Sunday, August 30, 2026

Seabrook Harbor : A Fake Engagement Romance

  A Man and Woman looking longingly at each other on a boat dock



I ran away from my wedding… 

then accidentally agreed to fake an engagement with my grumpy CEO.

Running from the worst day of my life was supposed to be the reckless part. 

Then I started my dream job as Ashford Maritime's new internal auditor and found myself working shoulder to shoulder with my impossibly serious boss, Caleb Ashford.

The fake engagement is meant to solve one problem. 

Instead, it creates a hundred more.

The more time we spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the man beneath the tailored suits and impossible standards. The way he quietly protects me. The way he believes in me when no one else does. 

Somewhere between late nights chasing missing millions and pretending to be in love, I stop pretending.

Then the evidence points straight at me.

Now I'm wearing handcuffs instead of an engagement ring, and the only man I trust has to choose between saving the company he's spent his life building... or believing the woman who's stolen his heart.

Because if Caleb can't prove I'm innocent, losing my job will be the least of my problems.





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Saturday, August 29, 2026

WHAT IS A HUMAN-BEING

  Art sculptures with many faces on it.


WHAT IS A HUMAN-BEING

The work investigates the whatness of a human being. Essential features are viewed from interrelated points of neuroscience, philosophy, biophysiology, quantum mechanics, psychology, communication and computation.

One chapter is dedicated to the topology of brain and another one to consciousness. Theories of aging are discussed.

Psychological profile of a human- being is addressed including the phenomenon of the self. An important subject of this article is the body internal communication. The attention is paid to the transcendentals named metasymbols of life.

The term "mindware" is proposed for labelling human operating system responsible for harmony and coherence of human being's behaviour. Reflections on the passing of life are mentioned at the end. This paper reviews many sources and could be assumed as an attempt to mark known, nearly known or sometimes unnameable answers to never-ending question.



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Friday, August 28, 2026

The Memory of Salt: Stories

 Boats on the Water in A Watercolor painting


The Memory of Salt: Stories


In many villages along the coast, the things the sea brings back to shore are not kept. But now and then the net weighs more than it should, and someone has to decide whether to open the chest or leave it closed.


A fisherman finds a chest that has been waiting for two centuries. A widow goes out night after night on a sea that has already taken her husband. A whole village keeps vigil on the beach for a boat that does not return. A man who never cries finds seven jars of salt lined up in his kitchen, each labelled in pencil. And five brothers haul up in their nets something that has come from much further away than they know.


Thirteen stories set between the Cilento coast and Mazara del Vallo, in southern Italy, where the sea is not a graveyard but an archive, and salt is its way of preserving: the names no longer spoken at table, the debts kept silent, the people one had stopped looking at.


A collection that travels the Italian South, from the salt pans of Trapani to the beach of

Mondello, from the piers of the Cilento to the fishing boats of Mazara, in a spare, oral prose made of silences, dialect and gestures. Stories of those who stay and those who leave, of fathers and sons, of what the sea keeps and what, sometimes, it gives back.







Thursday, August 27, 2026

Weight Loss You'll Love: Lose Weight Doing What You Love

   Young Lady in Scubs Smiling


Weight Loss You'll Love:

Lose Weight Doing What You Love


Weight Loss You’ll Love is not really a diet book, it’s the story of a woman who spent 20 years trying to lose weight through restriction, gyms, trainers, calorie counting, and sheer discipline, only to regain it again and again. Eventually, she discovered a radically simple idea: the healthiest life is the one you actually enjoy living.

Instead of forcing herself through workouts she hated, she began walking just 20 minutes a day, hiking and biking for pleasure, eating delicious lower-calorie foods she genuinely loved, and redesigning her environment so healthy choices became automatic. Her breakthrough was realizing that habits provide the structure, but joy provides the fuel.

Six months later, she had lost 40 pounds—not by suffering more, but by finally building a life she didn't want to escape from.

At its heart, the book offers a refreshing philosophy:

Stop asking, “What can I force myself to do to lose weight?”
Start asking, “What could I happily keep doing for the rest of my life?”

Because lasting change isn't about surviving a punishment. As the book puts it, every pound lost is a promise you kept to yourself.

ABOUT WEINA SCOTT (the Author):

Weina Scott is a Harvard Computer Science graduate and entrepreneur with experience building and scaling technology companies. She has founded several profitable businesses, including two that were acquired by large public companies. One was a venture-backed company that raised more than $100 million from leading investors, and another was a podcasting company she started at age 16. Earlier in her career, Weina worked as a computer scientist for Fortune 100 companies. She graduated from Harvard in 2011 and now lives in Miami, Florida.








Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Inside Out, Outside In: The Sacred Journey Back to Self

  Powerful Woman with Light coming out of her


Inside Out, Outside In:

The Sacred Journey Back to Self


Reclaim Your Inner Truth. Awaken the Healer Within.

Inside Out, Outside In is a powerful and reflective guide for women ready to release emotional conditioning, inherited beliefs, and the silent patterns that have shaped their identity.

Through deeply personal insight and grounded awareness, Dr. LaToya Takeshia Michole invites you into a sacred journey inward, where healing is not about becoming someone new, but remembering who you have always been.

Inside, you will explore:

  • How silence, protection, and early adaptation shape your voice
  • The connection between your body, emotions, and unexpressed truth
  • The difference between fear and inner knowing
  • Reclaiming self-trust, clarity, and emotional alignment

This is not a path of becoming.
It is a return.

If you are ready to reconnect with yourself, trust your inner voice, and live in alignment from the inside out, this book will guide you home.







Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Tides Of Us

 Camera in Rose Petals


Tides Of Us - Romance / Multiracial /Spicy /Detailed Explicit But Tasteful  When Shanae Bennett, a pastry chef, escapes her toxic engagement and manipulative ex and moves to a beach house she inherited, the last thing she's looking for is love. But her gorgeous, semi-retired commercial photographer neighbor Liam Cole has other plans. He's spent three years healing from a devastating divorce. She's rebuilding herself from the ground up. Neither is looking for forever, until forever walks in next door. Morning coffee. Sunset walks. A storm that changes everything. Just when they've found home in each other, his career pulls him away, and their fragile new love faces its biggest test. Can they weather the distance? Or will fear and doubt wash away what they've built? A swoony, emotional beach romance about second chances, healing hearts, and finding home in the most unexpected place - each other. Spicy / Detailed Explicit Sexual Content But Tasteful  Trigger/Content Warnings: References to emotional abuse (past relationship) Panic attacks (handled sensitively) Emotional depth



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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Guardian Angel: We Don't Die Book Two

 Dark Angel holing a Infant



Guardian Angel: We Don't Die Book Two


Detective Dallas Scott was a cocky, selfish womanizer until a car accident lands him in a coma. Stuck between life and death, Scott makes a deal with Lucifer: let him live so he can catch the hitman who killed his partner, and when it’s checkout time, Lucifer can collect his soul. What Scott didn’t count on was that when he wakes up from the coma, he can now see souls. And there are plenty of them, including another detective who was killed in the line of duty under mysterious circumstances, and the soul of a girl who is determined to help Scott find the killer.

But with crooked cops, an evil soul bent on revenge, and his wife teetering on the brink of depression, Scott has his work cut out for him . . . if he can stay alive and out of the hands of the devil.







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