Before Elias Venter ever set foot in the old shopping center, something had already begun beneath it. What looked like a failed commercial property on the edge of decline becomes, in Elias’s hands, something entirely different: a private fortress of walls, gates, surveillance, and silence. Rich beyond public understanding, disciplined, private, and impossible to move once his mind is set, Elias does not buy the building as an investment. He claims it as territory.
A Climbing the Ladder Story Part of the A Well-Lived Life universe
Jonathan's business life is booming, but he's also suffering from yet another loss. While he's done his best to pick up the pieces of that sundered relationship, he can't help but feel responsible. However, where two close relationships have withered, another blooms. Violet has transitioned from a badly damaged girl to a vibrant woman. Will he continue to climb this ladder, or will there be another ladder to climb in his future? No matter what, the only direction he plans to go is up.
The continuing story of Ben Addler and Addler Enterprises as they test space ships, design and build new ones, fly to the moon, land on the moon and then build Space ports on Earth and the moon.
It had been a few months since Talia had stopped letting Peter give her any dares. She could not seem to get him to recreate the feelings she had with Chuck helping her along. Maybe it just wasn't possible. Or maybe she just needed to try again. To say that things were never going to be the same would be the understatement of the year.
A If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much Story As a waitress in a restaurant, you experience a lot of crazy things. The craziest thing that happened to me was when an older woman with a much younger lover invited me for a few days to be her paid babysitter. From how they acted in the restaurant, there was no doubt that she was serious. The woman seemed nice, and we were in a busy hotel in Dundee, so nothing could happen to me, right? But it happened anyway. Meet Ciaran and Zuzanna, 5 years later.
Instead of joining the ranks of the political elite, Innes Kingsford chose to join the navy, making him the black sheep of one of the great families. That wasn't enough for his family to keep from using him as a pawn as his father manipulates his first assignment as part of a political scheme. Innes finds himself in a remote system under the command of a member of his family's greatest house rivals where Innes discovers conspiracy, criminal enterprises, and possible interstellar war converging.
In a world where magic and industry collide, a reborn man finds a mysterious Black Stone glowing with forbidden golden light. Armed with modern knowledge, he turns coins into weapons, laundromats into empires, and federal agents into pawns. He doesn’t want to rule the world. He wants the world to need him. The only sin is playing small.
A couple of normal, if irreverent, middle class guys get the opportunity to answer the age old question: What would you do with your life if money was no object? A collaborative writing project written from multiple character perspectives.
A gripping tale of time travel, family secrets, and redemption. Nathaniel Holbrook uncovers his father’s extraordinary past, spanning centuries and shaping humanity’s future, while confronting profound truths about legacy, love, and identity. A thought-provoking journey through time, history, and the enduring bonds of family.
The Falcon was meant to carry a thousand dreams to a new world. Instead, it hits a dying planet, its hull shredded and its destination reduced to molten ruins. Commander Inaya Vaughn wakes from premature stasis to find one thousand colonists frozen in failing pods, a corrupted ship AI, and six crew alive—if they can be called that. With power failing and a debris field chewing at probability, Inaya must make impossible choices: reroute resources, wake critical personnel, or let people die.