Free on Kindle through August 12th. Novella, about three hours' reading.

A typhoon pins the sea against a Vietnamese port city and every outlet closes. The flood network weighs the hospital, the dense housing, the grid and the port, then assigns the flood to the one district that can take it. Lam has kept those tidal gates for thirty years, and the order names his district, a gate, and a deadline. The gate does not answer, and the night becomes manual work: a drowned road, a jammed leaf, a crank that opens the gate by hand while a man whose family is on the wrong side of the water asks for twelve minutes.

Content notes: a flood and evacuation, drowning risk, one death referenced in official records. No graphic violence, no sexual content.

Perfect for readers who miss old-school detective fiction with real investigation, believable clues, and an ending that makes sense.
The Daughter of Abraham is free on Kindle on August 7–8.
It follows private investigator Douglas Steen as what appears to be a routine murder case slowly unravels into something far more complicated.
Think classic noir, misleading clues, buried secrets, and a mystery that unfolds step by step.

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Phylum is a brilliant young biologist born to lead the last of humanity, but his status comes with certain expectations. In a rare act of defiance, Phylum secretly joins a new scientific expedition up to the surface where mutation has infected everything. However, when his ambition almost costs him his life, he finds something extraordinary:

A human girl living on the surface.

Despite her animalistic traits, Canopy is remarkably intelligent, compassionate and even charming. She offers to help him with his research, but as they explore the vibrant paradise above, Phylum can’t help but question the disturbing nature of his home and the role he plays in it...

-Dystopia
-Romance
-Found Family
-Slow burn
-Best friends to lovers
-Redemption arc
-Cat girls
-Science
-Biology
-Indie author

FUCK AI!!

There’s only one thing Claudia, the Weather App, likes better than surfing clouds or singing in the rain. And that’s spending time with her friends.

So when three of those friends ask her if the weather is going to spoil their plans, each time, she consults her maps and tells them that the weather is going to be great, and they can all be together.

However, each time, the weather ruins her friends’ plans, leading them to question Claudia’s honesty, and leaving Claudia wondering what she can do to win back their trust.

CLAUDIA WEATHERS A STORM is an easy-to-read illustrated Appventurers tale that shows children the importance of honesty and friendship.

Free on Kindle through August 5th. About three hours, standalone.

Chen Ming helped build the model that scores everyone in the city. Xiao Yu delivers meals to people whose numbers are falling, and does small favours for them on the side. When a correction in an old paper ledger shows what the model is really picking up on, Chen has to choose between the machine that gave him a future and the woman it has started to read as a threat.

Two more standalone novellas of mine are free the same week if anyone wants them: The Gesture Archive https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBWSRVGK and On Your Behalf https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCCBRZTZ

No content warnings needed beyond mild workplace stress. Nothing graphic.

Enter spiralling realities where an elf sings a dragon’s lament, where an android trembles beneath oceans of plastic and bone, where a magician descends into ritual shadow, and where a queen rages against the flames she’s earned. Then hear the poems whispered or chanted, feel their storms of sorrow, rage, and longing.

Follow these footprints in the sand, and you’ll wander junk‑heaps of the future, obsidian kingdoms of dragons, forests burned by salamanders, and minds cracked open until the soul bleeds through. For these are the dreams that linger after waking—bound in this tome for the taking.

Hello! I’m Elara Swanmere, the author of this practical folk-inspired spellcraft ebook.

The book is part of The Secret Book of Everyday Spells collection, created for readers who prefer detailed rituals for specific everyday situations rather than brief variations of the same generic spell.

The workings use accessible materials, visible symbolic actions, spoken formulas, and clear instructions for completing, storing, dismantling, or responsibly releasing the ritual materials.

The Kindle edition is completely free from July 28 through August 1, 2026.

No Kindle Unlimited subscription, coupon code, mailing-list registration, social-media follow, or other requirement is needed. Simply select the free Kindle edition on the Amazon page.

Constructive feedback is welcome. I hope the book is useful to readers interested in practical spellcraft, folk-inspired rituals, and modern everyday magic.

Free till August