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Claire's a rich widow on a mission, who partakes with abandon from the pharmacy stored in her Prada purse. Rob's an aging reality show celebrity. Stuck on the same flight, bound for the same eccentric town, she hates him on sight. She thinks she knows all there is to know about him but is dying to find out more. He's disinterested but somehow still sees right through her. But they've both got big problems. Hers is in the Louis Vuitton carryon in the overhead. His is in his pants. To Claire's dismay, Rob turns up everywhere she goes, yet they form the unlikeliest of friendships. He cares for her in ways she's never known before. He could be the best thing in her life-or the worst. In a place full of secrets, including their own, they help each other find answers they didn't even know they were looking for, yet some questions linger. What happened to Rob's first wife? What happened to Claire's husband? Will they live through the answers? The Last Day for Rob Rhino is a dark, tragic, and funny novel about the bonds of family and friendship. If you'd love a Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, or Stieg Larsson novel with a humorous twist, this would be it.

"Dark, disturbing, deliciously inappropriate." - Leslie Wolfe, best-selling author of The Watson Girl. From two-time Book of the Year finalist Kathleen O'Donnell comes a gripping psychological thriller filled with unexpected twists. A psychiatric patient with a dark secretPreston Blair, a blogger with a dark sense of humor, is committed to a private psychiatric hospital, accused of a shocking crime. Her father Todd's influence as a D.A. has kept her from prison, but her sanity remains on a knife-edge. A therapist with an agendaPreston's therapist, Isabel, is too preoccupied working her latest con on a rich, married, sadomasochistic secret lover, to care about Preston's problems, even when Preston tells her that her socialite mother, Harrison Blair, had committed an unthinkable crime herself years before-one that might help explain Preston's own misdeeds. A shocking secret that begs to be toldWhen Preston's absent husband, Brendan, suddenly turns up and tries to prove her innocence, tragedy strikes. Preston's convinced her parents were involved, but it turns out to be much more complicated. As Preston delves deeper into the mystery, her head clears and a devastating event that she had long erased from her muddled mind comes rushing back. A killer that cannot be stoppedStumbling onto video evidence, which exposes a killer's greed and lust for power, Preston finds her own life is in danger from a surprising and once trusted source. She discovers that the truth hurts. It just might be the death of her. Fans of Janet Evanovich, Gillian Flynn, and Jessica Knoll will love Kathleen O'Donnell.

Management, Operations, Total Quality Management Newly released third edition, with charts and graphs in high resolution Turnaround Strategies for Customer Centric Operationsis a turn-by-turn guide for leaders who endeavor in operational restructuring of underperforming organizations. The proposed approaches and suggested strategies, tactics, and methodologies are customer-centric, data-driven, and quality-oriented. This book brings a very structured approach to an otherwise overwhelmingly complex challenge: operational turnaround. The approach presented is structured strategy: a simple, organized, results-oriented recovery plan, together with decisive, superior execution of such plan, can increase dramatically the chances for a successful and stable operational turnaround and the undeterred progress towards profitability and growth. Essentially a leadership and management science book that reads like a novel and brings easy-to-use tools for transformational leaders regardless of industry, Turnaround Strategies is a handbook for total quality management in distressed operations.

Andrea Brafford is passionate about her career as a marine biologist and happily married. A few months after she and her husband Craig move into their dream home in a Houston suburb, Craig is on trial for her murder. Her life remains a mystery both to investigators and to public opinion.

"Where her daughter had played Gretel in front of a cheering audience, only two faint stage lights remained. The theater was deserted and eerily silent; the only sound she could hear was her own heart, pounding in a frenzy against her chest. She rushed outside and stopped sharply at the top of the stairs, stunned, her blood turned to icicles. Darkness had fallen, thick and filled with ocean mist, lampposts like ghosts sprinkling yellow haloes in the sky. Paige was gone. They'd taken her little girl. After eight-year-old Paige disappears without a trace, FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett is called to investigate one of the boldest kidnappings the bureau has seen. The girl was taken from a theater filled with witnesses, in the middle of a children's play. And no one saw anything. Starting a frenzied search and following leads that seem to suggest a link to the girl's father, the state district attorney, Tess is stunned to learn of a ransom call that points to an entirely different motive, old as time itself: money. Frantic for answers and painfully aware of each passing moment, Tess has a choice to make: trust her instinct and follow the leads that seem to indicate an organized crime connection? Or give in to the demands of the parents and assist with the ransom payment? The odds of finding Paige alive drop with every passing second, and making the wrong choice would seal her fate. Her blood would be on her hands."--Back cover.