Tales From the Windy City is a collection of ten engaging short stories that captures the triumphs, disappointments, friendships, romances, and unexpected twists that shape everyday life in and around Chicago. Whether it's a frantic race to catch the morning Metra train, a chance reunion that rekindles memories from decades past, a summer day that changes two lives forever, or a simple wrong number that leads to something unforgettable, each story offers relatable characters and a...

SIX WEEKS AGO: A series of horrific events rock the town of Aiken Mill, Virginia. A weirdly mutilated body vanishes from the town morgue. Numerous individuals go missing without a trace. The local sheriff's department, as well as the FBI, are stymied. And a creeping madness settles over the town.Now, Celeste Muir, a former FBI agent with extensive experience in paranormal phenomena, allies herself with Sheriff Bryce Parrott to face the unknown forces that have terrorized Aiken Mill...

Brock Lane needed a wind down after getting his stepfather, Brent Jones, back safely and giving his captors the one million dollars in ransom money for his freedom. He decided to go to Chili’s and have a few shots at the bar to calm his nerves, and that’s when he got reacquainted with his college crush, Naomi Hill, who was a waitress there. They exchanged numbers and hooked up for their first date a few days later.Meanwhile, Brent contacted his old friend from the military, Detecti...

Brock Lane and his family were able to breathe a sigh of relief when Will and his cohorts were apprehended for the kidnapping of Brent Jones Sr., Brock’s stepfather. However, Brock didn’t want certain things to come to light when he elected to give an impromptu press conference about his ordeal. The team’s media relations expert was able to prep him on what to say, but the press was able to skillfully ask crucial questions that would ultimately back him into a corner.Meanwhile, new...

Horace Shingles is back in town for an important case that his dad assigned to him because an innocent man's life hangs in the balance. He ends up hanging out with his best friend, Greg O'Brien, on the first night, and Greg informs him of his current troubles with his fiancée, Pamela Brown. She failed to come home the previous night, and Greg suspects that she might be cheating on him.Subsequently, Greg and Horace decide to go to Hooters to eat and have some drinks, and Horace meet...

Information products have helped hundreds of people achieve financial independence with their online business. Some marketers have achieved a level of celebrity in their niche with the products they created. This book will teach you how to choose, develop, and market your information product so it can become a stream of passive income.There are many types of information products. The choices can range from eBooks to physical books, videos and audios, workbooks, courses and workshop...

Fast forward six years later, Brock Lane had retired from basketball and settled down with Naomi and their four children in the outskirts of Chicago. Malik was traded to Los Angeles shortly after Brock retired, and he settled in with Jasmine and their five children. Brent Sr. died from taking the COVID-19 shot in the fall of 2021, and the family hadn’t been the same since. This was the main reason Brock retired from the NBA.All of Brock’s businesses were thriving, most notably the ...

Greg O’Brien was a third-year college student at Clark Atlanta University, a HBCU located in the historic heart of Atlanta, Georgia. He was experiencing some of the typical growing pains that young men his age go through―pressure from work as well as school, and he had been physically and emotionally drained from his long-term relationship with his high school sweetheart, Rosalyn Coleman. He decided that they needed a break from each other so that he could regroup, but she wanted a clean s...

The story began with pro basketball player Brock Lane ordering a couple of drinks at Chili’s Grill and Bar in Calumet City, Illinois; and he was on a mission to get completely wasted in the shortest time humanly possible. He felt betrayed, and he also felt completely helpless about his current situation. He had just received a contract extension, so it could’ve been any number of past acquaintances who may have double-crossed him. And to make matters worse, he may have offended the waitres...

Mitch Black had it all―he’d married his college sweetheart Sandra and purchased a beautiful home in the south suburbs of Chicago, he was gainfully employed as a financial analyst, and he co-owned a nightclub with his cousin, Wesley Hunter. He also became a millionaire before the age of thirty by skillfully playing the stock market with his economic expertise.The story starts off with Mitch running into his college roommate and teammate, Gary Maxwell. Gary was booted off the basketb...

The yoga teacher’s guide to planning and sequencing yoga classes—with over 2,000 instructional photos and 67 yoga pose sequences for students of all skill levels.Also features additional resources, including yoga class planning worksheets, comprehensive glossaries, and much more!Addressing one of the most popular topics in the yoga profession, this book offers 67 model sequences of yoga poses (asanas) that cover the broad range of ...

This volume brings together recent excavations at two sites in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. The main focus of the Volume will be examining Iron Age burials, which included chariots, sword and spears and will also include earlier Prehistoric and later Roman activity. The excavations have enabled further scientific evidence for migration and mobility in the Iron Age population and secure chronologies for artefacts. New evidence from osteological analysis gives support for Warrior Graves and ...