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Within any bureaucracy the size of that to which the government of the United States had grown there were inevitably those who had been in the same or similar roles for a number of administrations, if not decades. They had been hired or appointed to carry out certain tasks and implement certain policies and, whether intentionally or subliminally, they did their job each day as they had been hired to do it, often oblivious to the changes in policy by subsequent administrations. These men and women made up the shadow government. There were those in the print and broadcast media who reveled in...

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At 17 years old, Courtney Apuzzo is fed up. With a dead mom and an alcoholic father that beats her every chance he gets, Courtney decides that enough is enough. Packing up only what she needs, Courtney leaves home without telling a soul and heads off to find her new life.

In a world where appearances can be deceiving and love is tested at every turn, "Letting Go" presents a heart-stirring romance between two individuals navigating their complex lives. Dr. Kelly Riley, an assistant principal at a local middle school, prides herself on living a life devoted to her work and her son. Her life takes an unexpected turn when the irresistibly charming Grant Whittaker strides into her world. As a former professional football player and current local politician running for office, he's used to the spotlight - but not to women who challenge him like Kelly does. Kelly ...

Sarah Sullivan is forced to live all winter in an isolated mountain cabin with a total stranger. Sarah Sullivan leaves home to marry her fiancé in Fort Laramie, Wyoming, although she has not seen him in a year. In route, the stagecoach is robbed and one of the passengers is killed, leaving a small child, Penny, who becomes Sarah’s responsibility. Seth Jenkins, a trapper living on a mountain, witnesses the robbery and scares the bandits away. He carries the woman and child to his mountain cabin and takes care of them until they’re able to travel. As he prepares to take them down the ...

“Mail-order Brides Wanted in Sunflower, Texas” read the notice on the telegram office wall in Leesville, Texas. Because of the fire in Leesville, Eleanor Eddy finds her substitute teaching job over, her rooming house burned to the ground, and her money stolen. Under no circumstances will Miss Eddy consider traveling to Sunflower, Texas as a mail-order bride. Instead the wagon-train owners hire her to assist with the brides-to-be. Tate Maynard, the son of the owner, soon learns that his new employee is a city gal who can’t do anything right. Everything she touches results in accidents ...

Would winning a cook in a poker game be a good deal for Luke Tyler, a gold mine owner, especially when the cook is a reluctant, beautiful young gal? Luke With the charm of a lazy smile, the dark-haired gold mine owner, joins in a poker game. His opponent is the owner of the saloon-café, who has a daughter that prepares the food for his establishment. Luke Tyler’s gold mining camp is in desperate need of a good cook. His opponent holds a sure hand to win the big pot, but he doesn’t have money to continue. Luke encourages him to put up his daughter as collateral. Confident that he ...

“I don’t believe you. My husband couldn’t have done those things.” As the man puts a knife to her throat, the voices of men returning to the wagon train meet her ears. . . Jazz From the time she arrived in Yellowstone as a new widow, she was doomed to a life of unending toil… until Cole James offers her a job in the town’s mercantile. Unfortunately, her troubles follow her, and Cole’s mother sends her packing, and she ends up back on the streets. Cole Cole James meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. With this lovely, hard-working girl in his store, he can devote more...

Miss Ollie has returned due to popular demand from her readers and beloved followers of the Maxwell Saga. Hope Maxwell, who came to live on the Maxwell ranch when she was only three, pleads with Miss Ollie to tell about her childhood. Miss Ollie sits in her rocking chair on the porch, closes her eyes and tells what she remembers from the beginning. Her story comes alive from the time she is four-years-old with slave’s parents on the Waverly Plantation. A master storyteller, Miss Ollie will grab your attention as she weaves her life stories. Her words will wrap your heart so tight that you...

“You want me to be a mail-order bride to a total stranger?” Abby Mills knew she had to leave her home, but to go and live with a total stranger—for life? Sheltered for eighteen years, Abby makes a promise to her dying mother, the madam of The Red Dog Saloon, to leave the only home she had ever known. The saloon wasn’t a safe place for a beautiful young girl to live without the protection of her mother. With the help of an old friend of her mama’s, Abby finds herself having to make a crucial decision about her future. The offer of a new home with wide-open spaces, fresh air and ...

“Turn to the right, Cameron,” Tim said, changing the angle of the camera as I moved. “Flip your hair, cover your face, lovely.” Obediently, I complied, making sure my long, thick hair acted as a curtain, protecting my identity. “Now, I want you to just move. You know how you do.” I closed my eyes and focused on being sexy, wanton, and out of control. Without further thought, my body moved sinuously as images of me on stage dancing before a limited audience of faceless men released my inner diva. The dark brown boy shorts I wore rose deliciously high on my hips as I rolled them ...

Sean Patrick O'Connell was the son of Donald and Mary Pat O'Connell. His was a middle-class upbringing in a middle-class neighborhood. Though he went off to college after high school graduation his performance was less than stellar. When he left college he volunteered to serve during the Vietnam War. His was an exemplary, though short, military career. At the war?s end he returned to school and did well. In his senior year he submitted a Fulbright Scholarship proposal which was approved. What distressed his family, classmates, school and the Fulbright committee was that his studies would ...

On June 23rd, 2016, the United Kingdom conducted a referendum to determine the will of its people to remain in the European Union or to withdraw from it. The results were 16,141,241, or 48.11%, to remain, and 17,410,072, or 51.89% to exit. The following day Prime Minister David Cameron, who supported the “Remainers” in spite of his membership in the Conservative Party which supported the “Brexiters”, announced his intention to resign. On July 13th, Theresa May, another Conservative, became Prime Minister. On March 29th, 2017, Prime Minister May triggered Article 50 which began the ...

Since 1979, the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has had offices in Chinatown in New York City and elsewhere across the United States. Its purported purpose is to assist American residents of Chinese ancestry deal with such mundane issues as obtaining driver’s licenses and filling out work papers. But its more significant purpose is the suppression of anti-Chinese Communist activities. It works in collaboration with the CCP in recruiting those of Chinese ancestry such as graduate students working in classified American military projects. They are ...

Ever since 1993 when President Bill Clinton first spent his Summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been fascinated by the United States' willingness to have such a concentration of the nation's power elite, both governmental and otherwise, concentrated on this one-hundred square mile island in the Atlantic Ocean. It created such a perfect target for terrorists wanting to destabilize both the Administration and the nation as a whole. By August of 2015 al-Baghdadi was the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, more colloquially known as ISIS. Seeking political ...

Pope Francis was elected in 2013. As the first Jesuit pope, Francis brought to the papacy the agenda of social justice observed in Jesuit works across the globe. Pope Francis inherited scandals from the reassignment of pedophile priests in Boston to the abuse and neglect of unwed mothers, children and orphans at the Church-run Magdalene laundries in Ireland. But the one institution which no pope had ever been able to reign in was the Vatican Bank. Today Pope Francis is revered as an enlightened patriarch with an interest in climate change. When American company Solyndra, marketing "green" ...

Freemasonry, the world's oldest and largest Fraternity, is based upon the tenets of Friendship, Morality and Brotherly Love. These principles are taught through lectures and morality plays. Most members of the Fraternity incorporate these principles into their own personal value system. But, for some, it can become an obsession. For one such Brother these tenets became a driving, rather than guiding, force. For one such Brother, this obsession played itself out in a shocking and deadly way. Thus, it became the task of Detective Sean O'Hanlon to discern the difference between real life and ...

Thomas Moore and John Anderson were Masonic brothers of Georgetown Lodge in Washington, DC during the period leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Commander Moore worked in naval intelligence at the National Photographic Interpretation Center at the Washington Navy Yard. His responsibilities included the analysis of reconnaissance photography taken by U-2 spy planes overflying Cuba 90 miles off the Florida coast. John Anderson was a translator on the staff of the Soviet Embassy in Washington blocks north of the White House. His responsibility was to turn the ideologically ...

For the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, more commonly known as ISIS, the two week period from October 31st through November 13th, 2015, had been extraordinarily successful from a public relations point of view. It had both made an explicit ideological statement and would serve as a recruiting tool for faithful Muslims around the world. Not only had 396 people lost their lives in terrorist attacks, but those attacks had taken place both in the Middle East and in Western Europe. The message those attacks sent was unmistakable. We know who our enemies are, we can find them, and we can kill ...

The story begins in 1860 on a sheep farm in the foothills outside of Aberdeen, Scotland, with the birth of Angus, a new generation of the MacLeish clan. Thirty-five years later, the next generation would awaken in a small farm shack at the base of Castlerock Mountain in northern Vermont. The only child of his generation, Timothy had two sons, Ian and Allyn, who served with valor in the 10th Mountain Division during World War II, received graduate degrees from Ivy League colleges, and returned to the family farmstead. But one returned with a view to improving practices of farming; the other,...