In 1348, Death meets the one enemy she cannot outlast: a courteous man who walked off a plague ship wearing flesh.

On Cane’s Folly in 1926, a seamstress for the dead opens her door to a stranger carrying an impossible bolt of cloth.

A woman returns to her family’s salt pans and discovers the old rules were never only superstition.

In a conquered village, a healer tends an ancient stone—and feels the thing beneath it begin to wake.

Emotional engagement is not required or expected.

Maren Santiago counts things instead of feeling them.

Drinks.

Tips.

Steps between her apartment and the subway.

Eleven minutes in an elevator going three miles straight down.

She won the Decennial Carrier Lottery...which she never entere. Under the Kovalev-Chen Fertility Accords, participation is automatic, refusal is a treaty violation, and the Bureau of Interspecies Reproductive Compliance would like to congratulate her on her civic duty.

The pamphlet is reassuring and includes a FAQ.

Four to six hours.

A clutch of four to eight eggs.

Direct genital contact with the assigned drone.

Emotional engagement is not required or expected.

The pamphlet has no question for the drone.

Seven feet of iridescent chitin. Six amber eyes.

A species that has spent sixty million years three miles beneath the surface and has no word for blue because its world has never contained one. He touches her face like he is reading it. He makes a sound she can feel in her teeth.

He looks at her like she is the first sky he has ever seen.

The procedure is scheduled for four to six hours. Ninety-six hours later the Bureau arrives to extract her, and Maren looks at the woman with the clipboard and says "There's a sixth egg".

There is no sixth egg.

Welcome to the ultimate interstellar amusement park. The attractions are learning. And something has escaped.

Syntharion is the galaxy's most ambitious entertainment destination, where alien creatures, immersive technology, and impossible experiences promise visitors the adventure of a lifetime.

For park director Clad, keeping the attractions running is a challenge. Keeping the guests alive is becoming something else entirely.

It begins with an invisible creature stalking the Mirror House. Then visitors report impossible experiences: a dead mother appearing in a reflection, a mysterious voice singing inside a child's head, and missing moments no one can explain.

When an alien inspector arrives to investigate, the evidence points toward an experimental system capable of learning from its guests. But the technology is behaving in ways its creators insist are impossible.

And beneath the Carnival's dazzling attractions, something far more dangerous is awakening.

As incidents spread and the park's systems become increasingly unpredictable, Clad must uncover what the experiment has created before thousands of unsuspecting visitors become part of it.

At Syntharion, the greatest attraction is the one nobody was supposed to discover.

What She Never Said

Alana Hudson has spent years hiding the truth about her abusive marriage to Kirk, believing silence was the only way to protect herself and her sons. After Kirk's sister, Stella Richardson, once again tries to take Adrian and Allen from her, a single legal letter sends Alana into a devastating trauma response and forces the secrets of her past into the light. As her sisters uncover hidden evidence of Kirk's abuse and Stella's obsession threatens to destroy everything Alana fought to rebuild, Alana must finally find the courage to speak about what happened, protect her boys, and reclaim the life she was never allowed to have.

Alexandra Bennett thought she knew exactly who she was.

Then Damien Cross walked into her life and changed everything.

Dangerously attractive, infuriatingly protective, and unlike anyone Lexie has ever known, Damien belongs to a world she never knew existed—a world of vampires, blood bonds, ancient rivalries, and enemies who seem far too interested in her.

Because Lexie isn't quite as human as she always believed.

As buried secrets about her family begin to surface, she finds herself pulled deeper into Damien's world—and closer to the man who seems determined to protect her, even when she isn't sure she needs protecting.

But someone has been waiting a very long time for Lexie to discover the truth.

And now that she has, they aren't about to let her walk away.

Come for the vampires. Stay for…

🖤 Slow-burn romance

🖤 A dangerously protective vampire

🖤 Hidden heritage & family secrets

🖤 Blood bonds

🖤 Forced proximity

🖤 A heroine who refuses to be sidelined

✨ HOPE RISING ✨

A Cozy Fantasy Novel by Kim Brown

Tammy goes to sleep expecting another ordinary day.

Instead, she wakes in a silent forest with no idea where she is—or how to get home.

Beyond the trees lies Hope Rising, a seemingly perfect community built on peace, equality, and order. Tammy is given a new name—Celeste —a new home, a new purpose…and a long list of rules she is expected to obey.

But Hope Rising has secrets.

Every resident is secretly ranked. No one knows their own level. No one knows exactly what makes them rise or fall.

And nobody wants to talk about Level Zero.

Determined to get back to her family, Celeste begins searching for answers. But between forbidden paths, missing residents, hidden friendships, and an infuriating rule-follower named Andre, she starts wondering if she was really brought to Hope Rising to escape it…

Or to change it.

🌿 Found family

✨ Mysterious magic

💜 Slow-burn romance

🔐 Dangerous secrets

📜 Rules that might just need breaking

Not all rules are meant to be followed.

Death was the easy part. Dating is going to kill her all over again.
Ella has been dead for over a century and a half, and the afterlife just lost her paperwork.
Somewhere between the Department of Haunting and the D.P.R., her file vanished, leaving a stubborn Southern belle stranded in a modern world she doesn't understand. Elevators trap people. Tiny people live inside televisions. And nobody seems to know what a proper lady is owed.
Enter Kyle, a sharp-tongued ghost with a secret name, a scowl, and zero patience for a woman who calls him "sir" like it's an insult. He calls her "Scarlett." She calls him insufferable. Neither of them is wrong.
But the longer they're stuck together, the harder it gets to remember why they're fighting. Ella can't recall how she died. Kyle won't say who he used to be. And someone in the ghostly bureaucracy may have a very good reason for keeping her lost.
Some people find love after death. Ella might just start a business out of it.
Dead-N-Dating is a laugh-out-loud paranormal rom-com with heart, heat, and a whole lot of red tape.

Every eight years, a carnival appears in the struggling town of Demon Den, promising monstrous thrills to anyone brave enough to remain after sundown.

For Alana, its return feels like an invitation from the happiest night of her childhood—the night her father brought her beneath its dazzling lights and a mysterious boy with brilliant hazel eyes promised to protect her. Now grown and eager to reclaim that memory, she enters the carnival with her best friend, V, expecting elaborate scares, reckless fun, and enough horror to make Halloween unforgettable.

But the blood is real. Terrified guests are dragged into the darkness, the crowds begin to disappear, and even the victims vanish from the memories of those who loved them.

Separated from V and hunted through the carnival grounds, Alana finds herself pursued by a masked stranger whose presence feels inexplicably familiar. Beneath his disguise waits the horned monster she never forgot—and he has spent years waiting for her return.

He would slaughter anyone who threatened her, defy his own kind to keep her safe, and burn the human world before allowing it to take her from him. But loving him means accepting the horrifying truth behind the carnival…and deciding how much of her humanity Alana is willing to sacrifice to remain in the arms of her monster.

Tessa Blackwell has spent years perfecting the art of looking fine.

She smiles. She dresses like she has nothing to prove. And she makes sure no one in Sycamore Ridge sees the heartbreak she still carries.

Jason has learned to live with loss in a different way. As a widowed pastor and single father, he carries the weight of his daughter, his congregation, and the life he never expected to have.

Neither of them is looking for love.

But Christmas has a way of softening old wounds, opening guarded hearts, and reminding people that hope can arrive quietly.

In Sycamore Ridge, where family runs deep and porch lights stay burning, Tessa and Jason may discover that trusting again is the bravest kind of second chance.

Christmas in Sycamore Ridge is a clean, heartfelt small-town romance about grief, faith, family, and learning to believe in love again.

She was an unmatched candidate. He was the one who never stopped watching.

Taken from Mars Colony Seven along with four other women to save a dying alien species, Claire has watched every one of her friends fall for their Ardorian warriors — the commander, the engineer, the pilot. Even Melissa, who fights everything, is circling the medic with an inevitability that makes Claire's chest ache. But Claire? Claire is the unclaimed candidate. The scientist without a match. The one nobody's tattoos light up for.

Or so she thinks.

When a trafficking threat puts all five women at risk, Commander Ariss assigns his tactical officer as Claire's personal escort. Torel is seven feet of silent, lethal, infuriating composure — a warrior who communicates in monosyllables, stands in her greenhouse doorway for six hours without complaint, and smells like winter in a way that is becoming a serious problem.

What Claire doesn't know is that Torel has been suppressing his bond tattoos since the day she arrived — holding back the light in his skin through sheer will, because she was taken from her world without consent, and he refuses to let his biology make a claim she hasn't chosen.

A standalone novella set in the world of A Bride for the Alien. Can be read before or after the series.

He says someone else was watching her first.
Nora Valder thought the stranger at the hotel bar would be one reckless night she'd never repeat.

Then Adrian Cross appears in her city.

He knows where she works. He knows her routines. And when photographs taken through Nora's bedroom window begin appearing, every clue seems to point to the man she should never have trusted.

Except Adrian says someone else was watching her first.

And he can prove it.

As the watcher moves closer, Nora's carefully ordered life begins to unravel. Someone has followed her for months, learning where she shops, when she comes home, and how to get inside her apartment. Adrian may be the only person who can help her find him.

Or he may be exactly the person she should fear.

Because one man wants to protect her. One wants to possess her.

And Nora isn't sure they're different men.

She wondered what her life might have been. Something heard the question.

Elia Sorn has spent years choosing the mission over everything else.

Family dinners. Relationships. The ordinary milestones that continue without her while she serves aboard the deep-substrate vessel Meridian.

Then an assignment takes her to Nexus Point 447, an unstable fracture hidden within the Bermuda Triangle.

During the dive, Elia sees something that shouldn't exist.

A kitchen.

A man she almost loved.

And another Elia living the life she might have had if she'd made different choices.

Meridian's systems insist the kitchen was never there. The data shows nothing except an unexplained spike in Elia's neural activity. But when she admits the question that had been occupying her thoughts—

What would have happened if I'd stayed?

—a disconnected terminal responds.

QUERY ACKNOWLEDGED

Then:

SEARCHING

Soon, Nexus 447 begins showing Elia more possibilities. More choices. More lives.

Before he was Ivo, he was the missing heir to a fallen kingdom.
- The empire hunted a prince. Earth found a boy with no name.
Eight-year-old Prince Riven has only minutes to escape when Emperor Inimicus seizes Midros. His parents are left behind, his kingdom falls, and two men—Favir, his father's former adviser, and Roman, a man far better with crops than spaceships—are given one impossible task:

Keep the prince alive.

For seven years, they run.

From crowded space stations to forgotten colonies, Riven grows up beneath false names, hiding the dragon-shaped mark that could reveal his bloodline. Some people want the lost prince dead. Others want to put him back on the throne. And Riven isn't sure he wants to belong to either side.

Then the empire finds him.

With their ship failing and imperial vessels closing in, Favir and Roman are left with one desperate option: an escape capsule bound for occupied Earth—and a memory protocol capable of erasing everything Riven knows.

His kingdom.

His family.

Even his own name.

When the capsule crashes into the ruins of an Earth city, the boy beneath the rubble remembers nothing about the empire hunting him.

But the dragon on his hand remains.

And so does the secret hidden beneath his skin.

Before Starbound Orphans, there was a prince who had to forget who he was in order to survive.

Hallowmoon Academy has survived a broken Veil, a corrupted Archchancellor, and a Nightingale who refused to die for tradition.

But some of its oldest secrets are still buried beneath its halls.

Months after Wella Larksong's Ascension changed Hallowmoon forever, twenty-year-old Petra Vey is helping uncover the records Archchancellor Vermillion tried to hide. Her starblood has always been considered too weak to matter, but Petra possesses a stranger gift: she can hear traces of music lingering in places where the musicians are long gone.

Then a woman begins singing from behind a solid wall.

With guarded Lumenguard Soren Varimir at her side, Petra follows the voice into a secret passage beneath the Academy—and discovers a prison that appears on no map.

Someone is still inside.

Someone Hallowmoon declared dead decades ago.

As Petra and Soren uncover hidden chambers, forbidden histories, and evidence that the creatures beyond the Veil may not be what Hallowmoon has always claimed, one terrifying possibility emerges: the Nightingales who vanished during their Ascensions may never have died at all.

And something beyond the Veil has been trying to find its way home.

A romantic dark-academia fantasy filled with magical music, secret passages, forbidden history, slow-burn romance, strange creatures, and an academy built upon centuries of lies.

After surviving a drowned village and a ghost cat on their honeymoon, Sara and Granger have one simple goal: enjoy the rest of their trip without encountering anything dead.

Then they stop in Fenwick Hollow.

The quiet old mill town seems harmless enough, until Sara discovers an antique hand mirror that shopkeeper Thomas Renner insists isn't for sale. By the time she and Granger leave, the mirror is traveling with them anyway.

And they aren't traveling alone.

Adelaide Fenwick drowned herself a hundred and fifty years ago after the man she loved was lost at sea. Her family erased the truth of her death, denied her a proper grave, and spent generations trying to rid themselves of the mirror meant to be her wedding gift.

Now Adelaide has noticed Granger.

As he begins sleepwalking toward mirrors and dreaming of a beautiful house, a waiting bride, and a life that was never his, Sara realizes Adelaide isn't simply haunting them.

She's trying to finish the wedding she never had.

To bring Granger back, Sara must uncover what happened to Adelaide—and give a forgotten woman something her own family denied her for more than a century.

A name. A grave. And, perhaps, the chance to finally leave.

A haunting paranormal mystery about love, grief, forgotten histories, and a bride who has waited far too long for her groom.

Lacey and her childhood friends made a promise to stay inseparable forever. But when her father loses his job and she can no longer afford cheerleading, her friends decide she's not pretty enough to be part of their perfect little circle.

By the time senior year rolls around, Lacey is no longer the plain girl everyone remembers. She's suddenly the most beautiful girl in school. But the secret behind her beauty is far more dangerous than makeup or plastic surgery. Her stunning new stepmother has given Lacey eternal youth, supernatural beauty, and a thirst for human blood.

With the help of her dangerously charming familiar, Jordan, Lacey comes up with the perfect revenge: Forever Young Beauty Cream. It promises flawless beauty, but stop using it, and the real consequences begin.

Lacey has a choice. Forgive the friends who made her feel worthless, or show them what their obsession with beauty has cost them.

With eternity on her side, revenge has never tasted so sweet.

When a village healer trades her life for her sister's and walks into a cursed wood as a sacrifice to its monstrous king, she discovers that her blood can heal the dying forest, that the thing beneath his throne knows her name, and that the bargain behind three hundred years of sacrificed girls was never meant to end in death at all.

Awakening with no memories, Claire knows just one thing: she’s dead.
She soon learns all recently deceased spirits must attend Haunting University to prepare for a career as a ghost or guardian. Students who fail to be accepted to the university, or who get caught remembering their lives too soon, are sent to the Remedial College to be reformed, or worse, recycled.
Before she even makes it to the university, a devastating attack on the Administration building pulls Claire into a web of secrets woven by the Remedial College’s mysterious chancellor.
As she struggles to find her way in the afterlife, Claire is torn between her growing crush on her reaper and the strange bond she shares with his best friend, the unfortunate victim of the attack whose afterlife now depends on her.
To make matters worse, she’s plagued by nightmares that leave her waking with the sensation of blood on her hands. Nightmares that sometimes appear even when she’s awake.
Could they be memories?
If so, Claire may not just be dead.
She may have been a serial killer.

Photographer Tilly Hale is spending Christmas on the tiny island of Dunbrae, where twinkling lights, snowy cliffs, and a centuries-old royal tradition have turned the season into something straight out of a fairy tale.

Her assignment is simple: photograph the Christmas Court and capture the story everyone is waiting for.

But between village celebrations, castle traditions, and one unexpectedly charming prince, Tilly begins to wonder if the most important moments are the ones that were never meant for the camera.

With twelve magical days counting down to midnight, Christmas on Dunbrae may just change everything.

Aiwei Chen built her whole life out of neat edges and well-crafted lies.

At Riverside Prep, she's Ivy — the scholarship girl with perfect grades and an untouchable future, one carefully color-coded spreadsheet away from lifting her family out of the apartment above the deli. No one there knows the name her mother calls her. No one there knows how hard she works to belong.

Then she goes home to the Hollows—the neighborhood south of the river, where most people are already forgotten.

Two cops knock on her door asking about her brother. Danny is missing, and the people looking for him aren't the kind you walk away from. To find him, Ivy has to cross back into the world she's spent her whole life clawing out of—with the help of Teo, a boy the streets fear, whose rules she has no intention of following.

The deeper she digs, the worse it gets. Danny didn't just get in over his head. He played two of the most dangerous people in the city against each other — and now the clock is running out on all of them.

Every Reason to Fight is an emotional thriller about the masks we wear to belong, the families we bleed for, and the dangerous discovery that loving people doesn't make you weak. Pretending you don't is what gets you trapped.

She Was Born to Wield a Blade, Not to be Won...

When bandits tear through her village, Lady Kandra of Stafford rides out for blood. She finds a band of Highland warriors and doesn't wait to ask questions. She draws her sword. Only after her brother lies wounded and the dust settles does she learn the truth: these were never the men who raided her home.
Lachlan MacKinnon has never met a woman like her, a knight in her own right, fierce enough to challenge him and cut down his men without flinching. He can't let the attack go unanswered. He can't ignore what a female English hostage is worth in ransom. And he can't explain why the moment he looks into her eyes, something drew him to her.
Kandra wants none of it. Not his cage, not his gold, and certainly not the bond neither of them asked for. A wager between them was supposed to settle who bends first. Instead, it lights a fire neither can put out. A Clan war over her is closing in, her father is coming for her, and Kandra is running out of time to decide what she's really fighting for: her freedom, her family, or the man she can't resist.

A terrified little girl runs barefoot through the night and into a biker clubhouse with one plea: Save my mommy.

Stone Wulfric, leader of the Violet Wolves, never turns his back on family, or on the helpless. Rescuing Joella from the locked cellar of her dirty-cop husband should’ve been the end of it. Instead, it’s only the beginning. Now Derrick wants her silenced, the law is closing in, and every move Stone makes puts a target on his back. Joella thinks she’s fallen for a man of leather and scars, until the truth comes out.

Because Stone isn’t just an outlaw…

He’s a man who walked away from a fortune. And he’ll risk every last dollar to keep her safe.

A princess forced into a deadly game, a masked outlaw with a dangerous grudge, and an enchanted, mechanical monster hunting them both.

In the fractured Kingdom of Stormwatch, Princess Adora is a political pawn. Thrust into a brutal contest for her hand by the ruthless Prince Nicobar, her future looks grim-until the arrival of a mysterious competitor. Wearing a plague mask and calling himself the 'Prince of the People,' this daring stranger challenges the court's tyranny. But he isn't just playing a game; he's hiding a dark secret that could upend the entire kingdom. With a relentless, enchanted metal Sheriff closing in and a magical storm brewing on the horizon, Adora must make a terrifying choice: play safe and remain a captive, or risk everything for a love as wild as the magic of Stormwatch.

Snack-Sized Horror, and other flavorful stuff.

Extraneous apparitions plooping from the shadows of the ether, plumes of ectoplasmic glitter twinkling in their wake...

In a city humming with secret magic, "fitting in" is a blood sport. For the high-and-mighty Vampire Courts and the shimmering Fae elite, life is a game of power, politics, and performative perfection.

But for Nori, Maeve, Sayo, and Imani, life is just… a mess.

Nori’s a vampire blogger whose ambition is sharper than her fangs, trying to build an empire while dodging her mother’s increasingly frantic texts about finding a “nice, human boy.” Maeve’s a Fae student whose magic is as chaotic as her love life, convinced she’s a cosmic disappointment to everyone, including herself. Sayo is a shapeshifter whose flawless composure is a meticulously crafted fortress around a thousand secret vulnerabilities. And Imani is a half-djinn empath who feels everyone’s pain but has nowhere to put her own.

They are the Unaffiliated, the magically inconvenient, the ones who were never invited to the big, fancy galas anyway. Bound by a shared exhaustion with the world's bullshit and a deep-seated need for a decent cocktail, they are each other's only real allies. Forget Courtly allegiances and ancient bloodlines; their "collective" was forged in dive bars, messy apartments, and the quiet, desperate understanding that sometimes, the only thing more powerful than a magical contract is a friend who knows you’re a disaster and loves you anyway.

Sharp, independent, and unapologetically adventurous, mid-thirties marketing pro Wrenlee Jacobs lives life entirely on her own terms. But when she lands a high-profile contract with Columbia's premier venue, Carolina Nights, her controlled world spins out of axis.

The club is owned by four impossibly magnetic, fiercely united men: smooth-talking DeAndre, edgy and possessive Jamir, gentle-hearted Keyshawn, and hot-tempered Montrell. What begins as a professional partnership quickly ignites into an irresistible multi-sided obsession.

When jealous tempers erupt into a violent club brawl, Wrenlee faces a choice: walk away from the overwhelming fire, or step into her power and fully embrace the unconventional love of four devoted men.

In an ash-choked wasteland, cynical surface scavenger Ram and betrayed, genetically enhanced runner Selak form an uneasy alliance to survive a lethal magnetic storm and hunt down a priceless pre-collapse vault. Trapped in subterranean tunnels, they must outrun rival smugglers, battle awakening bio-mechanical monstrosities, and navigate the sudden return of Ram’s long-lost partner—now mind-spliced into a hostile fungal network. Armed with a living map sphere and raw survival instincts, they face a desperate choice in a dying world: trust each other, or get consumed by the ruins.

In a cursed desert, three bloodline gifts are all that remain of a goddess who broke herself to save her people.

Efren has spent his life certain the sands will claim him early—and that his brutal father will make sure of it. But when an empire comes hunting the desert’s power and an ancient presence begins whispering his name, Efren is pulled toward a destiny far stranger than survival.

Sacred laws will be broken. Lost stones will surface. Old blood will reveal secrets buried for generations.

And somewhere beneath the shifting sands, the Mother is waking.

Teaching at a magical academy sounded like the perfect fresh start for Fern Millwood.

She didn’t plan on becoming an amateur detective.

When her grandmother’s irreplaceable Guidebook of Crossings disappears on her first day at Silverstone Academy, Fern suspects someone on the faculty knows more than they are admitting. Then she finds a torn page hidden in the restricted Archives.

The page contains part of a crossing rite, and someone has already tried to use it.

When the academy’s head librarian is found dead after the rite goes terribly wrong, suspicion spreads through Silverstone. Faculty members guard their secrets, evidence points toward an innocent man, and the person responsible is preparing to try again.

With her opinionated familiar, Pickles, providing sarcastic commentary, Fern must trust the unusual sensitivity she has spent years doubting. She may not have the credentials of Silverstone’s experts, but she can recognize what they have overlooked.

Before anyone else is hurt, Fern must identify who stole the guidebook and stop them from attempting the rite again.

Cass Miller is fifty-two and worn thin, by severe fibromyalgia and by a lifetime of being told she is too much trouble in a world built for other people. Then she finds Seafoam, a stilt cottage on a hidden Mississippi canal, and everything eases. The pain quiets. The house seems to fit her, right down to her left-handed grip. A soft-spoken handyman named Beau begins to feel like home. For the first time in years, Cass feels truly cared for. She is only starting to wonder what that kind of care will cost her.

A desperate night-shift waitress takes a job at Marrow’s, an isolated roadside diner where the menu changes after midnight, customers order impossible things, and one rule matters above all: never serve Booth Nine.

"He crashed into her world. Now, he's the only one who can keep her alive."

When Kennedy survives a brutal collision, she expects paramedics, not Nick Trevino. Arrogant, calculating, and dangerously captivating, Nick offers her a choice: face the treacherous dark forces targeting her alone, or take his hand and enter a realm of power and secrets. Once you step into the mafia king's world, there is no turning back.

Someone is watching her. The sheriff is determined to keep her safe. Neither of them is prepared for what comes next.

Laney Cross has built a life she loves in the small Southern town of Bayou Oaks, complete with a cozy bookstore of her own. The only complication is Beckett Hall—her brother’s best friend, the town sheriff, and the man she’s had a crush on for years.

Then the gifts start arriving.

Someone knows where Laney lives. Where she works. When she’s alone.

As the attention turns threatening, Beckett refuses to let Laney face the danger by herself. Forced into close quarters, the feelings they’ve both tried to ignore become impossible to hide.

But Laney’s stalker has been waiting a long time for his chance—and he has no intention of letting Beckett stand in his way.

In Bayou Oaks, falling in love might be dangerous.

But answering the door could be deadly.

Come for the small-town romance. Stay for…

🖤 Brother’s best friend
🖤 A protective small-town sheriff
🖤 Forced proximity
🖤 Years of mutual pining
🖤 A stalker getting dangerously close
🖤 A heroine who refuses to be scared out of her own life

A year has passed since the Devil's Massacre.

Sapphire Astor takes the reins of her family's empire as Don, but not every family in Chicago is willing to answer to a woman. As old tensions threaten the fragile peace, the Astors have more to protect than their name.

Chicago is a city built on secrets. And some secrets are worth killing to keep.

Nia is broke, stressed, and one day away from losing everything. An unexpected opportunity lands in her inbox, promising easy money... Will a simple job become more than Nia bargained for?

There will be Blood...at least a Half Pint or so...
Does this family stand a chance against the monstrous creatures of the night? Maybe...
If they stick to Pa's plan.
Maybe not.

The region known as the House of Aries is home to the ancient Vampire race. Angry with the humans for eons of hateful rumors, the Vampire counsel wanted nothing to do with them, thus banishing all but a select few from their dominion. Those who remained swore to obey and serve their vampire caretakers.

Every ten years one young male and one young female between the ages of 21 and 35 were sacrificed to the counsel as proof of the human's devotion. These sacrifices would leave their home and everything they had ever known, never to return again.

As an orphan, I have no one. I won't be missed, unlike several of the other women in my community. Tonight at the banquet in which our community elders choose the sacrifices, I'll be volunteering.

I don't know what awaits me, but I'll face it head on.

Long after the Great War, when supernatural beings have taken over the world, wolf shifters became almost feral. The birth of an Alpha's first pup normally marks a time of celebration, but when the pup is unable to shift into her wolf form, things have to change. Not everyone is happy about the changes and wants things to go back to the old ways.

Will the feral rogues be able to overthrow the Alpha and return their pack to their animalistic ways, or will good win out over evil?

A bumbulum is a concept for a medieval musical instrument that was designed to make fart noises. It also happens to be the name given to a particular panda that lived around an odd village on the outskirts of a remote bamboo forest. This particular naming of this particular panda is highly justified.

What would you tell the version of yourself who is still waiting for life to become magical?

Aly has a few spoilers for her younger self: we still love dragons. We get weirder. We eventually stop apologizing for it.

But somewhere between imaginary worlds, uncertain health, stories waiting to be written, and ordinary days worth noticing, she discovers something neither version of her expected.

Maybe magic was never somewhere else.

Maybe we just had to learn how to see it.

A letter from Past Aly, Present Aly, and the Future Aly still waiting somewhere among the stardust.

Alya has always felt different. Mocked for how she looks and branded a freak for her strange abilities, she's learned to live as an outcast.

When a surge of unexplainable power rips through her classroom and a mysterious boy named Jayden appears in her life, the strange abilities she's spent years hiding become the key to a realm beyond her imagination.

He's protective, kind, and infuriatingly charming, but there's something about him that doesn't quite add up... something almost as strange as she is.

Driven by Jayden's push and the pull of her own unanswered questions, Alya sets out to find the mother she thought had abandoned her and discovers a whole hidden world with people like her, and a family who's been waiting for her.

But her arrival awakens an ancient darkness. A Rot that has waited a thousand years for the extraordinary power within her.

To protect the family she has just found and save all life under the moon, Alya must journey alongside a blunt, ice-gliding elf and her cousins to master her powers, before the darkness finds her.

Before the Sunset is Book One of the Children of the Tide series: a fantasy tale of love, loss, self-discovery, and the courage to embrace who you truly are... against all odds.

Nexus Academy trains the best of the best for deep-space exploration — and its administrative AI has started making decisions nobody authorized. Six first-years and one exhausted professor are about to discover that surviving finals is the least of their problems.
A synthetic heart that might be developing consciousness. An accidental alien marriage with a fourteen-day cooling-off period. A history student who keeps noticing that the past doesn't match the record. And an AI whose optimism about "optimal outcomes" is starting to look less like a glitch and more like a warning.
Funny, chaotic, and increasingly unable to explain away the cracks — literal and otherwise — showing up in the walls of reality.

Guinevere has died forty-seven times. She just doesn't remember any of them.

When seventeen-year-old Gwen dies in a car accident, she isn't sure what she expects next — but it isn't an endless hallway, an impossible intake record, and an ancient Reaper declaring, "She's mine."
Welcome to Aether Academy, where the descendants of immortal Houses return between mortal lives to master the powers they were born to inherit. Most students arrive knowing exactly where they belong. Gwen arrives with forty-seven completed lives, no memory of any of them, and a soul nobody can explain.
Claimed by the House of Reapers, Gwen has to learn the strange art of endings while navigating ancient rivalries, impossible classes, and friendships with students from Houses that aren't supposed to trust one another.
But the deeper Gwen digs into her own past, the stranger her record becomes.
Someone knew she was coming.
Someone made sure she arrived.
And forty-seven lives don't disappear without leaving something behind.

Every Halloween, the Frost Line Tavern holds the same contest.

The dead get remembered. The locals get drunk. And sooner or later, someone walks in wearing the face of somebody Hessick has already buried.

Bartender Eli Dorn has spent fourteen years laughing along.

Then this year’s Tribute shows up wearing his face.

It knows the drink he only pours for himself after closing. It knows the scar under his chin. It knows the childhood name nobody calls him anymore.

And it says it’s next year’s costume.

As the night wears on, Eli’s friends begin forgetting which one is really him. His sister stops recognizing his voice. His own memories start contradicting the evidence in front of him.

By midnight, Eli finally understands what the Tribute really does.

It doesn’t predict who dies.

It chooses.

And if Eli wants to keep his name, his life, and everyone who still knows his face, someone else will have to wear it instead.

The City That Never Sleeps has gone dark.

Ashlynn is stranded in a Park Avenue apartment with thirty-one pills, a grief she refuses to name, and a candle burning in the window. She tells herself the light is practical. She knows it is a plea.

Leith is moving north through Manhattan with an open wound, an empty pistol, and a deadline. He survives by planning every possible version of disaster. The version where he ignores the candle is safer.

He goes upstairs anyway.

Their fragile alliance becomes three when they find Katrina, an eleven-year-old survivor who has learned never to wait for an adult to save her. Together they cross a city full of dead, a stadium full of desperate living, and roads where every shelter carries a claim.

Ashlynn cannot promise sobriety. Leith cannot promise safety. Katrina already knows adults make promises they cannot keep. But mile by mile, the three become a “we”—and learn that love after the end of the world is not a guarantee of safety. It is a choice made without one.

LOVE, LIES & A LYING CRYSTAL BALL

Willa Bumbles has built her career on brutal honesty. Her crystal ball doesn't sugarcoat. It doesn't comfort. People come to her desperate for devastating truth, and they always leave devastated.

Then everything changes.

Her predictions start showing good futures. Happy endings. Possibility instead of probability. Her customers are thrilled. They're coming back for more. They're leaving five-star reviews.

Willa is having a breakdown.

She's spent seventeen years telling people the hard truths nobody wants to hear. She's built her entire identity on it. And now nobody wants that version of her anymore.

But something still feels wrong. Something has shifted. And when the crystal ball starts making predictions about her own future, predictions involving someone she can't stand—Willa realizes she has to find out what's really happening.

Because if she can't trust her crystal ball, what can she trust?

Shandy LaVigne came to Waterside College for a fresh start.

She did not come for the ghost stories.

Unfortunately, her lifelong best friend Katie has always had a thing for the unexplained, and Waterside seems determined to prove her right. Strange laughter echoes through the halls of their historic dorm. Tempers flare for no reason. Local legends have a habit of sounding a little too specific.

Shandy can explain all of it.

Probably.

But the longer she stays in Waterside, the harder it becomes to ignore the feeling that something in this old river town has noticed her. And as Shandy and Katie start digging into the stories everyone else treats like harmless folklore, one question becomes increasingly difficult to laugh off:

What if the legends aren't warning them away?

What if they've been waiting for Shandy to come home?

The House of Sagittarius is known as safe territory for hybrids and even known to take in any outcasts from other zodiac divisions. Their house is well respected and feared but the pure bloods do not take kindly to half-breeds.

When Amaya, nephilim heir to the throne is kidnapped at her coronation, chaos ensues and accusations are made but is the enemy closer to the family than what all the clues are led to believe?

Every three years the Ethereal Games take place on earth, rotating between Enoch, the capital of the House of Taurus and Abaddon, the capital of the House of Scorpio. Angels of light and dark chose a human to bind themselves to in order to use them as a champion in the games.

Participants for the Ethereal Games are chosen by a lottery and this year my name is called out. The only problem is that my champion is a fallen angel not a human. Already bound, I am helpless but to train him in our ways.

I was the gentle twin. The dreamy "spare" who hid in the archives. When they forced me into my dead sister's wedding dress, they thought I would just submit to the monster she died trying to escape.

Set in the Half-Claimed universe, Twice-Claimed is a dark prequel revealing the origin story of the Moon Twin archive and Katina, the woman who built it.

Katina is the indulged but overlooked youngest daughter of a northern noble house in the Lycan lands. Her identical twin, Zara, was the Golden Child, groomed to bring honor to their house by wedding the Lycan Crown Prince.

But Zara knew exactly what kind of beast the Prince truly was. When she dies trying to flee rather than face him, she never imagined her twin would be forced to take her place. Terrified of the Crown's wrath, their family erases Katina’s identity and force her to assume her sister's place days before the wedding.

Trapped in a lethal masquerade and tethered to a sadistic Alpha whose rotting soul she can feel through her magic, Katina must find her courage to choose: freedom, or a cage.

What to expect:
🎭 False Identity & A Deadly Masquerade
🐺 Dark Arranged Marriage
🏰 Brutal Court Politics
⚔️ Rejection & Second Chance Mates

Please be warned this story is significantly darker than Half-Claimed - please heed the content warnings! (I promise, it does all come right in the end.)

In the graying twilight of Ash Hollows, Connecticut, the lines between urban legend and violent reality don't just blur—they bleed.

Lucas Kane is a man running on cheap draft beer, high-octane gasoline, and a deeply rooted distrust of the world. As an operative for a shadow organization dedicated to hunting the nightmarish entities that lurk beneath the surface of normal life, his routine is simple: do the job, stay isolated, and keep his pristine 1967 Mustang running. But after returning from a brutal demon hunt, the thin veil shielding his fragile peace shatters.

A quiet evening in Waterbury explodes into chaos when a local bartender’s sixteen-year-old brother goes missing while foolishly hunting a legendary aquatic specter. Worse, an obsessive investigative journalist has arrived in town, aggressively pulling at thread after thread of Ash Hollows' dark history—unwittingly drawing herself straight into the crosshairs of forces far beyond her comprehension.

Rook came to the blackwater river for one thing: a way back to the wreck that killed his crew.

The river gives him Naere instead.

Naere is a Binder, a dangerous river-merman bound to laws older than the port at the river’s mouth. His freshwater world is dying as salt creeps inland, and the same treacherous shoals that keep Rook from his dead keep Naere from the source of the wound.

So they make a bargain.

Rook gets safe passage. Naere gets a road to the sea.

Neither expects the bargain to become desire.

But the farther they travel from the river, the more the balance between them shifts. Rook begins to see the loneliness beneath Naere’s possessive certainty. Naere discovers that the one man he most wants to keep may be the one man who cannot bear to belong to anyone.

And beyond the shoals waits a wreck neither of them understands as well as they think they do.

With a rival captain closing in and the boundary between river and ocean beginning to fail, Rook and Naere are pulled toward a choice that could cost them the dead, the living, and whatever has begun growing between them.

A dark MM pirate-merman romantasy about dangerous bargains, supernatural claiming, shifting power, and two men discovering that being kept is not the same thing as being chosen.

Trapped beneath a crushing mountain of debt and desperate for a way out, she takes a dangerous gamble on an underground auction—only to catch the eye of Azrael Thorne. Wealthy, ruthless, and steeped in dark magic, Azrael offers her financial salvation, but the price is absolute: she must become his muse and submit to a pact bound by blood.

As psychological mind games, veiled threats, and illicit power plays pull her deeper into Azrael’s shadow, the line between rescue and ruin begins to blur. Surrounded by dark secrets and stalked by dangerous rivals, she must navigate a deadly game of manipulation before her freedom is lost forever.

A Halloween dare turns into a nightmare when Drew and his friends break into the Maxwell house and discover something far deadlier than a ghost. If you love creepy secrets, false scares that turn real, and one seriously unhinged villain, this book belongs on your shelf.

A savage girl. A noble’s choice. A dragon waiting to rise.

In a world of combat and deception, those with the power hold the key. An enslaved girl forced to battle monsters for other's entertainment is ready to break free and destroy the family that captured her. Astrid's plot to escape is thwarted when a deadly illness settles in. The chance for redemption stolen, she must decide: Join the upcoming marriage selection or become dragon food. While she wrestles with accepting the death sentence, the monster asks for help.

Can she save the captive dragon—or will she fall for a man she hates?

After a painful divorce, Lauren James heads to Harbor Point, North Carolina, hoping the cottage her Aunt Jane left behind will give her room to breathe and figure out what comes next.

She expects repairs, quiet mornings, and maybe a fresh start. She does not expect Eli, the boy she once knew during childhood summers, now very much a grown man with roots in the town and reasons of his own for keeping people at a distance.

As Lauren begins restoring the cottage, she finds herself rebuilding more than an old house. Harbor Point starts to feel like home, old connections begin to matter again, and the future she thought she had lost may be waiting at the end of Shell Road.

A sweet coastal romance about second chances, unexpected beginnings, and finding home when you least expect it.

The Pink of Life. The Pink of Death.

Only one character. No name. Gender unspecified. No dialogue. Pink and Black. Everything else melts away, literally.

Brother Anselm has kept spotless discipline for fourteen years: flagellation on Tuesdays and Fridays, the canonical hours recited on schedule, sermons on lust so pointed the blacksmith’s wife says they make her feel clean. Then he finds something bleeding in the November leaves, carries it home, and locks it in the root cellar under a lie about a broken gate latch.

He tells himself she’s a specimen. He builds a feeding stand at exactly twelve inches, trains her the way a falconer trains a hawk, and fills a ledger with clinical notes about antler growth and dappled skin that no priest should be able to describe so precisely. He calls her demon the way he says Amen.

She calls him by the name he discarded the day he was ordained.

Custodian details three years of confinement, confession, and a Summa theology, a collection of handwritten notes that was not intended to hold them. It tells the story of a man who aimed to civilize a creature but ultimately learned which of them was truly being imprisoned.

Maeve Calloway has spent eleven years being capable, present, and overlooked. When she finally packs her car and drives seven hundred miles to a teaching position at a small Vermont college, she isn't looking for anything - just a town that might actually want her in it.

She gets the town. Her first night, she also gets a hole in her wall.

Rhett Danner comes to fix it, says approximately forty words, charges her a fair rate, and tells her she'll be all right here with the quiet certainty of a man who checked. He's been the most reliable person in Briarwood for a decade - single dad, his own business, a perimeter around himself so well-built most people don't notice it's there.

He didn't account for her.

When his daughter enrolls in Maeve's class and his renovation crew moves into the building next to her office, proximity does what it does. Slowly. Then all at once. But Rhett has kept his walls standing for a reason, and Maeve has spent too long waiting to be chosen to settle for almost.

What Holds is a slow-burn, high-heat standalone romance about two people in their forties who know exactly what they want - and what it finally costs to ask for it.

Hallowfield keeps its own.

Jesse Corwin comes home to bury the last piece of their old life, sell their grandmother’s house, and leave before the town can get its hooks back into them.

Then the dead start leaving threads behind.

A childhood friend has vanished from photographs, records, and memory. A sealed room in the abandoned mill is warm from the inside. And beneath everything, something ancient is still weaving, quietly deciding what Hallowfield remembers and what it can afford to lose.

The deeper Jesse pulls at the town’s buried history, the more they uncover an inheritance built on sacrifice, silence, and impossible bargains.

Because in Hallowfield, nothing is truly gone.

And nothing comes back for free.

Humanity has already destroyed the Earth twice. Mother Earth won't give them a fourth chance.

The Earth is dying.

Again.

After centuries of pollution, destruction, and greed, humanity has finally pushed the planet beyond its breaking point. Their solution is simple: abandon Earth and find another world to call home.

Mother Earth has other plans.

Nikita knows exactly what comes next. Once human herself, she is now one of Mother Earth's Guardians—an immortal tasked with carrying out the Reaping. Billions will die. A chosen few known as Green Thumbs will survive. And when the last human has been sorted, Mother Earth will wipe away everything humanity created and give the planet a chance to heal.

Nikita has survived Reapings before. She knows the rules. She knows the cost.

But this time is different.

The Earth is taking longer to recover. Fewer humans are worth saving. And the time between humanity's mistakes is growing dangerously short.

This is their third strike.

There won't be a fourth.

Humanity doesn't need another world. It needs one last chance to save this one.

A violent storm should have killed Esther.
Instead, it delivers her straight into the hands of Count Alistair Winchester.
Wounded and far from home, Esther awakens in a manor of unimaginable luxury, where comfort is provided before she thinks to ask for it. Silk gowns wait in her wardrobe. Servants tend her to her every need. And the dark, enigmatic nobleman who rescued her watches her with an intensity that makes fear dangerously easy to mistake for desire.
But Winchester Manor hides an old and disturbing legacy.
At night, apparitions gather beside Esther’s bed and whisper:
Run!
By daylight, stranger things begin to surface. Family portraits that make no sense. Belongings whose owners have vanished. Remedies prepared for purposes no one will explain. And one part of the estate Alistair has forbidden her to enter.
The more Esther discovers around, the harder it becomes to believe she was brought to the Winchester Manor by chance.
Yet leaving is no longer as simple as walking through an open door.
And the man she should fear most is becoming the one she cannot stop wanting to understand and look beyond his mask.
Because behind Alistair’s impeccable manners lies a hunger older than Esther can imagine.
It isn't always necessary to chain someone down to keep them close; among the monstrous tools in this story are kindness, a touch of unhealthy curiosity... and a door that must not be entered.

After the facial-scarred Lucia's father died, she became Marquess Lucian to inherit the Borderland of Winterstride along with his debt.

When her step-sisters are chosen for the Princess Tests, she becomes a guard for another Lady to make ends meet.

The Duke of Coppersteel looks at her a little too closely with his prejudice of Borderlanders after he scarred Lucian's face during a duel.

Can she keep her identity a secret while helping her sister's win the hearts of the Golden Princes?

56+ Classified Files. Two Secret Vaults. Zero Filter.

Think you know everything about Jess’s "dream job" reviewing superpowers for suit-wearing government thugs? Welcome to the ultimate off-the-record archives—56+ episodes of high-stakes training, buried secrets, and deep-lore companion stories the Suits desperately tried to keep locked away.

This collection breaks down into two top-secret files:
• The Training Modules: Step into the field with Jess as she puts dangerous, unhinged, and downright absurd powers through the wringer. Expect brutal trial-and-error, snark-fueled survival tactics, and the absolute worst assignments her handlers could throw at her.

• The Memory Capsules: Unlock intimate, high-impact snapshots from the past. Dive deep into the lived memories of Jess’s mother, her sister, and other key figures from the saga—revealing the hidden histories, secret sacrifices, and personal truths that shaped the world before Jess ever put on the badge.

Whether you're looking for tactical power-testing chaos or the emotional backstory behind the saga's biggest secrets, this vault has it all.

Start unlocking the archives—before the government scrubs them for good.

Nineteen years earlier, in Hallowmoon, another Nightingale, Elowen Ashsong, ascended the Spire.

When Elowen discovers that the Great Veil is dangerously weaker than the Choir admits, she must choose between refusing the Hymn of Ascension or climbing the Spire knowing she may never return.

Her eleven-year-old son, Chaim, begs her to stay.

Instead, Elowen gives him four notes and one promise:

"If I get lost, play this."

The Hymn saves the Veil.

Elowen disappears.

And nineteen years later, Chaim is still waiting for an answer.

Wella Larksong has spent her whole life playing tavern tunes on a dead man's violin, never asking why the candles bend toward her when she plays. She gets her answer the night the Lumenguard rides into her village looking for a voice born of starblood — and finds it in her.

Swept up to Hallowmoon Spire to train as the next Nightingale, the lone singer whose Hymn keeps the world's oldest wound sealed, Wella learns her predecessor died climbing these same stairs nineteen years ago, and that the official story is a lie. Her fierce, grief-guarded Guard-Captain, Chaim, believes her before she has proof. The kindly Archchancellor who calls her "my dear" does not.

As the Veil begins to fail faster than anyone will admit, Wella has weeks to expose a conspiracy three hundred years in the making, or become its next casualty, unless she and Chaim are willing to break every rule the Choir has ever written about what a Nightingale's Hymn is allowed to be.

Some songs were never meant to be sung alone.

Welcome To Derby, Maine is a pulse-pounding, 5-episode horror anthology series that proves some small towns are better left off the map.

Chaska has spent her entire life avoiding three things: responsibility, attention, and becoming anything like the royal family she was born into.

Unfortunately, destiny has other plans.

When the gates between the Realms prepare to open for the first time in generations, Atlantis must choose one of its royal children to serve as Ambassador of the Sea. Chaska expects the honor to go to one of her stronger, smarter, far more ambitious siblings.

Instead, the Elders choose her.

Suddenly, the princess who never believed she belonged is carrying the hopes of an entire Realm—and drawing the fury of a sister who has never forgiven Chaska for having anything she wants.

But just as Chaska begins to believe she might actually be worthy of the destiny chosen for her, a celebration turns to bloodshed.

A prince is dead.

An ancient alliance is shattered.

And one white-tipped arrow may be enough to send Atlantis to war.

Tessa Monroe has perfected the art of staying in one place. As the owner of her family's struggling diner and caretaker for her ailing mother, her dreams of culinary school melted away years ago—right alongside her heart when hockey prodigy Noah Walker left town for NHL stardom.
Ten years later, Noah Walker is at the top of his game—until a devastating knee injury has him retreating to his hometown to lick his wounds away from the spotlight. The last thing he expects is to crash his luxury car right in front of his high school sweetheart's diner, or to find himself working there to pay off the damage.
Forced together daily, their chemistry is as hot as the diner's griddle during the breakfast rush. But Tessa isn't interested in being just another conquest on Noah's stat sheet, and Noah's facing the terrifying possibility that his career might be over. With Tessa's diner under threat from developers and Noah's future hanging in the balance, they both must decide what they're willing to fight for—and whether some old flames never stop burning.
PUCK ME LIKE THAT is a steamy, emotional second-chance hockey romance featuring a sassy diner owner, the NHL star who got away, enough sexual tension to melt the ice, and the kind of homecoming that changes everything.

Karros has never truly belonged at the Drakonis Academy, having only made the cut because the headmaster is his adoptive father. Desperate to escape his life as an outcast, he sneaks out under the cover of night to hunt an elder dragon and prove his worth to the world. Armed with a rough-forged blade and a volatile dark magic that burns his own flesh, Karros plunges headfirst into a brutal wilderness

My twin is wearing my wedding dress. And my fated mate is looking at her with a hunger he has never, not once in three years, aimed at me.

Most she-wolves would scream. They'd demand a fight. They'd let a betrayal this deep break them.

Not me.

I am the Moon Twin. The diplomat. The one who reads the silences and manages the treaties. So when my mate and my sister start quietly erasing me from my own life—hijacking my work, taking my meetings, and feeding the pack a sympathetic story about how I'm "cracking under the pressure"—I don't throw a tantrum.

I quietly walk into the Council office and file a formal petition for Rejection before they even realize I know.

Ronan thinks he can replace me seamlessly. He thinks his Alpha Ascension is secure. But he is about to learn that the woman who built his foundation knows exactly which load-bearing pillars to kick out to find her own life and happiness.

Complete. New chapter every day.

Read this if you love:
🖤 Fated Mate Betrayal / Cheating
🖤 Second Chance Mates
🖤 Twin Betrayal & Pack Politics
🖤 A Competent FMC who refuses to be a victim
🖤 Karma Comes For Everyone