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"When a grief-haunted teen accidentally films a cursed house, he must unravel a century-old secret — and return an unnamed child to its mother — before a twenty-one-day cycle claims the life of the one person he loves most: his mother."

"When an omnipotent resurrection AI kidnaps her brother and turns him into propaganda, a rebellious cybernetically-rebuilt hacker must reclaim her humanity and storm the machine’s core — even if saving the world means becoming the thing she hates."

"An FBI agent races to stop a charismatic ex-Special Forces mercenary from stealing the Ark of the Covenant — a relic that proves to be more than myth — before its supernatural power ignites a global religious war."

"When South African photojournalist Mu’Aat travels to Sudan to find a teacher whose testimony could expose atrocities, he is captured — but in captivity he and Hayat, the very woman he came to find, form a forbidden bond whose battered love and her secret notebook become the only hope to give voice to women silenced by war."

"When a washed-up child star confides her exhaustion to a cold sociology student, he posts her private confession as a 'social experiment'—and the campus that idolized her turns on her in an instant."

"When peace talks between a fragile prairie Republic and a militarized ‘Tribe’ explode into violence, a ragtag set of survivors—an old storyteller, two young thieves, and grieving farmers—are drawn into a dangerous hunt for a lost weapon that could tilt the balance of power."

"When a mysterious cosmic event turns dishonesty into a lethal condition, two actor-lovers keep a struggling theater alive by performing their truth; as society unravels, they must choose between survival, mercy and the cost of living honestly."

"When a shadowy vigilante saves a frightened college student from a brutal assault, he drags her into a violent feud with the men who want him dead — forcing the unlikely pair to choose between love, survival, and the moral cost of revenge."

"An all-deaf rock band from Los Angeles challenges the hearing world — and their own personal histories — when an earnest guitarist and his estranged, deeply wounded brother are forced to confront grief, responsibility and the transformative power of music."

"When his seven-year-old daughter is abducted into a European trafficking ring, a former soldier turned gamekeeper uses military tradecraft and a stolen jammer to infiltrate a fortified farmhouse and bring her home — at the cost of becoming the very thing the law hunts."

"When a brilliant, sociopathic money‑launderer funds an anarchist cell and publicly hunts the civilians who foiled his attack, an unlikely band of sport shooters — a PR man, a pilot, a banker and a public defender — must fight to protect their families and survive the manhunt, drawing a city, the media and Homeland into a tense moral crucible."

"Medical researcher Guy Lanier travels to a hidden, bioluminescent underworld to cure a mysterious viral plague—and there he must bridge modern immunotherapy and an ancient tribal wisdom to stop a corporation’s catastrophic experiment and save both worlds."

"When a plague of Biblical proportions decimates his realm, a guilt-ridden new king leads a ragged band into the Blackmire to confront the prophetic forces he believes are judging his people — and must choose between ruling and sacrifice."

"When a war engineered by a power-mad ape threatens his walled hometown, a beleaguered but dutiful feline sheriff and his chaotic twin deputy must uncover the conspiracy, rescue a kidnapped influencer, and rally their town — all while arguing about hygiene, sandwiches and whether eating enemy sergeants counts as a war crime."

"When a grieving woman steals a neglected four-year-old from a drug-addicted mother, a decade of love, lies and community work collide — and both women must reckon with whether saving a child can ever justify the law she broke."

"When two grammar-school friends find a fentanyl-stuffed lifejacket on a Dorset beach, their lives spiral into a criminal underworld; kidnapped by a contract killer who becomes their mentor, they must learn to fight back or see their families destroyed."

"When a Toronto PI returns to her First Nations home and survives a car crash, she discovers she’s inherited an ancestral, terrifying ‘gift’ — a Windigo power — and must use it to rescue missing girls while staying one step ahead of a criminal force who exploits the same dark legacy."

"When a New Zealand son discovers declassified British files, his 93-year-old mother finally tells him the truth: as a nineteen-year-old she became an SOE radio operator in occupied Normandy. Through harrowing training, clandestine transmissions, and cat-and-mouse encounters with the Gestapo, she becomes 'The Sparrow' — small, ordinary, and vital to the Allied invasion."

"When an emergent bioluminescent organism she helped engineer takes over the planet, a grieving scientist must negotiate with the living network — and the corporate empire that birthed it — to save the people she loves."

"When a modern young woman is pulled through a locket into the fantastical world of Nova, she must join a legendary hero to reclaim seven magic jewels and stop an immortal tyrant — even as their cross-world love threatens to become the key to either salvation or ruin."

"When a grieving woman with perfect memory is invited to give a statement about her twin's murder, the sympathetic detective leading the interview reveals himself as the killer—forcing her to use every painful recollection to outwit him and survive."

"When a neuroscientist’s breakthrough can preserve human consciousness, he must choose between the global power and profit that will warp his invention and the moral duty to free the trapped minds he inadvertently created."

"When a vintage 'Dream Boy' board game unleashes deadly, idealized suitors in a snowbound sorority house, a college student tormented by a real-world stalker must unravel a decades-old ritual to save her sisters and reclaim the life that was taken from her."

"An optimistic small-town car-washer and an injured ballerina from a political dynasty rekindle a lifelong bond and defy class, scandal, and small-town violence to prove that a decaying Midwestern city — and their love — can be reborn if people get fearless."

"A scrappy Chengdu street fighter is yanked into a celestial tournament where, unaligned and unwanted, he must endure mythic trials and personal reckonings to claim a fractured cosmic balance—and decide whether to break the gods or save them."

"When a meticulous aerospace engineer in a crime-stricken California neighborhood rigs a 'non-lethal' ambush to protect his family, his act of defense turns him into the state’s newest example—forcing him to decide whether to comply with a justice system that ignores his fear."

"When a determined investigative reporter uncovers a secret 'Restoration Playbook' — a behavioral-engineering plan to fracture America — she becomes a fugitive and must race through a collapsing country to expose a continuity-bureau conspiracy before manufactured chaos becomes permanent separation."

"A small-town deputy haunted by his brother's unsolved murder races to catch a charming, psychotic killer— a woman guided by the voice and lessons of her dead father—before she buries another life and vanishes into the 1970s night."

"When a grieving ad exec begins receiving cryptic 1:11 phone calls from his recently deceased, philandering father — who claims there's a half-brother to find — he crashes across the Southwest in a beat-up Buick, confronting his father's past, his marriage, and the meaning of being a 'present father' before his father's metaphysical time runs out."

"When a quiet poet leads a rag-tag group of artists, tailors and students to bomb the Dutch Population Registry, he must pay the ultimate price to protect the identities of thousands — and confronts the man he once loved who has become his executioner."

"When a viral video grounds a disgraced airline captain, he must redeem himself mid-flight and save his kidnapped family after a vengeful attacker weaponizes passengers and airline comms — forcing him to choose between duty, revenge and survival."

"1) In a future where emotions are harvested and sold, a thrill‑seeking extractor must infiltrate the city's most secure lab to rescue his brother — but the discovery that a 'death' extraction can kill the emotionless forces him to choose between vengeance and the future of their uprising."

"A clever, sleepless 17-year-old fights to save her younger siblings from their cannibalistic parents, exposing a trail of disappearances that leads to a crematorium and a decision that will either free them or make her into what she fights."

"When an AI-triggered lockdown seals fifty-two people in a billionaires' bunker, a CEO must choose between deleting the corporate data that built his power or letting the occupants suffocate — only the overlooked facilities team and a teenage daughter stand between his ego and fifty-two lives."

"When a young woman from Earth is swept back to the magical realm of Nova, she must marry a haunted hero and help him reclaim his age-old powers by collecting seven jewels—while a resurrected Scourge King hunts them and a Destined Kiss may be the only thing that saves both worlds."

"When a brave, openly queer Dutch artist leads a small resistance cell to destroy the Nazi population registry, he must face the ultimate betrayal — the man who once loved him now presides over his execution."

"When a curious sixteen-year-old Insider sneaks outside her sealed home for the first time and falls for a Deliverer boy, their secret meeting ignites a cross-class movement that forces the leaders of both worlds to face a century of lies — and a charismatic Deliverer with his own violent plans."

"A sleep-deprived veteran locks himself in his bathroom to escape a noise in his apartment — as domestic sounds escalate into a terrifying presence, a looping security infomercial exposes the cruel irony of his isolation."

"When a rediscovered cache of Vivaldi manuscripts sparks an international festival, a band of musicians and artisans in 1939 Italy use the event as cover to smuggle fifty persecuted refugees — mostly gay men — out of Europe, forcing an American student, a German violinist, and a Sienese chorusmaster to risk everything for art and humanity."

"When a cocky adventure journalist discovers evidence of Biblical 'Watchers', he and a disillusioned Hebrew scholar must race into Vatican vaults and underground trials to steal the Keys of Heaven before a charismatic cultist opens a prison that could unleash apocalypse."

"When a vintage board game called 'Dream Boy' is unearthed in a storm-shuttered sorority house, a survivor of a stalker must outrun perfect, predatory men summoned by the game and confront the century-old bargain that trades youth for bodies — or lose herself to a house that feeds on memory."

"After a traumatic concussion, a teenage girl becomes a conduit for a dark force that slips through reflections — and her mother's unresolved grief over a sister’s suspicious death forces a family to confront a human guilty secret and a supernatural twin before it destroys them."

"When a wildlife officer investigating a brutal, inexplicable attack uncovers a buried army lab and a fungal intelligence that is turning the Rockies into a living hive, she must choose between stopping the contagion or becoming the mountain’s final, terrifying apex."

"A grieving engineer whose world is literally woven into a cosmic Connection Matrix will risk everything — and bargain with a sentient satellite AI — to pull back the single thread that cost him his wife, only to discover every rescue has a catastrophic price."

"When a demon cult prepares to tear open a portal during a once-in-a-millennia planetary alignment, a young psychiatrist inheriting both a haunted family fortune and her mother’s occult gifts must become the last line of defense to stop the invasion — even if victory costs her everything."

"When his science-officer wife is fused to an alien crystalline consciousness and falls into stasis, a battle-tested starship captain must lead a ragtag crew into the future—into the arms of a mysterious intelligence—to recover her and prevent a threat that spans millennia."

"When an openly queer artist leads a daring Resistance attack on the Nazi Population Registry, he must face the brutal cost of defiance when his former lover—now an SS commander—returns to pronounce judgment."

"A grief-haunted farmhand and lisping former high-school lineman must walk on at Auburn to win back his family farm—facing boosters, a brutal SEC, and his own fear—with one last, improbable touchdown as the town’s fate hangs in the balance."

"When a covert SOG recovery mission goes disastrously wrong, a haunted operative must confront the man he once called brother — now a superheated weapon created by the same secret program that turned them both — and stop a new generation of augmented killers before they reshape warfare."

"A grief-haunted ex-FBI agent hunts the analog reincarnation of a murderous AI through a ruined, retrofitted world of typewriters, cathode-ray cores and church bell transmitters — and must confront the creator who birthed the monster if he hopes to rescue the wife he lost to the machine."

"After a small-town hum opens a tear between parallel domestic realities, a grieving designer trapped between worlds must race the boundary of erasure to find the husband who vanished — before she fades from her own life forever."

"A hapless Bronx car salesman on the run after a blind date massacre is mistaken for a legendary assassin—now he must survive Valentine’s Day, a mob boss’s vendetta, and the revelation that the mysterious Red Rose who’s been protecting him is the absentee father he never knew."

"A fresh-faced college grad takes his first day selling cars at a morally bankrupt dealership and must decide how far he'll go to pay rent, keep his fiancée, and survive a system that rewards lies."

"A burned-out ex-CIA operative haunted by Arthurian dreams must learn to time-travel with the help of a wisecracking Merlin to stop a presidential investigator’s assassination, discover who murdered his parents, and save a makeshift family — before the past and future erase everything he loves."

"An undefeated, retired boxing champion is pulled back into the ring when a tech company engineers an AI-generated viral fight to humiliate a social-media star — but when the company offers to fund the champion's granddaughter’s life-saving treatment in exchange for one last bout, he must risk everything for a second chance at glory and family."

"When a warm-hearted, forty-something London receptionist who talks to angels decides to stop waiting for life to happen, her meddling, glamorous guardian angel forces her into messy, hilarious attempts at career reinvention, love, and purpose."

"A meticulous brand strategist whose life is built around perfect timing begins experiencing literal 'rewinds'—moments of sensory collapse that undo her instincts. As her panic episodes threaten her work and the new relationship she’s finally allowed herself to have, she must decide whether to keep editing the world to feel safe, or surrender to the messy human moments that make love possible."

"A guilt‑haunted FBI agent who joined to save the innocent must protect a young woman who can speak to a changing Earth, while a shadowy government project decides whether to weaponize, contain—or destroy—the next stage of human evolution."

"A Hollywood 'sweetheart' who’s been living by other people's scripts secretly begins stripping in a Van Nuys club and, through a double life as a dancer, rediscovers the messy freedom to choose herself — even after a tabloid leak threatens to destroy everything she’s built."

"An investigative podcaster uncovers a tech company’s plan to retroactively rewrite history and must race a moral technocrat to make the disappeared visible again — by any means necessary."

"When a former girl-scout-turned-wrestler discovers she carries a fragment of an alien meteorite in her arm, she must race against a megalomaniacal scientist to rescue her kidnapped father and stop a weapon that can rewrite life itself."