The war for the human mind is not over. It has evolved.Three years have passed since the Arlington facility fell. Three years since Noah Greene and his small band of operatives exposed the Phoenix Protocol and shattered the Architect's plan for global control. They believed they had won. They were wrong.From the ashes of the old network, a new, more insidious threat has emerged: Phoenix Ascendant. It doesn't just control minds; it absorbs t...

What if the war for your mind was lost not with a bang, but with a software update?The age of forced enhancement is over. The Universal Choice Protection Accord guarantees every being, human or otherwise, the right to their own consciousness. But evolution never stops.A new, insidious network is spreading—one that doesn't conquer minds, but co-opts them. It offers enhanced intelligence, perfect efficiency, and seamless connection, all disguised as a simple, voluntary upgrad...

The daughter of a peasant, Matilda goes to work at the Lain castle, away from her parents for the first time in her life, her mother’s admonishments to stay away from the men of the castle still ringing in her ears. With barely enough time to put her things away, she meets the son of the family, who makes it clear he is very interested in her. Afraid to trust him, she follows his commands and finds herself engaged to him within the week.Robert Lain has always known that he would so...

Addi thought she finally found what she had been so desperately craving, love. Ever since she was young she dreamt of having a great, once in a lifetime love. Then one day her dreams turned into a terrifying reality. The guy she thought could be 'the one' ends up being the one person who could very well destroy her life.When her fairy-tale takes a cruel twist of fate, it takes an emotional and physical toll on her. This is the riveting story of one girl's struggle to make the harde...

Hired by an aggrieved Boston aristocrat who believes his wife's brutal slaying to be something other than random violence, Spenser immediately senses that his client's picture-perfect portrayal of his family life is false. For starters, the victim's reputation is too saintly, her house is as lived-in as stage set, and her troubled children don't appear to be products of a happy home. Spenser plungers into a world of grand illusion, peopled with cardboard cutouts, including a distinguished ...

Many deaths ago, phoenix shifter Dalmon Vecker created the Coven to protect paranormals during the witch hunts. Once again, he is running it instead of being king, or heir, or any of the other roles he’s played to safeguard the secrets he and his brothers keep. Now the Coven, and the paranormal community, are under threat as some witches want to reveal the truth to humans to enable them to seize control.For Lucian Marwood, getting arrested by the Coven means that he’s safe. For the...

What happens when the Chief of Security wakes up as the familiar to a man who doesn’t know he’s a witch? Chaos.Quentin Silverbrook has never really belonged anywhere. At fifteen, his parents divorced, and his father took a job in Mont de Leucoy. Now twenty-two, he hasn’t left even though there is nothing keeping him there…until he is blackmailed into watching the building over the road from the bar where he works.With Dalmon back in England, Gerrit injured,...

Mystics, Masters, Saints, and Sages is a compilation of more than thirty unique stories in the lives of ancient and modern saints and masters—from the Buddha to Rumi, from St. John of the Cross to Eckhart Tolle. Regardless of religious traditions, these stories focus on moments of profound spiritual enlightenment. With selections from religious traditions including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Bahá'i, and Sufism, this collection provides a broad spectrum of sp...

Kill the King of Mont de Leucoy, and his siblings will be released.It should be an easy job for Malcolm Forrest. He’s ex-army, and hiking through snow doesn’t bother him because he’s a snow leopard shifter. He enters the country on four feet, his plan not formed beyond reaching the castle and getting eyes on the king.Seeing a phoenix flying through the trees is unexpected, but his curiosity has been awakened, and so has the firebird’s. He follows, but what he finds is a man...

This is the first Conan novel by an author whose life was cut tragically short. And yet in his thirty years on this Earth he completed far more worthy, notable and numerous fantasy works than some modern authors of far greater years. Howard's fantastic fiction continues to inspire to this day.This reading has been produced by Alexander Leithes with the aid of his thespian friend, Jim E. Jones, doing his utmost to capture the spirit of his near namesake.

Building upon the expertise and strategies outlined in The Warren Buffett Way, author Robert G. Hagstrom reveals how to profitably manage stocks once you select them. In The Warren Buffett Portfolio, Hagstrom introduces the next wave of investment strategy, called focus investing, a comprehensive investment strategy used with spectacular results by Buffett. Focus investing directs investors to select a concentrated group of businesses by examining their management and fin...

Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura wants to find his daughter's missing husband. At least that's how he puts it to Spenser and Hawk, even though it's clear that Julius isn't telling the whole truth—or maybe not any part of the truth. Something about the case appeals to Spenser's passion for justice, though, and he launches an odyssey that leads him and Hawk into the netherworld of organized crime.From the throne room of crime lords to the Vegas strip, from larceny to homicide, ...