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If you think it's hard to win back the one that got away, try doing it while you're taking over her family's company.To save the firm his father built, ambitious CEO Hal Mercer has to initiate a hostile takeover of industry giant D'Arville Industries.Owned by the family of the only woman he's ever loved, Kate certainly isn't going to stand by and let him destroy her family's empire. If only she'd have dinner with him, he could make her understand his intentions. If Hal fails, it's his family's company that's doomed, his employees who'll lose their jobs. He can't let that happen, but Hal isn't used to having everyone counting on him like this.Problem is, it's becoming less clear which is more important to him—winning the corporate battle of his life or the heart of the woman he loves.

They're the most unlikely detectives.Martin is a 38-year-old virgin marked for greatness by the insurance gods. In his professional life, he is paid to assess risk, but in his personal life he plays it safe. Experience has shown him that lonely is better than brokenhearted.George is a wannabe architect with white man's dreadlocks. He risks his neck on the streets of Toronto every day as a bike courier, but his job is unchallenging and he chooses apathy over the risk of failure at what he really wants to do.When George tags along with Martin to investigate the scene of his latest claim, they stumble upon a burglary in process. Now they are being hunted by an unknown adversary who will stop at nothing to get what he's after, forcing Martin and George into a dangerous game of cat and mouse in which they must risk everything.- A Wattpad Mystery Thriller Hot List Top Ten Book.

A Book of Short Stories - A girl and boy discover the difference between best friends and just friends. The summer before university is the catalyst for some strange longings. A woman wrestles with a difficult insurance claim which resonates with an event from her past. An aging writer gives a career-spanning interview with an unintended revelation. These and other great characters inhabit this collection of short stories which celebrate all of life's stages.Praise for the stories:"e;There are so many good things in this story it's hard to pick one. All I can say is I wish I had written it."e; - Charles Pinch"e;Thanks for this potent kick of nostalgia. How important those days were to the adults we've become. Call that 'The High School Theory.'"e; - Beverly Akerman, author of The Meaning of Children

How far would you go to make your dreams come true?Watson Sinclair has only been in New York for a couple of hours and already he's had a small accident in his car involving some distracting cleavage and an inconveniently-placed fruit stand. His best friend JC Dubois is a few blocks away kidnapping the editor of the Royal Features Syndicate. Watson has to pick them up and get back across the Canadian border safely with their prisoner. It didn't have to be this way.Watson and JC always wanted to be cartoonists for the daily papers. Their dreams came true when they received a syndication contract for their comic strip. But then months went by and legendary editor Ray Bennett stopped returning their calls. They were faced with a choice: give up and go back to their day jobs or consider drastic measures to get the job done. Like kidnapping Ray and taking over the launch of the strip themselves.The plan is simple: drive to New York to take Ray and his laptop back to London. Give orders to Ray's prick of an Assistant Editor. Keep Ray quiet and secure, convince his staff that he is working from home, and keep all this from their wives. They've got one week.If they pull this off and execute a successful launch, their dreams are back on track. If they screw it up and get caught, they go to jail. Nothing like a little motivation.Will I like it?The Launch is what you need in your life right now. It's got comics, crime (a kidnapping), a buddy caper, insurance (not very much, we promise), a love story (that's what we're calling narcissism these days, right?), and a thrilling new watershed moment in Canadian-American relations. As one reader said, it's a "e;fun romp that leaves you wondering throughout, how are they going to come out the other end of this bumpy ride?"e;