Empire Deception

It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and the frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million.

I’m the reaper my enemies never see coming. Then I go home to an empty flat where the silence has turned deafening. That changes when my beautiful, neurodivergent neighbor, who’s decided I’m her boyfriend, starts breaking into my home. And leaving me plants. It’s harmless. She’s harmless. Until the night she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fallon Nova should’ve run when she saw me kill a man. Instead, she stayed and patched me up. Now she’s a witness. And witnesses don’t live long in my world.

Xiang Li Cheng, the President of the People's Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan in Rick Campbell's thrilling Empire Rising. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail his country's economic growth and prosperity. But to secure access...

Buckle up and prepare to dive into the adrenaline-charged world of an extraordinary FBI agent whose career redefined the battle against crime. This gripping narrative takes you behind the badge and into the heart of covert operations where split-second decisions and high-stakes missions determined the fate of hundreds.

What if God was just a man with enough money? Earth, 2785. The planet is a curated paradise ruled by five corporate houses, while billions scrape out short, brutal lives on Mars. Abraham Goldstein — 250 years old, the richest man alive, and dying — has exhausted everything medicine can sell him. Then his secret quantum project breaches the Divine Dimension, and what he finds there changes everything: God is dead. And he left blueprints. Armed with mind-control technology reverse-engineered from a dead deity, Abraham builds Eden: an artificial world of abducted Martian refugees who ...

He won me in a game of poker. Now I'm betting everything on him. Daniil Kozlov is the worst kind of monster. Sinfully gorgeous, wrapped in Hugo Boss and tattoos, underneath the surface he's a snake hiding behind a veneer of easy charm. We come from the same underworld but couldn't be more...

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I. September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between...

Atreus of Erlkazar: Hidden from his powerful family's enemies behind the hideous mask of his own face. Sent by the goddess of beauty on an impossible mission. Driven to find a way past his own flesh, into a soul torn between destiny and love. Deep in the ancient valleys of the enigmatic Utter East, Atreus will finally look into the...Faces of Deception.

One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren' t. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse, acting as if they were humble servants. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception, he responded with explosive violence. Drawing on research on four continents, The Empire of Necessity explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event.

OneTaste hoped orgasm would change the world. Emerging in the midst of the late-aughts for-profit wellness boom, the company was unwavering in its faith in orgasmic meditation, or OM, a fifteen-minute practice featuring a woman being clitorally stimulated by a clothed, usually male partner. Nicole Daedone, the group’s magnetic and cunning founder, envisioned a world where OM was as widespread as yoga. But Daedone’s vision came with a price.

The Gilded Wolves meets A Magic Steeped in Poison in the first of a new pulse-pounding YA fantasy duology about two thieves who go after the same mythical treasure, from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz. Once upon a time, there was a shining kingdom floating on the sea...

They told you the Empire fell by accident. They lied. What if the ruins beneath your feet weren’t ancient at all? What if they were buried—deliberately—less than 200 years ago? This is not a theory. It’s a dossier. A classified reconstruction of a civilization erased from memory and replaced with a lie. Tartaria wasn’t a myth. It was a global empire. It harnessed wireless energy, built impossible architecture, and may have understood consciousness itself. Then it vanished. Not by disaster. By design. Inside this file, you’ll find the evidence they buried. The photos they ...

Remy Pendergast and his royal vampire companions face an enemy that is terrifyingly close to home in book two of Rin Chupeco’s queer, bloody Gothic epic fantasy series for fans of Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree and the adult animated series Castlevania. Remy Pendergast...

A deliciously dark standalone set in the same world as the YA romantic fantasy Of Flame and Fury, where star-crossed enemies gamble with their hearts, empires, and the fate of a lost god. “Narrator Safiyya Ingar's remarkable performance captures Kel's resilience and emotional depth. Their...

What if the greatest empire in history was never lost—because it never existed? Across forgotten maps and beneath layers of ornate architecture, a mystery has taken root. A civilization whispered about in comment threads, stitched into viral videos, and etched into the minds of millions. They call it Tartaria. The Myth of Tartaria is not just a book about a conspiracy. It’s a journey through the digital age’s most captivating illusion—a sweeping tale of how misread history, misunderstood monuments, and misplaced trust in spectacle have given rise to a civilization that never was. ...

A captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed everyone from Rockefellers to members of the royal family while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the 1920s. “A...

From the battlefield to the blank page, I write with the same grit that got me through war. I’m a combat vet. A mom. On the streets of L.A. with my baby girl and a busted iPhone full of stories. PTSD rides shotgun. Survival isn’t theory - it’s every damn day. And yeah, I write about Wall Street. Because Sam - my friend, my street family, my daughter’s guardian angel - taught me everything I know. He used to run numbers for suits before the needle took over. This isn’t just fiction. This is how power works. New York moves fast. If you want to survive, you move faster. Grayson ...

The tumult of great powers colliding has passed and the city of Darujhistan and its citizens can at last get on with what matters: trading, bickering, politicking and enjoying all the good things in life. However, not all are ready to leave the past behind. A treasure hunter, digging amongst the...

The sky belongs to the efficient. The throne belongs to the ruthless. Aven Adams is a gutter mechanic from the industrial textile sectors, surviving on stolen scraps of elemental iron and forged signatures. In a world where the elite Silver Guard control the skies through a hereditary, bloodline-locked frequency, commoners are nothing more than ground-level machinery. But Aven carries a lethal secret stitched into the skin of her left wrist: a dormant, silver-threaded biological map to the ancient, untamed beasts of the mountain. When a mandatory conscription sweep tears her from the lower ...

“A tour de force of storytelling.” —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series “Jobb’s excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read.” —The New York Times Book Review ”When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of...