2016 WATTY AWARD WINNER - HQ LOVE THE TERM SHEET is a fast-paced technothriller about entrepreneurship, startups, encryption, and the delicate balance between national security and individual privacy. Its complex characters explore thought-provoking questions about the role of technology in an ever-changing society. Step into the high-stakes game played by today's technology innovators, who push the envelope and risk it all. Get ready, this thrilling book gives you a taste of what startups are really like. _____________________________________________________ David Alexander, a young programmer in Portland, Oregon, loathed his job. Computer programming had always come naturally, but being an employee never suited him. So he tried entrepreneurship instead. After making a series of embarrassing blunders, David finally hit on a startup idea that stuck: encrypted chat. Sure there were alternatives, but as Edward Snowden has shown us, most of them (willingly or unwillingly) have backdoors for spies and bad guys. A new approach made David's app one of the most secure options out there, which caught the attention of many people, including Shawn Douglas from the Secret Service. Shawn Douglas worked with eight different presidents, preventing twenty assassination attempts, forty-three terrorist plots and two bullets. When he was promoted to a desk job overseeing and organizing travel, he picked up on a cryptic email thread that hinted at a threat to the President's life. In a race to unravel the conspiracy, Shawn and David both have to make some difficult decisions. Will Shawn stop the terrorists in time? Will David be able to navigate his startup out of a crisis and keep his entrepreneurial dream alive? Or will fate deal them both a crushing hand? Read the book to find out.

Black ash clouded the night sky as my lungs burned. The gnawing fear licked my mind as we ran from our towards the village gates. Our only exit from the once safe haven. Flames gnawed mercilessly at the homes and markets that made our village home, now destined to ruin and ash. Shrieks of terror were heard, from those lost to the flames and those that ran in hopes of saving what little they now had. Adrenaline pumped through my veins as my father ran before me, trying his best to ensure our safety and that we remained close together. We ran to the overtowering village exit. Towards the gates. Towards the gates... The Gates, that wooden structure, that brought a sense of hope that now turned to dread. They were sealed closed, locking everyone within... With the betrayal of those he thought he could trust, Ame is forced to continue onward. With a shared loss of their once safe haven, now laid to blood and ashes, Ame travels with his new companions, Tarrah and Rion, in hopes to move forward. But fate does everything for a reason. Now they will learn untold secrets that have always been hidden underneath the surface and find aid in beings they didn't know exist. Learning many powerful things will continue to aid them in getting closer to the truth that was unforeseeable. Among these truths will lie the power of the name. Names hold power in this world, that even He, chooses to keep hidden from his beloved... Ame will learn many secrets and with them what it truly means to be mated to the Demonic King. (Process of being edited)

Wrestling team captains Max Desera and Axel Cortés must settle their long-standing rivalry - but a different kind of fire may ignite between them. ***** The school decides it will only keep one of its two male wrestling teams, adding fire to the cutthroat rivalry between the two captains, Max Desera and Axel Cortés. Axel sees Max as undeserving of the title, but when Max, who is proudly bisexual, finds out that Axel is closeted gay, their dynamics begin to change. Things heat up before the tournament when a terrible incident of foul play occurs, forcing the two sworn enemies to suddenly rely on each other - but this time, the heat feels different. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

player (n) : a male who is skilled at seducing women and is only interested in sex. Santana Marie Klaus has always had a crush on her best friend, Daemon Matthews ever since he saved her from a big bully making fun of her pigtails. A crush that has remained unknown to Daemon for just as long. A crush that has crushed her ever since Daemon started his player ways, changing girls like they were dirty clothes. Desperate to end her unknown crush, Santana enlists the help of Jesse Archer, the new kid in town to make Daemon jealous by being her fake boyfriend. In exchange Jesse gets free entertainment watching the clichéd plot unfolds in front of him. What happens when Daemon reacts to this ploy? And what happens when Jesse gets more involved in the drama that is Santana? And what goes wrong when you enlist a player's help to make another player jealous? One word. Everything. [UNEDITED] COMPLETED : 16 OCT 2015 * Highest Ranking #1 Teen Fiction ** 1 Million Reads : 14 March 2017 *** 2 Million Reads : 14 March 2018 **** 3 Million Reads : 5 July 2018 ***** 4 Million Reads : 21 Aug 2018

A heart is a fragile item. That is why we need to protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely and why it means so much because some hearts are more fragile than others. Pure somehow like crystal in a world of glass. Even the way they shattered is beautiful. But when it is shattering, nothing can amend it to be a perfect again. That is a similarity between heart and crystal. There always have been bleeding from leaking scar or blemishes when someone deliberately broken it. Once it happens, they never return to the original state anymore. That is why heart or crystal need a hundred percent careful care. To avoid it from scratches with unwanted regret. Both hold same fragility and value. Both need an intensive care. The question is can people really care it as if they value themselves? Can people value them like some precious and rare gem? Or do they only take a notice when it shattered beyond repair. Unable to move on or beat for another day. No pills or expert could cure and restoring before the pain take over. This a tale about heart, the center of human vitality as well destruction once its defects. The location is in the center of the chest, just behind the physical heart. This energetic center deals with the love of self and others, compassion, empathy, kindness, relationship, intimacy, devotion, reaching out and taking in, forgiveness, hope, trust, balance, quest for peace. Cover design by PaGer @SuperSonicPaGer Copyright © August 2017 Shinouji All Rights Reserved

"You are mine! Mine only!" Hot breaths send shivers down my spine as he cornered me to the wall. "But how? I can't be...what-" He smashes his lips down on mine as I grabbed onto him to refrain from falling due to my weak legs. He releases my captured lips a little while later, not to my liking as he stared into my eyes with eyes as dark as night, filled with lust, passion and love. "What about our packs?" "We will settle that later. For now, let's just enjoy our moment while it lasts." He says shortly before capturing my lips with his addictive cinnamon and honey tasting lips which just makes me want more and more.... Ashley March is the only daughter of the Alpha of the Blue Knights pack. Many people thinks she is quiet and innocent what no ones know is her true self, the side which is never shown to anyone, not even her parents. Like what they say...Good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught. Jace Light is the Alpha of the Black Nights pack. Reserved and collected, he never asks for a war unless another pack threatens his. Alpha at the age of 17, his father always makes sure that he doesn't fool around with other she-wolves and to only be true to his mate but what his father doesn't know is that his heart was only beating for his yet to be seen mate who he knows he will immediately fall in love with at first sight. Love. A bond between two. An unbreakable bond. A bond that will never be destroyed despite all troubles. A bond which will be worked hard to hold on to. No matter what stands in their way, they will fight their way out together or will they not? Stay tune to find out how their love story will end. Happy or Sad, it's up to you to decide. Highest rankings: #419 in werewolf #3 in trade #30 in undead

Zachary Knight, CEO of more than half the companies in Switzerland finally wants to find a personal assistant after years of working alone. When he found the one, he is never letting go of her. His undeniable attraction towards her causes him to want her, to claim her as his. But all odds are against their love. One being Her herself. Winter Clarkson is just an ordinary girl living her life to the fullest. When she becomes Zachary's personal assistant, love blooms but nothing ever goes smoothly as odds eats her from inside out, unknown to her. Highest ranking : #17 in officelove #643 in romance #75 in time

Ray is low on time, luck, and hope; his only chance is an artifact that may not even exist. But upon meeting Landon, Ray is beginning to believe he might find all four. ***** Cambions are doomed to tragedy. They are weak, sickly creatures that rarely live to see their twentieth year. Ray refuses to resign himself to that fate. Upon learning of the Crimson Sheath-an artifact capable of preserving his life-Ray is prepared to fight, steal, and kill to get his hands on it. He is not prepared for Landon. Landon is an orphan with no memories of his parents, the only inheritance left to him a dagger, sleeping in a crimson sheath. Though he has no love of bloodshed and no use for a dagger, Landon isn't about to let Ray take his only link to his forgotten history, even if that means following the cambion past the edge of the world and into the shadow beyond. Content Warnings: Violence, semi-graphic gore, character deaths, profanity, mild drug and alcohol usage, abuse discussed but not shown, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things.

Julian Kyle, America's favorite boy. Girls scream his name and go crazy over him. But will one photographer end up driving him crazy?

READ BOOK ONE : "MY MATE.....IS A NERD?" FIRST Book 4 of the "My Mate......" series Ryker Storm is the alpha of the Alpha is the Moonlit Oasis Pack. With the help of his pack, and family behind him, Ryker has become one of the most fierce Alphas in Canada but his pack comes no where near the SavageKing Pack. He's strong, kind, caring and is protective of those he loves and will kill and die for his Pack. At the tender age of only 20 years, he has yet to find his mate though it doesn't quite bother him as much as it should. He knows that when it's time, he'll find his mate. If there is one thing he loathes the most are rogues. He despises them with a passion. He loathes them and captures them, he tortured and kills any rogue that dare step foot into his lands. So when his patrol catches a rogue, Ryker has a big problem. But what's happens when said rouge isn't really a rogue but the SavageKing's alpha, Gabriel's, cousin? Preston SaintClaire is the youngest son of Princeton and Jessie SaintClaire. He lost his 'mother' when he was an infant. The only memories he has of his late mother are stories that his father and siblings and pack tell him. He wishes that he was able to meet him, get to know the person who gave him life but life doesn't work that way. At the tender age of 17 years he's already learning to love himself. He, much like his birth parent, Jessie, is a carrier. He was at the age where he gets to find his mate. Even though his birth parent was human, Preston was born with the werewolf genes meaning he's a full werewolf unlike half breeds. One day he's out playing chase with his siblings when he crosses onto MoonLit Oasis, he's quickly surrounded by the warriors. So what happens when the alpha recognizes him as the SavageKing Alpha's cousin? Read to find out in 'My Mate....the Alpha'