The Bet

Men like him always wanted to see and be seen. Nadine Schreiber read people the way other people read headlines: in passing, effortlessly. Was it different this time?

The cocoa at half past one

The cocoa was still there when Greta Sonnenschein pushed open the door. Half past two in the morning. Divorce papers on the passenger seat. A gas station in Norristown that smelled of machine oil a...

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...

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...

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...

Dead since 1984

Montreal, 1987. Nadia shares her room with an invisible stranger. Theo is dead, but her presence brings him back to life. An impossible love between worlds begins.

The playlist lover

An iPod find. A playlist full of longing. Mira finds Luka in Berlin. Through music they grow closer, heal old wounds, and together compose a new, unique love story.