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Follow military veterans Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson as they confront a dark conspiracy in a remote college town (The Innocent), hunt down a cult group snatching young women from the streets of Los Angeles (Fire Point), broker a kidnap exchange in Budapest (Budapest/48), and help a desperate father save his only child from an abusive school for teens (The Edge of Alone).

Three action-packed novels from an author who “writes with the pace of Lee Child and the heart of Harlan Coben” (New York Times best-selling author Joseph Finder). Join ex-military bodyguard Ryan Lock as he thwarts his enemies and tackles impossibly dangerous missions!

In entering upon this course of instruction, each of you should, so far as possible, lay aside, for the time being, all previous theories and beliefs. By so doing you will be saved the trouble of trying, all the way through the course, to put "new wine into old wineskins."

The sixth novel in the Ryan Lock series. Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson are in Los Angeles and on the trail of an unlikely cult who are planning on taking their message to the world in the most devastating fashion imaginable.

When the daughter of a Chinese billionaire is kidnapped from her mansion in Arcadia, California, Ryan and Ty find themselves caught in the middle of a vicious standoff. Emily Yan is a Chinese "parachute kid", one of thousands of children sent to study in America by their ultra-wealthy parents. Living in a multi-million dollar mansion in Arcadia, California with her hard-partying cousin Charlie, it's not long before their ostentatious displays of wealth attract the wrong sort of attention in the form of some MS-13 gang members.

George is a middle-management, middle-class, middle-aged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crises, but George gets dragged into awkward conversations about love, fear, music, and the meaning of life with a quirky philosophical physics professor, who also asks George to beta-test an app he wrote. When tragedy strikes, George learns that Shiloh’s app lets him journey through alternate versions of his past.

When college basketball coach Malik Shaw goes missing after a family tragedy, it looks like just another retired athlete gone off the rails. But Malik's childhood friend, private security specialist Ty Johnson, quickly begins to suspect that there is more to it. Chasing the truth, Ty and his business partner, Ryan Lock, begin to uncover a sinister conspiracy of silence in a sleepy Minnesota college town.

Knowledge is power, but the knowledge of God's presence within and around you is the ultimate power. God's original intent was to have a personal relationship with us, not a religion. That is why Jesus told us in the Book of Luke that "the kingdom of God is within you". If the kingdom of God is within me, then I should be looking within to find the presence of God. This audiobook provides a "spiritual" understanding of the Bible that relates directly to you! It also provides a simple, step-by-step explanation that helps you understand your direct God-connectedness.

Fight for Your Marriage - this audiobook is to inspire those who are married, those who have been married and want to get it right the second time around, and for those who are considering getting married in the future. Marriage is a great thing when you have two people with two different backgrounds, two different mindsets, two different attitudes, and two different upbringings who can come together and become one and build a wonderful union. God ordains marriage, and he intended for you and your spouse to enjoy it with all the benefits.

Did you know you're always missing out on half of the conversation? Scientists have proven that words only make up seven percent of face-to-face communication. The tone of your voice, the speed and rhythm of your speech, and the pauses you make between words account for 38 percent. Fifty-five percent of face-to-face communication is body language. If you're not paying close attention to body language, you're literally ignoring more than half of all the information that's being exchanged between you and the person you're talking to.

Retired US Marine Ty Johnson is hired as the bodyguard for a young reporter investigating the brutal, decades-old murder of a young African American woman in the Florida Everglades. The town where the murder took place is idyllic, and the people welcoming, but something sinister lies beneath the surface. It's not long before the facade begins to crack and Ty finds himself plunged into a living nightmare that will test the very limits of his endurance as he battles to protect the idealistic young journalist.

It sounds like easy money. Fly into Budapest. Handle the exchange in a straightforward kidnap for ransom case. Fly back home. Total time involved: 48 hours. But as private security operators Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson are about to find out, there is no such thing as easy money.

Over the years, former military bodyguard Ryan Lock has made more than his fair share of enemies. It was only a matter of time before one of them came looking for payback. A serial rapist brutally murdered inside California's highest-security prison for women. A frantic gun battle in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. A beautiful, young defense attorney violently abducted from her office. A series of apparently random events that are anything but. Someone is hell bent on revenge, and their target's name is Ryan Lock.

An isolated school for troubled teens. A series of mysterious deaths. A father frantically trying to rescue his daughter before it's too late. But when the law won't listen, who can he turn to? Private security operator Ryan Lock is back in the brand new novel from the master of the modern thriller, Sean Black.

Jessalyn Jeawel has the life she's always dreamed of. She's about to marry Charles Goodwin. Her life is perfect. Then Mother finds out about her upcoming wedding. After receiving a phone call from Mother, Jessalyn starts having nightmares that dredge up a past she had forgotten. A past she would prefer stayed dead, lost and gone forever. She dreads telling Charles, fearing he will leave her. She seeks help from a psychologist with an excellent record of successful treatments for his patients. But is there a psycho in the psychologist?

Sunshine Blake has loved everything Southern since she studied the South in her high school history class. She worked and saved for years to go on her dream vacation in Georgia. Sometimes dreams are not all sunshine....

As the cyber-attacks heat up and countries like China, Russia, and North Korea target the United States, its individuals, banking institutions, military, and government agencies become targets on a large scale. A recent ISACA and RSA Conference survey indicated that eight out of 10 board of directors are concerned with security. Eighty two (82) percent of organizations predict a cyber-attack is likely. It will take a giant army to fight off the new generation of cyber attackers.

Deep in my soul I heard the laughter of God ringing in silvery cadences through the timbers of my being, breaking the human bonds and limitation as a strong yet gentle wind in the forest sweeping aside the strands of cobweb. The hard, fast knots that I had tried, slipped loose, and the snarls of beliefs broke free. The river of my human life, frozen by 1,001 false ideas and teachings, broke joyously into expression and went bounding to the infinite sea of Life, to be lost and found at the same time.

Who knows what reverses of fortune result in a person ending up homeless on the street? In the case of William Winslow, embezzling funds from an employer set a string of events in motion that landed him on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida answering to the name of Slim and scrounging through dumpsters for food. Slim's cunning and guile lifted him out of his dire circumstances as he became enmeshed in a web of criminal behavior.