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Tucked away on a quiet street, the bookstore doesn't have an address — it magically appears to those who are meant to find it. The job ad seemed amazing: tend a remarkable bookstore with an incredible espresso machine, a cute black cat on the counter, and a room upstairs. The perfect arrangement for paying off ungodly student loans. But as soon as the paperwork is signed, the new keeper discovers the cat talks — and that magic might just be real.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Starving artist Angelica Hallow is hit on the head by a mysterious book while dumpster diving. Compelled by its illustrations, she recreates one of the intricate circles on her apartment floor — and accidentally triggers a Summoning. But rather than a Demon or other supernatural creature, she summons herself. With a new voice in her head blathering about Skills and Contracts, and an inexplicable ability to give herself Orders she is compelled to obey, Angelica must figure out whether she can secure the peaceful life of artistry she craves — or whether she will come to embrace the Demon within.

The Rasmussem Corporation creates virtual reality games that plug directly into the brain — no keyboard, no monitor, just pure immersion. But the technology comes with catastrophic risks when things go wrong, and for some players the game becomes deadly serious. From brain-hacked dungeon crawls where a crashed game means real-world death, to a medieval fantasy where a girl must win or die for real, the Rasmussem universe explores what happens when the line between virtual and reality collapses.

Erind Hartwell is a dutiful daughter, law student, film enthusiast — and psychopath. She's relatively normal, even in a world where superhumans battle eldritch horrors that transform people into monsters. Viewing life as a movie, she has always wanted to be the main character. That wish is granted unexpectedly: on the brink of death, impaled by a spike, an otherworldly entity offers her powers. Becoming a monster isn't exactly the heroic origin she imagined — but she didn't have much choice, and she can probably make it work. Follow an endearing psychopath through the chaos of a battle between superhumans, hi-tech government agents, monsters, mutants, and wannabe heroes for Earth and the future of humanity.

The protagonist has traveled back twenty-two years to prevent the Eclipse — a cataclysmic event that will divide the Solar System's history and ultimately lead to Earth's total annihilation. Carrying knowledge of the future no one else possesses, he has five days before the point of no return. Armed with that foreknowledge, he builds influence, assembles teams, and acquires powers to forge a new future — but every intervention has consequences he never anticipated.

Gus found a comfortable tedium working as a detective in the Paranormal Investigations Department — it gave him somewhere to hide what he truly is. He's a Boogieman: an apex predator that makes the whole paranormal world fear him, a species hunted on sight by governments and citizens alike. But a case is about to land on his desk that will kick over his carefully maintained non-life, whether he likes it or not.

Bastion: the last hope of civilization. Bright, flashy, and dangerous. Heroic Wardens protect the city from monsters, rifts, and villainous Anarchs, while corporations bicker like children even during the end-times. The existential threats seeking the city's destruction are just another Tuesday — the Wardens, with their system-granted powers forged from broken myths and shattered stars, are the only thing standing between Bastion and total devastation. They were just out of reach for one wayward Stray who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Now, with the OS having chosen them, it's time to claw back to the top — one rift, job, and monster at a time. Just as soon as there's enough drive to actually get out there. Picking up the pieces is just so tiring.

Andy wanted a quiet life — just his trailer, the Sonoran desert, and a job that didn't ask much of him. Instead, he got a front-row seat to Tucson's collapse. Magic rewrote the rules. Monsters stalked the streets. People mutated — or died. He didn't plan to be a hero. But when the screaming started, Andy grabbed a broken broomstick and did what he does best: survive. Now he has more than his own skin to worry about — kids looking to him for protection, neighbors turning to him for leadership, and a trailer park slowly transforming into a fortress. The System is leveling him up, but not fast enough. The countdown is ticking, the invasions are coming, and if Andy fails, everyone he has begun to care about will be slaughtered.

Eliza Scaggs is tired of the rumors — that she's an old witch who made a pact with darkness, that her pet monster stalks children. She's been working herself to the bone on a secret government project, trying to prove that she, the only woman in the wizard's guild, actually belongs there. When she takes on a teenage apprentice named Oliver, she's determined to show that mentoring a kid is not something a twisted hell spawn would do. But Oliver is quiet in a way that worries her, and when he asks if she can "fix" people, she fears he means himself. Set in a world where magic drives the industrial revolution, the story follows a witch and her apprentice as they are thrust into a dangerous faction war.