Danni Foster's partner, and the mother to their child is dying of cancer. Grace the home health nurse is there to take care of Amy and make her as comfortable as possible. When Amy dies, Danni's world shatters apart and she vows to never fall in love again. But things change in one night of anguish as Danni takes her grief out on Grace in the bedroom.After that night, Danni is even more grief stricken and pushes Grace away. A year later she runs into Grace again and things have cha...

In the E.Q. of a Lyricist Volume I, every poem isa. conversation with the heart. Through themes of love, healing, grief, hope, identity, and growth, this collection reminds us that our emotions are not weaknesses- they are the language of being human. Honest, intimate, and timeless, these poems invite readers to slow down, reflect, and find beauty in both the broken and the whole.

Smuggling precious cargo to a remote colony was supposed to be easy. I was dead wrong.Awarded Silver Honorable Mention in the recent first quarter Volume 40 of L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest.Smuggling is a dangerous business and Reese Daniels has the score of a lifetime within his grasp; however, getting shot down on one of Uranus' moons wasn't in his plan. Stranded and on the run in the middle of an alien invasion, Reese must work with a gr...

A hot visitor intrudes on Bryce's solitary existence, staying with his family for a time, and Bryce will never be the same. David is wild and crazy, and it doesn't take long before he's pushed Bryce to the edge. But there's another side of David as well, sensitive and kind, and it seems like maybe he's interested in Bryce, as well.David makes Bryce look at things a different way, and Bryce starts to wonder if he could actually, in a conservative town in 1986, lead a happy life with...

Leo Garrick thought he was taking control of his life when he accepted his first directive from an anonymous digital collective. Driven by the burning humiliation inflicted by his powerful father, Leo launches a devastating cyber strike against the town's corrupt elite.But every action has an "automated" reaction.As corrupt board members fall and old family secrets explode into the light, Leo and Randy are pulled into a clinical, mechanical meat grinder. When the Council na...

Don't let your past keep you from a full future.Like every girl, Sarah Jakes dreamed of a life full of love, laughter, and happy endings. But her dreams changed dramatically when she became pregnant at age thirteen, a reality only compounded by the fact that her father, Bishop T.D. Jakes, was one of the most influential megachurch pastors in the nation. As a teen mom and a high-profile preacher's kid, her road was lonely. She was shunned at school, gossiped about a...

In 1980, college sophomore Alec Van Horne approaches his final months as a teenager dreading the shame of eternal celibacy. But to lose his virginity he must first break out of the closet. He hatches a plan. Stay on campus over summer recess and spark a romance with a handsome upperclassman. Alec's mother has other ideas. Wracked with fears of mortality, Audrey decides that Paris is the perfect consolation prize for turning 50. Still viewing her youngest offspring as a child, she insists t...

Elena Reyes has waited her whole life for one night—this night.Prom was supposed to be a milestone, but for Elena, it's something more:The night she finally gives herself to Adrian, the boy she's loved for years.She isn't shy about it.She isn't scared.She's excited—achingly, breathlessly excited—to lose it tonight.The moment she steps out of the limo in pale-blue silk and stockings, everything changes.Eyes follow her...

Managing Up Like a ProBook 1 of The Management Blueprint SeriesBy Terrance WilliamsTired of vague expectations, difficult bosses, and feeling stuck at work? Managing Up Like a Pro is your real-world guide to navigating the modern workplace with clarity, confidence, and results—no title or promotion required.Author Terrance Williams shares over 20 years of leadership insight from the U.S. Air Force, Amazon operations, and cor...

For fifteen years Jenna and Adam's marriage had been safe, comfortable… and quietly fading.The spark was gone, the sex routine, the desire little more than a polite memory.Then one ordinary night Adam asked the question neither of them had dared to voice:"What if you were with someone else… and I wanted you to?"What begins as a shocking confession becomes something neither of them expected: permission.Not to leave.Not to cheat.But to rediscover the woman Jenna used to be (w...

When murders in your average city isn't e5, it becomes not just another bloody nightmare but murder for profit in an underground world of misery,where murder is a business you don't want to be a part of.

TRAINED TO HEAL ... AND TO KILLAll his life Greg McPartlin wanted to be a Marine corpsman, a medic skilled at saving lives. Three months of bagging-and-tagging bodies during Vietnam s Tet Offensive took the luster off of being a Marine but not off McPartlin’s desire to serve his country.After assisting in the sea recovery of Apollo 11 the first ship to bring men to the moon the twenty-year-old McPartlin was redeployed to Vietnam as an elite Navy SEAL. Barred as a medic from...