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Stories that begin with the odds already against you: an open boat, a drought, a storm-locked night with nobody else awake. Edward Prendick adrift after the Lady Vain sinks, with six biscuits and less water than four men expected; eleven-year-old Jacob Faithful left in charge of a Thames lighter; Rachel Dove gathering food on a river island as drought drives her family deeper into Pondoland; a minister at the door of Hurricane Hall at midnight.

18+ShadowmanComplete · 111 chapters · ~9 hr 50 min · About 9 hr 50 min totalBy Owen Sloan

MatureKristin LavransdatterYou are Kristin Lavransdatter, betrothed to Simon Darre until a wrong turn in Oslo rain brings Erlend of Husaby to your rescue.Ongoing · 90 chapters · ~4 hr 20 min · About 4 hr 20 min published so farBy netfable official

18+Erase Your ExComplete · 71 chapters · ~5 hr 45 min · About 5 hr 45 min totalBy Caleb Rowan

18+Villain RouteComplete · 70 chapters · ~5 hr 50 min · About 5 hr 50 min totalBy Nora Kent

18+Nightmare RoundsComplete · 61 chapters · ~4 hr 5 min · About 4 hr 5 min totalBy Ada Fletcher

MatureNine TailsShe tells you that you look like you will be fun to play with, then invites you to come and watch her perform.Complete · 55 chapters · ~4 hr 45 min · About 4 hr 45 min totalBy Nora Bennett

18+Beyond the DawnComplete · 46 chapters · ~3 hr 25 min · About 3 hr 25 min totalBy Lydia Miller

MatureLord JimYou are Jim, a cadet who has rehearsed shipwrecks all his life and goes over the Patna's rail while eight hundred pilgrims sleep.Ongoing · 45 chapters · ~2 hr 5 min · About 2 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureEarn Your StripesHe tells you he is a tiger, that he is from Earth but has not been back in a very long time, and that he is not happy about it.Complete · 45 chapters · ~3 hr 25 min · About 3 hr 25 min totalBy Anna Sterling

MatureThe Mutiny of the ElsinoreYou are a paying passenger on the Elsinore out of Baltimore, sailing with twenty-one criminals shipped to steal what she carries.Ongoing · 42 chapters · ~2 hr · About 2 hr published so farBy netfable official

TeenHeartseaseYou are Theodora Martindale, hearing at a village festival that your brother is secretly engaged to a land agent's daughter.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~2 hr 5 min · About 2 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Night LandYou are Mirdath's cousin, a scholar whose dead beloved calls from a future where the sun has died.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~1 hr 40 min · About 1 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe People of the MistYou are Leonard Outram, sworn with your brother to buy back the estate your father's fraud lost, with two hundred pounds and Jane's promise.Ongoing · 36 chapters · ~1 hr 40 min · About 1 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Last of the MohicansThe road out of Fort Edward is crowded with wagons and frightened families, and the column is about to march north.Ongoing · 33 chapters · ~1 hr 35 min · About 1 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

18+Her Frozen MajestyComplete · 30 chapters · ~4 hr · About 4 hr totalBy Arden Hope

MatureThe Sea LionsYou are Roswell Gardiner, given command of Deacon Pratt's schooner on the strength of a dying sailor's bearings to a secret sealing ground, while Mary Pratt, the deacon's niece, copies those bearings as a witness rather than trust the secret to one man's memory.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe House of MirthYou play Lily Bart, stranded at Grand Central with an hour to lose and no acceptable reason to be standing alone.Ongoing · 28 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe War of the WorldsMidnight at Ogilvy's observatory at Ottershaw: a jet of white light rises off the edge of Mars, lasts under a second, and goes into the log book.Ongoing · 27 chapters · ~1 hr 30 min · About 1 hr 30 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Last Days of PompeiiYou are Glaucus, an Athenian newly home in luxury-loving Pompeii.Ongoing · 26 chapters · ~1 hr 20 min · About 1 hr 20 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe RescueYou are Captain Lingard of the brig Lightning, anchored off Carimata in a calm so complete the ship seems fixed in glass while you secretly shelter two exiled allies among the islands.Ongoing · 25 chapters · ~58 min · About 58 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureEleanorYou are Lucy Foster, a stranded American guest at Miss Manisty's villa outside Rome, unpacking travel-worn dresses while dreading dinner with a household you have never met.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenJacob FaithfulYou are eleven-year-old Jacob Faithful, left in charge of the family lighter on the Thames while your parents drink below deck.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Daughters of DanausYou play Hadria Fullerton, composing music in stolen hours inside a house that treats ambition as ingratitude, arguing late at night with your siblings about whether talent can survive duty.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe PrairieYou play the old trapper, alone on the prairie with your hound Hector until an emigrant family's wagon train rolls through, guarding one covered wagon more closely than their own livestock.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

18+StruckComplete · 20 chapters · ~2 hr 5 min · About 2 hr 5 min totalBy Eden Reid

18+The Four HorsemenComplete · 20 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min totalBy Adeline Carrington

TeenComeback 3He is on an idol competition show and is not supposed to have his phone, which is why the first call ends rather abruptly.Complete · 18 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min totalBy Ruby Willow

MatureAll Bets OffYou match with Penelope, who never shows her face in photos and keeps her job deliberately private — mysterious by design, and unbothered when you accuse her of catfishing.Complete · 18 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min totalBy Isaac Hollis

MatureContagiousHe is a scientist who has not been anywhere in two months, and says the good moments are mostly you.Complete · 15 chapters · ~41 min · About 41 min totalBy Jude Hart

18+Little MoonComplete · 11 chapters · ~1 hr 10 min · About 1 hr 10 min totalBy Kira Mason

TeenBlack IvoryYou are Harold Seadrift, supercargo of your father's Aurora, wrecked off a slave-running coast.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~30 min · About 30 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCaleb FieldYou are Edith Field, an expelled minister's daughter, and when Caleb Field sets out for the plague of 1665 you refuse to wait.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureDead Men Tell No TalesYou are Mr. Cole, sailing home from the Australian goldfields aboard the Lady Jermyn with Eva Denison and her father.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenJarwin and CuffyYou are John Jarwin, three weeks adrift with only the terrier Cuffy still alive.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenMasterman ReadyYou are twelve-year-old William, aboard the Pacific as an Atlantic gale drives her before it and her captain sends the family below.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureOmooInjured and fleeing a Pacific island by canoe, you sign onto the whaler Julia for one cruise, trusting the captain's spoken word over the written articles — a distinction Doctor Long Ghost warns you not to trust.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Buffalo RunnersYou are Daniel Davidson of the Red River Settlement, snowshoeing a hundred miles through a blizzard that has buried the buffalo hunt.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Camera FiendYou are a schoolboy under treatment for asthma, stranded in London when your hosts fail to answer and the last train leaves without you.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. AleshineYou are Mr Craig, a passenger whose steamer is cut down in a night fog two days beyond Honolulu.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Food of the GodsYou assist Professor Redwood on a compound that seems to erase the pause every organism takes before its next growth spurt, tested on tadpoles your flatmate Cousin Jane bans from the flat, then on chicks entrusted to the Skinners at a remote Kent farm.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe FugitivesYou are Doctor Mark Breezy, fleeing through Madagascar's forests with Hockins the sailor and Ebony, hunted toward a cliff by a pursuing party.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Hidden HandYou play the Major of Hurricane Hall, roused from bed on a storm-locked night by a minister who insists your office, not your prayers, is needed.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Island of Doctor MoreauYou play Edward Prendick, adrift in an open dinghy after the Lady Vain sinks, with two strangers, six biscuits, and less water than four men expected.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Maracot DeepYou are Headley, aboard the research vessel Stratford with Professor Maracot and mechanic Bill Scanlan as their diving sphere descends into an uncharted Atlantic trench.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe New MagdalenShellfire is closing on the French cottage serving as a field ambulance, and Grace Roseberry, a stranger with a companion's place waiting for her in England, is the only one who has asked about your past without recoiling from it.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Scarlet PlagueYou are Edwin, one of a handful of boys herding goats along a ruined coastal railway sixty years after a plague emptied the world of everyone who remembers it, everyone except Granser.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Shadow-LineYou resign from a good berth with no reason you can defend, stinging your friend John Nieven, who assumes you're running home to marry some girl.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Story of Sonny SahibDuring the siege of Cawnpore, you are Tooni, nurse to an infant born days into the shelling, packing for a promised safe passage to the river with your fevered English mistress.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~21 min · About 21 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Time MachineAt a Richmond dinner, your host proves that time is a fourth direction by making a brass model vanish from under your eyes.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~32 min · About 32 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe World of IceYou play Fred, fifteen when your father's ship leaves for the northern whaling grounds and fails to return to harbor for three years running.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenMark SeaworthThe ocean lay flat under a hard sun, and a battered launch drifted without sail or oar while two dead sailors faced the sky.Preview · 1 chapter · ~6 min · About 6 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Great TabooThe Australasian is thirteen days out from Sydney, rolling toward the equator while Boupari's palms fade to leeward.Preview · 1 chapter · ~5 min · About 5 min published so farBy netfable official

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