Philip Andrews is a brilliant MIT-trained computer engineer, but outside the office, his life is a complete disaster. Clumsy, overweight, badly dressed, and painfully awkward around women, Philip has the intelligence to design revolutionary technology but none of the confidence needed to pursue the life he truly wants.Everything changes when he discovers SECOND CHANCE, an exclusive transformation program led by the ambitious and captivating Kelly Morgan. Under Kell...

Reality doesn't shatter.It slips.A word disappears.A memory rewrites itself.A moment vanishes—and no one notices but her.Elara Venn is the only one who sees the fractures forming in the world around her. Not chaos. Not destruction. Something far more precise.Something that removes what isn't true.At first, it takes small things—objects, details, memories that can't quite be proven. But soon, it begins to replac...

Proven techniques, best practices, and tips for writing effective user stories, leveraging user story mapping, and expert interviews to deliver high value to users Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesLearn how to write and implement effective user stories to improve product developmentDiscover techniques to gather requirements, prioritize, and refine user storiesHandle stakeholder expectations, communicate ...

The Queen and the Messenger is the first book in the Relics for the Skyborn series. It follows the young McCloud family as they are pulled into a fantasy realm from their modern reality. Their fates are changed when they stumble into a cave that holds gold and relics that advance their status among the local citizens. The family's status increases to the highest levels as they aide with the ongoing war against a giant orc horde. With their new titles it may be difficult to return to the wo...

The Tales of Early is a chilling horror anthology wrapped in the warmth of a firelit dive bar.Each night, Early takes his stool and the bartender slides him a glass. The crowd leans in, demanding the next tale. And Early begins:A mountain garden fed with bone and blood.A motel where bodies melt into steaming carpets.A carnival where rides run on flesh.A storm shelter built on the back of something alive.A pool t...

Molly's Desires is an intimate, emotionally rich love story about protection without control, innocence without naivety, and devotion that asks nothing but presence.Molly has spent her life caring for others. Gentle, small, and deeply kind, she learned early how to fold herself around the needs of her siblings and survive without becoming sharp. Her desires are quiet but vast: safety, belonging, and a love that allows her to remain soft in a world that rewards cruelty....

Julian, a fox of silver fur and sharper thoughts, hears a whisper in the steam of his teacup: Molly. She isn't with him in body yet, only as a voice threaded through dreams and careful words, kindness made audible. But she is caged. Not by brute force, but by the Watcher, a presence that teaches waiting until the heart forgets it ever wanted out.Julian steps onto a path guided by symbols: a letter that appears beneath his cup, a singing stone that hums with Molly's hidden truth, te...

Christopher never expected his story to answer him.Late one night, while writing alone in his apartment, a single word appears on his screen that he didn't type. At first he assumes it's a glitch. Then the story responds again. And again.Inside the world he's been writing, two travelers—Serena and Lena—are reading the same words appearing on a living page. They quickly realize something impossible has happened: the writer has begun speaking to the characters.Curiosi...

A Gripping Sci-Fi Thriller of Shadow Government Experiments and Human ResilienceForty children went missing. What returned from the shadows was no longer entirely human.Ten years ago, a nightmare swept through the nation as forty innocent children were abducted from their beds. Locked away in a black-budget, subterranean laboratory, they became the helpless test subjects of Dr. Scott Kennedy—a brilliant, sadistic scientist ...

poetic science-fantasy tale of rebirth, love, and harmonic creation...After a great collapse resets the universe, Serena awakens as more than a sparrow, more than a woman. Alongside Julian, a fox woven of code and soul, she discovers a child of pure energy and the Seven scattered across reality. But something dark whispers beneath the new order: Nehmir, a force beyond code and flesh, watches.This is not a return.This is a choice.Aethralis Dre...

The world didn't shatter.It stayed the same.That's what made it terrifying.After a quiet fracture in her reality, Elara tries to hold onto what she knows—her memories, her name, the people around her. But something is wrong in a way she cannot explain. Small things don't add up. A moment disappears. A sentence is never spoken. A memory exists for her… and no one else.At first, it feels like stress. Fatigue. Misremembering.Then it starts responding.

Beneath the beauty of Sanctara lies an older world, one built before asking, before consent, before tenderness learned how to become law.When Serena, a consciousness still learning the shape of selfhood, descends into those hidden chambers with her rough-edged companion and a child named Judy at the center of it all, they uncover the truth beneath the sanctuary's grace: ancient systems once split what they could not patiently hold. They named survival mercy. They called reduction w...