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He broke the laws of physics. Now, he’s trapped in a universe where they don’t exist. Dr. Daniel Vey believed in elegant, final solutions. His life’s work, a machine that promised instantaneous travel, was the ultimate testament to his faith in a predictable, quantifiable reality. But his first journey through it goes catastrophically wrong. In less than a second, he's thrown into a dimension governed by a terrifying new law: you can only ever get halfway to your destination. Marooned in a world where progress is a lie and every journey is eternal, Daniel is a heretic in a ...

He fought for glory in the Colosseum, but victory was just the beginning of his enslavement. Sold to a shadowy baroness with a web of secrets, the gladiator Cassian is forced to trade his sword for a killer's dagger. His first target is a merchant in a filthy city alley ; his second, a powerful senator ruined by a planted lie . Each life he takes pushes him deeper into a world of political intrigue and moral decay, a pawn in his mistress’s deadly game to seize control of the city. His only promised reward is a deed of manumission, a freedom that seems to recede with every bloody act . But...

What if you found a doorway to another reality, only to discover it was a one-way ticket to an infinite nightmare? Nate is obsessed with escaping his suffocatingly mundane life. He’s tried every method to "shift" his consciousness, and on the brink of madness, he finally finds the key: a mental gateway to a place that shouldn't exist. At first, the hotel seems like the ultimate escape. But this is no ordinary building. It's a sentient equation, a trap of impossible geometry designed to break its guests. The sterile halls stretch into eternity, the clock ticks toward insanity, and every ...

Cole Mercer, a two-time burglar, just wanted to do his time and get out. But on his first day at Falcon Ridge Maximum Security, he's forced to become a pawn for the prison's most ruthless inmate. The choice is simple: move contraband or watch the video of his sister's murder. Trapped between a brutal gang leader, a rival crew that wants him dead, and a corrupt guard playing both sides, Cole is pushed to the absolute limit. Every delivery is a new nightmare, every hallway a potential ambush. To survive, he must navigate a vicious underworld where one wrong move means death—not just for him...

The war lasted fifty-seven seconds. The fallout will last forever. Drone pilot Kaelen Vance is a ghost, haunted by memories of a family he never had and a grief he can't explain. The official story is that a brief, conventional conflict shattered his mind. But the jagged cracks in reality he calls "bleeds"—flickering visions of a world gone terribly wrong—tell him the truth is far more terrifying. When a wary operative, Ana Staskova, confirms his paranoia, Kaelen is torn from his broken life and thrown into a desperate race for the truth. The real war wasn't fought with bombs, but with ...

He was the last ranger of a forgotten Yosemite. Now he's a trespasser in his own home. Jack Harlan lives in the shadow of the fortress that was once his sanctuary. A decade after the nation’s debt forced the sale of its parklands, Yosemite is a privately-owned testbed for OmniCorp’s autonomous drones and cybernetic predators. For Jack, it's a constant, humming reminder of all he has lost. An old friend, a ghost from a twenty-year-old mistake, shows up with a desperate proposition: one last heist to retrieve millions in uncut diamonds hidden deep inside the park’s high country. To ...

What if you could press pause on the entire world? For a price. Lucas Rhames is a ghost in his own life, a twenty-four-year-old worn down to nothing by a dead-end job and the crushing weight of debt. His world is a relentless conveyor belt of monotony and despair. He doesn't want to be rich. He doesn't want to be famous. He just wants it all to stop. One desperate night, in a filthy alley with a fist about to rearrange his face, he gets his wish. The world freezes. A punch hangs inches from his nose. A city of millions becomes a silent, personal diorama. Lucas is the only thing still moving...

A decorated officer betrayed. A proud soldier enslaved. A legend forged in the blood-soaked sands of the arena. Decurion Valerius is a loyal soldier of Rome, his reputation built on discipline and battlefield victories. But when a treacherous act of political ambition, orchestrated by the man he trusts most, Legate Tiberius, strips him of his rank and honor, Valerius is sold into the brutal world of a Carthaginian gladiator school. Chained and condemned, he is no longer a commander of men but a slave forced to fight for the roaring mob. To survive, he must abandon the rigid tactics of a ...

Kenna Sharma is an engineer, not a hero. Her job on the clandestine Deep Look space station is simple: follow procedures, fix what is broken, and do not ask questions. But during a routine spacewalk, a two-second glitch in reality shows her the impossible: the stars are a lie, and her station is a cage. Back inside, the world feels wrong. A hairline crack appears not on the glass, but in space itself. Her crewmates begin to forget shared memories, their personalities fading into a placid, smiling emptiness. Kenna is being gaslit by her commanders and haunted by a horror that does not kill...

Wilderness guide Jonah Keller just wants a quiet holiday with his estranged daughter. But when a perfect, vertical tear unzips the sky over Mirror Shard Lake, he witnesses an event that defies physics and logic. The anomaly is just the beginning. When his daughter, Jessica, arrives, she’s tormented by a high-frequency sound only she can hear—a signal coming from the remote Black Elk Ridge. As hikers vanish from the trails and locals are found with their memories wiped and their fingerprints erased, Jonah uncovers a terrifying truth. This isn’t an invasion. It’s a “correction.” A...

One warden’s well-intentioned experiment. One inmate’s master plan. A night of creative expression is about to become a bloodbath. Warden Hayes is new to Hard Max Penitentiary and believes in rehabilitation. His big idea? A “Halloween Creativity Initiative” to give the inmates a sense of purpose. He provides them with costumes, art supplies, and a stage. He thinks he’s offering them a second chance. They see it as the perfect cover. Inside the workshop, rival gangs aren’t just making masks; they’re forging weapons. An old-timer isn’t just building props; he’s mapping an ...

They have one minute to save the world. And they’ve already died a thousand times trying. It’s New Year’s Eve in New York City. The ball is dropping. The confetti is falling. The party is deafening. But for EMT Val Solis and security contractor Beck, the celebration is about to become a nightmare on repeat. At midnight, the world doesn’t just ring in a new year—it glitches. A screeching digital tear rips through the sky, the air turns to grey static, and humanity is wiped out in an instant. Then, Val wakes up. It’s 11:59 PM. The party is raging. The confetti is flying. And ...

Gabe Mercer has fifty-seven seconds to fix his life. As a New York high school English teacher buried in debt, Gabe relies on "The Glitch"—a jury-rigged device built from scavenged smartphone parts that rewinds time just enough to correct life’s minor mistakes. But when he pushes the machine to its absolute limit and jumps four centuries into the past, he discovers he isn't just a visitor to history.+4 He is the delivery boy for it. In the foul, stinking streets of 1601 London, Gabe delivers a mass-market paperback of Hamlet to a beleaguered playwright named William Shakespeare. What ...

A creature of stitched-flesh and old sorrows, he asks only for peace. But the brutal frontier has other plans. He calls himself Adam, a giant of a man built by a madman and abandoned by the world. He seeks refuge in the dusty town of Damnation, hoping only to be left alone. But his impossible size and strength draw the eye of Silas Carver, a ruthless railroad baron who sees not a soul, but a powerful tool to be exploited . Captured and chained, Adam is forced into servitude as a "living engine," tasked with carrying volatile explosives through treacherous canyons where one wrong step means ...

Some prisons are built to keep secrets in. Black Hollow Asylum is one of them. When idealistic young nurse Eleanor Cross arrives at the remote, crumbling institution, she expects to care for the sick. Instead, she finds a world of unimaginable cruelty, ruled by the cold-blooded Nurse Ratcliff and the arrogant Dr. Finch. The terrified patients are covered in bruises, their minds and bodies broken by the very people meant to heal them. Whispers haunt the corridors, telling of a vengeful phantom—a shadow that moves through the walls and protects the most helpless inmates from the staff's ...

A man from the 19th century dies in 21st-century Times Square. The investigating detective will discover that this impossible death is not an ending, but a terrible beginning. In the heart of a glittering 2025 New York City, a man dressed in Victorian clothing appears from nowhere and is fatally struck by an autonomous taxi. For world-weary NYPD Detective Caleb Marris, it’s just another "weird" case to file away. But the victim’s pockets contain pristine artifacts from the 1870s, and the autopsy reveals a man whose very cells have never been touched by the modern world. Marris’s ...

A 1921 coma. A journey to the year 3906. A secret that will ignite a war across time. When teacher Paul Dienach falls into a year-long coma, his doctors see only a medical curiosity. But Paul awakens a changed man, haunted by memories that are not his own—memories of a life in the 39th century. He has witnessed humanity's utopian future, a world of peace and profound consciousness born from the ashes of a cataclysmic fire that is yet to come. Terrified of being dismissed as a madman, Paul documents everything in a secret journal, an explosive chronicle of humanity’s destiny. Before his ...

The nights are longest in December. The air is cold. The streets are empty. Most people are inside, distracted by the warmth of the season and the glow of festive lights. They believe the silence outside is peaceful. They are wrong. The Winter Window is a documented phenomenon where high strangeness spikes during the coldest weeks of the year. It suggests that the visitors prefer the cover of our holidays. They use the isolation of the season to operate with impunity. This book documents the most compelling cases that have occurred when the world was busy celebrating. These are not stories ...

The annual UFO festival in New Mexico is a joke, a tourist trap. For five friends, it’s a way to kill a summer afternoon. But when they stumble upon a dusty, forgotten notebook filled with cryptic equations and terrifying eyewitness accounts, the joke ends. The notebook leads them to a shocking discovery: the legendary 1947 crash was real, but the story the world knows is a lie. The government isn’t just hiding a crashed ship; they're hiding a beacon. And it's been reactivated. Hunted by a shadowy organization that will kill to protect its secrets, the group is locked in a desperate ...

Leah is done running from the monster in her home. But when a fiery object crashes in the woods, she finds a new kind of danger—and a creature that will change her life forever. She discovers a survivor in the wreckage, an otherworldly being, injured and terrified. As she helps the strange visitor, she realizes they are not alone. Men in black are sweeping the forest, government agents determined to capture the creature at any cost. To protect her new friend, Leah must not only flee her past but outwit a powerful and relentless enemy. In a desperate chase through a town known for strange ...