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Derek had never been to that sort of bar before and never thought he would. Seven decades of quiet living were turned upside down in just one long night. The evening started well, with cocktails he had long forgotten and music he never knew existed. And the men. He didn't know where to start with them. He didn't remember much else, other than the darkest screams of a teenage boy and his own battle lost against arms thicker than his thighs. In the weeks that follow, the attacks increase, and Derek blames himself for not doing enough that night, angry at his decision to enter a life that belongs to a different generation. With no one to turn to, he struggles with the eternal love he still feels for his late wife and the lust he has for a new world he always denied himself. When those attacks turn to murder, Derek forces himself into a world of skinny jeans and sexual hook ups, determined catch the attacker, to experience new love and lust, and to find his own place under the rainbow.

On a dark evening in London, Jack leaves his friends. He stands on the roof of a tall building, prepared for a fall that has taunted him since he lost everyone who mattered. They called it murder by a stranger. Jack called it the end of everything. He longs for an end of his own making, but when the last of his family passes unexpectedly, he discovers a hidden message on a USB drive that challenges everything he thought he knew. Jack is quickly thrown into a world of past secrets and present lies. Entering a realm of codes and hackers, Jack struggles to know who to trust as he questions the motives of strangers and friends alike. As he learns the true power of data and the shadow it casts over all of us, Jack enters a race to save his friends and correct his past mistakes. Fighting against a power he barely understands, he soon learns his biggest enemy isn't a rogue programme and the person who wields it, but time itself.

Meet Ryan, the guy who has it all - the body, the girls, and the perfect pad in Canary Wharf. His career at Global United Eradication is flawless, as he helps them in their quest to sanitise the entire planet.He's climbing his way up that golden ladder and doesn't care about the lives or the past stories of those around him. He's playing to win; competing against a shadow set by his father, and trying to please his ever-demanding boss. Even when he struggles through his daily routine, fighting against endless traffic, he thinks only about his future.But as his boss's demands become more sinister, Ryan finds out that the past he had no interest in is very much alive. As he uncovers a darker part of Global United Eradication, those who gave him his lifestyle ask for too much in return, and he realises that he must put things right and help the people he previously climbed all over. With no one around him that he can trust and time running out, he learns that having it all can still mean you have nothing.

Have you ever wondered how it will all end? When the time comes and a shadow falls across our busy earth, where will you be and what will you be doing? When Armageddon interrupts your weekend shopping, and hell freezes over during your dinner party, who will you be with and will you be doing what matters most? This book isn't about the monsters that lurk in the night or a fatal dust cloud, or even what strikes from the skies above. No one knows for sure what has happened, but the masses that some might call the unprepared whisper about many horrors. As countries across the globe start to go dark, join those who are in the middle of their routine lives, as they suddenly find that their individual hopes and dreams mean very little - or do they now mean everything? As our modern world reaches the brink of collapse, experience ten different stories of survival, bold escapes, unspoken love and much more. Each of us get there differently but we all find one inevitable end.

This provocative new Secular Bible debunks and promotes rethinking all societies fundamental religious mythologies, including the very word and concept of God. It does this with a new eclectic, integral, spiritually-based, knowledge of science. This secular Bible obliterates existing mythologies, one by one, revealing present threats our evolutionary development, while simultaneously severing mythology from religion. Religion is revealed with new illumination, revealing spirituality compatibility with science, but not mythology. This Bible better serves all contemporary societies, replacing all religious faiths with new laws that are verifiable through knowledge, science, and reason.This new wisdom is called 'Evolutionary Pantheism, ' presented in a familiar format with a new myth-free set of personal Commandments, a new Creed, and a new personal mission statement. These new insights derive from an evolutionary merging of the best knowledge produced by eastern and western minds, separating valid spiritual intelligence and rational knowledge from their ancient false religious myths. This revelation basis is science, not false prophets spinning their mythologies.Mythologies false spin includes the story of the Illuminati, which this book pays homage. The story is told from its original historical perspective, separated from contemporary church inspired mythologies. It is told by some of the United States founding fathers at the dawn of the Enlightenment. These historical records verify the Illuminati was only seeking rational freethinking illumination. It was forced into secrecy in Europe by state-run churches, burdened by tyrannical monarchies controlled by the Catholic Church. Beyond religion, this conversation explores and explains philosophy and social sciences from a broad, eclectic, growing understanding. Reason, observation, and experience are used to delve into the natural laws of this Universe. Complex concepts are simplified and explained by the workings of cause and effect in the natural world as it continues to evolve. This new revelation sees science in a new light, through discussions on this Universe, time, evolution, and the human condition. Political discussions explore diversity, racism, multiculturalism, responsibility and rights, war, law, and justice from this new perspective. Self-development is explained integrally, building consensus through multiple disciplines revealing the truth, with evolutionary evidence guidance on developing your body, mind, spirit, and society.This new wisdom is called 'Evolutionary Pantheism', presented in a familiar format with a new myth-free set of personal Commandments, a new Creed, and a new personal mission statement. These new insights derive from an evolutionary merging of the best knowledge produced by eastern and western minds, separating valid spiritual intelligence and rational knowledge from their ancient false religious myths. This revelation is based on science, not revealed by false prophets spinning their mythologies.Beyond religion, this conversation explores and explains philosophy and social sciences from a broad, eclectic, growing understanding. Reason, observation, and experience are used to delve into the natural laws of this Universe. Complex concepts are simplified and explained by the workings of cause and effect in the natural world as it continues to evolve. This new revelation sees science in a new light, through discussions on this Universe, time, evolution, and the human condition. Political discussions explore diversity, racism, multiculturalism, responsibility and rights, war, law, and justice from this new perspective. Self-development is explained integrally, building consensus through multiple disciplines revealing the truth, with evolutionary evidence guidance on developing your body, mind, spirit, and society.