Dark Universe

The survivors live underground, as far from the Original World as possible and protected from the ultimate evil, Radiation. Then terrible monsters, who bring with them a screaming silence, are seen and people start to disappear. One young man realizes he must question the nature of Darkness itself.

Former Captain of the Confederate Fleet, Terenze Milos is the hero of the Locusta-Vanga wars, said to have brought the galaxy back from the brink of extinction. Now he lives in obscurity, running a freight operation on the derelict ship Endeavor. When Captain Milos recognizes the unmistakable signs of deadly Locustan technology in a salvaged fighter craft—the Stryker - he sounds a warning. But the Confederacy isn't listening....

Stress is piling up in Blake's life. A sick kid, a mountain of debt, and lack of sleep is life's way of beating him down. When he finds a bag full of money, he thinks all of his problems are solved. He's wrong. Very wrong. Note from the author : This is extreme horror. I do not want to add any triggers. I feel like the triggers would give away the ending. The first 3/4 of the story is mild violence. The last 1/4 of the story is so vile that the author is ALMOST disgusted with herself. This is not a gimmick. This story is intended for extreme horror lovers.

Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only four percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every star and planet. The rest is completely unknown. Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of the quest to find this “dark” matter and an even more bizarre substance called “dark energy”. This is perhaps the greatest mystery in all of science, and solving it will bring fame, funding, and certainly a Nobel Prize.

After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her and leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I received an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before, those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores. And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.

Book five in the sensational Magnolia Parks Universe series! How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Everyone knows by now that Magnolia and BJ are in the stars, but is that enough? Magnolia and BJ are reeling from a devastating loss as they try to plan what’s been dubbed “the...

Outer Banks meets Bone Gap in New York Times bestselling author Samuel Miller’s propulsive and genre-bending YA mystery, following a group of teenagers who discover a dead body while playing an app-based adventure game that sends players to “random” locations, unlocking a much deeper...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade...

You didn’t pick up a book. You picked up a Node—a pocket doorway into a set of worlds where stories don’t describe reality. They shape it. In Sector Folio-7, a catastrophic cascade has begun. Worlds are bleeding into each other, rules are breaking, and a city built from living pages is starting to collapse from the inside. Streets repeat out of order. People forget who they are mid-sentence. And “plot holes”—literal voids—open in the ground and swallow entire blocks. Mara Keene is a Scriptor tasked with keeping this place intact. She enters the City of Echoing Pages to recover...

It was supposed to be my first summer on my own, but then I meet Seth, Axel, Jasper, and Cody. There's something about them that drew me closer, and they seemed hell-bent on protecting me. I didn't think I needed protecting until people started showing up dead in the woods.

Lucien Ortane is a Paragon in the Etherian Empire. His job is to explore the universe and spread Etherian doctrines of peace, justice, and immortality to sentient beings everywhere. Like all Paragons and most citizens, Lucien believes that Etherus, the benevolent ruler of the empire, is exactly who he claims to be: the one true God and creator of the universe.

Lost: one little boy. When Little Alfred runs away from home and winds up in the Dark Unchanted Forest being trailed by a bobcat, Hank the Cowdog knows that it's up to him to save his young master. So, mustering up all the courage that a Head of Ranch Security can come up with, he bravely makes his way into the forest.

YOU DIDN’T BUY THIS BOOK. YOU PICKED UP A NODE. In New Orleans, a “normal” lunch turns into an intake line—forms, name tags, and rules that start acting like they’ve always been true. When the room tries to file people into permanent categories, Mara does the only thing that works: she makes reality messy again. Today. Right now. This weather. This shift. No forever-words. But the storm doesn’t stop at the door. A service entrance peels open into the City of Echoing Pages—a metropolis built from book spines, ink-lamps, and sentences that rearrange themselves when you blink. ...

She hid her true nature for years. Now she's caught in his coils with no escape. For five years, plant expert Lyra has kept a deadly secret in the Serpent Dominion. She's an omega hiding in plain sight, making special plant medicines to mask her scent from the snake-like nagas who rule her world. But one mistake changes everything. When strange pollens wreck her carefully made suppressants, Commander Nezzar—the most feared naga guard in the territory—catches her scent. His massive coils trap her before she can run. His venomous bite floods her body with pleasure she can't fight. And ...

Michael, the Archangel himself, has returned after 150 years rejuvenating in the Etheric Dimension. Now, the most powerful male vampire the world had ever known is back.The problem? The world went through an apocalypse, and what little honor and justice that previously existed is gone. Further, his love has left to the stars somewhere, fighting for those on Earth. Now, Michael has to figure out where he is, where he needs to go, help those who need help, and figure out how to follow in his love's path.

Harlow Bevans was a changeling mermaid working as a diving consultant for the Earthen Conclave. Then he came along. Charybdis. A serial killer who possessed her body and wrecked her mind. Now she's an inmate - patient - at Edelweiss Mental Institution. When a haunting song lures her to the scene of a brutal murder, the calm of the past few months is shattered. A fellow patient is dead, and Harlow is caught standing over his body.

I knew as soon as I saw her that she was MINE. It's called The Lightning Strike—the feeling a Brute gets when he finds his Fated Mate. I knew Aurora was my Fated Mate, but how could I get her? She's a Princess but worse, she's Untainted with pure human DNA—they don't want anything to do with my kind. I guess I can't blame her—I'm a criminal after all. A member of the Four Families—Clan Cruel to be exact.

Ten years ago, monsters broke through from another world. Now they rule Earth, and humans just try to survive. Clara has a dangerous secret. She's an omega – the type of woman these new rulers, called Primes, want most. She's stayed hidden for years by using special drugs and pretending to be normal. Then Commander Kairyx spots her. He's not just any monster – he's a massive dragon shifter who rules the entire mountain region. And he can smell what she really is. Captured and dragged to his mountain fortress, Clara finds herself trapped with the most powerful alpha dragon around. Her ...

Discover the wonders of the cosmos with "The Expanding Universe," an enthralling journey through the vast expanses of space and time. This enlightening eBook illuminates the path from ancient stargazers to the ground-breaking theories of modern astrophysics, weaving a captivating narrative of cosmic discovery. Begin your exploration with the early observations of our night sky, uncovering how myths transformed into precise measurements and led to the birth of astrophysics. Venture further into the universe as we perceive it today, diving into the immense scale of the cosmos and the ...

She hid in shadows to survive. Now she belongs to one. For three years, Nova has played a dangerous game—hiding her omega status while working as a translator for the Shadow Dominion. Specialized suppressants and careful planning have kept her secret safe, allowing her to gather vital intelligence for the human resistance. Until Lord Kael Nightshadow catches her scent. Standing nearly seven feet tall with midnight-black skin that absorbs light and four powerful arms that could break her in an instant, the high-ranking shadow demon enforcer sees through Nova's chemical deception during a ...