Revenge Plot with a Heartbeat

Nora Takahashi has been using a false name and carrying a knife in her boot for three years. Both for the same man: Ryō Metzger, whom she blames for the death of her brother Kenji. When she finally...

The Ice of Calgary

Calgary, 1988. The ice smells of cold, already hard at work. Diane Okafor-Calloway sits in the press box, watching a Russian hockey player who moves as if the ice belongs to him – or as if he knows...

Kethara-9: What Awakens in the Engine Room

The hum of the reactors was Saskia Brenner's most constant companion—until the first alarm sounded. Not loud. Never loud. Just a discrepancy in the navigation data, minuscule, so subtle that anothe...

Little Italy

Little Italy in October: wet brick walls, roasted chestnuts, and Gia Caruso, setting up her record stand like she does everything – without permission, without apology. Then Matteo Ferrante appears...

16 stories up to you

A September night in Schwabing. A rooftop terrace, champagne that's too warm, and a man Johanna hasn't seen in twelve years. Nico Hartner looks at her the way he did back then: calmly, factually, a...

Fake engagement in Berlin

A design studio on the verge of bankruptcy. A man who never learned to justify himself. An offer that knows no good solutions – only different compromises.

Midnight at the Vet Clinic

An injured fox. A shoebox made from old winter boots. And a man who walks in shortly after midnight and says only one word. Mia knows her job. She knows the frequency of the buzzing neon light, the...

Under a false name

Summer in Millhaven lay over everything like a wet blanket – and Clara Voss had grown accustomed to many things. To the heat. To the white wooden houses. To a life that wasn't hers. What she hadn't...

Blackmoor Hall

The frost on the glass had not yet melted when Eleanora stepped out of the carriage. Twelve months. A man she had never seen. And all her father had left her...

On the same side of the web

Serena Vance has her life on the court perfectly under control. Until she is forced to compete in mixed doubles with her archenemy Rafael Cruz. He is loud, passionate, and her complete opposite. Bu...