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AI is a tool that can innovate and accelerate your business...if you know how to use it. Follow author, business coach, and AI Whisperer Severin Sorensen as he gives you the tools for taking advantage of AI platforms like ChatGPT, all with an eye toward business applications for the non-technical listener.

Courageous law firm investigator, Alice White, plunges into the waterfront of the 1956 Port of New York to free a United States Customs Inspector from the grip of a vicious union boss. Alice and her client's lives are at stake amidst the power struggle created by the wave of post-World War II Italian immigration into New York City's West Side.

You only thought you knew the stories! Jack and the Beanstalk. Bluebeard. The Pied Piper. Experience them now like never before as you delve into worlds of arcane science, post-war depression, and killer cyborgs! This collection includes brand-new sci-fi retellings and twists, along with several of author Steven Heumann's previously published works that will keep you guessing despite what you think you know about the originals.

As an artist stuck in a dead-end design job, Abbie feels life is one unending series of disappointments. When a doctor arrives at her office with detailed sketches of her, alleging they were drawn by a catatonic man in his hospital, Abbie begins to discover there is more to consciousness than what we see and experience physically. After an attack in her apartment, Abbie is rescued by Vincent, an attractive enigma who claims she is a protector in humanity's shared dream space. Though she can't remember while awake, Abbie has knowledge in the dream that powerful men desperately want.

Gil and Max are hired by a high-ranking politician to find a kidnapped little girl. But things take a deadly twist when the kidnapper turns out to be an assassin for a sect of the notorious Bloods street gang. The action is fast and the characters real as Gil races from Aurora to Chicago, fighting villains and time, praying that he can save the child and unravel the strange reasons for her abduction, all while keeping his K9 partner Max from eating him.

Where it all began. Go back with Gil and experience where and how it all started.

Gil Mason is a simple guy with complex problems. Cross Phillip Marlow with Caesar Milan, The Dog Whisperer, and you create a new breed of private eye, complete with the courage of a pit bull, and the heart of a labrador.

1950s New York. Alice White is a law student working as an investigator for a small downtown law firm. Her grit and courage have taken her far, but as she dives into Manhattan's underbelly and the crime-ridden outer boroughs, Alice discovers a world she never understood...and falls in love with the dangers! Now enjoy all four novels in the Alice White series: The Case, Hard Case, The Con Case, and The Case of the Butcher, the Bank Robber, and the Blonde.

Daring, some would say reckless, law firm investigator and graduating law student Alice White takes on a murderous gang in 1950s New York City. A butcher, a WWII Marine war hero, has been implicated in a bank robbery and murder and Alice is compelled to come to his aid.

A divorced legal assistant in 1955 New York City, Alice White, travels to a small upstate mountain community to investigate the violent death of a doctor. What at first appears to have been an accident unfolds into a deadly power play of greed and marital discord that threatens to end her life, just as she has begun to thaw.

Justice, fairness, friendship, and curiosity. That's the motto of the Heroic Commission. Unfortunately, the heroes aren't coming to save the day, and it's up to Becky Blueshift and her friends to save them! Becky's parents are stuck between dimensions, her little brother has made a mess of their starship, and her best friend just wants to go home. Too bad in space, no one can hear you complain. Danger and death lie around every corner, but none of it is as scary as Becky's fear of failure.

When a terrorist organization sets their sights on annihilating Christmas, their first act is to take out Kris Kringle himself. But a slug to the chest can't keep a good Santa down. With the help of his North Pole crew and some mercenaries straight off the naughty list, Santa will save Christmas, even if it destroys him. And it just might.

The river is calling. Will the rats drown first...or the children? Seventeen-year-old Piper Kruger is a professional urban hunter. By night she stalks the genetically engineered rodents overrunning her city. When a colorful industrialists offers a technology that sounds too good to be true, Piper is pulled into a bleak world of political intrigue, betrayal, and death that makes her life as a brutal huntress seem tame by comparison. The city she hates needs her help, but will she be able to save herself and her family, let alone anyone else?

One sneak attack on the very heart of the galaxy turns a space station full of families into ground zero for war. Veteran-turned-lawyer Helaman must make a stand to save his wife and kids, along with everyone else on the station. Invading soldiers want him dead. Local politicians are out to undermine him. Can he hold things off long enough for the fleet to arrive, or will his efforts just get more people killed?

War closes in. Gavin isn't running away anymore. The search for Abraxas-Mon and his army gets cut off as the team finds themselves cornered on the oldest planet in the galaxy. What they discover there destroys their very understanding of the Commonwealth and the journey they've been on since taking Gavin from Earth. The Perennials are gone. Abraxas-Mon may already be dead. Someone has been pulling the strings and is 10 steps ahead. Now it's up to Gavin to stop them. A Hollywood actor verses the biggest threat in the universe? Yeah, this is going to end well.

Stewart Mitchell is a nobody, until he witnesses a terrorist attack that changes the world. Right place right time, or did someone want him in the heat of the explosions? Who's pulling his strings? Who wants retribution? Each choice Stewart makes leads him deeper into a world of fake heroes and villains. The road to hell? Stewart's paving it as fast as he can. Get ready for a super-hero thriller where the good guys don't stand a chance.

Nature is beautiful...until it tries to eat you. Jaxon is just your average janitor, but when he's caught in the crossfire between advanced science and terrorism, he ends up running for his life and watching the world around him get swallowed whole. Mother Nature takes revenge, and Jaxon has nowhere to go!

Gavin is in space...and it sucks. After a chase that started in the Hollywood Hills, everyone's favorite Academy Award-winning actor finds himself in the cold universe with nothing to do. All he wants is to rescue his best friend and the woman he loves from the clutches of evil aliens, but when the view outside the window never changes, it's hard to stay motivated. But when a new danger looms that threatens to put Gavin in an intergalactic zoo, he better find his courage fast!

As the most famous actor in Hollywood, he has ego to spare. Too bad Gavin's about to learn he's also the biggest disappointment in the universe. Add some sewage to the mix and he's having a very bad day. Aliens are on his tail, and Gavin might not survive long enough to sell the movie rights! With his estranged best friend and a beautiful protector in tow, Gavin has to become the hero he always pretended to be. Can he escape and return to his celebrity lifestyle? More importantly, will he even want to? What’s an egotistical actor to do?

What if you could get high on someone else's emotions? When Alice joins her boyfriend's university experiment in shared consciousness she discovers a world where thoughts are reality and concepts are smells. Her scientific brain, still trying to prove whether or not two people can exist in the same headspace, is soon overwhelmed by the presence of other people, some dreaming, others hunting.