Nicholas Roberts

Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Literature
2026-06-10 05:47:39 -

The Concrete Jungle (Variant V-03)
In the glass towers of Manhattan, power was the only currency that mattered. Sloane Sterling was the undisputed queen of the hedge fund world, a woman whose heart was as precise and cold as the algorithms she used to bankrupt her competitors. To Sloane, people were assets to be acquired or liabilities to be liquidated. Arthur Penhaligon was a liability. A brilliant architect from a...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Literature
2026-06-10 11:08:14 -

Sample-V09: The Velvet Shadow
The Blackwood Manor stood on the edge of a cliff in the Yorkshire moors, a gothic monstrosity of grey stone and weeping ivy. Elias was a man of science, a biologist who believed that everything in nature could be categorized and understood. He had come to the manor to study the rare flora of the region, but he found something far more intriguing in the cellar. Lilith had been chained in the...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Literature
2026-06-03 10:45:15 -

The Oracle of Whitechapel
ACT ONE: THE ARRIVAL The fog rolled off the Thames like a shroud, thick and yellow as old bruised flesh. Arthur Blackwood pulled his coat tighter and stepped through the archway into Whitechapel, a man with nothing but a leather satchel containing three half-decayed astrology texts, a brass astrolabe he had bought for sixpence from a scrap merchant, and a conviction that he would starve before...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Literature
2026-06-02 19:07:02 -

The Dust of the Frontier
(Variant V014: Western Epic) The town of Redemption was a lie. It was a collection of sun-bleached shacks and a single, rotting saloon, perched on the edge of a desert that wanted to swallow everything whole. In Redemption, the only law was the speed of a man's draw and the depth of his greed. Silas Thorne was the town's only one-man law, a former cavalry officer who had traded his uniform for...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Literature
2026-06-06 20:23:02 -

The Heir of Blackwater Bay
The salt wind howled through the rigging like a thing in torment. Thomas Blackwood woke to the taste of blood and rum, his wrists bound with rope that bit into raw flesh. A man with a face like cured leather leaned over him, pouring a cup of something brown and foul between his teeth. "Drink, boy. Or swim." Thomas swallowed. The liquid burned all the way down. He opened his eyes to a sky the...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Spellen
2026-06-05 23:55:08 -

THE QUIET END
Frank O'Malley woke at six in the morning. It was not an alarm clock that woke him. It was the habit of waking at six, established twelve years ago in a base camp in the Ho Chi Minh Trail and never broken, even after he broke everything else. He lay in the dark. The apartment was small—one bedroom, one bathroom, a kitchen that was really just a corner with a stove and a refrigerator the size of...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Literature
2026-06-01 12:32:16 -

The Requiem of the Lost Muse
(V-10: Tragic Romance) **Act I: The Canvas of Longing** Lucien lived in a Paris that was dying of beauty. It was the end of the century, and the city was a fever dream of absinthe and velvet. Lucien was a painter who didn't paint the world as it was, but as it existed in the 'Aether'—a spiritual dimension where emotions took physical form. He had spent ten years searching for Clara, a woman he...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Literature
2026-06-09 23:40:51 -

The Last Heir of the Sun
(V-12: Grand Narrative) The palace of the House of Valerius was a skeleton of marble and gold, its great domes cracked, its gardens overgrown with thorns and nightshade. It had been the center of the world for five hundred years, a beacon of art and law. Now, it was a tomb. Princess Sophia lay in the center of the Great Hall, her body a fragile splinter of bone and silk. She was the last. The...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Literature
2026-06-06 00:40:52 -

The Patent of Perfection
(New York Urban Style) In the glass towers of Manhattan, the only thing more valuable than gold was a sequence of nucleotides. Victor Vance was the CEO of Gen-Sys, a man who viewed the human genome as a messy first draft that needed a professional editor. "The goal isn't just health, Sophia," Victor said, staring out at the skyline. "The goal is the 'Apex Human.' Intelligence, beauty,...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Literature
2026-06-09 18:03:58 -

The Cycle of Fate
The air in the boardroom of Vane Capital smelled of expensive ozone and cold ambition. Julian Vane, the youngest managing director in the firm's history, stared at the digital ticker tape scrolling across the wall. He felt a familiar shiver—not of fear, but of recognition. Six months ago, Julian had discovered a leather-bound journal in his grandfather's attic. It belonged to Silas Vane, a...

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Dance
2026-06-10 08:56:07 -

Signal Fire, Jazz Age
Signal Fire, Jazz Age Rex Pomeroy came to with salt water in his mouth and sand in his shoes. He pushed himself up, coughing, and found that he was not alone. Around him, on a crescent of white sand backed by tall dunes and low scrub, six other children lay sprawled like discarded dolls. A capsized yacht rested on its side thirty yards out, its hull groaning against the shore with each wave....

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Nicholas Roberts toegevoegd een audio Dance
2026-06-03 02:10:03 -

Part One

The heat in Mississippi in July doesn't just sit on you. It owns you. It presses its palm against your forehead and says, I know your name. Sebastian Harrow knew this heat. He had been born in it, raised in it, and for twenty-eight years had let it define everything about him. The Harrow family had lived in this town—a place called Harrow's End, population four hundred and seventeen, post...

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