Romance comedy suspense book geared for 18-50 demographic. Strong character in standalone series returns to face her fear and work through issues. Has to decide if she wants to be a famous musician. Alpha male in book and she go back and forth in a power struggle due to opposite personalities. Comedy from the disputes and suspense from a fan stalker. References to music and musicians. Views: 22
The fight for control of the massive Zed.Kicker botnet continues in Returning to Zero, the sequel to the explosive technothriller Counting from Zero that introduced Mick O’Malley and his unlikely hacker friends.
The ultimate weapon of the Internet arms race is the botnet, short for a robot network of compromised computers. Control of a botnet gives the power to threaten individuals, organizations, and even nation states by launching punishing denial of service attack targeting commerce, public safety, and security.
Mick O’Malley is a former security consultant, now hiding out in Australia under an alternative identity. Mick learns startling news about the events that turned his life upside down in Kiev six months previously. As Mick loses control of the botnet, he is drawn into a new global adventure.
Across four continents, Mick tracks the shadowy exploit writer who now controls the botnet, evading governments and cybercriminals alike. Whom should Mick trust: a compromised intelligence asset, a whistle-blowing government insider, a flighty open source privateer, a returned-from-retirement military operative, or a smuggler on the high seas?
Returning to Zero gives a dramatically realistic view of the ongoing struggle to secure today’s Internet from botnets, cyber criminal networks, and malicious nation-state actors. Views: 22
A deal with a sexy cowboy devil... The wallflower, and the least "pretty," of the five Ozark sisters, Ashley desperately wants out of this one-limping-horse town. Determined to prove to her bestie that she's not the same old Plain Jane she was in high school, Ashley tells the biggest, fattest lie ever. She has a boyfriend, and it's bull rider Colton Cross—overconfident, sexist and irritatingly sexy cowboy extraordinaire. Colton's willing to go along with Ashley's lie—for a price. Because after a few mind-meltingly hot kisses with Ashley, Colton's figured out there's a sexy side to Ashley Ozark that no one ever suspected. As each "payment" becomes naughtier than the last, Colton and Ashley discover just how far one little lie can go...one wild, wicked encounter at a time. Views: 22
Petrio is not a man, he is serpent born, and stranded on earth where the risk is too great to change form, he does the only thing he can, under the advice of his only other kin, and that’s find a partner to enjoy so he can satiate his desires.But Petrio is more than stranded on earth, as the truth is revealed to him, everything he has ever understood about who he is, and his purpose is altered, and he must fulfil his destiny. Caitlin’s boring life is irrevocably changed when she meets the strange Petrio, and once pulled into a devastating new reality, how can she deny its allure, how can she deny a god? Warning: Contains explicit content and language throughout.The Dragon Comes is in UK English, the first part in the series, but has no cliffhanger. ** Views: 22
It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents’ house. Under the sweat and dirt, Manning Sutter was as handsome as the sun was bright. He was older, darker, experienced. I wore a smiley-face t-shirt and had never even been kissed. Yet we saw something in each other that would link us in ways that couldn’t be broken...no matter how hard we tried. I loved Manning before I knew the meaning of the word. I was too young, he said. I would wait. Through all the carefully-chosen words hiding what we knew to be true, through his struggle to keep me innocent, and through infinitely-starry nights—I would wait. But I’d learn that life isn’t always fair. That no matter how much you achieve, none of it matters if you suffer the heartbreak that comes with falling for someone you can never have. Because even though I saw Manning first, that didn’t matter. My older sister saw him next. Views: 22
Another twisty psychological suspense from the author of The Leaving, where a teen searches for answers about her mother's dark history, telekinesis, and the power of will.What if . . . no one knows the truth about you? It's been thirteen years since Kaylee's biological mother, Crystal, once infamous for her supposed telekinetic ability, got a life sentence for killing Kaylee's little brother in a fit of telekinetic rage. Today, Kaylee's living a normal life with her adoptive parents and almost never thinks of Crystal. Until a woman shows up on Kaylee's doorstep, asking to interview her for a podcast about her mother. Was the whole telekinesis thing a hoax, or does Crystal have some kind of special powers? Is it possible that Kaylee has them, too? It would certainly explain some of the stranger things that have happened to her over the years. What if . . . she did the interview? Met her mother for the first time since the trial? Can her mother prove... Views: 21
