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Cole Morrissey
A near death experience is just another Monday when you’re a crab fisherman, but my black cloud would make anyone nervous, let alone my husband.
Morgan begged me to stay home this year, but I only have one rule in our marriage: I go where you go.
It’s a decision that ruins us.
What happened broke me. I hurt the people I love, and I don’t know how to stop. That’s why I pushed Morgan away, and abandoned everyone else.
But Morgan won’t let me go so easily, and I love him too much to let him drown with me.
Why can’t he see that I’m not worth saving?
Morgan Morrissey
When I vowed until death do us part, I meant it. Cole can kick me out and break my heart, but I won’t let him throw away our marriage.
Somewhere inside the stranger I no longer recognize is the boy who chased away the darkness after my parents died. I’ll save him from himself, whether he wants me to or not.
Why else would I follow him onto the same one-hundred-foot crab boat I told him not to go on after he asked for a divorce?
But man is no match for the Bering Sea, and if we’re not careful, death will keep our vows before Cole can break them.
MOLLY The new Formula 1 season is right around the corner, and the breaking news of the hour? My dad is buying one of the teams on the grid. None other than the one team that’s home to the paddock bad boy, Peter Centimo. A man I should stay clear of, but our chemistry alone is making that harder by the day as I get the feeling there is more to the man than what the world gets to see. PETER My goal for this season is simple: race hard and get back the championship title I lost last year. I’ve finally got a clean slate with a brand new owner for our team. The only problem? His daughter is every temptation wrapped into one beautiful package that is off-limits to me.
In 1728, Freyja escapes a violent marriage with the help of her brother, James. Her husband, Caleb, is no ordinary vampire. A witch of formidable power, he is a feared member of the Brethren. Patient, merciless, and relentless. He will never forgive her betrayal. When Caleb finally finds her, his punishment is worse than death: a century meant to break her will and remind her exactly who she belongs to. Her escape comes from the last place she expects. A human named Nicholas rescues her, and she discovers something she thought she had lost forever: hope. Nicholas is human, mortal, and utterly forbidden. Caleb will never allow another man to claim what he believes is his. But Caleb is not the only one watching her. Another has begun to take interest in her power, and a woman with the gift of fire may be the most dangerous prize of all. Now Freyja must decide whether to run again or finally stand and fight.
Seventeen-year-old Emma has been on the run her whole life. Born Gifted, with a powerful connection to Winter, she has dedicated her life to avoiding the Institute, the worldwide organization that oversees all who are born Blessed with powers. When Emma is forced to join the Institute, she's eager to test her warrior prowess but reluctant to use her power to defend an organization she's been taught to hate. Separating the Gifted from their families, the Institute protects the world against Cursed creatures, those born with an insatiable hunger to devour the energy of all Gifted. While patrolling the Institute borders, Emma encounters Dimitri, a young Cursed man unlike anyone she’s ever met. Dimitri’s full control of his hunger is not nearly as shocking as his unfathomable connection to her. But when the Institute is attacked by mysterious forces, every long-held conviction and belief will need to be called into question, and its members must turn to those they have labeled as traitors to save them all. Can Emma prevent a war, or will the world fall to chaos?
It's the year 2000, and sixteen-year-old Indi Brooks is seeing things that aren't there... at least not there right now. Indi has always had anemoia: nostalgia for a time period before she was born. But when visions of the past begin invading her waking life, she starts to realize something unexplainable is happening. She’s actually seeing history. At first it's just a flicker she can explain away, a sudden brief flash of a room that isn't hers. Then the visions start dragging her under completely, dropping her into moments she couldn't have witnessed and shouldn't be able to see. Moments that once shaped the world: events whispered about in rumors or buried completely. She doesn't know how to control the ability, why it's happening, or why it's her. And she definitely doesn't know why what she sees keeps contradicting everything she's been taught. But once some doors open, they can't be closed. No matter how desperately she might want them to. Question everything you know about the past.
When sixteen-year-old Zach White takes a job at a coffee shop in the quiet town of Arcanville, he’s hoping to reconnect with the hometown he left behind at age seven. What he finds instead is a dead boy’s diary. Sutton Bradford—once Zach’s childhood friend—has just been found at the river bridge, his death ruled a suicide. But the spiral notebook hidden in the coffee shop stockroom tells a different story: cryptic notes about a secret committee, a ranked list of the town’s best and brightest, mounting pressure, and a mystery program no outsider is meant to know about. As Zach follows Sutton’s trail deeper into Arcanville’s shadows, he begins to see what no one is supposed to see: that behind the manicured lawns and wealthy families, this town is operated by a centuries-old organization known as the League of Delphi, and every teenager in Arcanville is part of their plan. His only ally is Ashley, a girl dismissed by everyone around her as troubled, but possessed of an instinct for truth that no one has ever wanted to acknowledge. Together they push toward answers that could unravel everything and make them both targets.
Riley Morgan would rather be anywhere than boarding a weeklong luxury cruise to the Bahamas with her entire extended family. The Morgans are your typical old-money southern family. Nothing less than perfection is accepted.
A freelance travel journalist used to traveling alone, Riley is tired of trying to live up to her family’s pretentious southern expectations to uphold the Morgan family's reputation. All she wants to do is reconnect with her three favorite cousins and maybe flirt with Carson, the handsome bartender.
But when a hurricane blows the cruise ship off course, the ship comes to a halt on an isolated island in the Bermuda Triangle.
Days later, 22 survivors are rescued, including Riley. Now back on solid ground, she must deal with the aftermath. With the support of her cousins and Carson, who quickly became more than just a vacation fling, Riley must try to come to terms with the trauma she endured. The Triangle didn’t break her, but the truth might.
When armed assailants storm a Nuevas Montañas hospital to finish what they started, Deputy Rick Hunter is shot protecting the woman in the bed beside him — and finds himself at the center of an investigation far larger than a single act of violence.
She survived because they made mistakes. So they tried something else: they made her disappear. Her name erased, her records rewritten, her life reduced to a digital silence designed to leave no trace. Now Hunter has to keep her alive long enough to understand what, and who, she's evidence of.
What follows is a widening investigation into human trafficking, coordinated cyber frames, and an organization that doesn't just kill its victims. It deletes them. No records. No witnesses. No survivors.
The deeper they go, the more they uncover a system built not to be exposed but to outlast the people trying to expose it. The man at the top has no name in the files. The trail dead-ends in bureaucratic noise. Every official statement about the case being "dismantled" is a careful lie.
Clem has always survived by becoming whoever people need her to be. A liar, a scam artist, a woman one step ahead of consequences. Her sister Vicky couldn’t be more different. Chronically ill and increasingly isolated, Vicky lives at the mercy of her own body. So when the messages begin, when strange gifts arrive, when people start to follow her in the street, she has no choice but to face it all. And as she does, her own lies start to unravel. Because she’s not as innocent as Clem thinks she is. And she doesn’t need protecting. Someone knows the truth about the sisters—what they’ve done, what they’ve hidden, and the kind of people they really are. Because some truths don’t set people free. They destroy them.
Every morning begins at 7:00 AM. Every mistake resets. Every pain returns.
Kaito wakes into the same day again and again—alone, exhausted, and one fragment away from breaking. But the loop is changing. Cracks ripple through reality. Faces he barely remembers begin calling his name. And every reset pulls him closer to the people whose tragedies he was never meant to witness: a bullied boy, a grieving mother, an old man dying with regret, a child lost between moments.
Each life he enters reveals another fracture. Each fragment exposes another truth. And every truth brings him closer to the one question he has spent his whole life avoiding:
What happens when the loop finally reaches him?
As memory and identity unravel, Kaito must confront the existence he has been running from. The day will not save him. No one is coming. Yet somewhere between the resets—between the broken people and the broken reflections—something waits for him that feels impossibly real.
A way out. A choice. A voice that whispers, “You don’t have to disappear.”
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