Category: In the Spotlight

Waiting for the Night Song

When a long-buried body is unearthed in her hometown, a forestry researcher returns home to face her past and decide what she is willing to risk to protect the people and the forest she loves. A story about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed. Waiting for the Night Song is a love song to the natural beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the truth will always rise. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Restaurant Strong: First Principles of Restaurant Outperformance and How to Make Them Yours

What if you could learn simple ways to create far greater outcomes in the restaurant business? What if, like most of us, you missed the class on how to achieve extraordinary restaurant success? And, what if the world’s leading restaurant brands all followed the same powerful rules of outsized growth and you could learn through very human case studies how those rules can be used by you? Restaurant Strong is the culmination of a decade of research into over 100 of the world’s leading ... [Read More...]

Little Pieces of Me

Following her acclaimed debut novel, You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer offers a deeply moving story of family and identity. When a DNA test reveals a long-buried secret, a woman must look to the past to understand her mother and herself. When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. But as she digs deeper into her mother’s past and her own feelings of being the odd child out growing up, Pai... [Read More...]

Trial, Error, and Success: 10 Insights into Realistic Knowledge, Thinking, and Emotional Intelligence

We make wrong decisions by “fast thinking,” to use Daniel Kahneman’s terminology from his book “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” It happens when we rely on what we know rather well and fit it like a square peg in a round hole. “Trial, Error, and Success” shows how “slow thinking” comes naturally for skeptical minds. A focus on differences between knowledge from the past and reality is all it takes to avoid overgeneralization traps. Using real-life examples, this engaging read shows h... [Read More...]

Bourbon Bold

She’s got a bucket list, and I’m hoping I’m on it. Relationships should be short and sweet, or so I thought until I meet a woman who shows me what an idiot I’ve been. An enchanting mix of innocence and sensuality, she’s part surgeon, part daredevil. She wants my help with her bucket list, a list filled with adventure and a hint of danger. The only thrills I’m seeking are in her bed, but once I find out how hot this filly runs, I know I can’t walk away. We agreed our fling would la... [Read More...]

Not So Filthy: A Bad Boy Romance

His reputation as a hot grumpy boss did nothing to affect his love life. He was a ruthless womanizer with a string of one-night stands behind him. And that was how he intended to stay until the tempting, stunning brunette with curves to die for crashed into his life. Leo: Why of all my one-night stands is she the one I can’t seem to forget? Juliet, the beautiful brunette who whisked into my life and back out of it just as quickly, is still on my mind even months later, so for her to y wal... [Read More...]

Surprising Windfall: Feel Good Beach Read – A Surprising Beach Romance (Sleepy Cove Book 1)

Despite growing up in foster care, and having a critical injury that stole her sense of beauty, the universe has given her amazing best friends, and one windfall of an opportunity she didn’t see coming… “The unexpected outcome for an un-expectant heart!” But should she put her trust in a stranger? – A feel-good must-read…$0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Mystery Man Secret

No sane woman would ever deny herself the treat of going to bed with Brett Hughes. But if there is anything I’m well known for…it’s doing the unexpected. He’s mouth-watering and irresistible. A talented, well-known lawyer who knows how to get exactly what he wants. The perfect recipe for any woman’s ideal man. Except me, apparently. For one, I’m a virgin. I may have everyone convinced I’m some wild, promiscuous party girl, But the truth is, I’ve never gone all the way before. We... [Read More...]

The Jaguar in the Mirror

No one said becoming a shadow-hunter would be easy. The shadows allure and torment me, and I am the only one that sees them. For the longest time I thought I was crazy and it drove me to dark places. I just didn’t care. As I was trying to get my spiraling life together, the line between who I am and the shadows that surround me, got completely blurred. On my path to becoming a military asset, the shadows start to take physical form. That’s when I realize I have got to get a grip and tak... [Read More...]