The best lies you tell your friends.The worst lies you tell yourself.In country stores, old men gather over breakfast and coffee to swap tall tales. The fish are bigger, danger greater, and adventures wilder in the stories told at a Liars’ Table. No harm in stretching the truth when nothing exciting happens in their small town.Until someone steals Purvis Webb’s car. Life is hard enough without thieves. A wife in a nursing home. An e...

A lone teenager. A shocking secret.During a raging snowstorm, a deputy rescues a teenager stumbling along the side of a highway. Battered and starving, the boy reveals only his name—Jaxon with an X.Ten years earlier, six-year-old Jaxon Lathan disappeared from a small North Carolina mountain town. The sheriff thought he had solved the crime, but the boy's return leads to a house of secrets, a mass grave, and the horror of missed opportunities. As the ...

Every small town has its secrets. And this one could tear his world apart.Nathan Thomas feels grateful for his loving family and a steady job in a town where work is scarce. Still haunted by a deadly accident that severed his closest friendships, he hopes his bad luck is well behind him. But a fresh betrayal and a shocking revelation could take everything he loves away.With his marriage strained to the breaking point, Nathan's forced to confront his devasta...

Days after graduating high school, Freddie McDougal escapes his small North Carolina mountain hometown to pursue a dream of rock and roll stardom. Seventeen years later, his mother pleads for him to come home. His father has only days to live.Returning forces Freddie onto a path of self-discovery as he unravels the truth behind the tragic car crash that claimed the life of his popular and athletic brother, Dean. Everything he thought he knew about that awful night turns out to be f...

From the author of Jaxon with an X and Sour Notes, comes a vivid, atmospheric noir tale of a seedy underworld brought to life.Suburban executive Preston Westbrook decides his wife must die, but he can't do the deed himself. He asks high-end prostitute, Sable Dusk, if she knows of a hitman who can deliver him from a costly divorce and career-ending scandal.Bruiser is six-foot-four, 250 pounds of tattooed muscle wrapped in leather. With his scarred knuckles ...

Six-year-old Jaxon disappeared. He's found ten years later.The boy’s family races to the hospital to see him, but they are shocked at the sight. The bubbly youngster has been replaced by a scarred and emaciated teen. As they bridge the lost years and rebuild their bonds, they must wrestle with their own guilt and demons.Fearing other children are at risk, the sheriff follows the clues deep into the Great Smoky Mountains. He finds half-buried secrets, a twis...

One of the best investments you will ever makeDK's approach breaks new ground. How Money Works demystifies processes and answers the hundreds of financial questions we all have.Money facilitates the billions of transactions that take place every day across the globe. How Money Works shows you how this is possible. It explains economic theories, how governments raise and control money, what goes on in the stock exchange, how analysts predict where shares are heading, and man...

With clear, jargon-free language, How Management Works is a definitive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of organisational management. Learn whether it is more effective to lead through influence or control, whether delegation is the key to productivity, and how to deal with different personalities.Drawing on the latest theories and practices that demystify complex management concepts, this audiobook explains everything you need to know to build your management skills...

This brilliant audiobook explains and explores the essential terms and key concepts in the world of business, finance, and company management.If you're perplexed by profit margins, confused by cash flow, or baffled by balance sheets, all your questions and many more are answered in this indispensable guide. Get to grips with how companies work from management to research and development, and sales and marketing to production and distribution.This audiobook gives a helpful r...

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels.From medieval romances and tales of chivalry through the realist novels of the 19th century to experimental modernist works and today's explorations of the self, Great Novels explores the finest novels from around the world and through time.Tilt at windmills with Don Quixote, experience heartbreak with Tolstoy, discover the society in which Jane Austen lived, and delve into the co...

A guide to setting up and running your own business - covering everything from funding and finance to social media and expansion.Discover everything you need to know to turn your big idea into a thriving business with this unique guide. With clear, jargon-free language, How to Start Your Own Business shows you how to develop your ideas into a profitable venture, taking you step by step through everything from business plans to branding. Packed with practical, autho...

A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as The Times Children's Book of the Week.Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is.Enslaved on a plantation in Barbados, Obah dreams of freedom. As talk of rebellion bubbles up around her in the Big House, she...