The Time Is NOW

Jack Bonafide thought being a founding member of Delta Force would be the most important thing he ever did – but he was dead wrong.

Now the Soviets have a gun to America’s head and only he can stop them from pulling the trigger!

Even within the intelligence community, the Black Tsar was considered to be a myth – the most powerful hydrogen bomb in human history, secretly constructed by the Soviets and capable of near-Biblical levels of human destruction.

Only, the Black Tsar was never a myth – and twenty years after the weapon went missing from a darkened warehouse in Sarov, Russia, it’s now been tracked to somewhere within the United States.

The Black Tsar is the first full-length novel featuring Jack Bonafide, written by the critically acclaimed talent behind the Jericho Black and Jacob Mitzak series of taut, historical thrillers.

A down on her luck, single boy mom and a handsome, untrusting rancher meet in a diner. No, this isn’t the start of a joke, it’s their life.

Offering her a job without knowing her qualifications might not have been the greatest idea, but at least she wouldn’t be working for the town’s most troublesome resident anymore.

All the excuses in the world weren’t enough, knowing her son wasn’t happy and her pocketbook was empty. What choice did she have but to say yes?

What happens when the quick witted mom goes toe to toe against the set in his ways cowboy?

Will one of them come out on top or will love win in the end?

I am keeping a secret from my husband and I will do anything to make sure he never finds out.

More than twenty years ago I did something that changed the course of my life. I killed someone. Someone that caused me harm. Someone that hurt me and someone that would have made every day of my life a living hell. It was not an accident. It was deliberate, methodical, planned down to the smallest detail. I told myself justice had been served.

Now someone knows. Someone who has discovered what I buried and who thinks my husband deserves to know the truth. At first it was a note left on my doorstep. Then a clue left in my driveway. Each warning pulls me closer to exposure and closer to the person who thinks they can punish me by blowing my life apart.

If they keep pushing, I’ll have no choice but to silence them. To protect my husband. To protect my secret. To protect my perfect vow.

What If the Cowboy Code Could Change Your Life Today?

From Bryce Dominic Valor, author of Still Fuel in the Tank and a straight-talking coach. A self-help field manual for character building. In Brand & Backbone you learn ten timeless principles that cut through the noise and build real backbone. This is personal development with boots in the dirt.

Wake up clear about who you are and what you stand for. A personal code as steady as sunrise on the range. Brand & Backbone gives you a practical, gritty plan to move from drift to deliberate action with courage and purpose.

By the middle of the 19th century, New York City’s population surpassed the unfathomable number of 1 million people, despite its obvious lack of space. This was mostly due to the fact that so many immigrants heading to America naturally landed in New York Harbor, well before the federal government set up an official immigration system on Ellis Island. At first, the city itself set up its own immigration registration center in Castle Garden near the site of the original Fort Amsterdam, and naturally, many of these immigrants, who were arriving with little more than the clothes on their back, didn’t travel far and thus remained in New York.

Of course, the addition of so many immigrants and others with less money put strains on the quality of life. Between 1862 and 1872, the number of tenements had risen from 12,000 to 20,000; the number of tenement residents grew from 380,000 to 600,000. One notorious tenement on the East River, Gotham Court, housed 700 people on a 20-by-200-foot lot. Another on the West Side was home, incredibly, to 3,000 residents, who made use of hundreds of privies dug into a fifteen-foot-wide inner court. Squalid, dark, crowded, and dangerous, tenement living created dreadful health and social conditions. It would take the efforts of reformers such as Jacob Riis, who documented the hellishness of tenements with shocking photographs in How the Other Half Lives, to change the way such buildings were constructed.