atmospheric - Stories

The election is a massacre. The Liberal Party is in ruins. And Julian Dufresne—a sociopathic academic backed by dark money—is poised to seize the ashes.

Shadow Minister Will Carter survived the bloodbath, but surviving isn't enough. As his husband Andrew races to disarm a Russian cyber-weapon in the shadows of Hong Kong, Will must play the longest game of his career—surviving Dufresne's rise, holding his party together, and protecting the family he's built.

From the campaign trail to the backrooms of Hong Kong, the Carters are about to discover that the real war is only beginning.

In a world where "magic" is just fear and misunderstanding, Shem is the worst swordsman in the valley. When goblins raid a nearby farm, he rides out with a bar mace he doesn't know how to use, a feral child who bites first and speaks second, and a crush who keeps stealing his left glove. The monsters aren't what they seem. Neither is he.

Meet the Harding boys: Matt and his big brother Justin, their hunky dad Richard, and their fun-loving uncle Patrick.

When Matt gives his father a lavish vacation, it's meant to bring them closer -- but a secret plan to indulge a forbidden curiosity unsettles everything. An old passion reawakens in Richard, soon ensnaring Justin and Patrick too.

Sons collide with fathers, uncles with nephews, and brothers with each other. As the Harding men circle the same questions, the past simmers beneath the surface, threatening to redraw the boundaries of family, loyalty, and lust.

In a lawless land where bullets write the law, an arrogant city-dweller ventures into the Wild West seeking revenge. What he finds is a world ruled by outlaws—and a dangerous man who becomes his captor. Bound by circumstance and drawn by an irresistible pull, they clash in a game of wit, pride, and survival. But as the desert sun sets on their hatred, something far more dangerous rises between them. On the Wild West, to try and ride someone means to break them, to own them—or to lose yourself completely. Only one of them will be tamed.

He climbed through the wrong window. She wasn't there. Her younger brother was—and he'd been waiting.

Andy is a three-hundred-year-old vampire used to being the predator. Lucas is a teenage boy who's been watching him for weeks, planning this exact moment. One kiss, and the ancient monster learns what it means to be truly consumed.

The hunter becomes the hunted. The cold becomes a thousand degrees. And the Vampire is the one Enthralled.

Felix has a system. Ryder is a system error. When a missing student and a slice of stolen treacle tart turn Felix into the school's most feared warlock, Ryder decides he's running a scam—and he's going to prove it. But the more Ryder follows him, the more Felix's rigid world unravels. Dark Academia has never been this ridiculous, and falling in love has never been this chaotic. A gay rom-com about luck, lies, and the absolute disaster of being seen.

Two high school enemies—a lanky anxious nerd and a brooding bully—end up stuck together working the closing shift at a dead-end grocery store. As summer bleeds away and college looms, they discover the social hierarchy means nothing when you're both scraping gum off linoleum. But when a rainstorm strands them at the bully's rundown apartment, Chad discovers Jake's deepest secret: he's a massive closet geek with a decade of hidden longing. What starts as reluctant friendship becomes something far more complicated—and far more real—than either expected.