Tanner Riley is a brilliant mathematician and a career insurance actuary. His obsession with numbers and number patterns led him to develop a winning strategy to win 85 million dollars in California's SuperLotto game. This is the story of the thrill of winning and the consequences of his secret being discovered by the wrong people. If you have ever wondered what it must be like to win the lottery, to claim the ticket, and understand the thrill of the event, then Tanner's Lottery will fill ...

Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state’s roots in slavery, segregation, and cotton make it southern. Another argues that its Native and ranching history make it western. Outside Texas, southern and western historians who don’t know what to make of the state ignore it altogether. In his innovative settling of the question, Glen Sample Ely examines the state’s historical DNA, making sense of Lone Sta...

A vast and desolate region, the Texas–New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings—never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle trafficking and trade among the Plains tribes and Comancheros. This book takes us to the borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s for an in-depth look at Union-Confederate skullduggery amid the infamous Comanche-Comanchero trade in stolen Texas livestock.In 1862, the Confederates abandoned New Mexico Territor...

In 2003 Nigel Turner, a British filmmaker produced a History Channel documentary aboutthe Kennedy assassination entitled The Guilty Men. The program was basedprimarily on two books -The Men on the Sixth Floor, and Blood, Money and Power.The Guilty Men segment captured American's attention like no previous JFKprogram ever had. DVD sales of the History Channel's presentation soared.Angry phone calls to the LBJ library by some viewers of the Guilty Men expre...

On a sweltering August night in 1876, Methodist minister William England, his wife, Selena, and two of her children were brutally slaughtered in their North Texas home. Acting on Selena’s deathbed testimony, a neighbor, his brother-in-law, and a friend were arrested and tried for the murders. Murder in Montague tells the story of this gruesome crime and its murky aftermath. In this engrossing blend of true crime reporting, social drama, and legal history, author Glen Sample Ely pr...

The true-crime story of Edwin Snelgrove, an American serial killer who wanted to out-kill Ted Bundy, from the New York Times bestselling author.In September 2001, Carmen Rodriguez, a beautiful thirty-two-year-old Hartford mother of four, went missing. At first police were stymied . . . until a killer's crucial mistake led investigators down a long, dark road of cold, calculated murder . . .In 1987, single mother Mary Ellen Renard was strangled, rep...

The first novel in an entertaining and hilarious new series introduces Kiki Carlow, a woman on a mission to create her perfect wedding.Kiki Carlow is shocked but delighted when boyfriend Thom proposes. Planning a wedding is easy, right? That’s as long as you ignore:The utterly bankrupting price of the only dress you’ll ever truly love.Your suddenly pregnant sister – surprise!The celebrity wedding you’re covering for work which is devouring your eve...

When Ginny agreed to take her sister's place as au pair to two children on a skiing holiday in Austria, she wondered what she'd let herself in for. She'd been warned that Gareth Chilton, the children's uncle and guardian, was an arrogant – if good-looking – man, and was soon to experience his supremely overbearing manner! But Gareth's tender loving care for his niece and nephew melted Ginny's heart like snow in summer. And that was when her problems really began…

A shocking royal pregnancy!Personal Assistant Natalie Monette’s life transforms when she meets her secret identical twin. Except Valentina is a sophisticated Princess, unhappily engaged to the supremely arrogant Crown Prince Rodolfo. Impulsively, Natalie agrees to swap identities for six weeks. Her plan is put Rodolfo in his place…until she’s enticed by the heat between them!Prince Rodolfo can’t understand why, having never felt any desire for his betrothed, he now can’t ke...

As Santo Corretti’s Personal Assistant, Ella is run ragged fielding the playboy’s heartbroken exes.She refuses to succumb to his charms in the hope that one day he will let her on his film set. Losing herself in films was how she escaped her harsh upbringing. Santo is a closed book, but it’s no secret that there is a lot riding on his latest film.When the director quits, he reluctantly let’s Ella step in, and soon finds her passion intoxicating. He can’t of...

Love Under Construction . . .Construction executive Jefferson Traynor has zero problems attracting women. Until now. A blow to his ego, beautiful Marisol is immune to his superpower charm.Marisol Ortega is on a mission-- build the safest women's shelter she can on her shoestring budget. If that means playing along with the gorgeous, cocky stud building it-- then game on. A single mom to foster son Hector, she can't afford distractions.Chasing Mariso...

Years after Leah Lynch's divorce, she's grown tired of dead-end affairs and yearns for a lifelong mate. Although she's a sassy, independent woman living in New York City, she fears attending her daughter's upcoming wedding as an unattached woman. To reflect on her past and invent a new lifestyle with a committed man, she books a flight to Madrid. Not included is meeting Miguel Santiago, an intriguing seatmate, who sidetracks her straight into bed when they land.A Collector of Affec...