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- UPLAND: Adventure screenplay, 110 pages, $6.99
A teenage girl accompanies her father on his annual six-day volunteer trail repair crew in the North Cascades. On day three a flash flood cuts them off from the
- THE CITATION: War screenplay, 118 pages, $6.99
Thomas Reed has spent his life in the shadow of Major General William Reed, whose citation for the battle of Qayyarah is taught at the academy. When Sergeant El
- PARISH LINE: Drama screenplay, 166 pages, $6.99
Nora Calloway drives to Harrow Creek, West Virginia expecting a funeral and a few boxes. What she finds is her sister's apartment packed for a trip no one took,
- PAID IN LEAD: Thriller screenplay, 98 pages, $6.99
A classical Los Angeles noir built on a modern psychological reveal. Ex LAPD homicide detective Jack Morrison, now sixty two, runs a one man PI shop and takes a
- TUSKEGEE: War screenplay, 134 pages, $6.99
Captain Marcus Davis flies bomber escort out of Ramitelli in 1944. When his wingman puts a burst into his engine at twenty thousand feet, Marcus survives the cr
- THE STERLING METHOD: Thriller screenplay, 120 pages, $6.99
Billionaire Howard Sterling is found dead in his sealed study on the seventy second floor of a Manhattan penthouse. One door, locked from the inside. No weapon.
- FACETS: Drama screenplay, 118 pages, $6.99
Mara Voss is the best jewel thief working the European circuit, and the Vienna museum was supposed to be her clean exit. When every stone she lifts turns out to
- EVERY STREET BUT OURS: Drama screenplay, 108 pages, $6.99
Elizabeth Ashworth is the last kind of person the Germans would suspect of harboring one of their officers, which is exactly why she becomes the perfect collabo
- EVERY MILE: Drama screenplay, 112 pages, $6.99
When Linda Martin's daughter disappears from a roadside bathroom on Interstate 10, the police write it off as a runaway. Linda's own investigation uncovers a pa
- BREACHED: Crime screenplay, 116 pages, $6.99
Eleanor Vance is the sharpest cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park in the winter of 1942, and the decrypt on her desk will kill everyone in the building by dawn. When
- THE RJUKAN OPERATION: War screenplay, 109 pages, $6.99
Knut Hauge is a schoolteacher before the war, a commando after. His team parachutes onto the Hardanger Plateau in the winter of 1943 with orders to destroy the
- A DEBT OF TONGUES: Historical screenplay, 108 pages, $6.99
Nuremberg, 1945. A German Jewish woman who escaped to America returns as a courtroom interpreter and must translate the testimony of the SS administrator who sa
- THE SALT ROAD: Historical screenplay, 110 pages, $6.99
In Wyoming Territory, August 1849, a free Black woman traveling west with her children has her wagon seized by a settler party claiming it matches the descripti
- THORNWOOD: Fantasy screenplay, 125 pages, $6.99
A cartographer hired to survey a remote old-growth forest in northern Minnesota finds that the landscape shifts between visits, with every measurement she takes
- SECONDARY EXPOSURE: Psychological screenplay, 110 pages, $6.99
A Seattle trauma therapist who specializes in violent crime survivors begins to suspect that her most compelling patient, who claims to have survived a home inv
- THE WEIGHT CLASS: Sports screenplay, 110 pages, $6.99
A twenty-two-year-old boxer from rural Kentucky earns a shot at the state title with the help of a regional promoter. When he discovers his father threw a fight
- DEAD RETURN: Mystery screenplay, 120 pages, $6.99
When a routine cold case follow-up brings state detective Claire Hardy to a coastal Maine fishing town, she finds the missing woman exactly where she should not
- DEEP SKY: Family screenplay, 102 pages, $6.99
After his parents separate, fourteen-year-old Marco Reyes spends the summer at his grandparents' rural New Mexico property with a physics test he knows is wrong
- FALSE SIGNAL: Thriller screenplay, 96 pages, $6.99
Ana Vasic is a UN simultaneous interpreter at a nuclear treaty negotiation in Geneva. She is the only person in the room fluent enough in the Eastern European d
- FADING ATLAS: Fantasy screenplay, 102 pages, $6.99
A royal cartographer discovers the kingdom borders are quietly contracting, not from invasion or treaty but as if the land itself is forgetting it exists. Villa
- BONE COUNTRY: Western screenplay, 100 pages, $6.99
Nevada Territory, 1873: a half-Paiute bounty hunter tracks a Chinese railroad worker across six days of desert and arrives at the truth too late to pretend she
- DOUBLE ENTRY: Psychological screenplay, 102 pages, $6.99
Forensic accountant Iris Cole is hired to investigate internal fraud at a hedge fund. Three days in, she finds her own digital signatures in the transactions sh
- OPEN BAR: Comedy screenplay, 95 pages, $6.99
A disgraced wedding planner takes the only job available: orchestrating the perfect wedding for her college ex and his fiancee. The ex is oblivious. The fiancee
- LAST LIGHT IN JUNE: Romance screenplay, 108 pages, $6.99
A marine archaeologist discovers her research partner of eight years has accepted a position in Norway. Six weeks on a vessel off Cape Breton becomes an inescap
- DETOUR HOME: Family screenplay, 110 pages, $6.99
When Eli's grandmother drives away from a Connecticut rest stop without the rest of the family, twelve-year-old Eli goes with her. She navigates by memory. He n
- COLD SIGNAL: Science Fiction screenplay, 110 pages, $6.99
In 2041, a deep-space probe launched in 2019 begins transmitting a signal on a dormant channel that has not been active in seventeen years. When signals enginee
- ADJACENT: Comedy screenplay, 110 pages, $6.99
When a recently divorced executive chef buys a food truck as a midlife reinvention and is given the prime corner spot at Austin's newest outdoor market on his f
- HOLLOW SEASON: Psychological screenplay, 74 pages, $6.99
A forensic psychologist hired to assess a man who claims amnesia about killing his wife becomes convinced he is telling the truth. As she builds her case, she c
- CALICHE: Western screenplay, 99 pages, $6.99
A retired federal marshal returns to his dying West Texas ranch to sell it off and disappear. He finds the county's water poisoned, three ranchers dead under si
- EMPTY FILE: Horror screenplay, 106 pages, $6.99
When forensic archivist Nola Vane is hired to catalogue a deceased psychiatrist's case files, she begins recognizing herself in the records, and discovers she w
- KILLING FOG: Historical screenplay, 106 pages, $6.99
London, December 1952. The Great Smog kills thousands. A Ministry of Health analyst has the verified body count. Her government has ordered silence, citing the
- SECOND DROWNING: Mystery screenplay, 106 pages, $6.99
A retired homicide detective hired by an insurance company to investigate a suspicious drowning finds the dead man officially died eleven years earlier. Followi
- AXIS AUDIT: Science Fiction screenplay, 101 pages, $6.99
In 2041, government AI auditor Petra Voss is assigned to review AXIS, a sentencing algorithm used in 1.2 million criminal cases. Three weeks in, she finds a pat
- BERING DEPTH: Adventure screenplay, 101 pages, $6.99
A marine salvage expert descends into the Bering Sea on what looks like a routine recovery contract: retrieve the flight data recorder from a sunken research ve
- GOOD FAITH: Romance screenplay, 99 pages, $6.99
A union negotiator and a company VP meet in a hotel bar the night before their high-stakes contract talks begin. Neither knows who the other is. By morning they
- THE KIND ONES: Horror screenplay, 97 pages, $6.99
A city archivist inheriting his estranged grandmother's house in a small Oregon town discovers the community's inexplicable immunity from illness and grief runs
- GRAMERCY: Thriller screenplay, 99 pages, $6.99
A former CIA operative has spent six years living as a Manhattan architect, one of twelve residents with a key to the city's most exclusive private park. When h
- THE GREEN BRIEF: Drama screenplay, 95 pages, $6.99
An environmental analyst joins Petrocal Energy's Environmental Responsibility Division believing she will change the company from within. Over one year, she wri
- FORTY MILLION TONNES: Comedy screenplay, 89 pages, $6.99
Dara Osei joins the Environmental Responsibility Division of Petrocal Energy Group and discovers her job is not to reduce the company's carbon footprint but to
- NIPOMO: Historical screenplay, 100 pages, $6.99
A documentary photographer for the federal government returns in 1939 to a California migrant camp where she took her most famous photograph three years earlier
- WARDEN OF THE ASHEN VEIL: Fantasy screenplay, 104 pages, $6.99
The last surviving member of the Order of Wardens maintains the Ashen Veil alone: an ancient barrier between the living world and the Ashworld, visible only to
- PAPER ROADS: Family screenplay, 96 pages, $6.99
A twelve-year-old girl discovers her late father's hand-drawn fantasy maps of real American places and sets out to find every one, bringing along her grandmothe
- SMOKE OVER MERCY: Western screenplay, 109 pages, $6.99
In 1885 New Mexico Territory, a feared frontier enforcer who has spent twenty years living on the land where he burned a town agrees to let a young journalist t
- THE FINE PRINT: War screenplay, 101 pages, $6.99
Mr. Halvorsen served in Desert Storm and has been teaching American history at Millwood High School for eighteen years. The Army recruiters who set up tables in
- RATION ROLLS: War screenplay, 95 pages, $6.99
Sergeant Jonah Pike has been a prisoner at Andersonville for seven months and has watched the camp kill thirteen thousand men through starvation, disease, and d
- L'ASSASSIN RACHETÉ: Crime screenplay, 110 pages, $6.99
Rémy Lassalle joined the Legion to disappear and became too useful to ever leave. Fifteen years of missions later, France sends him to the Aurès Mountains with
- THE VIENNA DECEPTION: Action screenplay, 117 pages, $6.99
Katrin Vogt is the BND's most methodical interrogator, which is exactly why Colonel Arkady Morozov chose her. His warning is real. The strike on the European ga
- THE PACKET STORM: Action screenplay, 102 pages, $6.99
Chen Wei works for the Ministry of State Security in Beijing. Sarah Cole works for the CIA in Langley. Neither of them has ever heard the other's name until the
- AMERICAN DREAM, AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: Action screenplay, 115 pages, $6.99
Daniel Marsh has been a loving husband, a little league coach, and a midwestern insurance adjuster for twenty years. None of it is real. When the activation phr
- EVERY SHADOW HAS A NAME: Action screenplay, 123 pages, $6.99
Ward's career has been a masterclass in controlled betrayal. He married late, lived quietly, and rose through the counterintelligence division with the patience
- DEAD LINE: Action screenplay, 82 pages, $6.99
Alexei Volkov never wanted to be a whistleblower. He was auditing server logs at a state election office when the numbers stopped matching the certified totals,
- GROUND LEVEL: Drama screenplay, 79 pages, $6.99
A parkour runner who witnesses a CIA wet work operation discovers the agent he saw killed was actually defecting with proof of a domestic surveillance program,
- DEADLY BROADCAST: Action screenplay, 107 pages, $6.99
Daniel Marsh did not kill anyone. The dash cam footage that could prove it is sitting in his car, and his car is at the end of the longest slow speed chase in L
- COYOTE BLOOD: Crime screenplay, 108 pages, $6.99
Every duffel bag Sofia Reyes carries across the border buys another week of her mother's cancer treatment. She has built a careful, terrible life out of necessi
- SOMNAMBULA: Thriller screenplay, 107 pages, $6.99
Laura Chen is a pediatric nurse, and for six months she has been losing time in the middle of the night. Her husband David, a loving and attentive software engi
- STOLEN FACE: Thriller screenplay, 106 pages, $6.99
Claire Whitfield has spent eight years building a career, a marriage, and a firm with her name on the door. When a woman she has never met walks into her office
- UNBECOMING: Drama screenplay, 132 pages, $6.99
Elena Vasquez has rebuilt a careful life after the accident that killed her sister. Friends, running routes, a firm that keeps her too busy to think. When a fri
- THE SPICE MERCHANT: Crime screenplay, 114 pages, $6.99
Yusuf Çelebi thought he sold cardamom. For twenty years his warehouses in the Grand Bazaar have been the quiet backbone of an Ottoman trade empire built by his
- DUBLIN ABSOLUTION: Crime screenplay, 143 pages, $6.99
Father Eamon Doyle wanted a quiet parish in the Liberties. What he got was the Irish Civil War arriving at his confessional, and the commander on the other side
- MERIDIAN POINT: Science Fiction screenplay, 123 pages, $6.99
Lena Vasik is one of eight people awake on a ship carrying fifty thousand sleeping colonists to a planet around Proxima b. When her agricultural deck starts kee
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UPLAND
NORA ENFIELD (18) has been on her father volunteer trail crew since she was twelve. TOM ENFIELD (48) is a high school biology teacher who has run the North Cascades trail crew for eleven years. On the traverse, weather arrives early and Tom
110 pages
THE CITATION
A West Point cadet idolizes his father, a Medal of Honor recipient from Fallujah. Then a dying veteran contacts him and says the ambush happened, but the hero did not. His father's medal is covering a cover up.
118 pages
PARISH LINE
A woman arrives in her dead sister's Appalachian town to collect her things and finds a ledger in the church basement listing every family that owes a sacrifice to the forest. Her sister's name is crossed out. Hers is next.
166 pages
PAID IN LEAD
Jack Morrison, sixty two, ex LAPD homicide turned private eye, takes a missing husband case that reopens a 2008 file he thought was closed. What he finds two days later is a body in a pool house, the dry blood of a killing he cannot remembe
98 pages
TUSKEGEE
A Tuskegee Airman is shot down over Italy by his own wingman on the orders of a racist colonel. The Italian partisans who find him will not believe a Black man could be an American pilot. To prove his identity he has to expose a secret that
134 pages
THE STERLING METHOD
The killer never left the room. He is the man helping the detective solve the case.
120 pages
FACETS
She stole the diamonds. They were fake. Now the real heist begins, and the curator who set the trap needs her help to pull it off.
118 pages
EVERY STREET BUT OURS
London, 1941. A duchess turns her Mayfair mansion into a hospital for the Blitz. One of her patients is a wounded Luftwaffe captain. His warnings about the next raid keep coming true, and she is about to learn why.
108 pages
EVERY MILE
Twelve people vanished from the same Texas rest stop over twelve years. Her daughter is the thirteenth. Linda is about to discover she was the first, and she is the only person alive who remembers why.
112 pages
BREACHED
She decoded the coordinates of an Allied convoy and begged her commander to warn the Navy. He refused. Then he told her the truth: the coordinates were not ships. They were Bletchley Park.
116 pages
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