She came to the Shadow Court with a stolen name and a borrowed smile. Her mission: seduce the king, earn his trust, and disappear before he learned the truth.Elara has spent years hiding what she is—a healer whose touch can unmake as easily as it mends. When the Shadow Court summons her as a political bride, she sees only an opportunity. The king is cursed. His court is crumbling. And someone powerful wants him dead before the next new moon.King Caelan knows she is lying. H...

History is written by the victors—but what if the victors lied?For centuries, the dark history of the Middle Ages has been veiled in bloodcurdling legends, state-sponsored propaganda, and confessions extracted under brutal torture. We grew up believing the terrifying tales of medieval monsters, rogue outlaws, and shadowy sects. But how much of what we accept as "history" is actually carefully constructed political fiction?In Famous Crimes of the Middle Ages...

Power is rarely given. It is seized, defended, and covered in blood.In Famous Crimes of the Middle Ages: Power and the Crime, Mara Voss strips away centuries of myth and propaganda to uncover the dark reality of medieval statecraft. Far from isolated acts of violence, the crimes featured in this volume were pivotal moments that altered laws, shattered dynasties, and reshaped European history.Rather than retelling sensationalist tales, Voss examines...

He swore an oath to protect the kingdom. She swore an oath to destroy it. They did not expect to need each other.Isadora has spent three years embedded in the Shadowed King's court, waiting for the moment to strike. She knows his weaknesses. She knows his routine. She knows the exact words that make his jaw tighten and his eyes go cold.What she did not know was that he had known about her from the beginning.King Aldric rules the Shadowed Realm with an iron oath bind...

Can you put an entire society on the couch?In Test Your Society, Mara Voss reimagines seven of the most famous psychological experiments in history—not to analyze the individual, but to hold a mirror up to the collective group. By translating clinical tests into precise social instruments, this book reveals how crowds behave when faced with ambiguity, moral dilemmas, and the overwhelming pressure to conform.Through a compelling breakdown of human behavior, you will...

Who Is Lilith? The First Eve, Mother of Demons, and the Dark FeminineBefore Eve, there was another woman.She was formed from the same dust as Adam — not from his rib, not beneath him. When he demanded her submission, she spoke a forbidden name, took to the sky, and vanished into the wilderness rather than kneel. For four thousand years, her name has survived what almost no other ancient figure has: erasure, demonization, silence, and reinvention — again and...

Fire doesn't usually draw a straight line. So when it does, someone drew it first.Mara Ellison came to Cedar Hollow to read burn permits, not secrets. But when a volunteer firefighter dies during a routine training exercise, she's the only one who notices the flames moved in a way no recorded wind can explain. While the county rushes to close the case as an accident, Mara starts mapping this year's fires against the foreclosure list — and finds a pattern t...

A town of eleven thousand people watched a man die on a livestream. Not one of them saw it happen.Nora Calloway's entire job is controlling what her town says about itself — three drafts, every fact verified, nothing that can't be defended. Then a councilman dies in the municipal parking lot, exactly on schedule, minutes after an anonymous comment on her own livestream said he would.The comment vanishes before anyone else sees it. The official recording is ...

She came to steal his secrets. He let her think she was succeeding.Elara Voss has one semester to infiltrate Thornwood Academy, find the shadow artifact hidden somewhere in its cursed halls, and disappear before anyone learns why she was really there. She is good at blending in. She is good at lying. She is not good at ignoring the Lord of Shadows who seems to know exactly who she is and what she wants—and is watching her with something far more dangerous than suspicion.Cae...

Every drop in this town is being watched. So is she.Mara Colby reads water meters for a living, in a drought-scorched small town where a new state order has put every household's water use on public display — a number on a placard, right out on the front lawn, for any neighbor to see. It's supposed to keep people honest. Then a routine complaint sends her to a dead woman's house on the one night that matters most, and the numbers on that meter tell a story...

She came to the Shadow Court with a stolen name and a borrowed smile. Her mission: seduce the king, earn his trust, and disappear before he learned the truth.Elara has spent years hiding what she is—a healer whose touch can unmake as easily as it mends. When the Shadow Court summons her as a political bride, she sees only an opportunity. The king is cursed. His court is crumbling. And someone powerful wants him dead before the next new moon.King Caelan knows she is lying. H...

She was never meant to wear the crown. But ashes remember.Kaelen has spent twelve years hiding — smithing blades in a forge town, pretending to be no one, waiting for the day Commander Vane's forces would find her. The silver mark on her wrist has other ideas. Ancient. Dormant for generations. Now burning.When the mark activates and draws the attention of the Ember-King's court, Kaelen is pulled from everything she knows and thrust into a world of politics, power, and a man...