Being special has never been this dangerous.

In the shadows of a covert world, two souls bound by secrets find their fates intertwined. Michael, an operative for a covert CIA division, is tasked with befriending Ruby, a seemingly ordinary woman, to recover critical intelligence stolen by a rogue agent who had infiltrated Ruby’s life as her closest friend.

As Michael and Ruby grow closer, they realize their lives are intricately woven in ways they could never have fathomed, and they decide to join forces. Soon, they are on the run from sinister forces that seek to manipulate and control them.

In a desperate race against time, the couple must reclaim their pasts and unearth long-buried secrets before being dragged into a dark future that could have global repercussions.

A gripping, romantic thriller that will keep you guessing until the last page.

Here’s what you’ll discover in just 150 pages (alongside 102 original photos):

• How I’ve stayed healthy and active well into my eighties

• The fascinating connection between the mind and limitless health

• The healing power of exercise

• A roadmap to life without relying on drugs

• Insights into 41 cool hikes and travels across 30+ countries

This book is a blend of personal experience, science, and inspiration for anyone seeking a fulfilling, vibrant life. 

Sicily in 1693 is recovering from a devastating earthquake and struggling under the oppression of the Spanish Inquisition. Raids from Barbary pirates menace the coastline, while European Princes plot against each other. Meanwhile, the sixteen-year-old Bernardo has been brought up in an isolated Benedictine Abbey since being orphaned seven-years before. Now an unexpected journey will introduce him to this chaotic and often cruel world, where his faith will be tested. Rescuing a young girl, Agata, from Barbary pirates will reveal his presence to an old family enemy, as well as introducing him to a secret brotherhood, and to the confusion of adolescent love. However, as love deepens, the petite Agata does not remain a victim for long, growing into a beautiful woman and determined avenger. Family secrets and desperate journeys threaten to tear them apart but will ultimately lead them both to find out what is most important in life.

This book will describe the pros and cons about the Livery (Limo) industry in Chicago through my 24 years experience as a public and corporate Chauffeur on the field or at the corporate offices never before mentioned in any aspect of the transportation industry.  Let's take a ride and find out.

You would never associate tree climbing goats or Fengshui with international finance. Banking with Chopsticks will definitely change your mind...

Based on my professional life as an Investment Banker, it is a personal insight into the world of international finance and various cultures, with a focus on China and Japan. The book starts in London in 1986, the year of the deregulation of the banking sector known as the Big Bang and ends in Geneva with the latest financial crisis of 2008. It touches on episodes of financial malfeasance,  the Asian crisis and a few other episodes. Banking with Chopsticks describes how it felt rather than going to length about the technicalities.

This fictional story, interlaced with historical facts, depicts events experienced by many families who left Cuba personified in the lives of five children who migrated unaccompanied to the U.S., their lives in Cuba and their arrival in the U.S. THE FIVE SEEKERS escape through Operation Pedro Pan. Since I came to the U.S. as a political refugee with my parents, I have always longed for Cuba to be free again. This desire motivated me to write this book where I can show the readers a picture of Cuban history, the reality of Communist Cuba, and possible solutions to bring about a Free Cuba. Operation Pedro Pan (Peter Pan) was a clandestine operation created by Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh that ran from 1960 to 1962 and moved more than 14,000 unaccompanied minors from Cuba to the United States when the Castro regime was threatening to indoctrinate these minors after winning a bloody revolution. The novel’s characters undergo experiences, both in Cuba and in the U.S., which shape their personalities, their love for Cuba, and their anger for those who destroyed what was a thriving country until 1959.

In flashbacks offered throughout the story, we learn the background of each of the five main characters, their experiences in an orphanage in the U.S., as they all grow up from small children alone in a new and unfamiliar country, to successful and well-educated men and women who are obsessed with the idea of giving the freedom they now have, back to Cuba. The novel not only describes their immense and difficult quest, but also their personalities, their solid faith in God, and the strong bond that their quest creates between them. This bond is the glue that makes their operation go forward. One of the girls, Juliana, a main character, becomes a strong and brave woman while executing the most dangerous assignments in the story. They then hatch a plan to bring democracy back to Cuba. In the story, set in the Ronald Reagan era, they name their audacious scheme Operation Oro Negro (Black Gold). It entails having secret meetings with government officials, encounters with Cuban patrol boats on the high seas, and hydro-logical science studies, to prove the presence of massive oil reserves under the waters surrounding the island of Cuba. Would the U.S. government make the decision to invade Cuba because it has secretly discovered ample oil reserves?

Jimmy Crikey, the orphaned alien chose to make his life in Roombelow, on Earth. He is not magical, but he has unique skills that come in useful when his friends need help.

Roombelow suffers from the after-effects of the attack by rock-chewing Scarab beatles and even the Aquamites’ world is crumbling.

A hole appeared in the Aquamites’ Emerald Lake. The lake began to empty and thirty Aquamites were swept away to end up in the lake of the Tritians.

Rescue cannot come soon enough because the Tritians live in a radioactive environment that poisons the young Aquamites, and Jimmy’s close friend Annison is in trouble.

Jimmy organised rescue for the young Aquamites by his advanced, home race from the star world of Attalia. Twenty-eight Aquamites were saved, but one was beyond help. Annison refused assistance until all her friends were treated. As a result, Annison slipped into a coma from which the Attalians could not revive her.

Annison is doomed to a living death unless Jimmy can call upon aid from a higher authority.

War kills everything, beyond mere material and physical destruction! In this military thriller, experience the 1972 Easter Day Invasion of South Vietnam from the perspective of someone who had the unenviable job of pulling the trigger. Killing on a daily basis as a dissolving sense of reality sets in. Known as the gunline, positioned a few hundred yards off the coast, the ship has entered the fresh-air mental asylum of Indochina.

Disoriented and surreal, the crew watches tanks battle on the beach and napalm transform vibrant green landscape into molten red and orange as fireballs devour both oxygen and vegetation. Disillusionment sets in. With it, the destruction, exhaustion, humor, and terror of war. The astonishing intimacy among shipmates, along with their regrets and mental anguish, is underscored by the fundamental struggle for survival.

In this true, historically accurate story, the author takes the reader on a psychosomatic roller coaster from indifference to reality. From combat to the best liberty ports in the world. From inner conflict and suppressed emotions to guilt, regret, and post-traumatic stress. From serving your country to experiencing scorn and hostility back home. In the face of such tragedies, stories perhaps, are the best memorials we have. In unflinching detail through vivid and poignant language, the author leaves nothing to the imagination.

Where had it all gone wrong?
In war, we all lose

Cozy Fall Designs: Relaxing Coloring Book for Adults

Get ready to relax and enjoy the coziest time of the year with Cozy Fall Designs: Relaxing Coloring Book for Adults.

Each page is created to help you feel calm and stress-free as you color lovely autumn scenes, including a reading nook, hay ride, pumpkin patch, wooded path, bubble bath, quaint homes, marketplaces, and so much more!

Why You'll  Love This Book:

• Relax and Unwind: Coloring is a great way to relieve stress and enjoy quiet time.
• Your Choice of Fun: These designs come in various skill levels, so you can choose what speaks to you.
• Feel Better: Coloring helps you relax, feel calm, and get in touch with your creative side.

If you have Spotify, you can discover the Cozy Fall Designs playlist! Let go of even more stress, worry, and anxiety during your coloring time as you listen to this handpicked blend of music

Embrace the magic of autumn and treat yourself to a bit of relaxation. Cozy Fall Designs is waiting for you!

The nightmare is only the beginning

From bestselling horror writer Steven LaChance, author of the true horror classic The Uninvited, comes his first novel in his Modern Monsters Series, GLOW.

Continual horrific nightmares can cause serious PTSD. When you connect the PTSD and sleeplessness together, it is a recipe for trouble. 38% of people in the United States alone suffer from sleep disturbances, which lay fertile ground for sleep paralysis, hallucination and sleepwalking - stepping outside of their dreams and impacting their waking life. Once this happens, it's a scary, slippery slope. There have been actual reports of people stepping out of windows in their sleep, trying to escape the object of their nightmares. It is an even more frightening thought when you consider nearly 20% of our youth are out there in the world having nightmares. Some of them are having these nightmares at least once every night and often multiple times.

The ancient evil Glow takes you into the realm of everything you have imagined nightmares to be and how they can turn into a viral monster. Once Glow steps into your dreams, there is no turning back from this modern monster madness.

Glow is inspired by real nightmares, events and research into the unexplainable.

Welcome to the world of Glow

The first book in Steven LaChance's Modern Monsters Series.

What can a guy do when all the good women have left earth to go to the paradise exo world called Eros? Does he sulk in his loneliness or purchase a quality posh matosh booty-bot to spend his love with? And on Eros, what can a women do who's being exploited for her beauty and her eggs?