Cassie Lucas, a red-headed imp, loves dogs so much she sleeps in flannel puppy covered pajamas. A secret study for her psychology doctorate makes her job of dog-walking more than just a way to make... More > money. Her brood consists of six interesting animals and their owners, all residents of her posh condo building on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. But none of them is as interesting as the cool, distant, Ryan Winston, a multi-millionaire who occupies the penthouse.
Ryan Winston's two goals in life are to accumulate wealth and to avoid the debutantes who think he's perfect husband material. When he meets Cassie, he has a devil of a time remembering his goals. He has no idea she's actually Cassandra Lucas Sykes of Sykes Steel Mills, until she unknowingly bests him in a real estate deal. Then the fun begins!< Less
Cassie Lucas, a red-headed imp, loves dogs so much she sleeps in flannel puppy covered pajamas. A secret study for her psychology doctorate makes her job of dog-walking more than just a way to make... More > money. Her brood consists of six interesting animals and their owners, all residents of her posh condo building on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. But none of them is as interesting as the cool, distant, Ryan Winston, a multi-millionaire who occupies the penthouse.
Ryan Winston's two goals in life are to accumulate wealth and to avoid the debutantes who think he's perfect husband material. When he meets Cassie, he has a devil of a time remembering his goals. He has no idea she's actually Cassandra Lucas Sykes of Sykes Steel Mills, until she unknowingly bests him in a real estate deal. Then the fun begins!< Less
Paul Kalmbach Autobiography 10-24-1897 Knadau, Krasnodar, Russia to 8-12-1981 Seattle, WA, USA. Get past the extremes and innocence of a wild but simple life in a Russian village, rivers flush with... More > every fish, young children thinking nothing of tying lizard tails together at play, amidst cossacks on horseback in bear caps returning from the hunt rife with wolf pelts, and feel astounding adventures growing up, in this true story, of a German-Russian boy near Krasnodar,immediately preceding the Bolshevik Revolution. Devour this autobiography, available for the first time on paperback, of brave and lucky Paul, who escaped by himself at sixteen, on a ship bound for North America, initially joining cousins in Calgary, Canada, attending Redfield College Academy and Seminary, then York College in Nebraska. Fulfilling his Mom's wish to become a Congregational Minister and later Real Estate Agent, surviving college work, dock work and Chicago's 1920s Mob Streets, always cherishing his destiny of becoming American.< Less
Lake was originally from Ontario, Canada. He was from a large family, which was continually affected with illness. At the age of twenty-one, he became a Methodist minister; however, he chose to enter... More > the business world instead of accepting a church ministry. Lake was a very industrious businessman and started two newspapers before beginning a very successful career in real estate.
Early in his career, Lake's wife, whom he deeply loved, fell ill with a life threatening illness. Having a lifetime of suffering and bereavement behind him, he refused to accept this. He took the radical step of taking 'his brother who had been an invalid for 22 years to Chicago see John Alexander Dowie . In a matter of just moments after healing ministers laid their hands on him, he was healed -- he got up and walked out! Next, the Lakes took their 34-year-old sister who was dying from breast cancer. She had been operated on five times and had to be carried on a stretcher. She too was healed!< Less
Lake was originally from Ontario, Canada. He was from a large family, which was continually affected with illness. At the age of twenty-one, he became a Methodist minister; however, he chose to enter... More > the business world instead of accepting a church ministry. Lake was a very industrious businessman and started two newspapers before beginning a very successful career in real estate.
Early in his career, Lake's wife, whom he deeply loved, fell ill with a life threatening illness. Having a lifetime of suffering and bereavement behind him, he refused to accept this. He took the radical step of taking 'his brother who had been an invalid for 22 years to Chicago see John Alexander Dowie . In a matter of just moments after healing ministers laid their hands on him, he was healed -- he got up and walked out! Next, the Lakes took their 34-year-old sister who was dying from breast cancer. She had been operated on five times and had to be carried on a stretcher. She too was healed!< Less
Lake was originally from Ontario, Canada. He was from a large family, which was continually affected with illness. At the age of twenty-one, he became a Methodist minister; however, he chose to enter... More > the business world instead of accepting a church ministry. Lake was a very industrious businessman and started two newspapers before beginning a very successful career in real estate. Early in his career, Lake's wife, whom he deeply loved, fell ill with a life threatening illness. Having a lifetime of suffering and bereavement behind him, he refused to accept this. He took the radical step of taking 'his brother who had been an invalid for 22 years to Chicago see John Alexander Dowie . In a matter of just moments after healing ministers laid their hands on him, he was healed -- he got up and walked out! Next, the Lakes took their 34-year-old sister who was dying from breast cancer. She had been operated on five times and had to be carried on a stretcher. She too was healed!< Less