Power Corrupts

A city shaken by murder. A teenager trapped in the justice system. And a lawyer willing to risk everything for the truth. When a pregnant woman is murdered in a brutal drive-by shooting in New Orleans, the city demands justice. The police claim they have the killer. They claim they know the facts. They claim that justice will be served. But in Louisiana, justice is rarely straightforward. Eighteen-year-old Amon Jennings was caught on camera sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle used in the drive-by. Within hours, prosecutors charged him with two counts of murder and threatened to ...

From bestselling author Will Witt, this thought-provoking exposé shows readers how to break free from the control of America’s corrupt ruling class. The America you grew up in is no longer here. Our country is in sharp decline. Yet we often fail to truly call out the culprits responsible for...

She was serving her time. Until she became the block’s most willing asset. New inmate Elena thinks keeping her head down is the key to surviving Block F—until she learns the true purpose behind her high visibility orange uniform and the mandatory satin throat ribbon. Thrown into an experimental rehabilitation unit with no solid cell doors, she transforms from a terrified arrival into a shamelessly open display under Officer Vance and Guard Miller's ruthless oversight. Perfect for fans of Evelyn Wild, Madison Faye, and Jade West who crave strict power dynamics, dark institutional ...

This “captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world” (Financial Times) is both “empowering” (The New Statesman, UK) and “compelling” (New Scientist) as it challenges our most fundamental assumptions—by social scientist and Atlantic...

She pulled the trigger to save him. Seven years later, she’s forced to marry the man who survived it. Isabella Costa has spent years burying the girl she used to be—the one who loved too deeply, trusted too easily, and paid for it in blood. In her world, love is a weakness, and weakness is something her family does not survive. So when a masked man known only as The Phantom dismantles her father’s empire and demands her as his bride, Isabella does what she has always done— She says yes. Because saying yes keeps her alive. Because saying yes protects the one secret she would die to ...

When you look through the history books, even those of more recent years, the pages are full of wars, and whether between ancient dynasties or modern states, the horrific consequences always leave readers wondering how such atrocities can happen. However, to learn from the past is of vital importance for the generations that follow, despite on occasion, humanity, seeming to make the same mistakes, over and over again. In fact hindsight is of course a wonderful thing, and this is never truer than when considering the major conflicts of the 20th Century and the Second World War in particular....

When loss, betrayal, and power collide, love becomes the most dangerous gamble of all. Samantha’s world is torn apart, leaving her trapped between survival and the dark pull of a man she should fear. Oscar Bonanno is powerful, relentless, and bound by a past soaked in blood, but when fate ties them together, neither can escape the fire they ignite. Secrets, passion, and danger intertwine in a story where trust is deadly, loyalty is fragile, and love is the most unpredictable weapon of all. A steamy mafia romance with a protective alpha boss, a strong heroine, betrayal, and heart-pounding ...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s life as a writer and icon is now explored in the CNN Films documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story! The dangerously beautiful Lucky Santangelo—star of two of Jackie Collins’s previous smash, international bestsellers, Chances and...

You will root for her. You will be ashamed that you did. And you will never get to watch her fall. Rome, A.D. 980. The papacy is for sale, the city is starving, and the Pope is a drunk who does whatever his sister tells him. He wears the tiara. She holds the leash. From a cold stone house above the Tiber, Stephania of the Sabellani makes popes and unmakes rivals, and every man who learns too much goes down the conduit beneath her floor and into the river before the bells have finished ringing. She will charm you first. You will admire the cold precision of her mind, forgive the first body, ...

She spent four years building the case that would end him. He saw through her cover and never said a word. Federal Agent Rachel Murray sat in the third pew from the back of St. Sebastian's and logged every wire, every shell, every set of initials. She believed she was invisible. She was wrong. Monsignor Vincent Brophy ran a charity that was never a charity, then signed it all away to put himself in a room with the only woman who ever saw past the homily. The Bureau hands her the witness she made. She takes the chair at the head of the table. He takes the lower one. The badge is not enough ...

A magical machinist becomes a spy to unearth a dangerous plot that spans past, present, and future in the third installment of this isekai adventure. In the years since Liam was mysteriously transported to a new land to live as the noble son Percival Shadestone, he's learned many things: how to...

New to the series? Start with Clean Cut Kid. Trust No One, Kill or Be Killed Logan Connor wants out. Out of the lies. Out of the violence. Out of the world that has already taken too much from him. But when the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator is brutally murdered, Logan is pulled back into the shadows for one final mission—one that will force him into a world where power is bought, loyalty is temporary, and the people pulling the strings are rarely the ones in the spotlight. As old enemies return and dangerous alliances begin to shift, Logan finds himself facing a question more ...

When a militantly armed group kills roughly a thousand people, the response is often cast — rightly or wrongly — as “self-defense.” But when a state power responds by killing tens of thousands — overwhelmingly civilians — and is excused by most of the world, we see the blinding hypocrisy at the heart of our global order. The 2023–2025 war in Gaza has exposed how deeply corrupted are international institutions, how brittle is the rule of law, and how skewed moral standards have become. What’s presented as “defending against terror” is often complicity in mass suffering ...

The scaffolding still stands, a wound that Skarfell refuses to heal. Three weeks after the events of Scar, Draven Duskvar’s fragile peace is shattered when a rift tears open inside the fortress walls, an impossible breach that defies every law of the Veil. As Draven races to uncover the truth behind engineered rifts and the shadowy Hollow Choir, old oaths fracture and forbidden magic stirs. His guardianship of the boy Fenn, immune to the Veil’s horrors, draws dangerous attention. Political factions tear at Skarfell’s weakened council, while a deadly romantic triangle threatens the few...

A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020 The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power. Even in his youth as a prince among thousands of princes, Mohammed bin Salman nurtured sweeping...

The algorithm decides who goes to prison. The database tracks who paid for the verdict. When forensic auditor Rachel Mercer uncovers a hidden file tied to SentinelScore—a powerful artificial intelligence used in courtrooms nationwide—she realizes a whistleblower’s fatal accident was actually a targeted assassination. The justice system is rigged. The verdicts are bought. And Rachel holds the only copy of the proof. Exposing a billion-dollar cover-up means going to war with an elite syndicate that has already killed to keep its secret secure. If she steps forward, she becomes their ...

Power built the garden. Secrets watered it. Blood made it bloom. When political strategist Evelyn Hartman steps into the Rose Garden, she believes she’s entering the center of power. Instead, she walks straight into a trap woven by the man she married — a man whose charm hides a ruthless ambition and a plan that could burn the entire city to the ground. After a failed escape and a lockdown that turns a political compound into a maze of danger, Evelyn discovers the truth her father died protecting: a hidden failsafe capable of dismantling the Syndicate that controls the city from the ...

Power is a mirror. It reflects the world as the holder of it wishes to see it—but it also reflects back the truth, eventually. This is the story of one man’s climb, and one nation’s reckoning. Ronald Trumpet promised the American people everything: prosperity for the elderly, relief for the struggling, stability in a turbulent world. He stood on stages, smiled, and spoke in certainty, and the country believed him. But promises are fragile things. Some break under pressure. Some were never meant to be kept at all. The Crooked House follows the unraveling of a leader who built his ...

Detective Elena Vance has built her career on the belief that the truth can always be uncovered—if you follow the evidence far enough. When a long-closed death resurfaces, the case begins to unravel almost immediately. Files don’t match. Evidence disappears. And the official story has been rewritten so completely that no one questions it anymore. At the center is Silas Thorne, a man whose influence has remained untouched for decades. With the help of Ethan Hale, a specialist in pattern analysis, Elena follows the trail into something far larger than a single case—a system designed to ...

The blood always remembers who spilled it. In Elthara, magic is not a gift. It is a transaction. Blood is currency. Debt is doctrine. And the Red Church holds the ledger. Nyxa Reddane was raised by a hedge priestess in a village that tolerated them both but never trusted them. She learned early to stay small, stay quiet, and never bleed where a Collector could see. Then she saved a life she should have left to the ledger. Branded a heretic and hunted by the Church, Nyxa flees as her old life burns. She finds unexpected allies in the Bone Choir: outlawed practitioners who wield their blood ...