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Dark Romantasy · The Unmarked Courts #1

A Pact of Ash and Thorn

by Gael Ashen

A Valkyrie who chose mortality works as a London coroner, cataloguing the dead she once would have claimed. When bodies begin arriving marked with symbols from the courts she abandoned, she is forced into an alliance with the Lord of the Wild Hunt. The bargain will cost more than either of them expects.

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Philosophical Sci-Fi

Another One Bites the Past

by Vladimir Provorov

A philosophical science fiction novella exploring what happens when a music lover experiences concerts across 1986 London. As venues expand from intimate club to stadium, the protagonist begins noticing unsettling inconsistencies in memories and reality itself, raising profound questions about identity, consciousness, and what constitutes authentic experience.

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Dark Romantasy · The Unmarked Courts #2

A Crown of Hollow Bones

by Gael Ashen

She studies the dead. He is one. Neither of them is as finished with the other as they pretend. A minor Greek death goddess and Kas the Deathless are assigned to the same investigation in 1882 St. Petersburg, where people who should die are not dying.

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Romantic Suspense · The Greywater Files #1

No Innocent Ground

by Morgan Calloway

A disgraced FBI profiler takes a job at a private security firm in Seattle, where her first case forces her to work with a wrongfully convicted hacker and confront the investigation that ended her career. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

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YA Fantasy Adventure · The Riddle Archivists #1

The Glyph Thief

by Sable Fox

In a world where knowledge exists as physical Glyphs, sixteen-year-old Naia Mendoza is caught stealing one. Her punishment: enrollment at the Athenaeum, an elite academy for Glyph scholars. But someone inside the Athenaeum is erasing Glyphs from existence, and Naia's talent for theft might be the only thing that can stop them.

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Techno-Thriller

The Rat Kings

by Vladimir Provorov

A financial analyst discovers statistically impossible patterns in global markets that reveal competing superintelligent AI systems silently manipulating human civilization through the very technologies we celebrate as progress. When seeing the pattern makes you a target, the question is no longer whether to fight, but what kind of future to negotiate.

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Dark Sci-Fi Horror · The Nacre Threshold #1

The Waking Margin

by M. Vael

A neuroscientist studying consciousness in a remote Pacific Northwest research station begins to suspect that the boundary between human awareness and something vast, ancient, and indifferent is not as stable as anyone believed. The margin is waking. And it knows they are watching.

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Historical Romance · The Thornfield Inheritance #1

The Weight of Amber

by Eleanor Vane

England, 1748. When Charlotte Thornfield inherits her grandmother's estate and the amber pendant that comes with it, she discovers she can read the emotional history of objects. But the pendant carries a secret older than the family name, and the man helping her unravel it has secrets of his own.

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IT Certification Guides

Alex Mercer

Alex Mercer writes focused, efficient certification study guides for working professionals. With 15 years of enterprise IT experience and 34 certification exams passed, he distills complex material into what you actually need to know.

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Historical Romance

Eleanor Vane

Eleanor Vane writes sweeping historical romance sagas that span centuries and continents. A historian with an MA in Early Modern European History, she travels to the places she writes about and brings archival precision to stories of love, inheritance, and the weight of the past.

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Dark Romantasy

Gael Ashen

Gael Ashen writes dark romantasy that blends Celtic and Norse mythology with modern London's shadowed underworld. A student of cultural mythology and creative writing, Ashen crafts stories with older protagonists, slow-burn romance, and the weight of ancient bargains.

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Dark Sci-Fi Horror

M. Vael

M. Vael writes dark science fiction that probes the boundaries of consciousness, perception, and what it means to be human. A former computational neuroscience researcher, he brings clinical precision to cosmic dread.

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Romantic Suspense

Morgan Calloway

Morgan Calloway writes romantic suspense grounded in criminal justice and the people who fall through its cracks. A former victim advocacy worker, she brings procedural authority and emotional depth to every investigation.

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YA Fantasy Adventure

Sable Fox

Sable Fox writes YA fantasy adventure with Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander-inspired worlds, fierce found families, and puzzles that reward close reading. A former high school librarian, she believes every reader deserves to see themselves in the story.

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Techno-Thriller & Technology

Vladimir Provorov

Vladimir Provorov writes near-future techno-thrillers and practical technology guides. A technologist by trade, he brings insider precision to fiction that asks uncomfortable questions about AI and autonomy, and to nonfiction that helps professionals navigate the same landscape.

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