What if you could retire years earlier—without giving up everything you enjoy today?FIREproof is a down-to-earth guide to achieving financial independence without extreme frugality, tech salaries, or minimalist living in a van. Whether you're juggling kids, a mortgage, or a 9–5 you're not quite ready to leave, this book shows you how to take back control of your money, your time, and your future.Inside, you'll learn how to:Shift your ...

Dust Between UsA Novel by Gary BotkinWar tested his body. Distance tested their love. But silence threatened to destroy it all.Staff Sergeant Michael Rivers returns from Syria not in a body bag, but not quite whole either. Haunted by loss and scarred by survival, he steps back into a world that feels more foreign than any battlefield he's faced. At home in Ohio, Emily Rivers has fought her own war—raising tw...

What if the world's greatest power was already inside you… waiting to be awakened?Jace Wyler never asked to be different. But when a surge of energy explodes from within him, he's thrown into a hidden war between gifted misfits and a brother he never knew he had—Kairo, a powerful force with a darker vision for the world.As Jace joins a team of outcasts with extraordinary abilities, he uncovers a secret experiment—Project Phoenix—designed to create the next ...

In the heart of the low country, where fog creeps like a whisper and secrets rot beneath the reeds, a sadistic killer stalks the salt marshes. Locals call him The Saltman—a ghost, a myth, a nightmare. But when mutilated bodies begin washing ashore, it becomes clear he's terrifyingly real.Haunted by a past he can't outrun, former detective Eli Archer returns to his childhood hometown only to be pulled into a series of brutal murders that echo a tragedy from his own ...

A lighthouse. A lantern. A truth buried beneath centuries of silence.In the shadowed marshlands of 1939 coastal South Carolina, Samuel Raines—a blind, reclusive Black lighthouse keeper—stumbles upon an ancient lantern washed ashore after a brutal storm. But this is no ordinary relic. It whispers. It remembers. It reveals visions of a past the world tried to forget.As Samuel unravels the lantern's secrets, he is drawn into a hidden history of rebell...

In a city built on beauty, wealth, and blood—what does freedom truly cost?Charleston: The Price of Freedom Was Written in Fire is a sweeping historical epic that brings to life the untold story of America's most iconic Southern city, from its marshy beginnings in 1670 to the turbulent aftermath of revolution and beyond. Through the deeply personal journeys of an enslaved African farmer, a British heiress, a Native healer, and an indentured servant, this no...

Beneath the oldest library in the city lies a secret not written in any book—a hidden archive of stolen memories, sealed away to protect reality from truths too dangerous to remember.Eloise Vale thought she knew who she was: a quiet librarian, grieving the recent death of her mother. But when she discovers a forbidden chamber beneath the stacks, her world begins to unravel. Inside the archive, glowing orbs contain erased fragments of people's lives—memories stripped away to preserv...