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Adam Miller, a successful marketing manager at a travel agency, visits Tokyo, Japan on business. During his trip, he has a one-night stand with a young Japanese woman, Miki Someya. But Miki latches onto him. She follows him—stalks him—through the streets of Tokyo, professing her love and begging for his. Adam manages to avoid her, but he loses control of himself when she confronts him and threatens to follow him home to tell his wife about their affair. In a fit of drunken rage, Adam attacks her. He beats her black and blue, then he carves a smile on her face with a pair of shears.

Osephine. I built my life on love and loyalty. The perfect wife, wearing a Property Of patch like proud armor. I happily ignored illegal deals and never asked too many questions. For six years, it was everything I wanted: a home full of memories, a family of my own, a love worth protecting. But when a stranger shows up at the Vipers MC clubhouse with secrets that belong to my husband, everything starts to unravel. A past I knew nothing about shatters the façade of my fairy-tale life. Now I’m left wondering if my marriage will survive or if I’ll end up repeating my mother’s life after all.

Prince Jael of the Severin never meant to unlock the Crimson Gateway beneath his parents’ castle. The portals had been sealed for millennia. Only the female Fae of Caldaen were meant to wield dream-sorcery. Jael forced himself into lucidity, crossed the gateway, and emerged in a mirrored Oxford. The Severin once roamed the ten Clone-Earths for ages, until a Pagan witch and a Catholic monk worked together to seal the Crimson Gateways centuries ago. Now Jael has reopened the path for his people to feed on souls once more—and reclaim their lost immortality.

Still, Maine is the raw, restless record of a solo journey to Portland, Maine—cobblestones and all—written by a woman who knows this city holds something no other place on earth can give her. In poems that move between wry humor and aching grief, every step of the trip is measured not in miles, but in tears, laughter, and the kind of longing that doesn’t have a clean ending.

Eleven extreme-horror authors explore whether Satan invades the innocent, or simply gives the willing permission to become what they already are. Evil doesn't always arrive with horns and fire. Sometimes it whispers. Sometimes it tempts. Sometimes it wears your face. Across eleven unflinching stories, Who's Satan Inside? digs into possession, religious terror, bodily violation, psychological unraveling, and the moment temptation becomes consent.

Some ghost stories wait for the right summer to come alive. Blackshore, Nova Scotia, is known for its pirate history and urban legends. Children vanish. And every spring + summer, legend says a pirate rises from the caves to collect his due. Autumn Quinn never believed in the towns folklore—until the spring of 1997, when she was taken. She came back alive. But she came back marked. Something crawled out of the dark with her.

Aisling bears scars that whisper of a past she cannot remember and a destiny she cannot escape. Each mark burns with a hidden power, binding her to a legacy older than the kingdoms themselves. As visions of war and wings of gold haunt her dreams, Aisling is drawn into a world of ancient magic and buried secrets. To survive, she must uncover her lineage as the last heir of the goddess Danu, master the divine scripts etched into her soul, and decide whether she is meant to save this world… or remake it. Enemies close in from every side, but the greatest danger may lie within her own heart.

Before vampires and werewolves became legends… there were the Ancient Ones. Long before kingdoms ruled the world, an ancient civilization lived beneath the Crimson Moon—powerful, united, and dangerously close to something buried beneath reality itself. Then the fracture began.

Broadcasting Into the Void is a philosophical dialogue in ten parts exploring a question that has quietly organized the history of artificial intelligence: what if certain human minds have always been running on a different architecture? Moving through a gallery of five historical figures, Alan Turing, Nikola Tesla, Ada Lovelace, Isaac Newton, and Carl Jung, the dialogue builds a case that the cognitive wiring we associate with artificial intelligence has always existed in biological form.

THE STORY IS EQUAL PARTS DOWNTOWN ABBEY AND WARTIME ACTION , WITH ENOUGH ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE TO MAKE IT 100% NOT- PUT- DOWN-ABLE. Australian Woman's Weekly A tale of espionage, love and passionate heroism. Inspired by true events, this is the story of how society's 'lovely ladies' won a war...

Some love stories start with a meet-cute. This one started with a migraine, a bottle of water, and Finn Walker telling Alex Archer, to her face, that she's a real tight-ass. He just didn't know it was her. Studio founder and creative director Alex Archer has spent her entire life proving she's enough. She's white-knuckled her way to the top through sheer determination and unyielding control. But her ADHD diagnosis five years ago rewrote everything she thought she knew about herself, and now corporate betrayal and family pressure are threatening to finish the job.

When a mischievous kappa decides to teach humankind a lesson in gratitude, his theft of the Dragon King’s sacred Tidal Jewels unleashes a catastrophic tsunami upon Japan. What began as a prank to remind mortals of divine blessings becomes a tragedy that shakes heaven and earth. Now, haunted by guilt and forbidden help from the gods, the kappa seeks redemption in a single, selfless act—calling forth the celestial kirin, bringer of justice and hope.

A Gift in the Dark. When the Slimbies outbreak began, the warnings sounded like just another emergency broadcast. A few bad reactions. A precaution. Nothing to fear. But in one small Delaware home, just before Christmas, everything falls apart. Evan brings home a frightened puppy to brighten the holiday, unaware that the world has already begun to die. By morning, Noah, Mara, and the puppy are on the run, leaving behind the only family they’ve ever known. What follows is two harsh years of cold floors, shuttered towns, thin rations, and the too-quiet dead.

How to open a bookstore: Step 1: Quit your job with zero hesitation. Step 2: Sacrifice your entire 401(k) to the Finance Gods. Step 3: Sign a lease with the hottest man you’ve ever despised. Step 4: Pretend you don’t have feelings while your life catches fire in the background.

Thrust into the harsh reality of her first professional job, a young woman finds herself stranded in a decaying part of the city where her workday never seems to end. As evening falls, the city’s systemic abandonment transforms into a suffocating maze of escalating threats and predatory shadows. What began as a milestone of adulthood quickly descends into a fight for survival against a landscape that feels increasingly hostile.

Prince Jael of the Severin returns to Earth, but London is no longer the world he remembers. Reflections falter, space bends beneath his power and an unseen presence watches from the fractures between realms. The creature stalking him was born from Severin blood, yet it feeds upon Jael’s own kind instead of human souls. It does not kill blindly. It observes, learns and has already chosen its first victim.

A letter was sent. The address was correct. It was returned anyway. In 1967, a woman in a small Ohio town began documenting a pattern no one else was tracking—fifty-one names, dates, and a symptom that refused to resolve. She built the record carefully. She sent it to the state. She waited.

A Collection of Spellware Fantasy Short Stories. Welcome to Spellware Fantasy, a new literary genre developed by author Brett Vogeler for The Songbird Saga. This is not fantasy awkwardly borrowing technology, but a true and profound fusion. In this world, witchcraft meets code, a haunted house is an evolving AI, and a digital ghost is a literal consciousness woven from both ancestral magic and digital data. Spellware Fantasy is where the grimoire and the hard drive rest on the same shelf, focusing on the intimate, powerful magic of healing, connection, and repair.

This is not a collection of poems in the usual sense. Secret code: Madness is a field of perception where logic fractures, language loosens, and the familiar world begins to show its hidden violence. These poems move between the personal and the political, the intimate and the collective, revealing a reality that is often sensed but rarely confronted. Here, madness is not the absence of intelligence —it is its overflow. A voice emerges that questions everything: systems, identities, ambitions, borders, and even the self that tries to hold them together.

After over a year Sam has broken free of a narcissistic online lover, but mentally, a shell of who she used to be; Sam is lost. Her oldest friend, Nina, insists Sam take a healing journey to the scenic country of Greece. Sam’s hesitation about the journey melts away as she’s entranced by Greece’s lovely scenery, kind people, and gorgeous men, one in particular. Lucian, the sarcastic and flirtatious Florida boy, instantly charms Sam and offers a chance to step out of her comfort zone and experience the fun in life.