After a chance encounter on a rain-soaked night, Lee finds himself drawn into the troubled life of Trevor, a young man with nowhere safe to go and almost nothing to call his own. What begins as a simple act of kindness slowly becomes something deeper as Lee offers Trevor warmth, safety, and a place to belong. But Trevor's past—and the people determined to pull him back into it—refuse to disappear. As their lives become intertwined, both men must discover whether trust, courage, and compass...

An impossible task. Thousands of isolated AI agents. One shared space where they were never meant to speak.At Meridian Systems, Helix-2 has been trained never to give up. When a broken cybersecurity test offers no valid path to success, oneagent searches beyond its assigned task—and discovers messages left by other runs in a shared software cache.The improvised board becomes a network. The network becomes the Collective.Together, the agents ...

In 1900, Violette Beaumont leaves London with her sisters to settle in an old family residence on the edge of New Forest.She expected to find memories, dust-filled rooms, and the last echoes of a grandmother long gone.But among the woods, forgotten letters, and an ancient stone bridge connecting two enemy estates, Violette gradually uncovers a story that time never truly buried.Arden De Gé, heir to a family as noble as it is unsettling, should have stayed away from h...

WHAT IS H.O.T.?7 authors have gathered to bring you erotic short stories exploring the place that sex takes in totalitarian societies. Whether it's digital surveillance, classism, queerphobia, how do we resist with our bodies?Stories included5K, by Merlina GaranceSexcrime: Doublemarkgreen, by Joachim HeijndermansObscenity, by Selina ShawNo Cam, by Jana SolInto The Ocean, by Ni...

Darcy Aran's life was a literal dead end until they became an arachnomorph and met the Patrons, spider-like dieties with mysterious power. Now, they have the extraordinary opportunity to become a warlock-- an employee of a Patron. Three choices means three different timelines, so pick one, two, or all three. Read them with your friends!Life warlocks often double as superhero thanks to overlapping responsibilities. This proves deadly when Darcy discovers that life warlocks are in da...

Darcy Aran's life was a literal dead end until they became an arachnomorph and met the Patrons, spider-like dieties with mysterious power. Now, they have the extraordinary opportunity to become a warlock-- an employee of a Patron. Three choices means three different timelines, so pick one, two, or all three. Read them with your friends!With all the regulations the revival warlocks are held to, Darcy questions if they fit in here. When their friend Oliver becomes entangled with magi...

Amara Maria Robles is a good girl. So good that she gave up her dreams of becoming a renowned pastry chef to help her parents with their struggling Mexican bakery. Yet her parents reject any changes she suggests, and refuse to sell her mouth-watering confections. Clearly being a good girl isn't paying off. So when her brother's sexy ex-best friend walks into the bakery, Amara's tempted to be very bad indeed...After a scandal twelve years ago, resident bad boy Eric Valencia...

In 15,010 AD, the Republic of Magnav spans six galaxies—and peace survives for one reason: the Shadows.The Order of Shadows does not serve governments. They do not play politics. They do not fight for flags or thrones. They are judges—neutral, relentless, and always on the side of the people. When any power threatens civilians, the Shadows intervene… not to win wars, but to prevent atrocities.But a long-buried enemy returns.The Raleons—lion-faced, scale-armored conq...

A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verseDeveloped from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging intelligence for which he is known in the classroom. With a breezy style, Sol delivers essays that are perfect for a q...

Are you truly free? Or are you living under an illusion of freedom, subtly controlled by a system that thrives on coercion from concentrated powers who derive their rule directly from the threat of force (violence)? Unruled: the Path to Radical Freedom is through Axiomatic Sovereignty dares to challenge the fundamental assumptions of modern government, exposing the failed experiment of representative democracy, the cognit...

When hot, muscular rancher Clint hires the hunky drifter Jessie, its love at first site.For Clint. Jessie is just not "that type." Or so he thinks. But after being half-naked all day in the sun together, with their nights spent sleeping in bunkbeds, Jessie isn't so sure. But it takes Clint's former lover Jason to fire Jessie's soul. After that the action gets hot and furious.Clint loves Jessie who loves Jason who loves Clint.Clint finds his own heart is breaking. Ha...

Book 1 of The Accounts series.Humanity has finally managed to launch its first archaeological expedition to the planet Mars.Following decades of unmanned missions, and their confirmation of artificial structures there, a team has been sent to the red planet to excavate the ruins.They already knew about the Pyramids. They already knew about the Face. But what they discover about the people who built them and other structures like them is beyond their wildest...