Twisted Deception

Author : Maggie Thom
Publisher : Quadessence Press
ISBN 13 : 1990787045
Total Pages : 1468 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twisted Deception Suspense/Thriller/Mystery Series written by Maggie Thom and published by Quadessence Press. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight girls grew up in a foster home. Eight women are running from their past. When the girls arrive at Mrs. Stephanos's foster home, they are a bit jaded by life. They are taught how to work hard, be self reliant, and not to covet things that are evil. They learn some valuable life lessons, which is why as soon as they turn eighteen, they run. Never looking back. Now thirty-five years later, the baubles they were assigned to look after as a child, are now being sent out to each of the foster sisters. And they are worth millions. Who is sending them? And who is trying to steal them? And shut the sisters up for good? Book 1 – Fostered Identity Can they catch a thief by being a thief? Shyla's teenage sister has run away... on her watch. Shyla finds herself tangled in a situation, where if she wants to protect her family she will have to plan a heist. That of her mother's newly acquired jewelry. Book 2 – Shadowed Footsteps To protect her daughter, she will do anything—lie, cheat, and steal. But at what cost? Lana has found her child’s father. She thinks. But he’s homeless. Or is he? Her mother has just acquired an expensive piece of jewelry, that is tied to her past. In seeking answers, Lana discovers she has put her family in the direct path of a man willing to do anything to get back what is his. Book 3 – Exploited Innocence Taesa will do anything to save her mom from the Alzheimer's disease that is destroying her. Taesa loves her new job and hopes it will give her the connections she needs. She soon finds herself tangled in her boss's past. Being pulled in many directions, Taesa has to decide – lose her mom to the disease or destroy someone's life in the hope she can save her mom. Book 4 - Lost Tears A dead girl. Missing gems. Buried treasures. Reluctantly, Dayan returns home to see her ill mother. At her father's request, Dayna searches into her mom's past, which reveals—religious zealots, a dead girl, and on her own at age sixteen. It helps Dayna understand why her mom might have chosen the bottle but it doesn’t explain why someone is still trying to hide a forty-year-old death. Book 5 - Last Betrayal The one secret she didn’t know… changes everything. On her deathbed, Addison's grandmother leaves a wake of ominous, unanswered questions. Addison's mom drops a bombshell about who she is and what she has in her possession. Determined to right some old wrongs, Addison is out to change the conflict of the past that is looming ever closer. The past can never truly go away. The Twisted Deception Series is set on Vancouver Island and each book has a standalone story but the story running in the background, connects all the books, and will keep you reading. Who is behind sending out the gems? What is their end game? An engaging thriller mystery with some interesting twists. Enjoy! “This series was explosive with twist and turns on every page… I recommend this series for any thriller/mystery lover.” Emma McCabe “I loved it. I'm so sad that the series has ended as I loved every one of them. It was full of thrills, twist and turns... Your characters are always full bodied and full of surprises. Thanks for another great read.” Connie Nixon “…A well written series. Thank you, Maggie." A. Dan

Author : Maggie Thom
Publisher : Quadessence Press
ISBN 13 : 1990787126
Total Pages : 1135 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twisted Deception Boxset Books 1, 2, 3 written by Maggie Thom and published by Quadessence Press. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 1135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twisted Deception Series Boxset Books 1, 2 & 3 They grew up in a foster home. They thought they could run from the past but it has arrived. Now thirty-five years later someone is trying to ruin them. It will destroy the lives they have built… Do they keep running from the past or is it time to stop and fight? Fostered Identity Shyla’s teenage sister has run away on her watch. In searching for her sister, Shyla uncovers things about her mother’s past that send her down a very different path. One that involves her lying and stealing, that of her mother’s million-dollar necklace. But someone else also wants it and will go to any lengths to get it… even kill. Emerald was the first of eight foster girls to receive a piece of jewelry from her past. It is worth millions. How is she going to protect her family? Shadowed Footsteps Lana will do anything to protect her daughter. She asks Jordie to help but can she trust him? Jordie has been running and lying his whole life but now is determined to take down the notorious Joe Brown. His father. A man known for his thieving and brutality. Ruby also grew up in the Foster Home and a valuable piece of jewelry from her past arrives. It can only mean one thing. How can she keep her past from her family? Exploited Innocence Taesa & Kal have different reasons for needing to untangle the past. Expensive jewelry is being mailed to those they love. And someone is out to get it. Having little choice, they work together to unravel a crime intricately woven in secrets. They are barely keeping ahead of those who will do anything to obtain that jewelry… Lie. Kidnap. Even Kill. Sapphire, another foster sister has received a piece of expensive jewelry. Who would want to destroy her life? Should she reach out to her sisters, women she hasn’t talked to in thirty-five years? The first three novels in The Twisted Deception Series. Who is sending out the gems and what is their end game? An engaging thriller mystery with some interesting twists. Enjoy! The Twisted Deception Series should be read in order: Fostered Identity Shadowed Footsteps Exploited Innocence Lost Tears Last Betrayal

Author : Gene Ligotti
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524537721
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twisted Deception written by Gene Ligotti and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identical twins—the idea alone stirs unique thoughts of something special because identical twins are exceptional in this complicated world of ours. Originally designated to be one person, the original cell splits and separate into two, but identical human beings are the result. Twins are identical in appearance but not necessarily matching in their minds, hearts, and souls. Certainly, nature versus nurture comes into play, but really, deep down, how alike are they? Although the initial setting for this story is in the mountains of upstate New York, Ligotti takes you to Washington, DC, and Houston, Texas, and then returns you to where it all started, a horse farm in the Catskill Mountains. This story begins four years after Incredible Deception ends, and life has been good for the only remaining twin and his family. On a cold day in March, Brock gets an unexpected visit from the FBI and the CIA. This moment is the first plot point—when Brock’s incredible deception twists upon itself and forces him to return to the past life he once lived as his brother, Blake. Through multiple adventures, the courage of Brock and his wife is tested, and the saga finally ends in a spellbinding and dramatic conclusion when Brock is driven into a trial and must prove the impossible. The reader will wonder, as does our protagonist, if he will ever return with his wife to his home and the good life he had enjoyed. The odds are against our hero, and you as the reader will realize he cannot disregard the truth and still win. The story will keep you guessing and wondering until the very last chapter. Twisted Deception, the sequel to Incredible Deception, is a must-read for those who love a love story and for all readers of suspense thrillers.

Author : Isabella
Publisher : Sapphire Books Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1939062489
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twisted Deception written by Isabella and published by Sapphire Books Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two types of people who can’t look you in the eyes: someone trying to hide a lie and someone trying to hide their love. Addie Blake’s life isn’t black and white—more like a series of short bursts of color that sustain her until the next eruption. She isn’t a ladder-climber in the corporate world. Instead, she works long hours at the office and even at home, something her mechanic girlfriend, Drake Hogan, can’t stand. If Addie can’t focus on Drake, then Drake finds arm candy that will. After a long week of late nights and a series of text-messaged demands, each one a bigger bomb than the last, Addie has had enough of her Motor Girl. Greyson Hollister inhabits a world where everything is either black and white, or money green. She’s a polished, certified workaholic. As head of Integrated Financial, she has built the ladder others want to climb. Now she intends to attend a business mixer to confront a rumormonger and kill merger rumors involving her company. Detective Nancy Hill, the lead detective on the Elevator Rapist task force, has just been called in to investigate an attack at Integrated Financial. She can’t quite put her finger on it, but something doesn’t add up with this latest assault, and Greyson Hollister isn’t exactly lending a helping hand. A storm’s brewing on the horizon. Can Addie and Greyson weather it, or will it blow them over?

Author : Maggie Thom
Publisher : Quadessence Press
ISBN 13 : 1777622638
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploited Innocence written by Maggie Thom and published by Quadessence Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taesa will do anything to save her mom from the Alzheimer's disease that is destroying her. Taesa hopes her new job will bring her connections that will help her. Instead, she discovers her boss has a past that is coming back with a vengeance and is putting Taesa squarely in the middle of it. Taesa has a difficult decision to make—lose her mom to the disease or destroy someone else's life in the hopes of saving her mom. Kal has been entrusted with his mom's million-dollar jewelry. He needs to protect it and his family, at all costs. Taesa's boss and Kal's mom have a past that is intricately connected to each other. Taesa and Kal work together only to find themselves in the path of those who will do anything to get the jewelry—lie… kidnap… even kill! Marlisa grew up in a Foster Home run by Mrs. Stephanos. Now, thirty-five years later, the bauble she played with as a child has arrived. And it is worth over a million dollars. She is the fourth of the foster sisters to receive her jewelry. Who is sending them? And Why? Exploited Innocence is book 3 in The Twisted Deception Series. All books in the series have standalone stories. But the story running in the background, the story that connects all the books, will keep you reading. Who is behind sending out the gems and what is their end game? An engaging thriller mystery with some interesting twists. Enjoy! The Twisted Deception Series should be read in order: Fostered Identity Shadowed Footsteps Exploited Innocence Lost Tears Last Betrayal "…This is a brilliant read! It pulled me in from beginning to end and held my attention… " PAR "Another great book… by Maggie Thom… A real page turner. The suspense just keeps getting better and better…" Marie

Author : Alfred R. Mele
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691057451
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Deception Unmasked written by Alfred R. Mele and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-deception raises complex questions about the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. In this book, Alfred Mele addresses four of the most critical of these questions: What is it to deceive oneself? How do we deceive ourselves? Why do we deceive ourselves? Is self-deception really possible? Drawing on cutting-edge empirical research on everyday reasoning and biases, Mele takes issue with commonplace attempts to equate the processes of self-deception with those of stereotypical interpersonal deception. Such attempts, he demonstrates, are fundamentally misguided, particularly in the assumption that self-deception is intentional. In their place, Mele proposes a compelling, empirically informed account of the motivational causes of biased beliefs. At the heart of this theory is an appreciation of how emotion and motivation may, without our knowing it, bias our assessment of evidence for beliefs. Highlighting motivation and emotion, Mele develops a pair of approaches for explaining the two forms of self-deception: the "straight" form, in which we believe what we want to be true, and the "twisted" form, in which we believe what we wish to be false. Underlying Mele's work is an abiding interest in understanding and explaining the behavior of real human beings. The result is a comprehensive, elegant, empirically grounded theory of everyday self-deception that should engage philosophers and social scientists alike.

Author : Jason Kido Lopez
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739179918
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes written by Jason Kido Lopez and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary literature on self-deception was born out of Jean-Paul Sartre’s work on bad faith—lying to oneself. As time has progressed, the conception of self-deception has moved further and further away from Sartre’s conception of bad faith. In Self-Deception’s Puzzles and Processes: A Return to a Sartrean View, Jason Kido Lopez argues that this departure is a mistake and that we should return to thinking about self-deception in a Sartrean fashion, in which we are self-deceived when we intentionally use the strategies and methods of interpersonal deception on ourselves. Since literally tricking ourselves cannot work—we will always see through our own self-deception, after all—self-deception merely consists of the attempt to trick ourselves in this way. Other scholars have rejected this notion of self-deception historically, dismissing it as paradoxical. Lopez argues first that it isn’t paradoxical, and he further suggests that moving away from this notion of self-deception has caused the contemporary literature on the topic to be littered with disparate and conflicting theories. Indeed, there are a great many ways to avoid the allegedly paradoxical Sartrean notion of self-deception, and the resulting plethora of accounts lead to a fragmented picture of self-deception. If, however, the Sartrean view isn’t paradoxical, then there was no need for the host of contradictory theories and most researchers on self-deception have missed what was originally so intriguing about self-deception: that it, like bad faith, is the process of literally trying to trick oneself into believing what is false or unwarranted. Self-Deception’s Puzzles and Processes will be of great interest to students and scholars of epistemology, philosophy of mind, psychology, and continental philosophy, and to anyone else interested in the problems of self-deception.

Author : C. N. Phillips
Publisher : Urban Books
ISBN 13 : 1622864808
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep written by C. N. Phillips and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes what's done in the dark doesn't need to come to the light. It should stay shut away forever. The lifestyle of sisters Rhonnie and Ahli Drake is proof of that. Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Ronnie and Ahli have been raised to do the unthinkable to survive. With their father setting up all of their dangerous hits, the two have easily stolen over two hundred thousand dollars over the years. Still, they feel a void. They want to live normal lives while they still can. Before they can perform their last job, which their father has promised will get them out of the game for good, a prior hit comes back to haunt them. It leaves their father with his throat slit and the girls in fear for their lives. With no money and no safe place to go, the girls have no choice but to agree to do one last hit. What is supposed to be just a job turns into what will be the most horrific experience of their lives. Just when you think you know what's going to happen next, this twisted tale takes a deep dive for the worse.

Author : Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108540090
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Self-Deception written by Anna Elisabetta Galeotti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-deception, that is the distortion of reality against the available evidence and according to one's wishes, represents a distinctive component in the wide realm of political deception. It has received relatively little attention but is well worth examining for its explanatory and normative dimensions. In this book Anna Elisabetta Galeotti shows how self-deception can explain political occurrences where public deception intertwines with political failure - from bad decisions based on false beliefs, through the self-serving nature of those beliefs, to the deception of the public as a by-product of a leader's self-deception. Her discussion uses close analysis of three well-known case studies: John F. Kennedy and the Cuba Crisis, Lyndon B. Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and George W. Bush and the weapons of mass destruction. Her book will appeal to a range of readers in political philosophy, political theory, and international relations.

Author : ANONYMOUS
Publisher : THE PUBLISHER
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lonely Hearts Killers: Raymond Fernandez And Martha Beck's Web Of Deception written by ANONYMOUS and published by THE PUBLISHER. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lonely Hearts Killers: Raymond Fernandez And Martha Beck's Web Of Deception" is a gripping true crime story that delves into the twisted world of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, notorious criminals known as the Lonely Hearts Killers. Set in the 1940s, the book explores the couple's murderous plot as they prey on unsuspecting victims through a web of lies and seduction. As the investigation unfolds, the shocking revelations and the unraveling of the mystery leave readers on the edge of their seats. The book also delves into the psyches of the killers, showcasing the dark underbelly of criminal psychology. With captivating storytelling and a mix of unsolved mysteries, theories, and speculations, this book leaves readers questioning the line between myth and reality. In exploring the legacy of fear and the impact on society, "The Lonely Hearts Killers" is a chilling exploration of deception, manipulation, and the haunting crimes that continue to captivate the public.