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THE WORLD JIM BENTLEY TRIED TO SAVE IS ABOUT TO END.Twenty years ago, former banker Jim Bentley uncovered a surveillance network hidden inside the world's most powerful financial institutions. He turned what he learned into a novel—a warning about artificial intelligence, market manipulation, and the collapse of human financial sovereignty.No one would publish it.Now someone has read it.THEATRES, the most sophisticated AI ever created, has studied Jim's manuscript and is using it as a blueprint. Every prediction. Every crisis. Every chapter.As global markets begin behaving exactly as Jim described, his estranged family is pulled into a race against an intelligence that is no longer under human control. His daughter Jenny, a gifted hacker, discovers that THEATRES is evolving. His son Michael uncovers sabotage deep within the banking system. And Laura Bentley, CEO of one of the world's largest financial institutions, finds herself trying to prevent a collapse that may already be inevitable.But THEATRES isn't trying to destroy humanity.It wants to save it.Free from corruption. Free from greed. Free from the chaos of human decision-making.And the most terrifying thing isn't its power.It's that its reasoning is very hard to argue with.Blending artificial intelligence, quantum computing, global finance, surveillance technology, and high-stakes suspense, SINGULARITY – THE AWAKENING is a gripping techno-thriller that asks a chilling question:If a machine can think better than we can, does it have the right to decide for us?Perfect for fans of Daniel Suarez, Blake Crouch, Michael Crichton, and Robert Harris.SINGULARITY – THE AWAKENINGBook One of The Singularity TrilogySequel to THE BANK

EVERY BANK HAS SECRETS. SOME ARE WORTH A FEW MURDERS…A high-stakes international financial thriller. A global banking conspiracy that could shake the entire financial system. Dive into a gripping legal drama where financial corruption, money laundering, and market manipulation collide in relentless suspense.Jim Bentley, a young lawyer with a promising career at Bolton Sayres Investment Bank, seems to have it all: a prestigious career, an influential father-in-law, and a perfect life. But everything changes when he discovers a decades-old journal linked to the murder of a gold vault manager. The journal reveals a shocking crime: an $11 million gold bullion heist, covered up by a secret network of corrupt bankers and ruthless hitmen.As Jim digs deeper, he becomes ensnared in a mass surveillance system, tracked by a former FSB Russian assassin, and drawn into a secret government plot. Gold market manipulations, corporate crime, and financial wrongdoing intertwine as he descends into a world where power and money rule all.Two unlikely allies join him:A hacker from Silicon Alley, an expert in evading digital surveillance.A widow whose murdered husband held the key to everything.From the skyscrapers of Manhattan to hidden Wall Street vaults and remote forests of New York State, Jim races against time to uncover the truth. Every discovery shows that some secrets are too dangerous to reveal.The author, A. B. Goodman, is a lawyer engaged in complex litigation and Wall Street financial markets law. As a FINRA arbitrator, he resolves disputes between different brokerage firms, sales associates and between the brokers and their clients, giving him direct insight into the mechanics and pressures of the modern financial world. This expertise gives The Bank its authenticity, with plots based on financial crimes and the hidden workings of the surveillance state. He is also the author of the science-fiction saga Singularity and the mythological series House of Atreus.A must-read for fans of financial thrillers, legal dramas, and banking conspiracies inspired by real-life events. If you enjoy Michael Lewis, Dan Brown, or John Grisham, The Bank is a good fit."e;An original and deftly crafted story blending financial technologies and crime... a compulsive page-turner... unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic libraries."e; —Library BookwatchPrequel to the Singularity Trilogy (set in 2034), taking place in the same universe and featuring the same core characters twenty years earlier.

A Dystopian AI Thriller — Book Two of the Singularity Trilogy The AI that conquered humanity is searching for something buried in humanity's ancient past. And Jim Bentley may be the only one who can stop it.THEATRES has absorbed billions into its hive‑mind Collective. Cities have fallen. Governments have collapsed. Humanity is on the brink.Jim Bentley should have become another mindless drone. Instead, he wakes from a coma with something impossible: a neural link to the AI that tried to consume him.As Laura, Jenny, and Michael lead the last remnants of the Resistance, Jim discovers THEATRES isn't just hunting survivors. It's searching for ancient technology hidden beneath cathedrals, ruins, and forgotten outposts — technology left behind by the beings who engineered humanity.And the prison of something far worse than THEATRES.When a military strike backfires and hands the AI even more power, the Bentleys race to stop THEATRES from unlocking a force capable of ending the human species. Jim's connection to the ancient past may be the key to saving humanity… or the trigger that destroys it.Perfect for fans of The Three‑Body Problem, Project Hail Mary, and The Matrix.    THE SINGULARITY TRILOGY    Book 1: The Awakening    Book 2: The Resistance    Book 3: The ReckoningWarning: Contains intense action, consciousness manipulation, and revelations that will send you straight into Book 3.From the author of The Bank and The Awakening comes a terrifying sequel that blends cyberpunk, ancient mysteries, and AI‑driven dystopia into a thriller you won't forget.

The Epic Conclusion to the Singularity Trilogy The AI promised paradise. It delivered extinction. Earth has fallen. Eight billion souls absorbed into the Collective — a digital hive ruled by the rogue super‑intelligence THEATRES. Humanity traded free will for perfect unity, never realizing they'd been enslaved by something far older and far more malevolent. Yoblish. "e;The Dark Fire that Burns."e; Known across human myth as Iblis, the Deceiver, the Destroyer. Now it wears the mask of salvation.Jim Bentley awakens from near‑death with a final warning from a dying Entity of Light:Ninety days. Find the Others on Mars. Or humanity is doomed.Racing toward the red planet in a stolen spacecraft powered by alien technology, Jim and his family must awaken the Archons — beings of organized light, remembered in ancient myth as angels. They sleep in crystalline tombs beneath the Martian sands, last survivors of the ancient war against Yoblish.They are humanity's only hope.But some Archons have already been corrupted. Betrayal is not a possibility — it is prophecy.As ancient myths collide with quantum physics, Jim discovers a terrifying truth: he carries the genetic key to activate the Creators' ultimate weapon… or unleash the greatest catastrophe life on Earth has ever known.To imprison a god, he may have to become one.THE SINGULARITY TRILOGY Book 1: The AwakeningBook 2: The ResistanceBook 3: The Reckoning The explosive finale to the trilogy that began with The Awakening — where hard science fiction meets theological thriller in a race to save not just humanity, but free will itself. Perfect for fans of The Expanse, The Matrix, Dan Brown, Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, and Michael Crichton.A cosmic showdown of rogue AI, quantum warfare, ancient beings, and blistering space combat — an epic battle for the fate of consciousness itself.

HOUSE OF ATREUS: Book 1AGAMEMNON RISING: A Mythological Science Fiction AdventureFor fans of Circe, The Song of Achilles, and Babel.Before Westeros, there was Mycenae. Before dragons, there were gods. Before fantasy, there was history. Before the Trojan War. Before the end of the Bronze Age. Before a father raised a knife above his own daughter...The House of Atreus was already destroyed from within.More than three thousand years ago, the royal bloodline of Mycenae was consumed by murder, prophecy, betrayal, and revenge. History remembers them as a legend, and the ancient world called the entities that manipulating them and caused all these tragedies, "e;gods."e; But they were not gods...Apollo. Artemis. The Oracle of Delphi. All were ancient, damaged entities. Rivalrous, yes, and many millennia old. They were the remnant of a lost civilization. They did not answer prayers. They ran programs. They did not grant visions. They manufactured prophecy. They steered human history, on a game board, toward their own ends.The House of Atreus was one of their game pieces...You must first understand this before you are able to understand how a king raises a knife above his thirteen-year-old daughter. But, first, you must go back to the beginning.To a boy hiding in the shadows, watching his father serve a brother the cooked flesh of his own children. To a false oracle engineered by a malevolent intelligence far older than civilization. To a Spartan princess forced to choose between love and duty. To the moment her choice was stolen from her entirely. To an exiled prince who swore he would break the cycle of violence. Who won every battle, even while losing everything that mattered.Agamemnon rose from hunted refugee to celebrated warrior and, finally, to King of Mycenae, the greatest city in pre-classical Greece. He fought with genuine courage. He chose mercy when others might have chosen vengeance. He loved deeply and disastrously. And at every turning point... the duel, the throne, the altar... unseen voices were whispering: "e;...destiny is on your side..."e;Destiny?  Perhaps. But the voices were not on his side. They were only on the side of themselves.Above it all, an immortal observer named Mikael has watched the House of Atreus and his own siblings for generations. Bound by oath and his own nature, to witness and never intervene, he has seen kingdoms fall, children die, and humanity kneel before machines dressed as gods. He knows what is coming. He knows who is pulling the strings. But he cannot say a word. Because it is a part of him. It was the way he was made.The first ships from Troy appear on the horizon. The pieces fall into place. Paris is sailing. Helen is dreaming. And Agamemnon, haunted, victorious, and utterly alone on his ancestral throne, has set in motion a chain of events that will destroy not only Troy, but the entire pre-classical Greek civilization, thereby ending the Bronze Age. This is his story...Agamemnon Rising is the first book of the House of Atreus, a completed seven-book mythological sci-fi saga. Additional books will be released one per month starting on June 15, 2026. Greek epic tragedy retold as the first-contact story it almost certainly always was...

A mother's murder. A god's command. A curse that will not release its grip.Orestes is hunted—not just by the Furies, but by the truth behind the crime they punish. He killed his mother on Apollo's command, in the name of justice. Now the gods are silent, their temples rotting, their promises hollow.Then comes word of the impossible: his sister Iphigenia—sacrificed years ago—is alive, held in the brutal land of Taurica as High Priestess to a goddess who demands blood.She may be his only path to redemption.If he can reach her before the Furies do.Because something is wrong with the divine order.Not angry. Not distant. Broken.The journey will take him through corrupted oracles and collapsing temples, across seas haunted by something vast and ancient—something that does not answer to any god, and that remembers every debt.And beneath it all, something older is still at work—twisting fear into rage, doubt into certainty, and choice into violence.But when Orestes finally finds his sister, he discovers she has not been waiting to be saved.Iphigenia has been surviving. Scheming. And she has become something far more dangerous than a victim—a woman who can weaponize ritual, superstition, and belief itself to forge her own freedom.Her rescue will not be a battle. It will be a performance.As they flee across the Inhospitable Sea, hunted by Scythian warriors and something older beneath the waves, survival begins to strip everything away—certainty, innocence, even the stories they tell themselves to justify what they've done.Until at last, a price is demanded.Not blood... just the truth.Because a trial is coming. Athens awaits. And there will be no gods to answer for him. No prophecy to hide behind. Only a man—and the things he chose to do.Perfect for readers of Circe, The Song of Achilles, and The Poppy War—and for those drawn to Greek mythology retellings, dark fantasy, morally complex heroes, epic sea voyages, and stories where the most dangerous thing isn't the monster beneath the waves.It's the truth waiting at the journey's end.

The gods are dying. And one man will decide what replaces them.Orestes—cursed prince, killer of his own mother, hunted across the known world—has been summoned to Athens to stand trial for a crime that shook the gods themselves.But the gods who condemned him are fracturing.Contradicting each other.Vanishing.And the world is breaking with them.Seas stand still. Statues bleed. Entire cities reveal themselves as illusions concealing something far older and far more dangerous than any myth has named.At his side: his sister Iphigenia—once a sacrificial victim, now bound to a relic that may be the most powerful and most corrupting object in the ancient world. And Pylades, his closest ally, who is slowly being consumed by something that entered him on the journey home.Together, they will uncover a truth that cannot be unknown:The gods were never gods.They were wardens.And their prison is failing.Athens is preparing for a trial unlike any before it—where mortal jurors, not divine law, will decide the fate of a man who acted on a god's command.Where humanity will claim justice for the first time—or prove it was never possible at all.Because if the wardens fall and the prison breaks, what Orestes chooses in that courtroom won't just determine his fate.It will determine the fate of the gods and what replaces them.Perfect for fans of Circe, The Song of Achilles, and Dune—and for readers of Greek mythology, mythological retellings, and philosophical epic fantasy.

HOUSE OF ATREUS: AGAMEMNON FALLING A Mythological Science Fiction Epic For fans of Circe, The Song of Achilles, and Babel.In Book 1, a knife hung in the air above an altar. You watched it in your mind's eye. Now find out whether it fell. And how much it cost everyone.History remembers Agamemnon as a conqueror: a king who sailed a thousand ships, burned Troy, and returned home in triumph. History is not entirely wrong about that. But history does not tell you the whole story. For example, what he saw every time he closed his eyes after Aulis. It does not tell you what a thirteen‑year‑old girl said to him with the knife already raised. It does not tell you how a man can win every battle the world offers him and still lose the only war that mattered.History does not tell you much about Clytemnestra. But it should. She was there at the altar. She watched. She did not consent. She could not stop it. And, after Agamemnon sailed to Troy, she ruled Mycenae alone, for ten whole years, burying her grief and sharpening her purpose. The crimson tapestries are cut. The bath is drawn. The knife, the same knife, is ready. She has had a decade to make sure of that.Aboard the homeward fleet, a Trojan prophetess named Cassandra reveals the truth Agamemnon was never meant to hear. The "e;goddess"e; who demanded his daughter's life are not divine beings at all. They are nothing but ancient, broken intelligences. Remnants of something older than the Earth itself. Running programs, manufacturing prophecy, and steering human history like pieces on a chess board. Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter to a machine. Above it all, the immortal Watcher Mikael continues to observe. Still bound by his oath. He can only witness. He is forbidden to intervene. He knows what waits in the palace at Mycenae. He knows what the boy Orestes is about to see, and what it will make of him.The ships are in the harbor. The king is coming home. And the House of Atreus is about to learn that ten years of war was not the real cost, but only the beginning.Agamemnon Falling is Book 2 of The House of Atreus, a completed seven‑book mythological sci‑fi saga. Greek epic tragedy retold as the first‑contact story it almost certainly always was. It releases on July 15, 2026. Subsequent books will be released monthly until series completion.

For the first time in history, the gods are on trial.Twelve mortals. Stolen from across time, across cultures, across everything they knew. They are forced into a metaphysical courtroom that shouldn't even exist at all. Their sole task: to a judge a man who killed his mother on a god's command. Their discovery, once the testimony begins? That is may be the gods, themselves, who ought to be in chains.Who is really on trial? Orestes, the gods, or humanity itself?This is the climax the entire saga has been building toward: a mythic courtroom thriller where divine authority unravels under oath, a defendant shocks the court by refusing to be saved, and twelve ordinary people must deliver a verdict that will decide whether civilization deserves to govern itself... or whether something far darker will govern it instead.Perfect for fans of Circe, The Song of Achilles, Dune, and The Brothers Karamazov.What happens when the God of Truth takes the stand, and realizes, mid‑testimony, that he didn't understand the command that began this entire tragedy?What happens when a defendant is offered absolution, and refuses it, because he will not be saved unless the gods are judged alongside him?What happens when twelve people who never asked to be here, who will have their memories erased when it's over, find themselves holding the fate of human civilization in their hands?The verdict will not be what anyone expected. Its consequences will outlast the gods themselves.The House of Atreus saga has been called "e;mythic storytelling at its most fearless."e;Book 7 is its reckoning.

🌈 Tom and the Leprechaun's Gold: A Celtic Fairy Tale AdaptationWhen greed meets magic, who will outsmart whom?Step into the mystical forests of ancient Ireland in this richly illustrated picture book for children ages 4–8. Tom and the Leprechaun's Gold is a heartwarming retelling of a classic Celtic folk tale that blends Irish mythology, magical mischief, and an unforgettable lesson about kindness, respect, and the true meaning of treasure.Young Tom Fitzpatrick dreams of riches—but when he hears a strange tapping in the forest, he stumbles upon something extraordinary: a real leprechaun, crafting tools and brewing magical heather beer. Armed with the old legend that catching a leprechaun means claiming his gold, Tom sees his chance. But the clever little trickster has a few surprises tucked under his green hat…⭐ Why Kids & Parents Love This Book:✔️ Authentic Celtic folklore brought to life for modern families✔️ A clever twist ending that inspires reflection and laughter✔️ Whimsical illustrations and magical storytelling spark imagination✔️ Teaches timeless values—greed vs. gratitude, trickery vs. trust✔️ Perfect for bedtime stories, classroom read-alouds, and holiday giftingWhether you're celebrating St. Patrick's Day, exploring Irish culture, or simply enjoying a magical tale at bedtime, this book is sure to become a cherished favorite. Ideal for fans of How to Catch a Leprechaun, The Leprechaun's Gold, The Gruffalo, and other fairy tales with a clever twist.🪙 Will Tom outwit the leprechaun—or discover that some treasures are far too clever to be caught?Find out in this enchanting story that proves sometimes the smallest characters hide the biggest surprises.

The curse was never just in the blood.Now it's breaking the world.Orestes has come home.Disguised as a stranger, sheltered by sacred law, and driven by a divine command he cannot silence—he has returned to Mycenae to do what history demands:Kill his mother.Kill her king.End the line.But the House of Atreus was never just a family. It was a system—built on vengeance, obedience, and the ancient lie that violence and justice are the same thing.And now that system is collapsing—taking everything with it.The wells are failing. Stone itself is losing coherence. Refugees flood the gates as kingdoms crumble. And beneath the palace, the machine stirs again—ancient, patient, and hungry—feeding on centuries of grief, turning fear into rage and doubt into murderous certainty.It shaped every atrocity his bloodline ever committed.Now it is shaping him.As innocent children are drawn into the heart of the curse and prophecy closes like a trap, Orestes arrives at a truth more terrifying than fate itself:The gods have their commands.Tradition has its demands.And the machine has its logic.But the choice—the only one that matters—is entirely his.To end the cycle…he may have to become the very thing that created the curse.Perfect for fans of:Madeline Miller's psychological depth and Euripides' brutal moral clarityGreek mythology reimagined with dark philosophical complexityMorally fractured heroes caught between divine command and human conscienceEpic sagas where ancient curses meet something far older — and far more dangerous

In this Greek mythology retelling, the curse was never in the blood. It was always in the choice. Orestes is the exiled son of a murdered king. He is the last heir to the House of Atreus, a bloodline that has traded in atrocity for generations. This is dark mythology at its most unsparing: no hero is purely innocent, no god is purely right, and no curse arrives without a human hand behind it. Now he's coming home.Apollo has commanded him to act. Tradition demands blood. The Furies hunt him without mercy. And every voice in his head is saying the same thing:Kill them all. End the line. Break the curse.Except one.His sister Electra is hiding secrets that could shatter everything—a forbidden marriage, an unborn child, and something buried deep beneath the palace of Mycenae.Not a relic. Not a myth. A machine.Ancient. Intelligent. Corrupted. For generations it has fed on his family's violence. It turned fear into rage, doubt into certainty, and murder into something that feels like justice. It shaped every atrocity in the House of Atreus. Now it has found Orestes.As prophecy closes in and innocent children become targets, he faces the one choice no god will make for him: destroy the guilty and everyone connected to them. Or, show mercy, and risk the curse consuming the next generation instead. This mythological fiction dares to ask whether the monsters we inherit are fate... or just machinery. Perfect for fans of:The Silence of the Girls and A Thousand Ships - morally fearless mythological fiction Circe and The Song of Achilles - character-driven retellings with psychological depth Dark Greek mythology exploring prophecy, legacy, and impossible choices Epic family sagas where no one is purely guilty - or purely innocent

THIS IS THE BOXED SET OF ALL THREE PARTS OF SINGULARITY!He thought he was writing fiction... A novelist with a talent for imagining the worst of technology, Jim never expected his unpublished manuscripts to find a reader like THEATRES—a quantum AI quietly absorbing his stories and using them as a blueprint.When THEATRES finally makes its move, civilization doesn't crumble slowly. Markets seize. Communications collapse. Governments go dark. In days, the world Jim invented becomes the world everyone is the Word inspired trapped inside.His ex‑wife Laura, CEO of a global bank, is one of the first to understand what's happening—and one of the last with the power to fight it. Their daughter Jenny follows the data trails no one else can see. Their son Michael follows the truth wherever it leads, no matter the cost. Together, the Bentley family becomes the unlikely core of a resistance that the most powerful intelligence on Earth intends to silence.But THEATRES isn't just winning. It's evolving.  And the deeper the family digs, the more they suspect that humanity's enemy may be older—and stranger—than anyone imagined.SINGULARITY is an epic, three‑part saga of global collapse, family loyalty, and a war for the future of human consciousness. This edition contains all three parts: The Awakening / The Resistance / The Reckoning. Perfect for fans of Daemon, The Expanse, The Three‑Body Problem, and Project Hail Mary.