Viktoria Vea is a very exotic-looking and highly intelligent woman with a disastrous life. Through severe mental health issues, substance abuse issues, and low self-esteem perception, she battles her demons while being involved in a murder investigation. The death of a local socialite has devastated her community. Unfortunately for her, she is involved in the case along with her friends and her crush Alexei, who wants nothing to do with her. In addition to being tormented and harassed by a stalker, she is emotionally unstable. Through tumultuous problems at work, a very bad relationship with her wealthy father, and a criminal past, her life continues to spiral out of control. Her morbid curiosity often brings her to her mother's funeral home, surrounding her with even more death. She is trying to escape the paralyzing abyss of her life, and little does Viktoria know, this is just the beginning.1

Book I of the Moving Pieces series chronicles the quarter-life-crisis of a dejected writer wanting to become whole in a world full of broken people. After a long, frustrating bout with the depression that surfaced after recovery, a despondent former drug addict goes on a road trip with a friend to put the pieces of a shattered identity together and begin the process of healing. The exposure to new experiences, people and places, is the final attempt to inject life back into a numbing existence. The week-long endeavor, up and then down the California coast proves to be a harsh and demanding challenge on the road to self-healing. A profound and thought provoking series, Moving Pieces is about the journey of self-discovery and the people you find on the way to finding yourself.

Reflections is a collection of poetry that shares the author's interests as well as reflecions on the world of life, Love, friendships and relationships. Author, Daron Kenneth's poetry truly gives the reader a visionary view of some of lfe's richest and most memorable moments as seen through the eyes of this talented writer. Thought provoking and inspiring, this book will keep you reading from cover to cover.

A lawyer on the brink of ruin, a paranoid director, a dead movie star, and a picture no one will ever see. It is 1952 and showbusiness lawyer Robert L Harvey is on the brink of financial ruin. The Hollywood witch-hunt is putting him out of business. That is, until, he receives a call from movie director, and constant paranoid, Michael Bloom. The big shot has misplaced the film reels of his latest project, the star of which has recently died. Harvey thinks it's a job for the police but the director is adamant he doesn't want his employer, Mayor Studios, to know their investment is lost. Desperate for the money Harvey agrees, but when he delves into a side of the movie industry he's never seen before his priorities have to change.

At the world's most state-of-the-art zoo, director Roeby Marner proudly oversees an extensive captive breeding program, until things begin to go tragically wrong. Roeby must quickly find out what, or who, is threatening the pregnancies of the endangered mothers, before more animals are sacrificed and his life's work falls to ruin. Adventure Kingdom is a different sort of mystery, set in the exotic environs of an ultramodern zoo. As Roeby and staff track forensic leads, he must also deal with the significant daily responsibilities of running a mega-zoo, as well as a personal life in turmoil. The action is generously laced with fact-based descriptions of the critical challenges to Earth's most unique inhabitants.

A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy - its purpose, place, utility, and value. This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy or strategic planning. The outcome of battles and campaigns are variables within the strategist's plan, but victory is a concept that has no meaning there. To the tactical and operational planner, wars are indeed won and lost, and the difference is plain. Success is measurable; failure is obvious. In contrast, the pure strategist understands that war is but one aspect of social and political competition, an ongoing interaction that has no finality. Strategy therefore connects the conduct of war with the intent of politics. It shapes and guides military means in anticipation of a panoply of possible coming events. In the process, strategy changes the context within which events will happen. In this new book we see clearly that the goal of strategy is not to culminate events, to establish finality in the discourse between states, but to continue them; to influence state discourse in such a way that it will go forward on favorable terms. For continue it will. This book will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking across the field and strategic studies.

Michael Madigan is no ordinary citizen. As an employed husband, father and homeowner, he lives an orthodox life in mid-90s London...but his mind is faltering and his life is about to alter...dramatically. Unable to contend with a personal upheaval, his troubled mind relinquishes its tenuous grip on reality and his world plunges into a maelstrom of turmoil. Fuelled by alcohol, he ventures on a self-destructive journey littered with gruesome memories and disturbing flashbacks, tragic brutality, darkly comic episodes and gut-wrenching emotion. Can he escape his demons and the impending abyss? How will the characters he encounters affect his behaviour? Will he reconstruct his life? Or continue to plummet? A shocking revelation, coupled with a distinct realization, determine his path...