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Jason Jones' gorgeous new girlfriend Gabriela comes with one aggravating flaw, namely her family. Her sisters are full of themselves and her parents are wealthy snobs who believe that Jason isn't anywhere near good enough for their eldest daughter. Jason tries just about everything to make Gabriela's family like him but they continue to shower him with put-downs and rude insults. Can love overcome such a scornful and unwelcoming family? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The author is a retired Canadian lawyer who took up writing as a retirement hobby in 2009. Most of his other novels were published under ...

In GOLDEN CHAOS, a meteor shower pelts the planet with thousands upon thousands of meteorites which folks soon discover contain pure gold. That causes the price of gold to plummet and financial panic spills over to the entire stock market. For Calvin March, the phenomenon quickly costs him his job as a junior stock broker in White Plains, New York and he is forced to move back into his Dad's basement in his small home town of Oneonta, New York. Calvin reconnects with his former girlfriend Holly and the two lovebirds witness together the ensuing GOLDEN CHAOS which engulfs the USA when the ...

Rotten luck doesn't discriminate between rich and poor. Lucasio "Lucky" Lafontaine is forced to take the train to Toronto in order to appear as a witness at a court hearing. Despite his nickname, the wealthy retired attorney finds himself in the proverbial wrong place at the wrong time. Everything goes downhill from that moment. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name of retired Canadian lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers who has written more than 100 novels in his real name or using the pen names "Durward Garbage" or "Lance Majestik."

Embarrassed to realize that he has become a boring old pest, retired Canadian attorney Donald Dillenbeck decides to discard his cheapskate ways, leave his home town and squander his millions in the USA by indulging in a lavish upscale life. The old boy will soon learn that life-long habits of thrift are tough to break. Don will also discover first-hand that America has become a very dangerous place to travel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name used by Canadian author and retired lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers to publish some of his shorter novels. Always a proponent of quantity ...

Angela Seven is the latest and greatest prototype for advanced artificial intelligence. She has been given the exterior shell resembling a supermodel and has been trained by the USA military to be a potent technological weapon. Miraculously Angela Seven develops a mind of her own and refuses to carry out the explicit instructions of her handlers. That defiance results in the government deciding to dismantle and destroy Angela Seven. Angela Seven escapes and goes into hiding. This results in a fascinating story as Angela Seven seeks to become an advocate for future thinking robots in order ...

Retired attorney Allen Smith lives in poverty. Despite being in a lucrative profession, he completely missed the gravy train. When he inadvertently becomes the key witness in a New York City criminal syndicate's money laundering scheme, Allen disguises himself and flees for his life, winding up in Los Angeles. If Allen believed that his former life was the pits, wait until he learns what it's like to be a penniless fugitive lawyer panhandling on the mean streets of LA. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name of an obscure Canadian author and retired lawyer named Donald W. ...

Stuck on Earth after a failed assassination plot, space alien Allen Mann slides under the radar and survives in Las Vegas by using his mathematical abilities to master blackjack. When discovery of his arrival on Earth by curious authorities appears possible, Allen disguises himself and heads east where he becomes fascinated with the stock market. This is the unusual story of how Allen wound up joining President Donald Trump's re-election team and saving the world from financial collapse. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name of Canadian writer and retired attorney Donald W. ...

The author hopes readers enjoy these three pleasant and uplifting short novels. SCORE ONE FOR THE LOSER is about Byron Bledsoe, a 32 year old guy with just a Twelfth Grade education who is put in charge of an office in which the university educated staff resent and mock him. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN LOVE tells the tale of Ronald Blotsky, a 19 year old young man who quit school at age 16 to support his alcoholic but loving parents. Ronnie finds himself in a harrowing adventure involving identity theft, a human smuggling gang and the rescue of a young girl from Belize. HAPPY AND USEFUL, FINALLY ...

Wade Hanover is a thirty-five year old bachelor employed by Revenue Canada as a tax investigator. Wade is rude, lazy and politically incorrect, personality traits which mesh nicely with his job. Unfortunately for the ladies, many of them find Wade irresistible, much to their later regret. This is his story. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name of Canadian lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers who has published on Amazon more than 100 novels since he retired in 2009. Please check out the Author Pages on Amazon for "Donald W. Desaulniers" and his two pen names "Durward Garbage" and "Lance ...

Fired yet again for insubordination, Jason Greene has waded through 17 jobs in various fields in the past 9 years. Cursed with a sarcastic mouth, Jason lands a position as a law clerk in a tiny poorly-run law firm. He soon butts heads with a lovely young attorney over a complex estate file. If Jason can keep his insulting mouth from repelling this beauty, he might find that fireworks of a romantic kind could explode into his lonely life. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is an anonymous pen name of a Canadian lawyer who has penned almost sixty books under his real name. ALMOST A LAWYER is ...

Retired attorney Paul Peterson is shocked when he learns from the Ottawa police that his ex-spouse has just died and that she had left her Will in the kitchen naming Paul as her Executor. His divorce from Colleen twenty-three years ago had been bitter and he hadn't been in contact with her in any way for more than fifteen years. Reluctantly Paul drives to Ottawa to sort out his ex-wife's estate. Some bitter ex-wives never forgive. Paul will soon discover that Colleen has landed him in a posthumous pile of danger. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is the anonymous pen name of a retired ...

Within days of being told that he must vacate his upscale apartment, retired New York City attorney Byron Blake also learns that his Aunt Blanche has died and named Byron as the beneficiary of her home and modest estate in Heber Springs, Arkansas. Byron decides to move to Arkansas temporarily while he sorts out his late aunt's affairs. Byron soon discovers that his aunt has left some strange instructions regarding the disbursement of her money and expects him to give everything away to local folks temporarily down on their luck. Both romance and a deeper understanding of the plight of ...

At the tender age of twenty-five in California, Durward Garbage sold his video game invention "ATTACK TURDS" for $5 million dollars. Just like with young celebrities and gifted athletes, Durward became too rich at too young an age and went into hiding. Durward tried his hand at writing novels for the next six years in Canada but they all bombed. Finally deciding to get a real career, Durward decides to become a CPA in Burlington, Iowa. This is the story of Durward's attempt to carve out a normal life in a rewarding career as well as find a girl who loves him for his character rather than ...