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...

Humanity proved God was real. Then God warned us not to answer the other voice. Dr. Kaia Morwyn spent her life proving mystical experience was only chemistry in the brain. Then a dying woman flatlines — and every machine in the hospital broadcasts the same impossible warning: DO NOT ANSWER THE SECOND LIGHT. Dragged back into ORISON, the classified project that destroyed her life, Kaia discovers a terrifying truth: Prayer is not a plea. It is a transmission. And something has been listening. When billionaire AI architect Cassian Oryn launches MercyNet Ascend, a global system designed to ...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared - or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied.

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.

When starship shaman Jaya Romanov and her new mate partner, galactic bounty hunter and robot wolf shifter, Vulf Trent, saved the galaxy from the deadly actions of a determined geriatric terrorist, they forgot that old Earth truism: no good deed goes unpunished. Now, the galaxy is exploding with unexpected aliens, greedy politicians—well, that’s normal enough, it’s what the politicians will attempt that is worrying—and a radically new aspect to sha energy that has the potential to change everything. And then there’s the mystery of Jaya’s father…who is he? Some big secrets are ...

Evan Michaels is back in a new life as a Syrian refugee. When strange memories of his former lives lead him back to Zurich, headquarters of his old family of fellow reincarnationists, the Cognomina, he must reacquire their trust to rejoin their ranks. On the last leg of this journey, he is intercepted by an excommunicated member of the Cognomina who holds some serious grudges. She’s on a mission to wipe out large portions of the world’s population to save the planet from destruction. She proposes a union of the Cognomina and her own group of reincarnationists.

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.

[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 ...

Dr. Adrian Vale believes he has discovered the source of human suffering buried deep within the brain — a neurological structure he calls the God Node. By surgically removing it, he believes he can eliminate guilt, fear, trauma, and emotional pain forever. Death row inmate Marcus Wynn becomes the first human subject. At first, the procedure appears miraculous. Marcus becomes calm. Focused. Free from rage, fear, and remorse. Then the whispering begins. As violent deaths spread through Blackwater Correctional Institution and strange neurological phenomena emerge inside Vale Institute, ...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Long before recorded history, Earth was visited by an alien civilization seeking gold to save their dying world. Through genetic engineering, they created modern humans to be their servants. But we would not remain slaves forever. Thousands of years later, archaeologist Dr. Isaac Montgomery discovers an ancient mirror artifact that unlocks a messenger revealing humanity's true extraterrestrial origins. This knowledge has been suppressed by secret powers for millennia to control humankind. Along with scholar Dr. Alice Kim, Isaac goes on the run to unveil the shocking truth and change the ...