Author: Cathy Scott
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250010977
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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The Millionaire's Wife Cathy Scott The beloved son of Holocaust survivors, forty-nine-year-old George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before making his way to New York City, where he enjoyed great success as an antiques and art dealer. Until one morning in 1990, when George was approached on the street by an unidentified gunman—and was killed in cold blood. Before the shooting, George had been on the way to his girlfriends's apartment. Mary-Louise Hawkins was twenty-eight years old and had once worked as George's publicist. But ever since they became lovers, George's estranged wife, Barbara, was consumed with bitterness. As she and George hashed out a divorce, Barbara fueled her anger into greed—especially after a judge turned down her request for $5,000 a week in alimony. Barbara, who stood to collect $4.3 million in life insurance, was immediately suspected in George's death. But it would take authorities almost twenty years to uncover a link between her lawyer, Manuel Martinez, and the hitman who killed George. In 2010, Martinez agreed to testify against his client...and Barbara eventually pled guilty to charges of grand larceny, conspiracy to commit murder, and murder in the first degree. This is the shocking true story of THE MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE.

Author: Shalini Boland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786815989
Category : First loves
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Anna Blackwell lives a charmed life with her husband. But things haven't always been this way. When a woman is killed on the other side of the world, Anna knows that her past has caught up with her. That her greatest fear is about to come true. That it's her turn next.

Author: Helen Brooks
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 459629433X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Cory runs into a man named Nick while out for a walk, and he unexpectedly asks her to come with him to a party at a high-end club in London. Everything about the place is otherworldly to Cory. She can’t help falling for this attractive man after spending such a wonderful time with him, but she has a painful past that prevents her from moving forward with a new romance. He shows up the next day to ask if she’ll give him a try. She’s loath to get hurt by falling in love all over again, yet she finds herself irresistibly attracted to this man…

Author: Satoru Asami
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596024057
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Why is he making our divorce so complicated? Miriam married charismatic entrepreneur Jay just three months after meeting and falling in love with him. They promised eternal love to each other, and just when she thought their happiness would continue forever, Miriam catches Jay cheating on her with his secretary! Miriam is devastated and leaves him. Ten months later, he finally reappears to grant her the divorce she’s been asking for, but he has a strange requirement…

Author: Catherine George
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596683441
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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At nineteen Kate wanted to see just how far she could go on her own, so she left home to work in London. However, her fianc?, Jack, couldn’t wait for her. He immediately broke up with her and married someone else. Nine years later, Kate returns home, runs into Jack and learns that his marriage ended shortly after she left. And she learns that they both still have feelings for each other. But Kate also has a secret that she just can't bring herself to tell him…

Author: Carolyn Zane
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474011829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Why, that pretty diner waitress didn't know who he was, which was just dandy for Dakota Brubaker...of the filthy rich Texas Brubakers. Just as he'd been about to ask sassy Elizabeth out, she'd proposed to him.

Author: Shalini Boland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993569500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Can you ever really know the ones you love? Anna Blackwell lives a charmed life with her husband, in a clifftop mansion overlooking the ocean. But things haven't always been this way. When a woman is killed on the other side of the world, Anna realises that her past has caught up with her. That her greatest fear is about to come true. That it's her turn next. Uncover a web of lies and deceit in Shalini Boland's new chilling, twisty suspense thriller.

Author: Arthur Jay Harris
Publisher: Arthur Jay Harris
ISBN: 1484092015
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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A Millionaire Has An Affair. His Wife Throws Him Out. She Gets The Mansion, The Business, The Cash. His Parents' Business. His Parents' Cash. She Gets Shot And Doesn't Know It. The Bullet Disappears. He Goes To Prison. His Parents Flee The Country. He Weds The Other Woman Behind Bars. Has There Ever Been A Case Like This? --The Miami Herald, Tropic Magazine FLOWERS FOR MRS. LUSKIN begins with a flower delivery to the best house in the best part of Hollywood, Florida. Inside, Marie Luskin was cautious; her husband Paul used to send her flowers but those days had ended more than a year before when she filed for divorce. She thought it was safe to open the door just enough to accept the pot of azaleas. She was wrong. The delivery was a ruse; the man pointed a gun at her and demanded her money and jewelry. When he left, she fell to the floor, bloodied, thinking he'd hit her with the gun. Over 40 years, Paul's family had built a business called Luskin's from one store in Baltimore into a chain of consumer electronics stores in Florida. Coming of age, Paul was taking it over, to run. He'd already made his first million, and he and Marie were living a life their friends admired. But between them all was not well. Then Paul's high school girlfriend moved to town with her husband, and sparks rekindled. When Marie discovered it she threw Paul out of the house. For a moment it looked like they would reunite. She asked Paul to move back in at the end of the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest sale day of the year. But that was a ruse, too. That day at the store, her attorneys served him the divorce. Marie's attorneys were aggressive. Accusing Paul's parents of shielding his assets, they asked the judge for everything he--and his parents--had. A year later, it looked like Marie would get it all. The divorce was overwhelming and compound stress. Three times Marie had him arrested for not paying his very high support payments exactly on time; the judge had frozen his assets, and his dad had asked him to leave his high-paying job because he couldn't concentrate both on it and the divorce. Marie's attorneys wanted Paul's mom to testify for days about the business's finances, but because she had a blood clot that stress could loosen and become lethal, Paul's family asked them to lay off her. They refused. Not long after came the flower delivery. The Feds indicted Paul for attempted murder-for-hire. They told the jury: A Luskin's employee called his brother in Baltimore who was a mob guy, who got someone to come to Hollywood to kill Marie. Although she thought the gunman hit her with the gun, he really shot her--his bullet grazed her head. Paul was convicted and sentenced to prison for 35 years. In prison, Paul married his high school girlfriend. To me, they protested so insistently that there was no murder-for-hire that it seemed something was truly wrong. I eventually found there had been a murder plot--but the real question was, who had asked the Luskin's employee to call his brother in Baltimore? Testimony said "Mr. Luskin" ordered the murder; the prosecutor naturally assumed that meant Paul. But there was a better case that "Mr. Luskin" was Paul's dad. As a result of his son's divorce he lost his whole business, owed Marie $11 million he didn't have and was facing jail for contempt of court for not paying her, and so had to leave the country. At the story's turning point, "Mr. Luskin" had to choose between two untenable outcomes: the death of the elder Mrs. Luskin or the younger. But prosecutors also were forced to make a tragic choice. Without certainty of which "Mr. Luskin" it was, did they choose the wrong one?

Author: Thomas J. Stanley
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795314833
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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The New York Times bestseller that gives “readers with an entrepreneurial turn of mind . . . road maps on how millionaires found their niches” (USA Today). The author of the blockbuster bestseller The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy shows how self-made millionaires have surmounted shortcomings such as average intelligence by carefully choosing their careers, taking calculated risks, and living balanced lifestyles while maintaining their integrity. Dr. Thomas J. Stanley also builds on his research from The Millionaire Next Door and takes us further into the psyche of the American millionaire. Stanley focuses in on the top one percent of households in America and tells us the motor behind the engine; what makes them tick. His findings on how these families reached such financial success are based on in-depth surveys and interviews with more than thirteen hundred millionaires. “A very good book that deserves to be well read.” —The Wall Street Journal “Worth every cent . . . It’s an inspiration for anyone who has ever been told that he wasn’t smart enough or good enough.” —Associated Press “A high IQ isn’t necessarily an indicator of financial success . . . Stanley tells us that the typical millionaire had an average GPA and frugal spending habits—but good interpersonal skills.” —Entertainment Weekly “Ideas bigger than the next buck.” —Orlando Sentinel

Author: Amanda Browning
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426817959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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Lucas Antonetti was furious when Sofie left him shortly after their honeymoon. But six years later he has tracked her down and can finally have his runaway bride pay the price of her desertion: she's still his wife and she will act as one—both in and out of the bedroom! Lucas doesn't know the real, heartbreaking reason Sofie walked out on their marriage. But it's only a matter of time before he discovers her other secret…. And when Lucas finds he has a son, his desire for vengeance is even stronger!