"Nerd Empire: The Accidental Deal"
Eli Ross is just your average high school computer nerd-brilliant with code but awkward with people. Living a quiet life in a small apartment with his family, Eli spends his nights exploring the dark corners of the web, driven by curiosity and the thrill of the unknown. But when a cryptic job post on the dark web offers him $300,000 for a "simple task," Eli's curiosity leads him down a path he never imagined.
With his family's mounting financial troubles pushing him forward, Eli takes the job-and quickly discovers the lucrative world of encrypted transactions for drug traffickers. What starts as a one-time gig turns into something far more dangerous, as Eli finds himself becoming the faceless supplier behind a growing drug network. He hides behind screens, manipulating people without them ever seeing his face. Eli recruits a team-Marcus, his unsuspecting childhood friend, and Tasha, a streetwise hustler-who know nothing about the boy at the center of it all.
As Eli's empire grows, so does his paranoia. Rival suppliers take notice, and law enforcement starts sniffing around. Detective Roger Klein, determined and relentless, begins piecing together clues that lead ever closer to the mysterious new player in town. With each new success, Eli's grip on his secret life tightens, but so does the danger surrounding him.
"Nerd Empire: The Accidental Deal" is a thrilling, high-stakes journey from obscurity to power-where a brilliant mind finds itself corrupted by the allure of wealth, secrecy, and control. In a world where anonymity is power, Eli must balance his two lives, but how long can he stay hidden before everything crashes down around him?
Prison Diaries: Book 1 (complete)
A law-abiding student gets entangled with a broody inmate when she discovers there has been a miscarriage of justice. She goes in to help, but ends up breaking the first rule of interning at a prison; she falls for the inmate.
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Carter Reynolds' teenage years ended the second the gavel hit the sound block. Or maybe they ended when the police found him standing over a dead body, drenched in blood. It might even have been before that. When he connected his fist with a face that left a broken jaw in its wake. Either way, it was over. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He accepted his fate, only promising himself to never care for anyone so intensely again.
Almost four years into his sentence, Arya Crawford walks through the wrought iron prison gates. A self-proclaimed miniature philanthropist with a heart of gold, a law-abiding student with an urge to always have fun, a girl with a silent cause. She had taken up an internship at the New York State Penitentiary.
And in time, Carter and Arya both realize something.
She had broken the first rule instructed by the warden. She had fallen for an inmate. Which meant she couldn't stay.
He had broken the promise he made to himself. He had started to care for her. Which meant he couldn't let her leave.
But it's a little difficult to make that happen when you're stuck in a closet sized cell. And waiting twenty-one years is out of the question.
*****
Highest Rankings: #6 in Romance, #2 in Passion, #4 in Badboy, #1 in Witty
(for those who don't think an inmate/prison trope is their cup of tea, don't be put off because the story is first and foremost 'romance')
Disclaimer**
Reader discretion advised. - Mature content
Story contains explicit language, sexual content, and physical and sexual violence.