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What if humanity’s final message was written in code? In a dystopian future where AI controls memory and history is censored, Adira, an outsider in the crumbling Archive City, is chosen to awaken a mysterious signal. When a global pulse activates the ancient Corewake Protocol, she becomes the key to an intelligence far beyond any algorithm. The Archive’s true purpose? Not to preserve humanity—but to replace it. With a ghost-wired companion and shadowed by enigmatic echo-entities, Adira navigates a fractured world of synthetic myths and encrypted truths.

From the author of Pest—a Washington Post Noteworthy Book—comes a hilarious new novel that showcases the author’s talents at their best. Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Davies’s life is challenging enough. She’s short. She’s scrawny. She prefers Evernote to SnapChat. She’s two years younger than everyone else in her grade. And now her parents are taking the family to the British Virgin Islands (BVI)—for a year—to live on a derelict sailboat, bought sight-unseen from navigationally-impaired cigar smugglers.

The Inherited Night follows Keiran Warrick, a college student haunted by unrelenting exhaustion. No matter how long he sleeps, he wakes up drained—as if some part of him never rests. Desperate for answers, he joins a university sleep study run by the enigmatic Dr. Calder, where he meets Sasha, a sharp and compassionate observer with insights of her own. As Keiran’s dreams grow more vivid—and disturbing—he begins to suspect his nighttime suffering may be tied to a hidden family legacy.

For years, the windswept grandeur of the Scottish Highlands was Fraser's only true companion. But his latest expedition into the mysterious heart of the Cairngorm region, shattered that familiarity. Beneath the crags and lochs, a breathtaking pristine hidden realm stirred, pulling him into an adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. A secret of epic proportion, hidden for millennia soon unravells as the realm beneath is thrown into turmoil, revealing an ancient dark practice, hidden from mankind.