Fiction

In a desert city ruled by an undying queen, Saeris steals a guardian’s golden gauntlet and ignites a chain of violence that drags her through living quicksilver into the Fae realm of Yvelia—where a cursed warlord called Kingfisher claims she’s the key to reopening worlds, and the price of saving her family may be becoming a monster herself.

A newly crowned half-vampire queen tries to end a war without spilling more blood—until infected undead, stolen oaths, and a gate to hell force her and her shadow-born mate to gamble everything, including their true names, for a cure called brimstone.

When Bella Swan moves to rainy Forks, Washington, she expects boredom—not the pale, beautiful Edward Cullen, whose attention feels like danger and destiny at once, pulling her toward a secret that could cost her life and her human future.

Bella Swan loses Edward Cullen in the most brutal way—he vanishes, leaving her hollowed out in Forks. But when a dangerous new friendship with Jacob Black becomes her lifeline, Bella discovers the cost of love: it can resurrect you… or lure you into the dark.

Bella Swan finally marries Edward Cullen—and thinks she’s reached her happily ever after—until an impossible pregnancy ignites an ancient law, forces vampires and werewolves into uneasy alliance, and sets the Volturi on a collision course that can only end in annihilation… or a miracle.

Edward Cullen can read every mind in Forks—until Bella Swan arrives, silent and irresistible, and his self-control snaps into a battle between love and hunger, where every heartbeat could be her last and every choice could damn them both.

Bella Swan’s countdown to immortality collides with a newborn vampire army in Seattle, a vengeful enemy closing in, and a werewolf best friend who won’t stop fighting for her—forcing Bella to choose what love costs when everyone she cares about becomes a target.

Banished to a foreign empire with legs he can’t feel and a war he can’t win, Chaol Westfall gambles everything on a legendary tower of healers—only to uncover a murder, a demon’s foothold, and a cure that might cost far more than his spine.

Before she becomes a legend, Celaena Sardothien—Adarlan’s deadliest teenage assassin—defies her master’s orders, frees slaves, makes enemies in pirate ports and desert fortresses, and discovers that every act of mercy in an empire of chains comes with a brutal, unforgettable price.

A legendary teenage assassin is dragged out of a death camp to compete for her freedom inside a glass castle—only to discover the contest is rigged, the candidates are being butchered, and an ancient power is waking beneath the throne she’s sworn to serve.

Aelin returns to Rifthold with her magic sealed and her enemies multiplying—only to find her cousin on the execution list, the prince enslaved by a demon collar, and the city bleeding under Valg rule. To win, she must outplay assassins, rebels, witches, and the king himself—before war swallows Erilea.

As a demon king’s beasts close in and a sea-born war ignites, Aelin Galathynius races to unite broken allies—only to learn the dead have been moving her like a chess piece, and her “promised” price may be her very life.

Aelin Galathynius is trapped in an iron coffin and broken by a dark queen, while her friends fight a war they can’t win. As armies converge and gods demand a sacrifice, every alliance, betrayal, and ounce of courage must pay its price—before the world burns.

Broken by grief and drowning in guilt, assassin Celaena Sardothien is sent to Wendlyn for a mission she can’t stomach—only to be dragged into Fae politics, monstrous Valg threats, and a brutal training that forces her to become the queen she’s spent a decade running from.

The King’s Champion is paid to kill—but she’s been saving her targets instead. When a princess is butchered in the castle and ancient powers stir beneath Rifthold, Celaena must choose between freedom, love, and a secret identity that could ignite a war.

On the morning of his sixteenth birthday, Haymitch Abernathy expects a few stolen hours with the girl he loves—until the Capitol turns District 12’s reaping into a blood-soaked spectacle and drafts him into a Quarter Quell designed to break him, his family, and the very idea of resistance.

At Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail is forced into the Riders Quadrant—where dragons don’t choose the weak, cadets can kill each other, and the dead are counted every morning—until she bonds the impossible and discovers the kingdom’s most dangerous secret.

Two weeks after Basgiath’s battle, Violet Sorrengail fights a hidden venin infiltration, bargains with kings and councils, and races to save the man she loves—only to learn the storm hunting her has been waiting for her choice, and the price is bigger than war.

Violet Sorrengail survives an impossible first year only to discover her kingdom’s war is built on a lie—then a single stolen journal, a shattered wardstone, and one devastating betrayal force her and Xaden into a fight where love might be the very thing that destroys them.

A mob enforcer who’s watched one woman from afar for ten years finally steps into her life—only to collide with her found-family, her kink club sanctuary, and the ugly secrets of their past, forcing them to choose: obsession that destroys, or devotion that transforms.

Aly, an overworked trauma nurse with a mask kink, thinks she’s just harmlessly thirsting over a faceless creator online—until he breaks into her bedroom, leaves his mask on her bed, and turns a fantasy into a dangerous game of trust, control, and obsession.

A beautiful young man makes one reckless wish—to stay flawless forever—only to discover his portrait will age and rot in his place, recording every cruelty, indulgence, and secret sin until the canvas becomes a living accusation he can’t outrun.

Two orphaned sisters from Australia arrive in postwar England chasing a future, but one luminous, unyielding love—misdirected, betrayed, and delayed—pulls their lives into collisions of class, ambition, and moral consequence that echo for decades.

Poker looks like luck, but Sklansky treats it like a decision engine: expectation, odds, deception, and psychology. This recap walks through the book’s core toolkit so listeners can understand why winning players think differently—hand by hand, bet by bet, over the long run.

In nine tightly observed stories, lives tilt on small deceptions, sudden loyalties, and private bargains—until a forged love letter becomes a marriage, a dying man’s joke becomes a widow’s armor, and memory itself proves less faithful than consequence.

One Italian summer, seventeen-year-old Elio thinks he can outwait desire—until a visiting American scholar turns every “later” into a dare, every silence into a confession, and every goodbye into something that keeps echoing for decades.

A dog is born, dies, and is born again—over and over—each life bringing new owners, new lessons, and one haunting question that grows louder with every goodbye: what is my purpose, and who am I meant to save?

Bailey believes he’s finally reached a perfect afterlife—until Ethan and CJ ask him to return once more, with his memories wiped, to keep a promise that will stitch together a fractured family, a lost love, and a purpose that outlasts any single lifetime.

An aging dog who has lived many lives believes his purpose is finished—until a toddler named Clarity stumbles toward danger, pulling him into one last mission that will demand rebirth, sacrifice, and a lifetime of devotion to keep one girl alive long enough to find her way home.

Ruth grows up in a small Illinois town, learns to see through meanness, and keeps choosing love even when it’s the last thing that seems possible. This is her story—told in one voice you won’t forget.

A fearless boy with a towering brain and his brilliant dog sail into whirlpools, slow-motion kingdoms, storm-torn islands, and courts that try dogs for witchcraft. This is an imaginative, high-spirited voyage that’s equal parts wonder, wit, and heart.

A brutal northern winter locks a Maine town under ice. A dead man is found in the river, a pastor’s wife swears she was raped by a judge, and midwife Martha Ballard—mother, healer, and keeper of hard truths—has to pull the town’s secrets into daylight. This is the story of justice scraped from frozen ground, and a woman who refuses to look away.

A retired pirate captain gets dragged back to sea for one last job: rescue a vanished girl, outwit a charming demon ex, and stop a Frankish sorcerer from weaponizing an ancient lunar relic. It’s funny, ferocious, and full of salt and stars.

A weary clerk in a future London dares to write what he truly thinks. One secret diary leads him into love, rebellion, and the cold machinery of a state that edits reality itself.

Before there was a Witch, there was a child named Elphaba. Green-skinned, sharp-minded, and impossible to place in a world that fears what it cannot explain. Here’s how she became a legend—and why her story won’t let go of yours.

A shy freshman writes anonymous letters as he stumbles into friendship, first love, family secrets, and the messy work of growing up. What he finds isn’t a fix or a formula. It’s a way to be present in his own life.

A surprise election. A city in flames. A young leader riding a wave of populist fury that turns into a flood. This is the story of how a nation slips from jubilation to fracture—and how a single midnight moment changes everything.

One summer ended with a kiss and a promise. The next begins with a funeral, a missing boy, and a house that holds everything together. Belly and the Fisher brothers are back at Cousins, trying to save what’s left—of a home, of a family, and of first love. Grief changes them. So does choice.

Two brothers. One girl who grew up in their beach house. A wedding that almost happens, and a truth that finally does. This is Belly’s last summer of being a kid and her first summer of saying what she really wants.

Every summer at Cousins Beach, Belly waited for magic. The year she turns pretty, everything changes—friendships, first love, and the truth no one wants to say out loud. This is a warm, achey, coming-of-age told in salty air and late-night swims.

At nine years old, Mary B. Addison became the face of a crime everyone wanted to solve and no one wanted to look at closely. Now she’s sixteen, pregnant, and stuck in a brutal group home—trying to hold on to a future while the past won’t let go. This is her fight to be believed, to be safe, and to be more than the worst thing the world thinks she did.

Fresh out of rehab and desperate for a new start, Mallory Quinn lands a nanny job with a perfect family in a perfect town. Their sweet five-year-old draws like a budding Picasso. Then his pictures turn into scenes of a woman being murdered—and the drawings seem to be getting made by someone else’s hand.

A woman in red walks the tightrope between survival and self. In Gilead, every rule is a trap, every kindness a test, and every memory a risk. Hear Offred’s story told as a living voice—held together by routine, broken by desire, and driven by the need to stay human.

A soldier who swears off attachments. A single mother who can’t afford to trust. A pair of six-year-old twins who steal every scene. What starts as a letter between strangers becomes a home they didn’t know they were allowed to want—and a love tested by war, illness, and fate.

Twenty years after Julia vanished, her sisters collide with a horror that’s bigger, older, and closer than anyone imagined. One husband dies in an alley. One sister is taken. And a quiet suburban life cracks open to reveal a nightmare running beneath it all. This is a family’s search for truth, and the cost of finding it.

Orphaned at seventeen and drowning in silence, Tiernan de Haas flees Hollywood to a remote peak in Colorado—where a rugged step-uncle, two troubled sons, and a winter that pins them in place force her to face the truth she’s been running from: you can’t disappear to survive. You have to learn to speak.

One morning, every adult on Earth wakes to a small wooden box on their doorstep. Inside is a single string, its length a promise—or a warning—about the span of a life. What would you do if you knew your measure? In this intimate, propulsive story, eight lives tangle and hold as love, fear, power, and hope collide under a clock everyone can suddenly see.

Ellie Mack left for the library and never came home. Ten years later, her mother meets a charming stranger and a bright nine-year-old girl who looks uncannily like Ellie. This is a twisty, human story about a missing daughter, a mother’s grief, and the terrible lengths desperation can drive people to.

A figure skater with Olympic dreams. A hockey captain with too much swagger and a soft heart he keeps trying to hide. One shattered rink forces their worlds to collide—then everything that could complicate it does. They fall hard, they fight harder, and somehow they learn to skate in sync on and off the ice.

A star defense attorney. A struggling novelist. A secret lover found stabbed thirty-seven times. When the police knock, the marriage that looked enviable from the outside is already falling apart on the inside. What follows is a breathless spiral of lies, leverage, and one final revelation you won’t see coming.

Gun smoke, desert stars, and stories told by firelight. Arizona Nights is a rough-and-tender tour through ranch country—stampedes, rustlers, long rides, and the kind of moral choices that hit hard. Come sit by the campfire; these are the tales cowboys tell when the coffee is strong and the night won’t quit.

A girl who steals words. A Jewish fist-fighter hiding in a basement. A boy who paints himself black to run like Jesse Owens. And Death, watching it all with tired eyes. This is a story about the power of language to destroy and to save—told in the warm, aching voice of the one who carries us away.

Or, all for the Best

Love, sacrifice, and revolution collide between London and Paris. Follow a family’s fight to stay whole as a disillusioned lawyer discovers the one act that can redeem a wasted life.

A curious nine-year-old, a fence that splits a landscape in two, and a friendship that grows where it shouldn’t. Seen through a child’s eyes, the ordinary details of war turn shocking and unforgettable.

A nameless island boy arrives at Camelot the day the old world ends. The king is dead, the Round Table is shattered, and the only way forward is through a new kind of wonder. This is Arthur’s Britain after the miracle age, retold through the eyes of the ones left behind—outsiders, latecomers, and the last faithful few who refuse to let the light go out.

A brilliant, biting LA story about a biracial novelist, the Hollywood machine that courts and betrays her, and the messy, funny work of keeping a family intact while chasing a dream that keeps moving.

A fourteen-year-old with a poet’s eye and a fighter’s heart tells a raw, tender story of brothers, loyalty, and the invisible lines that divide a town. When a night goes too far, everything Ponyboy Curtis believes about right, wrong, and belonging is put to the test.

A struggling writer steps into a famous author’s home to finish her bestselling series—and finds a hidden manuscript that confesses to unthinkable crimes. As desire, fear, and suspicion escalate, one question tightens like a noose: which written story is true, and who in this house is actually the villain?