Five Seconds of Duty takes readers into one of the most haunting moments in American history—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—and the extraordinary courage of Secret Service agent Clint Hill.In a matter of seconds, Hill made a split-second decision that would define his life forever. Behind those five seconds lies a story of duty, sacrifice, trauma, memory, and the hidden personal cost of protecting a president.Through the events surrounding N...

The day I received my acceptance email from UCLA, I saw a photo on Instagram: my younger sister, Vivienne, kissing my boyfriend, Tomas, captioned "Kings Game Night." Tomas brushed it off—"I lost a game, so I had to kiss her." It wasn't the first time. A year ago, I'd watched my first love, Marco, kiss Vivienne too, and I fell apart so badly I bombed my SATs.Back then, Tomas had torn up his own NYU acceptance letter in front of me and said, "Delphine, I've liked you since we were ki...

Some loves are forbidden by society.Others are forbidden by blood.When Eleanor Ashcombe returns to her family estate in Yorkshire, she expects duty, tradition, and the future her parents have carefully chosen for her. What she does not expect is Thomas Bellamy—the son of a village physician, a man her family considers entirely unsuitable, and the one person who refuses to treat her like a name, a title, or a promise already made.The...

A year ago, my car died in a freezing rain, and Ryan, my boyfriend of seven years, promised he'd call a tow truck. It never came. A semi sideswiped my car, sending glass into my hand; a state trooper found me with hypothermia.I didn't learn the truth until the Whitmores' annual dinner, when Avery—the girl my family had taken in—played a secretly recorded video. They had canceled the tow truck on purpose, gathering around Ryan's phone just to hear how long it took before "Claire, wh...

The day I received my acceptance email from UCLA, I saw a photo on Instagram: my younger sister, Vivienne, kissing my boyfriend, Tomas, captioned "Kings Game Night." Tomas brushed it off—"I lost a game, so I had to kiss her." It wasn't the first time. A year ago, I'd watched my first love, Marco, kiss Vivienne too, and I fell apart so badly I bombed my SATs.Back then, Tomas had torn up his own NYU acceptance letter in front of me and said, "Delphine, I've liked you since we were ki...

The ruins of the Bamiyan Buddhas lay still under the twilight, shadows stretching long over the dusty ground. To Agent Wei Liang, the scene felt like a wound that could never heal. For Liang and a small group of operatives within the Ministry of State Security—operatives who were also devout Buddhists—this wasn't just an act of vandalism. It was an assault on their identity, on history itself.Liang had always been an enigma within the agency. A brilliant strategist with an uncanny ...

A collection of 8 short stories, all involving a cheating husband.My Stepdaughter's ConfessionMy Stepdaughter's FriendSharing the BabysitterSleeping with my AssistantMy Stepdaughter's RoommateMy Best Friend's StepdaughterMy Dad's FriendThe Babysitter Started It

Some love stories end because the feelings disappear.Others end because two people were simply too young to know how to stay.Thirteen years after leaving the seaside town of Bellhaven, successful architect Clara Whitmore returns to settle her late grandmother’s estate. She expects a quiet week of sorting boxes, repairing an old cottage, and finally closing the door on the place she once called home.She does not expect Daniel Hale.Daniel was her first love—th...

What if the sun had never disappeared… but had been hidden?For more than two hundred years, the isolated town of Vesper Hollow has lived beneath an endless gray sky. There is no sunrise. No moon. No stars. Only thousands of lanterns and the enormous clock tower that controls the rhythm of everyday life.The people have learned not to question the darkness.And they all know one rule:Never remain outside after the Thirteenth Bell.

When the Stars OpenedThey came from beyond the galaxy. They looked almost human. And they offered Earth immortality in exchange for one thing: freedom.For millions of years, the Vaelari have conquered worlds by replacing flesh with machinery, connecting entire civilizations to a single artificial consciousness known as the Crown.Now they have found Earth.Their ships appear above the world's ...

What if the memories that made you human were the very thing keeping your kingdom alive?For three centuries, the people of Veyra have lived beneath the Veil—a vast silver barrier said to protect humanity from the monsters that destroyed the old world. Every citizen must surrender one memory each year to sustain it.Love. Grief. Childhood. Family.One memory at a time.Seventeen-year-old Elian Voss has never questioned the system. As an archivist inside the Mini...

What if an entire city lost one hour every night—and no one remembered it?At exactly two o’clock each morning, every clock in Bellwether stops.For sixty minutes, cameras fail, records vanish, and the entire population forgets what happened. Then, at three, time begins again as though the missing hour never existed.No one questions it.No one except Mara Venn.Fifteen years after her father mysteriously disappeared, Mara discovers a strange silver pocke...