Books

Every story starts with a first date. None of them end with a second.

Every story begins with someone looking for connection — a dinner date in a dimly lit restaurant, a rendezvous in a small-town hotel, a singles cruise cutting through empty Atlantic waters. The rituals are ordinary. The need is not. But in Harambee K. Grey-Sun's Blind Dates,...

She was comfortable with silence. That was the talent that made her dangerous.

Chelsea crafts language the way others craft poisons — slowly, precisely, with full knowledge of where it will settle in the body. A freestyle poet with an ear tuned to frequencies most people can’t name, she has spent years learning how words reshape the architecture...

The cold gets into places cold should not reach.

Meredith has done everything expected of her. She has tended the garden, kept the house, taken attendance, worn the ring. She has a husband who collects vintage cars and a son who orbits his father like a second satellite. She has partitioned her life into careful silences — and she has told...

Welcome to Synchrony, Michigan—better known as The Sink—where corruption runs deep, crime never washes out, and the poisoned air teases strange talents out of the worst people…

Uthman Breen, private investigator. Synchrony, Michigan native. A magnet for every bizarre, bloody, and beyond-belief case this accursed city can cough up.

He’ll take...

God is going mad. Creation calls two witnesses.

One story is his. He believes he is losing his mind. The other is hers. She believes she is saving Reality. Set side by side, each story reads like the other's reflection.

BloodLight: Expanded Edition binds both testimonies into a single volume—each told whole.

In BloodLight, Robert Goldner still...

With his quick mind and extraordinary powers, Kex has faced unimaginable challenges and overcome them all, securing his place as one of the greatest of all superheroes. Now he must undertake one last task in this heart-wrenching tale of heroism and sacrifice.

Time and time again, Kex has fought superhuman menaces and supernatural threats, both on...

From the author of Fleeting comes a gripping tale of heartbreak and heroism.

A young powerhouse and hero-in-training, Noemi Nocenti has always dreamed of using her powers for good, saving the world, and falling madly in love with the perfect guy.

While she’s still working on getting her abilities under control, it seems she’s finally hit the...

A poignant short story that offers a captivating glimpse on the complexities of heroism.

When tragedy strikes, a hero is tasked with saving the day, oftentimes no matter the cost. Such an expectation is why Patricial doesn’t consider herself a hero.

As an elite member of the Fair Legion, she navigates the more personal nights, tending to those...

A captivating short story from the author of Fleeting.

Believing herself a once-beautiful faerie-like being, Elysa has been stripped of her magic and reduced to a wingless shell, struggling to remember her past.

Trapped in a mysterious prison, her only company beyond her fading memories is a disembodied voice claiming she’s committed “countless...

A heart-pounding, action-packed tale from the author of Fleeting.

Ishwa’s eyes have brought men to their knees. Her fists have left their faces in the dirt. Her wiser enemies are eager to remain flat on the ground.

The big-boned, solitary warrior is not what people expect when they cry out for help. However, with her unmatched skills and...

Frank Sanders knows all about going to extremes to ensure certain ideals. As a one-time Black Peacemaker for the Heartland Security Agency, the government taught him a variety of unsavory methods to preserve the sanctity of American families and protect their children against domestic threats. He learned a little too well.

Designated as too...

As a Black Peacemaker for the Heartland Security Agency, Frank Sanders used any means necessary to take out domestic threats to American families and their children. Everything from drug dealers to gang bangers, kidnappers to child molesters. And as a freelance hunter, he’s gone to even further extremes. So too have the potential threats.

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Frank Sanders has spilled a lot of blood over the years. He is neither proud nor apologetic. The human population is under assault, engaged in a near-invisible war of which few are even aware. As a single father raising a young daughter in a world where viral terrorists with supernatural abilities are ascendant, he has had no choice but to make...

In a country that disappears its sick, revelation is the deadliest diagnosis.

Robert Goldner was five when his mother spilled her confession along with her wine: he was unwanted, unplanned, the ruin of her life. She was murdered on his eleventh birthday, leaving him grief, a killer never caught, and the suspicion that her cruelest sentence was...

From the author of BloodLight: The Apocalypse of Robert Goldner comes a haunting parallel novel that will leave you breathless. As intense and surreal as its predecessor, this dark and uniquely compelling tale delves into the horrifying reality of a cursed young woman’s existence.

A product of her brutal confrontations with Hell’s triumphs and...

Witnesses see random acts of generic magic. The government promises that's all they see.

Darryl Ridley believes desire is a disease he can cure with a kiss.

He studies the reckless, courts them patiently, and at the moment a lover would expect a bed, he gives a revelation instead: violet wings unfolding from his shoulders in waves of watery light....

His partner defected; his new one may be a weapon waiting for the right word.

The world does not end all at once. First, the paperwork adjusts. Riots erupt "spontaneously." Surveillance introduces itself as protection. And a man confined for rescuing his Watcher partner from a cult is released early by the architect of his cage, who grins...

Her voice defined a band a generation worshipped. Now she sings for men who buy people.

Lourdes sways on a transparent platform above a black-market cocktail party, wings stapled into her shoulders.

The gig was sold as performance art: nine drugged singers on tarot-shaped stages, paid to be alluring for men who deal in things she is careful not to...

The condo board says war games. The thing shaking the building is not artillery.

The condo board calls an emergency meeting in the laundry room: military war games all week, roads closed for miles, everyone stays inside. Be glad, they say, that you're sheltering in the one building in the complex built to withstand anything gruesome.

Henri Benoit...

The condo board says war games. The thing shaking the building is not artillery.

The condo board calls an emergency meeting in the laundry room: military war games all week, roads closed for miles, everyone stays inside. Be glad, they say, that you're sheltering in the one building in the complex built to withstand anything gruesome.

Henri Benoit...