4:23 a.m. The phone rings. The officer on the other end says, “It’s a bad one, Darren. Can you come?”Darren McDaniel has worked dozens of homicides in his years as a detective. It’s a dark and gritty business, and he’s prepared to handle whatever it throws at him. Or so he once believed.The pre-teen girl is dead, dressed in a white princess gown, lying on a bus stop bench. There’s a steel chain clamped to her ankle. A cryptic message scrawled across the boo...

When we take in an unconscious and unidentified patient, strange things start happening in my hospital.Before I became a neurosurgeon, I was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Medical Corps. I like my work environment to be ordered and disciplined, but uncertainty arrives along with our beautiful Jane Doe and it throws me for a loop. I become obsessed with her mystery and trying to figure out her story, but this proves difficult when she refuses to speak to anyone.As she warms up ...

Officer Darren McDaniel just wants to get his trainee through the shift without another major flustercluck. His plan for the day, teach Rookie Conklin paperwork and parking tickets. Maybe she can talk on the radio a little bit.But when a trio of frenzied meth addicts go on a wild kidnapping spree through downtown, the veteran cop and his rookie get caught in the middle of the mayhem.Violence escalates as the fugitives grow more desperate. Their spree spirals into a rampage ...

Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck—to name a few—maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off the set, all three box office divas were involved in "lavender" marriages (marriages of convenience, often to gay men) or remained stoically single. They, and several other Hollywood starlets of the era, were members of a discreet women's "c...

The Story of San Michele is the famous memoir by Swedish physician Axel Munthe (1857-1949). Written in English, it has been a best-seller in numerous languages. The author associated with a number of celebrities of his times, all of whom figure in the book. He also knew the very poorest, including immigrants and plague victims. He was an unabashed animal lover, and animals figure prominently, especially his alcoholic pet baboon, Billy. Several discussions with animals and various supernatu...

I was betrayed twice at once: my wife cheated on me with my best friend.But every cloud has a silver lining, and my best friend's daughter Dianne is a gorgeous ray of sunshine.She says I should get sweet revenge by claiming her innocence. It's so wrong. Dianne is half my age and off-limits, and yet I go deep right in front of my wife, too...Sweet Revenge While My Wife Watches is a spicy, forbidden dad's best friend first time age gap cuckquean short...

We exterminated National Socialism but failed to liquidate international socialism; Kaiser exhorts us to continue the fight.—PETER THIEL, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Author of Zero to OneThis book dismantles the supposed moral superiority of socialism compared to fascism. Kaiser demonstrates that Marxism-Leninism and Nazi fascism are not opposites at all—they are twin ideologies, both children of the same collectivist monst...

Accounting Lessons & Financial Statement Skills in One Neat, Little Book.How would you like to learn to read AND use your financial statements while at the same time getting a grounding in core accounting skills?This book will help you in the markets and in your business while adding accounting as another string to your bow.Make the most of your currently available financial accounting information. Read on to find out how.Financial Statement Basics: From Confu...

Lucius is a thief. He's not ashamed. It is the only way to survive in Rome. At least, the only way that suits Lucius.But he refuses to lose at Green Gnaeus' lottery ever again.He gathers a crew. A half-cyclops who slays monsters in the gladiator games, and who himself is regarded as a monster by most. A one-legged shadowfoot who won't stop lying. A slave risking her life in chariot races.They plan a daring heist: the lottery pot, the greatest treasure in Rome, hidde...

The viral story of hope and recovery that has inspired over 50 million people; as featured in Men's Health, The Proof and ChainlessLife.This book will change the way you look at 'problems' forever.When life serves us with challenges, it's all too easy to feel like a victim. But are we destined to live in the shadow of our past trauma? Or can we use the pain of our past to create a more beautiful future?In the winter of 2021, Axel Schurawlo...

From the South three sisters fair ran athwart the gloom.Dressed of fur and fierce of tooth... the maidens of the moon.Jimmy Finn is having a real bad day. He woke up drunk and on the wrong end of a nightstick. He lost his job, and had to see his shrink. Now the cops are after him, he's falling apart, and his only friend is a volatile drug lord. How could it get any worse?As smoke envelopes the city, he finds himself on the run, and out of time. He's either l...

A fascinating look at the real Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the designer who forever revolutionized the way women look. She was a free spirit, brilliant business woman, and beauty who never found reciprocated love. Madsen, with authority, delves into this fashion doyenne's business and private lives to reveal one woman's extraordinary progress: from orphan to millinery shopkeeper, from lodestar of feminine style to a very rich woman with a closet full of dark secrets.