If you're like most business owners or managers, your company got off to a great start. Energy, inspiration, and business smarts hurtled your organization to success. Maybe you cruised on praise and profit for years, dreaming of becoming the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.But suddenly, you're flatlining. Maybe you saw it coming as the economy tanked or competition gained ground but, either way, your books are like flashing red lights at an accident scene. What happened?Durin...

These powerful linked stories that read like a novel begin in a prairie Eden amongstthe last vestiges of wild grass, cottonwood, and an ancient buffalo jump, bounded by an oil refinery, explosives plant and rail yards. Hunter describes in vivid detail, and often with dark humour, the lives of his four characters. First as adolescents and then as adults, they work dirty jobs. Some move away to Southern Ontario and return home again in the moving title story.

Entrepreneurs are a special breed. With clear-eyed vision and sheer grit -- and in the face of incredible odds and challenges -- they create new, successful enterprises. They also share a secret pain. Once their business is built, they suffer in the day-to-day management roles they've fashioned for themselves, burdened with responsibilities they hadn't foreseen or don't want.But they can't or don't know how to let go.In this practical and compelling book, Bruce Hunter provi...

Devin Lyle and Craig Rockwell are back, this time to a haunted castle in Ireland where a banshee may have gone wild—or maybe there's a much more rational explanation—one that involves a disgruntled heir, murder, and mayhem, all with that sexy light touch Heather Graham has turned into her trademark style.Reviews for When Irish Eyes Are Haunting:I just adore the Krewe of Hunters novels! I have read all of them. This one was great also. I love the ways Graham picked ...

It’s a happy time for Sloan Trent and Jane Everett. What could be happier than the event of their wedding? Their Krewe friends will all be there and the event will take place in a medieval castle transported brick by brick to the New England coast. Everyone is festive and thrilled . . . until the priest turns up dead just hours before the nuptials. Jane and Sloan must find the truth behind the man and the murder—the secrets of the living and the dead—before they find themselves bound for e...

Having run into the bank to take out cash for her son’s school fair, Angela Hawkins Crow is surprised to find herself in the middle of a hostage situation. The hostage-taker is none other than Billy Mendelson, a young man suffering after a violent armed robbery attack at his home.Angela read about the crime but is mystified by his behavior, even as he hustles her into a vault with several others. Billy was a stellar student and so much more before the events of that fateful day. Ho...

Casey Nicholson has always been a little bit sensitive, and she puts it to use in her shop in Jackson Square, where she reads tarot cards and tea leaves. She’s not a medium, but she can read people well.When the ghost of Lena Marceau comes to her in the cemetery, shedding tears and begging for help, Casey’s at first terrified and then determined. Lena knows she was the victim of a malicious murder. Assumes her husband was, as well, and now fears that her daughter and siste...

Halloween! Strange things are going to happen and every year, while loving the holiday, members of the Krewe of Hunters also dread it.Something somewhere is bound to happen.And it does.Krewe member Jon Dickson’s fiancée Kylie Connelly is contacted by an old friend who has just moved to Salem, Massachusetts, when the unimaginable happens as the holiday approaches.Jenny Auger has just managed to buy the historic home of her dreams. But it comes with far more h...

When you're looking for the victim of a mysterious murder in a theater, there is nothing like calling on a dead diva for help! Krewe members must find the victim if they're to discover the identity of a murderer at large, one more than willing to kill the performers when he doesn't like the show.It’s Halloween at the Global Tower Theatre, a fantastic and historic theater owned by Adam Harrison and run by spouses of Krewe members. During a special performance, a strange actor makes ...

Years ago, Jake Mallory fell in love all over again with Ashley Donegal—while he and the Krewe were investigating a murder that replicated a horrible Civil War death at her family’s Donegal Plantation.Now, Ashley and Jake are back—planning for their wedding, which will take place the following month at Donegal Plantation, her beautiful old antebellum home.But Halloween is approaching and Ashley is haunted by a ghost warning her of deaths about to come in the city of New Orl...

Strange things are happening at Castle Darien, the legendary home of Angela Hawkins Crow’s family just outside of Dublin, Ireland.People are dying in the most unusual ways: drowning where there’s no water, falling from heights that don’t exist…But before every death, the banshee lets out a cry, warning that loved ones are in danger. The Irish death ghost’s haunting shrieks and sobs echo within the ancient stone walls and travel up and down the hillsides.Terrified an...

Angela Hawkins Crow awakens to find herself in total darkness. Despite her years as a Krewe agent, she is first seized with panic, but her life and her training kick in. She knows that she must stay calm and go back in her mind to find out how she got where she is…and where she might be.Meanwhile, an eerie phone call comes in at Krewe headquarters, warning them all that Angela has been kidnapped, describing her ordeal, and lamenting the fact that she can’t be saved.But ther...