The story is set in 1888 in Iowa during a punishing, deep winter. Elias Thorne, a weary but resilient farmer, and his wife, Clara, are enduring a relentless deep freeze when the weather takes a sudden, terrifying turn. On a frigid morning, the temperature plummets to freezing. However, a break in the clouds unveils an intense, summer-like sun. Within hours, the temperature soars to an incomprehensible rise in the middle of January. This sudden, unnatural heat turns the massive snowpack into a catastrophic torrent of meltwater.

A shelter dog named Ziggy is signed out for what he thinks is a simple “first date” outing with a volunteer—but for her, the day quietly marks the anniversary of the moment she first promised herself she’d come back for him. Through a long year of visits, walks, and patience, their bond is already formed long before Ziggy understands the significance of leaving the shelter gates behind. When the outing becomes an adoption, Ziggy navigates new experiences—a car ride, sunlit pumpkin patches, curious resident cats—and wakes the next morning to discover the thing he’s been waiting for all along: someone who stays. Tender, funny, and rooted in shelter reality, the story explores how love often begins before either side realizes it, and how sometimes what feels like a first date is really the celebration of a promise already kept.

A cheap, tidy flat with only one unsettling condition from the letting agent: never open the attic door. At first he brushes it off, but the strange warning begins to gnaw at him. Intrusive thoughts grow into fixation, and his life slowly unravels under the weight of curiosity.

On a dare from her friends, young Frieda agreed to explore an abandoned farmhouse. No one was supposed to be inside. But, when the room went dark, she heard her name...

When the room went dark, she heard her name. Daphne wakes up in a daze, unsure of where she is. The last thing she remembers is hearing her name being called, but she can't remember who she was with.

In a frost-bitten metropolis where machines outlast their makers, Investigator Esfir Khairova is drawn into a string of gruesome murders known as the Sweet Tooth killings. Each crime feels disturbingly familiar, as if she’s trying to find a part of herself in the killer's mysterious motivations. The deeper she delves into the case, the more she senses something fractured within herself, a dissonance between what she remembers and what she is.

What would you do with more time?

When what you've always wanted comes knocking at your door... what would you do?

A recluse from the world receives a call she truly thought she could ignore. Turns out none of us are safe.