Metaphysical Thriller

From the bestselling author of the Noah Hunter series, and Grim Measures, comes a novel that spans centuries as a farmer from the 1700s and an FBI agent travel through time to stop a black hole from destroying the world. "Darling has crafted a truly fantastic time-travel novel. Riveting, page-turning, and mind-bending from end to beginning..." - James Downe, author of Sisters of Jade. FBI Special Agent Bradley Holman has been hand-picked to investigate the mother of all cover-ups: a three-hundred-year-old meteorite fragment, sealed away in Fort Knox, was stolen from under the government’s...

In a future where reality itself is being rewritten, humanity’s greatest enemy is not an army, a weapon, or even a machine. It is the loss of its own mind. Blending epic science fiction with philosophical depth, SAIFA explores questions that feel increasingly urgent in an age of artificial intelligence and digital systems that shape human thought. What happens when technology begins to understand us better than we understand ourselves? What if the greatest power the human mind possesses is not intelligence—but the ability to shape our own consciousness? Part speculative fiction and part...

Every family has its own little secrets, but none are as big as mine. Ever since my mother was murdered by vampires, my life has been turned upside down. After spending the better part of the school year in an asylum, I finally get to go back home. But with my mother now gone, and only a step father who would rather climb into a bottle than pretend that he cares for me, who could ever call this place home? And to top it all off, now I’m being shipped off to go live with an aunt who I never met, on some strange island no one ever heard of. What a weird place. I hate it here. That is, until...

In the underground world of crime, Jet Rusco clashes with gangsters and space thugs. He’s a man who lives on the edge, turned to hustling to survive. A heist gone bad centering on alien tech leads him on a dodgy adventure, forces him to find allies. Who can he trust? Rough-boy Marty, headstrong Deidra, the tech-savvy TK, the kickbutt Wren? Wracked with self doubts and with bounty hunters on his tail, Rusco finds his choices bringing him face to face with a mystical despot who if left unchecked, will subjugate the human-populated free colonies. The question is, can Rusco outwit his enemies...

Meanwhile, Gillan McArdle’s academic career is ending because of one stupid lapse of judgement. Offered a short-term contract, he lands on the Hebridean island of Harris to investigate obscure animal bones. Quickly dismissing the unicorn skull as a thinly disguised fake, he can’t deny there’s something unusual about these bones. Baited by rumors of a majestic tusked horse roaming the uplands, Gill begins to suspect someone is manipulating him. As he gradually unravels the mystery of the skull, he grasps a disturbing conclusion: If this creature does exist, the evidence suggests it’s a killer.

Wilson has blended H. P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archaeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction.

Twelve classic science fiction stories. Bizarre, unconventional, and problematic characters seeking the meaning of their lives on a journey toward an unknown destination... Each of the classic science fiction stories contained in this collection answers, in its own way, the questions haunting mankind from time immemorial: Who are we? Why are we here? What is conscience? What does it mean to be truly human? Where are we going? Is there life after death? Are there other life forms? Every story presented here offers its personal answer—unique, sometimes bizarre, but invariably human—to the...

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

“Time is not a river but an ocean. Remember.” These words, engraved on a mysterious watch, are the only guidance a young boy has in a world that is quietly coming apart. At five years old, under a shifting night sky, he received a burden no child should carry: the complete memories of a life he hasn’t lived yet. For years, he exists as a prisoner of his own foreknowledge, a silent observer of a script he cannot change. He knows the tragedies before they strike. He knows the secrets before they are told. But when the timeline begins to crumble, creating anomalies that defy logic, he ...

From the #1 bestselling author of the Noah Hunter series, and Grim Measures, comes the sequel to Edge of Time. Where a former FBI agent and time traveler Brad Sheppard is once again thrust into the quantum realm so there will be a future worth returning to. Former FBI agent and time traveler Brad Sheppard witnesses an impossible murder in the Late Middle Ages, but upon returning to the present, his family has vanished. History has been rewritten. With nothing left to lose, Brad tears through the quantum realm and the centuries, desperate to restore his wife and daughter. But he must do so ...

In the heart of New Orleans, where the echoes of jazz and ancient magic fill the air, Detective Jason Chalk thought he had a firm grasp on the city's shadows. But his world begins to unravel when a routine investigation leads him into a realm where faith and mysticism blur into something much darker. Aida Devine, a captivating dancer at one of the city's leading gentlemen's clubs, has always intrigued him. As their connection deepens, Jason discovers that she holds secrets far beyond what he imagined. Can Jason and Aida navigate New Orleans’ hidden spiritual landscape, where Catholic ...

A hidden star lineage. A forbidden contact event. A global disclosure war that could change what it means to be human. Rowan Mercer has spent his life studying ancient mythology, sacred sites, and power spots, searching for the hidden architecture behind human history. Then the orbs begin. At first, they appear in the sky. Silent. Blue-white. Impossible. Then they begin answering him. When Rowan quiets his mind enough to listen, a non-human intelligence from Arcturus begins speaking through him. The being calls itself Athren, and it knows things no human should know. Ancient sites are not ...

A British special agent is murdered for an unusual artifact. On any given day, the experts at Atlanta’s International Archaeological Agency crisscross the globe to rescue ancient relics long feared lost to time, war, or thieves. IAA agents have recovered billions’ worth of missing antiquities, have wiped out entire networks of smugglers, and have even solved a murder at the Vatican. Their successes have made headlines from Tokyo to Turin to Tulsa. But some mysteries require deeper investigation—enigmas so puzzling that they’ve defied the explanations of history, science, and faith ...

Book of the Year & Best Science Fiction Novel : PPI 2025 (France) “I had given up hope. In this book, I found what I had previously encountered only in the works of the great American classics.” — Rh Wong, Science Fiction Author, ★★★★★ “It had been a long time since I’d found a book that kept me up at night. The last one to do that was The Three-Body Problem.” — Adrien, Amazon Reader, ★★★★★ “As a literary reviewer for more than ten years and a juror for several awards, I can say that Uluru ranks among the year’s finest publications in the genre.” — ...

She could have bitten me. She chose not to. Thorn is the kind of dangerous you don't walk away from. She found me at my lowest: beaten, humiliated, with nothing left to lose. She made me an offer I should have refused. One night of power. Real power. Enough to make them pay. But there was no bite. No blood exchange. No transformation under a full moon. What she slid into my veins was something else entirely. Something engineered from her own blood. The Vampire Formula. It worked. But by morning it was gone. That's when I understood the trap. Because now I needed it back. And the more I took...

[This is book 2 in a four book series entitled The Vampire Chronicles. The books should be read in order. "Vampire Island of Nightfall" is book 1). The Binding Ceremony failed. Mia was taken deep into the living heart of the island before the covenant could be completed — leaving the ancient magic unstable, the Council shaken, and Jude desperate to reach her. Inside the mountain, Mia awakens to a presence that watches, listens… and wants. The island itself is alive, aware of her in ways no one expected — and deeply intrigued by her bond with Jude. As Mia and Jude fight to stay ...

New York City, New Year's weekend, 2001. Jillian Guthrie, a troubled young journalist, stumbles onto a tantalizing mystery: the same man, unaged, stands alongside Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gandhi in three different photographs spanning eighty-five years of history.

They knew us before we began to walk upright. Shamans called them guardians, mythmakers called them tricksters, pagans called them gods, churchmen called them demons, folklorists called them shape-shifters. They've obligingly taken any role we've assigned them, and, while needing nothing from us, have accepted whatever we thought was their due?

A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The case: In a historic mansion in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a senator’s wife falls to her death from a balcony. Most think she jumped, distraught over the loss of her young son. Some say she was pushed. And yet others believe she was beckoned by the ghostly spirits that inhabit the house - once the site of a serial killer’s grisly work.

At the end of a metaphysical conference, reluctant attendee Camille Dare discovers an envelope with her name on it. Filled with travel documents, a photograph, and bloody scarf material, the source of the envelope and its contents remain anonymous, but the directive is clear: Find the missing person in this unusual case. The missing person, Katherine Agurre, comes from a high-profile family. A growing obsession with the missing person case and her own quest for self-understanding compel Camille to begin a trip to meet people she never knew and locations she never expected to visit.