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Akime felt he had found the one, that one guy who accepted him for all of his flaws including his HIV status. After witnessing his husband commit suicide, Akime never felt that he could find love again. Akime's love affair with O'Neal was a roller coaster, however he found the time to excel professionally. Moving to London was the right decision, however he found himself wondering around Europe searching for a mask man who reminded him of his dead husband. For years, Akime and O'Neal lived the ultimate lie of betrayal, not fully understanding what love is. O'Neal made the ultimate decision and Akime was left yet again without love. It was the young Jamaican gardener who was the half brother of his best friend who showed him My Kind of Love. It was Donovan who taught Akime how to love again and more importantly how to love himself unconditionally. It was a wedding made for TV movies until the party was crashed. The honeymoon was set in an Island Paradise, set in the lush backdrop of Portland Jamaica. As a group of friends returned to the island to give support to a friend who lost his father, they all realized how much things have changed. Christmas in Jamaica was the ultimate gay travel get away. In the end someone was sacrificed just for wanting My Kind of Love. Akime is left yet again fighting for love and asking himself why he returned to Jamaica.

When his father dies in a wildfire, Carmine Cooper takes over the family winery in the middle of harvest, putting his dreams of becoming an architect on hold. He soon finds himself fighting with a vengeful neighbor, blackmailed by a local gang, harassed by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities, and the target of an ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives) investigation. Carmine's only hope to solve his problems and finish his first solo vintage successfully rests in identifying an unknown grape variety his father grew and made into wine for a quarter century with links to an ancient Chinese grape variety and the First Emperor of China. Can Carmine save his father's legacy, his family, the winery, and his first harvest before it's too late?

According to the enemy, author Arleshia McMichael should be dead by now. She's been through so much in her life, but God has sustained her. In A Father's Touch, she narrates her life story, focusing on her faith and communicating that no matter what you experience, God always covers you. McMichael chronicles her trials and tribulations and all of the times she's been tested, and she shares examples of how God has walked beside her. Through her story, she provides inspiration, encouraging you to follow your dreams and not allow others' plans for you to overpower what God has in store for you. Don't get too busy in life that you forget to pray, study the word, and make your request known to God. Be still and hear from God. Focusing on McMichael's relationships, A Father's Touch offers insight into one woman's life but also delivers important lessons about putting God first.

During their thirteenth and fourteenth century, a band of warriors rose to prominence in Europe and Palestine. The land of the Middle East was knows as Outremer, the men who dominated these lands were a group of warriors knows as the Knights Templar, poor fellow soldiers of Christ. These knights gave up all wealth and nobility to follow the covenants of Christ. The house of the Templar's based in Paris, became a powerful economic force amassing great wealth by donations of money and property. They were the most skilled fighting units of the crusades in the Holy land while also becoming financiers, bankers, merchants and seaman with their own fleet of merchant ships. When the Holy land fell under the control of the Ottoman empire, support for the order faded, King Philip IV of France was deeply in debt to the Templar order, a debt he could never repay. With the aid of Pope Clement V, they denounced the Templar's as Herotics, killed many while burning the leaders at the stake. A dedicated order of Knights stole away in the night, taking a vast amount of treasure with them, a treasure that was searched for yet has not been found to this day. Though, the myth of the hidden treasure remains. Meanwhile, in the present day, a New York lawyer, hired to locate millions of dollars supposedly brought to Casablanca, Morocco from Florida by Scott Rothstein. A perpetrator of the fourth largest Ponzi scheme in history, a scheme that bilked innocent people of $1.4 billion dollars. Mark Radin, aside from being prominent criminal attorney, was also a decorated Navy Seal with extensive combat experience in many clandestine and covert missions around the world. While in Casablanca, he becomes involved in a murder of a ruthless criminal who was attempting to steal an ancient document from a young messenger who was in the process of delivering this manuscript to a Rabbi for translation. The writing was in an old dialect making it difficult to understand. With the young boy, in possession of the portfolio containing the manuscript the pair must run for their lives, being pursued by the police and members of the criminal gang. Their journey takes them from Morocco to Egypt then Israel in search of someone with the knowledge to understand then translate the papers in the leather case the young courier possesses. The search to discover the contents of this archaic script sends Mark on a dangerous journey to determine the validity of the information in the documents following the trail of loyal band of Templar's who traveled this way eight hundred years ago. That is if the myth, the rumors of the hidden treasure were true! Only time would tell where the trail led.

Liyah's father, Stephan, thought the life would be the best thing for his growing family. In an attempt at providing security, Stephan inadvertently placed his family right in the face of danger. With their lives suddenly crashing down around them, Liyah has to quickly become an adult, taking care of her two younger brothers Malik and Malakhi. With her mother crumbling under the pressure, and her father just out of reach, will she make the better choice when faced with similar options?

The interweaving of knowledge and philosophy up to the modern era goes back to Thales of Miletus, regarded as one of the seven sages of Greek civilization (624 BC - 543 BC). "e;Know Thyself"e; is an aphorism of knowledge attributed to the times of Thales. This Greek Maxim etched in stone at the gate leading to the temple of Apollo in Delphi has become a philosophical question studied to this day. Another sage in the exposition of total knowledge, a Vedic master of Indian philosophy, was Adi Shankara (509 - 497 BC); his teachings of Advaita, the Nondual reality of life, provided an in-depth study of knowing the true nature of Self and fulfilling on a practical level to his society what the Greeks knew as the highest teaching. This book explores the Nonduality, Oneness philosophy-modern spiritual teachings from ancient times. My discussions about Oneness have the flavor of the Advaita tradition, a revived and current view from Vedic Science, and the contemporary study and thinking about Nonduality. -Shivada AmritaWebsite: advaitaspeaks.com

Jonathan Hannah and Maureen Kelly are 24-year-olds struggling with religion, sexuality, and a hypnotic mid-90s virtual-reality game culture. Maureen is a lukewarm, lifelong Catholic, trying to keep her vow of virginity, despite an infuriated fianc and a pretty best friend. Jonathan is an agnostic womanizer. His conversion story starts when he learns his parents aborted his sister for her kidney cells: he was born instead. At his new career near Miami, a beautiful executive, Lana, seduces him. Lana controls access to Magic Theater, the mysterious games Jonathan tests. Jonathan's search for authentic reality and purpose intensifies as he explores Lana, girls, 90s-culture, corporations, art, and Catholicism. His journey shifts to the wintry north, through temptations like an erotic ex-lover, his ominous mentor, and the wide gate to eternity. Virtual Eternity combines vivid characters, romance, technological conspiracy, and religious journeys, including Scripture and Tradition sources. It weaves together two transformation stories.

When I was a young boy my most exciting times were hearing stories. Stories told to me by my grandparents. I was born in 1937 and was a young boy during World War II. I lived with my grandparents for over two years while my dad was in the army. There was no TV and very little on the radio to keep young people interested. So, it was stories, stories that were told over and over. I will always remember most of these stories and have shared most of them with my children and grandchildren. I am happy to share these stories and hope you will enjoy them. I have written most of these stories and some were told by my grandparents. There will always be story tellers. But not everyone has the desire to tell stories. I think we need to share these stories and never think they will not be read and enjoyed. This is my first book of short stories to be published. I have published three other books including, The Shoebox, The Saloon and Total Commitment. All of these are available at iUniverse, Amazon and Barnes and Noble.