Kharon’s Ferry

Jackson Lloyd, victim and sole survivor of a tragedy at sea, finds himself aboard the mysterious, deserted cruise ship known as the Odyssey. Bombarded by the irrational and unknowable, it is all too easy for him to be content with the affection of its sole passenger: the bewitching woman who calls herself Calypso. But beneath a life of luxury and paradise lurks a grueling fight for survival against an enemy too insidious to comprehend. If Jackson cannot discover the truth in time, merely losing his life will be the least of his concerns.

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ASHRAIN

The world is dead. Ashes are all that remains on the planet once known as Earth. In this bleak reality, the scant remnants of humanity have only two choices: survive the harsh, merciless landscape, where life is scarce and water scarcer…or die and return to the dust from whence we came.

In the years since the world ended global fires, volcanism, and colossal alien constructs have choked the skies with thick clouds of smoke and soot. It falls day and night as an endless, waterless, black rain. So, those few who survive call this hellish new world…

Ashrain.

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Winter 2026

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If the greatest treasure is the heart, then the greatest crime is the stealing of one.

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