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When data analyst Mara Venn is hired to audit a disappearing communication system inside a European research hub known as Helix Station, she expects corrupted files, bureaucratic errors, and technical noise.Instead, she finds something impossible:Entire conversations that never happened—but are still stored.People who remember events that were never recorded.And a protocol buried deep in the system that rewrites silence itself.At first, it looks like a glitch.Then colleagues begin to “sync” with versions of themselves that act differently.Messages arrive before they are sent.And every at...

At five years old, Kasiel was found with the pointed ends of his ears cut off...Despite that brutal start, he's lived twelve peaceful years with the man who took him in. Keeping his hair long over his mutilated ears helps him hide the fact that he is Vanrian, a child of the enemy.Everything changes when mercenaries arrive hunting for him. The last people he expects to come to his rescue are Vanrian soldiers, one of whom claims to be his spirit brother. They plan to take him across the war zone to deliver him to his real father, a man whose name strikes terror in his enemies.With his secret exp...

Why You Felt CrazyWhat Gaslighting Does to You, Why Leaving Is Hard, and How to Find Your Way OutIf you've ever found yourself asking...Am I overreacting?Maybe it's my fault.Why is it so hard to leave?...this book was written for you.Why You Felt Crazy explores the hidden psychological effects of gaslighting, emotional abuse, and coercive control. Rather than offering quick fixes or generic advice, Quinn Morgan explains how manipulation slowly erodes your confidence, your memory, and your ability to trust your own instincts.Written from lived experience, this book helps readers understand:Why ...

When another glitch in time threatens the fabric of history, eighteen-year-old Dan Renfrew and his partner Sam Cahill jump into the past again. They land in medieval France, just before Joan of Arc’s miraculous lifting of the Siege of Orléans. But this is a world dominated by religious intolerance and fear, where one wrong step could lead to torture or death at the hands of Catholic priests. And when accusations begin to surface, Dan and Sam find themselves in an impossible race against time. To survive–and keep history intact–they must outwit fanatics, dodge soldiers, and endure the ch...

With Victor Stahl’s plot to rule the world on an unstoppable path in the present, seventeen-year-old time jumper Dan Renfrew and his partner Sam realize that their only hope of putting an end to Victor’s scheme is to jump into the past again. They arrive in Greece in the year 480 BCE just before the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, where a heavily outnumbered force of Spartan warriors and their Greek allies bravely try to prevent Greece from being overrun by the invading Persian army. But when a horrible accident happens in the past, Dan and Sam discover that Victor’s plot is the least o...

A new high school brings new headaches for seventeen-year-old Dan Renfrew. There’s homework, dealing with bullies, and trying to figure out the challenging world of dating. Unfortunately for Dan, he’s also a time jumper, so these are the least of his worries. Victor Stahl and his band of rogue time jumpers are still plotting to rule the world—and Dan’s hunt for allies to help him stop their scheme has hit a dead end.With nowhere else to turn, Dan and his time-jumping partner Sam travel back into history again. They land on the steppes of Mongolia in the year 1179 where they meet a brav...

Sixteen-year-old Dan Renfrew comes from a long line of time jumpers—secret heroes who travel to the past and resolve glitches in the time stream that threaten to alter history. There is just one problem; Dan has never been told any of this. So when Dan accidentally transports himself to England in the year 1066, he becomes trapped in the past. His only hope of returning home is to set history back on its proper course in the Anglo-Saxon age.But Dan finds that fixing history is not that easy—chaos has descended upon England. A Viking horde is ravaging the north while an army of Normans is t...

Dan Renfrew hates that he’s a time jumper—seventeen year olds should not be stuck with the responsibility of saving history. But with no one else stepping up to stop Victor Stahl’s plot to take over the world, Dan and his time-jumping partner Sam have no choice but to jump back into history again. They land on the Celtic island of Anglesey in the year 60, hoping to find answers on how to stop Victor.But the answers they seek aren’t easy to find. Everyone from the druids who rule Anglesey to the Celts who take Dan and Sam in seem to be hiding something. And with two Roman legions on the...

When his ex shows up on his doorstep after three years of silence, Collin doesn’t know if it’s fate, a mistake, or something in between.What begins as one night of catching up turns into an unpredictable ride through old haunts, reckless dares, and unspoken truths. As Collin and Lacie navigate fights, stolen moments, and the ghosts of their shared past, they’re forced to confront the question neither has answered: are they still in love, or just in love with who they used to be?Pieces of Us is a raw, intimate, and chaotic love story about two people who can’t seem to let go no matter h...

For fans of blurred-reality stories like Inception, The Matrix, and The Truman Show.It’s all in your mind…The gap is the place where our intentions meet our actions.The gap is the place where our failings are exposed.All humanity exists in the gap.The gap is the next global battlefield, and the war has already begun.Two organisations are locked in battle to control the mysterious gap.Schelldhardt, the largest company in the world, is using its powerful online reach to divide the global population.The Friary is a secretive institution aiming to stop them.Lana Carter is a young woman searchi...

For fans of blurred-reality stories like Inception, The Matrix, and The Truman Show.What if there were a way to make a perfect decision? If poor choices, even addictions, could be controlled from within the mind.Schelldhardt is the largest company in the world and will do anything to grow. When Joe Massey is unexpectedly offered a role aboard Schelldhardt’s luxurious corporate headquarters at sea, his main priority is Rachel. Joe has trailed Rachel through school and university into the workplace and cannot imagine life without her.Realistic dreams disturb Joe’s sleep as he is drawn deeper...

A hilarious comedy about friendship, family and fresh starts, set in the Scottish HighlandsThis uplifting, fast-paced story tackles the challenges of middle-age and will have you laughing, crying, and wondering how many Fs rule your life too.Jaye never expected everything to fall apart when she turned fifty, but Fs are back in charge and ruining her life again.Fitness… Her spare tyre’s self-inflating but she’s allergic to exercise, unless it’s wine bottle unscrewing where she’s fast becoming an Olympic athlete.Frustration… Why has her soulmate of 30 years shacked-up with his young,...

A man moves to a new town and starts disassociating from reality. He makes friends quick, then watches them betray his trust and stab each other in the back. Or, do they come to his rescue and try their best to hold him up? Read his thoughts and experience his world.

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You Don't Need FixingThoughts on emotions, relationships, and the art of being yourselfYou don't need to be better. You need to live better.There is no right answer to who you should be. No correct answer to what you should become, what you should feel, or how quickly you should figure it out. And yet, most young people spend enormous energy trying to become a version of themselves they think the world wants to see.This book is not a self-help book. It won't give you techniques, checklists, or a plan for personal improvement. Instead, it offers something rarer: understanding.Understanding why ...

Something happens to intelligent people when they cross a boundary they cannot see. They do not become less articulate. They become more articulate — and everything they say becomes wrong.A Marxist economist reframes 350 million women gaining bank accounts as oppression. A Hindutva scholar flattens six centuries of Mughal civilization into a single wound. A liberal commentator invites foreign journalists to humiliate an elected leader as a service to democracy. Each is intelligent. Each is sincere. Each is structurally incapable of seeing what the evidence shows.The Antithesis Trap identifie...

Something happens to intelligent people when they cross a boundary they cannot see. They do not become less articulate. They become more articulate — and everything they say becomes wrong.A Marxist economist reframes 350 million women gaining bank accounts as oppression. A Hindutva scholar flattens six centuries of Mughal civilization into a single wound. A liberal commentator invites foreign journalists to humiliate an elected leader as a service to democracy. Each is intelligent. Each is sincere. Each is structurally incapable of seeing what the evidence shows.The Antithesis Trap identifie...

Your mother read you the tale of The Three Little Pigs.The story she read to you was a lie.Deep within an ancient forest, live the three Pigg brothers. Very different but very close. Arnold, the eldest, a battle-hardened former special forces warrior retired to his secluded, hand-built log cabin. Brother Harold, a brilliant scientist with strength to match his intellect who spends his days conducting sometimes dangerous experiments in his brick home and laboratory. Youngest bother Norman is an accomplished architect and fitness fanatic, proudly residing in the innovative straw-bale house of hi...

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It's Jennifer's birthday, and her best friend is taking her to the exclusive opening of the elite steakhouse, Club Carnivore! What begins as an enchanted evening of gourmet delights soon becomes a waking nightmare of pain, terror, and unnatural appetites.

Club Carnivore: What are you hungry for?

Meet Emma Ramirez, Kimberly St. James, Lizzie Harker, and Susan Vespers: The Whippoorwills.
The Whippoorwills aren’t your average college cheerleaders.
They train, they party, and sometimes they raise pure hell.
Now they’re being hunted down by a clan of backwoods maniacs.

Can they survive, or will they be hunted down for a blood feast by killers more diabolical than Satan himself?

In the adult film industry, every generation has its Queen: Ginger Lynn, Jenna Jameson, Sasha Grey. This generation’s Queen is Madison Walsh, praised by her followers as “the ivory goddess” and “the envy of angels.” When you’re the most popular star in the industry, you draw fans . . . And Madison’s number one fan is devoted and deadly.This new stalker leaves a trail of bodies in their wake, and they crave the blood of this once-in-a-century beauty. Enter Evan, a production assistant learning to live again after his wife’s unexpected death. The two begin an unlikely romance, ju...

Everything went wrong at the end of the first day . . . Just after sunset. Alone while her housemates are away on a business trip, Susan had enjoyed having the place to herself: remote, no neighbors, the scenic Appalachian mountains rising over her.Then she saw the creature emerge from the darkness. A creature that defies nature. But at least it won’t come into the house after her . . . Will it?The Internet is down, her phone has no signal, and no one is coming to help. Haunted by the skull-faced creature, harassed by criminals who sense she is alone and vulnerable, Susan must summon the wil...

Lose yourself in a story of quiet longing and hard-won trust.The Lantern and the Sea is a moving new romance about rebuilding after loss, finding your own voice, and choosing love in the face of uncertainty. Dubrovnik, Croatia. Isla has spent years repairing broken cellos and protecting the fragile pieces of her own heart. She keeps her world small, focused on her music, her students, and her carefully guarded secrets. Everything changes when she meets Adrian, a reserved yet fiercely loyal restorer who is quietly wrestling with his own scars. Their encounter begins to challenge everything...

A Silent Spring?It proves anything but…After a century of dereliction, Toad Hall stirs back to life.Its revival is led by the irrepressible Horatio Toad, newly returned to his ancestral home with six wives, no money, and a plan to save the estate by making nature pay. His uneasy partner is Georges Montgolfiere, an eccentric and radical Rewilder who speaks of a Silent Spring—an eerie absence of birdsong and wildlife, a warning etched into the land itself.Horatio dreams of zipwires, cafés, and gift shops. Georges dreams of ecological redemption. Ideology collides with insolvency—and neith...

Es que te quieren. 2ª edición. 2026. 164 páginas. ISBN 9798245544458 (Novela escrita en 2020)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.En medio de una epidemia que ha obligado a que las autoridades decretaran toque de queda, Álvaro, un maestro jubilado de setenta años de edad que, desde su juventud conversa con los muertos, y su hija Salomé, se ven obligados a permanecer encerrados en su casa durante más de cinco meses. Conforme el mundo se desmorona con la epidemia que no respeta fronteras, Álvaro se reencuentra con algunos muertos, seres queridos, familiares, amigos, que le hacen rev...

Terror urbano. Microrrelatos. 1ª edición. 2023. 182 páginas. ISBN 9798852622556. (Microrrelatos escritos entre 2019 y 2023)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Terror urbano. Microrrelatos.La mayoría de los ciento veintiún microrrelatos de este libro reproducen con exactitud el significado de su título: el miedo muy intenso que se vive en las grandes y pequeñas ciudades.Ese terror urbano que está presente en la gran mayoría de las urbes: la inseguridad de andar por las calles por miedo de los asaltos, los asesinatos, los secuestros; la violencia doméstica que afecta a todo tipo ...

Antiparadigmas inquitos. Poesía visual. 2ª edición. 2023. 184 páginas. ISBN 9798859178292. (Poemas escritos en 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.La definición de paradigma de la RAE es: “teoría o  conjunto de teorías cuyo núcleo central se acepta sin cuestionar y que suministra la base y modelo para resolver problemas y avanzar en el conocimiento”.Antiparadigmas inquietos son 37 poemas visuales que cuestionan y deforman poéticamente la verdad, el conocimiento, las creencias, la vida en sí misma, con un solo objetivo aparentemente ingenuo: provocar una constante ...

Eternamente V de sublime. 3ª edición. 2026. 144 páginas. ISBN 9798248507818. (Poemas escritos en 2019)Indepenently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Eternamente V de sublimeUn libro atrevido con textos que no tienen miedo de decir las cosas por su nombre.Nueve poemas que incomodan a los “conservadores”, desafían a los “revolucionarios”, abofetean a los “moralistas y puritanos” y motivan a luchar aún más contra el feminicidio.En Eternamente V de sublime, la Vulva —no la vagina— toma la voz para declarar su independencia, su libertad, en un manifiesto poético contra aquellas voc...

In a near future of rising seas and failing empires, a young woman designer builds a floating world from the ruins of the old one, confronting climate dystopia with low-tech ingenuity under the pressure of global powers.Floating Eden Defies Empires.As the world is being parceled out, Ayesha, born Bajau, a stateless Southeast Asian sea dweller, loses her mother in a traumatic accident. Orphaned in Sumatra, adopted in Singapore, her Leonardesque gift for drawing leads her to study design in France.At every stage of her journey, mentors and bullies, some real and some composite, appear like stepp...

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The Dark Side of Human Nature: Beneath the Mask of HumanityWhat if the greatest danger in your life is not the people you fear, but the people you trust?Behind every smile may exist insecurity. Behind every act of kindness may exist hidden motives. Behind every display of confidence may exist fear, jealousy, or self-doubt.The Dark Side of Human Nature is a thought-provoking exploration of the hidden forces that shape human behavior. Drawing from psychology, philosophy, history, and human experience, this book examines the darker aspects of the mind that often remain concealed beneath social ma...

Lisa Doyle is fine. Absolutely fine.At least, that's the story she's been telling herself.Her best friend is getting married. Everyone around her seems to have a partner, a plan, and a life that makes sense. Lisa, meanwhile, has four glasses of wine in her, a talent for making bad situations worse, and a growing sense of being left behind.So she does what any sensible woman in a crisis would do. She announces that she's engaged.There is only one problem.Brian does not exist.Now Lisa needs a fiancé before the wedding, her actor flatmate is far too willing to get involved, and the real Brian, w...

It's a Saga, a Fable, an odd Fantasy, about Time, and a little Girl trying to save it. Meet a Squirrel with a black top hat, who work as a guide, a conductor for haunted & lost souls that pass through an old library, with ancient books, inside a very large and old oak. A magic Thermos and hidden paths here and there and everywhere. And a Watch out ...

BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS includes stories about family dysfunction in a not-so-blended family, work, Adolf Hitler’s imagined alternative lives and possible reincarnation, the spirit of Kurt Cobain, a green angel giving an aging alcoholic man a second chance at redemption, men struggling to find some meaning in their lives, and more. Many of these stories deal with feelings of alienation and abandonment, and feelings of the characters that they do not fit in in their families, their lives, their jobs, or, sometimes, in their very bodies.In all there are thirty-eight stories and ...

He wakes up in a different body.So begins the journey of Ash—short for Pin Asher9919—who awakens on a hospital bed on, he believes, a different planet after an automobile accident took the bodily life of an Earth human named Edward Fleishman. Ash is told he was the victim of a serious brain injury and miraculously recovered from being brain dead in a coma, but Ash feels he knows the truth: his spirit has replaced the distressed spirit of the former Edward Fleishman.Thus, Ash's new life on earth begins, complete with a spouse who is a stranger to him, a body he is not sure how to use, a wor...

Almost It was almost just a weekend fling.It was almost romance.It was almost supernatural.It was almost self-help… if healing could happen between blindfolds, whiskey, and songs that hit too perfectly.One woman. One man. One hotel room that feels like it’s watching them.Tarot cards that refuse to lie.And a connection that blurs every line between desire, trauma, and something neither of them can explain.Dark. Psychological. Sensual.With just enough humor to keep you breathing.Almost — because sometimes “almost” is where the real story begins.Queue up the music from the playlist and...

Almost is a psychological dark erotic romance about the terrifying intimacy of being seen clearly — about the moment when surrender stops being about giving up and becomes about choosing what happens next.Amie is not tragic wallpaper.She is messy, funny, awkward, sharp in the wrong moments, prone to finding absurdity exactly where dignity goes to die. Her mind spirals through fear, hunger, shame, tarot cards, terrible timing, inappropriate jokes, and the occasional suspicion that the universe has developed a very specific sense of humor.What she does not plan for is Ken.Ken does not take wha...

This lesbian action/adventure thriller continues the saga of Mika and Leah Cross. Angel Mika and Witch Leah move their family to a small Texas town where things appear to be peaceful. They are welcomed with friendly handshakes and warm smiles but what is hiding behind those smiles? Mika begins the task of building a church but soon encounters rabid religious persecution. As town citizens begin to disappear Leah realizes that something Beyond Evil is engulfing their community. The discovery made by their oldest daughter shines a spotlight on the eternal lovers and causes people to ask Leah, "Ho...

A Touch of Murder is the fourth novel in the saga of Mika and Leah Cross. Mika is an angel and Leah is a witch who have found eternal love in spite of their differences. An ancient evil lurks in the background as our lovers make the decision to leave New York and move to a safer place. But there may be no safe place for them in this world.

 Donna Raider ramps up the action and suspense with Marked for Murder. Priest Mika Cross strives to keep her family safe when accidents begin to happen to those in power in the church. Secrets are revealed. An ancient serial killer rises to exact his own brand of retribution and our lovers are caught in the middle of something they can't stop.