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When Sky Hudson first has a run-in with tall, dark, and handsome Nicholas Ruggarson, she wants nothing more than to throw her coffee at him. He is rude and arrogant, and she is glad she never has to set eyes on him ever again. Or so she thinks.

Justin Wren knows what it's like to feel like the world is against you. Like many kids, Justin was bullied as a child. Fueled by the anger he felt toward his tormenters, Justin trained hard and propelled his dream of becoming a UFC fighter into reality. But the pain from his childhood didn't dissipate, and Justin fell into a spiral of depression and addiction, leading him on a path toward destruction.

With the smoke of Sunny Valley Ranch still thick in the air behind them, Adam Hall has an impossible mission: ensure that his daughter Crystal and the rest of the survivors find a safe refuge. But no matter how far they run, Adam knows that death will haunt their every step. Rumors swirl of a captured Specter starship and of smugglers using it to ferry people to safety on another world, code-named Sanctum. To get to the ship, they will have to traverse twelve hundred miles of desolate wasteland teeming with every imaginable threat.

When Israel “DT” Del Toro, Jr.'s Humvee rolled over a roadside IED in Afghanistan, he had one thought as he lost consciousness: I have to keep the promise I made to my dad. DT was orphaned at the age of fourteen, and on the night before his father died, he repeated the promise his dad required: “Take care of your brothers and sisters.” Throughout his childhood and into adulthood, DT indeed looked after his younger brother and sisters, even to his own detriment and sacrifice.

A fugitive tech billionaire. A rogue spy. The chase is on in the next three books in the international best-selling technothriller series.

Twenty-four hours ago, Chase and Wen, a fugitive billionaire and a former spy, thought they still had time. They believed that millions wouldn’t die; they hoped a war wouldn’t come. Now, they are desperately searching for an obscure element, and just trying to stay alive. Time can be a real killer.

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces.

In a story that will blow your mind, a fugitive billionaire and a former spy must stop an insidious plot to control the population through high-tech mind reading. Chase and Wen are trapped in a maze of illusion, reality, and secrets, as they struggle to overcome an enemy so powerful, their very own thoughts are used against them.

It's 2037, and the United States government is on the brink of collapse amid rebel uprisings and aggressive political maneuvering turning the country into an active war zone. In a nation where opportunity is sequestered behind doors open only to the privileged, joining the Army seemed like James Trent’s best option. He just never thought he’d actually see combat. Now Trent finds himself on the front lines of a second American Civil War, fighting for a cause he’s not sure he even believes in.

Ollie was gravely underchallenged and also struggling with identity and how to live totally as themselves. Ollie begged to switch to a new school with "kids like me," and so they made the change. Raising Ollie is dad Tom Rademacher's story of parenting Ollie and relearning every day what it means to be a father and teacher. As Ollie—who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns—flourishes in their new school, Rademacher is making an eye-opening adjustment to a new school of his own, one that's whiter and more suburban than anywhere he has previously taught.

A fugitive billionaire and a former spy stumble onto an ominous program where everything about our modern lives is dissected, processed, and packaged. It's not to sell us things, but to sell us ideas; to control us, to make sure we don’t shatter the illusion.

An insidious plot to efficiently kill. The plan: take down the internet, the power grid, defense systems, satellites…kill anything that is linked to a computer. The only thing still working is the ticking clock. A brilliant billionaire and a lethal female ex-agent are the only ones who stand in the way of an all-out war against modern life. With cell phones down, planes falling out of the sky, and cities in total darkness, there may not be enough time to prevent the end of the world, as we know it. When everything is down, it’s a long way up.

For Mikhael Corvin, life was supposed to be a breeze. Born into the nobility, he was destined to become a Cartographer and live a safe and peaceful existence, but fate had other plans in store for him. Now, he finds himself at the training grounds of the Seven Portals, about to start his crash course in how to become a Diver. To Mikhael, this whole charade is little more than a suicide mission, a way to get back at those parents who wronged and abandoned him. But as his self-preservation kicks in, Mikhael learns that life - no matter how harsh - can be worth living.

Contains books one, two, and three of the Soul Mutts series: Baker's Dozen, Reign of Terrier, and Chocolate-Covered Chaos, book three.

A billionaire fugitive and a rogue spy uncover a secret scientific plot to manipulate human DNA, putting all of humanity at risk. A desperate race ensues to save life as we know it! Editing DNA...talk about life changing.

Making the Climb by Peter Oliver is the must-have playbook for anyone making the transition from salesperson to sales manager.

A billionaire fugitive and a disavowed spy fight to stay ahead of a corporate hit squad, while mysterious pursuers continually thwart their efforts to prevent a complete takeover of the world’s food supply. In less than 24 hours, it will be too late. Time to get dirty!

A scientist is missing, people are scared, and a storm is coming. Chase and Wen must find the man who has discovered a way to manipulate the weather before his invention falls into the wrong hands and makes Earth uninhabitable. But others may get there first. The Chinese, Russians and US intelligence agencies enter a global game of cat and mouse to obtain the secrets and win the ultimate advantage. Will there be enough time? As the body count climbs, it becomes clear that someone else is after the invention...after Chase and Wen. But who do they work for?

Since Nick Marshall’s wife died, he’s been struggling to keep a lid on his PTSD and raise his stepdaughter Chloe and her younger half-sister, Abby. He’s always run a tight ship, but when he learns that Chloe’s flunking out, he becomes even more rigid and controlling: no extracurricular activities, just chores and schoolwork until she brings her grades up.

Lash by bloody lash, the she-devil from Dallas would get her revenge.