After narrowly surviving a copycat killer, Jace Lannister is hungry for normalcy with his partner in their storied corner of New York. But being Black, gay, and the son of a serial killer - the Brooklyn Butcher - isn't exactly the recipe for a regular life.Still, Jace is ready to rebuild a life outside the walls of his father's legacy, a murder room that housed 19 victims before his father killed himself in prison. A room that's sealed off beneath the floorboards of the reopened de...

The 1960s was a period of radical social change. Many young people rejected the politics and values of the day and decided to “drop out” and migrate to the country. The desire for an independent rural life on the land took many of them to the province of Nova Scotia. To the “back-to-the-landers,” its “far-out” location, unspoiled countryside, cheap land and helpful neighbours provided the opportunity to build a self-sufficient life. Inexperienced and unprepared, many eventually left, but s...

Located just north of Boston, Nashua, New Hampshire, is known as a quiet cityuntil a series of violent murders makes front page news just before Memorial Day weekend. The brutal killings leave citizens terrified, and the NH State Police respond by bringing in an experienced investigator.Detective Sergeant John Osborne is an abrasive but competent state trooper from the major crimes unit. Osborne immediately butts heads with Detective David Boyle, his liaison to the Nashua police de...

In a world where cybersecurity threats evolve daily, it’s time to leave traditional, flawed security models behind. This book introduces a groundbreaking approach that applies the quantum principle of superposition to user authentication. Just as a particle exists in multiple states until observed, a user’s presence on a network remains undefined until their Digital ID is verified. Once verified, their identity collapses into a single truth—eliminating any risk of impersonation or fraud.

A critical examination of the foundational flaws that have led to the current cybersecurity crisis. This book takes a historical approach to understanding how short-term decision-making, driven by convenience and profit, compromised the long-term security of the internet. From the introduction of public access to secure networks to the widespread deception associated with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), this book uncovers the decisions, both intentional and negligent, that have allowed ...

Roar Moerk is on the nefarious path – a deceitful entrepreneur, drinker and adulterer. He collapses in the early hours of New Year's Day 2000, with near fatal consequences, warily his partner, Elisabeth, stays to aid him through his trauma. As he recovers, Roar 'dreams' it is the 1st January 1900, and he is Grace Lightfoot - housekeeper to industrialist George Darcaster, who violently rapes her ultimately sending her to a back-street abortionist. Richard Billings, a wise bookseller, comes ...

In Burning All the Time, Chris Murphy illuminates the life within characters, the rough fusions between characters and, more than anything, a place-Northeastern Oklahoma, with the power to claim characters and work them into its weave. The result is fiction that becomes a place unto itself, with its own air, own distances, own loneliness, mystery and threat. Reading Murphy's stories, you'll find yourself inhabiting this singular place and caring for it mightily. In other w...

Nick D'Arcy is missing, and at any cost, psychiatrist Emma Caldwell--his lover--must find him. Struggling to cope with specters of vampires, unfinished business from past lives, and encounters with strange immortal beings known as the Waking Ones, Emma is determined to follow every clue. The trail leads her and her friends halfway around the world and through a chain of bizarre murders and disappearances. Their hunt unearths sinister occult motives, triggering unexpected shifts in corporat...

Every business manager needs intelligence to find suppliers, mobilize capital, win customers and fend off rivals. Obtaining this is often an unplanned, instinctive process. The manager who has a conscious, systematic approach to acquiring intelligence will be better placed to recognize and seize opportunities whilst safeguarding the organization against the competitive risks that endanger its prosperity - and sometimes even its survival. Christopher Murphy's Competitive Intelligence explai...

Motivational Interviewing has becoming increasingly widespread among counselors and therapists, but no book to date has focused exclusively on applying Motivational Interviewing to domestic and partner violence.Written by established authorities in the field, the chapters in this volume represent important applications of motivational enhancement strategies to intimate partner violence with both victims and batterers. These studies include descriptive research on victims and perpet...

5 STAR REVIEW: "Jaw dropping!" - "This book hooked me right away! Fast easy read full of suspense and healing. Highly recommend this author!" - Melissa Feldhaus5 STAR REVIEW: “This was such a fun and exciting read!" - “Whether you’re looking for an action-packed plot or for characters who are fun and relatable, Where The Boys Are has got you covered. The charming characters are people you want to know, and the intriguing myste...

Like Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End and Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person's life can affect so many others. With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors of young adult fiction.For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the...