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When a Detective falls into a paralyzing trance, he discovers he's trapped in his own mind with only his broken past to help him escape his coma and clear the smoke. Every step taken is a step down memory lane as the Detective races against a clock he can't see, a woman he doesn't remember and a past stuffed so deep it may actually kill him if uncovered. Journey through the mind and past of the Detective as he takes on a case with a unique victim: Himself.

***Sometimes ruin comes before redemption.*** Kaete thought she was marrying for love. Sterling was her match in every way—powerful, magnetic, and with a pull she couldn’t explain. When the mate bond struck, it was everything she’d ever dreamed. Until the wedding night… when he turned cold. Banished from the Winter Court, Sterling has built an empire in the human realm—and Kaete is his way back in. He brings his new bride home, but the role of Lady has already been claimed… by his mistress, Celeste.  Now Kaete is trapped in a gilded cage—with a husband whose touch makes her ache, but whose heart is locked away, and a mistress who rules the estate with venom-laced smiles and secrets sharper than knives. Desire smolders. Pain festers. And the bond between them strains beneath everything they’re not saying. But the truth has teeth. ***When long-buried secrets claw to the surface, everything changes.*** ***Power. Love. Loyalty.*** ***Nothing is what it seemed.*** A searing dark fantasy romance of betrayal, obsession, and a mate bond shattered by lies.

When Jason Carter arrives in Houston searching for a better future, the last thing he expects is to become entangled in the world of billionaire Richard Blackwood. After unknowingly saving Blackwood's life, Jason is drawn into a dangerous web of wealth, corporate power, family betrayal, and long-buried secrets. As hidden truths begin to surface, Jason discovers that the greatest inheritance is not money, but the burden of a legacy built on sacrifice, deception, and blood. With powerful enemies closing in and every decision carrying life-or-death consequences, he must fight for his future while uncovering the truth about his past. **BLOOD MONEY** is a gripping crime thriller filled with suspense, emotional twists, unforgettable characters, and shocking revelations that will keep readers turning pages until the very end.

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.

​This poem captures the brutal reality of loving someone through a timed jail call. It turns the phone itself into a cage, trapping the person on the outside in the exact same sentence. The narrative looks back at a chaotic street past, showing how their fierce loyalty was forged in the trenches. Everything builds to that ruthless 60-second countdown where love, regret, and survival are forced into a mad dash. When the line drops, it leaves a cold, heavy silence where the entire world is put on hold.

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.

Lucy Stiles, a former Army medic still carrying the weight of old wounds, returns home for the funeral of her twin brother Aaron. Grief hits her with a force she can’t explain—sharp, disorienting, and threaded with a sense that something about his death is wrong. That feeling deepens when a stranger drops a cell phone into Aaron’s grave and a jittery woman named Scratch appears at Lucy’s door claiming Aaron has “joined The Circle” and will rise again. When Lucy calls Aaron’s number, someone answers. What begins as a crack in her reality widens into a terrifying breach. Strange calls, whispered breaths, and a voice that knows her name pull her back to the cemetery, where the groundskeeper Harlan hints at disturbances he refuses to explain. The grave shifts. The earth moves. And when Lucy digs up the coffin, Aaron’s corpse sits upright and answers his phone. From that moment on, Lucy is hunted. The thing wearing Aaron’s body follows her home, moving through walls, crawlspaces, and the attic with impossible patience—learning the house, learning her, remembering her. Michael, her husband, tries to protect her but cannot deny what he hears in the dark. Scratch returns, terrified of what The Circle has unleashed, warning that Aaron has been brought back wrong—and that Lucy is the key to whatever comes next. Forced into the woods, Lucy discovers she isn’t just being chased. She’s being led. The forest remembers something ancient. A second figure—tall, narrow, impossible—appears among the trees, guiding the resurrected Aaron toward a ritual site carved into the earth. The Circle arrives to complete what they began: a resurrection that requires Lucy’s presence, her bloodline, and her bond with Aaron. The ritual ignites. The symbols flare. The forest leans in. Aaron reaches for her—not with hunger, but with recognition. For a moment, Lucy sees her brother inside the corpse. But the ritual collapses, the second figure dissolves, and Aaron disintegrates into dust in her hands. Lucy wakes in a hospital. Michael and her mother insist Aaron died ten years ago in the war. They insist she collapsed alone. They insist nothing she remembers happened. But Lucy knows what she saw. She remembers Aaron sitting up in his coffin. She remembers the voice in the walls. And she sees a shadow in the hospital room—tall, trembling, head tilted—reflected in the steel cabinet beside her bed. It whispers her name. The nightmare didn’t end. It followed her.

Kelly and her tactical team are Briefed in Lies and are sent out to hunt and dangerous cryptid but soon discover the suits lied to them. Confused she soon discovers they are being hunted by a Skin Walker. Will Kelly be able to keep herself and her team alive? Find out by reading Briefed in Lies.

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.

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.

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?

In a small town, Sonya, reeling from the grief of a miscarriage, struggles to maintain her marriage to Adam, who becomes distant and unfaithful. Her childhood friend Jordan offers support, but as Sonya's mental state deteriorates, she becomes possessed by a dark entity that feeds on her sorrow. This malevolent force drives her to commit violent acts, ultimately leading to tragedy. As the town grapples with the aftermath, Jordan vows to protect Sonya's unborn child, unaware that the darkness may still linger, threatening their future.

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.

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?

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.

*Dear Reader,* *As you turn these pages, step not forward—but back. This story does not continue from the world you last left behind in Shattered Myths – Broken Worlds. It returns to an earlier hour, to the quiet fractures and hidden moments that shaped the man known as Azure Creed.* *Here, you will meet him before the weight of destiny fully settles on his shoulders—formed by blood and loyalty, by secrets kept and choices made in shadow. This novel is not a sequel but a reckoning with beginnings. Within these pages lie the sparks of ambition, the first betrayals, and the truths that would one day ripple outward, altering lives, bloodlines, and the balance of power itself.* *What you discover here may unsettle what you believe you know—about Azure, the Elders, and the forces moving unseen behind the world you have already glimpsed.* *Tread carefully. The past shows no mercy and offers no forgiveness. It gives birth to every legend—and sets the end in motion long before anyone sees it coming.* *Welcome to the **beginning.***  ***Novel will be 27 chapters in total.***

Copyright 2026 D.M. Jordan. All Rights Reserved. Cover Art by Mohsin Afridi Dr. Aubrey Prentice is a rising psychiatrist with ambitions of writing a groundbreaking self-help book for women trapped in destructive relationships. But her methods are anything but conventional. Rather than observing from a clinical distance, Aubrey immerses herself in the lives of her male patients—crossing ethical boundaries in pursuit of deeper insight. Through intimacy, she believes she has uncovered what drives men, both emotionally and physically. The question is no longer what she has learned—but what it has cost her. At the center of her most dangerous case is Ian Henshaw III: a brooding, powerful millionaire whose influence extends far beyond the therapy room. What began as a professional relationship quickly evolved into something far more entangled—first patient, then lover, and now fiancé. But Ian is not a man who shares. Possessive, commanding, and accustomed to control, he demands absolute loyalty—even as Aubrey’s current marriage remains unresolved. Drawn into his world of wealth and power, Aubrey finds herself facing a chilling realization: the life she has pursued may come at the price of her independence. In a high-stakes collision of ambition, desire, and control, Aubrey must confront the consequences of her choices—and decide whether she is the architect of her own destiny, or merely another piece in Ian Henshaw’s carefully constructed empire.

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.

A saga following a mercenary who is being hunted by people who keep telling her Celentra must stay frozen. She doesn't know what this means until she meets a cloaked stranger who tells her that she is carrying the soul of a dead Empress from another world. That she must revive this Empress to save a world frozen in time.

**Everwind**\ *By Jack Cruse* Kailynn has spent her life believing she is nobody. After the death of her guardians, Kailynn was raised on a remote farm by her guardians brother who treats her more like a burden than family. Every day she dreams of little more than a full meal and a chance at a better life. But when a mysterious noblewoman named Sera Beaufort arrives and reveals that Kailynn's past is built on secrets, everything she thought she knew begins to unravel. Hunted by powerful enemies and haunted by the murder of her closest friend, Kailynn is thrust into a dangerous world of kings, conspiracies, and forgotten legends. As she flees across a fractured island, she discovers she may be the last surviving descendant of the Ash King—the ancient ruler who once united the Empire of Everwind before a dying wizard's curse shattered their dynasty. Now, whispers of her existence are spreading. Some would see her crowned. Others would see her dead. With an infamous bard turning her story into legend and a deadly swordsman sworn to protect her, Kailynn must learn the art of politics, survival, and leadership before those hunting her close the distance. Every ally may hide an agenda. Every kingdom of the old empire holds secrets. And somewhere in the shadows lies the truth about the curse that has haunted her bloodline for centuries. But reclaiming a lost throne may be the easiest challenge she faces. Because the fate of Everwind—and the future of the Ash King line—rests on a young woman who has only just discovered who she truly is. **A sweeping fantasy adventure filled with ancient curses, court intrigue, deadly assassins, found family, and a lost princess destined to change the world.**

An Adult Dark Fantasy series. A tale of tragedy and triumph, of a black lotus rising from the muddy and bloody waters he was planted in.\ \ Book I Our hero sells his soul to his wife to keep their daughters safe from her, however when they both fail their agreements, she keeps his soul and places their daughters in a cosmically demonic level of danger. The lives of those he loves depends on him getting free of her. Book II Malencia is a goddess scorned by losing her ex-husband despite maintaining her hold on his soul. She slowly, patiently, crafts a plan not only to drag Koriath back to her, but to eliminate anyone who would distract him or try to stop her. Including her own daughters and the people she once fought wars for. Book III In first draft stage. To be brought in later.

*"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

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

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.

A family arrives in the town of Harmony, encountering ominous religious signs and an unwelcoming resident. While the parents remain oblivious to their daughter's worsening health, a distorted welcome sign hints at the town's underlying danger.

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.

When Calvin Chambers loses his business and moves his family into a inherited Victorian estate in rural Alabama, they discover the property harbors a century-old curse. His grandfather David was possessed by the spirit of his own father Thomas, a grief-maddened man who built a hidden chapel deep in the woods and trapped the souls of stolen children inside porcelain dolls. The curse seeks a new keeper in every generation — and it finds one in Beth, Calvin's wife, slowly consuming her from the inside out while the family's ledger of victims grows. As Beth's possession deepens and neighbors begin disappearing, teenage Trisha teams up with a gothic classmate named Marsha to unravel the truth buried in the hollow's dark history. Meanwhile, the curse moves to claim its final victim — thirteen-year-old Nancy, buried alive in the family graveyard. Racing against time, the family pulls Nancy from the grave. But Marsha's research reveals the only way to permanently break the curse is fire — the chapel, every doll, and the possessed Beth must all burn together

A hidden network thrives in the cracks between jurisdictions, and across five books a scattered team uncovers how borders, systems, and power structures weaponise themselves against Indigenous communities until the truth forces a reckoning no one can outrun.\ \ All the books in the series bear the title Beyond Jurisdiction. ### \\ ### Book 1: **Theme:** The hidden crisis \ **Focus:** Missing Indigenous youth, cross‑jurisdictional failures, shell corporations\ **Purpose in series:** - Introduces the investigative team - Exposes the trafficking network’s existence - Reveals the jurisdictional loopholes - Ends with the corporation wounded but not destroyed This book is the “discovery” phase of the series. ### Book 2: **Theme:** Manufactured consent \ **Focus:** Environmental protest, water contamination, corporate lobbying, trafficking hidden in the chaos\  **Purpose in series:** - Shows the corporation scaling up - Introduces national attention and political pressure Reveals that the trafficking is not a side operation — it’s part of the business model\ \ This book is the “expansion” phase. ### \\ ### Book 3: \ **Theme:** Corruption as infrastructure\ **Focus:** - Federal hearings - Lobbyists - PAC money - Politicians pressured to ignore Indigenous sovereignty - Shows how the corporation protects itself through legislation - Introduces whistleblowers, journalists, and federal investigators - Reveals the trafficking network’s interstate logistics This book is the “institutional exposure” phase. ### Book 4: \  **Theme:** Extraction without borders\ **Focus:** - How trafficked youth are moved across state and national lines - International buyers, offshore accounts, foreign shell companies - Shows the global scale of the trafficking network - Reveals the corporation’s true leadership This book is the “global revelation” phase. ### Book 5: **Theme:** Sovereignty reclaimed\ **Focus:** - All four reservations - All protagonists - Tribal coalitions - Federal investigations - Community‑led resistance - The collapse of the corporate empire\ \ **Purpose in series:** - Every thread from Books 1–4 converges - Each reservation contributes unique knowledge and evidence - The investigative team completes its arcs - People exposed the corporation publicly. - The ending is realistic: - Some justice - Some loss - Some healing - No simple answers This book is the “reckoning.”

When fourteen‑year‑old Mary Ann Hamilton begins noticing strange cracks in her mother’s behavior—late‑night whispers, missing money, a sudden new identity—her quiet Alabama life shatters. Swept into a world of secrets, lies, and a man whose charm hides something far darker, Mary Ann is forced to confront the truth her mother has been hiding.   Some families protect you. Some destroy you. And beneath the rock, the past is waiting to be uncovered.

When twelve-year-old Howlvin Stein moves into a creaking old Victorian house on the edge of town, he expects a fresh start—not secrets lurking beneath the floorboards. But deep in the cellar, he discovers an ancient book marked with a strange symbol: a whale surrounded by stars. The moment he opens it, something awakens. Strange things begin to follow Howlvin—whispers in the walls, shadows that move on their own, and a forest that seems to be watching him. With the help of his only friend, Samantha Elm, and his loyal dog Frankie, Howlvin is drawn into a mystery older than Maplewood itself—a story of a vanished founder, a vengeful witch, and a curse that refuses to die. But the deeper they go, the more the forest changes… twisting paths, trapping memories, and pulling them toward something waiting in the dark. Because this isn’t just a story hidden in a book. It’s a story that remembers. And it’s not finished with them yet.

Nora Bliss moves into a rental on a picture-perfect suburban street in **Harwick, Connecticut**. On her first night, she notices that the upstairs window of the house directly across the street (the **Hargrove residence)** glows at exactly 3am, every night, without fail. The neighbours say the Hargroves are lovely, their daughter Celeste moved to Portland months ago, and that light is just a timer lamp. Nora almost believes them. Then, one night, the silhouette in the window presses a hand against the glass. And waves back.

Clyde has always known the Princess is special—perfectly imperfect and full of wonder. From childhood adventures to adult trials, he protects her, plays with her, and stays by her side through loss and hardship. Though he is never her prince, their bond endures, folding past and future into a single, magical friendship that transcends the world he knows.

In music, a canon is a compositional technique where a melody is played by one voice and then imitated by one or more other voices, each entering after a delay. Essentially, voices chasing each other with the same tune. Though it repeats the same melody, it crescendos gradually as it continues. \ For the continent of Terra Dira, it is caught in an endless canon...of carnage. \ In a human-dominated empire built on conquest and religious supremacy, a series of linked events shatters the fragile pretense of coexistence between humans and nonhumans. Justice is a lie told at swordpoint.

A romantasy series revolving around faery lords.  The Dusk & Dawn Story: *A young woman with a gift is bound to an endless cycle of romance and death, pulled between two faery rulers of opposite courts: Summer and Autumn. From Coventry 1121 to New Orleans 1788 to modern day, nine lives isn't nearly long enough.*

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.

**Phoenix** - *Inner Strength, Resilience, & Renewal* We all have a story, but many choose to tell only the highlights the palatable parts — snippets — accepted by the public. The rest is tucked away in silence. But what if we told the whole truth? Not just the chapters we survived, but the ones that nearly ended us. Not just the memories softened by time, but the moments that seared themselves into our nervous system and shaped who we have become. The path that led here didn’t move in a straight line. Sometimes the past arrives uninvited in the middle of what we think is an ordinary moment. Sometimes , what is happening now only makes sense when you find its origins in the past. And if you pay close enough attention, you’ll see how the present has been echoing the history all along. We will cross continents and class lines, silence and spectacle. We’ll live through poverty and rub elbows with power, dive into spiritual initiation, and survive institutional neglect. Moments where survival felt accidental. Others where it felt deliberate. Motherhood, medicine, money, and myth all played their part. None of it fit neatly. And eventually there will be a place, a moment when timelines converge , and everything changes. This isn’t a story wrapped in inspiration or stitched together with perfect lessons. It’s not a sanitized version of suffering that leaves the hard parts on the cutting room floor. It’s the whole thing shadows, and all — a — the shards, scars, testimony not to tragedy, but to transformation. Because I was never supposed to be here, not like this. According to the statistics, the curve, the therapists, and the odds… I should have disappeared. But I didn’t. I walked through fire until I became it. *And as you travel with me, listen to the songs. They are not background. They are the emotional doorways into everything that foll*

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.

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.

“Your lips have a flavor reminiscent of mango.” “Wait, what?! How do you even know that?” “Isn't it obvious?. While you were sleeping, I—”   Dove is fed up with playing the role of the Damsel in Distress. Now that she has the chance to pick a mentor, her dreams feel much closer than ever.   Yet, she’s at a loss for words when the very essence of the night, draped in blue, suddenly decides to choose her.

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.

The **Renfield Academy Series** is a gothic, dark academia paranormal romance that follows mind-reader Seraphina Gray as she is thrust into a world of vampires, witches, and shapeshifters. While she is initially horrified to learn she is a familiar destined to serve the very vampires who attacked her, she soon discovers she possesses unheard-of powers that make her unique in the supernatural realm. Caught between two worlds, Seraphina faces a devastating choice for her heart. She is inexplicably drawn to Henry, a darkly handsome vampire hell-bent on revenge, yet she remains tethered to Nicholas, her first love who it turns out, belongs to the legendary Van Helsing clan. As a century-old treaty between vampires and the Van Helsing hunter clan begins to fail, Seraphina Gray finds herself at the center of a brewing war. To stop it, she must navigate a dangerous world where no one is who they seem. Her journey will take her from Renfield Academy to the heart of Romania to uncover the truth behind her connection to the original Renfield, Dracula’s servant and the first vampire familiar. To survive, Seraphina must decide where she truly belongs and which of the two men she is destined to love will stand by her side when the final battle begins.