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The world is in ruins. Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface, making even simple survival an ordeal. The only escape from the deadly climate is underground — but that brings its own disasters: monstrous machines lurking in the depths, land that shifts like contraption more than rock, and only demigods powerful enough to travel deeper. When an expedition into the far uncharted north goes terribly wrong, Keith Winterscar and his father are trapped together in a desperate fight for survival. Stumbling upon an ancient war of titanic scale, the two must set aside their differences while they struggle against gods, legends, and the grand secrets of the realm that lies below.

Kit Morris is a psychic conman who has just been thrown in MPD jail alongside magic-wielding serial killers. According to Agent Lienna Shen, he absolutely deserved it. But her hardass attitude isn't enough to bring down Kit's former best friend, who is days away from unleashing untold horrors — or possibly just stealing something — upon the city. That's why Kit just offered himself as Lienna's temporary new partner to thwart his ex-accomplice. Meet MagiPol's most unlikely duo in a hilarious series set in The Guild Codex world.

On the world of Marconen, your first Break determines the trajectory of your life. Calvin chose magic — and without proper schooling or a mentor, he is dragged by fate across the planet, blending different schools of magic and powerful abilities into something entirely new. A deeper secret hides behind his success: why was he born an exile? Why is his System so strange, and why does it keep talking to him? As time marches on, something evil grows in power across the ocean.

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game — it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down Warcross players who bet on the game illegally. To make some quick cash, she hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships — only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation. Instead of being arrested, she gets a call from the game's creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka: he needs a spy inside this year's tournament to uncover a security problem. Whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune, Emika soon uncovers a sinister plot with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.

Odd Thomas is a young fry cook from a small California desert town with an extraordinary ability: he can communicate with the dead. The silent souls who seek him out sometimes want justice, and their tips occasionally help him prevent crimes. But when a stranger arrives in Pico Mundo accompanied by a horde of ominous shades heralding imminent catastrophe, Odd and his soul mate Stormy Llewellyn must race against time to prevent a mass tragedy. His journey takes him across the American West and beyond, facing evil both human and inexplicable, as his destiny slowly reveals itself.

Ten years ago, the planet Jupiter vanished from the night sky. That same day, the Jovians announced their presence on Earth by gifting magical powers to teenage girls. Now they're more selective, choosing only adult women to join their war as magical girls and witches. Rachel has always been obsessed with magical girls, and that obsession became all-consuming when she learned her own roommate Sophia is secretly Strix Striga, one of the most powerful magical girls in North America. Sophia's double life leaves no time for Rachel — and the witches she fights get all the attention Rachel desperately craves. Now Rachel is a witch herself, with the Jovians taking a special interest in her. With their guidance and her own burning drive, she'll grow her power until she's ready to challenge the invincible Striga — and then Sophia will finally be hers.

In a world of lightless skies and endless secrets, humanity endures as a vigil of light against eternal darkness. Under the Illuminated King and the Reflected Council, a veteran explorer assembles an expedition to the far east — a place no sane man would go — because Jonathan Heights claims to have seen sunlight. Sunlight is a laughable myth, but he will not be stopped. Wonders and horrors both lie between the human lands and his goal: long-forgotten things that could not be recorded on any map. As crown agents and underworld figures join Jonathan aboard the airship Endeavor, motives remain uncertain and the truth stays shrouded.

Christopher Snow has a rare genetic disorder — xeroderma pigmentosum — that forces him to live entirely in darkness, making the night his natural element in the small California coastal town of Moonlight Bay. When his father dies under mysterious circumstances, Chris stumbles onto a terrifying conspiracy that runs deeper than anyone in town wants to admit.

Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in near-future South Africa, realizes something is terribly wrong on the network. Children — including her own brother Stephen — have logged into the net and cannot escape. Every clue points toward a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but every investigator who gets close ends up dead.

The war ended, but the world didn't. For years, the lands burned in the wars of the White Queen, a sorceress and tyrant whose mad ambition brought ruin to all she touched. Now she is dead, but all that remains has been bled dry — charred towns lie hollow, fields return to the wild, and quiet shadows settle where folk once made their homes. Through this darkness, the young wizard Martimeos walks broken roads following the fading trail of his brother, who marched west to fight in the Queen's War and never returned. On his journey he must barter with demons, trade riddles with fae, and contend with the wild witch Elyse, a fellow practitioner with secrets of her own. At last the road brings him to Silverfish, a cursed village whose future has been stolen. His search will lead him to the horror at the heart of Silverfish's tragedy — and the truth behind his brother's fate.

Michael is a gamer who spends almost more time on the VirtNet than in the real world — a total-immersion virtual reality that's equal parts playground and addiction. But when reports emerge of a hacker holding players hostage inside the VirtNet, leaving victims brain-dead, the government comes looking for someone who can fight back. They've been watching Michael. But going off-grid means venturing into back alleys of the system human eyes have never seen — and risking the line between game and reality blurring forever.

Magic tears through an unsuspecting Earth, bringing mythology and monsters to life — and giving humanity a chance to prove their mettle. All Calum Green wants is to reach what remains of his family. Ninety miles of the Scottish Highlands stand between him and his home in coastal Oban — and he doesn't want to make that trek with his cheating ex-girlfriend's bestie at his side. Eilidh MacIntosh has always disliked Calum, and she's now armed with a bloody claymore on top of her disdain. But the ascension directive is clear: humans cannot survive this new world alone. With Calum's magic and their combined bad luck, the unlikely duo accidentally trigger a rare ascension quest: to find the perpetrator of a dangerous, corrupt magic that could make all of humanity an endangered species.

Addison Goodheart was born in an isolated home surrounded by deep forest, kept secret from everyone but his mother — who barely accepts him. Only in the woods, among wildlife, is Addison truly welcome. Until the day terror arrives, radically and forever changing his life. He lives in solitude beneath a city, an exile that society will destroy if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will harm her if she is ever found. Something more than chance — and nothing less than destiny — has brought them together as the world's hour of reckoning approaches.

Detective John Calvino comes away from interviewing 14-year-old sadistic killer Billy Lucas with a terrible sense of dread — and a feeling that somehow the boy has come home with him. That haunted feeling grows in the weeks that follow. When another killing spree begins, Calvino becomes convinced his own family will be the next victims. Billy might be safely locked up — but something is stalking the night.

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.

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.

Orphaned as a teenager and later saved by Duke Kinson, Morgan Lovecraft found a new life in the world of Dunnishire — until the day he turned sixteen and discovered he had a death affinity and was a necromancer. The old prejudices ran deep, and Morgan went from having friends to being an outcast all over again. Hoping his scholarship to the Mages Academy will be a new turning point, Morgan finds himself challenged to an honor duel on his first day of classes. Making mortal enemies in five minutes, then being asked by the duchy to speak to the dead, investigate assassination plots, and root out corruption — the former Earth gamer finds himself center stage as The Duchy's Necromancer.

For allegedly average high-schooler Leonard Dunning, the rhetorical question of how you'd react to finding yourself in a world running on tropes and clichés became uncomfortably real. He woke up on a strangely pristine island country in the middle of the Atlantic — without memories, surrounded by countless characterless placeholders, with a classic harem protagonist and his love interests for friends. As he investigates the rules governing the world and works to sabotage the harem tropes, his outside-context knowledge, unique abilities, and talent for causing trouble draw the attention of the world's nebulous narrative.

When the system warned the world it was coming a week in advance, Alex couldn't have been more excited. In college for a degree he didn't care about to get a job he didn't want, the promise of a world where magic and challenge awaited — even at the potential cost of death — was the best news he could have imagined. He wasn't ready for his only friend to shove him through a portal into hell the moment the apocalypse started. Instead of hunting rabbits and farming wolves, Alex finds himself stranded in a warped world where even the bugs are stronger than he is. Even with a summoner class that gains the powers of its monsters, most people would have died. Alex didn't get the memo. Where others saw certain death, he found opportunity.

"Return to Periapt" was an internet rumor — a creepypasta about a cursed computer game hidden on an old CD-ROM that could appear in the strangest places. The game followed explorers on a wild continent of magic beasts, wagon trains, and deadly trails. Those who played long enough said it felt real. They said that if you played long enough, it actually became real. Hollis Hood knew it was no rumor. He knew why people called it cursed, and he knew about the oath that let you leave your world behind — because he had played the game as a kid, and when it offered him an escape, he said no. A choice that haunted him for fifteen years. This time, he arrived prepared: trained, planned, shaped by fifteen years of purpose. But the starting town was abandoned, plagued by a fog that consumes all caught in its wake. The adventure hadn't waited for him.