The Cabernet Legacy – Book 4 – The Finn Fiasco

Finn

Finn Louis Cabernet (b. 2000) is the seventh generation of the eccentric and savvy Cabernet dynasty. The only child of his generation, Finn spent his youth apart from his biological parents as he was given up at birth to an English couple. A troublesome and rebellious adolescent, he eventually found himself reunited with his father, Charlemagne Cabernet, but not long after Charlemagne succumbed to terminal illness. Now, a few years after his father’s death, Finn lives a solitary life, completely transformed since his younger days to be a pious individual. Finn soon finds his contemplative life interrupted as a young female, seeking answers for the death of her own father, comes up against him and his family’s name, landing them both in trouble with a global conspiracy.

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The Cabernet Legacy – Book 3 – The Charlemagne Challenge

Charlemagne

Charlemagne Phillipe Cabernet (b. 1961) is the sixth generation of the notorious and proud Cabernet dynasty. The eldest child of his generation, Charlemagne was a boastful young child who spent his youth constantly over-estimating his abilities and putting himself in dangerous situations. He always believed himself to be a great man; innovative and adventurous since his youth. Now, years after assuming ownership of Cabernet Industries, Charlemagne Cabernet continues to seek adventure on his own, but without relief and increasing risk to his own life. Charlemagne soon finds himself interested in the treasure hunt of a lifetime, the Frankish Crown of his namesake, thought to be somewhere in the post-Cold War Soviet Blocs, where even more dangers await.

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The Cabernet Legacy – Book 2 – The Everest Evulsion

Everest

Everest Pepin Cabernet (b. 1945) is the fifth generation of the world renowned and entrepreneurial Cabernet dynasty. The eldest child of his generation, Everest was a warm-hearted and kind adolescent who spent his childhood and adolescence in constant conflict with his father’s cold and war-torn heart. The hurt from his father persisted even after his premature death. Now, more than fifteen years later, Everest Cabernet is an upbeat and optimistic man enjoying a Bohemian lifestyle with his wife and son at their family home in Alberta. After Everest receives some criticism on Cabernet Industries’ unethical conduct in the developing world, he decides to step in to address these issues. A conflicted Everest soon finds himself at odds by his heart-felt desire to do good, and the cold-felt decision-makers at the helm of the family business.

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The Cabernet Legacy – Book 1 – The Derby Debacle

Derby

Derby Martel Cabernet (b. 1920) is the fourth generation of the illustrious and aristocratic Cabernet dynasty. The youngest child of his generation, Derby was an adventurous adolescent who rather spent his summers in the Canadian outback than becoming an industrialist like his father. The call to adventure finds Derby in 1939 when war breaks out in Europe, enlisting himself for the experience of a lifetime. Now, more than fifteen years later since the end of the war, Derby Cabernet is a cynical and grizzled man in early retirement in East Anglia with his wife and grandson. He puts his servitude towards historical research and expeditions to maintain a sense of use to the world as he publishes his academic contributions on European and Near East studies. The call to adventure finds Derby once more as he is enlisted due to his expert knowledge in expeditionary work to hunt a team led by a German war criminal, a former Waffen-SS officer who escaped his justice at the end of the war. A conflicted Derby finds himself at use to the Allied powers once again to hunt this man down.

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Emma Monique: Problem-Solver – Book 5 – Mastermind

Mastermind

The City of Harlech is a new city, but the path of this city is up for decision with the 1984 municipal election. Both Emma Monique and Kaj Kejsaren are apathetic to the political election. Emma now runs a bustling private investigations company, and Kaj faces a disciplinary hearing for his past actions, but both are anxious for the future of the city nonetheless. They take out their anxieties as they separately investigate those in control of the city, hoping to learn who or what criminal organization aims to take control, or continue to control, the city in a position of absolute power and consolidate the criminal activities of the city for their own doing. To aid their efforts, they come to reflect on the past again, where a power struggle ensued fifteen years ago for control of the city, but now continues to struggle for control of the Greater Harlech region. This final battle for control pushes both Emma and Kaj to their limits, transforming each of them for better or for worse, as they action their own plans in opposition to the hostile powers that lurk.

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Emma Monique: Problem-Solver – Book 4 – Vertigo

vertigo

Emma Monique, a private investigator, and Kaj Kejsaren, a police detective, have found themselves apart from each other in the last few months. Kaj is not himself and so Emma keeps an eye on him as he takes on a new assignment to investigate drug trafficking between the Yakuza and the Triad groups in the city. During her investigation, Emma comes across an old high school flame who now runs his own mercenary team and who she suspects to be involved in a scheme to pit the Yakuza and Triad who have been increasingly engaged in a gang war to annihilate the other from the city. The opposition between Emma and Kaj mirror the opposition the two experienced in a similar time fifteen years ago, where Kaj had become a member of the football team and was indicted into a scheme that the team had taken up to secure victory in the regional football tournament. Emma and Kaj face off against each other, looking to secure and defend those they love from those that threaten them.

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Emma Monique: Problem-Solver – Book 3 – In Our Time

Time

In the aftermath of their most recent investigation, private investigator, Emma Monique, and police detective, Kaj Kejsaren, have found themselves in a different world than they had departed from. Kaj is promoted into Major Crimes, Abductions Unit, and investigates the disappearance of a 17-year-old female in the community, Ansley Wharton, while Emma is approached by a former schoolmate from high school, Cassandra Bates, who is now a famous actress, and encourages her to investigate a movie producer for his suspected sex crimes involving other actors and actresses. Each investigation leads the two to a different criminal syndicate, but also through difficult memories and experiences that take their toll but push each forward to deliver justice, although, in different forms, to avenge those that are now dead.

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Emma Monique: Problem-Solver – Book 2 – Paradise Lost

Paradise

A few months since private investigator, Emma Monique, and police officer, Kaj Kejsaren, had earned their prestige for their efforts that led to the dismantling of a major criminal organization in Harlech, they now return with a new assignment that involves the notorious Medici crime family. Emma is tasked to retrieve lost money in the hands of the nefarious mafia whereas Kaj is tasked to go undercover and expose the financial crimes of Medici Bank. Both investigators eventually come together again as their pains in this investigation become too familiar for them and they reflect on a similar situation fifteen years ago where together they had investigated rumors of a romantic affair. Just as the investigation fifteen years ago had its hardship on the duo, so too does the investigation fifteen years later, but not without lessons learned that could aid the two lest either of them lose their grace.

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Emma Monique: Problem-Solver – Book 1 – The Bunco Squad

Bunco

Emma Monique is a 30-year-old private investigator in Harlech, a metropolitan city in the Pacific Northwest, who runs her own business investigating small time cases. When Emma is met with a mysterious client who offers a substantial return for the recovery of computer data that was lost to a hacker, her efforts to return this data to her client has her run in to an old friend from high school, 30-year-old Kaj Kejsaren, a patrol officer with the Harlech Police Department, Jarsdel Division, who likewise has been on the hunt for answers to the mysterious circumstances of the death of a con artist. The con artist in question, both Emma and Kaj were familiar with from their teenage years when the two had likewise come together to solve two separate mysteries, a thief and a bunco con respectively, both of which tied to the same fairground that ran a larger scheme. Emma and Kaj must then decide whether the events in the past correlate to the present, and whether they should team up once more to solve the mystery and wider scam ahead.

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The Fourth Level – Book 16 – Contingent

Contingent

Diana Cambridge and Tristan Merrick have set their lives at a change of course, but as the time ticks, Tristan’s anxieties are mixed with uncertainty of the future ahead of him. When Charlemagne invites the couple to the manor, they announce the changes in their lives to a troubled Charlemagne who reveals the magnum opus of his innovations: a device he believes can take him into the future.

However, the completion of this long-time project is not what troubles Charlemagne as the couple soon find out when their guardian quietly leaves them in order to correct the mistakes of his past, which has resulted in close friends of theirs, or family really, to have wandered into the time machine and become lost in a different world to their own. Diana and Tristan instantly go after Charlemagne, but only for themselves to become lost in a different world where they are forced to confront the issues at hand, which for Tristan, takes the form of confronting his own demons, himself, and then evil itself in order to become the man that he needs to be in order to save Diana, his family, and all those that he loves.

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