Chicago Assistant Prosecutor Kurt McBride knows the fate of law enforcers in prison: unbearable for him. So when he finds himself accused of murder, he must take flight. With false identification and altered appearance, he finds refuge amidst the small, year-round population of Washington Island, Wisconsin. He meets and forges a relationship with a young woman to whom he confesses his true identity. He gains credibility and respect from neighbors. He solves a local murder case. He stays un...

Kurt McBride had his eye on celebrity long before his first day in Law College. And his seven-year career has thus far gained him national repute. So when a wealthy socialite contacts him pleading for his help and will pay $4,000 per day plus expenses, McBride sees the opportunity as a giant step up the ladder—even after the widowed woman, Carolie, explains her situation.Women her age around the country are being abducted and she has proof, she says, that the kidnappers are after he...

Toby Noble takes his life for granted: his loving family, his countless friends, his upcoming college days, even his intimacy with the most sought-after girl in town. He has no idea how much it all means to him—until everything, save his own being, vanishes.In a flash of lightening he is a stranger to everyone and everything in town. The people he knew are gone; the places he knew have either changed or disappeared. Life itself, as he knew it, is different.In a state of near-...

A shy, immature, reluctant young soldier finds himself on a darkened jet, making his descent onto an airfield in Vietnam.What Larry Long didn’t realize, however, was that he was also descending into a hole of pot, booze, and pills—one that would take him years to escape.In this memoir, he looks back at his army service, beginning with the worst eight weeks of his life: basic training. During that time, he didn’t make any friends or gain any self-confidence. All he did was lo...

The Resource-Based Dispute Management System concept proposes a management system that sequences the particular natural resource with cultural diversities to broaden the individuals perspectives within the negotiation and mediation processes.

As communication and leadership skills are both essential for personal and organizational success, new approaches and management styles are continuously being sought. Emerging technologies, automation opportunities, and a diverse workforce are just a few of the challenges business professionals must be prepared for in today’s workplace environment. The Handbook of Research on Strategic Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Management in Modern Organizations provides emerging research exp...

When Piper Streyle failed to show up for work, a coworker called her home. Piper's three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Shaina, answered and said, "A mean man carried Mommy away." Then the line went dead. In the tranquil region of southeast South Dakota, word of the young mother who was brazenly abducted from her home in broad daylight shocked residents. Piper was the second woman to vanish, following the startling incident of a young woman who narrowly escaped abduction by fighting for her...

When Kurt meets Cassie it is love at first sight, but at nearly that same moment a killer who breaks bones like toothpicks and tears flesh with fangs begins ravaging the community. While many ascribe the carnage to a decades-old legend called "The Coogan Curse," Kurt digs for clues, separating fact from fiction, truth from superstition, madness from motive. Then Cassie's sister is killed. Cassie and her toddler are now clearly in the demon's crosshairs. To protect them, and despite putting...

It was just luck that placed George and his boat in such a place and time that he couldn't help but be faced by a terrorist group intent on one final act of mass murder. The yarn carries us from the splendor of Western Canada, through the urbanity of Southern England to the jungles of Costa Rica.George Mudd.......ex-SAS, entrepreneur extraordinaire specializing in oil field security and contracted to British Security to assist in Counter Terrorism.Padraig O'Brian......sleepin...

BramblemanCharlie Sherman, a down-and-out Atlanta writer, is chosen by a mysterious stranger to complete a dead professor's unfinished work. What Charlie finds is an unwieldy manuscript about the mob-driven expulsion of more than 1,000 blacks from Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912. During the course of his work, Charlie uncovers a terrible secret involving a Forsyth County land grab. Due to its proximity to Atlanta, the stolen farm is now worth $20 million—and a sale is pending....

Jimmy Temple is a private detective whose specialty is finding lost lovers for the romantically inclined in mobile Los Angeles. He is approached by Wanda Kincaid to solve the gruesome murder of her wealthy father Jack.In trying to solve the case, Jimmy enters a strange, macabre world. Wanda confides that the secret of Jack’s fortune reaches back to his family’s decaying funeral home. There, in a bedroom above the wet room where bodies are embalmed, Kincaid could supposedly tap into...

Book 1 in the Detective Marcella mysteries: A group of individuals proficient in the psychic academia of clairvoyance, telepathy and bilocation, working to understand life's most unusual secrets soon realize that even their abilities of mind over matter can't save them from the blade of the surgeon stalker.