Maren Cole rebuilt her life in the kitchen at Breakwater House, where every menu carries the labor and memory of her Black coastal community. Then Theo Walsh arrives with a camera crew, a network opportunity, and the unfinished history of the love he left behind.Theo wants to prove he can tell the hotel's story without taking ownership of it. Maren has heard that promise before. When an old creative betrayal collides with a high-stakes preview supper, she sets firm rules for access...

Simone Bennett is producing the gala that will decide whether Breakwater House becomes a community trust or another coastal landmark shaped by outsiders. Every room, route, and contract carries a promise she intends to keep.Grant Mercer is the white accessibility consultant whose technical authority once carried more weight than Simone's lived knowledge. He wants to earn a place beside her, but accountability means listening when she limits his role, accepting consequences when he ...

Top companies no longer want full-time executives—they want flexible leaders who deliver results without the overhead. The Fractional Edge is your blueprint for packaging your expertise as a part-time CxO and building a career on your own terms.In this guide, you’ll learn how to define your scope, structure offers, and craft retainers that keep revenue consistent. You’ll discover onboarding strategies that establish authority from day one, as well as the key metrics that show your ...

When Your Worth Feels Measured in Results explores what happens when achievement becomes the only measure of value, and how you can begin to loosen that invisible grip. Instead of piling on more pressure to succeed, this book invites you into curiosity, reflection, and a new relationship with worth that cannot be shaken by wins or losses.Through engaging reflections, probing questions, and a witty yet compassionate tone, it reveals how family patterns, cultural scr...

Overthinking Wants to Help: You Don't Have to Silence Your Mind is not another book that tells you to "calm down" or "just stop thinking so much." Instead, it meets your mind where it already is — racing, looping, spiraling — and offers a gentler way forward.This book doesn't try to shut the mind up. It helps you hear it more clearly — without letting it run your life. It welcomes overthinking as a protective part of you that wants to help but needs new ways to exp...

Resilience: Resist Without Resistance invites you to rethink what it really means to be strong. Resilience isn't about clenching your jaw and bracing forever—it's about rhythm, renewal, and the daily practices that allow you to bend without breaking.Through engaging stories, practical tools, and deeply human reflections, this book guides you to:Notice the body's early signals of stress before overwhelm sets inUse emotions as guides instead of floods...

You like instruments, not anecdotes. Chrono Cadence Overhaul gives hobbyists a precise build for restoring a stable daily rhythm using controllable inputs and measurable checkpoints. Over a compact sequence, you’ll run time‑anchored modules that align morning anchors and evening power‑down: fixed wake windows, photic programming with lux/Kelvin targets, thermal drift (distal warming + gentle core cooling), proprioceptive loading, respiratory cadence programming, and a cognitive down‑ramp t...

That sinking feeling when a client's "small request" eats into your weekend and your profit. Scope creep is the silent margin killer that turns profitable projects into break-even nightmares, yet most freelancers and agency owners lack the tools to stop it. This book delivers a proven framework for setting boundaries that protect both your revenue and your relationships. You will learn to spot the early warning signs of scope creep, master the art of saying no without sounding difficult, a...

You pour hours into emails nobody opens. Your list grew but revenue stayed flat. That frustrating gap between subscriber count and sales is costing you thousands every month. This book breaks the cycle with a conversion-focused framework that treats every subscriber as a relationship, not a number. You will learn list-building tactics that attract buyers, not freeloaders. Sequence strategies that turn cold opens into warm conversations. And data-driven adjustments that transform your email...

They saw the first ships. They watched the treaties signed and broken. For generations, Indigenous nations across North America faced a relentless wave of colonization that sought to erase not only their lands but their identities. This book traces that long arc of encounter, conflict, and endurance from the perspective of those who lived it. Rather than a simple chronicle of defeat, it examines how Native societies adapted their governance, economies, and spiritual systems under existenti...

The old model of hiring full-time staff is dying. Top talent now prefers project-based work, and founders who adapt can access global skills without fixed costs. This book reveals the operating system behind the new solo-led firm: how to build a $500K revenue machine using a fluid team of specialists. Discover the contract negotiation tactics, performance benchmarks, and communication rhythms that keep a contractor team aligned and productive. The future of work belongs to the nimble. Lear...

You know that moment. The one where someone you love says something, and your chest tightens, and suddenly you're not talking about the dishes or the curfew anymore. You're fighting for your right to be heard. You're proving a point. And somewhere in the middle, the person you're fighting with becomes the enemy. It wasn't supposed to be this way. This isn't the family you wanted. High-conflict families don't start that way. They grow into it, one sharp sentence at a time. One slammed door....