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Making it on Broadway is tough, but finding love in the city is even tougher. But sometimes, the most unexpected connections lead to the greatest love stories. London McCrae is an aspiring actress determined to succeed on Broadway, but lately her career and love life have hit a dry spell. After a disastrous blind date, she seeks solace in a cozy Midtown pub where she meets Spencer York, a charming British businessman in town for work. An enthralling one-night stand with no expectations turns into a tangled web when London realizes Spencer is the producer of the new Broadway musical she's auditioning for. Horrified and embarrassed, she botches her audition, but Spencer offers her a second chance, and this time she nails it. With the stakes higher than ever, can London and Spencer keep their love affair a secret and maintain their reputations in the cutthroat world of Broadway? Or will their fiery passion be too explosive to contain? Find out in A Play for Love, the latest steamy installment in M.S. Parker's Scottish Billionaire series. Get swept away in the captivating love story of London and Spencer.

Our traditional ways of looking at economics, business and politics are not fit for purpose. The causes of the recent crisis were behavioural and international, but our measures are superficial and financial, recorded at a national or company level. This is combined with a fervent quest for endless ‘growth’, no matter how unsustainable. Theory has to catch up with reality. Many books chart different courses for economic and business management but New Normal, Radical Shift is different. Using examples from international organizations around the world, it analyses not only the business model that failed, but challenges wider economic and political beliefs that employees’ interests always conflict with those of managers and business owners. Neela Bettridge and Philip Whiteley argue that the right messages about good practice in business struggle to be heard, not because of indifference or inertia, but because dysfunctional philosophies are still supported not only within business and business schools, but also within political circles and by trade unions, NGOs and others campaigning for workers’ rights. The central belief of the ‘old normal’ is that profits are made by exploiting workers and the environment. In this book the authors’ arguments - all supported by exemplary case studies -demonstrate that this belief is false, opening up enormous possibilities in a ‘new normal’ of enhanced working lives, environmental protection and business success.

In a clubhouse in the little town of Hickory Grove, five friends have a meeting. Curious about their new neighbor on Hickory Lane, Molly, Toby, Johnny, and Davy decide to investigate. When each comes back with a different description of the new neighbor, they realize they still don't have the answers. In The Many Hats of Jeremiah Porter, five friends learn the curious truth about what Mr. Porter does for a living.

How long will you stand up for what you believe when your world unravels? Lucinda Tyne Beck, VP and uber college fundraiser, uncovers illegal use of donations by her boss, Frank Wickes, the flashy new President of her alma mater on the rocky North Shore of Massachusetts. As her 17-year marriage to artsy photographer Bart Beck unravels at a betrayal Lucinda can't deny-much as she'd like to-Lucinda scrambles to save the college's reputation and her marriage. The day her husband moves out, Lucinda's best friend arrives at her farmhouse, horse trailer in tow, with an ex-racehorse on the verge of starvation. As Bart self-destructs and Lucinda's life is threatened as she scrambles to bring Frank to justice, she turns to a surprising ally and an intrepid dwarf miniature horse for help. Before her pursuer strikes, can Lucinda save her college, her thoroughbred mare, and find a new way to love? "A rich engaging novel...with its focus on characters' search for meaning, purpose, and redemption, while hindered inevitably by their own faults." -Mark Spencer, winner of the Omaha Prize for the Novel and author of Trespassers