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Blake Smith has two great loves: eating chicken tenders and binging web novels. But his basement-dwelling existence is turned upside down when he downloads a mysterious text file called the Celestial Manual 2.0, and accidentally attracts the attention of the CIA. When a federal agent shows up...

Jameson Carter came home early from deployment, thinking distance was the hardest part of war. He was wrong. One night. One open door. One betrayal that shatters everything he believed awaited him. With his marriage in ruins and his trust destroyed, Jameson struggles to find himself without the uniform, without the life he fought to return to. Anger shields him. Isolation protects him. Love is no longer an option, just another risk he won’t take.

#1 Best Selling NovelThirteen months ago, the sky filled with shrieking alien predators—and humanity fell in a matter of days. Cities were abandoned. Nations collapsed. The daylight became a death sentence. Now, the last survivors hide in the underground tunnels beneath Los Angeles, emerging only under cover of darkness to scavenge, fight, and cling to what little hope remains. Above them, the creatures rule the surface—hunting, breeding, and turning human bodies into hosts for something far worse.

In the remote village of Nareth, survival depends on silence. The Empire’s Purges have taught its people to lower their eyes, mind their work, and never draw attention—especially not to the Gifted. Those born with strange abilities are branded as curses, hunted down, and burned in the name of order. Tarin has spent his life pretending he is ordinary. By day, he is a blacksmith’s son, shaping iron beside his father and keeping his head down. By night, he battles a dangerous secret: a living fire that stirs in his blood, whispering, waiting.

When a correctional officer is brutally murdered on duty, his death unleashes a storm of guilt and grief for the devastated souls left to confront relentless haunting rising from the wreckage of their lives.