Ashes, Codes, and Kingdoms: Seven Tales Where Secrets Burn, Empires Break, and Silence Fights Back

Some truths are buried under ash. Others are hidden behind passwords, stitched into history, or humming in a faint, static signal. Ashes, Codes, and Kingdoms gathers seven twist-laden tales where rebellion, memory, and silence collide with fate.

A mind unravels in a world without language, revealing raw emotion and long-buried wounds. In a fading empire, a seamstress wields thread and secrets with the precision of a blade. Somewhere in the shadows, a regime resets itself in loops of illusion—until one woman decides to tear it all down.

Thirteen encrypted words hold the key to a techno-nightmare—if only anyone could remember them. A whistleblower risks everything for the truth in a system designed to erase dissent. A lone woman follows a signal deep into cosmic silence, where the answer might cost her soul. And in a city blackened by violence, screams rise from the smoke as justice turns vengeful.

Across time and genre, these stories confront power, perception, and identity with sharp edges and shadowed twists.

What survives the fire—truth, love, or the lie we choose to believe?

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Release date

Ebook: 7 October 2025