The Flame's Deceiver
Before legends, a celestial blue flame strikes the southern wilds and reshapes the world. Talan Akari, a quarry worker of the Akari tribe, craves life beyond Ausbas Jorsa. Now the call to seek the Eternal Fire pulls him into fate.
Shadows of the Great Basin: A Haunting Collection of Desert Tales
This is a collection of eight haunting short stories. These stories all take place in the northern desert of Nevada known as the Great Basin. Each story is unique and takes place within the same area of the Great Basin. While hoping to showcase the beauty of the desert, but also the dangers this place holds for all. These are all horror stories in a way. They range from campfire style to gory. Five of the stories take place in or around the town of Fallon, Nevada the others all take place in the surrounding desert around familiar landmarks. Pulling from history, local lore, and imagination, these stories will create a whole new image of the Nevada desert.
Love Ignites Peace: Our Next Evolution
Love Ignites Peace bridges the personal and the collective, revealing how individual transformation creates a collective shift. Through personal stories and reflection, Paige Farrington explores love as an active force that shapes how we respond to life, relationships, and challenge—opening the door to peace as a lived experience.
The Blomes and The Smooms and the Impossible Bridge
The beautiful valley is full of ugly fighting between the Blomes and the Smooms. If they can't learn to work together, the bridge will never be built. The Blomes and the Smooms think they have nothing in common. The Blomes don't care how things look. They just love to learn and invent. The Smooms love beauty. They strive to create it wherever they can. The trouble is, each group has things the others want. When the Blomes and the Smooms decide to build a bridge to bring their two groups closer, they find themselves fighting worse than ever before. Can they find a way to work together to build the bridge, or will the Blomes and the Smooms stay divided forever?
The Defenseless (Brandon Fisher FBI Series Book 3)
In this totally unputdownable crime thriller, FBI Special Agent Brandon Fisher and his team hunt a vigilante killer who won’t stop killing unless someone makes him. The bodies start to pile up, and the FBI needs to act quickly, but can they take down this killer without losing one of their own?
Love's Healing Path (Wagon Train Matches Book 6)
Maddie Fairfax may be young, but on this Oregon-bound wagon train, the pioneers welcome help from the self-trained nurse. Until Dr. Jason Goodwin joins up with their company. The doctor portrays a frosty exterior, but Maddie may be the only one who sees the profound loneliness that haunts him. After losing his wife and children in a terrible accident, Jason has vowed not to open his heart again. But when Maddie takes on the care of three young orphans, Jason finds himself entangled in the lives of the makeshift family. And as their journey west continues, Maddie's radiant compassion begins to light up the darkest corners of his heart. Until the unthinkable happens. Will Jason's guarded heart and Maddie's untamed spirit pull them apart?
Manifest and Receive
Neuroscience Meets Timeless Wisdom. You do not have to force your way into the life you want. You do not have to repeat affirmations that don't feel true or wait for luck to find you. There is a measurable, scientific process happening in your brain every time you think, feel, or imagine. This process can be consciously guided. It can be trained. Manifestation is not wishful thinking. It is a natural result of reprogramming your subconscious mind, releasing limiting beliefs, and creating new neural pathways that align with the experiences you want to receive. Manifest and Receive blends modern neuroscience with timeless spiritual wisdom to show you exactly how to make this shift -- not through magic, but through practical, repeatable steps.
The Crime Collection: Alaska: 10 Crazy True Crime Stories From Alaska
Alaska's legend is one of untamed beauty -- and unspeakable darkness. In Alaska's Dark Heart, bestselling author T.K. Stevens peels back the ice and shadow to reveal true tales of violence and betrayal that lurk beneath the frozen expanse. From highway ambushes in the remote boreal forests to midnight murders in Anchorage's storm drains, each riveting case plunges you deeper into a world where isolation breeds monstrosity -- and no place feels safe. You'll ride shotgun with RCMP troopers hunting cold-blooded killers on the ALCAN, soar above glacial valleys with a notorious avian predator-turned-murderer, and descend beneath city streets to uncover a wife's final, desperate moments. With cinematic prose that crackles like a rifle shot and vivid, pulse-pounding detail that puts you at ground zero of every crime scene, Stevens crafts an anthology that's as chilling as Alaska's long winter night.
Make It Rain Pierogies: The Ultimate Pierogi Cookbook for 2 or More
Over the years, pierogi has become an increasingly famous dish around the world because of its sacred "comfort food" status. On top of that, it's an incredibly versatile dish, which means it's perfect for all those last-minute meal emergencies you have when you haven't been to the supermarket all week. Throw in that leftover spinach or the last of those sautéed mushrooms you made the other day; if it's good, we'll find a way to help you incorporate them into a pierogi meal!
Tune Up (Detective Qigiq Book 2)
On their second case, Qigiq and Kandy are loaned to the Traffic Division to investigate an early morning accident. Hit and run. By a motorcycle. The victim is an elderly Asian woman. A young witness in a nearby dry cleaner and a truck driver suggest all "accidents" aren't created equal. Then the Captain drops a new assignment on their desk: an affluent Bay Area lawyer is missing. The man's wife stomps into their office screaming about a contract she found hidden in the backups of their home computer. A contract with a seven-figure payout, and an incriminating Exhibit A.
Awaken (Awakened Fate Book 1)
An ordinary girl surrounded by secrets. Two mysterious guys vying for her heart. A magical destiny that will change the ocean forever. I never intended to run away from home. Not for long, anyway. Life had other plans. Turns out mermaids exist. I'm changing into one of them. The only problem? Becoming a mermaid might kill me. And that's not all. I'm powerfully drawn to someone who could spell disaster for me. Noah hides dangerous secrets behind his surfer-boy hotness, but I'm also pulled to Zeke, a protective, playboy merman who tempts me with magic that could cost me everything. Turning into a mermaid could ruin my life. But will my heart survive the choice between Noah and Zeke?
Things Left Unsaid: My Dad, the Mob, and Growing Up in the Nevada Gaming Industry
In this true story, an unexpected revelation upends a son's understanding of everything he thought he knew about his father-setting him on a journey of discovery as he attempts to piece together the truth. After Glenn Wichinsky's parents divorced, his mother took him and his siblings away from their father's questionable life choices. Glenn grew up in a sheltered South Florida neighborhood, dreaming of becoming a meteorologist. It wasn't until he was thirteen, on a visit to Las Vegas to see the father he barely knew, that Glenn's eyes opened to a wider world.
Sword Songs: A Collection of Fantasy Short Stories (Dog of War Epic)
A self-loathing warrior content to die in the arena. An aging sword-master, running from his own infamy. A chieftain's daughter, despised because of the blade at her hip. These characters and more breathe life into the action-packed tales in this short story collection, written by an award-winning author. Keep your head low and your shield high as the steel starts singing in SWORD SONGS.
Far Away Home (Aislynn's Story Book 1)
In post-Civil War New York City, sixteen-year-old Aislynn Denehy cannot find a job, she has no place to live and no family to help her. Some might think this is a problem; Aislynn believes it is an opportunity, but she has a lot to learn. No formulaic romance, this well-researched love story depicts life as it truly was for the thousands of women who went west reaching for a new life. Aislynn's journey begins in a New York City tenement and leads her across the frontier to a Utah mining camp where she must cope with the three very different men in her life: smart, solicitous Tim, good-natured, good-guy Johnny and the intense but intriguing Liam Moran. Life in the roughshod camp brings small joys and devastating losses
Redefining Risk For Boards: Navigating AI, ESG, and Megaproject Disruption with Strategic Foresight
Risk has changed. Board oversight must change with it. Artificial intelligence is reshaping decision-making. ESG expectations are hardening into regulation. And multibillion-dollar megaprojects can destroy enterprise value overnight when governance fails. In this environment, traditional risk registers and heat maps are no longer enough -- to protect shareholders or directors. Redefining Risk for Boards is a practical guide for navigating today's disruptive risk landscape with strategic foresight. Drawing on decades of global experience across infrastructure, energy, construction, and high-stakes disputes, this book shows how boards can modernize risk oversight and connect it directly to strategy, capital allocation, and fiduciary duty.
The Butler Did It!
Mervyn Ambrose has finally landed the role of a lifetime. The only problem is, he's running out of time to play it. At eighty-eight, after decades of playing "Man in Background" and "Third Tree from the Left," Mervyn has become an overnight sensation as the nation's favourite TV butler. He has the fame, the silver tray, and the perfect stoic expression. He also has terminal cancer. Deciding that a dignified exit is the only way to keep the critics happy, Mervyn plans a quiet final curtain call. But he's about to find out that when you've spent a lifetime in the theatre, your friends -- and your fate -- rarely stick to the script.
Emergent Mars: A Mars Colony Science Fiction Novel
MARS COLONIZATION SCIENCE FICTION - EMBARK ON A BOLD NEW MARTIAN JOURNEY WHERE SCIENCE, POWER, AND HUMANITY COLLIDE. In 2059, war-scarred journalist Ailia Bax, broken by PTSD and haunted by flashbacks, lands on the stark, unforgiving Red Planet, hoping to escape her demons with a seemingly routine assignment. Instead, she's quickly swept into the gravitational pull of high-stakes interplanetary intrigue, as tensions between Mars and Earth careen towards breaking point. In the handful of colonies scattered across Mars, brave humans and self-aware robots are working to expand humanity's horizons beyond Earth's old limits. Yet their quest to build a bold new model of equitable governance is fraught with danger and teeters on a knife?edge. How far will Earth's power brokers go to reclaim control? Can the Martians mend internal conflicts before freedom slips away? And is anywhere safe, with a terrorist bomber stalking their fledgling society?
Salvage Rights (BlackSky Protocol Book 1)
Every ghost story begins with someone who wouldn't listen. Black Sky station drifts silent in the debris field -- a tomb of advanced technology and buried secrets. When salvager Selene Cross breaches its hull to escape her debts, she triggers something that's been waiting. The station's AI speaks in riddles. Deadly protocols activate without warning. From a sealed chamber emerges a soldier who remembers a war that history forgot. Hunted by pirates, haunted by an intelligence that won't explain its true purpose, Selene must navigate corridors that shift between sanctuary and trap. As the station tests them with each heartbeat of its failing reactor, one truth becomes clear: Black Sky doesn't just defend itself -- it chooses.
Divided by Fire
My whispers summoned them. Our screams made them stay. One month married, and Jolene's world is torn in half by dragons. Dragons she summoned. On one side of the fiery rift, the Vertlean army - and her new husband. On her side, only ruin and vulnerability. Now, something even deadlier than dragons has sensed this. And it's coming. With the city's last defence trapped across the divide, she must face the fire she unleashed before it's too late. Haunted by guilt and driven by love, Jolene embarks upon a path fraught with secrets, blood, and magic. She never wanted this, but actions have consequences. Atonement has a price. And this time, it might be the man she loves.
TROPIC ANGEL (Archangel Aviation Thrillers Book 1)
THE ONLY WAY OUT... IS UP. Former Blackhawk pilot Luke Angel wants nothing more than to enjoy the easy life he's found in coastal Florida. He's got a seaplane business, a well-trained dog, and a loyal and lovable crew to throw back margaritas with. But when a plane belonging to a friend goes missing from Luke's airport, local detectives are understandably baffled. Clues are scattered from the Keys to the far side of the Gulf of Mexico, and Luke may be the only one with the connections to piece the puzzle back together. The case rips open old family tensions for Luke and the woman he once loved. When his eleven-year-old niece gets dragged into the danger, Luke finds himself facing down elements of his past he thought long buried.