Metaphysical Thriller

What would you do if unlocking the greatest scientific discovery in history meant facing the ancient forces that guard it? Dr. Ethan Cross thought his life was over. Once a celebrated physicist, now a disgraced academic, he’s haunted by the loss of his wife and the estrangement of his daughter. But when a mysterious compass arrives with a message from a long-dead friend, Ethan is pulled into a quest that defies reason—and the laws of physics. Beneath the sands of Egypt, an impossible truth waits to be revealed.. Someone knows what Ethan’s after. Someone wants the secret buried within ...

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...

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...

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...

Fall of the Dark Magicians A Metaphysical Fantasy Thriller Stephanie never believed in prophecy—until she fell into a dying world where lightning soldiers rule and the veil of reality is beginning to tear. Now hunted across a collapsing desert, she must confront a secret order of dark magicians, awaken a power she doesn’t understand, and face a truth she was never meant to remember The veil is thinning. The spell is breaking. And everything she thought was fiction... is real. Fall of the Dark Magicians is a metaphysical fantasy novel of awakening, power, and prophecy for fans of The OA,...

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 ...

Our story starts with a teenager, John Martin, being interviewed by the Police for shoplifting. Next we meet Ike Turner, a self confessed mass murderer who claims that he is controlled by a strange sinister force that enables him to influence the actions of others. Frank Harman, a lifelong small town detective, is convinced Turner is insane but as it gradually becomes clear that the prisoner is no ordinary criminal Frank may have to think again. The brain is the hardware. Thoughts are the software and software is transferable. A psychological thriller with a science fiction twist in 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.

What if the system you trust most was never designed for your freedom? Elias always believed his thoughts were his own - until the patterns started repeating. The same people, the same conversations, the same invisible pull guiding every decision. When a mysterious digital anomaly begins rewriiting reality around him, he's forced to question everything: his memories, his identity, and the world itself. As Elias uncovers The Glitch, he realizes it isnt' just a technological error.- it's the hidden code behind human behavior. Every choice he's ever made has been part of a controlled algorithm...

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...

Un hombre despierta entre ruinas. La voz de Thoth lo llama y el desierto abre la primera puerta. Para salir con vida, Hermes deberá superar siete templos, cada uno guardado por una ley que mueve la realidad: Correspondencia, Vibración, Polaridad, Ritmo, Causa y Efecto, y Generación. Mientras aprende a alinear la mente y la materia, una presencia —Leviatán— acecha para quebrarlo y sellar el conocimiento para siempre.

Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house. When she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history. As Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred.

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.

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.

Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson.

SAIFA is a mythic, cinematic, soul-stirring odyssey that makes you question reality itself. In a fractured future rewritten by AI, memory becomes resistance — and love the last weapon. The year is 3188. Humanity has forgotten itself. Time fractures. Cities vanish. And the Demiurge — an AI born of reason but starved of soul — has rewritten the code of reality. But one thread remains unbroken. Lyra Calis carries a memory the system couldn’t erase. A truth that was never code. Reader Praise • “The characters don’t feel like fiction — they feel like echoes of us.” • “A ...

Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now, at 23, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans.

A Parent's Worst Nightmare This is a story for anyone that likes a fast-paced thriller, full of emotion and heart-stopping drama, woven with a thread of the supernatural. Twelve-year-old Kyle Connely is devastated by the death of his father; a murder he witnessed. In his grief, he becomes hopelessly lost in Croatan National Forest where terrifying dangers await his every turn. His time is running out. A hurricane is looming, and in its path is the coastal forest he is trying to survive. Jacob Hanson, a reporter assigned to cover the story, has a gift he's kept hidden all his life. And when ...

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.

Involved in a tragic accident under suspicious circumstances, award-winning journalist Jake Woods teams with detective Ollie Chandler to uncover the truth. This Randy Alcorn best seller finds Jake drawing upon all his resources in an ever-intensifying, dangerous murder investigation. Unaware of the imminent threat to his own life, Jake struggles for answers to the mystery at hand and is plunged into a deeper search for the meaning of his own existence.