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What makes a person a trusted friend or lover?How does it feel when you have that status? It takes years to earn and seconds to destroy.Dive into these selected short stories, exploring romance, friendship, and the rocky roads. Trust isa key element in any successful relationship.Explore the bonds of trust and love. The journey determines the destination for these friends and lovers.Enjoy the stories.

Our digital world tracks everything. But smugglers are still winning!A former U.S. military lieutenant works for ePETRO to support business interests. · Is he working both ends against the middle?Mike and Marge control ePETRO, a global oil broker with operations in London and New York. · They each have a side hustle hidden from one another. · Marge intends to smuggle products to sanctioned countries.· Mike plays a dangerous game while building a retirement nest egg.An unexpected audit of ePETRO disrupts plans. Steven Christopher, trusted by Marge and Mike, creatively transfers information off the grid, not on the books. Christopher knows more than he should about merchandise movements and payments. · But how did he get into this plum position?Government officials requested Juan and Julie Rodreguiz to deploy the members of the CATS team across the globe. They find data sharing from Analog Information Mules. Their only clue is a Dragon pendant. The team reveals terrifying threats on their journey to find justice across four continents and twelve cities. Two CATS team operatives vanish. Everyone fears the worst. · Are they alive? · Where are they?· Can CATS unravel the analog network and its mules before it's too late.Lives are at stake. Minimal options remain. What readers are saying -"The visual story that their carefully constructed words paint is thorough and clear, I can see Julie, Stephen, Jamie, and the others clearly in my head...I dare say there was one point when I could not believe where they took the story - OMG, I wanted to cry...""In many ways, the technology is almost there and probably will be within a decade. The technology presented in The Enigma Dragon may be fictional, but not by much, and gives a hint to what the public could face.""Any lover of thrillers or techno-thrillers will enjoy this book a lot. Even science fiction fans, who lean into thrillers, can find something here."

Unexpected plunging commodity pricing freezes demand.Global companies rely on rational supply and demand economics, or they fail. Someone is manipulating the numbers and hellbent to drive the world into a new dark age.An unknown organization is poisoning commodities futures worldwide, distorting oil, coal, and copper supplies. World markets are in free fall, and National economies are wobbling. Darknet fiends are suspected.The R-Group's technological geniuses must locate the culprits to avoid international panic. Jacob, Petra, Quip, EZ, and others use their expertise to peel back the layers of this threat.Time is running outLeads become dead endsKnown suspects are eliminated all too quicklyThe team is running out of options. Who is the technology genius marshaling this enormous computing power? The location is elusive. The why could be kidnapping, romance, regret, or an unforgiven vendetta.The Enigma Broker is a thought-provoking cautionary tale for our technology-obsessed society, packed with thrills and intrigue.

The clock is ticking ... can Gracie uncover the truth?Phillip Pliant is the wealthy opportunist plastics dealer, and CEO of Pliant Industries. He's also a master thief-creating a pervasive threat to the manufacturing infrastructure in the Caribbean islands markets. With the cartel as his stealth client, the naïve city leaders have been seduced, enabling the production of more than 3-dimentional building materials. And set the stage for massive chaos and destruction. Pliant has locked up contracts, assets, and control of any future expansion. His contacts and clients salivate over their probable financial reward-the expected profits are monstrous. Is the R-Group, now led by Gracie and the family heirs, strong enough to win against this predator? Can JJ's CATS (Cyber Assassin Technology Services) act on the root-cause analysis in time?Will the R-Group and CATS sabotage Pliant's plan before it's too late?Can Jeff and Keith use their covert skills to put the bad guys away for good?Will Gracie be able to squash Pliant and the cartels?Can the chain of islands survive the underhanded tactics and threats? Gracie never considered their lives would hang in the balance between winning and losing. Will the devious plot be uncovered in time? The clock is ticking. Five ... four ... three ...

The race is on to finish decoding the secret to a longer human life.Xavier Pekoni, a rich malicious scientist, created a Fountain of Youth project. He's using a supercomputer to unravel the last DNA mapping details to extend life ten-fold.Xavier hires support to locate the right human test subjects for his experiments. These subjects must live long enough to prove his theories. Are they willing volunteers? Will they live?Government agencies hire the R-Group to locate Pekoni because they suspect unethical practices. They need the scientist stopped no matter what!Emotional demons' impact two members of the R-Group. Will they deliver the technical code and break the encrypted files before anyone else dies?Can ICABOD work with the feisty EZ and Quip to determine the location of the experiments? When Su Lin gets captured the R-Group discovers she is key to Pekoni's illegal research.To what extent are the hidden parts of Pekoni's agenda more deadly than anyone realizes? How will anyone know if they have gone too far?Can the R-Group penetrate the laboratory and rescue the test subject before the sand in the hourglass run out?What readers are saying -"I really loved the balance in this book between action and romance, and loved all of the travel, technology, espionage, and mystery.""The twists, turns, drama, adventure, tragedies and plot formation in the book are worth your time.""The Enigma Always brings about an action filled ride that hooks the reader until the end"

Gamification taken in a chilling directionThe elite Cyber Assassin Technology Services (CATS) team is comprised of experts who combat cyber warfare at ground zero. Their primary directives-· Find root causes of cyber-attacks aimed at businesses and governments.· Identify the cyber thugs who think they are untraceable.· Stop digital extortion with advanced cyber security.· Protect the innocent citizens of the region where they are allocated.The CATS expertise includes military black ops, covert operations, multi-lingual, and governmental undercover backgrounds. They react real-time to assignments to gather data, follow the leads, and disrupt any success for their targets. George, Ty, Ernesto, Mercedes, Summit, and Brayson-fan out across the globe to investigate these strikingly similar attacks. Their advice to focus on the long-term success rather than pay ransom demands appears to fall on deaf ears. Is it cheaper to pay the ransom or more convenient?The trail leads to a pair of rivals who make a game of exporting misery uses their state-owned supercomputers. These gaming monsters believe they can't be caught or stopped. Julie and Juan guide their CATS resources to stop the spread of ransomware in every corner of the real and virtual worlds. The points are mounting for the ultimate prize. Who will succeed and who will fail?What readers are saying -"Cyber warfare is ingeniously crafted to give readers insights into what cybercrime looks like. The tension builds pretty fast and readers follow a team that has so much to deal with.""It's truly terrifying just how plausible the attacks are and the devastation that can be wreaked from a distance using modern technology.""What I liked: Every time I read one of their books, I come away knowing how vulnerable we are with all our technical advancements."

JJ and Jo find the ideal spot to get away from their busy work lives-Magnolia Bluff offers Flower Bed & Breakfast, a quaint country destination within the beautiful Texas Hill Country.They pull up to the picturesque building only to discover a crowd of citizens anxiously awaiting a special podcast, created by a group of local women, to start. Flower B&B is the sponsor of today's show in this multi-day series. The couple works through the human log jam. As they check in, they learn that a cyber-attack may prevent the show from airing.JJ, a technology guru, is convinced by Jo to help the group meet their broadcast promise. While he's working on the issue, Jo spots a girl in the crowd with fear in her eyes who flashes the international help sign. The teenager vanishes into the throng. Fearful young people signaling for help strikes too close to home for Jo.Their romantic vacation becomes a journey from one crisis to the next as these vacationers help the evangelizing ladies even as risks are multiplying. Threats expand to include all the podcasters, the show location owners, and suspected missing teens.Authorities discount the gossipy group's allegations that Mateo Hernandez built a wall around his property for more than privacy. JJ and Jo work to assemble the necessary clues to convince Chief Jager that Hernandez is a bigger menace. Their nosing around places them both in harm's way. When Jo is attacked it becomes personal.This romantic getaway isn't even close to plan. Lives are at stake, and the young couple won't accept failure.

Beneath the storm clouds of a deadly war, three men are poised to unlock the secrets to redeem the world. The setting is Poland 1939, Germans are marching toward Warsaw running their armor, and devastating swarms of armed soldiers, along with their cavalry. Fighting against the Nazi military machine is a death wish realized all too clearly.  The path of the invaders is paved with death, destructions, pillage, and woman brutalized at the hands of soldiers with no honor. As much as the citizens of Poland pray for a different outcome, everything they have known, loved, and grown up with is devastated. Three young men are tasked with finding and extracting the German military communications device, Baby, that is kept under heavy guard. Polish patriots die to aid the three in getting the information and then fleeing with the prize. The race is on as the Germans try to match wits with the clever compatriots who risk detection at every turn. The Ambassador Ferdek Watcowski, insists that his son Ferdek along with Wolfgang and Tavius, take their families and flee while there is still time to reach a border. The goal of their journey is to escape with Baby intact. Poland''s military is so outclassed by Hitler''s forces that survival is key to fighting another day. Facing great peril and odds against their survival, the men resolve to make a difference so that those who died helping them would not have sacrificed in vain. They vow to undertake a lifetime of fighting tyranny. Successful survivors must look ahead.

Jacob Michaels, computer network security-tester extraordinaire, tries to settle into a quiet life of work to polish his technology skills after the death of his mother. Cyber-criminals are hunting for new victims when they target the brilliant programmer to try to seduce into joining their cause. More people are hunting him than just the Russian cyber kingpin. As Jacob sets off to find those who target him, he discovers other technologists' views which puts him in direct contact with previously unknown global experts.Buzz, when looking for the easy way inadvertently crosses the line to the dark side then begs his best friend Jacob for help. Jacob, brilliant as he is may not have enough experience to win this on his own. Of course, having your identity erased makes helping anybody else secondary to your problems. Jacob battles against global cyber masterminds using his knowledge of programming, identity theft, and hacking, but learns more about security and encryption when he connects with the distractingly beautiful encryptionist Petra.Jacob's challenge is how to keep ahead of the criminals and identify who to trust.In their debut TechnoThriller, The Enigma Factor, award-winning authors Breakfield and Burkey weave a complex tale of danger, intrigue, and international cyber combat. They use a relevant technology foundation, then layer on travel, romance, humor and mystery Like rust, the cat and mouse game of the new cyber warfare age never sleeps. What readers are sayingKirkus - A complex thriller with a hacker-centric plot and polished technological descriptions that may attract new fans. "Move over David Baldacci, Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, and Clive Cussler. Burkey and Breakfield have created a storyline for the new millennium." "Even if you're not that computer savvy, you will really like this series! I listened to book 1 on Audible. Kept me guessing and makes me even more nervous about cybersecurity for my devices!?" "The authors have so much authentic knowledge that you can't help but want this series to keep on going!"