Orphan Moon, the debut novel by T. K. Lukas, is a historical fiction narrative about a young woman in 1860’s Texas who must undertake a grueling physical and emotional journey and face countless dangers at the risk of losing everything she holds dear. It is a heart-wrenching saga of family love, loss, and betrayal.

Both a gripping adventure and a timeless love story, it gallops across the bleeding edge of the western frontier.

A Doctor in the County Jail

Dr. William Wright gave up a suburban practice as an ear surgeon to become the doctor at Colorado’s maximum-security prison. After that, running a medical clinic at the county jail should be a snap, right? Oh, brother…

Hoards of desperate people fresh from the streets, homeless addicts, illegal aliens, and gangbangers all ruled by a corrupt sheriff and his concubine sidekick made the supermax look almost pastoral.

Peek behind the bars at the operations of a city jail and the daily battles to deliver medical care to a population on the edge.

Your Complete Guide to Understanding Zodiac Signs: How to Become More Successful, to Improve Your Love Life and Become Happier

Have you often wondered about your astrological or zodiac sign, and maybe what it was all about?

Do you wonder if you could ever understand your love, happiness, and success just by looking at the alignment of the planets and the stars of the time that you were born?

The zodiac signs are a part of astrology, a science that studies the alignment of the stars and the planets. It uses complex mathematical formulas in order to determine someone’s astrological sign, and these signs point to our strengths, weaknesses, and how we can be happy in our lives. It tells us so much about ourselves, and you can find the basics of that information in this book!
I’ve put together all of the astrological signs along with their personality profiles, as well as a few tidbits of information to get you on the right path to happiness.

So if you’re interested in learning a little more about yourself and perhaps about someone you’re interested in dating, take a look at this book!

A Jarvis Mann Detective Short Story

Jarvis Mann was a Private Detective, whose business thrived on the mundane, paying the bills following cheating spouses, getting in the middle of messy divorces and working for the Fat Cat Insurance companies running down false insurance claims. But one day on his office steps a young man coaxing with the simple word “Please” convinces him to help on a Winter’s Sunday afternoon to find a missing valuable Ernie Banks Rookie Bubble Gum Card.

With a dry sense of humor, he drives the Denver streets from door to door, friend to friend, until a clue leads to a surprising discovery, a young man’s personal pain and his friends selfish act, teach Jarvis a life lesson that will shape him with new hope and resolve.

What I learned in combat about leadership, people, and profit

This book was written to give the aspiring, the reluctant, and the information hungry leader a head start in their personal leadership growth.

It is packed with leadership tips & tools that you can start doing immediately after finishing each chapter.

In the more than 35 years I have been in leadership roles, I have had the privilege to work with, and for, some of the greatest leaders you could ever wish to know. I have also worked for some terrible leaders, but luckily for me, there have only been a handful.

There are many leadership styles, which can be boiled down to two distinct categories: the calm and collected and the loud and angry. Both categories have strengths and weaknesses, and both can and do influence their subordinates to act. But without a doubt, the calm, collected leader more often than not prevails over the loud, angry leader.

I have been in some tough leadership situations. I have led soldiers. I have led paid staff. I have led volunteers. As a team, we responded to some of the most challenging disasters of our time. I look back and am immensely proud to say that I led those people.

Leading people is simultaneously simple and straightforward and extraordinarily complex and challenging. As leaders, we are dealing with the base of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the instinctual parts of the human brain that kept our species alive when dinosaurs roamed the earth. At the same time, we are dealing with the complexities of our modern brain—emotions, pride, love, belonging, envy, and more.

Why not put into action what I have learned and make being the boss one of the best experiences like:

Recognition: The leadership skills of the manager may be the most important factor in achieving desired results. And two of the most difficult tasks in dealing with employees are praising and reprimanding.

Motivation: all motivation is self-motivation. Therefore, your job is to help your employees find a cause that compels them to act while achieving the organization’s goals. It is your job, as their manager, to get your people to want to do what needs to be done.

Morale: High morale leads to a more cooperative work force, which in turn leads to higher productivity. Its side effects are fewer grievances, more willingness to accept new ideas, lower turnover, and team spirit. It’s what makes the difference between a team that gets work done and one that really achieves desired results.

Mobilization: Managers get results through the efforts of others. The most basic job of a manager is to help people develop. Do so and you will increase the value of your team and empower them to achieve more for the organization.

Dealing with People: Your success or failure will be a direct result of how well you align your organization’s goals with the career goals of your people and deal with any friction caused by misalignment.

Trust & loyalty: You will never have a fully productive team unless you win the loyalty of your people. A manager cannot persuade, coerce, or force people to be loyal to an organization. Loyalty can only be earned through a fair exchange.

Get Beautiful, Youthful, Acne Free Skin With Natural Remedies

You’re about to discover how to achieve naturally clear acne free skin fast. The best part is that it will cost you next to nothing. All the remedies contain ingredients found in your kitchen this moment. You deserve to be confident and live an acne free life. This book will help you achieve just that.

This book covers:

•Basics of Acne and what may be causing it.
•Bad habits you may be practicing that are contributing to your acne condition
•Simple fast remedies and treatments for active acne
•How to make do-it yourself face masks to turbo charge the healing of your skin.
•How to look after your skin to maintain it clear and youthful for the years to come

Much, much more!

She went looking for a hero. She got tangled up in Blue…

Keegan needs a hero. She’s a straight-A student with a high-profile job on campus. She’s got a lot to prove. But someone’s out to get her. Someone’s got her running scared. And she runs right into the arms of a red-hot boy named Blue.

Deep down, Blue is still the brave soldier who risked his life for others. He’s still a hero, even if he no longer believes it. All he wants now is to make music and bury the secret that could destroy his future. Blue tries hard to be a good guy. But he’s wrestling with demons he can barely control. And when Keegan moves into his house and very quickly into his heart, his control begins to slip away.

Keegan and Blue can’t stay away from each other, can’t stop thinking about each other. They have a connection—body, mind and soul—they cannot resist. But it will cost them dearly. Secrets have a way of exploding into the light, and sometimes heroes can be heartbreakers. Is Blue the love of Keegan’s life, her knight in shining armor? Or will he turn out to be an agonizing mistake?

Tangled Up in Blue is Book One in the New Adult series, Ikana College. Book Two, Shelter from the Storm, continues (and concludes) the epic love story of Keegan and Blue, and introduces other colorful characters with problems and passions of their own.