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The greenhouse effect has resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, and deadly pandemics. Visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D., has a master plan for reversing global warming. He brings together a disparate group of people from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming. Ultimately, they must face the question:...
3) Hardline
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The next installment in the relationship between Erica Hathaway, a recent college graduate and businesswoman, and billionaire investor Blake Landon.
While Blake's controlling nature and Erica's independent spirit continue to battle, he has no intention of letting her out of his life again. But when he demands more and tests the boundaries of her commitment, she is forced to face the dark desires he's kept hidden.
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Arkady Renko, Martin Cruz Smith's iconic sleuth returns with a case that epitomizes the New Russia. Pal Ivanov, powerful, vigorous, dangerous, and one of the nation's billionaire businessmen, has jumped to his death. When Renko is called in to investigate, he uncovers hidden demons and byzantine international plots that drove this oligarch to his death.
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The reunion of brothers Max, a real estate tycoon, Chris, an entertainment lawyer with a gambling problem, and Jett, a model and recovering drug addict, at the bidding of their billionaire father, Red, sparks a dramatic chain of events including the murder of Max's ex-wife and a one-night stand between Jett and Max's heiress fiancée; meanwhile, Liberty, the singer daughter of Red's housekeeper, begins a risky relationship with a married hip-hop mogul...
9) Mammoth
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A mammoth hunter in Canada is quite excited when he discovers a perfect intact frozen wooly mammoth. But, what he finds during the process of excavating the beast boggles his mind. Huddled next to the mammoth is the mummified body of a Stone Age man around 12 thousand years old. And, he's wearing a wristwatch!
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From a USA Today–bestselling author, a wealthy CEO discovers he has fathered a child with his former lover and demands she marry him for his son's sake.
Jake Marriot had always been clear about the terms of his relationships-no marriage, no babies. So when Ashleigh Forrester found out she was pregnant with his child, she ran!
But Jake's back. The billionaire has returned to convince Ashleigh that she belongs in his bed. But when he meets her...
14) Invasive
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On the isolated Kolohe Atoll in the middle of the Pacific ocean, a charismatic billionaire employs a team of scientists to conduct cutting-edge research that he hopes will change the world. In a cabin on a remote lake in the Adirondacks, FBI futurist Hannah Stander finds a barely recognizable human body, which appears to have been skinned alive by thousands of genetically engineered ants. Hannah's investigation leads to Kolohe, where the scientists...
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The secret to Galen Pallas's success is his laser-sharp focus. And young widow Roula Drakos is disruption personified! Most disruptive of all is their smoldering attraction--which he can't act on when he hires her as his temporary PA! Roula's worked hard to put her marriage behind her. Intimacy isn't something she ever wants again. Yet swept into her boss's glamorous world, she's never felt so safe or desired. Can this shy Cinderella be bold enough...
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Eric Shaw is hired by a woman to make a documentary film about her ninety-five-year-old, billionaire father-in-law whose past remains a mystery, but upon arrival to the man's hometown, Shaw discovers a once glamorous hotel recently restored with therapeutic hot springs and a great evil eager to regain its lost power.
17) The temps
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"Jacob Elliot doesn't want a temporary job in the mailroom at Delphi Enterprises, but after two post-college years of unpaid internships and living in his parents' basement, he needs the work. Then, on his first day, the unthinkable happens: toxic gas descends on a meeting in Delphi's outdoor amphitheater, killing all the regular employees and leaving Jacob stranded inside the vast office complex. Wandering through Delphi headquarters Jacob finds...
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"Jack Dana is a star history student at Yale with a bright career in academia ahead of him. But after 9/11 he feels it is his duty to change course. As a Marine infantry officer he is deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Severely wounded in combat, he begins writing a novel about his wartime experiences while surgeons at the Walter Reed Hospital patch up his pelvis. Jack then moves to Manhattan to live with his Uncle Harry, a partner in a leading New...
19) The wild side
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"For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career as a vital part of the Office of Special Investigations. There, she devoted herself heart and soul to covert operations, the riskier the better. Since leaving, Melanie has cherished her peaceful, calm existence, with her two beloved retired service...
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"Eve St. Clair desperately needs help sorting reality from her fearful imaginings when ghostly voices seem to haunt the Victorian house in Sunderland, England, that she inherited from her uncle. Online research leads to a group that claims to offer just the aid she's seeking. But can Ransom King's handpicked team of investigators truly banish Eve's night terrors? Since the deaths of his wife and daughter, Seattle billionaire Ransom King has devoted...
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