Leadership is a curious topic. It is most noted in its absence and most measured by its need. Leadership requires opportunity. Leadership is driven by the situation; what worked in one situation may be disastrous in another. It requires skills to be able to direct the challenge at hand. Leadership is both an art and a science. It is theoretical and applied, cultural and contextual. Most importantly, leadership is about accomplishment and results. Let's face it; talking about leadership is tough and, in many ways, counter-intuitive. Many people want to be leaders and some people prefer to follow a leader; but followers want to follow not just any leader, they want to follow a great leader. Bu...

What if an incredibly attractive insomniac billionaire fell asleep next to you on a plane and subsequently asks you to sleep with him-- no sex involved-- for money? Totally creepy and weird, right? Melanie thinks so too and turns him down, but when her house suddenly need expensive repairs, she has to rethink her moral boundaries.Max Hathaway, labeled a playboy billionaire by the media, thinks he is jaded about love until he meets the saucy, sweet, librarian Melanie who sparks his heart. Knowing that he isn't a easy man to date, he comes up with a crazy idea to hide his true motives for wanting to see her again.As they navigate their peculiar relationship, both of them learn that sometimes t...

Ever get the feeling you are being watched? Well, hardworking family man Jim Ignatius Wilson did. After witnessing the Sun reflect off an alien vessel as it dodged a satellite. With this event now distant a memory in the back of his mind. Jim moves to a warmer climate on advice from the family doctor.Rogand, a large, dark-blue, leathery-skinned reptilian eternal, uses Jim in a bold plan to help save Earth from extinction and blends microscopic life forms into his body. Creating a unique outcome for him and his symbiotic collective known as Syman.They say one idea can change the world. Now, throw in half a dozen and see what happens. With Earth safe, Rogand, Syman, and Jim call upon a select ...

1984The Provisional IRA have attempted to kill the British Prime Minister and her Cabinet in Brighton. Margaret Thatcher instructs the security services and Special Forces to work together to take the fight to the terrorists. Red Troop of the SAS is formed. Led strategically and for intelligence by MI5’s Bertram Hastings, an unconventionally, but excellent field operative. Operationally, the Troop is led by Captain Vernon Jackson who has as many detractors as supporters, but he gets things done. Assisted by a team of seasoned soldiers, Vernon gets to work. He is tasked to identify and stop a Provisional IRA hardliner, Brendan Lynch, who is hell-bent on igniting a war to...

Angel of Aleppo is a historical fiction about a young woman named Anoush, born and raised in Marash, Anatolia, who witnesses the brutal execution of her mother and is evicted along with the surviving other women and children, where she must learn to survive and protect her little sister while enduring the horrors of the brutal guards who drive them ever onward and the harshness of the land as they trek south towards Aleppo.In addition, she is pursued by the local warlord for her beauty – he wants her for his harem – so she must evade him and maintain the standard of faith and goodness demonstrated to her by her strict but beloved mother. Anoush endures many trials, learns to nurse, becom...

The Game's Not Over is a gritty, suspense-filled tale set in the neon-lit world of an old-school arcade, where the lines between loyalty, deception, and danger blur into a high-stakes game no one can walk away from.Jeffery Thomas is a weary, tall arcade attendant who’s seen it all. Night after night, he watches as regulars lose themselves in the hum of the machines, but nothing feels routine anymore. When his impulsive, unpredictable friend Dorothy calls with a cryptic request, Jeffery’s world shifts into overdrive. Dorothy’s plan, whatever it is, has drawn him into a deeper, darker web that he can’t untangle on his own.Soon, Jeffery finds himself surrounded by a cast of peculiar, da...

Being dumped at the altar turns out to be the best wedding gift ever.Forsaken and forlorn, Innis Bree MacIntyre finds herself alone in Scotland on what was to have been her honeymoon. So, naturally, she's flattered when three men vie for her affections - a debonair billionaire, a grumpy sheep farmer, and a swarthy ghost. (Never mind that one of them is dead.)When the dashing Jacobite ghost thrusts her into a gripping 300-year-old romance mystery, Innis Bree awakens to possibilities unlike any she’s ever known. As shocking secrets from the past are unearthed, they ignite in her a desire for excitement, unbridled passion, and epic love. She wants it all!But which man can give it to her?Wakin...

🖤 Fantasy | Romance | "Why Choose" | AdventureWhat if your ordinary life vanished in an instant... and in its place stood a world of magic, danger, and impossible love?Single mom Taylor was just trying to get to work. Instead, she’s ripped from her world and dropped into Eldoria, a realm filled with rune magic, mythical beasts, and two men who could unravel her soul:🌕 Fenrir — a fiercely loyal wolf shifter with a primal heart.🔥 Astaroth — a dangerously charming demon cloaked in secrets.As Taylor trains in magic and combat to survive this treacherous realm, her heart faces an impossible choice—why choose when both destinies call to her?But one truth haunts her every step: her...

A young Supreme Court law clerk finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a serial killer in this breathtaking thriller #1 New York Times bestseller James Patterson called "as authentic and suspenseful as any John Grisham novel."Things aren't going well for Grayson Hernandez. He just graduated from a fourth-tier law school, he's drowning in student debt, and the only job he can find is as a messenger. The position stings the most because it's at the Supreme Court, where Gray is forced to watch the best and the brightest--the elite group of lawyers who serve as the justices' law clerks--from the outside.When Gray intervenes in a violent mugging, he lands in the good graces of the victim: the ...

Ein junger Mann auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit: Musste seine Familie sterben, um ein Verbrechen zu vertuschen?Die Nachricht trifft Matt Pine wie ein Schock: Bei einem Urlaub in Mexiko kam fast seine gesamte Familie ums Leben. Die örtliche Polizei behauptet, es sei ein Unfall gewesen, doch das FBI bezweifelt das. Allerdings wollen sie Matt den Grund für ihre Skepsis nicht verraten. Das Drama rückt Matts Familie erneut ins Rampenlicht der Medien. Vor sieben Jahren war sein älterer Bruder Danny wegen Mordes an seiner Highschool-Freundin zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt worden. Danny hatte stets seine Unschuld beteuert, und eine große True-Crime-Doku nährte den Verdacht, er könnte zu Unre...

From a #1 international bestselling author, a gothic, suspenseful tale in which a young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy—a “compelling thriller with dashes of romance and excellent twists!” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author).Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she’s cursed. She’s lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands.Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her tha...

In this twisted psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling co-author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, a woman is tormented by nightmarish visions of her future—and then they start to come true.“A compulsively readable nail-biter.”—Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Like Mother, Like Daughter“Psychological thriller lovers are in for a darkly delicious treat.”—Carola Lovering, author of Tell Me LiesAnnabelle Reynolds has everything she’s ever wanted. A devoted husband, two wonderful daughters, and a career she loves. She couldn’t be happier. So why is she suddenly plagued by disturbing dreams of a future where she ha...