Marcus was special. He'd always known it. Even at the age of six when he'd decided to kill his father. His privileged background should have produced a doctor, an academic, perhaps a diplomat. Instead, he killed people for fun.Donna O'Prey is the most junior member of a small private security firm. A routine search for a missing teenage girl escalates into something very dangerous indeed.

Forbidden: M/M LBGT Erotica Paranormal RomanceJake Winslow’s marriage to the money grubbing shrew is over. Cutting off her funds, and the simple use of the word “no” sends her packing. When he comes home from work and finds his house empty of everything, including food, he feels—liberated.Jake’s grandmother, Jenna, calls her friend and attorney, Forrest Stout, to handle Jake’s messy divorce. She can’t stand Jake’s soon-to-be ex-wife and is leaving nothing to chance. Only th...

Der Tod ist nicht das Ende. Viel schlimmer. Er ist erst der Anfang ... Port, New Hampshire, am Ende des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Nach dem Tod seines vermögenden Vaters zieht der junge Robert Barton zurück in den Stammsitz seiner Familie. Doch das uralte Gebäude beherbergt manches finstere Geheimnis ... Robert beginnt, den merkwürdigen Umständen auf den Grund zu gehen, die zum Tod seines Vaters führten und gerät bald selbst in einen Strudel aus üblen Vorahnungen und uralten Geheimnissen. W...

Jake Fidellius has been playing piano wrong for fifteen years. When his improvised composition goes viral overnight, he discovers why: ATLAS, the global AI system, replaced his chaotic performance with algorithmic perfection. The world now operates at 96% predictability. Jake is part of the 4% that remains unpredictable-and the algorithm wants him gone.As society splinters into warring factions-the tech-worshipping Cosmic Embrace and the anti-digital Sol Guardians-Jake escapes to t...

The latest offering from Jake Barton whose first novel, Burn, Baby, Burn stormed into the Amazon All Books Top Ten. Snippets from new novels, try-outs, reminiscences and, for the first time, an insight into the author's own remarkable experiences. Not for the squeamish, but much else is here. Short stories, poetry, travelogues plus the traditional hard-hitting fare readers expect from Jake Barton.

In this sequel to Forbidden Lust, handsome Jake returns to the pineapple farm where he worked last season. Once again he hooks up with the strict farmer's beautiful daughter, Alicia, and gets to taste more of her sweet fruit. Having broken free of her sexual inhibitions, Alicia invites Carmen around one night to join her and Jake in some three way adult fun. Adults only 18+

The vast majority of student-athletes dreaming of athletic stardom won’t make it to the pros. Yet, the discipline and skills they’ve developed while balancing a sport and academics make them ideally suited for satisfying careers elsewhere.In 20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes Who Won’t Go Pro, the authors draw on personal experience, interviews, expert opinion, and industry data to provide a game plan for student-athletes through key transitions at each stage ...

The premier NCAA student-athlete handbook, now in a second, updated edition designed for today’s competitive market and with a new chapter on name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights.Few student-athletes dreaming of athletic stardom ever make it to the pros. Yet, the discipline and skills they’ve developed while balancing a sport and academics make them ideally suited for satisfying careers elsewhere.The book’s authors draw on personal experience, interviews,...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various characters in the black community of Auburn, and 36 of them were devoted exclusively to a character called "Marengo Jake." Probably originally from Virginia, Jake Mitchell was b...

The Unknown Life of Jake Fidellius: The Quantum Ethics SeriesMeet Jake Fidellius: an unintentional hero of the absurd, adrift in a world where cappuccinos, algorithms, and the tiniest choices can reveal the deepest truths. From the quiet corners of coffee shops to the cosmic expanse of existence, Jake navigates the strange intersections of desire, creativity, and human blunder, asking whether any of us are truly free to choose.In this collection of short, vaguely reflective...