Financial Fiction

The kids learn how to pursue their life goals through long term focus and balance. Our world is filled with instant gratification, but real success and happiness takes time. Learning discipline, patience, and balance sets you up for a life of prosperity and well-being.

For New Yorker Nick Dalca, wealth is a birthright. But his perfect life is starting to crumble. During a flight to Europe, his private jet goes missing with his wife and son aboard. They are presumed dead. Having no one left, Nick makes a shocking decision: to negotiate the sale of his business conglomerate, a deal which may turn him into one of the richest men in the world. Faced with making many decisions alone, he is drawn to his longtime secretary, Anne. She has one special gift. A gift that can radically alter his destiny.

Der Mord an einem Beamten wird in null Komma nichts aufgeklärt, doch Kommissar Charitos misstraut der Sache. Wie überhaupt alles um ihn herum zu schön ist, um wahr zu sein. Die Leute genießen das Leben, als hätte es nie eine Krise gegeben. Das schnelle Geld fordert jedoch seinen Tribut: Der Mord an dem Beamten war erst der Anfang.

Die Morde an mehreren Bankern lassen die griechische Finanzwelt erzittern. Die Krise trifft inzwischen jeden, auch die, die sich in Sicherheit wähnten - und Kommissar Charitos steckt mittendrin.

Jack, a 26-year-old New Yorker, unwittingly becomes the key player in a deadly game of shadows. His ordinary train ride home takes a harrowing turn when the last surviving architect of the Bitcoin decentralized network hands him a mysterious piece of paper, moments before meeting a brutal demise. What seemed like random words on the paper unveiled a chilling secret—access to a cold storage crypto wallet. Teaming up with his girlfriend, Olivia, they breach the account, exposing a staggering fortune in Bitcoin.

The Troll Bridge tells the story of a young boy, Joel, and his encounter with the Troll who lives under a bridge. The greedy Troll charges everyone and everything that crossed the bridge and grew very wealthy. When disaster strikes however he needs the kindness of strangers to save him from a damp and miserable end.

A mysterious plum account leads to former Army Ranger and current investment broker Lou Christopher being recruited to resurrect his military skills under a threat of losing everything he has. Colonel Christopher has to summon all of his Ranger skills to cope with this danger, and discovers a source of strength he hadn't counted on before: his wife, who matches his adroitness in planning and evading discovery when the chips are down, and outwits all those foolish enough to underestimate her.

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.

In South Florida, the fraud capital of the world, Jorge Gonzalez is a Cuban-American success story who just made partner in a top financial firm. But the perfect crime has just been committed. Now, Jorge is held responsible for the theft of millions. Overnight, his career is shattered, his family is shamed, and everyone has made him the scapegoat. The search for a dead man is on...With the help of a beautiful tech wiz, Jorge attempts to unlock the mystery and put his life back together.

Young, bright and sexy, Carla Vitale has been handpicked to run Supertech, Africa’s leading independent engineering firm. Then one Friday afternoon in Cape Town, her dream is shattered. Her boss and mentor, Nial Townley, disappears, his luxury vehicle is found in a crevice at the bottom of Chapman’s Peak and $USD 20m is missing from the Supertech’s overseas accounts. Three months later and the police are no closer to solving the riddle. No job, no car, no phone, Carla turns to the one person she believes can help: software hacker turned day-trader, Daniel Le Fleur.

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 one year after the 9/11 attacks, and court reporter Alex Vane is fighting to break into the flashy world of TV news. But when he uncovers the scoop of a lifetime, his tightly controlled world is rocked: His editor buries his story, a source turns up dead, and Alex finds himself at the center of a violent media conspiracy. As he receives tips from a mysterious source, Alex enlists the help of a captivating professor, Camila Gray.

Bryan LeBlanc worked his way up into a plum position on Wall Street as the boy genius of the foreign exchange desk. Surrounded by "the few, the proud, the completely full of themselves", he decides to give Wall Street a taste of its own medicine and hatches an intricate plan to disappear permanently with just enough misappropriated money - and sailing classes - to spend his golden years cruising the Caribbean. Bryan quickly learns that being a criminal, even a really smart one, is more complicated than he thought. He finds himself on the run in the Cayman Islands, wanted for murder.

This is not a romantic comedy. This is not a fairy tale. This is not what you're expecting. Lies, secrets, betrayal. Marriage, divorce, sex. Love, heartbreak, money. Best friends. Old enemies. Soul mates. Happily Ever After comes in many forms. A Way to Get By is the story of how Brenda and Eddie found theirs.

Candace never thought she’d sign up for another season at The Zone, but the allure of working with her boyfriend, Kurt, and spending time with her new friends has made the job easier to bear. Though once she finds out her new job is working as Candy in the newest Halloween maze—a role based on her harrowing night in the park that summer that shifted into a wild story she was chased by a killer—things don’t look quite as promising.

In the beginning was Jacqueline, and crossings on the Star Ferry with warm Hong Kong breezes blowing strands of long, black hair across her face as her eyes gazed into his. When investment banker Alexander “Dusty” Street returns to Hong Kong 20 years later, everybody wants him to save a huge acquisition, stabilize panicking financial markets, and return home to New York. The choice is obvious, until the love of his life reappears.

A rollicking good mystery and witty tale of an international finance, Wall Street, money markets, espionage, kidnapping, bankers on the run, archeology, and far more.

A story of crooked bankers, sexy criminals, financial fraud, lies, deception, and murder. And fishing.

Amid a wave of unprecedented terrorist attacks on American soil, a panicked and inexperienced president declares a state of emergency and hands over control of the country to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The quiet and unassuming Administrator Hall soon becomes the most powerful man in America. Determined to stop the attacks, Hall enforces his order across the US, using a newly empowered State Guard to deal with anyone who gets in his way.

Brewing Up a Storm: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the 23rd of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers and features John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A brewery introduces a non-alcoholic beer that stirs up trouble with a lobbying group that believe this will lead children to drink beer as minors. Congressional hearings, congressmen, lobbyists, a lawsuit, a riot, and more create wonderful goings-on for listeners with John Putnam Thatcher identifying the murderer.