Sent alone to a dead planet in a tiny rover named CRAWLER, nineteen-year-old Elise Hart is offered redemption in exchange for obedience. Tasked with mapping buried ruins through a world she can’t see, isolation, pressure, and constant monitoring wear her down. Until the mission reveals that the planet is not as empty as it was meant to be, but will anyone believe her?
In a frozen gold-mining settlement where fear keeps doors shut, Erica Dutrieu is left for dead after a brutal beating by her husband. Rescued at terrible cost and forced to confront both frontier justice and her own will to survive, she fights back in the only way left to her. Harsh Times is a tale of violence, endurance, and hard-won hope on the edge of civilization.
A Story from The Town On her first day at The Library, Isla is swept into Carrie’s world of fashion, dominance, and fetish, where every outfit, every heel, and every rule is a lesson in trust and restraint. But when a modeling gig turns into a weekend bound as sirens, Isla and Carrie uncover a connection that they both desire, but is ultimately, fleeting. A story best experienced following The Practitioner - Chapter 7: A Neat Little Bow.