The suspicious death of Dante Bartholomew's wife changed him, especially in the eyes of the residents of St. Giles. They no longer see a successful businessman… only a monster they believe was involved. Dante's horrific reputation eclipses the truth to the point that he sees no choice but to isolate himself and his heart. The plan backfires when he meets counselor Beau Clarity and the children he works with. Beau and the kids see beyond the beastly reputation to the beautiful soul inside D...

A Tale from St. Giles Family can be a blessing and a curse, but for artist Florian, it's a nightmare he longs to escape. As chief designer for Bartholomew Artist Porcelain, Florian specializes in painting birds. He also watches them in the wild to distract himself from his short-tempered mother, at least temporarily. Florian's heart is too soft to leave his stepsister, Ella, to suffer alone. Still, he can't help dreaming about one day finding happiness and love. When Count Dieter von Holle...

He was my home when I had nowhere else to go.XedMatty's the only person who ever mattered to me. Since we were seven years old, he's been my rock, my anchor, and the light guiding me to safety when the world got too dark.Then Hannah was born, and she became the glue holding us in place. It wasn't perfect, but it was ours—a life we built together.Until Matty made a choice that shattered it all. Now, I'm adrift, trying to figu...

In the hard country beyond the last railhead, water means life—or death.When men begin dying along a lonely stretch of desert known as Poison Springs, word spreads fast and truth travels slow. The water is foul, the land unforgiving, and the men who control it are willing to kill to keep their secret buried.One man rides into that wasteland asking the wrong questions.What he finds is a silent range littered with warning signs no one dares to read, a handful of despe...

On the wide open prairie there is nowhere to hide—and no place to run.When a lone rider crosses paths with two desperate gunmen in the tall grass, the quiet plains explode in gunfire. One man rides for justice. The others ride to make sure he never leaves alive.But the prairie has a way of deciding who survives.Outnumbered and surrounded, the rider must trust his horse, his courage, and the cold steel in his hand. Because once the shooting starts, only the fastest g...

"Said plainly, churches are in trouble. All churches are, but certainly Churches of Christ. Whether or not they recognize the threats they are facing is a different matter. The future is fraught with dangers. Many won't make it."On New Year's weekend, 1831–32, two churches came together in Lexington, Kentucky, in what is often known today as the Restoration Movement. Among the churches that emerged from this movement were Churches of Christ, which grew in the nineteenth ce...

The individual investor's comprehensive guide to momentum investingQuantitative Momentum brings momentum investing out of Wall Street and into the hands of individual investors. In his last book, Quantitative Value, author Wes Gray brought systematic value strategy from the hedge funds to the masses; in this book, he does the same for momentum investing, the system that has been shown to beat the market and regularly enriches the coffers of Wall S...

DIY Financial Advisor: A Simple Solution to Build and Protect Your WealthDIY Financial Advisor is a synopsis of our research findings developed while serving as a consultant and asset manager for family offices. By way of background, a family office is a company, or group of people, who manage the wealth a family has gained over generations. The term 'family office' has an element of cachet, and even mystique, because it is usually associated with the mega...

The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga endured 200 years of displacement. As a result, relatively little is known about the location, organization, or ambience of their ancestral villages. Perched on a triangular finger of land against...

The financial advice industry -- including banks, mutual fund and insurance companies -- has a vested interest in our hard-earned savings. Industry advisors are constantly warning us that we may not be financially prepared for retirement. And, feeling anxious about our future, we become convinced that it’s a good idea to let them handle our money. After all, they seem to have all the answers. But retirement planning today isn’t the same as it was in the past. We’re living longer, leading m...

Retirement planning isn't something that happens at a specific point in time or at a specific age - we are all affecting our retirement plans every day with every decision we do or don't make. Canadians are living longer, and the average retiree in the future may have as much as 30 years of retirement to plan for, and there are many simple things that will impact our eventual retirement life.52 Ways to Wreck Your Retirement identifies 52 things we do that could wreck our r...

Bedrock Investing Principles for Profiting in Today's Shaky Markets"If you’ve been wondering why you've had such a hard time investing well, Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett will diagnose your ills and treat them in this delightful short book." -- William Bernstein, Author, A Splendid Exchange and The Investor's Manifesto"Follow the investment strategy advocated by Larry Swedroe, and free yourself t...