A gifted eleven year old boy, Matthew Springer, kills a twenty year old man in self defense in a South Chicago alley. There are no witnesses. He decides to tell no one. It warps his life with guilt. He decides to become a doctor so he can save lives to atone for his sin. A detective assigned to the case bungles it repeatedly. Matt succeeds in nearly everything he does but is constantly hounded by the police and the dead boy's wealthy father. As Matt Springer matures his quest becomes forgi...

George Denton, age 66 sells out his business and retires. His wife dies suddenly. He is slow to adjust and his friends urge him to find other interests than just golf. He reluctantly decides to help people who are struggling and need financial advice. This leads to meeting a young woman of 24 with a handicapped child. He becomes enamored. Her ex-boyfriend is killed and George Denton becomes a suspect. He finds he has gotten into more than he bargained for with this young woman.

Brad Hamilton, 45, V. P. of a large corporation in Chicago is driven to make it to the top of the corporate ladder where he'll be among the few who can play real monopoly with other corporate executive officers,(CEO's)creating mergers, fighting hostile takeovers, and more, in the games that top executives play with real buildings and businesses. While climbing the ladder of success he struggles with two romances. Connie DeVeau, 38, V. P. of a Bank in Cleveland and Allison Connley, 35, an o...

A naïve 18 year old boy runs away from his abusive father. He vows to get a job, earn enough money to return home and save his abused mother. Then he would kill his rotten father. He survives in another city by pure determination to achieve his goal. He is single minded and in the process of carrying out his plan he is able to avoid the police for what he does to his father. A love development is thwarted off and on by his all-consuming goal. The reader is held in suspense wit...

Stone Barrington is faced with the biggest challenge of his life as Stuart Woods’s #1 New York Times bestselling series continues...After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, confirmed bachelor Stone Barrington is looking to stay in New York and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. Not only is he a rainmaker of one of the riches white-shoe law firms in town, he’s back in...

In this action-packed thriller in Stuart Woods’s #1 New York Times bestselling series, Stone Barrington discovers that some jobs don’t pay…When a hedge fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington to talk some sense into his wayward son, it seems like an easy enough job; no one knows the hidden sins and temptations of the ultra-wealthy better than Stone. But as Stone and his erstwhile protégé, Herbie Fisher, probe deeper into the case—and an old one comes back ...

Secrets lead to nothing but trouble and heartbreak.Newly arrived in the small Southern town of Oakboro, Salem Lacey is planning to keep a low profile after an ill-timed step out of the closet cost her the corporate job and high-powered friends she had in Atlanta. That plan derails when Salem meets the mysterious and beautiful Knox Bolander, a woman who is whispered to cause odd and sometimes dangerous things to happen. When a fire that occurred twenty years earlier on the Bolander estate t...

A Chapter of a Love Short StoryAfter a very public career disaster, journalist Jeff Talbert-Lyndon wants to escape from the world. Picturesque Shenadoah Falls, Virginia, seems like the perfect place to relax and regroup before heading back to real life. But when he discovers the charming bookstore Secondhand Prose - and its lovely, slightly overwhelmed owner- he finds a part-time job and a very tempting reason to stay...Melissa Portman is fighting a losing battle when it come...

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its product...

In this specialized book for poker players who want to monetize their leisure or pro career into a dependable source of income, online poker legend Dusty ÐLeatherassÓ Schmidt teaches players how to manage their bankroll, rationalize variance, play more tables, move up in stakes, avoid tilt, create new sources of revenue, and most importantly, become more profitable. The strategy section contains some of the most important tips in print, focusing on the situations that come around every few mi...

This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation.

WKRX, 96 Rocks, is the modern workplace in Corporate America where management, empowered by non-compete agreements, holds the future of their employees in the palm of their hands and can crush them at any time. The employees sit back and worry about losing their jobs on a daily basis and wonder how they will earn a living in their chosen profession since they will be deprived of a living over the next 3 years due to their non-compete agreement.Now Private Detective Ozzie Rivera is ...