The Hercules Poirot of the 22nd century is here! Follow the adventures of Cy Barbados, a private investigator, as he solves mysterious murders in the floating mansions of the rich, in the darkest corners of a futuristic city - even on trains going across the land forever changed by a nuclear war! New chapters every Wednesday and Sunday! -- Excerpt: "I'm sorry for- for stealing you like this for- for a moment," Jenkins stuttered; he reached into his pocket and presented a small vial; "I found this among doctor Kostopoulos's cosmetics!" he announced. Barbados took the vial from the butler's hand and studied it carefully. It was very simple, transparent with stains from dark oil; small, the size of a thumb, no more. "Do you often go through your master's guest's personal belongings, Jenkins?" the detective asked. The butler turned pale; pure whiteness was slowly becoming more and more his natural colour. "I- I just wanted to help..." "And you helped indeed!" Barbados laughed and patted the butler on his shoulder; "It could be an essential clue and evidence in this case!" "Really?" asked the butler, somewhat unsure, but proud of himself. No. Just a complication, the detective thought. "Of course!" he said. A lie, he thought. "I'm happy I could help, Mr Barbados." "Naturally. You're a good man, Jenkins. Now leave me for a moment, please. I need to study this new evidence in peace..."

When Piper discovers she has hidden cybernetic implants, she is inducted into the secretive AmpCore Academy to master incredible gifts, in a place where the impossible and possible collide... WINNER IN THE 2024 WATTY AWARDS AND GRAND FAVOURITE IN THE 2024 AMBYS * || WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST? || Hadrian is a city split in two. One side lives under the iron rule of competing tech corporations. The other is a wasteland, destroyed in a schism between human and artificial intelligence, stalked by code-wraiths, mad AIs and berserk cyborg abominations. When streetkid Piper is attacked by a rogue codewraith from Hadrian South, she discovers that she has hidden implants that no normal person should possess. Not willing to tolerate such an anomaly, the corporate overlords of Hadrian rip Piper out of her life and send her to the secluded AmpCore Academy, where she is set on a new path, whether she likes it or not. At the academy it quickly becomes clear that the wraith attack was no accident. Someone, somewhere, tried to murder her. Plunging into the murky world of corporate politics, academy cliques and gangland wars, Piper has to find out who wanted her dead, and stop them before they try again. || AmpCore: Book 1 || - [COMPLETED] *NB. this story contains strong language.

People in the city of Straga are dying. Rumor is spreading that Olesya Volinski--the daughter of a confessed witch--is responsible. She isn't responsible. She's just another victim. Waking up in a forest in the dead of winter soaked in her own blood was not how Olesya planned to begin her 25th year. Now she's in a race against time and the Church to find the true culprit behind the murders, including her own. When a stranger appears, claiming he knows her and what happened to her, Olesya finds herself pulled into a world of vicious magic and lovely monsters. If she can't find the culprit, she risks catapulting Straga into a full-fledged witchhunt. That, she doesn't think she'll survive.

||2022 WATTYS WINNER|| A scholar boy who denies the existence of elemental magic. A hidden princess who can control all seven elements. A mystical quill capable of rewriting both of their destinies. In the realm of Rainier where magic should no longer exist, eighteen-year-old Sebastian d'Aximos, a nobody scholar from an insignificant fishing village, finds himself accused by the Salvera Crown for using forgotten elemental magic to murder his own mother. There exists one problem with the Crown's theory, however; magic resides only in the Scribal legends about the Authors of Old, a rare race of humans who controlled the seven elements by weaving elemental threads into storybooks called Monvertas. But the Monvertas are myths; they have never been real. Yet, when Sebastian's soul cries out to the hidden heir of Rainier's Crown, Astrid Salvera, his beliefs in logic and facts are challenged. Because Astrid controls the seven elements, and she and her mother have worked to release magic back to their kingdom since it had been stolen by the enemy lands of Soleita two decades previously. Together, Sebastian and Astrid must work to find a mystical, hidden artifact: the Black Quill. A tool used by the original Author to unlock the Monverta and release its magical secrets. A tool that could redeem the realms of their world and reinstate magic. Ancient myths, prophecies of saviours and villains, and deadly trials by elements awaken to meet both Sebastian and Astrid as they work to unveil the secrets hidden from Rainier and learn the dark truths of each other. **Book 2 OUT NOW!**

| x5 ꜰᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇᴅ | ❝ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏ ɪꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴡᴏ ᴋɪɴɢᴅᴏᴍꜱ ᴡᴇɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴀʀ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴇᴀᴄʜ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ? ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ꜱɪᴅᴇ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄʜᴏᴏꜱᴇ? ❞ Ever since she was sold to the Kingdom of Racaea as a young child, Sabre has grown up on the castle grounds as a blacksmith's apprentice for the royal family. Through the heat and metal that she learnt to love, the sorrowful longing for her homelands still persisted in her heart. Now a war looms in the near future between the two kingdoms and her childhood friend, Prince Kayne, asks Sabre to pretend to be his queen so he can become the High Fae King. She's torn between the love that coils in her chest and the instinct that tells her what's right. Which side will she choose to fight for when everything she has come to know and cherish is on the line? Will she betray her friends? Or will she return to the kingdom she was born in? BOOK ONE - COMPLETE NEEDS HEAVY EDITING COVER GRAPHIC BY @8hhh03 | (@graphics8hhh03 on Fiverr) 2022 © -DeeIsDead-

Aeons once ruled the world. Now, their empire lies in ruin, and the survivors hide on the fringes of society. Nahlia is a librarian's apprentice who's obsessed with Aeon lore, scavenging for hints of their legendary power. But others are searching too, including the Templars who seek to hunt down the Aeon survivors. When the Templars attack her family, Nahlia is forced to infiltrate a secret academy and rise beyond everything she's ever known. https://davidmusk.com/books/aeonica-the-lost-redeemer

"The letter that follows was given to me by your father when he left you in my care, to keep safe until you were old enough to understand. Since you are reading this I passed away before I could explain myself, and for that I apologise - you deserved better." When Ellanor Skyward's aunt Lourelle suddenly dies, she leaves her niece a letter that will change Ellanor's life forever. The father she long thought dead is very much alive, and she knows him from her aunt's circle of friends. On a quest for answers, Ellanor moves in with her father, but what she finds is not at all what she was hoping for. "The Last Madam Skyward" is the first draft of a standalone novel. The story was originally expected to be a novella, but ended up longer than planned.