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In Washington state wine country, Red Mountain is a refuge for searchers and wanderers, artists and lovers, farmers and chefs — people looking for a place to belong. Despite the stunning landscape, the world-class wines, and their best efforts, the eccentric inhabitants often attract trouble. Brooks Baker, the man with the most broken of pasts, craves stability, but he’s forced into making a tough decision when the woman he loves considers a move to Florida.

Otis Till, the grapefather of Red Mountain, has regained his senses of smell and sight, but his vision of what Red Mountain should be is now threatened by a greedy landowner. Margot Pierce has finally opened her French inn, but as her son leaves for college and her boyfriend says goodbye, she realizes how lonely her world could possibly become. Can she stomach the trials of going back on the dating market, even if that means finding him online?

Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics. Otis Till, the area's visionary winemaker, has been known to howl at the moon - fully nude. Single mother Margot Pierce moved across the country to build an inn, but so far all she does is binge on gelato, the Hallmark Channel, and fantasies of murdering her ex. High school senior Emilia Forester is the daughter of celebrity parents struggling to build her own life outside of their shadow.

This book is a companion to The Mystery of Wealth (Ridley, 2020a) — the first complete economic theory of entrepreneurship. The path to widespread and accelerated entrepreneurship. The purpose of these two books is to demystify the causes of wealth and poverty like never before done. The Mystery of Wealth was the seminal comprehensive presentation of the CDR index. The CDR index is a mathematical model that shows how capitalism (C), democracy (D) and rule of law (R) jointly with natural resources and geography explain almost all economic growth.

The morning after a birthday party she threw for him, O'Brien woke up in the hospital to learn that his girlfriend was dead, and he might be going to prison for causing the car crash that killed her. With piercing insight and stark prose, Mark L. O’Brien leads us on a deeply personal, intimate, and emotional journey—grappling with loss, regret, and his fragmented memories of the night of the crash, questioning a new relationship fraught with immense shame.

Caught in a whirlwind of adverse publicity following a viewer’s death, the streaming show The Gentleman’s Choice becomes the target for a sadistic killer—and it’s up to PI Vanessa Young to put a stop to it before more young women are murdered.

The story of four generations of the Movi family, who all live in a crumbling Hollywood mansion, is chronicled by their stage acting dog and primary breadwinner Chumley P. Movi. A reality TV show based on their everyday existence appears to be the perfect vehicle to revive their glory days in the entertainment industry, but as the family will soon realize, you have to be careful what you wish for.

Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, and Jimi Hendrix are back, 25 years after the CIA faked their deaths when a Soviet deep-cover agent outed the network of world-touring artists couriering sensitive agency documents. Jimi Hendrix is invisible. He was “recruited” for a top-secret Pentagon project after early results suggested marijuana users made the best test subjects.

A fast-paced apocalyptic novel with a flair of Michael Crichton.Terrance Mathison, a veteran turned bioengineer, returns from a camping trip to find that a widespread pathogen is quickly rusting important metals once they’re touched. Amid the crumbling downfall of our technological society, he assembles a team of super-nerds and elite soldiers to find and secure a lab in hopes of developing a cure. As cities collapse and food supplies dwindle, Mathison and his team navigate an increasingly savage world. He has to decide what lengths he will go to for a cure.

An Army lieutenant returns from World War II, riven by PTSD. He wants to be an attorney, so he’s forced to keep his illness a secret. As far as he knows, there’s only one cure for the devastating nightmares that began during his command of an artillery company: Scotch whiskey, and lots of it.

Retirement ain’t for pussies. Someone told me that once. And I’ll tell you this much—they weren’t shitting me. If you know anything about me at all, folks, you’ll know I’m not much of a planner. Never have been and probably never will be. So when I decided to take early retirement without so much as a fucking whiff of a plan, my crew of geriatric buddies at the Seacoast Majestic Resort came to the consensus that I hadn’t given my future enough thought. I mean, they weren’t wrong. All cards on the table—I hadn’t given it any thought.

In an age when technology vanquished natural death, Ryan and his sardonic AI implant are recruited at the last minute to board the first colony ship to Tau Ceti. As the lowest-ranked crewmember, he expects to cryogenically freeze right away, but the captain has other plans. Ryan begins a training program for rare individuals who heal much faster than normal, a program that teaches him to survive every possible scenario that Murphy’s Law can deliver.

Ian Wright is carjacked by a cartel that has been wreaking havoc for decades on innocent families and is killed. He finds himself reborn as a powerful angel - or so he thinks. He is told by another angel that there is a holy war brewing between God and God's brother Teloch, and pure souls are needed for God's army - just as evil souls are needed for Teloch's army. However, before he can ask any real questions, events escalate, which leaves him questioning his next steps. Ian decides to test his newfound powers out to take down the very cartel that killed him.

Emily Hawkins’ husband was killed while shopping at the local B&D warehouse store, accused of shoplifting, and suffocated while being detained waiting for the police to arrive. To figure out the true story of what happened to her husband, she hires Rick to sue the store.

A 3,000-year-old secret has put Zack Lancestrom within reach of power most interstellar empires would go to war over. There’s just one problem: In order to claim it, he’ll need to leave the planet, and there are gang members, feral aliens, and security forces sent by his own father standing in his way. With the starports closed to him, Zack has no choice but to assemble his own crew and steal a starship. He knows where he can find one, but the path leads straight through the Boneyard, the most lawless place on the planet.

Exiled from the Five Kingdoms and pursued by the forces of Cogneid, Zenzuck and his party have a choice: double down on their relationship with the fugitive orcs of Hearthstead or break away to play the game unfettered. Neither option is truly safe, though; King Leonald hasn’t given up on the auger, and he now has access to an invincible army of conscripted players.

Things have gotten so heavy in Nathan's life, even books aren't enough of an escape. So, when the powers-that-be decide citizens will be able to live in a virtual reality fantasy world, it seems like the perfect solution for an angsty teen. No more teachers, no more books, no more parents' dirty looks. Nothing's ever that easy though, and trying to game the system leaves Nathan stuck halfway between player and NPC, able to see mana and direct its flow, but unable to cast any spells of his own. On top of that, the five kingdoms of The Boundless are ready for an all-out war.

Marines Robert Flynn and Izzy Khan are fed up with being pinned down by machine guns with no air support. Now back in the U.S., they create "ORION" a platoon based weapon system utilizing quadrocopters and precision guided mortars. They soon discover the problem with ORION - it's too cheap and too effective. Undeterred by the powers that be, they embark upon a mission to prove ORION, a misguided quest so dangerous it will take more than ORION to save them. Ride with them as they fight their way into the badlands of Southwest Afghanistan.

I am alone in rural Colorado, but I can't escape my past. When Leah Gibson dies, and her husband and daughter disappear, I cannot run anymore. Who murdered her, and why? What secrets did she hide? As I search for a killer, my own secrets will be exposed, and I may lose all I have left.

Trapped in a tropical paradise with no memory of how she got there, Abby is thrust into a fight for her life. Hunted by a madman and chased by unsettling dreams of her past, she meets up with Eric. Together, they set out to escape. Yet, they discover this deceptive paradise is harder to leave than they ever imagined. Can they escape their hunter, or are they only pawns in his game of life or death? One mystery leads to another until their escape throws them into even greater danger, as Abby’s frightening past finally catches up with her. Her escape is only the beginning.