To survive in the Los Muertos Cartel, you have to stay useful, especially when you're a woman. So I made sure I couldn't be replaced. Now my name is whispered about in the shadows- La Brujita de Los Muertos. Too bad I forgot that lies and deceit are the lifeblood of this toxic paradise.
I should have seen the betrayal coming.
My hands were always destined to be drenched in the blood of guilty men.
Gunner
Sometimes it takes someone willing to walk in the dark to allow others to live in the light. She is a beautiful savage. All the things I am not supposed to have and maybe never will.
Meeting her changed all of my plans, altered the very fabric of my future.
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Skeletons of Society is a full-length standalone in the Toxic Paradise Series. It's a contemporary crime romance (think mafia romance) featuring a strong female lead whose an arms dealer for the cartel and a male lead who is the Seargent at Arms of the motorcycle club she's forced to work with. You will love this book if you like your characters to be morally grey, lots of action, and a woman with an attitude.As the world teeters on the edge of destruction, Vladimir Putin has one goal in mind: to achieve immortality and control over every nation's power grid, defenses, and nuclear missiles. And he'll stop at nothing to get it.
Alex Nicholas, the first man to successfully transfer his consciousness into an AI duplicate, has been living in the cloud since his murder three years ago. The only person who knows about Alex's AI existence is his younger brother, Michael-or so the brothers think.
But Vladimir Putin has found out about Alex, and Alex's source codes are just what he needs to achieve his goal. Putin will do whatever it takes to obtain the codes, even if it means holding Michael hostage.
With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the Nicholas brothers don't seem to have any options than to give Putin what he wants, or die. But with unexpected allies and a daring plan, Alex and Michael may just have a chance to stop Putin's mad quest for power-and survive.
For fans of thrillers and high-stakes action, Death in the Kremlin is a must-read. If you enjoyed The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, you'll love this heart-pounding tale of power, betrayal, and the ultimate battle for control.
Running away and becoming someone new would be far easier if the demons of my past didn't insist on showing up at my doorstep. Turns out that leaving an evil Russian Bratva leader at the altar after helping stage his assassination only pissed him off and made me a target.
I tried blending, but hiding in the shadows under a fake alias is no longer enough.
It should have been easy to keep my distance from the MC member burdened with protecting me. He is just as averse to commitment as I am, yet he's been the only person ever to see me, even through all the smoke and mirrors I keep between us.
DexShe's shrouded in secrets, and there's nothing I want more than to peel back every layer and discover what's at her core. The glimpses she gives me have me hooked in a way I've never experienced before. I've always been:
No commitments.
No girlfriends-hell, I've never had a female friend.
Yet here I am, wanting to protect her, to be the weapon she wields against her enemies. Because if there's one thing I have learned during our time together, it's that the ache in my chest only stops when I am with her.
She's mine now.In theory, it was the ideal way to keep me from getting attached. My life plans left no room for distractions-not if I was going to break out of my culture's machismo and prove to my family that I could make it on my own. And the 6'4 Texan rocking boots and a cowboy hat? He was exactly the type of distraction I was avoiding. So when the hot Wrangler-wearing man strolled up to me at a bar with a desperate plea to pretend to be his date, the rules were necessary...and completely useless.
How was I supposed to know my fake date was the star hockey player for the very team I was just hired as the strength and conditioning coach for?
DaltonPro tip: If your goal is to stay single so you can focus on not repeating last season's disaster, maybe don't ask a dark-haired beauty with looks that could kill to pretend to be your date. Especially not when her laugh makes you feel alive for the first time in years. Because that charade may last longer than you'd anticipated...and trying to keep things fake? Feels like a damn High Stick to The Heart
****Things to Expect:Hey kids! Have you ever wondered what a giraffe might say? Find out now with I am a Giraffe.
Inside this book you will discover:
Fascinating facts about giraffe life and behavior
Wild giraffe photos in vibrant color
Fun quotes from the giraffes themselves
Whether it's a gift for a young nature enthusiast, a birthday surprise, or a spontaneous present, this book is a perfect addition to nurture a lifelong appreciation for the wonders of the animal kingdom and the joy of learning.
In 1019, after burying her husband in Greenland, Bergthora Bjornsdóttir returns to Iceland to exact her revenge for a violent act she suffered as a young girl. But in her hunger for vengeance she drives Engilborg, the young wife of Egill-a powerful and ruthless chieftain-into the arms of her uncle, Leif, shattering the lives of family and friends in the rural community along Hvamms Fjord. Kjartan, Engilborg's father-who spent 15 years in Constantinople as a Varangian warrior, so he could buy back his family's farm-struggles to protect his family from shame and ruin. gileif, a seeress obsessed with Egill, uses her witchcraft in a desperate attempt to win his love while Óstarki, her enigmatic son, seeks to reclaim the moral compass his mother has abandoned. Spanning across four decades and geographical settings that include Iceland, Greenland, and North America, as well as present-day Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, and Syria, we follow these men and women as they navigate the struggles of pastoral farming, war, family life, and death while searching for a path from their heathen past to a Christian future. Secrets surface, friendships fracture, and long-buried animosities culminate in a gripping tale of honor, betrayal, friendship, faith, and heathen magic.
Reiner Prochaska is a playwright, a novelist, an actor, a director, a filmmaker, and a university lecturer. His plays have been produced at Maryland Ensemble Theatre and published nationally and internationally. His novel Captives, which tells the story of German soldiers interned at the historical POW camp in Frederick, Maryland, between 1944 and 1946, was published by The Permanent Press in 2019. He is the Producer and a Co-Director of the Catoctin Furnace Living History Festival, to which he contributes in creative and administrative capacities. A graduate of Towson University, Reiner teaches writing at his alma mater. He lives in Frederick, Maryland.
John O'Kane's The Accidental Jesus is a mesmerizing odyssey through nostalgia, introspection, and unexpected encounters that challenges the very essence of who we are. Join our protagonist as he navigates the blurred lines between memory and reality, faith and doubt, and embarks on a quest that could forever change his life.
Richard Modiano
Director Emeritus, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center,
Winner of the 2022 Joe Hill Prize for Labor Poetry
John O'Kane's The Accidental Jesus keeps the action moving at a relentless pace as he pulls the reader deeper and deeper into a rich post-bohemian apocalypse rife with futuristic tech gurus, immovable evangelicals, a cult of modern Mary Magdalenes, and one murderous priest lurking in the shadows.
S.A. Griffin
Author of Pandemic Soul Music
John O'Kane's The Accidental Jesus got neurons firing in my brain that I'm certain have never fired before. As the protagonist confronts a homicidal fake priest, predator helicopters that seem to hover above him wherever he goes, an orgy in a Catholic church, and a host of otherworldly characters, he wrestles with his sense of what's real and what's not. As will the reader...while enjoying every moment of the journey.
Mark Habeeb
Author of Venice Beach
John O'Kane is a novelist, journalist, and publisher. He is the author of eight books: two of literary journalism, three collections of essays, two collections of short stories, and one novel. His essays, articles, and stories have appeared in HuffPost, CounterPunch, Musing the Masses, and The Boston Globe, in addition to various creative and scholarly publications. Possessing a doctorate in literature and a master's in sociology, he has taught at USC, UCLA, MIT, and UCI. A longtime resident of San Pedro, California, he is the publisher and editor of AMASS Magazine.
ESTÁS PREPARADO PARA CAMBIAR TU VIDA?
Si te has preguntado alguna vez por qué mejorar tu vida es tan complicado, acabas de dar con la respuesta que buscabas: existe un método antiguo -no revelado hasta hoy- que te ha sido ocultado de forma deliberada, el código de la disciplina. Un código oculto que el autor ha descifrado para ti, lo ha probado en su experiencia y ahora te lo ofrece resumido en este libro.
Si no has sido disciplinado hasta la fecha, no se trataba de ti, falló la estrategia que utilizaste (esfuerzo, sacrificio, fuerza de voluntad y motivación). Pero esto va a cambiar ahora...
En este libro, el autor rescata secretos olvidados para activar el poder de la disciplina. Después de aplicarlo, serás imparable, gracias al hábito de la autodisciplina para conseguir cualquier objetivo.
Descubrirás el método fácil de la autodisciplina automática:
Si deseas escapar de la frustración, procrastinación, esfuerzo inútil... descubre el poder de los hábitos atómicos para conseguir todos tus deseos, uno tras otro.
CÓDIGO DE LA DISCIPLINA TE REVELA EL MÉTODO PERDIDO PARA LA DISCIPLINA POSITIVA Y AUTOMÁTICA
Eppie was outside struggling with the mechanics of opening the red wheelchair... she could never have dreamed this up, this was something that happened to someone else, not her friend, not her co-conspirator... Yet here she was serving up this strange red-wheeled creature to Crip as if it were a glass of milk.
Crip and Eppie: A Counterfeit Testimonial of a Bonafide Friendship is a literary romp of a novel centralizing two protagonists who reflect unsparingly on their lives. Crip is plagued by ongoing suicidal thoughts due to the unpredictable, progressive, and debilitating nature of her disease, multiple sclerosis. She grieves the loss of PussnBoots after his betrayal, and wrestles with shock and disbelief as he transitions to a woman. Eppie, her empathic off-centered friend, has epilepsy. She wants to live and wants to jump hand-in-hand with Crip off the Golden Gate bridge. In her deep-seated partnership with hospice nurse BigHo RN, Eppie struggles within the complexities of his polyamory and her breaking heart.
Teetering on the brink between reality and the fantastical, Crip and Eppie: A Counterfeit Testimonial of a Bonafide Friendship invites readers to lose themselves in its delightful disarray. It's a testament to the boundless creativity of the human spirit, unshackled by convention, and thriving in its own unique harmony.
Then Eppie's lips trembled and Crip ran into a wall.
Therese Wolfe is an American writer and independent scholar currently living in Assisi, Italy. Her work has been published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine and Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. She is working on a memoir that describes her move to Italy as a passage of belonging, and the fulfillment of her love affair with that country. Crip and Eppie: A Counterfeit Testimonial of a Bonafide Friendship is her first novel.
Pamela Compton is a painter, writer, and collage artist. Her art is represented exclusively by 73 Art Agency in Colorado, U.S.A. She currently lives and works on a ranch in Bend, Oregon. Crip and Eppie: A Counterfeit Testimonial of a Bonafide Friendship is her first novel.