Sara Gordon knows better—don’t sleep with women she works with. It just leads to awkward mornings and moving on. But she did and it does. Now she’s in her hometown of Atlanta, looking back at a string of broken relationships and making the same promise to herself on the eve of yet another new posting.Mikaela Small’s last date set personal and regional records for Worst Ever. On the upside, there’s a plum job opening in her firm, but the competition for it will be fierce. This is no...

They tell her she was an artist. They tell her she has family and friends. But Summer Rain Baxby remembers nothing after a year-long coma. Just as she thinks she’s turned a new corner with a new job, reality shatters around her—someone else’s memories of terror crowd into the void in her own mind.Unnerved, Summer still tries to move on and is grateful to reclaim her friends Keile and Haydn as part of her life. When they introduce her to the attractive author Renny Jamison, Summer w...

Sometimes, life offers you a chance to see what you’ve been missing…Everything Keile Griffen ever loved was taken away, including her family. Surviving a youth in Child Support Services has left her driven to succeed as an adult—and she has. A successful, sought after planning consultant, she maps out solutions for other people, but never for herself.When Hayden Davenport’s partner walked out on her in the midst of planning their family, she decided to go it alone....

What would you do if you found out that your life was built on a lie?After the death of her mother in a school shooting, Adeena Minor’s life unravels as she is catapulted into temporary fame. Days later, Adeena receives a letter that warns that her life is in danger. She is also told that everything she knows about her identity is a lie. As much as she wants to dismiss the letter, two previous “accidents” seem to support the outlandish warning. Determined to survive, Adeena knows t...

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a sixpence for her shoe.A woman realizes she was meant to decline a wedding invitation, but only after she’s arrived. Can she borrow some of a stranger’s charm to make it through an awkward night?A power outage during a rehearsal dinner. A vanishing bride. A distraught groom. How’s an innkeeper to keep up? Especially when the bride reappears with a strange request: help her escape her own wedding....

This paper, following two earlier studies, reviews the arrangements for restructuring commercial bank and official debt up to early 1985.