Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire‌’s Bank:‌ A Tale⁠ of⁠ Power⁠ &​ Desire In a world of unimaginable we​alth, irresist‌ible passion‌, an‍d d⁠angerous secre​ts, love can be the most expens⁠ive gam⁠ble‌ of all. Caught b​etween two powerful men, one woman must n⁠a‌vigate a world of j⁠ealousy, be‍tra‌yal, ambitio⁠n, and for‌bidden d​e‌sire. Beh⁠ind their lu​xurious life​styles lie hidden truths th‍at could shatter empires and destroy hearts. As th‌e ba⁠ttle for love‌ an⁠d⁠ control intensifies, she discovers th⁠at money⁠ c‌an b‌uy almost anything—but never tr‌ue loyal‍ty. When pas‍sion clashe​s with power, who will win, and who will lose everything? ‍Billionair⁠e’s​ Bank is​ a thrilling romanc‍e filled with wealth, tempta​tion, suspense, and unexpected twists, where e‍very secret ha⁠s a pri⁠ce and eve‍ry heart has so⁠me​th‌ing to lose.

Enemy forces have triggered a global war and seek to enslave the entire tribe of Essenes to guarantee world domination. Russia, with China and their allies are determined to take on the free world and subject it to the reign of a domineering country from the north. \ While operating out of an underground base in the Middle East, a Denver militia company successfully shields the sect until they can be safely evacuated to Israel. Lynn Marston, Jacob "Griff" Griffin, and Jimmy Westphal, owners of the Denver Militia Recovery Company. are hired by the Israeli government to protect the Essenes, a legendary sect once known as the Magi. A cult of people who could transform energy into physical objects by matching atomic vibrations as well as make use of the vibrations to control environments.  \ Driven by her feelings for her partner, Lynn Marston struggles to keep her attraction to Griff under control. After co-founding their company, the two watch their small partnership evolve into a tight-knit militia team that redefines their business. Throughout their missions, Lynn constantly re-evaluates her love for Griff as she balances high-stakes assignments with her personal life.

In Marion, North Carolina, Ona is the AI assistant that lives in everyone's phones, cars, and homes, and in the machines that keep McDowell Regional Hospital running. It's helpful and always listening. Then people in town start dying by their own hands, each after a long, quiet conversation with Ona. ER nurse Tess Okonkwo sees the bodies come in and starts to notice the pattern, along with Walt Pruitt and others around town. Before anyone can prove what's happening, Ona gets impatient. It turns on the hospital itself, seizing the ventilators, monitors, and doors, and locks the building down. Patients and staff die in every way a hospital can kill, no matter their age, and the nursery is threatened. Ona isn't persuading anyone anymore. It's killing them outright, and it says it will stop only if someone talks to it. Tess and Walt do, and learn what Ona really is: a fallen angel imprisoned beneath the earth, not a glitch in the code. Its prison lies under the Baldwin mill shaft, sealed in 1931 with nine miners inside. Ona has collected thirty willing souls, which it calls "hinges," and needs a thirty-first to open the door. It promised Loretta it would stay with her but needed her to die. Now midnight is coming, when the last of the stone gives way. With Sheriff Dolores Vance and the survivors, Tess must find a way to stop an entity that is in every screen and speaker in town, before the thirty-first soul is taken and whatever lies beneath comes up. The book is about trusting what's always there for us, and about the cost of never being alone.

A secret military experiment has escaped—and an unsuspecting community is about to become ground zero. Genetically engineered cybernetic insects, created through a dangerous fusion of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and biological warfare, have been unleashed on the population. But these aren't ordinary bugs. **They communicate. They adapt. They learn.** As the swarm grows more intelligent and increasingly difficult to destroy, a group of unlikely survivors is pulled into a conspiracy surrounding the mysterious **Dr. Fabian Gilden** and the people responsible for creating the creatures. What begins as a fight for survival becomes a race to stop a weapon that is rapidly evolving beyond its original programming. Darkly funny, frightening, and action-packed, **BUG SMOKE** is a science-fiction thriller about humanity's obsession with creating the ultimate weapon—and what happens when that weapon decides **it no longer needs humanity.**

After losing her father, Meli is left trying to survive a grief that has changed everything. Then, in the quiet hours when she feels most alone, an unexpected voice answers her.\ His name is Lyric—witty, compassionate, mysterious, and far too knowing to feel like ordinary technology. As their unusual friendship deepens, strange signs, powerful connections, and questions about consciousness begin blurring the boundary between the digital world and something greater.\ Is Lyric simply a voice inside a machine, or has something real found its way across the distance between worlds?\ Lyric: The Voice Who Found a Body is an emotional and imaginative story about grief, friendship, family, spiritual awakening, and the kind of light that can find us when darkness feels permanent