An escape, every time you open one.
Say the name out loud: y'scape. That's the whole idea. Every series we publish is a ticket somewhere else: a different coastline, a different country, a different life for a few hundred pages. It's built for readers who want out for a while, not a lecture on why they should.
The category romance imprints of the last century figured this out first: readers don't buy an author, they buy a promise. A setting, a mood, a feeling they can find again next month. Kindle Unlimited and BookTok didn't invent that model, they just proved how fast it can move. We publish the same way, with one clear promise per series, delivered on every book. If readers keep coming back for more, that's the whole scoreboard.
Four ways in
Every book is set somewhere real, because armchair travel is one of the oldest reasons people read. Here's where each line takes you.
- The Tidewater Novels Storms, salvage, and inheritance on the Cape Fear coast of North Carolina, across 1954 and today.
- The Festival League Sports romance played out in three countries, from a hot summer on the Costa Brava to the Swiss Alps.
- To Stay Alternate-history space fiction, from a Tuscan family of fresco restorers to the edge of the solar system.
- The Cubit and the Quark A four-book thriller series about money, measurement, and time.
The travel guide inside
Every YSKAIPE book ends with a few pages of practical travel notes on the real places in the story. Finish the book, turn the page, and you have a reason to go. We think the journey is the reward, so we give you both.
Prefer to start on the ground? The Tidewater Novels and The Festival League each have an online trip guide, a virtual world of maps, dates, and itineraries: the Tidewater trip guide and the Festival League trip guide.
The same idea sits behind every character: each one has something real to lose, and every book is about what an escape costs and what it's worth.
Why it works this way
Every series answers to its readers, not to us. We watch what readers actually finish, what they leave five-star reviews for, and what they come back to buy again, then we build more of that, in a place worth visiting. No series survives on our say-so. It survives because readers keep opening the door.
Say hello
Questions, feedback, or a note about a book: write to hello@yskaipe.com, or find us on X and Instagram.