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.

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 to those resources, he must contend with powerful U.S. Navy and the Pacific Fleet. After a decades-long largely secret military build up, Cheng sets his plan in motion by suddenly invading Taiwan and drawing the Pacific Fleet in to its defense.

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.

In 2016, the fate of Paramount Global’s entertainment empire hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer, which placed Sumner’s deteriorating health and questionable judgment under a harsh light.

The heart-stopping sequel to The Iron Admiral: Conspiracy Grand Admiral Chaka Saahren has it all—but not the woman he loves. Allysha Marten, a brilliant Systems Engineer, is determined to stay as far away as possible from Saahren, the Fleet’s top admiral. Blaming him for the tragic death of innocent civilians, including her own father, she reluctantly agrees to a temporary Fleet assignment—under the firm condition that she avoids the man she holds responsible. With a debt to pay and no one left to turn to, Allysha's cheating husband Sean O’Reilly sees Allysha as his last lifeline. ...

In a world where death lurks around every corner, some flee from its grasp, while others dance dangerously close. Eli, a daring hacker, discovers the profound repercussions that one solitary keystroke can have in a world where fate and mortality are inextricably linked. Starting from a point of devastation, Eli's journey rewinds through a tangled web of time, revealing the fateful keystroke that inadvertently ignites a war between the Russian mob and a Korean crime syndicate. But what if Eli never hacks into the mob boss's account. Caught in a high-stakes game of crime, betrayal, and high-...

When the Affair Is Over: Scars of Deception picks up where When the Affair Is Over: Untold Stories from the Former Other Woman left off, with the conclusion of Lorynn’s story, seeing the emotional and mental battle that she faces along her journey to moving past the pain of love’s betrayal.

All her life Cariad had one dream: to participate in humanity’s colonization of deep space. After topping her field as a geneticist, and then spending 184 years in cryonic suspension, she’s achieved her goal. But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators come out at night, ready to feast on the new arrivals. What’s more, saboteurs have stowed away aboard the ship and are determined to destroy the new colony.

A short story about young woman who has spent her life as a captive on Asticon, the ninth planet in the Nath system, who finally learns what role she may be forced to play in the great Serpan Empire.