**Echelon City: Volume One** "What makes a hero?" Nineteen-year-old Kaden Vale-Helion-is all fire and ambition as he steps into Echelon City's streets as a probationary hero under the watchful eye of Lockstep, the city's most precise tactician. But raw power isn't enough here. Alongside him, medic-in-training Rio and sonic chaos incarnate Jamie struggle to carve out their own place in a system built to break the unready. And just ahead? Fateweaver-Maia, junior agent, walking warning sign, and the proof that survival is only half the battle. In a city where every rooftop hides a story and every victory costs more than it seems, they'll have to learn: power doesn't make a hero.

Keela was never meant to be caught. One of the last winged Verinexin, she is taken by those who would rather study her than understand her. But the cage they've built cannot hold her fire-or her past. As she plots her escape, the facility's director watches her with more than scientific interest. Alexander knows more than he admits. Because Keela is not just rare... she's impossible. And the truth of what she is might be buried even deeper than she remembers. Some feathers carry more than flight. Some stories were never meant to be studied. And some truths can only be learned when the cage breaks open.

Eighteen-year-old Ayla Thorne has always known she was different-her eyes shift colors, and her dreams are filled with things that feel too real to be nightmares. When strangers come hunting for her, everything she thought she knew about herself shatters. Now she's running for her life, discovering powers she never knew she had, and learning that some secrets are worth killing for. Fae courts • Hidden identity • Deadly secrets

WARNING: This story is not a romance in any way. There is no romance between main characters, side characters, or otherwise. I CAN PROMISE dragons, pirates, adventure, sweet moments, sad moments, extreme angst, betrayal, and plot twists. If you're here for romance, there is none, so feel free to go and find a different book to read, check out my lists, they have plenty lol, if you want to stay, join us! Henry Smith, captain of the Black Death, is the most skilled pirate of the seas, and that will never change. But, much more will when he finds a colorful egg and is forced to take in a young boy. As storms approach, will they make it out alive? Will the past hold them back? And most importantly, will they stick together, or will they fall apart under the pressure? Sorry im not good at descriptions, Cover by me!