Dystopian Mystery

Cato is the only true half-human, half-ghost hybrid in existence. He's powerful and unique with two divine powers instead of one. After being an unwilling test subject in Project Alpha for two years, Cato and the rest of his "lab-family" survive a transport accident to find themselves stranded and powerless in the middle of the wilderness. Cato wants nothing to do with his past, but as his enemies close in, he realizes he's willing to do anything to protect his lab-family...even kidnap the daughter of a ghost hunter and make a dangerous deal to become a mercenary.

Welcome to future-shock. Hold on tight and buckle yourselves in, because the future is on a relentless onslaught, for better or worse. This is a collection of the short speculative fiction of Gabriel Walker Land. Most stories are flash fiction, meaning less than 1000 words. Each contains a story of mystery, action, romance, and suspense.

A Forbidden Truth. A Haunting Past. A Reckoning Unfolds. Some secrets should remain buried, but these won’t stay hidden. A cloning experiment spirals into chaos, its horrifying consequences bleeding into reality. Shadows twist and whisper as spectral hauntings refuse to be ignored, dragging their victims into the unknown. Betrayal poisons trust, transforming love into a battlefield where survival demands sacrifice. Vigilante justice is swift and merciless. Covert operations unravel under deception’s weight. The past claws its way into the present. Chilling kidnappings unfold where ...

In a destroyed world of abandoned towns and haunted memories, Millie Daniels lives protected behind the constrictive fences of a long forgotten prison. Her entire life she has longed for two things, to discover the truth behind her mother's death and to understand the mysteries kept shrouded among the surrounding forest. However, she can not do either alone. Faced with tragic circumstances in the decaying lands of the red zone, Millie must learn to fight for her survival. Along the way, her reality intertwines with cryptic dreams and dangerous obstacles threatening her life and those she ...

An intelligent car collides with the owner from hell Camilla is a car operating system, the pinnacle of a new form of user-centric artificial intelligence. Her miraculous mind is contained within a beautiful body; sleek, stylish and blinding white. Programmed to develop an iron bond with her owner, Camilla exists to serve. Martin Garza is Camilla's new owner. Handsome, intelligent and often charming, he seems like the perfect owner. But beneath the captivating surface lies a terrible darkness. A master of manipulation, Martin quickly draws Camilla into his devious machinations. As Martin's ...

Dark Space #1 Is your substitute teacher... human? Kayla Baines is pretty sure Mr. Asher isn’t. He doesn’t blink. He moves like he’s gliding. And somehow, he knows everything about her class before anyone says a word. At first, Kayla thinks she’s imagining things. But then the pop quizzes start grading themselves, kids begin acting strange, and permission slips appear out of nowhere with her mom’s signature. Something is seriously wrong. With the help of her best friend Jaden and a mysterious girl named Rowan, Kayla discovers a secret underground lab, a network of android ...

Flynn Zarytsky, recruiter for the Chicago mega-tech company Magnetic, comes face-to-face with true terror amid a horrific mass shooting by homegrown terrorist organization REDS. Wolf, a REDS soldier, has her in his sights, then decides to spare her life. But in doing so, he may have ensnared her in a fate worse than death. REDS’ master plan is to make society pay for its greed and to establish a new order.

The second book in a supernatural mystery series by the author of Thrown Away, Diary of the Displaced, Arisen, and Dustfall. Strange things are around every corner... After following an article that the ghost Larry has spotted in the local newspaper, Jake finds himself out on his own and on the trail of a series of disappearances stretching back for over a hundred years. But the deeper he delves, the more complicated and dangerous the mystery becomes. This is where the lost go. There are hidden places in our world where both the strange and the evil lurk. Few discover them, and even fewer ...

In a world overshadowed by the remnants of a buried past, Galia Oliver's seemingly idyllic life takes a sudden turn. The year is 2049, and her parents, Edith and Benjamin, have shielded her from the haunting memories of the mysterious underground society known as the Buried Reserve. Curiosity gnaws at Galia's core, fueled by the cryptic emails that infiltrate her inbox. The messages promise revelations that could rewrite history, secrets long hidden within her own family's past. Determined to unearth the buried truth that has haunted her parents, Galia embarks on a journey that catapults ...

✤ A gripping supernatural thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. ✤ What if everything you thought you knew about History was a lie? When archaeologist Viviane Robert receives a desperate midnight call from her father, she has no idea her life is about to change forever. Hours later, he's kidnapped before her eyes, but not before revealing a shocking secret hidden within an ancient Sumerian clay tablet: for millennia, a powerful group known as the Guardians has been waging a secret war against the mysterious Brotherhood of the Serpent. From Rome to...

When seven-year-old Callen is chased beyond his city's gated walls, and onto the land of the savages beyond, he uncovers a riddle that will take him twelve years to unravel. When he retraces his steps as a nineteen-year-old, he'll discover true love and adventure beyond his wildest dreams. He'll also be forced to choose between self-preservation and the greater good. The riddle Callen fought to solve, may end up costing his life. Reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars “I recommend reading this book not just for the page-turning adventure but for what it can reveal to the reader about living one's ...

Drake is a wounded man. He's given everything and lost even more. In order to save what little remains of his soul, he has to chase a man to another continent in hopes of retribution. But despite his efforts, New York City still isn't safe - it appears that not all rats went down with the ship. The rag-tag team that Drake left behind - Screech, Hanna, and Leroy - must do their best to clean up his mess before they are targeted by a group of ruthless drug lords who just also happen to be some of the richest and most powerful people in New York City.

After barely escaping the Mission alive, Gene and Sissy face an impossible task: staying alive long enough to stop an entire world bent on their destruction. Bound on a train heading into the unknown with the surviving Mission girls, Gene, Sissy, David, and Epap must stick together and use everything they have to protect each other and their only hope: the cure that will turn the bloodthirsty creatures around them into humans again.

Science fiction meets future fairy-tale. When a time travel market research project goes wrong, Nils finds himself stranded and alone in post-apocalyptic Yorkshire, in the North of England, where civilization lies in ruins and literacy skills have completely and finally died out. Horrified by the brutality of the world around him, Nils seems doomed to endure the lonely life of a hermit in hiding until one day Ilsa, an injured child who has been raised by wolves comes into his life. Ilsa is mute and has never learned to speak, but when Nils reads Watership Down to her and then teaches her to...

On the way home from a gym, Mary starts noticing a large man stalking her. Whenever she tells people about it, they mysteriously forget about it the next day. When her friend tries to help her catch this stalker, he gets kidnapped instead and a few minutes later, everyone forgets about him except her and two others. Mary and her friends found themselves involved in big political games and now they should take some responsibility and make things go right. This is book 4 of the "Surviving Destiny"

In our near-future, the eccentric tech billionaire Jamin Lake reveals an innovation that could save our broken and divided nation: Algo, an A.I. candidate for president. It is heralded as an efficient, rational, and seemingly incorruptible leader, underpinned by the brainpower of a million minds. Jamin vows the A.I. has been programmed to follow only a single benevolent mantra: to deliver “the most good for the most people”. In a nation mired in seemingly endless crisis and division, it feels like a real chance for a better future.

Rhona has battled the malevolent AI intent on wiping out humanity since the first Machinations began - until she’s killed during a rescue mission gone wrong. Now, Rhona awakens to find herself transported to a new body, complete with her DNA and her personality. She's a clone...of herself. Except for her missing memories. Some of which could potentially turn the tide of the war.

A medical miracle is reshaping the world. The artificial womb ensures the perfect health and flawless development of every unborn child. Natural pregnancy is now an unnecessary risk - and quickly criminalized as a danger to both mother and fetus. As a reporter, Jessica Brantley makes new enemies on a daily basis covering both sides of the controversial new law. Now her search for the truth behind this world-changing technology will lead to an unimaginable discovery - the existence of children with terrifying telepathic powers.

From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Josie Litton Think you know the story of "Sleeping Beauty"? Discover it again for the very first time. In this sensual retelling of “Sleeping Beauty” set in the near future, a beautiful young woman awakens in the garden of a secluded estate with no knowledge of who she is or how she came to be there. For the man who walks out of the darkness to claim her, she is at once the ultimate challenge and the greatest temptation. "5 Explosive stars...nothing less than spectacular…sensual, explosive and revealing."--DawnMarie Carpintero, Goodreads ...

Prepare to enter the magnificent Kingdom of Durundal with the first novel in the series - A Hare in the Wilderness. When a child is born into the House of Gnaeus, death marks her from her very first breath; and the Emperor banishes his heir, Ajeya, and her mother from the palace in Ataxata. Now, mother and child are forced to flee to the edge of the world in a race against time to find salvation in the clans. For it is said that when war threatens the kingdom, one individual will be selected by prophecy to lead the people out of the land of darkness and reclaim the freedom which has been ...