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Five years ago, I disappeared from the life I had and built this one. I spend my days and most of my nights on the line, helping my clients achieve their goals. They call me when they are in a jam or are getting ready to move on a target. I'm their information specialist. The woman in the chair. I'm their switchboard. Intelligence, electronic eyes, computer hacking—I do it all. My singular goal is to bring my clients home safely. Some clients are more special than others. We all play favorites. I know them, they've never seen me.

Loving her was like breathing air—it was hard to live without. Journey Smith was quiet and guarded, and above all else, beautiful. When we were alone, I grew to know the girl behind the stormy eyes. Her hesitant touches and hidden smiles were reserved for me, but now they're gone. Stolen moments of happiness were replaced with sharp barbs and fiery glares concealing her fear. Our past was written in the stone of St. Mary’s—a past that I was not willing to repeat. But what I assumed to be the truth was nothing more than a fabrication of such.

As a child growing up in Maine, Shandon Ray realized that he had a connection to the substances that made up the world around him unlike anyone else seemed to have. For fear of becoming a total outcast, he kept this secret to himself and did very little to expand upon his strange ability. As an adult, he’ll need to expose himself for what he really is and learn to harness these abilities quickly in order to help save the planet from an all-out invasion by aliens.

Locked down within the biosphere walls that surround Luhan Hypercity, Hiu has only chattering devices for company. It is not going well. His fridge has just filed for divorce. In fact, all of the devices have begun acting oddly recently. Sharkey’s Law that "Robots shall always be kept under meaningful human control" has broken down. Hiu finds his usual routine of eat, sleep, get annoyed by robots, repeat, has been disrupted.

Ernie the information retriever sits in his office cubicle on the 50th floor of the FHQ building by day, and goes home to his wife and children in his apartment on the 25th floor at night. Sometimes, he sits alone in the dark movie theater on the 100th floor. In his heart, he wants something different, but he does not know what that difference would be. He just knows what he is presently experiencing is not it, and that knowledge fills him with shame and guilt. It is a no-win situation. Or is it?

Sonny Leonardo was a throwback mobster, to a time when men of honor were just that, men of honor. He had the opportunity to become head of the Marinzano family, but he sidestepped it the same as his father had. His cousin Carmine Lombardo had become Underboss and Renalto Marinzao became the head of the family, where he felt only another Marinzano belonged. Straight Talk: A Mob Story takes listeners deep into the organized crime culture, as they follow Sonny. Straight Talk: A Mob Story will be different than any organized crime novel you have ever listened to or followed.

Fish Talk is a story about a little fish who is born in a lawyer's office, behaves like a marionette, and finds his way out of the fish tank....

This book has been compiled from over two decades worth of my writing: some are from the columns I contribute for magazines around the world and others are excerpts taken from my own books. Many of these modern-day parables have become stories I use during my live events to illustrate points or as motivation with the intention to inspire action from my audiences.

The fate of the world hangs in the balance as three brave adventurers join forces to stand against a power-mad dictator and a demon hybrid in the magical world of Aetheria. Aiyana, a woman searching for a cause; Nathan, a man mourning a life left behind; and Torrents, a barbarian searching for a reason to go on, must battle the ultimate evil and construct a mysterious artifact that could change the future of the world.