Her business consultant has love on the agenda.Dean... Hitting on my best friend’s sister started as a way to make her laugh after her divorce, but it’s since morphed into real feelings. Karma is fun like that.Now I plan out ways to get her attention. I hold onto breadcrumbs pigeons wouldn’t get excited about. But Grace doesn’t take me seriously, because she’s a single mom and I’m a carefree bachelor.Someday she’s going to see me—no...

"Angry people are not always wise." —Jane AustenAfter a standoff in the pizza parlor, Elsie Bennet has decided Fitzwilliam "I-Throw-Fitz" Darcy is the worst customer she's ever encountered. Also the best looking, but that’s beside the point. She's horrified to discover Will is not just passing through her small town, he's her new neighbor.Will Darcy has all the money and time he could ask for, and yet life never seems to meet his expectations. When his best...

She knows a match when she sees one, but she's clueless about her own heart.Emma Woodhouse is happily single, though that's never stopped her from making matches for others. Her best friend, George Knightley, thinks it's a sure way to trouble, but what's wrong with giving romance a little nudge?George has been fighting his feelings for Emma for years, but with families so closely intertwined, rocking the friendship boat would complicate more than just their...

It's not awkward unless we make it awkward.Carmen... I’ve forgiven Isaac for being a jerk to me when we were kids, but while my grudge against him is gone, my fears are alive and well. I don't care how much chemistry there is between us. I’m done with guys and their commitment issues, and I’ve found a way to make life a whole lot easier.I friend-zone them. Every single one. It’s worked super well. Until now.Isaac isn't like other gu...

Sometimes what's right in front of you is still off-limits.Single dad Liam Campbell needed a nanny who would make his life less complicated, and Rosalie Barnes more than delivered.Fast forward four years and they make a great team. He stays out of her personal life, and she stays out of his. At least, that’s their unspoken agreement. But his serious and slightly grumpy demeanor isn't keeping her fun-loving sunshiny personality away anymore. In fact, she ins...

She’s bad at reading signals. He’s sent all the wrong ones.Jenny… Of course Noah would come back, and right when my life is a mess. I swear we had the best carpool friendship. Until he asked me out, then changed his mind, and then asked me out again, only to ghost me. I hate him so much. Almost as much as I love him and miss him—the old him before he became the worst ever.I don’t know what to think, but I know what I’m going to do. I’m lock...

Sometimes love is war.Clay… My best friend has held a grudge against his half-sister, Lauren, forever. It’s unjustified and ridiculous, but I have to take his side. Also ridiculous? How bad I have it for her.My Lauren radar goes off the second she steps in the building. Did I mention we work together and her dad’s the boss? Yeah, she’s so off-limits I might as well start running now and never come back.Except, her family is like fam...

A central focus of this book is to measure the current level of employee morale with respect to executive succession planning. Through empirical analysis and qualitative insights, the book explores how employees perceive succession efforts, how these feelings influence their engagement, and what factors contribute to a sense of stability or anxiety during leadership changes. This investigation provides a nuanced understanding of the emotional and psychological dimensions of organizational ...

This is a manual for constructive voting in the 2016 and 2018 elections. It presents a concrete plan for wresting control of the country and our democracy back from the rich and powerful, and restoring the constitutional mandate of government of the people, by the people, and for the people.There is a financial reward for saving America from authoritarian rule by the corporate elite. If voters unite behind the strategy contained in this short book, each and every U.S. citizen will ...

The Billy Green saga continues! Billy's challenging, sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always unpredictable journey.He was more determined than ever to find meaning in life and comfort in love.Billy came to know one thing for sure.Love is real.He could now with the absolute cocksure confidence of pure enlightenment, scoff at the naysayers and spit in the face of the purveyors of romantic nihilism, the cynics who say that love is an illusion.Billy...

America is now a democracy-in-name-only. The voice and participation of the people, thus their influence on and control of the government, has been totally vanquished. Big money, special interest groups, lobbies, corporations, the ruling elite, even other nations, now dictate policy and create a future which ignores the will, values, and quality of life of the vast majority of U.S. citizens.The only hope for turning this around is to reclaim power for the people. This requires a co...

Poor Billy Green! When he was just turning four, his father tried to throw him in the trash. He was a smart kid but that just seemed to create enemies. His mom did everything to protect him. But this was Detroit, armpit of the wasteland! Catholic school didn't help much, except the time he got his first kiss from an atheist nun. Home life was dismal. Was his father capable of anything but drinking beer and farting? And what was with that neighbor who made puppets and tried to molest Billy?...