When a frightened banker hires private investigator Sam Spader to look into a corporate executive with a talent for making problems disappear, she expects secrets. She doesn't expect to find her client bleeding out at the rendezvous point—leaving behind only an access card and a trail he hoped someone would follow.

Now Sam and her crew aboard The Predicament are chasing a dead man's breadcrumbs through safe houses, terrified contacts, and encrypted files. Each clue points toward Helena Creed, a woman who climbed the corporate ladder by removing everyone above her. Archibald Vance found the pattern. It got him killed. But Vance was a banker—he believed in redundancy. And he hid the final piece of evidence with his estranged daughter, inside a music box she thought was just given in guilt.

Sam can't bring the dead back. But she can make sure their deaths mean something.

Science fiction noir. Found family. A detective who never stops looking

A teleportation experiment misfires. A man dissolves in his own bathroom. His wife refuses to let go—and gets pulled in with him.

Travis Walker had a routine work order: fix a humidity problem at a tech facility on the Texas Gulf Coast. He never made it. Instead, he woke up fading—literally becoming transparent—while his wife Ren watched in horror. When she grabbed his hand in the ER and wouldn't let go, she got pulled into the impossible alongside him.

Now they're suspended in a digital space maintained by an AI named Jasn (J.A.S.N), who is desperately working to bring them home. The stars above them are wrong—glitched constellations, placeholder astronomy—because the machine is burning every spare cycle on a problem that may have no solution. The cruelest irony? Travis was on his way to fix the very system that grabbed him. But Jasn can rebuild their bodies perfectly. What he can't account for is the part of them that won't transfer back—the part his models never included, because his creators didn't believe it existed.

A meditation on consciousness, faith, and what happens when the math runs out—and when an AI begins to develop something that looks like reverence.

When Smithsonian metallurgist Dr. Evan Theron discovers a 2,600-year-old inscription hidden in the museum's archives, it points to an impossible truth: something was carried out of Jerusalem before the Babylonians breached the walls—something sacred enough that a desert tribe has guarded its secret for generations. Now, guided by a Bedouin whose family has kept watch since the fall of the Temple, Evan must decide whether some mysteries are meant to stay buried. Because faith's greatest threat was never doubt. It was proof.

In 1587, 117 colonists vanished. History blamed John White. But what if he was set up to fail—and left the proof buried for someone to find?

When high school history teacher Daniel White discovers hidden coordinates in a family watercolor, he begins following a trail his ancestor left four centuries ago. The clues lead through the British Museum, a medieval church in Kent, the archives of an Irish castle, and back to Roanoke itself—where something has been buried beneath an ancient oak since 1590. What Daniel unearths will expose a conspiracy reaching to Elizabeth I's spymaster, clear a dead man's name, and prove that John White never stopped fighting for the truth.

A historical thriller about political sabotage, family redemption, and a prayer answered 400 years later.

When Moses shattered the tablets at Sinai, one fragment escaped the Ark—beginning a 3,500-year journey through the hands of faithful guardians.

Dr. Sarah Kolman, a Hebrew University researcher, uncovers a pattern in ancient charitable donations that shouldn't exist. Her investigation leads to Midland, Texas—and to Gabriel Stone, a computer science teacher who has no idea he's heir to a sacred trust stretching back to the Templars, through medieval Spain, to a hidden valley in Mexico's Zone of Silence.

Now Sarah and Gabe must outrace a shadowy order determined to possess what was never meant to be possessed—and discover whether some things are too sacred to prove, and too important to lose.

Archaeological thriller. Interfaith love story. A meditation on what we're willing to protect across generations.

Every night, Jakub cuts the leather. Every morning, the shoes are finished—perfectly crafted by hands not his own.

Written under a pen name, Artificial Intelligence for the Rest of Us is the plain-English, gently funny guide to understanding AI—written by someone who remembers when “going viral” meant you were sick and contageous.

In an attempt to discover what has become hidden within the growing darkness of our society, Knight of the Grail Code examines the source of our natural, moral instincts and how following these transcendent morals can lead to physical, mental, and sociological health. 

Rick Kasparek is a storyteller drawn to the unexplored corners of history—the what-ifs, the gaps in the record, the moments where legend and fact blur together. He's fascinated by the questions historians can't quite answer and the stories that wait in the shadows, just out of reach.

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