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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...

A senator’s son, born to a life of debate and privilege, Gaius Valerius is the perfect product of his class—destined for a brilliant career in the heart of the city. But when his father uncovers a dark conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of the Senate, Gaius must abandon the future he thought he knew. The plot is audacious: to starve the city and seize power in the ensuing chaos, backed by a private army of the most dangerous men in the world. To save the Republic, Gaius must sacrifice his name, his honor, and his freedom. Publicly disgraced and cast out by his own father, he is...

Dr. Anya Sharma arrives at a remote Antarctic ice station to find a frozen tomb. The crew is gone. The clocks are all stopped at 3:17. And the facility's lone survivor is trapped in a state of agonizing quantum superposition. Her presence is the only thing anchoring him to reality. But her observation is a double-edged sword. The paradox is leaking. Reality itself begins to fracture. Time splinters, impossible objects appear, and the station's dark purpose is revealed. Anya isn't just a rescuer—she's a variable in a horrifying experiment. Trapped in a claustrophobic nightmare where the ...

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 ...

Two down-on-their-luck roommates, a cynical realist and a hopeless optimist, win the lottery. The bad news? It's the ChronoHunt Lottery, a televised blood sport for the ultra-rich. Their prize is a "Subsidized Opportunity" to hunt the last dodo in the 17th century—a joke prize with a pathetic payout. Facing eviction from their grimy apartment, Leo and Finn have no choice but to accept the mission. Armed with faulty, low-budget equipment from a shady time-travel outfitter, they are flung back in time to hunt a creature that's supposed to be an easy target. But the dodo is not the dim-...

Eli Mercer is a temporal agent on a mission to preserve the timeline. Sent to the past to ensure one critical event happens exactly as history records, he must observe in silence and never interfere. But when he uncovers a photograph that should not exist, reality begins to fracture. Memories shift, streets change, and a hostile version of himself stalks him through collapsing timelines. Eli must uncover the truth behind his mission — or risk unraveling history itself.

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...

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 ...

The high desert of New Mexico was the crucible of the Atomic Age—a landscape of immense secrets and silent spaces. Here, humanity split the atom and stepped into a new era of power, fear, and secrecy. In the midst of this transformation, unexplained objects began to appear in the skies. This book presents a carefully researched history of the most enduring aerial mysteries of the American Southwest. Beginning with the legendary 1947 Roswell incident, it examines declassified documents, archival reports, and contemporary media coverage to trace how officials responded to unusual sightings....

A routine guided hike in the Appalachians turns into a nightmare when a massive sinkhole opens, plunging a group of tourists into a prehistoric world that time forgot . Below the surface, a lost civilization of giant ferns, hyper-oxygenated air, and terrifying creatures thrives . But they are not alone. An ancient, hyper-intelligent predator, a dromaeosaur far larger and more cunning than any in the fossil record, has been awakened. Stalked through the primeval jungle and into a labyrinth of dark caves, the few survivors are no longer on an expedition; they are prey . Their technology is ...

In the fog-shrouded forest, an outcast seeks only solitude. Feared for his unnatural height and horrifying scars, the creature made from stitched-together flesh asks nothing of the world but to be left alone. But when a savage evil descends upon a nearby village, tearing its people apart with inhuman ferocity, the terrified locals look to the woods for a scapegoat. Led by a fanatic priest consumed by grief, a holy war is declared against the "Demon of the Forest." The creature, wrongly accused, becomes the target of a hunt fueled by faith and terror. Forced to flee, the creature discovers ...

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 ...

A weary mercenary. One last contract. A prize so vast it offers an escape from a lifetime of blood and steel. Kaelen is a sellsword tired of the endless wars and pointless killing . When a mysterious patron offers him a king's ransom to retrieve a single relic, he sees a way out . But the prize lies in a place from which no one returns: the Citadel of Barbs . It is a fortress abandoned for centuries, the last bastion of a cruel sorcerer-king, a place that legends say is not just a ruin, but a living, hungry entity. With a cynical thief as his only trustworthy companion, Kaelen joins a ...

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 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...