Stories that started in the last 30 days, ranked by real reads this week, then newest.
by Ezra Iverson
6 chapters19,685 words13 views
Alvaro Salgado is the stubborn, fiercely loyal fixer for his family’s struggling trade house on the borderlands. It’s a bad day when negotiations go south; it’s a worse day when getting out of a bad deal means binding his life to an unread contract with…
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6 chapters20,697 words5 views
A low-ranking sect archivist discovers that the foundational technique binding their martial order together is inherently flawed and slowly killing its practitioners. Armed only with a mastery of the sect's arcane bureaucracy and procedural law, he sets out…
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by N.B. Vance
6 chapters19,613 words4 views
In the kingdom of Yan, power is measured in scars. The ruling families hoard inherited agony, weaponizing it into magic that bends reality to their will. But the kingdom is dying. A lethal season known as the Withering is accelerating, systematically claiming…
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by A.R. Hammond
6 chapters19,446 words
Seventy-two hours. That is all the time remaining on the clock when a routine witness relocation in the isolated, snow-choked county of Krasnograd shatters. Bodyguard Viktor Volkov, a man whose tactical brilliance is matched only by his absolute pragmatism…
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by S.R. Brennan
6 chapters15,806 words
Isla hears the things people think they said in private. It makes her a very good translator, and an impossible person to lie to. But when the lease on her beloved bookstore is set to expire in exactly forty-five days, being an excellent listener isn’t…
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by N.G. Foster
6 chapters20,116 words
Twice a day, the tide recedes to reveal the drowned ruins of a lost empire. Below the waterline sit glass bottles filled with captive storms, fog banks, and sheer heat, waiting to be claimed. Scavenging them is a race against the incoming sea…
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6 chapters16,421 words
When a blood-debt goes unpaid, the creditors do not want silver. They want collateral. For the thief known as Qadir, whose strict code of stealing only to restore what was taken has left him penniless but alive, being traded to settle another man's ledger is…
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by S.R. Brennan
6 chapters18,000 words
When a catastrophic structural collapse and biological containment breach locks down the massive K'illu Memorial Hospital, patient advocate Sisaqa finds herself trapped on the wrong side of the highest-security blast doors. Her critically ill sister is…
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by A.R. Hammond
6 chapters17,565 words
Idir Mezraoui was once the most feared duelist in the civilized territories, his blade a blur of silver. Now, a lingering injury restricts him to pacing the polished, claustrophobic halls of Dar-el-Mizan Academy as a coach to the prodigious Safiya Tindani…
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6 chapters18,386 words
In the rigid, sun-bleached stronghold of Kyzyl-Kala, survival depends on blind obedience to the Blood Tithe—a mandate mathematically fair on paper, but monstrous in practice, claiming the innocent for the state's cruelest machines. Asena-tay is the city's…
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6 chapters18,129 words
In the metaphysical border town of Suna, things slip across the veil every day—sometimes memories, sometimes people, sometimes cursed relics. Tani is a thief with a strict code: she only steals to return what was wrongfully taken across the crossing. When a…
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by Ezra Iverson
6 chapters19,787 words
The Architect’s Path isn’t built on spells—it’s built on logic, alloy, and leverage. Kusiqa was expelled from the Imperial Academy for failing theory while his hands could reshape truth. Now, marked by a bloodline that powers the system from within, he finds…
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6 chapters19,560 words1 views
The Blackcombe Ore-Works didn’t just collapse—it was buried to hide the truth. When a deliberately triggered marrow-stone blowout entombs hundreds of diggers in a single night, the merchant guilds expect the comforting silence of the grave. They didn't count…
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6 chapters16,915 words
Zadeya Feraoui is a street-smart scavenger living on the frozen edges of the Qas Bani Court, making a meager living by surviving the ice. She possesses a rare gift: whenever she touches a shattered object, she sees exactly what it was and how it was used…
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