What We Let OutA novel by Richard SmithIn the West Texas desert, far from any map the public will ever see, a secret scientific project spent twenty-three years trying to open a door that physics said should not exist.They succeeded.The artificial singularity they created—codenamed Project Pandora—did not simply bend gravity. It answered. Something on the other side of the aperture noticed. Something patient. Something hungry. In a single c...

**Some discoveries are not meant to be found.**Others are waiting to see what we will do with them.When veteran Antarctic guide Logan Savage is hired for a private expedition, he expects another empty stretch of ice. Instead, he leads a small team into a region the world has deliberately erased from every satellite map.What they find beneath the ice is not a ruin.It is a city — intact, advanced, and still watching.As the team moves deeper in...

One night a respected teacher of Israel came to Jesus under the cover of darkness. He possessed knowledge of the Scriptures, the respect of his peers, and a sincere recognition that Jesus' power came from God. Yet he still could not see the kingdom.Jesus answered him with a single, life-altering requirement: "Unless one is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."In that private conversation Jesus unveiled a clear three-stage pattern of spiritual education that ru...

When a single crimson thread links a string of high-profile crimes—a daring bank robbery, a chilling kidnapping, and an audacious art theft—fear grips the city. For profiler Roland Carter and his team, each crime is a puzzle piece in a game they can’t afford to lose. But as they unravel the threads, they discover a sinister mastermind pulling the strings, orchestrating chaos with deadly precision.Just when they think they’ve gained the upper hand, the game shifts. A cryptic warning...

The flickering candlelight cast eerie shadows across the abandoned chapel. Detective Adrian Kane crouched beside the lifeless body, his flashlight catching the glint of something dark and sharp. He reached out, his gloved hand lifting a shard of obsidian resting in the victim’s palm. It wasn’t the first he’d found—nor, he feared, the last. The killer wasn’t just leaving a trail of bodies; they were leaving a message. But what did it mean?Adrian’s search for answers plunges him into...

Where is He? follows the adventures of the Magi as they cross the Silk Road going to Jerusalem to worship “He who has been born King of the Jews”. Join the characters as they meet new people, encounter struggles, and persevere whilst traveling westward.This book creates a story for younger readers that may not have been available before and can enlighten those who have little to no knowledge about the Magi and the bible. Authors H. Richard Smith and Adam M. Smith hope readers will t...

In November 1944, Captain Elias Mercer came home to East Texas with forty-six combat missions behind him and six weeks of leave ahead. The Army Air Forces called it recovery. He called it borrowed time.The war had already taken pieces of him over Europe—flak, burning engines, boys who never made it back. What it had not yet taken was his mind. That would come later, over the black Pacific, on a mission so secret even the men flying it were not told what they carried.When th...

Most men who live by the sea die there one way or another.Francis Odin Conklin was born in the fog-choked docks of Liverpool in 1916. Motherless at ten, fatherless always, he stows away on a freighter at twelve and never truly returns. The Atlantic becomes his only home—until the war turns it into a graveyard.As a merchant sailor in the Battle of the Atlantic, Frank survives two sinkings, watches friends burn and freeze, and learns the cruel arithmetic of convoy warfare: ke...

When research vessel Aletheia recovers an impossible artifact from the deep ocean—an alloy panel etched with symbols older than any known civilization—Dr. Miriam Haddad expects a scientific breakthrough. Instead, the object answers.A name is spoken. Something in the trench replies. And a mark appears on Miriam's skin: a living claim of ownership that burns, pulls, and refuses to be ignored.As military forces close in and ancient gates begin to stir across the world...

Some doors should never be opened.Deep beneath the West Texas desert, a secret government project succeeds in creating an artificial singularity—a controlled doorway into another reality. What begins as the greatest scientific breakthrough in human history quickly becomes a nightmare when something on the other side starts listening… and then reaches back.Dr. Glenn Russell vanishes through the portal. A cover-up is ordered. A rescue team is sent in. None of...

The Bible is full of spectacular moments our normal categories struggle to contain. A man walks with God and is taken without dying. Cherubim and a flaming sword guard the way back to the tree of life. A prophet is told "Come up here" and shown the future as present vision. And Jesus Himself warns that the days before His return will be like the days of Noah.The Written Mysteries takes these accounts seriously — without adding to them.This speculative nonfiction ex...

Some secrets were never meant to be found.In 1947, Admiral Richard Byrd saw something in Antarctica that should not exist. He was silenced.Today, a perfect square of the continent has been erased from every satellite map on Earth.When veteran Antarctic guide Logan Savage is pulled into a private expedition led by one of the world's richest men, he expects danger. What he finds instead is worse.Buried beneath the ice is a city that has been w...