A routine distress signal from deep space exposes a nightmare aboard the gleaming starship Glory of the Galaxy: the vessel is locked on a collision course with the sun, and aboard it are the President of the Galactic Federation and his cabinet. In the secretive Hub of the Galaxy, officials scramble for an answer no ordinary system can provide, and the crisis is routed to Johnny Mayhem, a mysterious man whose "elan" can inhabit other bodies. At the same time, lounge flirtation turns to drea...

The video is fourteen seconds long. The man who fired the shots is the man who filmed them.By the time it reached a phone on Greene Street, in downtown Manhattan at four in the morning, it had been screen-recorded off a repost of a repost. Millions watched it on Instagram and Youtube. The recording ends before the only fact that matters is determined. The man on the sidewalk was an I.C.E Officer.In April 2025, the Manhattan District Attorney unsealed two indictments against...

Returning to work after loss means managing not just your own grief, but everyone else's discomfort withdeath-and most workplace advice pretends that discomfort doesn't exist. Part of the Grief at Work series,Dashiell Marlowe's insightful book explores the specific collision between profound personal loss andprofessional environments built to avoid acknowledging it.When grief enters the workplace, you stop being just an employee and become something colleagu...

On the eve of the great asteroid claim rush, Jerry finds himself reunited with his spirited wife Clair and his irrepressible grandfather, Gramps, in a crowded Martian fairground where hope and desperation mingle. But their chance at a new life already looks shaky: Gramps has spent nearly all their savings on an ancient Karden Cruiser and even squandered money on a Martian guitar, leaving Jerry exasperated and uncertain. Yet beneath the comic frustration lies a fiercely loyal family bound b...

Hector Finch has always believed in the power of a good sale, but a mysterious stranger with a small head and an impossible proposition turns that talent into something far stranger. Suddenly chosen to build a business that can sell anything to anyone, anywhere, at the exact moment it is needed, Hector is drawn into a world of teleportation, secret leverage, and a company that seems to exist beyond ordinary law or logic. What begins as comic shock soon becomes a frantic scramble to protect...

On a vast ship drifting through space, Rikud begins to feel what no one else around him seems to notice: change. As he watches the stars, the engines, and the mysterious routines that govern every meal, sleep, and waking hour, his unease grows into a dangerous curiosity about the world he has always accepted. When a strange shift in the viewport reveals a blue-white star and then a vast green-brown-blue sphere beyond the ship, Rikud realizes that his world may not be fixed at all, but movi...

London, 1891. The newly widowed Marchioness of Merritt is determined to return to society before her mourning period is officially over, despite her mother-in-law's disapproval. Her first event since Edmund's death is a glittering ball at the home of a notorious rake. But beneath the refreshment table, Eleanor finds a body—and a scandal that threatens to ruin the entire Season. With Scotland Yard baffled and the suspects all too polite to confess, Eleanor must navigate a minefield of black...

Lady Eleanor Merritt has spent the last year mourning her husband in a cloud of black crepe, but when a guest at a Hampshire house party dies under suspicious circumstances, she is dispatched to Sutton Place to ensure the scandal remains a quiet 'accident.' What she finds is a drawing room full of suspects performing innocence with varying degrees of theatrical commitment. From the grieving widow to the suspiciously cheerful hostess, everyone has a motive, and everyone is lying. With Inspe...

Lord Ashcombe has died, and his will has vanished. The only person who knew its contents was his solicitor, Mr. Alaric Fenwick—a man whose temper is as volatile as his signature. When the will reappears, it names a beneficiary who is already dead. When the second beneficiary is found murdered in his own library, the stakes rise from financial ruin to bloodshed. Enter Eleanor Ashworth, Marchioness of Merritt, a woman who finds the rigid propriety of the Season far more suffocating than a lo...

London, December 1891. The annual Charity Masquerade at the Grand Hotel is the season's most anticipated social event, hosted by the formidable Lady Penelope Thorne. But when a guest is found dead beneath the chandelier, the elegant revelry turns to panic. With the killer still masked and the hostess quick to blame the catering staff for a 'tragic accident,' Eleanor Marchioness of Merritt finds herself in the thick of it. As the only one who noticed the killer's slip of a glove, Eleanor mu...

Eleanor, Marchioness of Merritt, has spent four quiet seasons quietly solving the murders that polite society would prefer left unsolved. The fifth is rather more inconvenient. Her closest friend — Cressida, the thrice-divorced Duchess of Ashcombe, a woman of eccentric habits and notoriously sharp opinions — has been arrested for the poisoning of Cornelius Vane, a gentleman she had the poor judgement to threaten in front of twelve witnesses at his own dinner table. To the public, Cressida ...

Winter does not disappear; spring arrives.Fate does not disappear; the possibility of choosing appears.The wound does not disappear; it simply stops ruling us.I have never known exactlywhen a story begins.Perhaps it is not when a character appears,nor when a first sentencefinds its place.Perhaps it begins much earlier.In a questionthat refuses to disappear.In something we carry inside usfor yearswit...