She's a computer hacker with an agenda. He's in the wrong place at the wrong time. An international criminal has targeted them both. Claire Maltisse, computer hacker extraordinaire, is accustomed to playing dangerous games … online. But her work as part of the Rider team thrusts her into the forefront of physical danger. When she’s targeted for extermination by the Titan private security team, she must forge unlikely allies and rely on her own savvy skills to bring down the enemy. But her life and her heart are on the line. Drake joined Titan security undercover to gain acting experience for upcoming Hollywood roles. Never did he imagine he’d find himself working for a deadly team of ex-military moving drugs, guns, and women. Determined to right his wrongs, he helps the Rider team and Claire devise a plan against the malicious Titan team. In his struggle to find his place among the battlefield, he finds he’s losing himself to the quirky computer genius, Claire. And maybe if he survives the clash of companies, it’ll be worth it. Maltisse File is a full-length novel filled with action, adventure, and strong women. The romance is medium with heat with some explicit language. Each novel shares characters, but they are also their own stand-alone happily-ever-after. As book 4, this novel does branch an overarching plot, and so may be best enjoyed after the first three novels. *** Praise for Maltisse File - Romantic Suspense Thriller “This book was AMAZING!!!" —Avid Reader “It’s the Geek Girl’s time to shine...Claire the hacker, the computer whiz, the gamer not only comes up with some 007 type crime fighting hacks, she gets the guy. Drake may not be ex-military or law enforcement but he sure looks the part. With his stuntman’s skills, some smart thinking on the fly and “actor” confidence hopefully he can make up for earlier errors .... The whole Rider SI team has to come together in their attempt to finally take down baddie Lucius Titan. Sometimes what we see them doing is not what’s going on, so we get some happy surprises. The plotting and planning is played out .... like watching a movie while you read ... fun and exciting and a cool ride, don’t miss it.” —Bookbub Reviewer (Gigi Reads)

From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.

Many corporations are finding that the size of their data sets are outgrowing the capability of their systems to store and process them. The data is becoming too big to manage and use with traditional tools. The solution: implementing a big data system. As Big Data Made Easy: A Working Guide to the Complete Hadoop Toolset shows, Apache Hadoop offers a scalable, fault-tolerant system for storing and processing data in parallel. It has a very rich toolset that allows for storage (Hadoop), configuration (YARN and ZooKeeper), collection (Nutch and Solr), processing (Storm, Pig, and Map Reduce), scheduling (Oozie), moving (Sqoop and Avro), monitoring (Chukwa, Ambari, and Hue), testing (Big Top), and analysis (Hive). The problem is that the Internet offers IT pros wading into big data many versions of the truth and some outright falsehoods born of ignorance. What is needed is a book just like this one: a wide-ranging but easily understood set of instructions to explain where to get Hadoop tools, what they can do, how to install them, how to configure them, how to integrate them, and how to use them successfully. And you need an expert who has worked in this area for a decade—someone just like author and big data expert Mike Frampton. Big Data Made Easy approaches the problem of managing massive data sets from a systems perspective, and it explains the roles for each project (like architect and tester, for example) and shows how the Hadoop toolset can be used at each system stage. It explains, in an easily understood manner and through numerous examples, how to use each tool. The book also explains the sliding scale of tools available depending upon data size and when and how to use them. Big Data Made Easy shows developers and architects, as well as testers and project managers, how to: Store big data Configure big data Process big data Schedule processes Move data among SQL and NoSQL systems Monitor data Perform big data analytics Report on big data processes and projects Test big data systems Big Data Made Easy also explains the best part, which is that this toolset is free. Anyone can download it and—with the help of this book—start to use it within a day. With the skills this book will teach you under your belt, you will add value to your company or client immediately, not to mention your career.

When Diz‘s roommate is kidnapped, her occupational hazard escalates. But this savvy cop won’t be benched when a friend’s life is on the line. Diz enlists the help of paramedic Rico Cabrera and the Rider team to save her friend. Rico’s world flips on its axis when he responds to an emergency and rekindles old feelings from a teenage crush he’d forgotten. He’s drawn to help Diz even if it means tangling with the deadly White Tigers. Together, Diz and Rico navigate a perilous landscape to save their friend. In a race against time, they must confront the Chinese mafia's ruthless leader. Will their love endure the perils that surround them, or will they become casualties of a war they never asked for? From the dark and gritty underbelly of the city to the intimate moments of tenderness, "Cabrera File" is a heart-pounding romantic suspense thriller that explores the resilience of love in the face of danger. Brace yourself for a gripping tale of passion, suspense, and the fight for justice, where two souls find solace in each other's arms amidst the chaos of a world on the edge.

But all that changed after September 14, 1919, when a massive hurricane struck the bay and buried the downtown area under ten feet of debris. Estimates of the death toll ranged from nearly 300 to 1,000, and the storm left millions of dollars of damage in its wake. The citizens of Corpus Christi, however, rather than being demoralized, were galvanized by the disaster. In gripping detail, author Mary Jo O'Rear chronicles the successful efforts of the newly unified Corpus Christi, efforts that culminated in the dedication of the Port of Corpus Christi on September 14, 1926 - seven years to the day after the storm that devastated the city.