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RED SKY: A Pharmaceutical Conspiracy Thriller (Juggernaut Series Book 1)

He came to fix the world's most dangerous drug. The drug had other plans. Narin Roy is writing his confession in a police interrogation room, and the only thing keeping him calm is the drug that started it all. Months earlier, he was a disgraced scientist with one shot left: a job at Harvester Pharmaceuticals, developing a therapeutic version of DMTA, the compound behind Red Sky, the street drug that can make you brilliant but occasionally turns you into a killer. Narin has a secret weapon: a formula on a flash drive that could crack the problem no one else has solved. All he has to do is survive Harvester long enough to use it. But Harvester is not what it appears. Behind its gleaming façade, Narin finds himself caught between a charismatic lawyer whose charm conceals a ruthless agenda, an embittered scientist who built the company and may be destroying it, and a project so classified that its true purpose makes his blood run cold. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure haunts his dreams, a desert prince who trains him for a battle he doesn't yet understand. As the weeks pass, Narin can't tell anymore where the science ends and his unraveling begins. The voices may be hallucinations. The visions may be warnings. And the confession he's writing, the one that brought him to this cold interrogation room, may not end the way anyone expects. Red Sky is a propulsive psychological thriller for readers who like their conspiracies dark, their narrators unreliable, and their endings earned.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4vvNFWm [https://amzn.to/4vvNFWm]

Hold on for Dear Life

What do you hold on to when everything you built starts to fall? Three friends. One impossible idea. Thirty million dollars raised overnight. And a question none of them thought to ask until it was almost too late. In the summer of 2017, Charlie, Jack, and Nik leave MIT believing they can change how the world moves money. Within months, they are exactly the kind of company that gets written about. Within two years, they are nearly destroyed by it. A Story About Everything That Almost Broke Hold On for Dear Life is a literary fiction novel about idealism, hubris, and resilience - and the long, difficult work of finding your way back to why you started. What waits inside: * A friendship that almost doesn't survive success * A love story three years in the making * A market crash, a hack, a kidnapping * A debut novel by a real Wall Street and crypto executive Have you ever bet on something the world told you to walk away from? Have you ever built something with the people closest to you and watched the building change them? This isn't a book about cryptocurrency. It's a book about what survives when everything else burns - and what it costs to find out. Among the best literary fiction books written at the intersection of ambition, friendship, and financial ruin - this is fiction for adults who know that the hardest losses aren't always measured in money. If Normal People stayed with you, if Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow lingered for weeks, this is the next book you cannot put down. Scroll up, tap Buy Now, and find out what they chose to hold on to. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4fuRqqA [https://amzn.to/4fuRqqA]

A Warrior's Destiny: Sci-Fi Alien Warrior Romance (Immortal Warriors Book 7)

Four years ago, Jada lost her three best friends to rogue shifters on Earth. They were bloody, violent deaths that left her mind fractured. Jada fights to accept that she is also a wolf shifter, and the man who saved her from those rogues four years ago is her fated mate. She can’t stop him from taking her to his world, but she can deny him the relationship he craves. That is until two vampires show up at her door, claiming Bryce has been mortally wounded. If she wants any hope of saving him, Jada must travel into the icy fae realm, where she will face dangers at every turn. Bryce gives his fated mate time to learn to accept who and what she is, but after four years he is ready to give up. He believes she will never learn to accept him, so when he is mortally wounded during a battle with the fae queen, Bryce plans to let go and set her free.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4epqyqJ [https://amzn.to/4epqyqJ]

Managing the Bucket List: The Journey Begins Volume I

By reading this book, one will embark on a literary journey of travel with the intent to learn more on bucket list locations and activities. Through this journey, one will also acquire knowledge of countries, cultures, and people. The journey is accomplished by walking in my figurative footsteps as I traveled and explored new countries, cities, cultures, and lifetime experiences. Volume I documents this journey accomplished within about a year’s timeframe, challenging my physical and mental stamina under aggressive travel conditions. I also capture travel difficulties experienced throughout the year. Using a country assessment index, I evaluate the stability of the nations that I have visited. Reading this book, one gains a better understanding of the world. This better understanding promotes a philosophy of respecting cultural differences while recognizing that we share many of the same core human elements: rights, desires, and challenges. One should embrace our similarities while celebrating our differences. The year encompassed travel to Portugal; Argentina and Chile’s Patagonia; Italy; Seattle, Washington, United States; Switzerland; France; Australia; Alaska, United States; Spain; Hungary; Slovenia; Austria; Germany; Czech Republic; and Costa Rica. This grouping of countries is just the first of a multi-year endeavor; the quest for learning and understanding is an iterative approach. This book is to inspire readers to travel to gain better understanding of the world, its land and people, through bucket list natural wonders and man-made accomplishments. For those challenged to travel for a number of reasons, my journey provides a literary approach to experience the world. The intent of this book is a literary journey traveling the globe to gain a better understanding of international relations and geopolitics and share my knowledge to entice others to be intellectual travelers too.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4e0QQOJ [https://amzn.to/4e0QQOJ]

Murder at the Aphrodisia

It's been 30 years since the charmed lives of the Goddesses of Parnassus Canyon University were thrown off course by an evening of chaos, resulting in the death of a popular student and the disappearance of another. It has been 10 years since the hidden truths and lies of that evening were revealed, finally exonerating a longtime suspect. And now, the Goddesses are together again, to celebrate the Grand Opening of Aphrodisia, a newly restored classic beach house with an elaborate Greco/Roman bacchanal. With caterers and entertainers lined up, and a very prestigious invite list, there is no doubt, the era of chaos is long behind them. Surely, chaos would think twice before crashing this event. Or maybe not. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3PN20Pg [https://amzn.to/3PN20Pg]