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The following terms and conditions (the “Terms of Use”) govern your use of this website for www.cr-hayes.com and related, feature websites (collectively, the “Site”). This Site, and our Privacy Policy, are made available by CR Hayes, Inc. (“CR Hayes,” “we” or “us”). We may change these Terms of Use from time to time, and at any time, without notice to you, by posting changes on the Site. BY USING THE SITE, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE AS APPLIED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE SITE.

1.   Limited License: You may access and view the Content on the Site on your computer or other Internet compatible device and make single copies or prints of the visual content on the Site for your personal and internal use only. The Site and the services offered on or through the Site, if any, including any Content thereon, are only for your personal and non-commercial use.


2. Trademarks: The trademarks, logos, service marks and trade names (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Site or on Content available through the Site are registered and unregistered Trademarks of CR Hayes and others and may not be used unless and only to the extent specifically authorized in writing by the trademark owner. All Trademarks not owned by us that appear on the Site or on or through the Site’s services, if any, are the property of their respective owners. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark. Your misuse of the Trademarks is strictly prohibited. CR Hayes will aggressively enforce its Trademark rights to the fullest extent of the law including seeking criminal prosecution.


3. Proprietary Right: As between you and CR Hayes, CR Hayes owns, solely and exclusively, all right, title and interest in and to the Site, all content, code, data and materials (collectively, “Content”) on or related to and the look and feel, design and organization of, the Site and the compilation of the Content including, but not limited to, all copyrights, trademark rights, patent rights, database rights, moral rights, sui generis rights and other intellectual property and proprietary rights therein. Your use of the Site does not grant you ownership of any Content or other property.


4.  Prohibited Use: Any commercial distribution, publishing or exploitation of the Site, or any Content on the Site, is strictly prohibited unless you have received the express written permission of CR Hayes or the applicable rights holder. You may not otherwise download, display, copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, perform, transfer, create derivative works from, sell or otherwise exploit any Content. If you make other use of the Site, or any Content, except as otherwise permitted by CR Hayes, you may violate copyright and other laws of the United States, and other countries, as well as applicable state and international laws and treaties and may be subject to liability for such unauthorized use. CR Hayes
will aggressively and fully enforce its intellectual property rights, including seeking criminal prosecution.


5.   User Information: During your use of the Site, you may be asked to provide certain personalized information to us (“User Information”). Our information collection and use policies with respect to the privacy of User Information are set forth in the Site’s Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the accuracy and content of all User Information, and you agree to keep it up to date.


 6.   Unsolicited Materials: Unless specifically requested by us in writing, we do not solicit and we do not want to receive any confidential, secret or proprietary information or other material from you through the Site, by e-mail or in any other way. Any information, creative work, ideas, suggestions, concepts, methods, systems, designs, plans, techniques or other materials submitted or sent to us (“Submitted Material”) will not be confidential or secret and may be used by us in any manner consistent with these Terms of Use and the Site’s Privacy Policy. By submitting or sending Submitted Material to us, you: (a) represent and warrant that (i) the Submitted Material are original to you, that no other party has any rights thereto, and that any “moral rights” in Submitted Material have been waived, and (ii) the Submitted Material, and its use, do not and will not violate the law or violate or infringe the rights of any entity or person; and (b) you grant to us and our affiliates a royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully transferable, assignable and sub-licensable right and license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such material (in whole or part) and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. We cannot be responsible for maintaining any Submitted Material that
you provide to us, and we may delete or destroy any Submitted Material at any time. You agree that we have, and will have, no obligation or liability to you of any kind whatsoever arising out of or related to any Submitted Material including as a result of the destruction thereof.

 
7.  User Information: During your use of the Site, you may be asked to provide certain personalized information to us (“User Information”). Our information collection and use policies with respect to the privacy of User Information are set forth in the Site’s Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the accuracy and content of all User Information, and you agree to keep it up to date.

 
8.  Public Forums, Blogs: CR Hayes may, from time to time, make messaging services, chat services, bulletin boards, message boards, blogs, other forums and other such services available on or through the Site. In addition to any other rules or regulations that we may post in connection with a particular service, you agree that you shall not upload, post, transmit, distribute or otherwise publish through the Site or any service or feature made available on or through the Site, any materials which
(a) restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Site or the
Site’s services,
(b) are fraudulent, unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, offensive, pornographic, profane, sexually explicit or indecent,
(c) constitute or encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law,
(d) violate, plagiarize or infringe the rights of third parties including, without
limitation, copyright, trademark, trade secret, confidentiality, contract, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right,
(e) contain a virus, spyware, or other harmful component,
(f) contain embedded links, advertising, chain letters or pyramid schemes of any kind, or (g) constitute or contain false or misleading indications of origin, endorsement or statements of fact. You shall not impersonate any other person or entity, whether actual or fictitious, including anyone from or associated with the Site, CR Hayes or CR Hayes, Inc. You alone are responsible for the content and consequences of any of your activities.

 
9. Prohibited User Conduct: You agree that, while using the Site and the various services and features offered on or through the Site, you shall not:
(a) impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with any other person or entity;
(b) insert yourown or a third party’s advertising, branding or other promotional content into any part of the Site or use, redistribute, republish or exploit any part of the Site for any commercial or promotional purpose;
(c) attempt to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems through the Site. You shall not:
(i) engage in spidering, “screen scraping,” “database scraping,” harvesting of e-mail addresses, wireless addresses or other contact or personal information, or any other automatic means of accessing, logging-in or registering on the Site or for any services or features offered on or through the Site, or obtaining lists of users or obtaining or accessing other information or features on, from or through the Site or the services offered on or through the Site including, without limitation, any information residing on any server or database connected to the Site or any service offered on or through the Site;
(ii) obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorized access to computer systems, materials, information or any services made available on or through the Site through any means;
(iii) use the Site or the services made available on or through the Site in any manner with the intent to interrupt, damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or such services, including, without limitation, sending mass unsolicited messages or “flooding” servers with requests;
(iv) use the Site or the Site’s services or features in violation of CR Hayes’s or any third party’s intellectual property or other proprietary, personal or legal rights;
(v) use the Site or the Site’s services in violation of any applicable law. You may not attempt (or encourage or support anyone else to attempt) to circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, or otherwise alter or interfere with the Site or the Site’s services, or any content thereof, or make
unauthorized use thereof. You will not use the Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made publicly available or provided for through the Site.

 
10. Indemnification: You agree to defend, indemnify and hold CR Hayes and its directors, officers, managers, members, employees, agents and other representatives harmless from any and all claims, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) arising in any way from your use of the Site, your placement or transmission of any message, content, information, software or other materials on or through the Site, or your breach or violation of any law or these Terms of Use. CR Hayes reserves the right, at its own expense (but subject to your obligations and liabilities hereunder), to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with CR Hayes’s defense of such claim.

 
11. Right to Monitor and Editorial Control; Personal and Sensitive Information. CR Hayes reserves the right, but does not have an obligation, to monitor and review materials posted to the Site or through the Site’s services or features by users although CR Hayes is not, and will not be, responsible for any such material. CR Hayes reserves the right at any and all times to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or government request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in CR Hayes’s sole discretion are objectionable or in violation of these Terms of Use, CR Hayes’s policies or applicable law. We may also impose limits on certain features of, or restrict your access to part or all, of the forums, if any, without notice or penalty if we believe you are in breach of the guidelines set forth in this paragraph, our Terms of Use or applicable law or for any other reason without notice or liability. It is important to remember that comments submitted to a forum or blog may be recorded and stored in multiple places, both on our Site and elsewhere on the Internet and are likely to be accessible for a long time. You have no control over who will read them eventually. It is therefore important that you are careful and selective about the personal information that you disclose about yourself and others, and you should not disclose sensitive, proprietary or confidential information in your comments to our public forums.

 
12. Infringement Notification: We respect the intellectual property rights of others and require that the people who use the Site do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please forward the following information to us at cr@cr-hayes.com.


13.  Age:  Users must be either 18 years of age or older, or an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and be fully able and competent, to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations and warranties set forth in these Terms of Use and abide by and comply with these Terms of Use. You hereby represent and warrant that you are domiciled in the United States and you are 18 years old or older recognizing that this Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. A user’s right to participate in this Site may be terminated without warning, if we discover that a user is under 13 years of age.

 

14.  DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES: THE SITE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL SERVICES, CONTENT, FUNCTIONS AND MATERIALS) IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, SUCH AS, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF OR FOR INFORMATION, DATA, DATA PROCESSING SERVICES, UPTIME OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS, ANY WARRANTIES CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, USEFULNESS, OR CONTENT OF INFORMATION, AND ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED AND IMPLIED. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVICES, CONTENT, FUNCTIONS OR MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREON WILL BE TIMELY, SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED.

 
15. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: IN NO EVENT INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL CR HAYES, OR ANY OF ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES OR ANY CONTENT OR SERVICE PROVIDERS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “PROTECTED ENTITIES”) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM, OR DIRECTLY OR NDIRECTLY RELATED TO, THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR THE CONTENT, MATERIALS AND FUNCTIONS RELATED THERETO, YOUR PROVISION OF INFORMATION VIA THE SITE, LOST BUSINESS OR LOST SALES, EVEN IF SUCH PROTECTED ENTITY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO CERTAIN USERS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROTECTED ENTITIES BE LIABLE FOR OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY CONTENT POSTED, TRANSMITTED, EXCHANGED OR RECEIVED BY OR ON BEHALF OF ANY USER OR OTHER PERSON ON OR THROUGH THE SITE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE PROTECTED ENTITIES TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING FROM THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OR YOUR USE OF THE SITE EXCEED, IN THE AGGREGATE, THE AMOUNT, IF ANY, PAID BY YOU TO CR HAYES FOR YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS VIA THE SITE.

 
16.  Third Party Websites: You may be able to link from the Site to third party websites and third-party websites may link to the Site (“Linked Sites”). We have no responsibility for the information, content, products, services, advertising, code or other materials which may or may not be provided by or through Linked Sites even if they are owned or operated by affiliates of ours. Links to Linked Sites do not constitute an endorsement or sponsorship by us of such websites or the information, content, products, services, advertising, code or other materials presented on or through such websites. CR Hayes is not responsible for web casting, or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Sites. Any reliance by you on the contents of a third-party website is at your own risk and you assume all responsibilities and consequences resulting from such reliance. These Terms of Use only apply to this Site, and you should always review the terms and conditions of any third-party site that you access through a link from this Site.

 
17. Changes to Terms of Use: CR Hayes reserves the rights, in its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any portion of these Terms of Use, in whole or in part, at any time. Changes in these Terms of Use will be effective when posted. Your continued use of the Site or the services offered on or through the Site after any changes to these Terms of Use are posted will be your acceptance of those changes.

 
18. Termination: CR Hayes may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Site or the Site’s services at any time. CR Hayes may restrict, suspend or terminate your access to the Site and/or its services if we believe you are in breach of our terms and conditions or applicable law, or for any other reason without notice or liability. CR Hayes maintains a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of the Site use privileges of users who are repeat infringers of intellectual property rights.

 
19. Applicable Laws:  We control and operate the Site from our offices in the United States of America. We do not represent that materials on the Site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Persons who choose to access the Site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, ALL PARTIES TO THESE TERMS OF USE WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY.

 
20. Miscellaneous: These Terms of Use and the relationship between you and us shall be governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any claim or cause of action that may arise under these Terms of Use or arise from use of the Site shall be commenced and be heard in the appropriate court (state or federal) in the State of Tennessee, County of Williamson. You hereby submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located within Williamson County in the State of Tennessee. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, you and we nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.

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Everyone says they want to live forever… Do you?

Does your consciousness die along with the rest of your body?

If you preserve your body, do you also ensure your consciousness never dies?

In *Do You Really Want to Live Forever*, the scientists of the future have discovered reanimation technology which can bring your cryo-preserved body back to life.

But, when dead-you is “awakened” by the technologies of the future, is it really you behind the eyes?

Can your consciousness sit dormant for decades along your dead body?

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The Dark World Saga is an epic, five-part science-fiction saga following Professor Edmunds on his rollercoaster interstellar journey to "The Dark World," a tidally locked world located in the distant regions of our galaxy divided into two polar halves - The Light and The Dark.

On The Dark World, Professor Edmunds discovers that, for everyone on Earth, there is another you — an "Other" you.

For Edmunds, a bitter, brilliant man whose wife died in a tragic car crash ten years ago, the discovery of The Dark World is not only proof of humanity's eternal existence - it is a chance to see his wife again.

When Edmunds and his expeditionary crew touch down on The Dark World, they discover that the aliens on The Dark World do not only look like us… They are us.

Edmunds, his delinquent son, Ford, and the band of Wyand Corp. cyborgs (half-human, half-robotic beings with unknown, ulterior motives) crash on the dreaded Island in The Water, the great sea which separates the two worlds within this world.

Edmunds meets his own Other, the Other of his dead wife, and his son's Other - Kal - a boy hellbent on saving himself, his mother, and leading his people out of The Dark and into the promised land of The Light across The Water.

Their ship destroyed, Edmunds and company are forced to fight for their lives against the undead Islanders and the nameless, nefarious secrets of The Island.

Edmunds and company must uncover the sinister secrets of The Island, unravel The Dark World's mysterious cosmic connections to Earth, and take sides in the age-old civilizational conflict between the oppressed people of The Dark and the opulent elite of The Light in this thrilling sci-fi showdown of galactic proportions.

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Grayson Godwell, a regular boy from Brookville, South Carolina, has spent his whole life attending New Day Christian Sanctuary.

Grayson lives a normal existence, but he begins to discover sinister secrets hidden behind the façade of the cheery church he has always called home.

Grayson’s comforting cast of friends, youth group leaders, and family become deadly enemies as Grayson’s world turns upside down.

After his discovery, nothing will ever be the same again for Grayson.

No matter how hard he tries, Grayson cannot un-see what he has seen.

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JR Ballentine, a hard-working eighteen-year-old boy from a small town in Tennessee outside of Nashville.

Just days after his Senior Prom — and shortly after reconnecting with his biological father who had spent sixteen years lost to drugs, booze, and heartbreak — JR’s world is turned upside down when that father dies in a car crash on the treacherous “Ridge.”

The exact circumstances of the crash on Ridgetop Road remain shrouded in mystery.

Eyewitnesses say the other driver had been drinking at a barbecue earlier that day…

No blood alcohol tests were administered. The driver’s girlfriend died on impact. JR died an hour later.

But JR’s mother, Lori Gregory, would not let the story end there. Her eight-year crusade uncovers a stunning truth: JR’s death was not only preventable — it was the result of a glaring loophole in public policy.

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Last Man Standing follows humanity’s last days told from the perspective of “the last man.”

The last man is doomed to battle against the unending forces of the machine apocalypse until he is defeated,

and the next “last man” fills the role in this never-ending game of man vs machine.

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We often wonder what is out there, in the stars…

Maybe we should start paying more attention to what is happening here, on Earth, stranded in “The Between”…

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They say every love story is a ghost story.

What if consciousness is like a radio frequency?

If you turn the dial to a different channel,

you get static. But sometimes the channels overlap and run together…

Trapped in Time tells the tale of lovers trapped in time – different times – tuned into the wrong station.

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What if, instead of expanding, our universe is collapsing, contracting upon itself like a giant, ravenous black hole?

What if the Big Bang had not been a “bang” but rather a breaking moment – a reset, a restart, a “reboot”?

What if this eternal cycle of creation and negation never ends? But what if it could come to an end?

From the war-ridden planet of Ingor Five, Sean Starling, a member of a rare species of Immortals, has lived thousands of lives. Sean is destined (or doomed) to live thousands more.

Like the other Immortals, Sean believes he is facing this fate alone.

But there are other Immortals out there, scattered across the universe, kindred souls like Sean who have seen everything and everyone they know and love die only to come back to life, again and again and again…

Sean and his kind cannot die. They do not “reboot” along with the rest of the universe.

The only escape for Sean is suicide. But even that will not absolve Sean from the bitch of eternal life. Sean has had enough. He wants out.

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Humanity’s ancient origins and the epic story a long time ago in our very own galaxy…

A tale of a time long ago before humanity settled on Earth and entered a neanderthalic dark age,

The Red Planet was once a crucial battleground populated by humanity’s warring factions which would decide the fate of the human race.

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Do you ever wonder what your life would look like if you had taken that job?

What about if you had married your high school sweetheart? What about if you had never met your best friend?

If, Then follows three friends and the alternate realities consequent of their choices (and their lack thereof).

In this world, choices – not time, not gravity – compose the fabric of the universe.

But, as the heroes of our story soon discover, every choice over the course of human history has left a complex butterfly effect far greater than even they – the visionaries who see through the veil and “crack the code” of existence – could ever imagine.

On his way home one day, Christian Camber, a newly minted professor at Georgetown University, sees something strange on the subway – himself.

Beginning to question his sanity, Christian wonders if he is seeing things or if there is actually another him wandering around – an alternate him from an alternate reality – a him who had made the choice he could never make but the choice he always knew he should have made.

This choice, as Christian soon learns, affects not only the course of his destiny, but the fate of his friends, family, and, possibly, all humanity.

“Big things have small beginnings.” – T.E. Lawrence

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Welcome to Clearscape, humanity’s last interstellar outpost, located in the far reaches of our solar system.

Here, sicknesses are “solved” before they even appear. Here, healthcare is a relic of ancient history.

Jaden Rue, a cutting-edge scientist and one of the creators of Clearscape, leaves Earth and everyone he knows behind.

Only a select group of people are allowed to reside on Clearscape and perpetuate the human race.

“Undesirable” genes (and the people who carry them) are left behind to rot away on a hellish Earth.

Jaden soon regrets his creation and decides to not abandon those back on Earth to despair and death.

Risking everything for what he believes is right,

Jaden finds himself in a deadly game of dangerous interstellar politics.

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Do you get "chills?" Most of us have encountered the strange sensation before.

Have you ever wondered what these "chills" are? Have you ever wanted to find out?

Two brothers – one son – one broken family – and an authoritarian society bent on crushing the creativity of the human spirit which threatens its rigid order.

Chills follows one boy's struggle to save his civilization, his family, and himself from a corrupt, post-apocalyptic world…

That will stop at nothing to conceal his gifts and stifle his spirit.

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Everybody asks what they would do if they lost their mind. Perhaps the better question is: what would you do to keep your mind?

With the advent of Alzheimer’s rising each year, some scientists speculate that cases of the disease could triple in the coming years.

What if there was a reason for this other than a natural one… In Moments, memory is the prized currency. In this world, one’s mental health is measured by how many memories one has access to.

The poor save their life savings to swallow a pill which allows them to briefly relive a cherished memory – the birth of a child, a wedding ceremony, a first kiss…

The wealthy have neuro-chips implanted into their brains granting them constant access to their complete collection of memories.

Our dynamic heroine, Ember Blaine, a common girl from one of the remote provinces with a knack for deception and getting herself into trouble, is recruited by a black-market group who hack “moments” by scalping society’s elite and selling their neuro-chip implants.

Ember enters another memory, another “moment”, but this one is different. Instead of taking out her target, Ember falls in love with him.

Instead of returning home, Ember encounters a world she never expected to find. Making formidable friends and fatal enemies, Ember finds herself flung on a rollercoaster quest to lead her people to freedom against a society bent on keeping them trapped in prisons of their own minds.

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In Too Deep is far from your typical love story. In this heart-pounding coming-of-age thriller inspired by my time as a student at a small liberal arts college in the South, the mundane world of a quaint college campus is transformed into a ruinous realm of torture and tantalizing, dangerous desire.

Here at Clearwater College, friends become enemies and lovers strangers.

No one is safe. Nothing is as it seems.

Kyle Bennett goes off to college, doing what so many young men his age do. Little does Kyle know that the place he will call his home for the next four years is a snare shrouded in innocence, a purgatory of peril, a creeping lair of sorrows, secrets, and shadows hell bent on swallowing him whole.

In this heaven soon to become Kyle’s own personal hell, the phantoms of the past and the specters of the future come to life. For Kyle, his fate comes in the form of a gorgeous female face.

Kyle meets the girl of his dreams, a beautiful, brown-eyed lover lying in wait for him – Sussie Bishop.

Tragedy soon strikes the star-crossed lovers. The tall, attractive, athletic poster students of Clearwater College are cast into catastrophe.

Kyle discovers lies, love, and lust. He makes friends, attracts and antagonizes enemies, gets into dramatic drunken brawls at fraternity parties, broods by the lake, and breaks up fights between roommates over territorial girlfriend disputes – all typical college-kid things.

But there is nothing normal about Kyle’s time at Clearwater.

During his final year of college, Kyle lives with a terrible, twisted secret only he and Sussie share. If revealed, the secret will doom them both.

But all paradises must come to an end, even Kyle’s star-crossed romance with Sussie Bishop.

When Sussie leaves Kyle, leaving him lost and alone, Kyle must bear the burden of the secret alone.

But Kyle soon discovers he is not alone.

You can bury the past, but you cannot always bury those in it.

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Terrence Turner turns sixteen and receives a death diagnosis: terminal cancer… Six months to live.

After Terrence’s left arm is amputated in a desperate attempt to stop the rapidly spreading cancer, Terrence’s dreams of playing professional basketball are shattered.

After a fateful visit from the mysterious hospital Janitor one night, Terrence begins to look at life differently. But The Janitor is not the only angel Terrence meets at Chicago Children’s Hospital.

Terrence’s first hospital roommate, the beautiful little Nicholas Carter, is also dying. Little Nicholas teaches Terrence all about life, love, and family during their stay together in the hospital.

But Terrence finds hope a hard currency to find when Nicholas succumbs to his mortal battle with lung cancer.

Terrence’s biological father, who had abandoned Terrence at birth, suddenly arrives back in his life. Terrence begins to spiral.

With only three months left to live, Terrence receives his “make-a-wish.” He and his best friend, JJ, attend a Chicago Bulls basketball game.

Meeting Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Phil Jackson and the rest of the legendary 1990s Bulls team, Terrence begins to feel the weight of his fading mortality and the limited time he has left. Terrence savors each precious moment he has left.

Terminal tells the magnificent, miraculous tale of one boy’s struggle to survive in the face of impossible odds as he chases his dream of becoming history’s first one-armed amputee NBA player.

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Betrayed BSC: Making Sense of Birmingham-Southern College’s Closure, a work of history, commentary, and investigative journalism, provides a comprehensive account of Birmingham-Southern College’s 168-year history and a close-up critical examination into the wide-ranging mechanics of The College’s regrettable closure.

Half of the proceeds from this project will go towards furthering activities which promote The College’s legacy.

Placing BSC’s closing in the national context of the rapidly vanishing liberal arts education, this work outlines a historical mapping and analytical overview of the various events, factors, forces, and decisions involved in the death of Birmingham-Southern College.

Birmingham-Southern College’s unfortunate fate is not a unique one. Many small, private liberal arts colleges struggle across the nation, forced to permanently close their doors due to financial constraints and lack of public sympathy and support for the classical educational model they offer.

The reverberations of Birmingham-Southern College’s death will be felt in the Birmingham community locally, in the South generally, and in our nation as a whole as we continue chopping away at liberal arts values.

Informed by the numerous insider accounts of faculty, board members, alumni, administrators, and others close to The College, this book tells the tragic tale (a cautionary one) of a small private liberal arts college in the American South (a dinosaur in our modern age of professional specialization) and its desperate quest to survive in a society bent on stifling its flame.

Forward, Ever.

“Cherished by us all forever,
Alma mater strong,
Hold our faithful hearts and minds
As we sing this song.”