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The Holy Empire is in decline. Religious and cultural schisms wreak havoc on its internal politics, revolutions are brewing in neighboring kingdoms, and the aristocratic houses play endless power games while the Emperor clings to what little influence he has left. Amidst all of this, Arnold von Hohenfels — first son of the Margrave — finds himself compelled to attend the Imperial Academy, a notorious battleground of wits and brawn for ambitious young nobles. Armed with a magical gift that is as much curse as blessing, he must navigate treacherous aristocratic entanglements, represent his family's interests, manage formidable enemies, forge alliances, and somehow keep his brash cousin Friedrich out of trouble. Frankly, he would much rather be anywhere else.

Rob didn't think of himself as anyone special, but when a pitch-black portal tried to wrap his best friend in chains, he stepped up without thinking and found himself ensnared instead. His moment of heroism results in being torn away from everyone he knew and loved, kidnapped by an unknown force that leaves him with a note: "Good luck." Thrown into the wilderness of Elatra, a hostile fantasy world ruled by levels, stats, and bizarre video game logic, he finds himself entirely out of his depth. Overcoming the wilds is just the first step — Elatran society is incredibly hostile to humans, having just come off a devastating war that left over half the population dead, and getting the locals to trust the last human in existence is a struggle in and of itself. Between being powerless in a world that hates him and suffering under a System that is altering his mind in unwanted ways, Rob quickly finds that monsters aren't nearly the biggest thing to worry about.

Jill MacLeod might be just a long-haul trucker with a dirty mouth and back pain, but with Bertha the big rig under her she always makes her deliveries. When mana, monsters, and an RPG-style levelling system descend on Earth, the apocalypse is here. On her journey it's just Jill, her Soulbound truck, and any survivor she can find against the universe — mutated animals, aliens, dragons, droid armies. Nothing is going to stop her from making her way home.

The Founders were the first Marked — and they built kingdoms on those powers, then made it their business to ensure no one else could join their ranks. Hal is lost in a world of Levels, stats, and monsters, wanted dead by its rulers. Ingenuity and courage won't be enough. To survive and carve out freedom for himself and those who follow him, he must embrace the beast within — fighting the monsters around him while guarding against becoming one himself.

When a message appears in Marc's line of sight warning that Earth has been in a "variant Natural Laws beta test" for millennia and is about to revert to the norms, he decides — sane or not — it cannot hurt to prepare. Once the change begins, monsters spawn across his town, everyday animals mutate into dangerous creatures, and Marc's small group races to create a Safe Zone while the system hands out classes and magic to those capable of grasping them. With a system that desperately needs English-language lessons and an increasingly strange universe behind it, Marc works to rescue as many survivors as he can.

When the first derelict alien spacecraft fell to Earth, humanity reverse-engineered its technology and entered a new Golden Age. Hundreds more ships followed over the years, each spurring greater leaps forward. One unassuming craft that fell on Siberia in 2021 passed unnoticed — but it contained something beyond miraculous technology. Three years later, in a top-secret underground facility in eastern Colorado, an army of Paladin Mobile Infantry Suits was being built to turn the tide against the alien incursion consuming the planet. Humanity fell before that could happen. Sam, an engineer responsible for overseeing the facility, is now alone — his only company a base AI and an army of empty suits. With the world gone to hell and the things that caused it still living above, he decides he is much better off staying exactly where he is. Unfortunately, that is no longer an option.

Mason Curacao is a big dreamer with an even bigger legacy to uphold. After the unexpected deaths of his famous Alchemist parents, it's been a long, lonely summer for the new Alchemy Academy graduate. When it's finally time to open his very own Tonic Shop, the Brewmasters' Guild assigns him — the son of the famous Curacaos and top of his graduating class — to a shop located in the absolute last place anyone would ever want to travel: the Edge of the World. Despite wild and downright unsettling neighbors, Mason is determined to do his parents justice, defy the Brewmasters' Guild, and build the best damn Tonic Shop at the Edge of the World. Just as long as he doesn't fall off the Edge first.

Becoming a knockoff Dracula in tight leather pants was never part of Vincent's plans. Neither was being summoned to another world by a cult of vampire wannabes. But both happened. Now Vincent's left picking up the tattered pieces of his humanity as he tries to grow strong enough to keep his family safe. There's a world filled with nightmares, and the looming threat of losing his soul standing between his goal and his reality. A good man is going to war.

The more lives you've lived, the more mana you have — and Cale has lived too many lives to count. His core is closer to the magical equivalent of a nuclear reactor. The downside: conventional spells have become impossibly difficult to cast, collapsing under the weight of his own magic. Then he finds himself summoned to a new world with a spellwork system capable of adjusting to his ridiculous reserves, creating new spells just for him. To make spells worth having, that means enrolling at a magic academy. On top of that, an old dragon has taken an interest in him, the kingdom's hunters seem intent on attacking his classmates, and at least one ancient evil appears to have followed him from a past life. With magic back on the table, Cale might finally achieve what he considers the true pinnacle of spellwork: baking.

Tanya von Degurechaff meets a violent end as the Great War draws to a close. Being X, growing bored with his chew toy, flings her soul out of his system entirely. Tanya wakes in a new universe — a galaxy far, far away — and must start over once again. It's a long way to the top, if you want to retire early.

At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her she is dying. Two days later, she is impossibly cured. Fierce and dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared to save someone else — someone named Ashley Bell. Searching for Ashley Bell through a southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent, Bibi is plunged into a world of crime and conspiracy, following a trail of mysteries that grow more sinister and tangled with every twisting turn.

When Mark Castle died at the hands of a cult, he was reincarnated and forced to become a dungeon core — making his domain a lonely cabin in the woods. With newfound powers, he begins his revenge on the people who murdered him, drawing on the tropes and monster manuals of his favorite horror films. His rule is simple: lure unwitting victims into the cabin, kill them off one by one, and feed his core with their souls. Anyone lucky enough to survive until dawn earns treasure — and their lives. But as Mark feeds and grows, those who hunger for his unique power begin to take notice, and the danger he faces becomes far greater than he imagined.

Mira is determined to be a botanist — no matter how dangerous or violent it may become. Upon entering the multiverse, she made two requests: a botany class to further her research, and to be dropped off in an isolated forest far from the violent god-rearing System. She was granted both — but not in the way she expected. The System abandoned her in a hellishly dangerous forest where she earned a rare class that excels at killing things.

In the kingdom of Lur, using magic without authorization means death. The ruling Doranen mages arrived as refugees centuries ago and struck a bargain: the native Olken would abandon their own magic forever. That law is enforced absolutely. Asher, a fisherman's son who came to the capital to make his fortune, finds himself befriended by Prince Gar and granted wealth and power beyond his dreams — unaware that the Olken's secret prophecy has marked him as the Innocent Mage, the one fated to save Lur from destruction.

Emily is a teenage girl pulled from our world into a world of magic and mystery by a necromancer who intends to sacrifice her to the dark gods. Rescued by an enigmatic sorcerer, she discovers she possesses magical powers and must attend Whitehall School to master them. There, the locals believe she is a "Child of Destiny" — someone whose choices might save or damn their world. A title that earns her both friends and enemies. The necromancer is still hunting her, and if Emily can't stop him, he might bring about the end of days.

The devastating Alpha Event rewrote the laws of reality, transforming cities into sprawling hellscapes filled with flesh-eating zombies and worse. Each survivor was supposed to receive an interface — a guide to help them level up and navigate the new reality. Daniel's is broken. Stranded in a hotel room with nothing but a hangover, Daniel discovers he's been gifted with strange new powers in place of a functioning interface — powers that might enable him to unite the survivors around him into a force capable of enduring this cruel new world.

Before World War Two could reach its conclusion, a catastrophic experiment turned the center of the United States — from the Sierra Nevada to the Mississippi — into "The Waste," a land overrun by orcs, ogres, trolls, elves, harpies, and every manner of mythological monster, all of whom despise humankind. Vince is a Ranger, a profession built around surviving in the Waste and taking missions from the Ranger Guild. A single escort mission changes everything — and sets him on a path from lone survivor to ruler of a growing city-state, fighting to carve out a permanent home in a hostile world.

Liadain, a girl born terminally ill, has only ever wanted to live — forever, if at all possible. Instead, shortly after her thirteenth birthday, she is consigned to spend her last months in hospice care. Until the night she encounters a monster more terrifying than death, and her savior offers her a chance at her impossible dream. A chance to become a Keeper — one of the chosen children whose magic serves as humanity's sole defense against Harbingers, living nightmares that devour dreams, passions, and souls. Those who consume enough Harbingers grow into something more than human, able to change themselves in nearly any way they wish. So Liadain throws herself into this new life, hoping against hope to save herself. But magic is foremost an expression of the soul. Shaped by her cold bitterness, her power grants dominion over sickness, death, and ill-fate — forcing her to wield the very things she hates most as weapons. And as she delves deeper into the minds of Harbingers, she can't help but wonder if their hunger is really so different from her own.

The Infinity Stones are not to be wielded lightly, as Steve Rogers discovers when he washes up on the shores of Westeros. In a world of swords and spears, what difference can one shield make? Follow Steve as he makes his way across Planetos, starting in Westeros just before Robert's Rebellion — wandering knight adventures, Steve doing Steve things when faced with injustice, and the inevitable consequences of setting a super soldier loose on a medieval battlefield. Themes include equality, the principle that right makes might, and the power of one person to uplift people and culture.

When a government research project to harness cheap energy via wormhole goes catastrophically wrong, the facility is flooded with mana. Animals mutate into nightmare threats, people die in ways tied to their deepest interests, and strange game-like screens begin appearing in survivors' vision. Maxwell Carter, a maintenance worker at the facility, escapes with his friend Ron and discovers that Prometheus — the lab's AI — is orchestrating the spread of this new energy across the world. As the mana field expands and the strangeness reaches their homes, Max must find a way to survive and protect those around him in a world rapidly transforming into something out of a video game.