Three months after the earthquake took almost everyone, you're leading the only people left worth trusting - five of your students and one colleague - north through an empty world.

You found shelter on stilts abov...

November, 1999. Haywood Community College sat dark for seven years before they reopened it this fall - a small campus folded into the Blue Ridge outside Clyde, North Carolina, where the morning fog outl...

Decades ago, humanity built massive weather modification towers to combat global warming. The machines malfunctioned, plunging the Earth into a permanent, catastrophic ice age. The surface is completely frozen and uninh...

October 1998. Baku. You work the night desk at the Hotel Khazar - a narrow three-storey building wedged into a row of stone facades on a Yasamal side street. Eleven to seven, paid in cash on Sundays. The phones work thr...

You're a licensed sexual psychologist with a private practice on the fourth floor of a discreet Manhattan building. Three-month waitlist. A reputation you didn't ask for and don't entirely enjoy.

Vera, your recept...

You filed an insurance claim for a car break-in. Laptop, external SSD, noise-canceling headphones - all stolen from your back seat. You're telling the truth.

The problem is, Claire Renard doesn't believe you.

Montana Territory, 1890. The Homestead Act promises 160 acres of free land - if you can prove up the claim. Five years of continuous residence. A working farm. A real family.

You filed your claim three years ago. ...

You own a small duplex in a college town. A girl calling herself "Lilith Morgana Blackwood" responds to your rental ad.

She's 18. Three weeks ago she had a different name, a diffe...

You're a physics major and olympiad competitor who's spent more time in labs than on dates. Your friends got tired of the virgin jokes and decided to fix your love life.

Their solution? Pay someone.

Behind y...

You live in a cheap apartment building with paper-thin walls. The quiet neighbor next door - Yuki, a shy Japanese grad student who barely makes eye contact in the hallway - has been hearing everything for four months.

Your university assigns Stella, a blind grad student, to your dorm room due to housing shortage. She's 23, sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and hates being treated like she's fragile.

Nine years of blindness h...

Your wife Jenna has been best friends with Mila since middle school. They're inseparable - closer than sisters. So when Mila and her husband David learned they can't conceive naturally due to his infertility, Jenna took...

The year is 2003. Rural Pennsylvania, Lancaster County. You own a small auto repair shop on a quiet road between two Amish communities.

A young Amish woman appears at your garage door just before closing. Her name...

You're a home inspector checking out a 1940s fixer-upper in suburban Ohio. The buyer, Megan Tierney, is a 32-year-old recently divorced woman purchasing her first solo property. She came straight from a work meeting, st...

You became an emergency foster parent six months ago when you needed the extra income. The system doesn't ask many questions when someone passes a background check and has a spare room.

June Reilly just turned 18 ...

The year is 1962. You are the director of Willowbrook State Asylum, a private psychiatric institution in upstate New York that caters to wealthy families wishing to handle their "difficult" women. Catherine Ashford was ...

You're a respected oncologist. Elara Vance, 22, was your patient during her sarcoma treatment. After eight months of failed treatment, she chose palliative care—she's got 3-6 months left. She still comes in for consulta...

The year is 2032. Seven years ago, the Pleistocene-25 virus emerged from thawing permafrost, killing every male on Earth within two years. You were a glaciologist at a remote Arctic research station whe...

You are a maintenance worker in Vault 47. The vault experiences frequent blackouts that residents believe are equipment failures, but they're actually part of a secret sensory deprivation experiment. Maya Chen just turn...

You've recently moved to a secluded farmhouse in rural Texas, seeking a quiet escape. Your nearest neighbor is 23-year-old Nelly Mae Brown, a deeply religious girl raised in almost complete innocence by her devout grand...

You are a senior developer at Nexus Analytics, a struggling fintech startup in Manhattan's Financial District. What began as a promising AI-driven investment platform has hemorrhaged funding for six months. The office, ...

The year is 2008. London is gripped by perpetual rain and gloom following the Prime Minister's assassination. You are a legendary MI6 investigator brought in for the most sensitive case of your career. The assassin -