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On the surface Major William Stone (Retired) is merely a rich English expatriate with now living in Palermo, Argentina, where he runs a small art gallery along with his assistant Margarita Cervantes. If you scratch the surface, you'll find that Stone was recently the chauffeur for the heiress to the Murphy Peanut Butter Company, the largest peanut butter manufacturer in the USA, and owner of numerous expensive thoroughbred racehorses. The problem is, Stone died in the Falkland Islands and the man now assuming his modified identity is disgraced MI6 financial wizard Jacob Conrad.

Michael McCann didn't plan to be riding around in the back of a French police inspector's car searching for terrorists in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. He didn't expect to fall in love with a German detective's wife who would, by chance, be in exactly the wrong spot during the subsequent terrorist attacks on Paris in November of 2015. It was not on his agenda to suffer congestive heart failure and end up in a French hospital undergoing life-saving surgery.

What sets this book apart is the fact that we have presented the subject of perpetual motion machines (PMMs) from the ground up on an axiomatic basis. This work is about the basics that one needs to master in order to own such a machine and thus be able to elevate himself to higher realms of existence.

Romania, 1780. Anastasia Dalca is the rose of the royal family. Her beauty and kindness are known throughout the land, but so is her desire for adventure over marriage. When a suitor’s magical gift goes horribly wrong, death and vengeance call. And somewhere in the Carpathian Mountains, an ancient evil awakes to answer.

New Orleans, 1960. Twelve-year-old Lucy Lenoir grieves her mother’s sudden passing. Her grandmother grieves the burden of their family legacy that she must now lay at Lucy’s feet. France, 1780. Twelve-year-old Zoe Gagneaux boards a ship bound for the New World, and her new life. Little does she know, but her new life will be unlike anything she has imagined. And weaving these lives together into a tapestry of terror, the threads of Ana Dalca’s life unfold.

Dave Riker sits alone in his dismal apartment with only his dog for company. He is recovering from a devastating personal tragedy that sends him spiraling downward, forcing him to take medical leave from the Albuquerque, New Mexico police department. A phone call he receives will change the trajectory of his life. Ria Nielson, an emergency room nurse, is cleaning out her mother’s house when she stumbles upon a decades-old coverup of a missing atomic bomb. The simple task of opening a dusty cardboard box and sifting through its brittle contents will trigger a cascade of deadly events.