They Needed a Little Variety In The Day

The time I picked up an NBA superstar while looking like a swamp thing in a hair salon…

And if you know me, this is one hundred percent on-brand for Becca Montgomery.

You see, I’m starting a new job on Monday at a sports TV network, and I was treating myself to a way too expensive cut at one of Miami’s chicest hair salons in preparation when he walked in.

By he, I mean, a tall, inked, European, and breathtakingly hot NBA superstar named Antoni Nowak.

And Antoni happens to be interested in me — despite seeing me in that awful salon lighting, with wet hair, and draped in a smock.

Me. I refuse to believe him at first. I’m not a model. I babble. I’m neurotic. The cherry on my unusual sundae is I’m a hypochondriac, too.

Antoni isn’t deterred. Rather, he’s even more intrigued when I fly my weird flag at full staff.

But when I go viral due to a most humiliating situation, I wonder how long it will be until Antoni realizes this is who I truly am and the novelty of dating me wears off. I’ve already fallen for this basketball star, for the man he is outside of dribbling a ball. And the idea of him dumping me breaks my heart.

Add in a coworker who feels I’m not just unworthy of a man like Antoni, but also an embarrassment to the network, and I suddenly find myself not only questioning my relationship, but my career, too.

If this were a game of basketball, I’m about to make a pressured shot from the three-point line to win the game. Will it be an air ball? Or will I find confidence in myself to sink the winning shot and keep not only Antoni but my job by the final buzzer?

Faster-than-light travel made every first strike fatal to its target, and turned every war into a war of extermination. On a space station orbiting a distant star, humanity’s last hope for survival is a lie.

Security investigator Jack Borman has one job: find the defector. Viktor Slayton — brilliant, idealistic, and dangerously well-informed — has gone missing with stolen files that could destabilize the entire Eta Leonis colony system.

But the deeper Jack goes, the more he suspects that the real conspiracy isn’t about what Slayton stole. It’s about what Slayton knew.

Zero Sum Galaxy is the first novel in The Logic of Games, a science fiction thriller series set aboard a generation station where FTL travel, resource scarcity, and the mathematics of interstellar war have produced a society built on careful, necessary deception — and one investigator who is about to learn what that deception has been protecting.

For readers of Alastair Reynolds, John Scalzi, and the political thrillers of John le Carré transplanted to the far edge of human space.

The complete first trilogy — Zero Sum Galaxy, Veil of Ignorance, and Mutual Defection Round — is available now.

Skillful plotting, surprising twists, and a brisk pace keep readers turning the pages in this gripping debut from a USA Today bestselling author, the first entry in a long-running series. Downloaded by more than two million readers!

Attorney Sasha McCandless has one ambition: Make partner at the best firm in town. Then a plum assignment plunges her into a world of deceit and danger.

When a commercial flight crashes, killing everyone on board, she’s tapped to defend the airline. It’s her big chance — high-stakes litigation for an important client. But, as she digs into the evidence, people close to the case start to die.

She discovers the crash was intentional, part of a breathtakingly evil plan. Unsure if she can trust her colleagues with the horrifying truth, she teams up with a federal air marshal, and they race to prevent another airline disaster.

Soon, Sasha finds herself with a brand-new life goal: Stop a madman before he kills her.

History was never meant to turn this way.

In a world where the equator has always ruled, power, wealth, and civilisation were built in the sun.

Beyond it lie the cold regions… poor, unstable, and forgotten.

Their people are known only as Shades.

Inspector Amara Kone has spent her life walking the line between both worlds.

A Guard in an empire that doesn’t fully trust her, she survives by enforcing laws she didn’t create… in a system she doesn’t fully believe in.

But when a high-profile death pulls her into the heart of the Empire, everything changes.
Because this isn’t just murder… It’s a message.

A Narrative is spreading.
Fear is being manufactured.
And behind it all, powerful figures are preparing for something unthinkable.

Gather the Shades.
Control them.
Remove them.

As Martial law tightens and the city begins to fracture, Amara is forced into an impossible choice:
Protect the system that gave her a place in the world… or expose a conspiracy that could bring the Empire crashing down.

At the centre of it all:
A ruthless military commander with a plan.
An emperor who may not be capable of stopping it.
And a truth that could destroy everything.

Because this time… History isn’t turning right
It’s turning left.

The Unwilling Emperor… a political high concept thriller.

Roman Britain AD 407

“Family or country” That’s his choice.

He’s retired from the Army. His family needs him, but so do his people!

The Army has left, but the Barbarians are coming, and the people of Roman Britain have been left to deal with it as best they can.
When Saxon hordes land and massacre a village on the East coast word gets out and more arrive sensing the easy pickings, and rich cities just waiting to be plundered.
For the local population living there, it’s a terrifying time as they prepare to meet an onslaught they always thought the Romans would deal with, but Rome has gone, and their only hope is a retired centurion. The Last Centurion.

Aethelwolf, or ‘Wolf’ is that Centurion. Can he pull it off?

The Last Centurion is the first Book in Lawrence Hebb’s new Saxon Chronicles Historical Fiction series. Exploring the tumultuous time of the decline of the Western Roman Empire and the rise of Saxon Britain.

If you love medical shows — these are the real stories!

Playing Doctor is the kind of book you pick up for a quick chapter… and suddenly it’s midnight and you’re still reading.

It’s a fast, laugh-out-loud, often cringeworthy, but surprisingly heartfelt look at what becoming a doctor is actually like — messy, absurd, high-pressure, and deeply human.