When Marian Hale’s husband, Elias, dies in a tragic carriage accident, she is left with his most curious creation: a brass clock that runs backward under a glass dome. For twenty years it has sat untouched in her quiet coastal home, hidden beneath a sheet and locked away with her memories. But when a stranger arrives claiming to know Elias’s “unfinished work,” the clock begins ticking again—unwound, unbidden, and impossibly alive.As whispers of the past bleed into Marian’s dreams, s...

When Maren Vale inherits a towering Victorian mirror from her estranged great-aunt, she chalks it up as little more than an eerie family heirloom. Burned out from teaching and haunted by fragmented memories, she finds herself increasingly drawn to the mirror’s surface—and what seems to shimmer just beneath it.At first, the anomalies are subtle: a blink out of sync, a smile that lingers too long. But soon, the reflection begins to move before she does. To speak. To know things she ha...

When grief claws deeper than time can heal, even love may become a doorway to darkness.Two years after the drowning of their young daughter, Evelyn and Mark Grayson are trapped in the brittle silence of their coastal home. Mark tries to move forward. Evelyn cannot let go.Then an anonymous package arrives—a doll that is too perfect, too knowing. Crafted in the exact likeness of their lost child, it seems to breathe with life. It speaks. It remembers. And it offers a devastatin...

Acclaimed indie filmmaker Theo Merrick has always seen the world through a lens—sharpening the edges of reality, cutting away what doesn’t belong. But when strange figures begin to appear in the thirteenth frame of his latest footage—then in the quiet corners of his own life—his careful world fractures.Each frame reveals more than the last: a presence that shouldn’t exist, memories he’s fought to bury, and a past that refuses to stay cut. As Theo’s obsession with the footage deepens...

Owen wakes in a world too perfect to question—an endless meadow beneath a golden sky, a quiet sea at his doorstep, and a guide named Mara who assures him he is finally home. Here, time has no urgency, memories return only “when they’re ready,” and nothing ever truly changes.But the stillness carries its own weight. Subtle distortions creep into Owen’s days: rooms that shift in size, a sky that alters color without warning, an orchard where the fruit never ripens. Strangers appear an...

A collection of short stories and histories of Rome, from its beginning to its end.

Winicker Wallace was forced to move to Paris, France, with her family. At first, she hates everything about Paris. It rains too much, Winicker’s neighbor is irritatingly perfect, and there is a mean girl in class who makes Winicker want to jet right back to her old house in Massachusetts. It takes a few mishaps for Winicker to warm up to her new home. Listeners are bound to be captivated by Winicker’s attitude and antics as they fall in love with Paris with her.Full contents:

The epic continuation of part A of Storms Clouds Gather. The initial battles conclude but the war rages on across all of known space in this novel of galactic intrigue! The Hagorian Alliance finally strikes back amid the Sanguine Empire's massive coordinated strikes against a gargantuan fleet space station but who will triumph?! The outcome could decide the fate of the war. Internal rivalries begin to take root as well and may cause tensions to mount!

After the war, peace isn’t always written in truth.Jakob, a reserved and methodical archivist, is tasked with restoring historical documents buried beneath a ruined city hall. When he stumbles upon a war diary belonging to General Kessler—once hailed as a national hero—he expects the usual sanitizations. Instead, he finds inconsistencies. Missing dates. Redacted names. Mentions of a covert operation, codenamed Sable, that appears in no official record.As Jakob digs deeper int...

When historian Clara Hayes accepts a quiet post at the long-abandoned caretaker’s cottage beside Raven Hollow Chapel, she seeks solitude. What she finds instead is a place where silence has weight, the past has teeth, and sorrow echoes long after the dead have gone.Every night at precisely 2:17 a.m., the chapel bell tolls once. But there is no bell in the tower—only dust, shadow, and a history no one dares speak aloud. As Clara begins to unravel forgotten parish records and unmailed...

Damon knows every brick, every shadow, every crack in the street outside his apartment—until the morning he notices an alley that has never been there before. At its end stands a door: weathered wood, brass handle, no lock. And a warning from a stranger: “Knock once, leave twice.”One knock pulls him into a life almost like his own, but not quite—different faces, altered memories, and a version of himself reflected in the eyes of people who seem to know him. Each knock promises a res...

What if the arguments you keep having, the jobs that slip through your fingers, and the love that never seems to stick aren't about bad luck or bad partners- but about you? Not the adult you. The eight-year-old you. The one who learned to survive by shrinking, fighting, pleasing, or disappearing.In O.W.N Your Sh!t, licensed clinician, certified neuropsychotherapist, and marriage and family therapist Dr. Renee Brooks pulls back the curtain ...