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Kyle didn't like being told what to do. When his brother demanded that he get himself a home right now - no stopping, no passing "go", and no collecting 200 dollars - the order didn't sit well with him. So, he stopped at a bar in an unknown town. He met a girl. They drank, left, did drugs together, and when he awoke in the morning, her decapitated head lay in his lap.

Chris, Kevin, and Kate wake up in a rugged wilderness far from their planned campsite. Their gear nowhere to be found, the three friends are left to make do with nothing but a pack of matches, water canteen, and strange devices displaying a fast approaching countdown fastened around their wrists. In their search for answers and a way home, the friends quickly discover that navigating their new surroundings is the least of their problems. Not only are the friends not alone, but they appear to be part of an elaborate hunting expedition, and they're the targets.

Kristin Sherry had a similar experience leading a team of 31 people for the first time without preparation. Packed with practical tools, frameworks, and tips to grow your confidence and people management capabilities, this book will help you discover if management is the best fit for your talents, reveal directing and delegating styles, and offer strategies and tactics for hiring, onboarding, training, developing others, and retaining and offboarding employees.

Brune, a 17-year-old fisherman living in an ethnic labor camp called a pod, receives memories from inanimate objects. When he is touched by the Light and his dangerous power is revealed, he is forced to flee for his life, pursued by the Pod Authorities and the Shaetán, faceless Shadows that seek to claim him. Now, he must confront the competing powers within him and face the dark truth that he may be the very thing he hates and fears — the thing he must destroy.

Former Navy SEAL Cameron Lyle is transitioning to life as a husband, father, and government contractor. But his thirst for adventure has driven him to a secret life of high-stakes crime that has gained the attention of the FBI. When a mysterious device is unearthed in the mountains of Bolivia, an ancient brotherhood emerges to offer Cameron the opportunity of a lifetime - to steal the greatest discovery in human history from a rogue cell of US intelligence officers.

There is a dark and deadly world hidden behind firewalls, ghosted routers, and mirrored IP addresses. A world where the worst of humanity gather for business and pleasure. Like most of us, Robert Deliuz was unaware this world existed, at least until one of his closest friends betrayed him and pulled him into the underground as a pawn, in a deadly game of survival. Robert is pitted against his own friends in a series of life or death challenges while a wagering audience watches behind the anonymity of ones and zeroes.

It is 1905, and Chicago is an open town. The most accessible part of town is the Levee District. It is an area of the city that's hard to tell the crooks from the cops. There are brothels, madams, opium dens, gambling joints and plenty of alcohol, but it all comes at a price in the Levee, and the two Ward Aldermen get their share of every vice's dollar. With the hanging of serial killer, Simon Kluge, police Detective Patrick Moses is suddenly without a case. Before Moses can relax, he is approached by an aging retail mogul who asks him to investigate the mysterious shooting of his son.

Moses Rose is president of Heavenly Isles, an upscale Florida HOA community whose residents are in an uproar. He’s trying to calm fears that property values will plummet after the Fining Committee Chair is found murdered in the community pool. Suspicions point to oddball neighbors. Radical security ideas are proposed. The community wants the murder solved—now! Olivia Edmonds is a former nun from Baltimore teaching ESL classes in Mexico.

It was just a link in an email. Michael Housen is living a typical, white-collar American life at a security company when he falls for a phishing campaign with dire implications. One click, and suddenly the US is under marshal law and bombing Tehran. Michael unknowingly triggered a cyberattack by Iranian hackers, which a belligerent President Davis uses as pretext for war against Iran. Michael blinks and he and his wife, Pam, are thrown into private prisons owned by the president, a multibillionaire tycoon.

When Rocky Delmonico, a big-money golf hustler, attends the funeral of a neighborhood mafioso, he inadvertently disrespects an old-world tradition of the grieving mob family. His life quickly goes awry when he’s told he must make amends. While paying his debt, Rocky gets entangled with ruthless gangsters, callous investment bankers, a treasonous arms dealer, duplicitous agents working for Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the CIA—all of whom are playing a role in a murder conspiracy.