Lisbeth Olsen's back in Las Vegas, the city that nearly destroyed her a year ago. But now that she's shed her gang-affiliated past, she's free to confront her demons on her own. Or so she thinks...When a drug dealer lets slip that someone powerful is looking for her, there's only one person Lisbeth can turn to for help. Gabriel is a Skull King nomad with an equally shadowed past, and he can't help but be drawn to the mysterious girl with the compass tattoo. Once he finds out she's the sister of a fellow Skull King, he knows he has to help.Together, they must work to find an old friend of Lisbeth's, someone who has the key to solve everything. But with the discovery of a murder and possible involvement of some rogue Skull Kings, their only hope is to get to the enemy first--an enemy they can't see--with nobody but each other to trust.Warning: This 32,000 word novella contains mature language and some sexually explicit content. Intended for readers 18 years of age and older. Views: 12
Ace is bad. *Very bad. After losing my brother, I know I should stay away. So why can't I? He's irresistible. He's confident. He's amazing... but he's dangerous. He was there the night my brother was murdered. He watched it all go down. I should stay away. The things I saw weren't acceptable. I should want Ace as far away from me as possible--I should consider him a monster and a threat--but when my life is at stake I know I no longer have a choice of the matter. He's the only one that can protect me. He's done what he can to keep me out of danger, but it's not enough. I need answers. I need the truth. He refuses to give it to me, and because of that I don't trust him. He refuses to tell me what really happened and to just forget about it but I refuse. I won't back down until I get answers. But there's one thing wrong with getting too many answers. It leads to lies. It leads to trouble. It leads to danger. But worst of all, it leads to me falling deeply and madly in love with him. I've gotta be out of my mind.* London Stallone hasn't always had the perfect life, but she did have the perfect older brother. He did everything for her. He took care of her when no one else would. He's always been the shoulder she could lean on, but when he ends up murdered, things turn for the worst. London soon demands answers, and the first person she runs to is her brother's co-worker and good friend, Donovan "Ace" Crow. Ace isn't the ordinary guy. He doesn't come equipped with flowers and chocolate. He doesn't hand out smiles and hugs to every female he meets. He's strict and only about business, and London believes he's a part of the reason her brother was murdered. Soon, after finding out life-threatening news, it leads to something Ace never thought he'd have to do for anyone. Protect her. Although he doesn't want her to get hurt, it doesn't stop him from being selfish or bitter. He's promised to protect her, but has he done enough ? Has he sacrificed everything in order to keep London out of harms way? Sometimes love can get in the way of your priorities. And sometimes love can easily become your enemy--you worst nightmare. It can destroy you. This is a story full of dishonesty. Disloyalty. Broken hearts. Pain. Suffering. Lies. Destruction. This isn't a fairytale love story. This is real. And it just might break you. You've been warned... BEWARE. This is a standalone novel. 91K words Views: 12
Step behind the hotel room doors of The Chatsfield, London…Salim Segal has turned his back on his legionnaire soldier life and made a new one for himself as an international actor. He’s seen much in his life, but nothing that captures him like the beauty of Natalja Jordan. Now he has one night at The Chatsfield to convince her that, despite the pains of the past, they might just have a future worth fighting for. Views: 12
Based on actual events interwoven with fiction and with an underlying theme of political and financial greed, Darke Mission is a story of good versus evil. The British government is secretly bankrupt. There is no money to pay the police, armed forces and the NHS. JJ Darke, lone parent and Scottish ex-intelligence officer, is blackmailed by an unscrupulous politician into stealing North Korea's gold bullion to plug Britain's catastrophic financial deficit and avoid widespread lawlessness. Darke, a successful financial strategist who has walked on the wrong side of insider trading, engages a French skunkworks outfit and edge of the envelope British F1 engineers to support the mission. They design a revolutionary process to transform the gold bars and smuggle them from North Korea, but the mission is fraught with danger and the team must scheme and fight their way out of trouble at every turn. The stakes are raised when a Russian stealth submarine, under North Korean control, is... Views: 12
SHMM #11 (Volume 5, Number 1) - January/February 2014 Views: 12
It should have been the perfect marriage for beautiful young Georgiana Burton. The husband her parents bad Picked for her, Lord Ralph Chartleigh, was wealthy, handsome, noble, and kind. Unfortunately, he did not measure up to Georgian's notions of what a man should be. He was uninterested in society, impervious to fashions, had the worst of tailors, knew little of women - and was wary of the little he knew. Clearly Georgiana had to teach him a great deal about life and even more about love… forgetting until it was almost too late how much she had to learn herself… Views: 12
Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency--and especially the first year, called internship--is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their first year asking themselves why they wanted to be doctors in the first place.Jauhar's internship was even more harrowing than most: he switched from physics to medicine in order to follow a more humane calling--only to find that medicine put patients' concerns last. He struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and doctors. He challenged the practices of the internship in The New York Times, attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy. Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himself--and came to see that today's high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane science after... Views: 12
Book number 5 in the hilariously disgusting Freaky series. Kids are hanging out for each title in this very clever, hilariously funny series. It's grosser, weirder, funnier, and even smellier than the books that came before it. Take another brilliantly twisted adventure with Sam, Jared, and little miss dung daks smelly melly poop pants as they head off on holiday to the most dangerous place on the planet. But, is it really a holiday or a final resting place to get rid of annoying kids? With the poisonous puke plants, ferocious farting animals, tree swinging hippies, and Smelly Melly's deadliest fungus growing, chunky chuck-up nappies yet. This time, adventure is snapping at their heels, and they just might not be able to keep their stomachs' contents down. Views: 11
