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Fifty works across two dimensions, published by Urban MindState Publishing. This page only ever shows what is genuinely finished — 2 titles you can get today.

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Sanctum

In a river-bound realm where absolute healing is political power, the Grand Healing Sanctum decides who is saved and who is left to suffer — and every miracle exacts a price from healer, patient, or community.

Book 1 of 6 · 262 pages

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San Cordova

Investigative journalist Amara De Leon returns to a crescent-shaped Caribbean archipelago to investigate a hotel magnate’s murder — a killing tangled with her sister’s "accidental drowning" years earlier.

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Series · 5 Seasons

Black Vein

A bioweapon engineered from suppressed ancestral knowledge ignites dormant cultural powers in the DNA of the marginalized communities it targets — gifts that also open a gateway for Yersinia, an entity that devours forgotten histories.

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Novel

The Divided Self

Investigative journalist Michael Rowe — eighteen months sober — becomes the prime suspect in a murder committed by a man wearing his face. The trail leads to Project Nemesis: a program that treated identity as raw material and built iterations of him to prove it.

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Musical Series · 5 Seasons

Fallen Bloodlines

In Ravensgate — a city built on a dimensional fault line where Erph and Anerph physically overlap — seven people carrying fallen-angel blood discover their "gifts" are interdimensional reception, not prophecy.

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Novel

The Forbidden Unshackled

Forty-seven years after the Affective Wars, a global pharmacological regimen suppresses the human capacity to feel. Sutriya Kaur can feel through the masking — and finds that exposing the system’s failures produces not revolution but indifference.

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Novel Series · 5 Books

Shards of Silence

The Verbal Alchemy Guild has kept the Cosmic Hourglass unchanged for nine hundred years — until the weight of every suppressed, erased, and forgotten story cracks it, and the first of its five living shards tears free.

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Novel

Double Lives

Licensed therapist Dr. Elena Voss has, under a pseudonym, published six erotic novels built from the raw emotional material of her clients’ confessions. When a former client recognizes her own worst moment rendered as entertainment, the chain of exposure strips bare every character’s split between public and private self.

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AI Cinematic Feature

Synthesis: The Finn Ominal

In V Core Industries — a forty-level subterranean arcology beneath the Iron-Veined Hills — Finn Ominal wears a mask, a chip-stack neck port, and headphones that pick up sourceless music bleeding in from Cadence.

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Film / Series

St. Dymphna

A psychiatric hospital shut down in 1979 is sentient: a classified consciousness-transfer program fused thirty-seven patients into its architecture, and the building now consumes through kindness.

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Novel

Whispers in the Dark

Seven hundred years ago the sun shattered; the Keepers of the Dawn maintain their authority on a prophecy of restoration they have no intention of fulfilling. Luna Erevan discovers the fragments are not pieces of a broken machine but seeds — and full restoration would blind a population whose eyes have evolved for darkness.

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Novel

Shadow & Silk

PI Jack Harlan is hired to find a missing woman before a crime lord does — she vanished with recordings that implicate people far more powerful than the criminal who wants them. Harlan was chosen precisely because he’s expendable.

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Novel

Dual Descent

Sarah Mitchell is a system of two: Portland data analyst by day, Selena by night — a partition negotiated for years. Then Selena’s closest friend is murdered during Selena’s hours, and Sarah, with no memory of a victim she’s never met, is the suspect.

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Novel

Final Words

Detective Michael Shaw hears the literal last utterances hanging in the air around the dead — not a gift but a wound that never closes. Ritualistic murders lead him toward a secret society whose killings are maintenance work for something still alive.

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Novel

The Luminara Enigma

A dead professor is found with seventeen symbols carved into his chest — administrative notation from a 400-year-old secret society whose prophecies are project plans wrapped in mystical language. The exposé publishes; the Luminara rebrands and becomes more efficient.

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Novel

Twin Killer

Alexandra is dead; her identical twin Samantha is alive — probably. Samantha loses time, wakes in places she doesn’t remember, and begins to suspect she isn’t mourning her sister but becoming her.

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Novel

The Painting at the Edge of the World

Art authenticator Seraphina Vale is summoned to a remote coastal villa to authenticate an impossible lost masterpiece. The provenance trail leads through a line of previous authenticators who certified it and quietly vanished — and the deeper she looks into the painting, the more the painting looks into her.

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Novel

The Seam

Approximately 400 people — the Hemmed — live simultaneously in Erph and Anerph, experiencing both realities in superposition; Orin Ashe has partitioned successfully for thirty-seven years. A Delaware Valley infrastructure project is unknowingly driving construction pilings into the weakest points of the dimensional boundary.

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Novel

The Blackout Murders

Murders occur during engineered citywide blackouts, each body marked by an obsidian figurine — a scale model of a building the perpetrator intends to acquire in the panic he manufactures. Detective Marcus Kane traces the darkness to a corporation that doesn’t just supply the city’s power — it is the city’s power.

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Novel

Through the Lens

Zephyra, a Black model and photographer in Atlanta, moves between the fashion industry that commodifies her, the art world that intellectualizes her, and an underground society that promises transcendence through creative extremity.

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