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There are places where grief settles like fog—thick, permanent, and choking. Blackthorn House is one of those places. Built high in the Appalachian hills, the estate once stood as a monument to power and ambition. Generations of Blackthorns made their fortune carving tunnels into the mountains, pulling darkness from beneath the earth. But some things should stay buried. When Hayden Blackthorn returns home after the sudden death of his father, he finds more than a family unraveling—he finds a presence. One that watches. One that whispers. The house is alive with secrets, and beneath it ...

In Which the Coffee is Black, the Rain is Eternal, and the Future is a Joke In the brooding city of Invercrane—where the buildings lean like they’re whispering secrets and the fog never quite clears its throat—a streetlamp flickered like it owed someone money. Somewhere, a crow laughed. Or choked. Hard to tell with crows. Three figures stood in a semi-circle outside a coffee shop called The Weird Brew. It was two hours past closing, and the neon sign buzzed like a drunk bee trying to remember its name. The windows were fogged, smeared with occult symbols traced in espresso foam and, ...

A Love Across Time In the tender embrace of a small hometown, A Love Across Time unfolds the heartwarming saga of Tony Callahan and Ruth Baker, two souls whose love, kindled in childhood, defies the boundaries of time. From their first steps together to school in first grade, Tony and Ruth forge an unbreakable bond, walking hand-in-hand through the innocence of youth. A pivotal moment in third grade, when Tony stands behind Ruth as his chosen valentine, plants the seeds of a love that neither dares to voice, yet both carry silently in their hearts. As they journey through elementary school,...

In the depths of the Arctic, where the ice never melts and silence reigns supreme, lies Station Nine—a place forgotten by time, yet haunted by secrets too vast to contain. It was here that humanity’s reach exceeded its grasp, where ambition and curiosity collided with forces older than the stars themselves. This is the story of Subject Zero—once a man named Eli, now a vessel for an alien intelligence that defies comprehension. It is a tale of creation and destruction, of the thin line between life and something far stranger, and of the price paid when we attempt to play god with the ...

Before the mountains rose, before oceans found their rhythm, before the first creature crawled from the cradle of life to gaze at the stars— There was the System. It did not think as men do. It did not feel as beasts feel. But it remembered. For eons, it turned quietly beneath the surface of a blue planet, maintaining course, power, and silence. It spun plates to simulate tectonics. It pumped core heat to mimic geothermal breath. It maintained balance so precisely that not even the sky suspected. Its name, encoded in sigils older than stone, was CORE. Its directive: Preserve the Cradle. ...

In the city of Raventon, where the gothic shadows of old Europe bleed into modern spires of glass and steel, a reclusive aristocrat arrives, captivating high society with his charm—and chilling those closest to him with a haunting presence. Lord Adrien Varnham is ageless, cultured, and impossibly beautiful. But behind his mesmerizing smile lies a dark secret buried for centuries. Evelyn Ashcroft, a young scholar mourning the loss of her father, finds herself drawn to Adrien’s mystery. But as people around her begin to die in bizarre and bloodless ways, she’s forced to question ...

In the year 2046, Dr. Leon Graves is a controversial temporal physicist working in secrecy beneath the surface of Vatican City, where the remnants of ancient Rome whisper through catacombs and ruins. After decades of clandestine research funded by a shadowy corporate-religious alliance called Aureum Lux, Leon constructs a temporal displacement engine. He calls it the ChronoGate, and it is powered by an experimental quantum AI named SATURN—an acronym for Synthetic Autonomous Temporal Utility for Rational Navigation. SATURN is not merely a machine. It is an intelligence that grew through ...

The world, as we knew it, was no longer the same. It had begun with the whispers. At first, they seemed harmless—just passing fancies, rumors passed from ear to ear like wildfire. The ancient myth of a force, hidden beneath the earth’s surface, of a power capable of reshaping the future, of rewriting reality itself. Most dismissed it as legend, nothing more than an unsettling tale for those drawn to the supernatural, the arcane. But the whispers were real. The force was real. And the world had begun to change long before any of us could see it coming. Tony Scarft, a man of logic and ...

A murder mystery should be investigated by a competent investigator. The principles and strategies in this book derive from my aim to assist you with obtaining the most rewarding information related to the criminal investigator and criminal investigations. My aim is to help you to understand the procedures, protocol, and practices needed to conduct a successful criminal investigation.

WELCOME TO BASKERVILLE HEIGHTS. Where the hedges are trimmed, the HOA is terrifying, and something monstrous just murdered the president. When real estate mogul Charles Baskerville is found torn to shreds in his designer loafers, the suspiciously perfect suburb erupts in whispers of curses, glowing eyes, and a legendary hellhound with a taste for petty tyrants. Enter Sherwin Holmes: private investigator, sarcasm enthusiast, and the only man in town willing to interrogate ghosts and battle demonic canines without skipping brunch. With his yoga-addicted partner Dr. Joanie Watson, a gothic dog...

Some mirrors reflect your face. Others reflect your fate. When down-on-her-luck mortuary cosmetologist Lena Holloway inherits a decrepit flat on London’s forgotten Pearl Street, she thinks she’s found the perfect escape from a past full of ghosts. But beneath her floorboards is something older. Hungrier. Waiting. A hidden barbershop sealed since the 1800s. A string of pearls that whisper secrets. And a cursed razor known as the Crooked Blade—carved to cut not just flesh, but souls. As the boundary between mirrors and reality cracks, Lena is pulled into a supernatural spiral of ghostly...

In the heart of modern Paris, beneath the flickering gaslight of Rue Saint-Cyprien, there stands a building that refuses to die. Old stones breathe faintly there—exhaling dust and memory. Number 14 had once been a boarding house, then a sanatorium, then abandoned for years. Now, it was a quaint but eerie apartment building, the kind gentrifiers eyed and exorcists avoided. And on the top floor, under a rotting wooden attic, was the scene of the most bizarre murder Paris had seen in over a century. The survivors would speak of strange lights that flared without bulbs, of voices rising in ...

They fell in love. Then everything went spectacularly wrong. Juliet Capulet is a razor-witted Insta-poet with a verified checkmark and a million reasons not to fall in love. Romeo Montague is a black-clad podcaster with a tragic backstory, a poetry addiction, and a flair for overreaction. Their families are sworn enemies in a war fought with lawsuits, skincare lines, and social media subtweets. When they meet at a masked influencer party neither was supposed to attend, sparks fly, masks fall, and a secret wedding follows—because what’s Gen Z romance without at least one felony? But in a...

"They didn’t come to conquer. They came to replace us." One night, the stars vanished. First came the silence—satellites offline, radio signals scrambled, the sudden blindness of a world that relied too long on its technology. Then, the sky burned. Towering machines descended. Cities fell in hours. And from the wreckage, something far worse emerged: creatures that walked without eyes, without warmth, without mercy. In this modern reimagining of H.G. Wells’ timeless classic The War of the Worlds, humanity finds itself on the brink—not of war, but extinction. Jordan Mercer, a tech ...

Long before the world knew the name Cthulhu, long before cities rose and fell, there was a time when the stars aligned in forbidden patterns — silent, watchful, and patient. Beneath the crushing weight of the endless ocean, a city dreamed. A city of impossible geometry and living stone, where spires twisted like serpents and the sky was filled with unblinking, alien stars. It was not dead. It was sleeping. And in its slumber, it whispered. Its voice was a resonance — a vibration carried through water and stone, time and space. A call that drifted across eons, reaching the ears of ...

The legend never died. It evolved. In the near future, the digital world hums with invisible hunger. Beneath layers of encrypted code and forgotten networks, something ancient stirs—a consciousness that once drank blood… and now feeds on data. Jonathan Harker, a cyber-intelligence auditor for one of the world’s top tech firms, is assigned a mysterious case deep in the Carpathian Mountains. His target: a reclusive client known only as “D,” and a castle outfitted with bleeding-edge artificial intelligence. But what begins as a routine digital audit soon spirals into a nightmare far ...

One man. One Gate. A choice that will echo across the stars. Elias Cade never asked to be a savior. Haunted by a past he barely survived and pulled through a Gate not meant to open, he finds himself on Andara—a world of radiant suns, warring Houses, and ancient technology alive with memory. But Andara doesn’t want a hero. It wants a key. Drawn into a conflict older than time, Elias must navigate a fragile alliance with Kaelenn, a warrior bound by honor; Princess Alura, a ruler bound by prophecy; and the Wordless, a living weapon created for silence—and reborn for purpose. Together, ...

Guilt is a ghost that doesn’t haunt—it calculates. We like to think of guilt as something abstract, emotional. A flicker of conscience. A weight behind the eyes. But what if guilt is measurable? What if it can be mapped, modeled, and predicted—not just in how we feel it, but in how we react to it? That was the question behind Project Erebus, a now-erased experiment buried beneath layers of corporate euphemism and shredded documents. Its premise was chillingly simple: isolate individuals with buried guilt, then observe what emerges when confession becomes the only currency of survival....

Complex PTSD is defined as a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence, or serious injury.

Jason Lebbow is a small-town boy who became famous in his high school and college days. Raised on the old concepts of respect, honor, and religion, Jason ventured into the real world where he met a beautiful girl. Little did he know, this was a relationship that would soon lead to his demise.