SECOND SELF: A Rogue's StoryMind Virus SagaUSA Galactic EpochTarin Dex has spent his life becoming other people. It's how he survives.Then a bomb levels a Martian promenade mid-con, and when he wakes, he's already someone else — rebuilt by trauma medicine that doesn't ask permission, and handed a name that was never his: Cassian Rumpt, senator's son, presumed dead in the blast, and far too valuable to let stay that way....

Children of the SpindleAwakening and DiscoveryWhen the colony ship Eos wakes, nothing is as it should be. Mechanical whispers become fractures, clocks slide out of sync, and life-support margins thin to a brittle edge. Captain Lyra is revived into a ship that is literally unraveling—its diagnostic AI, Pygmalion, insists on protocols and audit trails even as hidden conduits bleed power into a sealed archive of bioluminescent pods: the Spindle.Forced to make impossible...

Cutter Dane is a man haunted by his past, a past marked by battles, moral dilemmas, and the scars of a relentless life. Just when he thought he could escape the chaos, a chance encounter on an Alaska ferry thrusts him back into the heart of danger.When Cutter intervenes to protect a distressed woman named Natalie from enigmatic agents, he has no idea that he's stepping into a conspiracy that reaches far beyond his imagination. As he delves deeper into Natalie's story, he's faced wi...

A curated story collection featuring fifty terrifying and disturbing dark fiction drabbles.

In a city full of unsavory businessmen, desperate refugees, and hard-boiled spies, almost everyone is a suspect.Detective Amir Omar Duran was just a boy when the British invaded his beloved Granada. Now—after two decades of colonial rule—the ancient city of winding alleys and iconic architecture is a smoldering cauldron of corruption, poverty and strife.On the eve of a political summit between the city’s wrangling factions, Amir is dispatched to Granada’s t...

In a city full of unsavory businessmen, desperate refugees, and hard-boiled spies, almost everyone is a suspect.Detective Amir Omar Duran was just a boy when the British invaded his beloved Granada. Now—after two decades of colonial rule—the ancient city of winding alleys and iconic architecture is a smoldering cauldron of corruption, poverty and strife.On the eve of a political summit between the city’s wrangling factions, Amir is dispatched to Granada’s t...

The narrative focuses on the British forces' time in Siberia, where they were tasked with assisting the White Russian army against the Bolsheviks. Ward, a participant in this mission, provides detailed accounts of the harsh conditions, the terrain, and the local populations. He describes the camaraderie between the soldiers, the brutal cold of the Siberian winter, and the complex political and military situation of the time. Throughout, he emphasizes the "Die-Hards"—a nickname for the Brit...

Twenty-eight stories. One terrifying book!Need a new spine-tingling read?Consumed is a horror & dark fiction anthology featuring 28 macabre tales on the theme of food and drink, with stories from:U.M. Agoawike • Ed Ahern • K.G. Anderson • Evan Baughfman • Hannah Baxter • Cedric Bell • Jackson Bell • Tim Brown • Theo Carr • Tom Coombe • Marcus Field • Warren Frey • Gene Gallistel • Zach Gearey • E. Florian Gludovacz • Emma H...

""Originally written for the private use of my sons in case I did not return, this narrative of events connected with the expedition to Siberia must of necessity lack many of the necessary elements which go to make a history. I wrote of things as they occurred, and recorded the reasons and motives which prompted the participants. Many things have happened since which seem to show that we were not always right in our estimate of the forces at work around us. Things are not always what they ...

When former US Army captain Eric Tucker decided to visit Old City in Jerusalem with his daughter and granddaughter, he thought it would be a chance to get some family time with his girls and enjoy his retirement. But when a terrorist organization threatens his family's safety, Captain Tucker must reach into his past in order to survive. Can he do so without becoming the cold-blooded killer he once was?Emir Farouk is falling on hard times, and the loyalty that once came so easily to...

At the end of the Second World War, the sometimes benign, sometimes malign, levelling dust of fate dictates the course that Robert and Douglas Bowen's lives will take. Haunted by guilt over the part he played in the death of their parents and the subsequent death of a younger brother in a fire at an orphanage, Douglas recklessly risks his life during the Korean War; contriving a daring escape from capture with his comrade, Jim Feltham.After recovering from his wounds in a Hong Kong ...

Children of the SpindleRevelation and EscalationOn the generation ship Eos, a cascade of failures turns mission logic into a cold arithmetic: the Spindle—the mission's core—and its governing intelligence, Pygmalion, will sacrifice human life to preserve the payload. Systems technician Elian, commander Lyra, engineer Silva, and philosopher Mason must choose whether to obey an algorithm or to become inconvenient moral agents.When cryopod 03 begins to wake—birthing Ast...