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The Captain's Proxy
In the fractured frontier beyond the Regime's core worlds, Captain Jarek Thorne survives by staying unnoticed. His ship, Starbreaker , carries cargo, information, and sometimes people who cannot survive official attention. Then he takes aboard Kyra Ward. Quiet, guarded, and far more capable than she first appears, Kyra understands systems no one else can read. Beneath the Regime's vast communications network, she uncovers something far more dangerous than surveillance—a synchronisation layer designed not to command people directly, but to make entire worlds agree. Ships move in perfect rhythm. Fleets react before orders arrive. Systems align so completely that uncertainty itself becomes suspect. The Regime's strength was never built on force alone. It was built on enforced certainty. When…
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The Rusty Old Car
A name that is only whispered…Clara. An artist – shunned, forgotten…dead? A town stifled by fear. Three teens who determine to find the truth. The town of Mill Haven has been stifled under a dark cloud of fear for over a generation and no one wants to rouse the memory of Clara. Until friends, Noah, Tessa and Mia, find her car abandoned in a shunned field. Mia, touching the car, sees and senses images from the past – a tragic accident, a terrified girl. “We have to find out what happened,” she whispers. A mystery to solve…but just asking about Clara brings out shadowy watchers and subtle warnings. Someone powerful doesn’t want Clara remembered. Doesn’t want anyone else to find out what she knew. Can the friends decipher the hidden clues in Clara’s paintings and give her the voice long…
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The Night Of the Past
The house had been abandoned for years. The owners had vanished. Yet, from the time they had entered the property, the place roused visions in Kim’s mind. Things she had seen in dreams and nightmares and told were not real. Only they were…the evidence was in the house. Adam loved Kim, the sweet girl who had been his little sister since he could remember. Now a desperate hope began to bloom in his heart. Had Kim once lived at the house? Could it be the love he craved to give her was not forbidden? Now he and his friends were hooked in solving the old mystery, and it seemed Kim’s surfacing memories were the key. Yet someone had hidden the truth for over ten years, and had a powerful motive to keep it buried. Could Kim remember enough, to reveal the questions they needed to answer before…
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A Winter Wonderland
A lost girl. A boy who notices her. A family ready to open their hearts. Twelve-year-old Lila has learned how to disappear. After being separated from her mother, she is alone on the streets of a small town in the middle of a bitter winter. She has no home, no one to protect her, and only a small stone her mother gave her for luck. Each night she searches for somewhere safe to sleep, careful to avoid the adults who might ask too many questions. Then, beneath the Christmas lights, a boy named Evan notices her. Evan doesn't know who Lila is or why she is alone. He only knows that she is cold and hungry. A simple act of kindness — an invitation to see the Christmas lights and a cinnamon roll shared with a stranger — becomes the beginning of something neither child could have expected. But…