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Domenic is a sailor who wants nothing more than a life at sea. A brewing war between nations turns the already dangerous seas into something far more perilous, forcing him into an untenable position — one he escapes with his life, though at a greater cost he'll spend the rest of the story reckoning with. A story about the meaning and cost of both servitude and freedom.

Hump grew up believing his master was nothing but an ordinary hedge wizard. When the old man unexpectedly dies, however, his book of spells binds to Hump's soul. Now without a master, Hump sets off to find his place in the world, discover the secrets of magic, and understand the Book of Infinite Pages. Scorned by the gods, wizards can trust only their own wit and skill to survive. Lacking the godly gifts of the Chosen, Hump fights for something more immediate — if he wants to eat, he needs to work. And with a new dungeon opening in Bledsbury, where better for a young hedge wizard to earn some coin?

The apocalypse will be televised. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth collapses into a heap, transformed into a dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot that circles the entire globe. Only a few dare venture inside — and once you're in, you can't get out. Each level has a time limit. But this game isn't about strength or dexterity; it's about followers, views, and clout. Building an audience and killing those goblins with style. You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big. And if you have that 'it' factor, you may just find yourself with a following — and the loot boxes dropped by generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.

Portals from Overworld have appeared on Earth, and beings intent on conscripting humanity into the mysterious Trials have invaded. Earth is doomed. Jamie Sinclair, a young man with unique gifts, must find a way for his family and friends to survive Earth's destruction and build a new home in Overworld. The Trials are no game—and Jamie must wrestle with brutal challenges and powerful new magics while carrying the weight of humanity's survival.

In a world where all magical spells have been captured into cards, those who can build a deck have the most power. The most Arthur could ever hope for was to someday earn a trash-tier spell card. When fate grants him a legendary Master of Skills card, he's thrust into a world of opportunity and danger. To survive and grow strong, Arthur must learn skills — all the skills.

After a hard life cut short, Arthur is given another chance at happiness in a demon world. Here he finds solace in brewing tea, forging friendships, and living the tranquil life he never knew he needed. Along the way he builds a community with a mother-son sparrow-demon duo, a bulky infernal, and a captivating water elemental. For the first time in two lives, Arthur is finally finding out what life is really about.

Second chances are rarely earned and even rarer given. Follow a new life in a new world where anything is possible. The MC wakes up, stuck as a baby, needing to decide how she will live her new life. Let's see what future she can forge when hard work rewards her with status points and skill levels.

Yesterday Ben was a small-time criminal fleecing New York's upper class. Today he has a new face, a new name, and a new world to navigate. He thinks he might be able to use his skills in disarmament and deception to help people this time around. Maybe. Watching a medieval city guard fend off a ten-meter sentient slime blob crawling up from the sewers makes him reconsider his life choices. Tomorrow he needs to rescue a girl, steal a crown, join a guild, and — most importantly — convince an innkeeper to make a decent bacon and cheese omelette.

Through all of Linaria, no dungeon holds such a grip on the dreams of men as the Eternal Depths. Hundreds throw themselves against its trials each day. Dozens survive, walking away with power and wealth beyond their wildest dreams — until they go back for more. One way or another, they all eventually feed the Depths. Edmund Montgomery Ahab has sworn to destroy it. Underleveled, undertrained, and underprepared, Edmund steps into the maw of the world's greatest predator with a sword in his hand and vengeance on his mind. With every level he earns, every piece of loot that drops, every secret he uncovers, and especially every bit of power he can squeeze from his mysterious connection to the Aspect of Madness, Edmund crawls closer to accomplishing that insurmountable feat. With nothing else to lose, Edmund has already given the Depths his life. All that remains to be seen is whether he takes the dungeon's right back.

Born magically talentless, Prince Corvus is an embarrassment to the royal family and is removed from succession. However, he still has a chance to win back his throne — the next person to hatch a dragon automatically becomes the ruler, and each member of the royal family is gifted with a dragon egg. But it is the work of a lifetime to hatch one. The first time Corvus touches his dragon egg, he receives an odd notification: he has found a soulbound item and is tasked with an epic quest to hatch it — but only if he can walk the winding path of the dragon mage. Armed with notifications, skill increases, and levels only he can see, Corvus is determined to hatch his dragon.

John Gilliam, the Faceless Man, is one of the world's premier assassins—legendary, never failed. When a job goes wrong, he discovers an entire universe beyond what he knows: the Doorverse, where magic and monsters exist and his lethal skills are frail shadows of the powers that be. Now John is an Inquisitor, tasked with traveling the Doorverse and righting the balance on each world he finds. Every world is unique, and he must learn to survive anew each time he steps through a door.

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.

When humanity first encountered alien life, we were judged and found wanting. The Galactic Consensus found us selfish, wasteful, and boorish — blockaded Earth and left behind little more than a hypercomm relay and a handful of subscriptions to a massively multiplayer game played in one's sleep. The game, they said, would teach us to be better galactic neighbors. The megacorporations ignored it until they learned the powers earned from clearing dungeons were just as real when day broke. Magic and supernatural abilities exploded into existence, and a subscription to the Tower of Somnus became a status symbol. Katherine "Kat" Debs doesn't have much, but she wants something more — a chance to claw her way up the rigid social ladder from the arcology where she was raised. When she gets the opportunity to enter the Tower free of corporate control, she jumps at it, knowing the game might be her only path to taking control of her own destiny.

Max Best is a disillusioned Premier League fan whose love of football has been buried under cold statistics and hollow analytics. After rescuing a mysterious old man from a mugging, he's cursed — or gifted — with the ability to see any player's skills and attributes in a heads-up display, along with his own level-ups. What starts as a novelty rapidly pulls Max from the terraces into the world of professional football management, where he must reconcile the passionate fan he was with the calculating strategist he's becoming.

His name is Eight. Not really, but that's what the System decided after a slip of the tongue. One moment, he was stepping out the office door on the way home, and the next waking up on a hillside below a town wall — and the gate guard drove him off, thinking he was a monster. Life's tough when you're an old man trapped in an eight-year-old body on another world. But there's sixty-four years of hard-won wisdom inside that small frame, and Eight will use every bit of it to survive.

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.

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.

To be summoned to another world, given the class of [Hero], and tasked with defeating the demon king — some people might call that the opportunity of a lifetime. The chance to master the sword, grow more powerful than anyone on Earth could dream, and fulfill your destiny. Or not. It turns out that people summoned from another world are easily charmed by the title of "Hero." And they really should not be.

Max Best is back, and exactly the same as ever. His grinding is paying off: his football club's new stand is rising, his team tops the league, and his personal wealth is exploding. He even has his face on the cover of Soccer Supremo, the best-selling football management game. But just as things are finally going his way, he decides to risk it all by taking on a new challenge and a new enemy. There's no way it will work and no way he will get away with it — and that's just the way he likes it. This is book 15 in the Player Manager series; new readers can start here.

Shard Funf has been sent to yet another new multiverse — one resembling Mystara of BECMI D&D, with dungeons and dragons, elves and dwarves, humans and orcs. Oddly familiar, yet deeply strange: Good and Heaven are not powers here, only uncaring Law and Chaos. Evil is in the eye of the beholder, and there are no gods — only ascended Immortals pursuing personal Projects with little care for the lives of mere mortals. The road to mortal power is clear and broad, and Funf has a significant head start. But when the world is in the hands of rival Immortals and hapless mortals are caught in the middle, shaking up the existing order will require an entirely new approach — and perhaps bring the Light of Heaven to a cadre of uncaring super-beings for the first time.