Embark on a captivating journey with "Soda the Shrimp," a tale that illuminates the importance of social awareness and understanding self-unawareness. This engaging children's book paints a poignant story about the consequences of overlooking social cues and the value of perspective-taking.Introducing Soda, a sprightly shrimp whose exuberance overshadows her awareness of others. Her journey to the circus, brimming with anticipation, takes a turn when her obliviousn...

This book synthesizes the development and advanced methods in the financial investment decision making in the big data environment, and explores systematic solutions for quantitative portfolio selection problems by integrating theoretical elaboration with practical applications, while also summarizing the future development directions and trends of the field. It aims to provide a valuable reference for researchers in quantitative finance, and investment practitioners, as well as graduate s...

AI is real. That is exactly why the capital story has become dangerous.Most books ask whether AI is a revolution or a bubble. This book asks a different question:What happens when a real technological revolution meets accounting, debt, depreciation, private credit, data centers, and power grids?The AI Capital War argues that today's AI boom is not simply a technology story—it is a capital story. The technology may succeed w...

It was the beginning of my downfall. My rise as king was also my demise.Love has no place in my life, but there was something about her.An itch I scratched was a gateway to a need for her.When an ultimatum is thrown at me, my rule is in jeopardy. I need a wife.And I'm going to make her my queen.*** The Rulers is the tempting & intriguing prologue to the highly anticipated Heartless Kingdom World and Wicked Rule is the first full length novel in this t...

NikoMy life is great. I love my job, have awesome friends, and a great family.Women love me, even if they know it’s just for a night.I always thought love at first sight was bullshit. Then she came storming into my life.She tore through my every rule, rocked my world, and knocked me on my ass.There’s only one problem...she lied.Turns out my best friends little sister isn’t so little anymore.Everly...

His body was sin and I was a sinner.To keep myself safe I hide in the world and let life move around me.My new partner, Nathan, isn’t safe. Far from it.The darkness coils around him, hidden by a shield created by a blinding smile. But those who live in shadows see past the façade we create.Even in darkness, there is light. A spark that ignites, then explodes.Every filthy word from his mouth, every possessive touch—I crave them, need ...

I'm going to make her my queen.One wedding.One child.Five years.Ten million dollars.Those are the terms of our contract.My offer is sound, bold, and necessary. In order to gain my inheritance, I have to have a wife.She thinks her clause--no sex--will keep me from having her skin on mine.She's very wrong.The de Loughrey's rule the world, and I am their king. I get what I want, and what I want is her.I'll have he...

*** Please note: This book was previously published as Abducted. Only the title and cover have been changed. All other content remains the same. ***The mafia never lets you go.I thought I was safe, free, but I never expected to find myself locked in a cage.I'm in his territory. His prison.The beast.A fate worse than death awaits me if I can't get away. When the opportunity of salvation presents itself I grab it, even if I'm not sure ...

My life was ash.Burned to the ground. Razed with no chance of rebuilding. Empty.Alone.Just as I had to be.No one else was going to get hurt because of me. No more deaths.For years I’ve secluded myself, stayed in the darkness, and tried to melt into the background. Hiding in plain sight.Taking a new job, working in close confines with a new partner, is risky, and I thought I was up to the task. So I hide behind a mask of my ow...

I spilled a cup of coffee on the President of Acquisitions.He deserved it.Not the brightest idea, but I’d had a bad day, and now he’s getting back at me.For nine weeks I’m to be his assistant, and there’s nothing I can do about it.It’s punishment.Every moment we’re near each other it’s a constant battle of wills, but I refuse to go down.If only my fantasies didn’t invade our arguments.If only he wasn’t so good looking.Everything is of...

My will to live is weak.By all accounts, I should be dead, but somehow I made it through. Broken, battered, and barely hanging on, I’m forced to rely on the man who destroyed me. Recovery is a long road, and I’m not sure I can take it by his side, so I punish him, refusing to grant forgiveness.But it’s still there—the spark. That incessant pull that I can’t escape.The deepest scars of our hearts spill out. Those secrets we kept locked away are laid ...

I was Kira's from the first moment I saw her. Maybe it was love at first sight, but I was only ten.She became my best friend.My crush.The girl I can't live without.She was almost mine.But that doesn't stop how I feel, how I want her. Thankfully, I'm off to college two hundred miles away, but even that doesn't help.She's under my skin, all around me, and all I can do is watch her morph from a sexy teenager to an irresistible woman.I can't tak...