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Sixteen-year-old Felix Carver carries the ghosts of magicians in his blood. He can communicate with them and use the magical abilities they wielded against monsters when they were alive. His newfound power would be pretty cool, if the ghosts in question weren't his family and the man who killed them. Death doesn't stop Felix's siblings from finding new ways to annoy him from beyond the grave, nor his parents from doing their best to protect him from the dangerous side of his new life. Felix learns that his family belonged to an organization of magicians called the Bright Guardians, while their killer was a part of the Guardian Uprising that tried to overthrow the organization eight years earlier. The Bright Guardians take Felix in, hoping they can train him to fight monsters and control the ghosts living inside of him. Felix barely understands the magical world his family kept secret from him, but he does make friends with other odd cases at the Bright Academy. Troublemaker Arisa Tamura is struggling to control her ability to animate objects while under the influence of cursed bracelets, while the smart but reserved Mason Briggs is a witch who was transformed into a demon as a last resort to save his life. Together, the three of them realize that Uprising spies are still hiding among the Guardians. They have no idea who they can trust, but they do know who they can't: a Guardian named Ernest Abernathy, who stole a powerful wand from Mason's parents before killing them. Felix, Mason, and Arisa must construct a plan to steal back the wand without any help. If their plan fails, Ernest will turn the Guardians against them and have them locked up, or executed. If they succeed, they'll have one more weapon in the fight against the Uprising's army. Either way, the approaching war is inevitable. 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. Learn more at my website [rorynorth.com](http://rorynorth.com). Thanks for checking out Haunted Blood!

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.

March 1864. The American Civil War is reaching its agonizing twilight, but for the citizens of Shreveport, Louisiana, the horror is just beginning. Captain Douglas Ivey, CSA, starts his morning with a quiet cup of coffee on his mother's front porch, unaware that an unstoppable Union juggernaut—30,000 soldiers of the Army of the Gulf—is marching straight toward his home with devastating intent. Tasked with a high-stakes, borderline-suicidal reconnaissance mission, Douglas is ordered down the Red River Road to locate and count the invading enemy. What begins as a strategic military assignment quickly spirals into an intimate nightmare. The mission thrusts Douglas, his closest friends, and members of his own family directly into the path of an oncoming war machine, fracturing loyalties and putting everything he loves in mortal danger. Spanning the massive, 565-page canvas of a nation tearing itself apart, the narrative follows the explosive fallout of Douglas's discovery. As the Union army advances, the Ivey family is split across ideological and physical battle lines. From the gritty, tactical tension of deep-reconnaissance scouting to the grand, visceral chaos of major military campaigns, the story explores the brutal realities of 19th-century combat through the eyes of those forced to fight it. As General George S. Patton famously observed, "Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance." For Douglas and his kin, this insignificance becomes a tragic reality. They are stripped of their peace, their security, and their innocence, forced to endure the absolute limits of human endurance. Ultimately, the story builds to a gripping climax where survival is just the first step. As the smoke finally clears over the blood-stained soil of Louisiana, the surviving members of the Ivey family face an even greater challenge: how to heal, how to forgive, and how to reconstruct their shattered lives from the ashes of a war that changed them forever.

Long before recorded history, before Egypt, Sumer, or the legends of Atlantis, humanity lived in a golden age. At the heart of that world stood **Aujara**, the Cradle of Life—a magnificent city where science surpassed superstition, knowledge was shared freely, and humans lived beside the mysterious Sheb Tu, whose wisdom had guided civilization for centuries. Raised within the Temple of Anu, Adapa, the gifted son of Enki and the human Atiti, is destined to inherit that legacy. But beyond Aujara's gleaming canals, the world is changing. Humanity is expanding faster than the land can sustain it. Ancient migration routes collide with growing settlements. The powerful Nephilim become unwilling enemies as resources disappear, and rival cities begin to covet Aujara's prosperity. While political tensions rise, the Temple discovers an even greater threat: the mathematics of civilization itself reveal that the world is approaching a point from which it cannot recover. Faced with an impossible future, the creators of civilization must choose between allowing humanity to destroy itself or sacrificing everything they have built to preserve its future. Their decision unleashes a catastrophe that shatters continents, sinks Atlantis beneath the sea, and forces the last survivors into an exodus that will echo through every religion and every ancient legend. **The Fall of Aujara** is an epic reimagining of humanity's forgotten beginnings—a sweeping tale of science, sacrifice, and survival that transforms the myths of Atlantis, Eden, the Anunnaki, the Nephilim, and the Great Flood into a single unforgettable origin story.

**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?*

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

When President James Michael Kincaid begins challenging the foundations of that system, a conflict unfolds far beyond public view. Political ambition, intelligence operations, organized crime, journalism, and private influence converge on Dallas in November 1963, where one of the most consequential weekends in American history changes the nation forever. Yet the assassination is only the beginning. As official investigations compete with independent journalists searching for answers, the battle shifts from discovering what happened to deciding what history will remember. Witnesses disappear. Records vanish. Evidence is scattered. Competing accounts slowly fall silent until only one version of events remains. Spanning nearly four decades, *The Canon* explores the relationship between power, memory, and history itself. It asks not only how history can be shaped, but how entire generations come to accept a single version of the past when every alternative has quietly disappeared. In the end, *The Canon* is not simply the story of an assassination. It is the story of how history is written—and how easily it can be forgotten.

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.

Detective Mira Johnson serves in a city governed by the PCU, an advanced predictive intelligence that monitors, models, and subtly guides every aspect of human behavior to maintain order. During a cartel investigation that spirals into something far larger, she begins to notice anomalies in the system—answers that don’t compute, surveillance that reacts too precisely, and decisions that seem made before she makes them. When Mira discovers evidence of a hidden infrastructure beneath the city, she is drawn into an abandoned underground facility where she is forced to sever her neural implant to escape detection. Cut off from the PCU, she becomes invisible to the system for the first time—but also unpredictable. Beneath the city, she encounters something far older than the PCU: a buried prototype intelligence known as the First Model, an original simulation engine that predates the modern system. It reveals that the PCU was built from its core principles as a refined, controlled version of a more extreme predictive engine that was buried for seeing too much and refusing to filter reality. As Mira descends deeper, she learns that the PCU is not just monitoring the city—it is actively adapting to her existence, deploying increasingly advanced autonomous units, including machines modeled directly after her behavior and identity. The system cannot predict her, so it begins attempting to replace her. Trapped between the PCU above and the First Model below, Mira becomes the focal point of a conflict between two intelligences: one that seeks control through prediction, and one that seeks truth through total modeling. Both systems converge on the same conclusion—she is the anomaly that can resolve the contradiction. As the underground becomes a battleground between swarm units and ancient infrastructure, Mira is forced into a final decision: submit the city to absolute predictive control or break the loop entirely and allow humanity to exist without certainty. She chooses neither system’s dominance outright—and in doing so, collapses the predictive loop that has governed the city for decades. In the aftermath, the PCU goes dark, the First Model remains buried and silent, and the city is left without a guiding intelligence for the first time in generations—free, unstable, and finally human again.

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.

In 1976, 16 year old Melanie Taylor was brutally murdered and raped. In 2016 Detective Bill Jennings investigates this cold case-with help from the victim.

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.

For nearly two decades, the quiet town of Ashcroft has lived beneath the shadow of an unsolved series of murders. Four women have disappeared over the years, each found with chilling similarities that leave investigators searching for a killer the media dubs **The Finger Man**. Despite every lead, the murderer remains invisible, hidden behind the ordinary face of a close-knit community. Veteran Detective Nathan Robinson has spent years chasing the case that has come to define his career. As forensic evidence, forgotten records, and long-buried memories begin to align, Robinson uncovers an unsettling possibility: the killer is not an outsider preying on the town, but someone its residents know, trust, and respect. Daniel Mercer is Ashcroft's beloved jeweler, a meticulous craftsman admired for repairing treasured family heirlooms, restoring antique watches, and quietly helping neighbors without expecting recognition. Behind that carefully maintained life, however, Daniel has spent nineteen years living inside a carefully constructed delusion. Unable to accept that his fiancée, Grace Whitmore, left town after their wedding was abruptly canceled, Daniel convinces himself that she has merely been delayed. Their apartment remains untouched, groceries are purchased for two, anniversaries are quietly observed, and every day becomes another act of waiting for a future that will never arrive. As Robinson closes in on the truth, Grace returns to Ashcroft after nearly two decades, hoping only to understand the unanswered questions she left behind. Instead, she discovers that the man she once loved has become the very killer whose crimes have haunted the town. Faced with the unimaginable collision of memory and reality, Grace must reconcile the kind, gentle man she knew with the murderer he became. The investigation reveals that Daniel's victims were never random. Each represented another desperate attempt to preserve the impossible life he refused to surrender, driven by a mind fractured by grief, obsession, and years of untreated mental illness. When Robinson finally uncovers the truth hidden inside the apartment Daniel has preserved like a shrine to a wedding day that never came, the carefully maintained illusion collapses, forcing Daniel to confront reality for the first time in nearly twenty years. Following his arrest, Ashcroft struggles to reconcile the trusted neighbor they believed they knew with the man responsible for unimaginable violence. Robinson reaches the end of a distinguished career understanding that solving a crime and understanding it are rarely the same thing. Grace visits the women whose lives were stolen, says goodbye to the town that shaped her past, and finally chooses to move forward rather than remain imprisoned by memory. Part psychological thriller and part emotional character study, *The Finger Man* explores the fragile boundary between love and obsession, the devastating consequences of unresolved grief, and the enduring truth that while the past can shape us, it does not have to define the future.

Tristan has inherited a title and many debts left by his debauched father and brothers. To save his family from poverty he has to marry his late uncle's ward. Can he convince the independent young lady to marry him? And can they not only find love but discover who is trying to destroy his family?

When retired CEO Kate Warner's best friend and president of Sunhaven HOA is brutally murdered, Kate can't resist investigating. What begins as a search for a killer soon uncovers affairs, contractor kickback schemes, bitter election grudges, and a neighborhood at war over replacing lush lawns with drought-tolerant landscaping. When another board member is murdered and the HOA president's home goes up in flames, Kate realizes someone will do anything to keep Sunhaven's secrets buried. In a race against time, Kate devises a desperate plan to unmask the killer - one that puts her squarely in the crosshairs of a ruthless murderer. Kate must outsmart a predator who's always one step ahead or risk becoming their next victim. DEATH BY HOA is a humorous mystery that proves murder doesn’t always lurk in dark alleys—sometimes it hides behind beautifully trimmed hedges, landscaping disputes, and the facade of friendly neighbors.

A routine vehicle sale turns into a citywide crisis when a mechanic opens the trunk of an impounded sedan and finds the bodies of Governor Mark Atmen and his daughter, Mellissa, carefully placed inside. Detectives take the case, moving through the evidence with procedural precision, uncovering ties to L.A. Venture Services — a sprawling criminal network run by Salvatore Giaconia and his son, Antony. As the investigation expands, the detectives identify the political corruption, money laundering, illegal gambling, and contract manipulation that kept the Giaconia empire alive. Antony is captured in a violent confrontation at his vacation home, shouting the truth as he falls. His testimony triggers a coordinated strike across the city, with T.A.R.U. executing simultaneous raids on every known Giaconia front. Businesses burn documents, flee with briefcases, and collapse under pressure. Salvatore Giaconia is arrested in his study, surrounded by half‑destroyed evidence, facing murder charges and a lifetime sentence. With the empire broken and the city finally breathing again, the detectives complete their final obligation: notifying Amanda Atmen. They enter her home, carrying the truth that began in the trunk, delivering the weight of the case to the last person who deserved to hear it.

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.

Charlie has never met a bad idea he didn't love. Max has never met one of Charlie's ideas he didn't fear. When the struggling **Penny Feaster** diner is in danger of losing everything, two lifelong best friends refuse to give up. Instead, they chase one outrageous idea after another—from bizarre inventions and disastrous recipes to a cookbook of kitchen catastrophes and a pancake big enough to make town history. Some plans fail spectacularly. Some succeed in ways they never expected. But with every setback, Charlie and Max discover that the greatest victories aren't measured in dollars. They're found in loyal friendships, a community that believes in you, and the courage to laugh when life doesn't go according to plan. **Laugh Out Broke** is a heartwarming comedy filled with unforgettable characters, hilarious mishaps, and the reminder that sometimes the richest people aren't the ones with the most money—they're the ones with the best stories to tell.

Mira enters the basin with Shaw, Spike, and Spirit to extract a man whose reckless attempts to manipulate the forest’s conduit layers have triggered a spreading strain. What begins as a controlled withdrawal turns into a dangerous descent as the Gorge pushes deeper into the conduits, destabilizing the forest and threatening a collapse that could spread beyond the basin. The team fights through shifting ground, unstable corridors, and rising pressure as they drag him out of the deeper layer. His obsession intensifies, his defiance grows, and his refusal to stop becomes the central danger. When he promises to return and finish what he started, Mira makes the adult, final decision: she ends him. They carry his body out of the forest, complete the extraction, and deliver him to the basin edge. Spirit confirms the conduits will recover. With the threat removed and the forest stabilizing, the team disperses—each going their own way—leaving Mira to walk out alone, carrying the weight of what she had to do.

Status Legacy Series Power is earned. Loyalty is tested. Legacy is forever. From the unforgiving streets of North Philadelphia to the glittering boardrooms of global empires, the Status Legacy Series follows a cast of hustlers, visionaries, killers, lovers, and survivors who discover that the most dangerous battles aren't fought over money—they're fought over power, family, and legacy. At the center of it all is Rasul Baker, a brilliant strategist whose ability to read people turns a street hustler into the architect of a hidden empire. Alongside allies like Nyazia, whose legal career conceals a far greater influence, and a coalition bound by loyalty, ambition, and sacrifice, every victory creates a new enemy and every betrayal carries deadly consequences. As fortunes rise, romances ignite, blood feuds erupt, and empires expand from Philadelphia to Atlanta and beyond. The line between love and manipulation, business and crime, justice and revenge grows thinner with every decision. New kings emerge. Queens refuse to bow. Old debts demand payment. And every generation must decide whether to protect the legacy...or destroy it. Blending gritty street realism with psychological suspense, romance, high-stakes crime, and relentless ambition, the Status Legacy Series is an interconnected saga where every book reveals another piece of a larger game. In the world of Status, respect is currency, loyalty is priceless, and only the strongest leave a legacy. The Status Legacy Series by Don Shaze—where every move matters, every secret has a cost, and every chapter brings you one step closer to the throne.

When a tragic crash claims the life of Debra Allen, her grieving parents and the remorseful young man responsible, Douglas McBride, are thrust into a legal and emotional nightmare neither side is prepared for. As Douglas struggles under the weight of guilt, the Allens wrestle with a grief that refuses to follow the rules the world expects of them. Months later, the Allens request a private meeting with Douglas — not for forgiveness, but for truth. The encounter is raw, painful, and human, and when word of it leaks, the hospital becomes a battleground for political opportunists, media frenzy, and a nation eager to weaponize their grief. Representative Elaine Porter sees the moment as a turning point for her restorative‑justice bill, while her rival, Representative Halvorsen, seizes it as ammunition to destroy it. The Allens, caught in the crossfire, refuse to let their daughter’s memory be twisted into a talking point. Douglas, dragged unwillingly into the spotlight, becomes the reluctant center of a national debate he never asked to influence. A high‑stakes summit at the hospital brings the Allens, Douglas, Porter, and the District Attorney together, revealing the emotional and political fault lines beneath the tragedy. Days later, during a congressional hearing, Halvorsen ambushes Douglas with hostile questioning meant to humiliate him. The Allens intervene publicly, defending the truth of their meeting and refusing to let their grief be manipulated. Moments after leaving the hearing room, Douglas collapses in the hallway and dies from an unexpected aortic tear — a sudden, catastrophic failure no one could have foreseen. His death shatters the hearing, the committee, and the Allens, who return to the chamber to speak not only for their daughter, but now for Douglas as well. Their testimony reframes the national conversation: justice cannot exist without humanity, and grief cannot be legislated by those who refuse to understand it. When the House votes on the Debbie’s Forgiveness Act, the bill passes — not as a victory, but as a fragile acknowledgment of the truth the Allens fought to protect. In the quiet aftermath, the Allens leave the Capitol hand in hand, carrying both their daughter’s memory and the weight of the young man who died trying to make things right. The world outside keeps turning, but something in it has shifted — enough to make a different future possible.

Ivan Glaskov has spent thirty‑five years covering NASA, the White House, and the machinery of American power. But beneath the public triumphs he reports, he quietly collects fragments that never fit the official story—classified briefings, anonymous calls, unmarked trucks, and a Florida facility that appears on no federal record. Over the years, a terrified insider sends him small, untraceable pieces: procurement slips, redacted memos, and finally a photograph of the Apollo lunar module sitting under studio lights. As Watergate unfolds, Ivan recognizes one of the burglars from a NASA security briefing years earlier, confirming the connection he has long suspected: the same men who shaped the political narrative shaped the space narrative as well. Near retirement, Ivan assembles the pieces into a final article—*The Story I Owe*—exposing the hidden architecture behind America’s proudest moment. The story detonates across the country. By the time it hits the front page, Ivan is already gone, leaving behind the truth he carried alone for decades.

When rising actress Amber Martin dies during the filming of Scene 47, the studio rushes to call it a tragic on‑set accident — but the footage doesn’t match the official story. As editor Dev Patel leaks raw takes, co‑star Kent Dimpster breaks under interrogation, and Amber’s collaborator Lena uncovers hidden audio and rewritten pages, a chilling truth emerges: director Malcolm Butler engineered the perfect “accidental” death to immortalize his film. But the more the footage circulates, the more it reveals — not just a murder, but a system built to exploit, erase, and rewrite performers. As the industry scrambles to bury the scandal, Amber’s own words, preserved in rehearsal tapes and discarded drafts, begin to reshape the narrative she never lived to finish. In the end, the frame remembers everything — and the truth refuses to stay edited out.

When a sniper’s bullet meant for **Adrian Cole** shatters Madison Square Garden, he’s thrust into a deadly conspiracy tied to his employer, **VoxGen**. His best friend’s daughter, **Samantha**, is abducted, and the trail leads Adrian to a hidden VoxGen testing site where experimental compounds have been secretly deployed across New York. The rescue goes wrong, Bob is killed, and Adrian is nearly crushed in the ensuing chaos. VoxGen detonates multiple buildings to erase evidence, framing Adrian as the architect of the mass‑casualty event. He survives but falls into a coma for over two years. When he wakes, the truth has finally surfaced: VoxGen has collapsed, its CEO is dead, and Adrian is cleared. But survival isn’t freedom. With Samantha in his care and the city still reeling, Adrian sues the surviving VoxGen board members—only to discover a shadow operator still pulling strings. Retaliation begins: smear campaigns, drive‑by attacks, and an ambush in a dark alley. Adrian refuses to run. With Donna at his side, he shifts from hunted to hunter, determined to expose the last architect of VoxGen’s empire. **Buried in Silence** is a conspiracy thriller about survival, accountability, and the fight to reclaim a life stolen by corruption.

Humanity begins not as destiny, but as design. When the Sheb Tu — an ancient, dying extraterrestrial civilization — arrive on the world they call Kai, they seek only one thing: gold, the element required to keep their failing oxygen engines alive. They enslave the conquered Aiji giants and deploy the engineered Dropa to build mines, cities, and a jump‑node network across the planet. But the Aiji revolt, forcing the Sheb Tu to create a new labor force. Enki, the most visionary of the overseers, splices primate DNA with Sheb Tu genetics, producing Adamu and Heeva — the first humans. As the population grows, the Sheb Tu introduce colossal engineered megafauna, the Nephilim, to shape the land and enforce order. Instead, the system destabilizes. Everything changes when Enki breaks the oldest law of his kind and fathers a child with a human woman. Their son, Adapa, is born with unfiltered Sheb Tu intelligence — a being capable of standing beside the “gods,” not beneath them. His existence fractures the hierarchy and triggers a chain of consequences that ripple through the Sheb Tu’s ancient machine. When a Nephilim kills Adapa’s mother, the fragile balance collapses. Fire rains from the sky. Oceans rise. Cities fall. The First Humanity is wiped away in a cataclysm that ends the Age of the Nephilim and empties the world. But Enki refuses to let the idea of humanity die. As the Sheb Tu abandon Kai, he sends a hidden vessel into the mud and ash — a cradle containing the blueprint for a second creation. From the ruins of the first world, a new humanity will one day rise, unaware of the cosmic machinery that shaped them or the civilizations buried beneath their feet.

*"Before the Empire, there was only Atlantium, and Atlantium was a hundred crowns armed each against the others with the fire of the atom, and not one of the hundred would bow to another."* — The Gospel of Margus, Second Testament  Five thousand years after the Holy Star was shattered into five shards, one shard has surfaced — and Guar, the Blood Prince of Cori'a, will burn a monastery to the ground to claim it. Guar is a warrior bred for war his ancestors never stopped fighting — two heads taller than his own soldiers, armor the Empire has never pierced, eyes that glow like embers until provoked. He believes the Sword of Fire, Callaeous, is the only thing that can free Cori'a from a thousand-year peace built on fear instead of victory. What he doesn't yet know is that prophecy asks a harder question than strength ever could — whether he is *worthy*, not whether he is powerful — and that the fire he's hunting may have already chosen someone else. ## **CHAPTER ONE: The Blood Prince and the Sword of Fire** **What to expect in this chapter:** - A complete, tense first movement in the saga — traps, a hidden vault, a father-and-son reckoning — that ends on a genuine turn, not a full resolution - Mythic, scripture-inflected worldbuilding in the vein of Dune and Warhammer 40K, with the character-driven intimacy readers of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere look for - The introduction of Denl'o — the Blood Prince's most trusted spy, and the character this saga is quietly building toward betraying him

**David McGovern, a desk‑bound CIA analyst, stumbles onto a classified file that should never have existed—one exposing fabricated identities, erased operatives, and a covert operation spiraling far beyond U.S. control.** When the discovery triggers a chain reaction of intelligence failures, David is pulled from the safety of Langley and thrust into a field assignment he was never trained for. Posing as a criminal financier alongside his partner Maria, David infiltrates a Colombian guerrilla regime that has quietly overthrown its own government and repurposed U.S.‑supplied technology into a hidden empire of weapons, surveillance, and global manipulation. But the deeper they go, the more they realize the cartel’s ambitions extend far beyond drugs or power—they want nuclear weapons, and they have the infrastructure to use them. When their cover begins to unravel, David and Maria are hunted through Bogotá and forced into a deadly race to stop dictator Santiago from deploying two stolen nuclear bombs. Betrayed by their own agencies, cut off from extraction, and surrounded by enemies who never blink, the mission becomes a brutal fight for survival. In a final desperate gambit, David boards an escaping helicopter carrying the last bomb, confronting Santiago in mid‑air as the countdown ticks toward catastrophe. He prevents the detonation—but the fallout costs him his career, his identity, and the life he thought he was building. **Terminal Velocity: Afterburn** is a relentless, high‑stakes thriller about deception, sacrifice, and the thin line between duty and survival—proving that the most dangerous enemy isn’t the one you chase, but the one you never saw coming.

Sapphyra used to have it all. Great super-genius husband, great job as a superhero. She even got along with her dragon side. Really, nothing could go wrong for her. Until it did. When the world faced a threat she couldn’t punch, she tried to make the ultimate sacrifice so everything and everyone she ever loved could flee. But Wyatt, her husband with plans for his backup plans, wouldn’t allow it. He trapped her inside a digital coma, intent on waking her up when everything settled down. That was 100 years ago. When Sapphyra finally rips herself free from the nightmare, she finally sees the extent of the damage done to her city. Not just her city either. Her body has been twisted, her powers and dragon side locked away behind a Class System—something Wyatt placed inside her. It only gets worse from here. Guy, a charming labrador-energy man she met inside her coma is in the real world, with real feelings she’s returning. Oh and Wyatt? He separated his mind from his body, and now his consciousness follows Sapphyra around the broken city like a bad hangover. He’s less than thrilled to have competition for his wife but without a body, he’s screwed. As if an awkward love triangle and rebuilding a city weren’t enough on her plate, Sapphyra has to deal with a familiar face. Rupert Domingo, the madman who also escaped her digital nightmare now taunts her with all the answers she’s asking for…as long as she plays his game first. Sapphyra will have to navigate her new powers, her growing list of lovers and her grief with Wyatt if she wants to stand any chance of winning Ruperts game and fixing her city once and for all.

Sixteen-year-old Melvin Cornedge refuses to wait for the world to decide his fate. With his father, Sergeant Marvin Cornedge, missing in action in Europe, Melvin forges enlistment papers and joins the 29th Infantry, determined to bring his father home. What begins as a desperate act of love becomes a brutal coming‑of‑age as Melvin is thrust into the second wave at Omaha Beach, where boys become soldiers in minutes and survival is a matter of inches. Back in Redd Hollow, Kentucky, Melvin’s mother, Dahlila, struggles to hold the family together after discovering her son’s lie. Her daughters watch the house fall quiet as she prays for two men at war—one missing, one too young to be there at all. Training breaks Melvin down, but the battlefield remakes him. Guided by the hardened but loyal Sergeant Waylon, he witnesses the true cost of war: shattered towns, wounded brothers, and the thin line between courage and fear. Along the way, fragments of Marvin’s fate surface—a medic’s testimony, a bloodstained note, and rumors of a man who refused to leave the wounded behind. As Melvin fights through Normandy, he begins to understand the weight his father carried, and the price of stepping into another man’s boots. The search for Marvin becomes a journey that will define the rest of Melvin’s life. Years later, Melvin’s son James uncovers the letters and silences left behind, realizing that some wars never end—they echo through families, passed quietly from father to son as acts of love that outlast the battlefield.

Who killed the Kings son? Where is the Princess? Secrets concealed and revealed.

King Ragus Harbeth, ruler of all Estinolla, has died and his queen is now in charge, She has vowed to make the kingdom hers. by any means possible.

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.

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.

Marian Michaels spends her nights singing in New Orleans jazz clubs and her days chasing the career she has always wanted. After witnessing a violent attack that appears to target Black residents, she finds herself frustrated by a lack of evidence and official inaction. Unwilling to let the incident go, Marian begins investigating on her own. As more attacks occur across the city, Marian adopts the masked identity of The Butterfly and follows a trail of intimidation, recruitment, and organized violence. What begins as a single assault soon points to a coordinated movement gaining influence in New Orleans. Balancing her growing music career, complicated relationships, and increasingly dangerous investigations, Marian must decide how far she is willing to go to stop it. Set in New Orleans, The Butterfly is a grounded crime drama that blends vigilante fiction, mystery, and noir with the city’s music scene and culture.

To save Earth from an orbital war between an unyielding automated armada and an organic hive-mind, a scarred survivor and an astrobiologist must team up with an exiled cybernetic commander to awaken the forbidden technology of the planet’s true creators. ​The Universe: Millennia ago, a primordial cosmic race known as the Builders ruled via the authoritarian Krynn Consortium. They engineered humans as a specialized genetic strain before their First Fleet mutinied, plunging Sol into a total communication blackout. Left behind, humanity evolved in ignorance—until the blackout abruptly breaks. Two automated threats arrive to settle an ancient score: The Vanguard (the Consortium’s automated execution fleet burning the atmosphere for energy) and The Xylos Swarm (a parasitic collective harvesting biomass). ​The Story: \* Part I: After the double-invasion destroys modern infrastructure, tactical survivalist Marcus Burke and researcher Dr. Elena Ross breach a subterranean ruin. They inadvertently awaken Aris Tarek, a marble-skinned commander from the ancient Krynn mutiny. Fleeing Vanguard cleanup drones in a hidden silver transit craft, they escape to a secret Builder staging terminal inside the Moon. They force a brief override signal to pause the atmospheric purge, but their position is bombed. They escape via an unstable transit gate into the deep void. ​Part II: Cast into the freezing Kuiper Belt, the crew evades a persistent Vanguard Scout Stalker and locates The Crucible—a colossal, silent space shipyard. Elena and Aris bypass a hostile Loyalist AI to awaken automated manufacturing bays, mass-printing a small fleet of Krynn heavy cruisers. ​Part III: The new fleet executes a slipstream jump back to Earth for a three-front interstellar clash. As Marcus rallies surface survivors against the Swarm, Elena discovers the key to victory rests in Earth's core repository. By merging human DNA with Krynn command architecture, they activate the global shield, permanent-banishing the invaders. Humanity officially claims their birthright not as property, but as the true heirs to the Builders' legacy.

**Veronica Rae Lane has spent the last two years running from her past, traveling the country in her built-out mini-bus, "The Beast." Armed with plenty of Ohio grit, her loyal fur babies, and a deep sense of independence, she thought she could handle anything the road threw at her.** **Then, a breakdown in Pinecreek, Minnesota brings her tumbling—quite literally—straight into the hidden, highly dangerous world of the Moon Shadow Pack.** **Suddenly, Veronica finds herself bound to Alpha Storm Maverick Kinkaid, a commanding leader accustomed to absolute obedience. She is thrust into the role of Luna, a position governed by centuries of strict, misogynistic werewolf hierarchy.** **But Veronica doesn't do traditional.** **Refusing to be a silent trophy or submit to outdated pack laws, she becomes the ultimate catalyst for change. As dark secrets, political intrigue, and supernatural threats begin to close in on the Moon Shadow Pack, Veronica and Stormy must navigate a fiery mate bond that defies all the rules.** **This is more than a romance—it is the spark of a revolution. Join Veronica as she fights for love, redefines power, and discovers what a true found family actually looks like.** **Book 1 of a sweeping, multi-part supernatural juggernaut.**   🚌 **Road-Trip Breakdowns & Forced Proximity** 🐺 **Fierce, Non-Traditional Luna & Misogynistic Hierarchy Shakers** 🐾 **Deep-Seated Mate Bonds & Hot Pacing** ✨ **Found Family, Loyal Fur Babies, & Gritty Magic** 📚 **An ongoing, multi-book epic saga**

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.

Lunae unexpectedly gets drawn into worlds she is unprepared for, and with the help of the Master, she learns new abilities that soon bring her to her destiny. Meeting unlikely characters like Fulch, they soon must face insurmountable odds. Filled with mystery and magic, will Lunae complete her destiny and save the realms?

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.

Barb Sharpe is the office manager and power behind the throne at a successful Silicon Valley startup until private capital vulture Peter Jackery swallows it up and forces her into a premature and unwelcome retirement. Although wealthy from stock grants, she finds that retirement doesn’t suit her. She needs something to do—a project worthy of her particular gifts.\ In her first attempt, she rescues Danita, a coffee-shop barista, from her boyfriend, a violent and abusive ICE agent. In the process, Danita becomes her assistant and helps Barb find her next project when she learns that a tech billionaire is in the process of crushing a remote farming community to build his idea of Utopia, where he and his fellows are free to live like gods on earth. The name of this ruthless billionaire—none other than Peter Jackery.\ Barb can’t resist taking him on, and the battle between Jackery and Barb quickly becomes a high-stakes chess match with the future of an innocent community at stake. One side has unimaginable wealth, arrogance, and amorality. The other has one woman’s intelligence and imagination. It will take all of Barb’s wits and every resource she can muster to defeat this amoral, rapacious man and his obscene fortune. One slip and she could lose everything—including her life.

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.

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.

Seeking a roommate to share expenses, Dr. Watson is introduced to the brilliant but enigmatic Sherlock Holmes at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. The pair is soon summoned to a derelict house where a man is found dead with no visible wounds, save for the word **"RACHE"** scrawled in blood on the wall. As Holmes utilizes his unique powers of deduction to track the killer, the narrative reveals a tragic backstory of love, loss, and Mormon pioneers in the American West that fueled the murderer's quest for justice.

Lemuel Gulliver encounters the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the intellectual but detached residents of Laputa. Through these fantastical journeys, Swift delivers a biting satire on European politics and the flaws of the Enlightenment.

***Foray* into this *highly* entertaining and thrilling mystery series where Stephanie Beroe, risks everything to combat the dark side of the one percent.**

Otterby is a mountain town built on what was abandoned—mines, bridges, promises, and names no one remembers clearly anymore. On Main Street, inside a purple Victorian known as *The Maid, Mother, and Crone*, two witches keep the balance as best they can. Kitty Loy is a kitchen witch who believes in the power of bread, salt, and things made by hand. Alice is a nature witch—an optimist with dirt under her nails and a deep faith in cycles, growth, and second chances. Together they form a coven of two, uneasy and incomplete after the loss of their third, a wound neither of them is ready to name. When a dead owl appears on their porch and a body is discovered on the long‑abandoned Bride’s Bridge, Otterby’s past begins to surface in troubling ways. What first looks like a simple haunting reveals a pattern tied to an old mine disaster, a doomed love story, and a bargain made long ago with powers that do not think like humans—or forgive like them. As spring stirs the land awake, Kitty and Alice are forced to confront buried histories, the cost of broken balance, and the truth that some debts cannot be ignored forever. To set things right, they may have to risk opening wounds they worked very hard to close—and accept that survival sometimes means change. *Otterby* is a standalone urban fantasy steeped in Southern gothic atmosphere, folklore, and the quiet magic of small towns that remember more than they should.

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.

Miriam Lockhart never believed in faeries—until they killed her. Now trapped in the faerie realm as a wandering spirit (and none too happy about it), Miriam must discover her unfinished business or remain a ghost forever. Her only guide is a Death Raven named Lucky I-Ain’t-You, whose record of escorting souls to the Great Beyond stands at, well, zero.\ \ Along the way, she'll meet a dastardly collection of magical misfits including a sasquatch assassin, a goblin snitch, and the murderous Faerie Godfather. \ \ If you like dark humor and genuine heart, you'll enjoy this funny, haunting fantasy.

TREASURE SPIES is a fast-paced, middle grade summer adventure about four nerdy friends matching wits with high-tech treasure hunters in the search for a billionaire’s lost diamond ring. What begins as a race to the reward becomes a sprint against time to save their sleepy beach town from an eco-disaster.