Stories

Before the jump drive, settlers fled Earth aboard generational colony vessels, spending centuries between the stars. Their scattered descendants built hundreds of isolated worlds, each with its own distinct culture, never expecting to hear from their fellow humans again.

Then, eighty-seven years ago, Earth invented the jump drive: crossing between stars in seconds. Humanity has been trying to reconnect ever since.

Finn Svensson is a talented starfighter pilot in his mid-twenties. Discharged in disgrace, he still clings to his dream of the stars. To earn his place in the galaxy, he must navigate love, loyalty, and the ghosts of his past.

Two ruined men—one a disgraced aristocrat, the other a madman fleeing Bedlam—forge an unlikely alliance in 1748 London. To survive, they must navigate a world of gambling dens, back-alley degradation, and highway robbery. But when their partnership deepens into something more dangerous than any heist, they’ll discover that survival is cheaper than love—and far less costly. A gritty historical romance about redemption, resilience, and finding family in the darkest places.

In a dieselpunk city-state shattered by war, a scrawny mechanic with a forbidden power becomes the last hope for a runaway prince, fleeing an unstoppable enemy and the ashes of a fallen world.

Leo Rossi—a talented, selectively mute cello student at the prestigious St. Jude’s Conservatoire—is paired for the annual Showcase with Julian Thorne, the golden-boy pianist. As a quiet romance blossoms, Julian feels torn between his growing feelings for Leo and his father's suffocating expectations.

Ruth comes to James’ Park searching for a place to begin again. The old house seems ordinary at first. Some houses hold memories. Others set them free.

“Buck, there are Sundays at Augusta that test a golfer, and then there are Sundays that reveal him. Tim Orszulak has absorbed every ounce of pressure this championship can offer and, to this point, he has not blinked. He did not merely survive yesterday...he announced himself. Here is a nineteen-year-old college student sharing today's leaderboard with some of the best golfers in the world. Today, we find out whether that was the beginning of a story, or the end of a dream.”

Captain Steve Dunlop and his partner, chief engineer Nico Weber, have put Lalande II on their list of places to grow old together while helping commission its space elevator. But when a massive quake hurls a hundred-foot wall of water against the coastal station, their battered starship barely escapes—and the fault network keeps rupturing. Now Steve must defy orders and risk his crew, his command, and the man he loves to stop a chain reaction that could tear a continent apart.

Orphaned woodsman Oleg knows how to survive a northern winter, but not why his father marked him with a magical blue crescent. But when a wounded noble begs for shelter and armed riders recoil from Oleg's mark, a savage blizzard traps them together—until two more desperate boys appear beneath his cabin. Now four strangers must choose whom to trust as the hunters return, and Oleg must risk his home and his life for the boy who's making him want more than survival.

We all have that one best friend who is our person. They're the one we text and talk to every day. They're more than a friend. They're our confidante, our muse, our shoulder to cry on, and the one we celebrate with. They are our rock.

What happens when the rock gets swept away and isn't there anymore?

Lyle has to figure it out on his own.

Levi Thissen is currently an entry-level reporter for the Baltimore Sun, but he went to college with the goal of becoming an investigative reporter. He decides his best chance of doing that is to make a pitch to the Managing Editor of the Sun. She accepts his proposal and assigns him to solve a 47-year-old murder mystery of a gay college student from a local campus, and he accepts the challenge. This is either going to work out in his favor, or he'll be permanently labeled as someone only fit to write for the National Enquirer.