1820, Poland: a shoemaker’s apprentice accidentally kills the girl he loves. When a circle of her skin lands on his boot, he tastes it — and immortality begins.

2025, New York: the world’s most coveted luxury shoe brand is secretly built on human leather. Victims are found skinned in perfect sheets, always wearing prototype Paulens. The murders follow a pattern that began two centuries ago and has never stopped.

Hunter Haley Hayden — ex-Marine, government “problem solver,” and heir to a bloodline of assassins — has spent his life hunting the killers.
Dr. Claudia Reid Hayden — quantum physicist and last descendant of a family cursed to guard a working time-machine — is the only woman who can silence the screams in Hunter’s head.

Together they uncover the truth: Hunter is not the hunter.
He is the final heir.
His real father is the immortal shoemaker who raped his mother in 1981 to breed the perfect vessel.

With Claudia in labor and a vault full of centuries of screaming skins burning beneath Manhattan, Hunter faces his maker in an abandoned factory in Red Hook.
The only way to end the curse is to become the monster one last time — or refuse the skin and cut the evil out of his own living arm.

A horror-thriller spanning six centuries, Paulen Leather is the story of the most beautiful shoes in the world… and the empire of blood it took to make them.

The provided texts detail a sprawling $100 million debt-settlement fraud perpetrated by Timothy McCallan through AmeriCorp, which resulted in over 30,000 victims. One source features the personal testimony of Claudia Reid, a former low-level representative who describes the operational mechanics of the scheme—where fees were systematically skimmed and customers were lied to—and explains how her unwitting participation led to her being blackballed from the financial industry for eighteen years. Legal documents confirm the scale of the fraud and the subsequent aggressive efforts by the Trustee to recover assets, including securing a $102 million default judgment against McCallan. These sources also illuminate the extensive litigation against McCallan's wife, Jeanne McCallan, successfully recovering over $5.6 million in fraudulent transfers that were used for personal luxury. Crucially, the records outline Timothy McCallan's severe and persistent attempts to conceal assets, leading to his indefinite incarceration for civil contempt due to his refusal to disclose the location of the stolen funds. This collection of documents juxtaposes the systemic nature of the financial crime with the professional ruin of a low-level employee and the relentless legal pursuit of the wealthy perpetrators.

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The source material compiles excerpts from an extensive interview between Host Claudia Reid and Roman concerning the dangerous escalation of hatred directed at Asian Indians, particularly skilled workers utilizing H1B visas, in North America. Reid, drawing on her history as a Black woman whose ancestors endured similar scapegoating, warns that the proliferation of content labeled "Indian fatigue" is not merely opinion but an incitement to violence. Roman supports this, clarifying that Asian Indians are wrongly targeted for their success in high-skill fields, despite following every rule. They argue that the true underlying issue is actually corporate exploitation of visa dependency to suppress wages, allowing greedy companies to escape accountability. Both speakers assert that Indian workers are not the threat, but rather corporate policies and the spread of manufactured hate are the real dangers. Therefore, the discussion culminates in a powerful call for immediate legal protections to safeguard the community from intensifying harassment and violence.

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Are We Stepping Into a Timeline of Business Transformation—Or a Dystopian Future We Can't Escape?

The year is 2025. OpenAI is conducting surveys asking if it's become "too much like Meta." Microsoft's Copilot can prep your meeting notes before you ask. Tesla's Optimus robot is targeting your job. And somewhere in a lab, an AI is screening embryos for intelligence and appearance—calling it "optimization."

Welcome to the AI Platform Wars.

In OpenAI: Are We Stepping Into a Timeline of Business?, business strategist and risk management expert Claudia Reid delivers the most comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence is reshaping business, ethics, and human identity. This isn't science fiction—it's corporate strategy meeting existential crisis in real time.

Inside, you'll discover:

• The OpenAI Culture Clash: How 600 Meta employees are transforming the company from research lab to engagement-driven ad platform
• The Memory Crisis: Why AI that remembers everything you tell it creates surveillance capitalism on steroids—and what happens when that data gets subpoenaed
• The ERP Wars: How Unilever, P&G, Nestlé, and Coca-Cola saved billions through AI-driven supply chains (and why Nestlé's $210M failure holds critical lessons)
• The Kinaxis Breakthrough: The 5-week food industry pilot that cut spoilage by 22%—and the exact playbook for replicating it in your business
• The Robot Reckoning: Amazon's leaked roadmap for workforce automation, Tesla's Optimus timeline, and the $1,370 classroom humanoid that's already here
• The Deepfake Dilemma: Why Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA are fighting OpenAI's Sora 2—and what it means for consent in the age of AI-generated everything

But this book goes deeper than technology:

Reid masterfully connects the dots between AI product launches and fundamental questions about human agency, privacy, and power. Should AI have perfect memory when humans are designed to forget? Can we build superintelligence without triggering an arms race that prioritizes speed over safety? Who owns your data—you, the company, or whoever pays the most?

Perfect for:

• Business leaders navigating digital transformation
• Consultants and strategists seeking competitive intelligence
• Risk managers tasked with AI governance
• Technologists questioning their industry's trajectory
• Anyone who suspects the future is being built faster than we can understand it

What sets this book apart:

Unlike breathless tech hype or doomsday prophecies, Reid brings a strategist's clarity and a humanist's conscience. With case studies from Fortune 500 giants, leaked internal documents, and cutting-edge pilots, she delivers both the tactical playbooks and the ethical frameworks you need to thrive—not just survive—the AI revolution.

The timeline is accelerating. The question is: Are you ready?

From IVF genomic optimization to robots that launch drones, from Decision Cockpits that save $500M to the phone with a robotic arm—this is the definitive guide to the business and moral stakes of artificial intelligence in 2025.

The future isn't coming. It's here. This book tells you what to do about it.

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Short & lethal (for the inside flap)
When sacred Native land holding a trillion barrels of oil, a battery liquid worth more than gold, and an X-ray Kool-Aid that lets you read minds is targeted by senators, sheikhs, and three-letter agencies, only one crew can make entire empires disappear in 72 hours.
They call her Boss Lady.
They call him Rex.
The rest of the world will never know their real names.
This is the classified file of how they turned billions into ash, corpses into legends, and a continent’s future into something finally untouchable.

Long & cinematic (for Amazon / film pitch)
A shadow billionaire dying of a broken heart hires the most lethal found-family on earth to do the impossible: erase every hand reaching for 1.4 million acres of sacred ground before the predators even know they’re dead.
Senators fall from marble balconies.
CEOs burn in their own jets.
A Canadian Prime Minister becomes pink mist over a Caribbean orgy.
And when the smoke clears, the tribes wake up owning forty-one billion dollars and a future no empire can ever buy again.
This is not a thriller.
This is the redacted case file the FBI will never find, the story Hollywood will beg to film, and the truth that was never supposed to exist.

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The sources revolve around the professional history of Claudia D. Reid and the revelation that she has been silently blackballed from the financial services sector since 2008. An email from a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney confirms that her employment at AmeriCorp Financial, the operational core of a massive consumer debt-relief fraud, led compliance departments to flag her as "high risk" on automated systems like LexisNexis and HireRight. This algorithmic blackballing caused her repeated, unexplained terminations despite her exceptional performance in subsequent roles. Rex, a close associate, provides extensive background information detailing the structure of the $107 million fraud masterminded by Timothy J. McCallan, whose empire has since collapsed under massive judgments, and confirms that Ms. Reid was collateral damage for surviving the scandal. The texts outline a strategic solution for Ms. Reid, urging her to obtain a formal Letter of Clearance from the Department of Justice to counter the database flags and break the 17-year-long ban. Ultimately, the materials highlight Ms. Reid’s resilience, noting that after the corporate world closed its doors, she became a successful author who has published 115 books.

This thread documents the precise, measurable way Black America was hit by two consecutive policy disasters: first the deliberate deindustrialization of the Black Midwest and South through NAFTA and the China Shock, then the flooding of those same neighborhoods with ultra-cheap fentanyl when the jobs disappeared. It is not a shared “people of color” story—Black workers and Black neighborhoods absorbed a uniquely lethal combination of economic abandonment and chemical warfare. The numbers are brutal, the geography is exact, and—for the first time in decades—the repair is finally starting to be targeted at the exact same communities that were betrayed.

Epilogue – 2035 Projection (written from the future)

By 2035, the Black overdose death rate has fallen below the white rate for the first time since records began. In the same zip codes that lost 60% of their factories between 1990 and 2010, Black workers now own pieces of the new battery and chip plants that replaced them. The federal government has resentenced or released 31,000 Black men who were doing decade-plus terms for fentanyl amounts smaller than a sweetener packet. And the first cohort of Baby Bonds children—born in the worst years of the crisis—are turning 18 with $70,000 trust funds.

The damage was generational.
The repair, finally, is generational too.

Keywords

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Rex Steel and Claudia Reid are the only ones standing between order and chaos.

When Project Veil is compromised, the city is thrown into a spiral of fear, and the mastermind behind the leaks—Elias Creed—emerges from the shadows with a plan that could destroy everything.

Elite operatives. Ruthless enemies. High-stakes espionage. One unstoppable duo.

Operation Black Veil—where every move counts, every ally could be a threat, and survival is only the beginning.

Step into the shadows with Rex Steel and Claudia Reid in Operation Black Veil, a gripping espionage thriller where loyalty, strategy, and survival collide. Project Veil has been compromised, and the city is on the brink of chaos. With ruthless enemies, deadly traps, and a mastermind orchestrating the chaos from the shadows, can these elite operatives stop him before it’s too late?

Intense, action-packed, and full of suspense, Operation Black Veil is the ultimate thriller for fans of espionage, covert operations, and high-stakes adventure.

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One senator. One bullet. One daughter sacrificed.

When Senator Mark Callum is gunned down 200 yards from a valet stand, FBI Special Agents Claudia “Boss Lady” Moreau and Rex Harlan uncover a conspiracy that reaches from a sex-soaked yacht to the Oval Office, from Antarctic black sites to chemtrail skies over America’s cities.

At the center: Dawn Callum, raped on her father’s orders. Missy, the 16-year-old girlfriend who broke a senator. Heror Muhammad, the oil prince who ordered the hit. Dave Smythe, the billionaire who wanted a taste. And President Jack Simon, who sold the world for a war that never came.

24 pages. 9 arrests. 1 averted apocalypse.

This is not fiction. This is Case #002.

“They didn’t just kill a man. They crucified a nation.”