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Accidentally All Of Me Book 1 by Ali Parker

I’m raising someone else’s kid.

My sister’s daughter, and where I thought I’d never make it as a single father bachelor, I was wrong.

This little girl has my heart. And only her.

Until a stray dog happens upon my place and we’re forced to call a vet.

And a beautiful woman showed up.

I didn’t believe in fate.

But it seems to believe in me.

The beautiful woman who helped us out with the dog shows up again later on a blind date across the table from me.

And I’m sold out for her before I realize what’s happening.

Pulling back is my only hope for survival.

After losing my sister, I’m far more protective of me and her little one.

But it’s a losing battle. No way I’m going anywhere, until I’m forced to.

It would seem I have a kid of my own in the world.

Maybe this is the breaking point where I can walk away from the all-consuming passion of my new romance.

Because I’m good with giving my time, my body, and all of my money.

But to her?

I’ve accidentally given all of me.

This is book 1 in a 3 part series. You will have to read books 2 and 3 to complete the story.

The Tenth Muse: A Novel by Catherine Chung

An exhilarating novel about a trailblazing mathematician who unearths her own extraordinary family story and its roots in World War II
The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent–and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank God, because that would have been the beginning of the end.

From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But in becoming a mathematician, she must face the most human of problems–who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition?

On her quest to conquer the Riemann Hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that holds both the lock and key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during World War II in Germany. Forced to confront some of the most consequential events of the twentieth century and rethink everything she knows of herself, she strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics and finds kinship in the stories of the women who came before her–their love of the language of numbers connecting them across generations.

In The Tenth Muse, Catherine Chung offers a gorgeous, sweeping tale about legacy, identity, and the beautiful ways the mind can make us free.

Escape Velocity (The Quantum War Book 1) by Jonathan Paul Isaacs

A remote colony. A mysterious threat. One man is all that stands between destruction and salvation.

In 2271, space is anything but empty. Exoplanet settlements drive a constant demand for new colonists and unending trade. But the dangers of interstellar expansion are many.

With responsibility for everything from pirates to broken spacecraft, Lieutenant Wyatt Wills doesn’t understand his latest orders: perform a covert reconnaissance mission to Juliet, home to twenty million people and humanity’s largest presence beyond Earth. 

All contact has been lost from the other side of the quantum gate. And what few rumors make it through smack of government conspiracies and an uncontrolled pandemic. Some even mention an alien invasion.

It will be up to Wyatt and a hastily-assembled team of replacements to go to Juliet and uncover the truth.

Once there, they may not make it back alive.

If you like James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series, you won’t be able to put down this fast-paced adventure in a gritty, fully-realized future.

Wall of Fireby Melanie Tays

Across the Wall of Fire lies salvation, if it doesn’t destroy her first–

Sheltered inside an electromagnetic dome city, Emery believes she’s safe from the worst dangers the world has to offer. But when her beloved brother falls victim to a strange and deadly disease, she risks everything to save him, illegally crossing the Wall of Fire that divides their city in search of the medicine that will save his life.

Soon she meets Eason, a boy she’s secretly loved forever and never dreamed she’d see again. Suddenly, everything she thought she knew is thrown into question, and trusting the wrong person could mean the difference between life and death–not only for her brother, but for everyone Emery has ever known.

Could the one thing that was meant to protect her actually be her biggest threat?

If you like Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games, Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Lauren Oliver’s Delirium, or Kierra Cass’s The Selection you’ll love Wall of Fire.

Wall of Fire is the first book in the young adult, post-apocalyptic, dystopian Wall of Fire Series.

ALL THE GOOD GIRLS (Harry Hunter Mystery Book 1)by Willow Rose

This novel is the first book in Willow Rose’s electrifying new Harry Hunter series.

Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.

Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime.

Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.

Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.

ALL THE GOOD GIRLS is the first book in the Harry Hunter Mystery Series.

Leaders Under Fire: The CEO’s Survival Guide to Navigating Corporate Crisis by Conway Fraser

A major investor is on line one, CNN is on line two, and social media is exploding in anger. When you’re a ‘Leader Under Fire,’ the next few moments can be an incredible opportunity… or they can destroy your career.

In the past, companies prepared for crisis with expensive, static crisis communications plans. The pace was slower. You had time to process and plan a response with your senior team and lawyers. But those old-school plans don’t work anymore. Many companies these days have no plan whatsoever and are simply sitting ducks.

Today, managing a PR crisis is ALL about speed. With 24-hour news cycles and social media mobs, if you’re not controlling your message by lunchtime, you could be convicted in the court of public opinion before dinner. Speed kills careers.

‘Leaders Under Fire’ is for anyone who values their reputation, and understands how fragile it is today. Leaders who have spent decades building reputations have seen them destroyed in minutes. We’ll help you avoid those traps.

This executive-length book uses real-life examples to illustrate what works – and what doesn’t – in managing a crisis. We’ll also introduce you to two fictional CEO’s who handle their crisis in very different ways. You can follow their story throughout the book as they learn some lessons the hard way – so you don’t have to.

Half-Born (Half-Blood Chronicles #1)by Ivy Baum

She never wanted magic. But to survive, she’s going to need it.

Kes Adler had the perfect life–until her father disappeared. Now she’s a pariah at school and strange visions make her question her sanity. Life can’t get any worse, right?

Wrong.

The night she accepts a ride home from the mysterious Sol Kyrion, she learns there’s another world out there. A world of magic–and danger.

Marked for Death…

The good news is that Kes isn’t crazy. She’s descended from an ancient, powerful race…and her magic is finally waking up.

But as a half-blood, Kes is marked for death. Her pureblood relatives know she’s out there, and they’ll stop at nothing to hunt her down.

Now she’s on the run with Sol–a half-blood who’s sarcastic, infuriating, and determined to save her life. But the magical world is changing, and pureblood hunters aren’t the only danger out there.

Soon there will be no place on earth that’s safe for half-bloods…