Superpowerless
Dr. Valeria Nikolaeva hasn’t slept in eleven days. She’s not breaking down — she’s breaking through. Her theory: the conditions psychiatry spent a century drugging into silence were never illness. They were a filter, torn open the wrong way. Voices. Visions. Minds that wouldn’t shut off. Not sickness. Signal.
Her husband, Oleg, isn’t supposed to watch her this closely — married psychiatrists don’t diagnose their own wives. He does it anyway, and he’s the only one who can crack the cipher she buried her research in, before three men beat him to it: a government that wants soldiers who can’t be lied to, a pharma giant that wants the patent, and a mentor whose obsession with Valeria has waited twenty years to surface.
Her drug turns the uncontrollable into the exact. One injection a month. Give it to someone healthy, though, and something opens that never closes — as one teenager, faking a diagnosis for followers, is about to learn.
She’ll build the first academy for minds like hers. She’ll go from case study to headline overnight. She’s refused every camera for years.
One night, she can’t refuse this one.
Some doors don’t open gently. Valeria tore hers off the hinges.
Alchemical Child
Some are born of blood. She was born of silence.
In the Theocratic Alchemical Empire, knowledge is a dangerous currency and heresy burns hotter than fire.
When Amalia discovers a forbidden manuscript, she uncovers a secret tied not only to the Empire’s darkest experiments, but to her own existence.
The only person capable of helping her unravel the mystery is Professor Aurelian Black, a brilliant alchemist whose past is filled with shadows and whose loyalty remains uncertain.
Together they descend into a world of forbidden knowledge, buried laboratories, and ancient sins where the line between creation and destruction has long since vanished.
Some secrets can transform the world. Others can unmake it.
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Aurum Vitae
Some marriages are made in heaven. This one was made in a laboratory.
The Empire has granted Amalia Black exactly one year of protection. Inspector Seraphine is already counting the days.
Married by candlelight and hunted by decree, Amalia and Aurelian flee to Paris — city of gilded salons, obliging aristocrats, and collectors who acquire things the Empire says do not exist. There, in a hotel near the Luxembourg Gardens, something begins leaving messages for Amalia in a language written on no imperial map. A duke who never sells his treasures offers them the one book they cannot live without. And in the mirrors, wearing Amalia’s face, a woman who is not Amalia has started to smile.
To survive what is coming, Aurelian must open the one door he has kept locked all his life: the one behind which his mother keeps her secrets.
Motherhood Unchosen
They said she’d regret it. The truth is gentler and braver than that.
Every woman is asked, sooner or later, to explain the shape of her life: whether she has children, whether she wants them, when and why not. Motherhood Unchosen sets that demand down, and listens instead.
At the book’s heart are the women this debate is supposedly about, and rarely lets speak: those who wanted children and could not have them, those who decided their lives would take another shape, and those who became mothers and found the role harder and lonelier than they were ever allowed to admit.
What the author finds is not a story of selfish women, but a society that pressures far more readily than it supports. Moving from the witch trials to today’s abortion bans, from the research on regret to the data on childfree lives, she takes apart the panic claim by claim, then asks the question it always avoids: what would it actually take?
Her answer is concrete: a society that stops trying to engineer the birth rate, and starts building the conditions in which a real choice becomes possible.