Caught up in a war of survival between organic life forms and an artificial intelligence, Jason and his crew must learn the secrets of controlling an alien spacecraft, a veritable ghost ship that he and his crew have been stranded on. The ability to control the very fabric of space-time has been conquered by this alien race, but their own success has led to their doom. Only human creativity and imagination can hope to defeat an alien AI that threatens not just Earth, but all inhabited worl...

Falling for my football star vacation fling? Inevitable. Unless he turns out to be a murderer…Okay, that's unlikely. But after my straight-laced, seemingly upstanding ex turned out to be an international drug dealer, trust doesn't come easily.Enter Law Card, the new Houston Pumas tight end, your typical boy-next-door. He's maddeningly patient with my suspicious, true-crime obsessed self. But he has "too good to be true" written all over him.If there...

Eight years ago, he asked me to marry him and I said yes… then I ran.AvaEven so, I never dreamed we'd end up here—him hating me for the choices I made to save his career. It's fine. I've moved on.I've had a few bumps in the road with my rising event planning career, but running my best friend's wedding to her pro-football fiancé will fix all of that. If I pull off the perfect wedding.There's one more bump I wasn't expecting—...

I'm totally fine if America wants to cast me as the villain. So why do I care if brooding football player Will Pemberton believes it too?But honestly? It stings more than it should when Will—grumpy football star and walking scowl—judges me based on a five-second video from Being the Bennets, my family's reality TV show.Maybe it's because his best friend is dating my sister. We're supposed to be polite strangers. Civil, at best.Instead, we c...

In Divorce the Collaborative Way. Is It the Way For You? three divorce professionals – a family law attorney, a mental health professional and a financial planner – share their knowledge and insights about the collaborative divorce process with divorcing couples in order to help them decide if the collaborative process is right for them. Using real life examples to illustrate key points, Divorce the Collaborative Way.Describes the different options couples have fo...

AUDIENCE FOR BOOK: Employers, human resources professionals, supervisors and managers, small business owners • New title - the older edition was called: 9781413305616 Progressive Discipline Handbook • Provides strategies and tools for managers to deal with one of the toughest parts of their jobs – disciplining employees in a consistent, fair, and effective manner. • Identifies key performance and misconduct problems, explains how to decide on the appropriate level of discipline, and demons...

This is a free extended preview of The Good Liar. The full audiobook can be found by searching the Kobo store.One explosion. Three women. Countless secrets. From bestselling author Catherine McKenzie comes a suspenseful, unsettling novel about what lurks in the wake of tragedy.Everybody hides. Everybody lies.On October 10th, three women’s lives are forever altered by a terrible accident.Cecily was supposed to be in the buil...

A young ensign, recently graduated from the Northern Hemisphere Space Academy, is awakened abruptly in the middle of the night by alarms, flashing lights, and dire messages to abandon ship. The petite blonde pulls on some clothes and races through the spaceship in a desperate search for an available life pod-- but it appears all have already departed. So begins the epic story of Jenetta Carver. Get a tight grip on your book and prepare for an exciting adventure like few others because Jene...

In the vein of the hit television show Battlestar Galactica comes Earth Strike—the first book in the action-packed Star Carrier science fiction series by Ian Douglas, author of the popular Inheritance, Heritage, and Legacy Trilogies and one of the most adept writers of military sf working today. Earth Strike rockets readers into a vast and deadly intergalactic battle, as humankind attempts to bring down an evil empire and establish itself as the new major power. ...

Center of Gravity is the second book in the explosive Star Carrier series by Ian Douglas—and a breathtaking new high in military sf, the strongest of the science fiction subgenres. Battlestar Galactica fans will adore this saga of ultimate war in deep space, as humankind risks its very future, battling a vast alien evil empire in order to achieve transcendence and become a major power in the universe. Douglas’s Center of Gravity belongs on every action-lover’s sf...

Advanced weapons manufactured for Space Command are being offered for sale on the galactic black market. Trader Vyx, an undercover operative for Space Command, the military arm of the Galactic Alliance, has been sent into the Frontier Zone to procure several weapons from an Alyysian arms merchant, as part of an effort to trace the serial numbers and end the thefts. All is going smoothly until a Tsgardi mercenary enters the room. He utters a profanity as he recognizes Vyx and immediately reach...

Humankind’s vast intergalactic power struggle and future war to bring down an insidious evil alien empire reaches an explosive, page-turning climax in Ian Douglas’s Singularity, the third book in his New York Times bestselling Star Carrier series. Blisteringly exciting military science fiction in the vein of the hit TV series “Battlestar Galactica,” Singularity pits determined space soldiers against a powerful race of creatures bent upon the total annihilation of...