Financial Fiction

Max Emerson is rich and powerful: a patron of the arts and the owner of a multinational business. But Max's business is money laundering, and, for the first time in his fortunate life, he's in trouble. Hackers are targeting his company. The FBI is pressuring him to betray one of his crooked clients. And a dark secret from his own past looks in danger of resurfacing.

This is the 3rd novel in the UNDERCOVER HILLBILLY SERIES. In this story, Billy Hill travels to the tiny town of Linden, Texas. After bailing a pretty attorney out of a financial jam, Billy is faced with what can only be described as a very stinky mystery. Can a home-schooled hillbilly from the backwoods of northern Vermont solve this smelly puzzle? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who took up writing novels as a retirement hobby. Always a proponent of quantity over quality, Donald has churned out more than 90 novels since he retired in 2009. Please check ...

She makes her dream come true. Not realizing it’s the villain’s worst nightmare. Kate's idyllic Caribbean paradise shatters in an instant when she witnesses her boyfriend's brutal murder. Spirited away into protective custody, she sheds her past, embracing a new identity in the high-stakes art world of Washington, DC. As the curator of a renowned art collection, Kate appears to have it all—but beneath her polished exterior, memories of that horrific night linger, fueling her thirst for justice. Determined to track down her boyfriend's killers, Kate teams up with the razor-sharp crime ...

A year has passed since the horrific events that drove Austin out of his home took place. Now it's time for them all to face the devastating aftermath.The ruthless terrorist organization is coming for everyone, and they will stop at nothing until they triumph. In this overwhelming post-apocalyptic world, where the communities are largely uninhabitable, the military has not been responding to the citizen's pleas for help. So, on their own, Austin and Michelle are trying to resist, but they are drastically outnumbered by people they can't trust.

They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne is revealing her big-ass top secret recipes—and the events that inspired them—in The Sweet Potato Queens’ Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner). And, of course, she’s dishing up plenty of hilarious stories.

This is an uplifting Christmas story about two rival small town lawyers who loathe each other. Raymond Collins is a totally honest guy but a financial failure as an attorney. Parker Jones is the complete opposite, a rich, greedy and shady lawyer. Both run their legal practices in the tiny town of Lakeport, Ontario and they shower each other with caustic insults whenever they meet. When Jones concocts a brilliant scheme to ruin Collins, a series of complex events unfold which ultimately give rise to unexpected payback in the form of The Christmas Lawyer. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. ...

Are you constantly worrying about your finances, living paycheck to paycheck? Do you feel overwhelmed by debt and lack the knowledge to turn things around? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you're not alone. Financial Freedom Made Easy: Step-by-Step Guide to Eliminate Debt, Create a Financial Plan and Provide Financial Security for you and your Family is your ultimate guide to achieving financial stability and independence for you and your family. You see, financial stability isn't a myth or an unattainable dream.

With debt-burdened governments and businesses worldwide about to go bust, a cabal of Wall Street big shots plot to destroy the globe’s stock exchanges. In 24 hours, a powerful computer worm will smash the exchanges and spark an international panic, pushing a debt-laden world into the abyss. But one person, who works for their bank as a computer expert, spots the worm embedded deep in its network. Cassy Levin invents a program to destroy the cyber-intruder. Angered by Cassy’s discovery, her bosses order her kidnapping.

An exhilarating adventure set in the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, and Turkey about stolen art, the mafia, and a father’s vengeance. When researcher Zelda Richardson begins working at a local museum, she doesn’t expect to get entangled with an art theft, knocked unconscious by a forger, threatened by the mob, or stalked by drug dealers. To make matters worse, a Croatian gangster is convinced Zelda knows where a cache of recently pilfered paintings is. She must track down an international gang of art thieves and recover the stolen artwork in order to save those she loves most....

Robert Fairchild thought he had it all—until the U.S. government knocked on the door of his Park Avenue apartment. Accused by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of owning shares in a VLCC trading sanctioned Russian oil, the hedge fund manager turned shipowner watches his world capsize. His fortune. His reputation. His marriage. Even his freedom. Exiled to a trailer park in the Florida Keys, Robert searches for a way out. But when his volatile partner—Norwegian shipping tycoon Coco Jacobsen—vanishes on his yacht, the crisis deepens. Then a Boston private equity ...

Paul is enjoying a nice spring morning at his favorite National Park, when suddenly, a blinding flash soars through the sky. The flash is followed by a prolonged crackling sound. Peering through his binoculars, he can see a mushroom cloud, one-thousand meters away. He finds himself running away from the blast, and eventually, reaches shelter from the fallout . . . But that's only the beginning. The aftermath throws him into a reality in which he feels unprepared to embrace. As the nuclear warfare continues, his city becomes a serious risk. He must find a way to safety. But in a collapsed ...

Semi-finalist, Publisher's Weekly Booklife Prize Can a conspiracy be uncovered before the Death Count rises? Forensic accountant Kat Munro fights corporate fraud during the day and kickboxes her demons at night while trying to ignore the nightmares that have plagued her since a car accident changed her life forever. DS Adam Jackson is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of a friend two years ago. When the partner of a successful London Investment fund dies in suspicious circumstances, Kat joins forces with Adam to investigate the firm. As they gather evidence of a crime with ...

Someone is siphoning funds from billionaire Zachary Barron's currency hedge fund. Intent on prosecuting the thief to the fullest extent of the law, he hires Katerina "Kat" Carter, the best forensic accountant in the business, to follow the money trail. Both are shocked when it leads to Zachary's father, Nathan. And he's just the tip of the iceberg. Nathan belongs to a shadowy organization with global ties and unimaginable resources.

It's been five weeks since the coronal mass ejection wiped out the power grid, and Cole's town is beginning to see what it's like to witness depletion of food and water. When nearly twenty-five hundred violent offenders break out of a nearby prison, things only get worse. The world is in a state of pandemonium, and the townspeople are getting increasingly desperate for supplies, even resorting to threatening each other. Cole knows that the town's best chance for survival depends on their ability to work together. But in a world where no one trusts each other, it becomes a lone struggle for ...

“You’re right. We’ll never make it across. We’re about to die!” Molka is sent back to the US for a task deadlier than even she is prepared for! What Readers Are Saying… "A GREAT NEW SERIES TO DIVE INTO AND ENJOY!” “Molka is like a female Jack Reacher, Scot Harvath, Jack Noble, etc., only tougher and sexier!” Molka, an elite special forces warrior, resigns from the military after a tragic mission leads to the murder of her little sister and wishes to live a quiet life as a veterinarian. They wouldn’t let her though. She is coerced to serve as covert operative and sent on ...

When a widespread power outage takes place, people begin to speculate about what caused it. Most people begin to assume it will come back on again soon, although Lance decides to do some prepping, just in case. But after days go by without the power being restored, society begins to deteriorate rapidly. The majority of the population decide to stay in their houses while they wait for the daunting ordeal to pass. But since Lance and his son are homeless, living in a car, it won't be as easy for them. With the temperatures growing hotter, they must escape to a region with milder weather, ...

They only give us one chance in 10 of surviving, which really means one chance in 1000! Molka assembles her “Dream Team to finally attempt to avenge her little sister! What Readers Are Saying… "A GREAT NEW SERIES TO DIVE INTO AND ENJOY!” “Molka is like a female Jack Reacher, Scot Harvath, Jack Noble, etc., only tougher and sexier!” Molka, an elite special forces warrior, resigns from the military after a tragic mission leads to the murder of her little sister and wishes to live a quiet life as a veterinarian. They wouldn’t let her though. She is coerced to serve as covert ...

A Small Town, Absurdist, Dark Humor from the Twisted Mind of Count Fathom. A dying man delivers, with his last breath, a message to a tavern full of drunks, in a storm. Struck by lightning, this modern prophet says he speaks with the stars and beyond. His message he sets in the hearts of the new apostles. They, in turn, spread the message to build a brand around the Martyr, bringing unity, hope, and financial prosperity to the town, and to themselves most of all. The drunks spill their cups in a mad dash down fortune’s path, as greed leads the town astray. Cursed with the common self-...

“Daddy, why isn’t that man swimming?” Stand-Alone story of a wealthy private equity investor and a greedy CEO's quest to maximize profit at any cost. The body floating near the family’s sailboat triggers a request for Steve Wilson to complete the dead man's due diligence assignment. Join Steve as he navigates a path between power-driven executives to uncover the truth about the accountant's body in Boothbay Harbor. Why are Steve’s requests for financial data stonewalled at every turn? Is it just arrogance and greed, or an attempt to hide something deeper? Can he trust the woman ...

THE MULTI-AWARD WINNING DEBUT THRILLER BY T.J.HAWKINS Tom Rivers is a middle aged professional. He has a wife and two daughters. His life is comfortable, if somewhat unremarkable. But he has a secret, that even he doesn't know about. During a business trip to London he discovers that he is instead, a genetically superior and highly trained MI5 agent who has been kept in a sleeper state for the past twenty five years and is now expected to save his country from catastrophe. A terrorist cell has developed a weapon so devastating that it could send Britain back to the Dark Ages and, at the ...