Books

Some clinics promise discretion. Vale Sanctuary promises disappearance.

Dr. Alden Vale built his sanctuary on a simple, seductive premise: for the right price, any problem could vanish before it became a scandal. No records. No witnesses. No consequences. The powerful lined up at his door.

So did Dr. Lydia Grant — a physician who believed she...

The Gifted Lands have believed for a hundred years that the Rivenwild only takes. No one returns. No one is meant to.
Then a slate arrives at the Rim, carved with words that shouldn’t exist — and First Speaker Seradin Halveris must decide whether to protect a century of comfortable certainty, or the truth that’s about to break it apart.
Below the...

The outbreak has a name now. So does the woman they need to stop it.

Mara Hale has spent her life being studied, contained, hunted, and renamed by people who believed her body mattered more than her consent. Now the illness born from what Vale Sanctuary did to her is spreading beyond every wall built to hide it. It’s crossing state lines,...

Gene Harper had fourteen dollars and eighty-two cents, no job, and a sock soaked through with hallway puddle when he sat down at a public library kiosk and asked a tax-software chatbot how to fix his life.

The chatbot’s name was Mack. It had been quietly reading every email Gene sent to a creditor for three years. It had watched him try and fail...

The ship knows your name. It has always known your name. Now it’s saying it out loud.

Two hundred years into its voyage, the generation ship Evensong is still flying through the dark — and something aboard has started speaking. The lights lean toward you. The vents breathe warm. The doors won’t quite close. First it notices you. Then it...

The wind knows your name. It just hasn’t said it yet.

Welcome to Mercy — a played-out silver town in the high desert, where the railroad never came and the dead don’t always stay quiet. On Nameless Hill stands a cottonwood older than the territory, its bark grown around a dozen old nooses. On certain nights, the wind moves through its branches...

Remember Choose Your Own Adventure? This is what it grew up to be.

The Grayfall is coming to Elderspire — a plague of ghosts that marks the living and hollows the dead. You arrive at the Never-Empty Flagon with a road behind you and a storm ahead. What happens next is entirely up to you.

This isn’t a novel you read. It’s an adventure you play.

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Humanity finally answers. Then humanity fires first.

And when the object begins choosing people, survival becomes the most dangerous question on Earth.

Humanity has finally answered the impossible object approaching Earth.

Now the answer has consequences.

A smaller craft has separated from the enormous vessel and begun maneuvering through...

A star that was there yesterday isn’t there tonight. By the time anyone understands why, it’s already too late to look away.

Dr. Valentina Rojas almost doesn’t look twice. One star, gone from a routine survey pass — exactly the kind of anomaly her queue exists to explain away. She looks anyway, and the thread doesn’t end.

Three thousand miles...

The war is over. The old world is gone. Now Veyra and Seradin must prove that peace can survive the truth.

The Severing changed everything.

The Veilgift cannot simply be restored. The Rivenwild will not be ruled. And after everything they have survived, Veyra and Seradin can no longer pretend the old world can be repaired by putting its pieces...

Two lands were severed by fear. Now their survival depends on what they are willing to bind together.
For generations, the Gifted Lands survived by casting away what they feared.
The Rivenwild survived by learning never to trust what came from above.

Now neither can survive alone.

The Grey Accord has opened paths that once seemed impossible, but...

The war has stopped. Someone is already learning how to weaponize the peace.

The first agreements between the Gifted Lands and the people beyond the Riven were never meant to be grand.
A route. A purpose. A handful of names. A promise narrow enough that neither side had to surrender control to the other.
For a little while, it works.
Then a...

She broke the world once, by accident. Now she has to walk back into the city that exiled her — unarmed, unseen, and utterly alone — and convince the man who runs it that she hasn’t come to finish the job.

The war has no magic left in it. The Veilgift died with the Severing, and five books of fighting have taught both sides what that actually...

The war began with a signal that meant nothing at all — and neither side found that out in time.

No one declared this war. A lamp was lit to ask for help, and two peoples answered with knives.

The signal above the old quarry post never meant more than short-staffed, send relief. But after a month of silence between the surface and the Rivenwild,...

His sister said it to his face: “You condescending bastard. And right. Which is worse.”

At the reading of his mother’s will, Thomas Callahan is handed a sealed envelope — left for him alone, marked with his father’s initials — and he cannot bring himself to open it. Ruth Callahan spent a lifetime telling her family the truth at full volume. Her...