When you're launching a startup, one of the most important elements is the legal work involved. Unfortunately, it's easy for many entrepreneurs to ignore startup legal work or make costly mistakes that could derail their business before it gets off the ground. But now there's help. In Acceleration, corporate attorney Ryan Roberts guides you through the often confusing early legal decisions critical to getting a startup going. In plain, comprehensible English, he offers expert advice, best ...

Several years ago Ryan Robert noticed his niece was having body image issues. She obsessed about her weight and let it take control of her life. Eventually she even lost the confidence she once effortlessly displayed.As an avid runner, Ryan knew if he was able to get his niece to start running she would gain self-confidence, better mental and physical acuity. It would also allow her a better focus on health rather than weight. Ryan started writing notes to his niece about different...

Nimrod, a coming-of-age story about a sheltered teenager wanting nothing more than to escape the confines of his home and to see for himself what the world has to offer.Rod is a daydreamer with a singular wish: to meet Sting, the rockstar-the only person capable of fixing Rod's broken family and liberating him from his sheltered existence. It's the summer before senior year, and Rod has nothing to look forward to but sitting at home day after day, serving ...

A legendary warrior protects a young woman who may be his daughter as destiny draws them into a perilous quest against a ruthless tyrant and forbidden magic in this action-packed epic fantasy of sorcery, redemption, and a kingdom on the brink of ruin.Is she my daughter? I protect her against steel and sorcery as though she is, and maybe it will give meaning to my life…I may never learn the truth. Perhaps I don’t deserve to. All I need to kn...

The game is afoot. The game of life and death. The game of druids, gods and destiny…My companions and I begin a quest. We must seek the Great Druid in the forest sanctuary of his kind, and win knowledge from him. Yet there is a problem.He is dead.Even so, my companions have the power to raise a shade. The walls of Death can be breached, for those who have the gift. Or curse.Yet what then? The Dark creeps malevolently, inexorably, over my lan...

I am the evil that destroys worlds. And yet I would die to protect her…Our last quest lies before us, and we now run the final race against the forces of darkness. We dare to try to waken a dead god, but my heart misgives me.The shade of the long-dead druid we summoned spoke one word that blazes in my memory. Sacrifice. What did he mean? My companions and I might die by the hand of our enemies. This we know, and risk. Yet I think he meant more.If so, I fear it is my...

A disgraced former arena champion must reclaim his fading strength and forbidden magic to protect the daughter who does not know him from an ancient evil and a ruthless god in this action-packed epic fantasy of gladiators, betrayal, redemption, and found family.Regret is a burden. I should know. And magic makes it worse…Once, the crowd adored me. I was young and the world was small. I fought in the arena, and I was good. The best. Warriors ...

Bestselling author Robert Ryan brings one of the greatest epic journeys of all time to life in this captivating story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition.January 18, 1912: Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition reaches the South Pole. Just a few weeks later, trapped in one of the worst blizzards Antarctica has ever known, Scott and his four companions perish in subzero temperatures. How did the icy conditions overwhelm Scott, Captain Oates and their party on the fateful ...

Where better to get away with murder than a place where thousands are dying every day?Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in their thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise.But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries, and Sherlock Holmes' former sidekick Dr John Watson - unable to fight for his country due to injury but able to serve it through his medical expertise - finds his suspicions raised. The face has a blue-ish tinge, the ...

The inspiration behind BBC One's thrilling new drama, The Great Train Robbery.Sunday Times bestseller Robert Ryan brings the most ambitious heist of the twentieth century to gripping and vivid life.1963: an unarmed gang led by the dapper Bruce Reynolds holds up a Royal Mail train at a remote bridge in Buckinghamshire, escaping with millions. The group lay low in a nearby farm but, panicked by the police closing in they cle...

A collection of six stories, inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's originals and adapted to feature much-loved Dr John Watson, Sherlock Holmes's long-suffering sidekick.

In the flamboyant Twenties, Englishman William Grover-Williams and Frenchman Robert Benoist were fierce rivals racing their elegant Bugattis on the glittering European race circuits. Not only is the World Championship in their sights, but they have both fallen for the sensuous charms of the extravagantly beautiful Eve Aubicq. But when war breaks out, everything changes. Paris is in the iron-grip of German occupation and Robert and William join the Special Operations Executive to help the F...