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A firsthand account of a young boy from Wolverhampton who joined the British Army for an adventure and his experiences of war in Iraq 2003 and Afghanistan 2006, which saw him and his fellow soldiers involved in some of the most intense combat since the Korean War.

My memoir begins at birth, where I almost died, and ends with my suicide attempt at the age of 31. I am grateful that I survived. Somewhere in the aftermath, an old self perished, along with all past trauma. I went through a rebirth and was finally ready to share that part of my story which I had kept hidden and secret from the world. My journey covered mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction, prescription medication abuse, suicide, drug overdose, coma recovery, military base life, house repossession, facing homelessness, gang crime, domestic abuse, divorce, and much more.

When a family loses everything, what is left? The only thing they have now is each other! Steve is a good man, but the trials and tribulations of life are almost insurmountable. Without the help of kind strangers, would they make it back from the brink? They travel together on a road that is paved with promises of a new start, but it is a path that is filled with pitfalls and hidden dangers. They find Sanctuary, finally safe, but all is not as it seems. His time here could change everything, but will it be for the better?

Professor Luke Mann is the leader of a team heading back to the Languedoc, year 1305. Their goal? To study the environment, refine delta T and, in Luke's words, "to change the universe". With him is Artemisia Wormwood: A Medieval historian who needs the money to save the life of her dying sister. But time travel is untested, and dangerous. Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert, a village in Languedoc, is a desert of souls. Monastery, pilgrimage path, and legend; that's all there is. Perfect for scientists who have promised their work will not interfere with history.

It's gonna be one of those nights. Drinks after work with a lady of the night who doubles as the woman of his dreams. Tinker can think of no better way to celebrate getting fired from another job. Again. Until her roommate turns up missing and he volunteers to hunt her down. Anything to get one step closer to his girl's heart. If you can't trust a hooker, who can you trust? Betrayed, backstabbed, and sold out, can Tinker find a way out of this new jam without getting popped out of an airlock?

You Can't Park 'Ere! is a Comedy Novella about Traffic Wardens. Marek, a 20-year-old fresh recruit, is a Polish man who recently moved to the U.K but dreams of one day becoming a Police Officer. He is taken under the wing by Mosi, an ex-child soldier from Sierra Leone, who teaches him the tricks of the trade on how to best avoid grief from the public while dishing out parking tickets, how to side-step hassle from Management, and how to always focus on a side-hustle, at all times, no matter the circumstances.

Nate, Mia, and Ky are a group of urban explorers who have made it to widespread fame on the internet, vlogging their daring exploits. Exploring the recent phenomenon and subculture of Urbex, they explore derelict buildings, abandoned properties, and closed-down theme parks, risking everything for views and rising subscriber counts. None of them quite realize how the love triangle they are locked in is the most dangerous risk of all.

An unknown event causes a busy stretch of highway to grind to a standstill for several days and nights. Road rage reaches a new level as these isolated individuals are forced to confront their barbaric instincts for survival.

Can a painting be a link between the present and the past? Forced to return to his ancestral home in the shadows of the Scottish Highlands, such ideas are far from Andrew Lambert’s mind. His business has failed; his love life is a mess. When his friend invites him for a welcome-home drink, he accepts, and a car crash is the result. From this moment, Andrew’s life is transformed. He locks himself away inside the confines of his family castle, shrouded in secrets and untold stories from the past, and discovers far more than he ever thought possible.

All Tinker wants is some sweet loving from his favorite house of pleasure on the Space Hub. After a successful smuggling run, he's got some credit in his pocket and some naughty on his mind. But a mysterious woman pops into his session before it starts with a secret mission and, more important, a credit chip. Her sister is missing, and she wants the pilot to find her.

The prisoner. Mona Lisa O'Neil has a problem. She's in prison for crimes committed against the people with her gangster boyfriend. When she turned evidence against him, he tried to have her killed. Twice. Now he's threatening to blow up the Dipole Shield and kill 50 million people on Mars, unless they turn her over to him.

In 2012, no one saw Victor Daco coming. In 2024, he lobbied Congress to turn America's 13 most powerful conglomerates into sovereign regional states, transforming the control that corporations had held for decades over the US government into a formal nobility. Once the bill was signed into law, it became known as the New Rule. As the wealthiest man in the country, Victor became the most powerful patriarch.