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One morning Remick discovers a drug company startup receives approval for its cancer drug sending its stock price soaring. Remick quickly cashes in his shares, allowing him to pursue his dream. He quits his job as a management consultant and buys a condo in Vegas to minimize his tax burden in Missouri. Next, he self-publishes a novel he’s been working on for years and promotes it himself. His ebook becomes a bestseller while Remick gets a makeover in Beverly Hills. Success attracts attention from potential lovers, mainstream publishers, former clients, and domestic terrorists. Remick ...

An engineered virus that attacks the brain leaks from a research lab and spreads quickly, causing infected people to go into psychotic rage. Before almost anyone knows what is happening, a well-armed America is terrorized by a pandemic of violence. Kanetha Wilson—friend of the first victim—is first to recognize that something is not as it seems. She inspires a small cadre of scientists and others into a breakneck, lonely, and lawless mission to identify and stop the murder plague.

He came into their lives for a reason. Smart, lovable, handsome, talented. He gave them what no one else could. One found a reason to live. One found the means to live. One found a different way to live. He taught them to believe anything is possible. Then he left them. Contemporary gay romance. Four gay men become extremely successful business partners and more. A practical dreamer, a noble romantic, a controlling slut, and a prettyboy resolve progressively more difficult crises until a tragedy means painful choices. Two risk their lives so another might live.

Palm Springs. Turbine windmill farms. More golf courses per square mile than any American city. Winter playground for politicians, athletes, artists, actors, and other celebrities. Can the son of Arizona ranchers and a Florida State art major find love and happiness flipping homes in the gayest city in America? Will old bones, toxic waste, or a rising young star derail their romance? As they pursue their dreams, Payt and Trip discover life is what happens while they’re busy making other plans. Their most important discovery is they have flipping skills beyond real estate.

When Quinn takes on a new Incline Village landscaping client high above Lake Tahoe he has no idea how dramatically his life will change. Hired to transform a huge tract of bare land into a masterpiece, Quinn and his crew toil for months to finish the job. After working hard all week, Quinn bonds with his wealthy older client over dinner each Friday night. Turning obscure patents into cash cows, Reese looks forward to the Friday dinners with his landscaper. With extremely different lifestyles, Quinn and Reese find enough common ground to begin dating. Age and income differences disappear ...

Caught in a mid-life crisis, Hart flees his comfortable Chicago life seeking something better. His first stop is Prague in the Czech Republic. From a rooftop restaurant, Hart realizes he arrived in the City of a Hundred Spires without a plan. He strikes up a conversation with another hotel guest and Jaro quickly offers to be Hart’s tour guide. Only intending to stay in Prague two weeks, Hart’s young tour guide gives him a compelling reason to stay much longer. As the relationship between Hart and Jaro deepens, the empty spaces in their lives disappear. Will Jaro’s influential family, ...

At age 15, Nolan loses both parents, so he lives with an aunt. Receives a full university scholarship all the way through law school. Becomes Dallas County Attorney at age 30. Charming. Attractive. Successful. Openly gay with a career-ending secret. When Nolan’s relationship with a living legend falls apart, he seeks out Reid, a former lover. To regain Reid’s trust, Nolan shares a secret which could send him to prison. In a world with climate change deniers, cyber-criminals, sexual predators, and mass murderers, Nolan and Reid discover another pervasive behavior which just might save ...

Frustrated with local romance opportunities, four retired gay friends in their sixties take their search overseas. All four find attractive single men in their thirties eager to relocate to the States. They quickly discover qualifying for the 90-day fiancé visa is just the first of many challenges they will face. Overcoming intergenerational, interracial relationship problems, all four couples tie the knot. They celebrate with a Mediterranean honeymoon cruise, forming lasting bonds as one secret after another tumbles out. Chinese-Filipino Jaybee Chen surfaces as the leader of the younger ...

From closeted homosexual to openly gay man, Dylan’s odyssey spans two generations. Broke, unemployed, and forced to drop out of college, Dylan enlists in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Along the way he falls in love, has his heart broken, and meets men who change his life forever. Who will Dylan marry when it finally becomes legal? The spotted drag queen? The veteran with the blond ponytail? The Chinese medical student? The drop-dead gorgeous high school classmate? Someone else?

With a delicate balance of power both inside and outside the United States, American progressives are elated when they take control of the White House and hold a razor thin margin in the Senate. During a fundraising trip, the first African-American female President is assassinated, thrusting her gay Vice President into the spotlight. Moments after being sworn in, the new President is informed an American ally is about to be invaded. Vastly outnumbered, the new President asks his advisers for options. The most junior officer in the room urges using a new weapon. When the President agrees, a ...

When two boys meet the first day of their high school senior year they navigate the obstacle course of gay romance, exams, parental expectations and peer acceptance. Helping each other overcome multiple challenges, they make it to graduation, but soon after they part ways. Decades later mutual need brings them together again. One needs the other to save his career. And one needs the other to save his life.

We know what causes aging and how to slow it. Recent experiments prove aging can be reversed with a combination of existing drugs and additives. Once an anti-aging cocktail is approved for sale, will everyone want to turn their body clocks back? How far back will they choose to go? Will it be available to everyone? How much will it cost? When Brock and Adrian find each other after turning their biological clocks back several decades, they discover growing young again has both thrills and challenges.

Colin is smart, unassuming, likable, and dreams of becoming an Air Force pilot. Tony is an athletic, popular, gorgeous, fraternity boy, and the adopted son of extremely wealthy parents. When they meet in college in 1973, they become instant lovers. Colin will lose his chance to fly and Tony will lose his inheritance if anyone suspects they are gay, so they conceal the true nature of their relationship as students. They lose touch after graduation, but their paths cross frequently over the next four decades. As they each become professionally and financially successful, they survive a series...

This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings. The emphasis in these contributions is upon the variety of ways in which organizational actors, in combination with a range of material technologies and artifacts, such as safety reporting systems, risk maps, and key risk indicators, accomplish and make sense of the normal work of managing risk - riskwork.

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MICHAEL POWER#1 Best Selling Author, CPA, Speaker, Marathoner & Entrepreneur Dad to Three Beautiful Daughters Michael has started multiple revenue-generating companies both in the U.S. and Europe. After hitting rock-bottom and being crippled by the mental and physical effects of fear, he strives to share his experiences and techniques on how he overcame that fear with others. He is the host of the Alpha Dad Project Podcast and has learned to conquer fear through examining it, learning from it, leaving the past behind, and adopting gratitude and a positive outlook for the future. He's also an ...

After selling his health and wellness apps to a tech giant, Ridley looks for homes in both cool and warm climates. He hopes to meet a man without toxic baggage, but one disappointing experience after another leaves him skeptical. Fairly quickly he meets a sexy realtor, a Somali personal shopper, a Thai-Latino erotic dancer, and a diminutive community college teacher. All are adorable with a variety of baggage. As Ridley gets to know them, it’s obvious only one has the right kind of baggage.

When he receives an invitation to work for a former professor, Reeve eagerly accepts, even though it means moving to a new city. Anxious to connect with the local queer community, Reeve attends Sunday service at the only LGBTQ church in town. A young man welcomes Reeve at the door, ushering him to a seat in the back. Minutes later, Reeve asks where the restroom is and the young man leads him up to a restroom next to the empty choir loft. As Reeve empties his bladder, they hear gunfire and screams from the congregation below. Surviving the brutal attack, Reeve and Dylan quickly bond as they ...

When an innocent flirtation leads to steam room sex in a Phoenix gym, Kelly and Logan begin a journey neither intended. Kelly is a med student with movie star good looks who believes committed relationships are for losers. Logan is a former hedge fund manager seeking a new direction in life. A warning note on a car windshield is the first clue something is wrong. Graffiti and dead animals follow as the harassment escalates. Logan and Kelly are determined to unmask their stalker as the bond between them grows stronger. As friends, family, and former lovers are drawn into the stalker’s web,...

This novel is a sequel, continuing the story which began in Choices And Promises. Five years after a tragic incident left Alan with a heart and liver transplant, his heart fails and he needs another transplant. After visiting Alan at the hospital, Rob drives back to his hotel. Distracted and worried, Rob misses his exit, loses control of his car, wakes in a cornfield, unable to remember who he is. While Alan fights for his life, Rob fights to regain his identity as he helps a small town fight for survival. Selfless choices cost lives in this contemporary gay romantic adventure.