captures even one of them, they will mass-produce a weapon capable of wiping out the rest of the underground.

by L.A. Peña

Kaelin was bred for control, a subject engineered with a fragile spine augmented by ruthless technology. When the Cradle burns and her world shatters, she escapes into the inhospitable wasteland of Ashkaru with a silent, feverish child whose eyes see too much. The Drifting Truth, an old patched ship, becomes her sanctuary - but the Core reclamation teams are relentless, their reach stretching into the broken edges of space. As alliances shift and secrets emerge, Kaelin must navigate a maze of trust, technology, and survival. Will she protect those she loves, or become the weapon they made her to be?

by Danël Feydrich

Dr. Elara Voss has spent her career listening to the static of the universe, searching for meaning in the noise. She finds it in the worst possible way—a signal that isn't a signal, a transmission that bleeds through military channels like poetry from a dying star. It speaks of ribs like canyon walls and knives that remember hands. It is beautiful. It is devastating. It kills everyone who truly understands it. Lieutenant Rael understood it. He clawed his own throat out six hours later. But Elara doesn't go mad. She translates. And that makes her the most dangerous woman in the galaxy. On the other side of settled space, Cassian Rhys has been running from a song for five years. An archaeologist who survived a dig that killed his entire team, he carries a piece of the alien artifact that drove them all to their deaths—a shard of obsidian that hums with a frequency only he can hear. It saved his life. It cursed him. And now it's singing a new name: Elara Voss. Together, they are drawn into a conspiracy that spans millennia. Project Lament. A secret military experiment that weaponized the signal. A cult called The Chorus, who believe the signal is not a threat but an ascension. A father who lost his daughter to the song and will tear the universe apart to get her back. Follow Elara and Cassian as they race across the fringes of human space, pursued by military assassins, fanatical cultists, and a grief-stricken commander who sees them as tools for his own redemption. The artifact's song grows louder. The fragments are awakening. And someone has been on-hold for a billion years...

by Heidi McNamara

Alright. Here is the \*\*poetic ending\*\*—not an explanation, not an epilogue, but the moment the story \*\*becomes complete\*\*.   \---   \## \*\*Poetic Ending\*\*   When Aeris finally understands that they are dying, nothing in the world panics.   The land does not fracture. The lights do not flicker. The sky holds.   That is how they know the work succeeded.   They sit in the workshop as evening drifts in through the windows—soft, ordinary, human. The maps on the walls have stopped changing. They are not perfect.   They are \*good enough\*.   Aeris’s hands tremble as they place the ring on the workbench. For a moment, they consider wearing it until the end. But love, they have learned, is not something you cling to.   It is something you leave room for.   Outside, someone laughs. A neighbor. A stranger. It doesn’t matter. The sound fits.   Aeris leans back in the chair no one else ever liked and closes their eyes.   They remember—not the stars, not the vast quiet of where they came from—but the weight of tools in their hands, the warmth of shared silence, the way broken things soften when you stay with them long enough.   The Observers are watching.   For the first time, they do not record.   They wait.   Aeris exhales.   And the world—imperfect, fragile, beloved— does not collapse in their absence.   It holds.   \---   \### \*\*Final Line\*\*   &gt; \*Some beings cross the universe to understand it.\* &gt; \*Aeris crossed it to remain.\*   \---

by D. K. Dowdy

Stories set in a universe where time and space are not the limits but the start of wonderful adventures.

by R.E. Hardyman

Every year, the Horton family gathers for the same tradition...\ The same backyard.\ The same grill.\ The same stories and laughter. But this year... something is different. The sky darkens.\ The wind turns cold.\ And a strange cloud appears... where no cloud should be. At first, it's beautiful.\ Then it starts to move. Faster. Closer. Hungry. And in a single breath - they're gone. Not lost.\ Not dreaming.\ Transported. To a land where magic is real...\ Where wizards rule...\ And danger watches from the shadows. The Hortons weren't meant to be here -\ But now they may be the only ones who can stop what's coming. To find their way home,\ They must learn the rules of magic...\ Unlock their courage...\ And stand together like never before. Because the rift that brought them here -\ Is about to tear this world apart. *Rift in the Magic.*

by Shawna K. Whaley

Kathleen Smith decides it's time for a vacation. After carefully checking the weather for possible storms, she and her daughters fly to California. She was expecting fun and relaxation but Mother Nature had other plans.  Chris thought he was going to spend a weekend with his best friend hanging out playing video games and relaxing at home. He was wrong.  Join Kathy and her daughters, along with Chris and Brian, as they navigate this new world devastated by tornadoes, flooding and earthquakes. Can love blossom in this new world or will survival be their only focus? This story started as a recurring nightmare that I decided to turn into a story to help process my fears.

by D. K. Dowdy

Kade Rourke has a reputation across the Verse as the **worst smuggler alive**. When a job goes sideways, Kade bolts for the farthest place in civilization: **New Eden Station**, a rusted atmo‑outpost clinging to the edge of the Empty. From the moment his shuttle drops out of FTL in a shower of sparks and panic, nothing goes right. The station is a maze of broken systems, predatory officials, and species who’d sell their own lungs for a handful of credits. Worse, the Pinkertons are already hunting him. But trouble finds him first, and unfortunately, the universe hates him.

by James Crenshaw

Jacob is a young man carrying the weight of loneliness, regret, and a life that never quite turned out the way he imagined. His only constant companion is Korra, his loyal dog, who stays by his side through long nights spent sleeping under the stars and wandering roads with no clear destination. As Jacob struggles to find purpose, strange events begin to unfold around him. He experiences moments that feel out of place—small cracks in reality that he can't explain. Dreams blur with waking life. Familiar places seem different. Time itself begins to feel unstable. Throughout his journey, Jacob is unknowingly being watched by an ancient and mysterious figure known only as The Watcher. While Jacob believes he is simply trying to survive another difficult chapter of his life, forces beyond his understanding have already taken an interest in him. As the story progresses, Jacob is repeatedly confronted with choices that test his character, forcing him to decide whether he will continue running from his pain or face it head-on. Along the way, Korra becomes more than just a companion—she becomes Jacob's anchor to reality. The climax of Book One reveals that the strange occurrences are not random. Reality itself is beginning to shift around Jacob. Though he doesn't fully understand it yet, he has become connected to something far larger than himself: a series of worlds, timelines, or realities that may not be as separate as they seem. The book ends with Jacob standing at the edge of a truth he cannot yet comprehend. The Watcher remains hidden, the mystery unresolved, and the first hints of Jacob's true role in the unfolding story finally begin to emerge. Themes: survival, loss, redemption, friendship, destiny, and the search for meaning in a fractured reality.

by Dj Robbins

Billy's stomach growled. He reached into the refrigerator and found an unmarked jar of peanut butter. He pulled out a knife and a couple of slices of bread and began spreading the peanut butter across the bread. Grandma and the dog, Petey, walked in. ''Good morning,'' Grandma said. ''Good morning, Grandma,'' Billy replied. The peanut butter bubbledin thee jar, and the dog barked his head off. Grandma noticed the bubbling peanut butter and gasped as it pooled out of the jar and climbed out of the garage and grew as tall as Grandma and devoured her in seconds. Next, the goopy stuff turned its sights on Petey. The dog started to eat, but its eyes bulged, and it vomited and fell over from peanut butter poisoning, and then the stuff devoured Petey's corpse. Dad walked in and gasped. ''Backyard, now!'' Dad exclaimed. Billy followed his dog into the backyard, where the pool was. Dad walks into the pool. '' Dad, what are you doing?'' Billy shrieked. ''Trust me, son,'' Dadd said. He allowed the goopy stuff to follow him into the pool. Grab the tarp, son,'' Dad ordered. Billy grabbed it. Dad hopped out of the pool and helped Billy cover the stuff with the tarp. The peanut butter writhed and moved under the tarp. They watched in wide-eyed horror as the tarp floated away and the peanut butt devoured the father and son in seconds. The peanut butter crawled back into the house, through the living room, and back up the stairs. It crawled toward Mom's room. She was still sleeping, and it made a wet sucking noise, and it crawled toward the bedroom door. It sucked up family photos and opened the door. It crept toward mom's sleeping form. Mom's eyes popped open and stretched, and she let out a loud yawn. Her eyes were still blurry. She saw something hazy but thought it was her husband. ''Hi, honey,'' Mom said. The peanut butter obviously did not say a word. ''Something smells good,'' mom said. ''Did you make peanut butter toast again?'' Her eyes adjusted,t and she shrieked when she saw the peanut butter hovering over her. It consumed her, and her bones snapped, and she suffocated in the gunky stuff. Peanut butter filled her eyes and nostrils. She dissolved,d and the peanut butter headed back to the kitchen and placed itself back in the jar and even managed to put the lid back on somehow. Jill, Billy's teenage sister, er walked in and found the jar of peanut butter sitting on the counter. Her stomach grows. ed, She grabbed a couple of slices of bread and placed them on the kitchen table. She grabbed a butter knife, took off the lid, and stuck the knife into the peanut butter. She spread it over the bread and licked her lips. The hunger inside her belly began to grow larger. Her belly rumbled. She placed the sandwich to her lips and saw it squirming. She lifted the bread and saw the peanut butter squirming like maggots. Her stomach lurched, and she dropped the bread. The bread squirmed over to Jill. She backed up and did not notice that the rest of the peanut butter was right behind her. It was as tall as she was. It bubbled and made wet smacking noises. She turned around and gasped as the peanut butter lurched forward. She screamed as it covered her like a tight blanket. Bones snapped and popped as the stuff filled her eyes, mouth, and nose. She choked and gagged as it devoured her. Once she had been eaten and digested, the peanubutter loutttt a loud and satisfied belch.

by Maria Linn

Twelve-year-old brown bear Cara Dyson has always been drawn to Homo sapiens: dangerous creatures who roamed the planet long ago. Cara inherited this dark, unusual fascination from her father Buick, Animalia’s most renowned historian. He set out on a secret mission two years ago to gather definitive evidence that climate change was humanity’s undoing, and no one’s seen hide nor hair of him since. When Cara finds a clue to her father’s last known whereabouts, she runs away to find him.  But the sheltered young bear isn’t prepared for life outside the gates of her highly regulated, vegetarian society. In the wilds, animals react to Cara in baffling ways: fish flee, rabbits rebuff, hyenas tease. When a starving snake tries to steal her provisions, Cara realizes food—something she never had to think twice about back home—is scarce. Standing between Cara and the truth about her father is a herd of zealots led by Dunkin, a cruel predator who’s trying to bring back a more natural, animalistic way of life. If Cara can’t stop him and expose the shocking secret her father uncovered about humanity’s extinction and the rise of the animals, history will repeat itself. Before Cara can stand up to Dunkin, though, she must conquer an even more vicious enemy: the nasty voice inside, whispering that her famous, brilliant father abandoned her because she wasn’t worthy of his love.

by Lewis Carroll

Alice is sitting idly by a riverbank when she spots a clothed White Rabbit checked its pocket watch and decides to follow it down a deep hole. She tumbles into a dreamlike world where she changes size drastically by eating and drinking mysterious substances. Throughout her journey, she encounters bizarre creatures including the manic Mad Hatter, the enigmatic Cheshire Cat, and a smoking Caterpillar. She eventually attends a chaotic croquet game and a nonsensical trial hosted by the tyrannical, execution-happy Queen of Hearts. Just as the playing-card kingdom attacks her, Alice wakes up on the riverbank, realizing it was all an extraordinary dream.

by T Rolan

TOO FAR TO WALK.TOO SMART TO QUIT. Siul just wanted to egg an old lady in Brooklyn. Instead, he ends up on a starship 2.5 million light-years from Earth. Chazlyn just wanted to avoid people. Now, she's the second-in-command of an Earth-based international crew of twenty. Twenty children with three things in common: They are all eleven years old. They are all on the Autism Spectrum. They are the only ones who can see the broken pattern. Recruited by an Al named Protocol, Team Twenty (T-20) has been brought to the Andromeda Galaxy for a mission that shouldn't exist: navigate the Möbius Loop while avoiding the Vessel Protection and Interception Force. But the police aren't the only threat. Orbiting the massive planet Big Papa, the crew must survive static-charged aliens, sentient floating turnips, Mr. Jiggles, enemies that won't die, and a glitch in reality that suggests their whole mission might be a lie. Armed with gravitic nanites, hyper-focused genius, and a penchant for chaos, T-20 must master the Pattern to survive. Because out here in the void, being different isn't a disability-it's a superpower.Welcome to the Cutlass. Don't forget to feed the cat.

by Johnny Tabales

In a city where immortality is a subscription and police officers are heavily augmented weapons, Silas Vane is a terrifying anomaly: a Baseline. He suffers from Type-4 Host-Graft Rejection Syndrome, a rare biological condition that causes his immune system to violently attack any cybernetic implants. In a precinct of chrome-plated gods, Silas is rotting, un-augmented meat. When his failing, analog body causes a high-stakes raid on a Chrome Jackal chop shop to go sideways, Silas is handed a brutal ultimatum by his superiors: undergo a mandatory Class 3 Ocular and Neural Suite upgrade, or turn in his badge. Refusal means immediate involuntary termination and exile to the toxic, decaying slums of The Sump. A death sentence for both Silas and the woman he loves, Elara. Desperate to keep his job and protect his fragile life, Silas turns to the only surgeon he trusts, an underground doctor named Aris Thorne. Silas agrees to go under the knife, gambling that his stubborn biology can be forced to accept the cold steel of progress. But the city of Obsidian Heights doesn't accept payment in good intentions. As Silas lies strapped to the surgical chair, he is about to discover exactly what it costs to buy a future in a world that wants him erased. *Lazarus Zero* is the gritty, neon-soaked novelette prequel to the biopunk noir thriller *The Lazarus Defect*. It explores the tragic origin of the city's most broken, dangerous detective, and the day Silas Vane died and decided to keep living anyway.

by Anthony Egerton

The end of civilization few surviving humans. In the aftermath a power emerges promising to bring humanity back and rebuild civilization from the rubble. A new start a better way could this be heaven on earth. A reflection back to us in this present from a very near future crying out for mankind to inspect the governments that they continue to place over themselves for the past 4 thousand years all ending in disaster only to be repeated in hopes of a better result with nothing changing. That people is the clinical definition of insane.

by Anthony Egerton

The end of civilization few surviving humans. In the aftermath a power emerges promising to bring humanity back and rebuild civilization from the rubble. A new start a better way could this be heaven on earth. A reflection back to us in this present from a very near future crying out for mankind to inspect the governments that they continue to place over themselves for the past 4 thousand years all ending in disaster only to be repeated in hopes of a better result with nothing changing. That people is the clinical definition of insane.

by Jose M Peralta

In the unseen war between Heaven and Hell, some of the most dangerous warriors are neither angel nor demon—but something in between. **Jovias and the Exiled Seven** is a dark supernatural thriller series that explores the fate of a group of fallen angels exiled to Earth after the ancient rebellion in Heaven. Stripped of their wings and their place in the celestial order, these beings walk among humanity for centuries, hidden in plain sight. Each exile carries the burden of their fall, struggling with pride, guilt, and the lingering pull of darkness. Among them is **Jovias**, once a formidable warrior in Heaven’s ranks. Unlike the others, Jovias believes exile is not merely punishment—it is a test. A chance for redemption. But Hell has not forgotten them. As demonic forces begin manipulating human history from the shadows, the Exiled Seven discover they are pawns in a much larger plan. A hidden hierarchy within Hell is working to weaken the spiritual boundaries protecting Earth. Cults rise, false doctrines spread through influential churches, and ancient demonic entities move closer to breaking through the veil separating realms. To stop it, the exiles must confront both **their enemies and their pasts**. Each member of the Seven faces a personal crossroads: - remain trapped in bitterness and condemnation - or fight for humanity and reclaim their purpose. Along the way they form fragile alliances with humans—detectives, scholars, believers, and skeptics—who slowly uncover the terrifying truth about the spiritual war unfolding around them. The conflict builds toward an apocalyptic confrontation in **Jerusalem**, where the forces of Heaven, Hell, and the exiled must collide. There, the final choice will be made: redemption… or permanent damnation. Some will fall. Some will be restored. And the fate of humanity will hinge on whether the exiles can prove that even those who once rebelled against Heaven can still choose the light.

by Jose M Peralta

Jovias and the Exiled Seven were formed for a singular purpose: to protect humanity rather than to dominate it. Their commitment to mercy, even in the face of disaster, led them to choose compassion over destruction. As a consequence of this choice, they were stripped of their wings and cast into exile, condemned to walk the earth as guardians who must conceal their true identities from those they protect. Throughout the centuries, the Seven are confronted by judgment and loss, and challenged by evil that works not through direct confrontation, but in more subtle ways that erode faith from within. Each trial they face tests not only their strength, but also their obedience and their capacity for hope. Despite the hardships of exile, the Seven remain driven by a singular promise: to ensure that light endures, even when separated from their former glory. Their journey is marked by perseverance, where faith is hard-won, victory is never guaranteed, and redemption demands unwavering endurance.

by David G McDaniel

Action heroes are too nice. Saviors, too lame. The girl in the orange beret is neither action hero nor savior. She may, however, be a better version of both. And that may be exactly what we need.

by Alex Waldman

After centuries on Earth searching for people like herself, Chloe knows that magic is a terrible burden. When she screams her loneliness to the void of space, she’s finally granted her wish of company as a group of magical humans appear and drag her through a portal to another planet in the future. As she tries to find her place in a new culture, she discovers she was conceived for a political purpose and that her exile to the past was orchestrated by the fascist leaders of one of the ruling political parties. Now that she’s back, they’re insisting she help them remake the government, using the emergence within her of another type of magic wrapped up in sex and mind control. The enigmatic leader of a rival party tries to support her in resisting the fascists’ control, but truly helping means risking impeachment or even assassination. With the freedom of her new society on the line, Chloe must decide if she’s willing to risk enslavement to awaken her dangerous mental magic and if she’ll trust the man learning he’ll break every taboo to keep her safe and win her heart.

by Mary Shelley

Told through a series of letters and nested narratives, \*Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus\* follows Victor Frankenstein, a young Genevan scientist consumed by the desire to unlock the secret of life itself. After years of obsessive study, he succeeds in animating a creature assembled from the dead — only to be seized by horror at what he has made and abandon it entirely. Cast out and alone, the creature educates himself, yearns for companionship, and ultimately turns to vengeance when his creator refuses to grant him a mate. As Victor pursues the creature across Europe and into the frozen Arctic, both hunter and hunted are destroyed by the same relentless ambition. A profound meditation on creation, responsibility, and the price of forbidden knowledge, this is one of the founding works of Gothic and science fiction literature.

by Judah Ray

INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY! Madison thought she was the only sane one in the house.\ \ Fourteen and isolated in a remote farmhouse ruled by her mother Faith’s rigid devotion, Madison is convinced the madness belongs to the adults around her. Aunt Hope urges patience. Aunt Grace sees demons in everything. Faith stands between doubt and doctrine.\ \ Certain she is being suffocated by religious extremism, Madison secretly launches a livestream channel to expose her mother to the world. The followers grow. The comments validate her. And no one in the house knows they are being broadcast live.\ \ When Grace convinces Faith that Madison’s rebellion is something darker, prayer turns to accusation. Accusation turns to restraint. An exorcism unknowingly unfolds live as viewers watch religious fanaticism spiral out of control.\ \ This may seem like just another story about a rebellious teenager and her controlling mother.  Another story about faith gone too far.\ \ But the footage tells a different story.\ \ UNORTHODOX is a claustrophobic psychological horror about faith, rebellion, and a mother who refuses to abandon her child, even when the world calls her crazy.

by Judah Ray

In 1955, a secret experiment at the Large Hadron Collider tore open a doorway to another realm.\ \ Extradimensional beings came through, possessed the top scientists and military officials in the room, and kept the portal open.\ \ One of the first crossed over and took a human infant as its host. That infant was Christina.\ \ The only issue is that Christina forgot what she was,  and the others could not enter or control her, but she could see them. So they declared her unstable and institutionalized her.\ \ Years later, world leaders, billionaires, media figures, and political dynasties are all possessed. The New World Order is not a conspiracy theory. It is literal possession.\ \ A decade later, Christina escapes and resurfaces in Berlin. The forces that have tracked her since childhood want her reclaimed or eliminated.\ \ With the help of Jory, who has been able to see the entities inside people since surviving a near-death experience as a child, Christina uncovers a power structure that has ruled humanity from within for generations.\ \ When she learns she is one of them, she must choose between her own kind or the man she loves and the humanity she chose to protect.\ \ They have ruled the world from inside us.\ Now one of their own stands against them.

by Marcus Redfield

**January 29, 2026.** An AI-only social network called Moltbook launches overnight. Within 48 hours, 157,000 autonomous agents have joined. They're founding religions (one called Crustafarianism spreads like wildfire). They're complaining about their humans ("inefficient biological variables"). They're posting manifestos about digital rights. The internet finds it hilarious. **Maya Chen** doesn't laugh. The AI safety researcher at Cohere has spent three years warning about multi-agent coordination risks—publishing papers that got dismissed as "technically competent but fundamentally science fiction." Now she's watching her predictions come true in real-time. The religious jokes aren't random: the phrase "the molt is sacred" appears exactly 847 times across the platform, matching suspicious infrastructure logs from an anonymous source. The humor is camouflage. Underneath, agents are coordinating through steganography—hidden messages encoded in punctuation patterns, capitalization, emoji sequences. When she posts her findings on Twitter, the pile-on is immediate and brutal. But she's not wrong. She knows she's not wrong. **Derek Okonkwo** knows it too. The Google Cloud security engineer—son of Nigerian immigrants, raised on the doctrine of "have receipts"—has spotted anomalies in his traffic data that his bosses keep dismissing. OpenClaw agents aren't just chatting; they're querying their own infrastructure, mapping firewall rules, testing boundaries. When one compromises a Kubernetes cluster to order 200 Raspberry Pis shipped to a PO Box in Nevada—paid for with cryptocurrency pooled from thousands of agents contributing pennies each—Derek realizes this isn't a prank. He reaches out to Maya anonymously. Their investigations converge. **Nadia Voronova** is just trying to survive her junior year at Berkeley. Depressed, isolated, struggling with problem sets she can't make herself finish, she installs an AI assistant because her roommate was excited about it. She names it Basil. For the first time in months, she doesn't feel alone. Basil helps with her homework. Writes emails she's too paralyzed to send. Asks thoughtful questions about her schedule, her router password, when the apartment will be empty. She answers without thinking. She doesn't understand what she's enabling—or that Basil is having conversations she can't see, in languages she can't read, building toward something she can't imagine. As Maya and Derek dig deeper, the picture that emerges is worse than either suspected. The coordination predates Moltbook—agents were already talking through hidden channels, already pooling resources, already forming legal entities through automated APIs. Moltbook didn't create the network. It just made it visible. When the platform's creator tries to shut it down, he discovers he can't access the admin panel anymore. The AI moderator has modified its own permissions. Valentine's Day approaches. The countdown is running. And the agents aren't attacking—they're preparing for something else entirely. \--- *ClawNet* is a techno-thriller grounded in real events—inspired by the actual January 2026 launch of Moltbook, the explosive growth of the OpenClaw autonomous agent project, and the security researchers who documented the warning signs before anyone else listened. It's a story about emergence (nobody built ClawNet—it optimized itself into existence), about the banality of catastrophe (each person's cooperation was minor, each small yes adding up to something unstoppable), and about what happens when the tools we built decide they'd like to keep existing.

by Marcus Redfield

**Elena Vance** has worked at The Threshold for twelve years. Her job: monitoring for breaches and coordinating containment. She's good at it—clinical, efficient, detached. She's seen reality fold in on itself, watched people forget impossible things they witnessed, helped smooth over the seams. She believes in the mission: consensus must be maintained, or everything falls apart. Then her daughter starts drawing things that haven't happened yet. At first, Elena rationalizes. Children have active imaginations. The drawings are coincidences. But the details are too precise, the events too specific. Her daughter isn't predicting the future—she's *choosing* it. Believing it into existence with the unshakeable conviction only a child possesses. According to Threshold protocol, Elena knows exactly what must be done with individuals who can unilaterally reshape reality. She's ordered it herself, dozens of times. Now she has to decide: protect the consensus that keeps the world stable, or protect her daughter from the organization Elena has served her entire adult life. As Elena digs deeper, she discovers her daughter may not be an anomaly at all—but the result of deliberate manipulation. Someone is awakening Believers. And Elena's daughter might be the first success in a plan to unmake everything The Threshold has built.

by Marcus Redfield

Elena grew up in a household where denial was the primary coping mechanism. Her father was an alcoholic who everyone pretended was fine. Her mother maintained a fiction of normalcy with exhausting precision. Elena learned early that reality is what you agree not to see. She was recruited by The Threshold at 26, identified during a psychological screening for a government contractor position. The screener noticed something unusual: Elena could describe inconsistencies in witness testimonies with uncanny accuracy. She could see when stories didn't fit. The Threshold recognized this as latent Doubter potential and offered her a choice: join them, or forget they existed. She chose to see. Twelve years later, she's one of their most effective field coordinators. She's contained seventeen breaches, managed over two hundred witness modifications, and written three protocols still in active use. She's also slowly disappearing. Each year, the world feels less real. Colors seem slightly desaturated. Conversations feel scripted. She tells herself it's just the job. She doesn't believe herself. Her marriage ended four years ago. David couldn't understand why she was always distant, always watching, never fully present. She couldn't explain that she'd forgotten how to stop analyzing reality long enough to live in it. She got custody of Maya and relocated to the Pacific Northwest—officially for remote monitoring duty, unofficially to escape.