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Structural engineer Arden Quill receives a document that should not exist: his own death certificate. Time of death—6:42 PM tomorrow. Cause—structural collapse. When city infrastructure data begins changing in real time, Arden realizes the truth: the predictive maintenance system designed to prevent disasters has begun redistributing them instead. If one structure survives, another must fail. As traffic reroutes, crowds gather, and the algorithm quietly shifts pressure across the city, Arden races to stop a catastrophic collapse scheduled to occur at exactly 6:42 PM.

When they said only the strong would survive, they weren't joking. Between deadly gauntlets, cutthroat classmates, and my father's relentless attempts to transform me into a dracolich, death has become my closest companion. As the sole surviving fourth year at Shadowcarve Academy, I've evolved from student to reluctant mentor for my younger mates. The school has little left to teach me that my father didn't already beat into my bones. Did I mention that Thauglor has hatched, and Abraxis is slowly becoming his terrifying mini-me?

Reality is not breaking. It’s being retuned. When legendary physicist Silas Thorne vanishes after a forbidden experiment, his apprentice Elara Wynn inherits more than his unfinished work—she inherits a rhythm embedded deep within reality itself. A pulse no one else seems able to hear. A pattern that responds when challenged. As the city of Aethelburg begins to destabilize at a fundamental level, Elara uncovers Thorne’s final safeguard: a harmonic system designed not to control reality, but to keep it from collapsing.

Getting pregnant after a one-night stand with my brother’s best friend was never part of the plan. We’re talking about Foster Davis here. Chicago Colts closing pitcher. The broody king of one-word answers. And the man everyone knows keeps one foot out the door. Surprisingly, when two pink lines turn my world upside down, Foster doesn’t run. He steps in, he shows up, and he insists we do this together. Pretending we’re fine is easy. Pretending this is just about the baby? Not so much. Because Foster is gentle when no one’s watching. Because he looks at me like I’m something worth protecting.

When maps begin to change on their own, cartographer Elias Mercer knows something is wrong. A routine survey uncovers an impossible anomaly—straight lines etched into terrain where nature allows none, coordinates that drift without cause, and locations that vanish the moment they’re observed. As Elias follows the data into the remote Highlands, he discovers evidence of a hidden geometric network embedded deep within the Earth itself.

Bound to a bell and cursed by a debt he could never repay, Raziel thought his fate was sealed. But luck finds him the day he's asked to save an infant's life. Tying his fractured soul to the child was his only way to break free. Now, years later, he's come to claim what is rightfully his. But claiming her won't be easy. Not only is Nasiah engaged, but Raziel has made enemies, and one of them wants to destroy him. Portals in his district are under attack, demons are after his mate, and an unseen force lurks in the dark, waiting to strike.

One moment, I'm fighting alongside my best friend to avenge the slaughter of his progeny—the next, I'm entombed within an eternal prison. Years dissolve like sand through my claws, punctuated only by fleeting moments of consciousness. But fate is a cruel mistress. I don't know how many centuries passed before I heard her again—that haunting melody that is both salvation and torment. This time, she doesn't abandon me. This time, she takes me with her into the unknown. Now, trapped within this cursed shell, I can only pray that her touch will be enough to shatter these ancient bonds.

Jonas Reed signs up for a routine memory rental—a calm, curated experience designed to ease stress and fade away without consequence. Instead, he witnesses a murder embedded inside the memory itself. The victim whispers a single name before everything fractures. That name belongs to Mara Kline. Mara is a memory auditor for Memex, the corporation that rents memories to the public and erases what customers aren’t supposed to keep. She is trained to flag corruption, delete anomalies, and move on.

When reality collapses, one witness survives. He may be the most dangerous variable of all. A city vanishes without warning—no debris, no explosion, no survivors. No one, except one.

Time is being edited. She’s the only one who notices. When brilliant temporal systems analyst Mara Kline is called to investigate the murder of a reclusive cryptographer, she expects classified technology and bureaucratic secrecy. What she finds instead is a relic that shouldn’t exist—a device capable of rewriting cause and effect itself.

In Neo-Kyoto, a city where neon bleeds through the rain and reality fractures at the edges, temporal investigator Miles Kendrick discovers something impossible: a device that rewrites human identity across timelines. When it's recovered from a vanished researcher at an abandoned viaduct, Miles becomes the first detective to investigate crimes that haven't been committed yet—and victims who don't remember being erased.

The Temporal Oversight Bureau does not prevent disasters. It reallocates them. For years, Elias Thorne has enforced stability—removing anomalies before they can fracture the timeline. The work is clinical, efficient, and morally uncomplicated. The math is absolute. The ledger is final. Until Elias discovers evidence that contradicts the system itself. A woman who should not exist. A reflection that shows Elias in places he has never been. A correction order that feels less like justice and more like erasure.

Raising my cousin’s three kids wasn’t in my five-year plan. Actually, it wasn’t in any plan. One minute I’m a single labor and delivery nurse living a quiet life and the next, I’m navigating guardianship hearings, meltdowns, and homework I’m pretty sure requires a math degree. Enter Hayes Carlisle. My best friend’s older brother. Chicago Colts newest catcher. And the man I once kissed and immediately pretended I didn’t. So, when the custody battle I’ve been dreading becomes a reality, I shouldn’t be surprised that Hayes swoops in with a wild idea—a fake relationship.

A string of bad boyfriends has me questioning my taste in men. They're either jealous of my job as a dancer at a strip club, or they use it as an opportunity to try hooking up with my friends. It also doesn't help that my big brother is the definition of overprotective, meaning nobody is ever good enough for me. When I notice his best friend—his very straight, very good-looking best friend—at the club where I work more than once, I wonder if maybe he's not as out of my reach as I once thought he was.

Year three at Dragonis Academy was supposed to be manageable. I'd survived two years of brutal competition, backstabbing classmates, and professors who'd rather see me dead than graduate. I have Klauth by my side now, who just happens to be an ancient dragon king. The universe has a sick sense of humor when it comes to my life. The cursed egg I've been carrying since last semester pulses with dark energy. Thauglor teaches me everything he can while he's imprisoned. Meanwhile, my father's agents lurk in every shadow, and now the headmaster appears to be playing a deadlier game than I realized.

I decided it was time to shake things up a bit and start living for my dreams, not someone else's. But when I say shake things up, I didn't think a baby spy and Jasper would be the ones doing the shaking. I never expected to pause my life to help a little girl find her forever home, or for Jasper to come barging in. Not that I'm complaining. I just hope that when the chaos subsides and the dust clears, he finally lets me in, and I won't be left standing all alone.

It was straight out of a rom-com—until two pink lines changed everything. Zander Shaw is country music’s hottest star. So, when he singled me out of a packed arena and had me pulled backstage, I should’ve known I wasn’t his forever. One signed NDA later, I was sneaking onto his tour bus, wrapped up in his world, and him. But it ended before it really started when he ghosted me. Then he shows up on my family’s ranch to film his new music video, a surprise to us both. Now I’m his appointed tour guide around the ranch, stuck sharing all my favorite places with the man who carelessly discarded me.

I've been training my entire life for this; I need to be the best, the best fighter, the best dragon rider in the entire brotherhood. The only problem is that my bonded dragon, Bodhi, and I can't seem to get it together. One minute I think we're connecting properly, and the next she's taking off, leading me to the one guy I don't want to know: Slash. He's basically the opposite of me in every way, and I don't get why he's suddenly everywhere I turn, but I can't deny how he makes me feel when he looks at me.

Sie liebt ihn, und gleichzeitig hasst sie ihn – Miles Cavanaugh, der beste Safety der NFL. Erst als er im letzten Jahr von den San Francisco Kingsmen zu den Chicago Grizzlies wechselte, konnte Bryce endlich mal wieder aufatmen. Doch wie naiv war sie gewesen, zu glauben, dass sich ihre Wege nie wieder kreuzen würden. Denn nur wenige Monate später wird der talentierten Journalistin Bryce ihr Traumjob angeboten von einer renommierten Zeitschrift mit Sitz in – na klar, Chicago.

Seit ihrer ersten Begegnung vor über zehn Jahren auf dem College-Campus sind Ellery und Cooper befreundet. Inzwischen ist Ellery eine hervorragende Notärztin geworden und Cooper der neue Star-Quarterback der Chicago Grizzlies, der auch abseits des Spielfelds vor allem bei den Frauen sehr beliebt ist. Während er auf riesigen Plakaten überall in der Stadt freizügig für Unterwäsche Werbung macht, vermutet niemand, dass Cooper entgegen seines Image gar kein Playboy sein will. Im Gegenteil: Er wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher als endlich sesshaft zu werden und eine Familie zu gründen.