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Matched to a Billionaire by Kat Cantrell

Wanted: one convenient wife Venture capitalist Leo Reynolds is married to his work, but now he needs a wife. Someone to run his home, host his parties–and accept a marriage that's strictly business. His one rule: love will play no part in their union. At least that's the lie he tells himself, until he meets his match....

She was supposed to match him with someone else... Elise Arundel won't let anyone compromise her high–profile matchmaking business–certainly not Dax Wakefield, the doubting tycoon determined to prove she's a sham. She'll find the sexy bachelor a perfect mate. But when her foolproof program matches him with her, what's a woman to do but give in to unbridled passion? Dax can't believe how the former–duckling–turned–swan is making him question his playboy status...and his vow to bring down her company. Could sultry Elise–his enemy!–be the one to change his life from one night only to happily ever after?

Liliana is trying to escape the stuffy royal world while Maxwell is trying to escape his responsibilities as the Crown Prince. What happens when these childhood sweethearts are forced into an arranged marriage?Maxwell Gerard Beaumont Is the Crown Prince of Triola. All his life, he's been told how one day he will inherit the throne and have to be an example for his people. But Maxwell doesn't want to the pressure of the life he was destined for, and decides he would rather spend his days partying on his family's private island or super-yacht. But when the paparazzi catches him carousing with a trouble-making pop star, his parents demand he return home to Triola. They insist Maxwell commit to taking on his responsibilities as a crown prince, including accepting an arranged marriage to a woman of their choosing, a woman he remembers from his youth but wants nothing to do with now that their adults. If he refuses their ultimatum, he will be cut off from the money, the influence, and his family.Lady Liliana Lockhart grew up in the royal world of Triola, but once she was able to escape the constricting lifestyle, she did. Now, she spends her time volunteering at orphanages in Asia or being an ambassador for the UN. All of that changes when she is summoned home. Upon her arrival, her father informs her that she is to marry the crown prince of Triola in order to secure her future. Liliana scoffs at the idea, explaining that arranged marriages are a relic of the past, yet secretly she wonders what it would be like to marry the man she shared her first kiss with eight years ago.Can these two vastly different people find a way back to the first love they shared when they were teens? Can Maxwell let go of his bad boy bachelor lifestyle to make room for true love? Can Liliana forgive his indiscretions and see past his facade to his heart of gold? And will they find a way to make their relationship work in order to secure the future of Triola? Find out in international bestselling author, Jenna Brandt's book, Royally Matched, in the Match Made in Heaven series.Match Made in Heaven.These standalone stories are sweet, clean romances designed to whisk you away. Not every man has six-pack abs, nor every woman the model of femininity, but everyone needs someone. We believe in building a world that begins at the very core of what makes romance stories work - faith, hope, and love. Now it's your turn to find love. Set your imagination and heart free with us. The next happily- ever-after is at your fingertips, just waiting to be told...

Praise for How I Became a Quant "Led by two top-notch quants, Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter, How I Became a Quant details the quirky world of quantitative analysis through stories told by some of today's most successful quants. For anyone who might have thought otherwise, there are engaging personalities behind all that number crunching!" --Ira Kawaller, Kawaller & Co. and the Kawaller Fund "A fun and fascinating read. This book tells the story of how academics, physicists, mathematicians, and other scientists became professional investors managing billions." --David A. Krell, President and CEO, International Securities Exchange "How I Became a Quant should be must reading for all students with a quantitative aptitude. It provides fascinating examples of the dynamic career opportunities potentially open to anyone with the skills and passion for quantitative analysis." --Roy D. Henriksson, Chief Investment Officer, Advanced Portfolio Management "Quants"--those who design and implement mathematical models for the pricing of derivatives, assessment of risk, or prediction of market movements--are the backbone of today's investment industry. As the greater volatility of current financial markets has driven investors to seek shelter from increasing uncertainty, the quant revolution has given people the opportunity to avoid unwanted financial risk by literally trading it away, or more specifically, paying someone else to take on the unwanted risk. How I Became a Quant reveals the faces behind the quant revolution, offering you?the?chance to learn firsthand what it's like to be a?quant today. In this fascinating collection of Wall Street war stories, more than two dozen quants detail their roots, roles, and contributions, explaining what they do and how they do it, as well as outlining the sometimes unexpected paths they have followed from the halls of academia to the front lines of an investment revolution.

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

Selected from Mark Twain's typescript.

Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive--and where elites are eager to keep them that way. At best the nation has become a "managed democracy" where the public is shepherded, not sovereign. At worst it is a place where corporate power no longer answers to state controls. Wolin makes clear that today's America is in no way morally or politically comparable to totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, yet he warns that unchecked economic power risks verging on total power and has its own unnerving pathologies. Wolin examines the myths and mythmaking that justify today's politics, the quest for an ever-expanding economy, and the perverse attractions of an endless war on terror. He argues passionately that democracy's best hope lies in citizens themselves learning anew to exercise power at the local level. Democracy Incorporated is one of the most worrying diagnoses of America's political ills to emerge in decades. It is sure to be a lightning rod for political debate for years to come. Now with a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges, Democracy Incorporated remains an essential work for understanding the state of democracy in America.