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Freemasonry, the world's oldest and largest Fraternity, is based upon the tenets of Friendship, Morality and Brotherly Love. These principles are taught through lectures and morality plays. Most members of the Fraternity incorporate these principles into their own personal value system. But, for some, it can become an obsession. For one such Brother these tenets became a driving, rather than guiding, force. For one such Brother, this obsession played itself out in a shocking and deadly way. Thus, it became the task of Detective Sean O'Hanlon to discern the difference between real life and ...

History of London If you’ve always felt a bit drawn to London and its unique legacy and multicultural background, then this book will appeal to you! It’s filled with interesting information regarding the way in which this city has become a key multicultural hub in the 21st century. It will take you through the main periods that have left an important mark on London, giving you answers to some of the questions you might have about the city. Immersed in history, beauty, arts and culture, London is something else, it is a small universe on its own – a place that distinguishes itself from...

Explore the magic of Maine—create your ultimate adventure in every season, even if you’ve never set foot in the “Pine Tree State” before! Are you overwhelmed by endless travel sites and generic lists that all blur together? Craving authentic, local adventures instead of crowded tourist traps? Wondering how to make the most of your Maine trip—whether it's your first visit, a solo getaway, or your next memory-making family vacation? If you answered “yes” to any of these, you’re not alone. My Maine Bucket List Made Simple is your trusted companion, blending local wisdom with ...

Mix the following: A Voodoo Priestess A Pirate of sorts A Golden-hearted Whore - or three A Drug Dealer and his friends A Bad-Ass Irish thug A few Lawyers – Some good, some bad, and a short fat Judge to make life difficult. Airboats, drunks and drum circles at sunset. Sex? Just enough. Violence? Only when necessary. And a parrot who has timely, witty offerings at odd moments. And of course, it’s all in Florida, where crazy is normal. A story has to follow... The Eloquent Parrot (Book #1 Blackbeard & Hibiscus Series) is a standalone novel that will take you on a Florida adventure! If you...

On Thursday, July 28th, 2016, Beijing announced that the Russian Navy would be conducting joint naval exercises with the People's Liberation Army Navy in the South China Sea in September of that year. The announcement followed by sixteen days the ruling by the World Court that it had rejected China's claim to sovereignty across a vast expanse of the South China Sea. Competing claims to portions of the body of water with Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei were left unresolved. The exercises were conducted without threat or provocation. At the end of the ...

Two years ago, Wilson left his old boss alive in exchange for a clean slate, keeping up his end of the bargain and staying off the grid. Then, thousands of miles from the city he once escaped, a man comes calling on Wilson with a gun in hand and a woman in his trunk. Wilson is pulled back into his old life as a grinder, working under the radar to quietly find out who is responsible for a dangerous mobster's missing nephews - and this time all bets are off.

Since before its founding, the United States of America has depended upon its militias to defend and maintain its freedom from incursion by foreign adversaries on American soil. Although frequently the subjects of scorn or ridicule, there are over 500 militias in existence within the country's borders today. Since 2013, China has openly been conducting invasions in America, only this time the invasions do not entail "boots on the ground". They are digital in nature. Blueprints for the latest-generation fighters and bombers have been stolen. Chinese knockoffs can be found in the skies today....

"Diana's empire is in danger. Her heart, even more so. Can Ross help her beat the odds and rekindle their lost love? Experience their captivating story in the third book of the Midnight Ball! In the heart-throbbing third installment of the Midnight Ball series, "The Redemption of Diana's Heart," we delve into the world of the fiercely independent Diana Larue. Consumed by a world of figures, stocks, and investment portfolios, Diana has spent the last five years building her financial empire, Wise Girl Finance, while grappling with a hidden heartache too potent to relinquish. Her sole solace ...

No sooner had the aerial reconnaissance photographs of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea been analyzed than the evidence of China's island-building activities was forwarded to the Pentagon and the White House. Those satellite images revealed that the Chinese military was turning reefs and atolls into solid ground supporting airfields, ports, helipads and barracks. The discovery of new Chinese military staging areas adjacent to the earth's busiest shipping lanes for oil and natural gas was followed within weeks by China's announcement that they would purchase all of Russia's surplus...

The Bicycle Shop is a front for running a safe house in Kansas. The visitors coming and going are humans from other worlds and visit this world to learn and move forward. The “ranch” is run by a colorful older woman, and the program manager is the owner of the bicycle shop.

Since 1979, the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has had offices in Chinatown in New York City and elsewhere across the United States. Its purported purpose is to assist American residents of Chinese ancestry deal with such mundane issues as obtaining driver’s licenses and filling out work papers. But its more significant purpose is the suppression of anti-Chinese Communist activities. It works in collaboration with the CCP in recruiting those of Chinese ancestry such as graduate students working in classified American military projects. They are ...

Long ago, he found his soulmate — and lost her. Now it appears he has another life. Another chance. Another name. He is Fitzwilliam Darcy. He will not lose her again. At night, Elizabeth Bennet relives the nightmare of her soulmate's embrace as he couldn't save them. Why does she remember? Who, or what, draws them together?

Hannah Hopkins is on the journey of a lifetime. As part of a small wagon train heading to California in 1897, she and her father know that their new life will be filled with adventure, new horizons, and hardship. When Hannah is the victim of unwanted advances, she is callously shunned by their traveling companions. Worse, her beloved father, a respected physician, dies along the trail after a brief illness. Heartbroken and afraid, the grieving daughter is forced off the wagon train and abandoned to a nightmare. She finds herself the prisoner of an old couple who rob and abuse her. But one...

When the actions of domestic terrorist’s kill millions of Americans and people worldwide, Dr. Marvin James is called to return from the vacation he planned for months with his sister Fiesta at their aunt’s large ranch in the country. When the poison is released, he becomes a target and must fight for his life, despite being one of the few people who can help find a cure. He calls in his best friend, Zach to help protect his sister and home against those who would destroy them. But Fiesta has changed and is not the person he thinks she is. Luke and Paula are expecting their third child ...

Private detective Sam Jones’s six-year search for an 8-year-old boy ends with gunshots in a basement and cold bodies that would eventually lead the police straight to him. Jones had never promised Ruth Verne that he would find her son alive, but he knew deep down that she believed he would - worse, he had believed it too. Jones wasn’t ready to look Ruth in the eye and tell her he had failed. He wasn’t ready to admit that he lost everything and had nothing to show for it. But an unsigned note scrawled on a bathroom door gives Jones a second chance - a chance for redemption.

“Turn to the right, Cameron,” Tim said, changing the angle of the camera as I moved. “Flip your hair, cover your face, lovely.” Obediently, I complied, making sure my long, thick hair acted as a curtain, protecting my identity. “Now, I want you to just move. You know how you do.” I closed my eyes and focused on being sexy, wanton, and out of control. Without further thought, my body moved sinuously as images of me on stage dancing before a limited audience of faceless men released my inner diva. The dark brown boy shorts I wore rose deliciously high on my hips as I rolled them ...

Darcy is on a quest. His mission is to restore the impertinence and joy which used to dance in the fine eyes of Miss Elizabeth Bennet and had captured his heart, although his mind told him not to give in. To achieve his mission, he must find her missing sister. But where, in all the millions of acres —all the farms, hamlets, towns and cities that make England — could she be? Elizabeth Bennet is a gentlewoman. Society rules prevent her joining the search. But why would the arrogant and disdainful Mr. Darcy persist in the task?

On June 23rd, 2016, the United Kingdom conducted a referendum to determine the will of its people to remain in the European Union or to withdraw from it. The results were 16,141,241, or 48.11%, to remain, and 17,410,072, or 51.89% to exit. The following day Prime Minister David Cameron, who supported the “Remainers” in spite of his membership in the Conservative Party which supported the “Brexiters”, announced his intention to resign. On July 13th, Theresa May, another Conservative, became Prime Minister. On March 29th, 2017, Prime Minister May triggered Article 50 which began the ...

Ever since 1993 when President Bill Clinton first spent his Summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been fascinated by the United States' willingness to have such a concentration of the nation's power elite, both governmental and otherwise, concentrated on this one-hundred square mile island in the Atlantic Ocean. It created such a perfect target for terrorists wanting to destabilize both the Administration and the nation as a whole. By August of 2015 al-Baghdadi was the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, more colloquially known as ISIS. Seeking political ...

Beth Edelman was the first woman Director of Central Intelligence, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. She was the first foreign-born individual to head the Central Intelligence Agency, having been born in Israel in 1960. And she was the first Director of Central Intelligence to be kidnapped. Abducted from the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, by captors unknown, she was whisked away to a location where she would be secure but out of touch with the outside world. The collective resources of the nation's law enforcement and intelligence communities were enlisted to determine her ...