Some places are difficult to find. Others are impossible to leave behind. Eli never expected an ordinary discovery to turn his understanding of the world upside down. It begins with a staircase that shouldn't exist. But the further he follows the questions surrounding it, the stranger things become. Roads seem to disappear. Photographs refuse to stay the same. Places hold memories that don't quite belong to anyone, and unfamiliar encounters leave him wondering whether there is more connecting everything than he could ever understand. As Eli searches for answers, the line between what is real and what might exist only in his mind begins to blur. What is the staircase leading to? Why does it seem connected to places and people he cannot explain? And perhaps the most unsettling question of all: what happens when the answers are just as difficult to accept as the mystery itself? The Places Between is a psychological mystery about perception, memory, uncertainty, and the strange spaces that exist somewhere between what we know and what we cannot explain. Some mysteries demand answers. Others leave you questioning everything.

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When Rowan Callahan buys a strange "memory bag" at a local fundraiser, she expects old keepsakes, not a mystery that seems to know her name. Inside are a handful of forgotten objects: a locket, dried meadowsweet, a pipe-scented wooden box, and a battered old book filled with handwritten notes and an unsettling inscription addressed directly to her. What begins as curiosity soon draws Rowan into the shadowed history of Dúnlaragh Castle, where a ruined chapel hides more than stone and dust, and the past seems to linger just beneath the surface of the present. As she follows the trail of clues through old letters, half-truths, and family silences, she discovers that memory in Dúnlaragh is not only preserved - it is alive. But the deeper Rowan goes, the less certain the world around her becomes. A hidden stair beneath the chapel. A voice from another century. A man whose notes suggest he may have been reaching across time. And a history that has been carefully buried, along with the people who might have told it differently. Set against the wild beauty of the Irish coast and the eerie pull of an old house with too many secrets, this is a story about grief, longing, and the impossible things that can still be found when the past refuses to stay silent. At the heart of it is one question Rowan cannot ignore: if history can be changed, what else might be waiting to answer back?

Peace should have finally returned to the Crescent Veil Academy. While Briar is still caught up in her love dilemma, Jake is trying to forget his father, and the rest of the school wants to find some peace after the battles, a mysterious new girl arrives at the academy: Gwendoline Hartwell. A shy, young witch with a tragic past. At least, that's what everyone believes. Who or what she really is remains a secret. Do you want to find out?

America is coming apart. It is 1861. War is approaching, conspiracies are spreading, and everyone seems convinced they know what the country ought to become. Snorri Skov-an aging frontiersman with a violent past and an inconvenient conscience-finds himself drawn into a secret struggle surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the fate of the Union. Three thousand miles away, Enoch Hiraeth has problems of his own. An orphan, thief, and self-appointed gentleman of San Francisco's streets, Enoch leads a gang of young hoodlums who survive by robbing people considerably richer than themselves. He would very much like to become an honest man. History has other plans. Their stories will carry them from spies and assassins to riverboats, gold camps, vigilantes, outlaws, and the violent birth of Montana Territory-where heroes and villains are often separated by little more than who gets to tell the story afterward. American Mythos is a historical adventure about conspiracy, friendship, family, ambition, and ordinary people getting caught in extraordinary events. History doesn't repeat itself. People do. We still fight over who belongs, who deserves power, and who gets blamed when things go wrong. We still follow fools, mistake confidence for wisdom, and convince ourselves that this time, surely, we know better. There will be heroes. There will be scoundrels. There will be an astonishing number of people behaving like morons. In other words, American history. Or perhaps just history.