They were told it was routine. Seventeen teenagers from seven countries. Different cities, different lives, one needle, administered in the kind of clean, credentialed clinic that governments endorsed and parents trusted. They went home. They went to sleep. They woke up different. Myra Sanches was never supposed to be at the center of anything. Seventeen, sharp-tongued, and quietly devastating to anyone who underestimated her, she had already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime when the wrong door opened, and she walked through it. What happened to her body after the injection was not a gift. It was not a blessing. It was evidence of a plan that predated her by more than a decade, of a corporation that decided what she was for before she was old enough to decide anything for herself, of a facility beneath a building that did not appear on any public record, where teenagers from six other countries were waiting. The lights were always on, and no one was coming. No one, that is, except them. The Onyx Project is a dark, character-driven sci-fi novel about identity, power, and what it means to be called a weapon when all you have ever wanted is to be a person. It does not flinch from its casualties. It does not promise that survival means safety. It is told across five parts, in a building with no windows, by people who found their way out of it anyway. No one is coming to save them. So they will have to save themselves. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

Ada Lace has loved Ryan Sugar for as long as she can remember. Growing up together, Ada, the nerdy girl, kept her feelings hidden while watching Ryan Sugar, charming and outgoing, surrounded by admirers. His family's café was her haven, and it was her love for Ryan that led her to a lifelong sweet tooth... and eventually, her first cavity. 🦷 Now almost thirty, Ada is a successful electrical engineer with a spotless résumé and a love life full of holes. Just as she starts to wonder whether if she's meant to be alone forever, Garfield Miles, a handsome, gentle dentist, moves into her apartment building. For the first time, Ada is forced to confront the possibility of letting go of her one-sided love and opening her heart to someone new. #nanowatt2026 #thenanowatt #TNW2026 #wattys2026 #Ambys2026

Grief makes people do stupid things. Like fall for the boy who watched you break on the school roof. ~•~•~ When Persephone Adeola meets the new transfer student, Aren Naoki Toussaint, she fixates on him instantly. Aren is beautiful in a way that feels dangerous: cold, guarded, impossible to read - everything Sephy should stay away from. But when she's near him, the ghosts go quiet. For the first time since the accident, she can breathe. What she doesn't know is Aren is carrying his own grief - the kind that doesn't get spoken about. The kind that keeps its distance. And the closer Sephy gets, the more the truth behind his silence begins to surface-one that threatens to break what they are together. As obsession blurs into something real, Sephy must confront the pain she's been running from, and Aren must decide whether to let her in-or lose her to the truth he cannot face. Because the thing about almosts? They don't fade. They burn. #1 in Blackfemalelead (01/01/2026) #1 in NAromance (14/01/2026) #12 in Interracialromance (14/01/2026) #19 in denial (14/01/2026) [i do not own the picture in the cover.]

Every six months, the tenant living on the fifth floor vanishes. No warnings. No witnesses. Just a locked door and a name that fades from memory. When it's Lavanya's turn, she says she doesn't believe the stories. Until she finds a diary hidden deep in the wall, its pages filled with the lives of people who once lived where she does now. Each entry is colder than the last. Each one written with impossible detail. As the sixth month draws closer, her worries spike. The only thought troubling her is this : "Will the next name be mine?"

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Champion City, one of the greatest hotspots for superheroes and supervillains ever since thirty years ago, when super-powered individuals started to appear thanks to the rare genetic trait known as the S-Genome. So, who am I? A hero? A villain? Nope! Other than your lovely narrator, I'm unfortunately just a simple henchman. A super awesome, amazing, incredible... ...powerless grunt. At the bottom of the ladder, every day I work low-level criminal jobs for the high-powered supervillains of this city. To the world, I'm a worthless nobody. So, with that in mind, I have to ask. Why have these superheroes and supervillains become so extremely obsessed over me? Well, it all started with one wrong heist... I hope you're ready for a story of quips, obsessive love, action, comedy, villainy, and a lot of trying to stay alive! #1 henchmen - 11/7/2023 #1 supervillain - 11/10/2023 #1 yandere - 11/13/2023 #1 harem - 11/15/2023 #1 superpowers - 11/20/2023 #1 action-adventure - 12/16/2023 #1 comics - 1/29/2024 #1 hero - 2/18/2024 #1 super - 6/17/2026 #1 of Top 10 in US - 11/17/2023

Humankind has found the stars - and forgotten the coordinates of their home planet. Then Hana does the impossible and gets pregnant. Her mother's predictions ringing in her ears, she sets out to find humanity's lost cradle. She only has a myth to guide her and a young librarian, half human, half Shozien, to watch her back. Oh, and there's *Strawberry Mollusk*, a clapped-out cargo ship painted an impossible pink and ALI, the snotty on-board AI. Even all taken together the gang isn't enough to survive a journey across a hostile galaxy filled with nasty surprises. As if that weren't enough, an alien secret agent is coming after them...

Nicholas Mason is a fairly average teenager from the small town of Aberdeen, Washington, in his final year of high school. When an earthquake awakens him at a senior party he attends with his two closest friends, they find themselves face-to-face with a powerful starship created by an ancient civilization - a Caveship. Taken aboard against their will, Nicholas and his friends find themselves traveling farther and farther away from Earth, while the starship automatically pilots itself toward some unknown destination. Now, Nicholas and the ragtag group of teenagers must work together to find a way back home, facing incredible dangers on strange alien worlds, all while at the mercy of a starship hellbent on reaching its target. Ranked #1 in 'Space' (November 2018) Ranked #2 in 'Action' (November 2018) Copyright © 2018 by E. R. Maloza. All rights reserved.

In 2045, Psychwatch treats the mentally ill or cages them. Margo wants to bring empathy to every patient but a killer pushes her, and the system, to the limits ***** In a dark future, more than a third of the United States population suffers from mental illness and violent crime is on the rise. In response, Psychwatch is formed - an organization intended to combine mental healthcare and law enforcement - creating monitored areas and neglected ones known as the Psycho Slums. Margo Sandoval is the latest recruit to Psychwatch, bringing a new level of empathy to the controversial agency known for its unforgiving methods. Margo spends her days as an Empath treating everyone possible, until the arrival of a new serial killer upends her life and forces her to confront the evils of the human mind and the system that claims to be the solution.