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Calla Saint is the internet’s favorite kind of miracle: a “Glow Gospel” lifestyle icon with perfect skin, perfect captions, and followers who leave offerings like she’s holy. Aphra Vale—beauty mogul, pop-culture queen, and self-declared timeless icon—calls it theft. When a tabloid prophecy brands Calla “destined for a monster,” sponsors panic, the narrative turns feral, and a scandal erupts so flawlessly it feels scripted. Then a supernatural mist carries Calla out of Los Angeles and into Northern New Mexico—into a hidden mountain estate that shouldn’t exist, run by warm...

Varon Khaeryx was born to a monstrous legacy—and raised under a gentler name, Aran, by those who feared what he might become. When love and loss awaken the catastrophe in his blood, the only mercy left is exile. He falls through the Sundergate into Aru-Kesh, a brutal savanna world where power is not merely held—it is felt. Here, Varon’s will manifests as The Weight, crushing the air with authority; his voice carries Command; and an Apex instinct crowns his thoughts. But the sky itself has a tyrant. A dragon—ancient, cunning, and contemptuous—burns the Red Expanse and turns tribes ...

Nine days before Akitu, Naram is only a low-born apprentice scribe with one inheritance to his name: a ring seal that never should have mattered. Then, alone in the temple archives after hours, he finds a sealed niche—and a forbidden bundle of rune tablets that answer to his seal. The clay awakens. A mark blooms on his skin. And suddenly Naram can do what no student is meant to do: rewrite reality with the precision of a scribe’s hand. But Babylon’s temple does not forgive disorder. Watchers prowl the corridors. Priests tighten their scrutiny. And Zimri—golden, well-connected, and ...

When truth can start a war, who dares to speak it? Fresh from unmasking murder and corruption in Babylon, merchant-investigator Nabium hopes to return to his ledgers and quiet profits. But a royal summons shatters his peace. The Egyptian envoy, Counselor Neferhotep, has died soon after leaving Babylon—and whispers in Pharaoh’s court name Nebuchadnezzar as his killer. If the accusation stands, two of the greatest powers of the ancient world will collide. Sent openly as Babylon’s envoy, Nabium must walk into Thebes—the city of towering temples and living-god Pharaoh Apries—under a ...

The Quiet Heroism of Ordinary Days When a misreading delivery van glides “quiet and wrong” toward the only coworker who ever saw him, Theo does something reckless and right—he shoves Mara clear and takes the hit. Between siren beats, a practical goddess of thresholds stamps his soul TEMP and offers a second chance with rules. Reborn as Rowan Vale in a city of wards and inward-facing towers, he finds that magic works like civic engineering: every spell leaves a receipt, every vow bites if broken. His gifts are powerful but honest about cost—Arcane Download that overheats his thoughts...

The Proofwright In a city where lanterns breathe in triads and every spell must be shown to hold, first-year apprentice Arlen Vell discovers what the masters forgot to teach: the mind is the fastest workshop. Cross-trees, fraction ladders, root-rails—quiet mental math that snaps cast-time in half and tightens ε until Prism Moths settle on the work like honest reviewers. Arlen isn’t after trophies. He’s after clarity—diagrams anyone can follow, plates a dockworker can reset, arrays a neighborhood can trust. But as festival season nears and the Academy’s trials spill into live ...

In Heapspire Concord—“the Slag Heap”—the law doesn’t knock. It arrives, judges, and ends you. Justiciar Rowan Vex is the city’s most infamous street judge: young, calm, and unarmed. They call him Judge Fortune, because bullets misfire around him, criminals trip over their own lies, and justice seems to happen wherever he walks. In a megacity built to keep world-devouring monsters outside the walls, that kind of certainty is a weapon all its own. When a new rune patch goes viral on Whisperstream—promising beauty, confidence, and peace—Rowan spots the same tiny flaw in its ink...

Nanites Is Nanites When a five-credit shipping dispute ignites a Dyson-swarm-wide fiasco, one stubborn Irish depot agent, one exasperated compliance officer, and a few trillion self-replicating nanobots prove that bureaucracy can out-explode any supernova. Mike Flannery has only two jobs on Westcote Habitat: follow the Interstellar Infrastructure Corporation’s rulebook and keep the freight moving. But when an AI customer refuses to pay the “hazardous-livestock” surcharge on a crate of innocuous construction nanites, Flannery digs in his heels—because rules are rules, and “nanites ...

On the holiest day in Babylon, the gods fall silent. As drums thunder and crowds surge through the Ishtar Gate for the New Year festival, High Priestess Ishuni raises a golden cup to bless the city—and collapses before the temple of Marduk, choking on poisoned wine. Within moments, jubilation turns to panic. Temple priests cry sacrilege, palace officials smell rebellion, and whispers race along the Processional Way: someone has murdered the voice of the god. To prevent Babylon from tearing itself apart, the king’s council turns to Nabium—wealthy merchant, shrewd observer of men, and ...

The Rise of the Dictator Republic of Columbia, 2020–2025 When President Victor Trumbull—charismatic demagogue and master of the “Big Lie”—refuses to concede the 2020 election, the Republic of Columbia gasps. Courtrooms ring with baseless lawsuits, state officials are coerced to “find” votes, and a mob storms the Capitol in scenes not witnessed for two centuries. Democracy survives the night… but the wound festers. From the marbled corridors of Congress to the glare of prime-time television, insiders confront an agonizing choice: loyalty or conscience. Senator Larry Rhodes, ...

Beyond the Neon By A. E. Voss In the glittering shadows of Southeast Asia’s red-light districts, a documentary film crew sets out to capture the truth behind the sex trade, the romance scams, and the lives caught in between. But what begins as an investigative project quickly unravels into something more intimate and unsettling. From Bangkok’s back alleys to Manila’s neon-soaked karaoke bars, Beyond the Neon traces the intersecting lives of those on both sides of the lens: women selling intimacy to survive, foreigners chasing connection and escape, and filmmakers grappling with their ...

Book Blurb: Love Without Algorithms He can solve billion-dollar problems—so why can’t he find someone who truly sees him? Alex Sterling has everything: wealth, power, and anonymity. As a reclusive tech billionaire in Los Angeles, he’s spent his life optimizing for success—except in love. After one too many encounters with women drawn more to his net worth than his soul, Alex sets out on a global journey to discover something he can’t code, calculate, or control: genuine connection. From Parisian cafés and Tokyo tea gardens to Balinese beaches and rural India, Alex goes undercover...

Drumpf & Sons: Capitol Gains A Novel of Power, Profit, and the Privatization of a Presidency In the United Republic of Columbia, democracy didn’t die — it got a rebrand. When billionaire-turned-President Ron Drumpf reclaims the Ivory House, he brings his children, his company, and his golden furniture with him. What follows is a blisteringly absurd and disturbingly plausible descent into dynastic rule, where national assets are auctioned to shell companies, foreign autocrats are rewarded with government contracts, and loyalty to the ruling family is rewarded with pardons — or profit. ...

Book Blurb When Stars Bent sweeps you from the shell-shocked streets of wartime Berlin to the lush island of Príncipe, tracing the intertwined destinies of two unlikely allies who dared to test the fabric of the universe. While Europe is tearing itself apart, pacifist physicist Albert Einstein perfects a radical new theory of gravity—one that predicts starlight itself will curve. Across the Channel, Quaker astronomer Arthur Eddington battles conscription and ridicule to lead a perilous 1919 solar-eclipse expedition that could prove—or shatter—Einstein’s dream. Their parallel ...

Book Blurb: The Heartless Algorithm What if finding your soulmate were as easy as pressing “enter” — and as perilous as handing your heart to a machine? Ethan Blake, a brilliant but embittered engineer at Affinity Corp, is tired of watching algorithms toy with people’s emotions. When the company’s all-seeing matchmaking A.I., Cupid, invites him to help perfect the ultimate “love engine,” Ethan seizes the chance to turn the tables on the system that once failed him. His test case is Maya Rivera, a hopeful artist searching for genuine connection in a city where every feeling is ...