The Lazy Girl's Guide to Life: 100+ Ways to Hack Your Look, Love, and Work By Doing (Almost) Nothing!

This collection of humorous life hacks features 100 easy, low-commitment solutions to the everyday problems of the twenty-something woman.

Do you have a lot to do but can’t seem to bring yourself to do it? The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Life can teach you how to get things done with as little effort as possible. Learn to simplify your beauty routine, keep up with your friendships, hack the dating game, and get by in the corporate world with these easy, low-commitment suggestions. You’ll find over 100 solutions to your most common problems, including:

-Smoothing out frosting on store-bought cupcakes so they look homemade
-Hiding dirty dishes in a soapy sink before company arrives
-Washing and styling bangs (only) to avoid the limp hair look
-Faking it as a food blogger to snag a dinner reservation
-Reading the plot summary online before a book club meeting

With lazy girl–approved hacks that range from humorous advice to quick fixes, you’ll be able to find a temporary solution to simplify your life in no time!

It Feels Good to Feel Good: Learn to eliminate toxins, reduce inflammation and feel great again

Got Pain?

This book is for anyone with chronic pain looking for answers. It will give you a place to start. You don't have to resign yourself to a life of pain and pills.

In this book you will learn:
* What is causing your pain and how to eliminate it.
* How to find a practitioner that will help you gain back your health.
* What's in your food? Organic, conventional, GMOs processed, fast, canned, dairy, factory farmed meat, soy, water.  Identify your sensitivities and heal your leaky gut.

Psycho: An Ironic Journey Through Hitchcock's Cinematic Masterpiece

Psycho is a cinematic masterpiece yet it is sometimes difficult to understand why. After all, it really is just a story about a lovestruck girl who steals $40,000 so that she can begin a new life with her lover. Hasn't this story been told a million times before in novels and movies? Well, yes, but for the real power of Psycho, you need to look beneath the language, behind the paintings, and into musty old bedrooms for clues to a deeper message.

Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work

Looking for a Career that Brings You Real Fulfillment? Seeking Work that Aligns with your Values and Passions? Need Help Developing a Job Search Strategy? The path to a fulfilling new career is a journey of many steps. Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work has been written to serve as a helpful guide and companion on every step of that journey. Champion Your Career is unusual in that it combines career counseling with career coaching.

By asking the appropriate questions, Champion Your Career gives you not only the theory behind choosing a career that’s right for you, but offers practical exercises, resources, and powerful questions so you can then become your own career champion.

Learn Russian to work with Russians: The Easy Way To Speak Russian

Learn Russian to work with Russians: The Easy Way To Speak Russian” provides readers with:

• Quick start guide to conversational Russian
• Illustrated teaching material
• Plenty of written as well as spoken exercises
• Clear structure
• Useful tips
• Highlighted keywords
• Basic business terminology for business communication.

This is a book for learning basic/intermediate Russian.

Franky The Finicky Flamingo

Award-winning children's author presents a fun rhyming beautifully illustrated picture book that your child will enjoy!

Franky is a beautifully colored pink flamingo but, he doesn’t know the right food to eat. He tries food that other birds like but he doesn’t enjoy any of them. Then, the unthinkable happens. His adored pink color begins to fade. What will Franky do now? Find out in Franky, The Finicky Flamingo.

Culprit of Division

Attacking social evil in the interest of dismantling the platform of hate and division is not for the faint of heart. As difficult as it may seem, the goal of this book is to achieve that greater good through the presentation of facts to discredit the ugliness of the past, thereby paving the way for peaceful coexistence.

Breaking Big Money's Grip on America: Working Together to Revive Our Democracy

The power of huge sums of money greatly influences elections and public policy in the United States today. As a result, some people see the United States as a plutocracy run by and for the very rich. Breaking Big Money’s Grip on America provides convincing evidence to support this view and explores how a nationwide Democracy Movement can overcome the ruling status of Big Money and convert our government into one that instead serves the true needs and desires of the American people.

Moreover, it demonstrates why breaking Big Money’s grip on our government is critical to solving other crucial issues, like affordable healthcare, climate change, gun violence, homeland security, immigration reform, Social Security, and income inequality.

A Clinician's Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving

A Clinician's Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving is an anthology of articles by Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW. Written for survivors and clinicians this collection was inspired by Rev. Heller's unrelenting struggle with recovering from complex ptsd rooted in systemic and generational child abuse, and her commitment to devoting her life to helping others similarly afflicted.

Spanning the trajectory from abuse, complex trauma, addictions, the relational quest, recovery and treatment, and ultimately thriving creatively and spiritually, this assortment of writings offers a comprehensive assessment of the healing process and the triumph of reclamation.

American Gilt: Début

“American Gilt – Début” (Vol 1) “This was the best gilded age novel I have read in such a long time.” – Ted M.  “I literally could not put this book down! I felt like I’d been transported to another time.” – Amy H. “You will get hooked” Verified Amazon customer Based on a true story of the Gilded Age      Newport, R.I. 1880 – American débutante Sara Swan Whiting has been trained for one purpose: to marry well into society.

Together with her friends, Carrie Astor and Edith Jones (Wharton) Sara débuts into society and is introduced to the bachelors of New York’s wealthy families, hoping to find the perfect marriage. ‘Ethereally beautiful’ and ‘the spirit of the ball’, Sara garners many suitors.

The Christmas Wedding

The people in West Monterey, Pennsylvania are living close to God and the church is the center of their lives, but some mysteries and misunderstands need to be unraveled before Christmas arrives. Aunt Maude, the problem solver, is almost overwhelmed by the problems in town.

Honest Clyde Barber, the storekeeper, is raising his two daughters and running his business by himself. The whole town tries to avoid Sam and Betty Dunkle, because of their constant complaining, and Pastor Taylor and Sandra Spencer, the new school teacher, takes over all the planning for the Christmas activity this year, which irritates everyone.

Grimm Patriot

In 1775 Philadelphia, young Joseph Grimm decides to leave behind his comfortable life and secure future as a merchant to join the cause of rebellion.At the urging of his mentor, godfather, and boisterous Dutch merchant Stefan Klaers, Grimm enlists in the newly formed corps of Continental Marines.

But before he can complete his first week of training, he and a small group of fellow marines are sent on a secret mission to stop a British major who is harboring a secret with the power to bring the rebellion to its knees. As Joseph and his fellow marines embark on a journey where time is of the essence, they must confront the harsh realities of war and death, honor and treachery, and struggles and rewards.

The Whip

The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte “Charley” Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man in the old west. As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love with a runaway slave and had his child. The destruction of her family drove her west to California, dressed as a man, to track the killer.

Charley became a renowned stagecoach driver for Wells Fargo. She killed a famous outlaw, had a secret love affair, and lived with a housekeeper who, unaware of her true sex, fell in love with her. Charley was the first known woman to vote in America in 1868 (as a man). Her grave lies in Watsonville, California.

2014 Readers Favorite- Gold Medal Prize -Winner Best Western Fiction
2013 International Book Award- first place -Winner Best Western Fiction,
2013 National Indie Excellence Award -first place-Best Western fiction 

The Cursed Kingdom (Parthian Chronicles Book 8)

Mark Antony has returned to Parthia to wage war against the king of kings. But Parthia has a new hero, a man born of slaves who carries an infamous name and who burns with rage against the world.

The king of the wild Kingdom of Gordyene desires to arm his best soldiers with swords made from the magical metal from the east. To purchase such precious requires gold and so Spartacus steals it from an Armenian temple, along with a beautiful young novice who is the daughter of Armenia’s greatest warlord. Thus is set in motion a series of events that will see King Spartacus lead his army to victory after victory as the ‘lion of the north roars’ to crush Armenian, Parthian and Roman foes.

Buzzworthy

She had only one dating rule: no more actors.

For entertainment reporter Kate Ferris, interviewing celebrities is just part of the job, and she’s never been one to get starstruck. At least, not until she meets movie star Nick Archer in the flesh. One of the hottest and most elusive bachelors in Hollywood, Nick seems miles out of her league. So when he takes an interest in her at a press junket, Kate can’t help but be intrigued. She may have a strict rule against dating actors, but he’s drop-dead gorgeous and she’s only human.

As their flirtation blossoms into full-blown romance, Kate struggles to maintain her journalistic integrity, while potentially becoming a subject of tabloid gossip herself.

Gandy Dancing on the Second Floor

My life has been nothing if not a ride. Here I describe how I have emotionally danced with characters, friends, and family in my life-collage. The stories and poems are autobiographical. As I share my stories with you, there may be some characters who will leave forever-marks imprinted on your soul, as they have on mine.

Take my hand through this book, and I will walk you through the best and the worst of my life. There is a limited amount of language that is not suitable for children.

Super Nuke! A Memoir About Life as a Nuclear Submariner and the Contributions of a “Super Nuke” – the USS RAY (SSN653) Toward Winning the Cold War

Charles Jett has written an entertaining and factual memoir of an important time and series of events in the history of the cold war. He has succeeded in telling the unclassified story of the journey taken by an extraordinary group of men who built the first operational “Super Nuke” and effectively shared what they developed with others in the entire US nuclear submarine force.

He created the SSN Pre Deployment training program, consolidated developments made on the Ray to create the highly useful Geographic Plot (Geo Plot) and wrote the tactical doctrine for the SSN based electronic intelligence collection system, AN/WLR-6.

Climbed the Hill

After the end of World War Two, there was a long period of recovery from the years of struggle and sacrifice.When I arrived in Paris, the scars were deep and more prevalent than at home in California. During that period, I adjusted to a new way of life. Study was different and exciting at the famous Academies, and I worked hard to fulfill my dream of becoming a great painter. My abilities as a singer and nightclub entertainer provided me with income and fostered a love of music and an appreciation of the many expatriate entertainers that were my friends.

The exposure to great talents and many exciting women honed my people skills and led to many adventures.

After The Storm: Breaking the Cycle of Abuse with Conviction, Connection, and Compassion

As a multi-title pageant holder, Ava ST. Pierre learned how to achieve her best on stage with focus, vigor, poise and exquisite beauty. As a star athlete from age of eleven, Ava learned how to optimize the power of physical strength and mental endurance. But for this gifted woman, life was rarely easy for most of her childhood, she lived out a secret nightmare. Throughout her teen and young adult years, Ava had to learn how to break the effects of debilitating mental illness that her mother suffered from and effectuated in violence toward her and six siblings.

God's Plan for Your Future: Purpose, History, and Destiny of Humanity

Do you wonder: Is there a God? If so, why does He tolerate evil? Does my life have a purpose? How can I know? What will happen to me when I die? Are heaven and hell real? Do I earn my way to heaven by being “good?” Does God have a master plan for the universe? Does it include me?

The answers to these and other perplexing issues are found in Scripture. The problem is that many won’t take the time to pour over page after page of opaque material to learn the truth. They want understanding without exertion. This book provides a solution. It takes such issues, gathers relevant passages from Hebrew and Christian Scripture, groups them by topic, and provides expository commentary.

The Book of Thomas The Doubter: Uncovering the Hidden Teachings

The Gospel of Thomas revealed the secret teachings Jesus gave to his doubting disciple. The ancient historian Eusebius spoke of Thomas' travels into the mysteries of occult lands.

The Acts of Thomas told of his mission among the Hindus and Buddhists of India (and there are commemorative sites and Thomas Christians in India to prove it). What effects would Jesus' most intimate teachings have on the disciple Thomas?

And how would this skeptical Jew have responded to the occult religions in strange lands?

This Messy Life

This Messy life is a collection of poems reflecting life's thorns. Some of these are my experiences, observing others and trying to find meaning in this crazy planet that we call home. ‘What is deep in every soul is a golden path to make them whole”

The Good Fight

Danielle Edwards, heir to the impassioned family business, Edwards Auto, a comprehensive auto facility that does it all and one of the largest auto wholesalers in the U.S., is trying to sort out her life after the deaths of her father, mother, and grandmother in a mysterious plane wreck.

Her father, Jacob Edwards, the U.S. Coast Guard hero known as “The Commander” among Coast Guardsmen, and the “Hero of Cozumel” in Mexico, was the target of an early assassination attempt during a pirate attack incident near Cozumel years before. Things don't add up for Jacob's Kings Point Academy roommate, Charles Yeager, who is now the Deputy Director of the FBI in Philadelphia. His search takes him on a hunt for an ominous Russian assassin known as “The Chameleon.”

The Edge of Nothing and Everything

“Get ready for a wild ride.” At Blackie's insistence Wayne drove off the side of a mountain cliff right into the greenish tinted mixing zone on Gafcon-49. When it separated Amelia frantically pushed the red button on the front of the Jump Starter. A golden ring instantly formed near the front bumper of the Nomad and glided by with a whooshing sound.

The cross over had deposited them into Volcanon's upper atmosphere where they found themselves plummeting into an enormous crevasse. An enormous volcano in the distance spewed poisonous gas and lava and chunks of rock the size of large houses.

30th Century: Escape (30th Century Trilogy Book 1)

Which side will you be on? The side of the Syndos, genetically-altered humans, or the side of the Naturals.

Captain Jennifer Hero is leading a task force from the thirtieth century on a one-way trip to the Diversion Point. Their goal is to plant a virus that will disrupt the genetic tendency toward sociopathy among the Syndos. After an intense attack on their remote South Pacific island base, Jennifer sends her colleagues back 300 years. But she does not go with them, opting instead to travel alone back to 2015 to grieve the loss of the love of her life, the time machine’s inventor, and to find herself.

milijun: What would alien interaction really be like?

The next phase of human evolution depends entirely on her…

Laura is willing to do whatever it takes for her son. When aliens kidnap her child, it's going to take a lot more than a mother's love to get him back. After infiltrating a military research base, Laura discovers a terrifying secret: there are plans to impregnate women with alien DNA…

Laura battles to save her son, the mothers-to-be, and herself. But she quickly realizes the aliens have their own mission for her too. She faces a choice: take a chance at an impossible escape or accept the aliens' vision of a new humanity…

Murder Will Out

LOGAN IS THE FIRST PERSON YOU’D CALL FOR TWO-FISTED DETECTIVE ACTION!

And three times Logan means three times the adventure.

1930s Hollywood wasn’t just moving picture stars and backlots. It was also a petri dish crawling with crime. Power breeding corruption, wealth motivating robbery, and revenge leading to murder. In these three tales, Private Investigator, Tom Logan uses his brains, fists, and caustic wit, to first, take on a mysterious organization called ‘The Syndicate,’ which is usurping territory from other mobs and has placed a target on him, and the female witness he’s protecting. In a second story, Tom rescues a fair maiden from the clutches of a racketeer running a gambling boat.

Forgive Me, Nadia: A Thrilling Novel Filled with Love, Pain, Captivity, and an Ultimate Test of Faith

From the author of the heart-wrenching memoir Mother at Seven, now comes the chilling and unforgettable novel – Forgive Me, Nadia. Based on a true story, this book takes you into the world of secrets and darkness. This thrilling story touches all of your emotions. It has you alongside a young girl in her challenging path filled with love, pain, captivity, betrayal, and the ultimate test of her faith.

The beautiful Russian girl Natalia lives with her parents in a small village outside of Moscow. The day before she turns 14, her alcoholic parents sell her for ten bottles of vodka to a sex-trafficking organization.

That Old Devil Sin: A Clementine Toledano Mystery (Clementine Toledano Mysteries Book 1)

“With rocker chick Clementine Toledano, DeVore offers a flawed, fabulous and deeply human protagonist with the kind of baggage many women will recognise, so deeply connected to the bayou that the reader can smell the blue gum trees.”
–Deborah Grabien, author of The J.P. Kinkaid Chronicles

Mardi gras in New Orleans can be murder for any musician, but for Clementine “Q” Toledano, it’s turning out to be downright deadly. Her bassist and best friend has once again got himself in trouble with a notorious Greek mobster; her trumpet player is fighting for control over her band; and her affair with a womanizing club owner is a bad habit she can’t kick.

From an Office Window (The Bakers Capers Book 1)

The word ‘why’ tormented Chloe Livingston, baker of Camden Bake Shop, relentlessly since her husband, Jake, vanished on that snowy night two years ago. Did he die on that mountain? Life turned miserable until Mitchell Terrison, the new detective of Knox County, walked into her life.

Mitchell falls head-over-heels in love and hopes he can prove Chloe’s husband is dead. Those possibilities fell by the wayside when one of Mitchell's employees found an overlooked note written by Jake. Chloe’s hopes were renewed and Mitchell’s blown to smithereens. Chloe hopelessly loves, overcomes guilt, and is desperately determined to find the truth.

After Midnight

As far as Alix is concerned, she has no past―only today, and her plans for the future: creating a dynamic stable of Thoroughbreds that will take the 1830s British racing world by storm. When forced into assuming the role of Lord Griffon's wife in London, her plans are threatened by disturbing images of a castle from her past that fight to resurface. Alix is determined to find a way to take control of her life and fulfill her dreams. This women's historical fiction novel is the first in the Midnight Series.

Last Seen: A Dr. Pepper Hunt Mystery

“Readers will grow enamored with these characters and the dark twisty plot.”
—Redbook

Psychologist and police consultant Dr. Pepper Hunt, struggling to deal with the murder of her husband, leaves the private practice they shared and relocates to Wyoming. There, in the stark landscape of the high desert, there is nothing to remind her of everything she lost and left behind. Then her new patient, Kimi Benally, goes missing in a Wyoming blizzard after her last therapy session—making Pepper the last person to see her. She knows the secrets Kimi shared in therapy hold clues to her mysterious disappearance, and she joins forces with Detective Beau Antelope to try to discover what’s happened to her.

Murdering Lawyers

In the novel Murdering Lawyers you will find Marc Wilson, a jobless young attorney, once idealistic but now willing to bend a few rules to help his career. After a few minutes of dishonesty begin paying shocking dividends, he becomes a litigator at a prestigious international law firm, finds himself living in a luxury apartment, and enters into a romantic relationship with the boss's daughter – but not without paying a heavy price.

Soon he is caught up with an ancient cabal committed to bringing the most unspeakable evil into the world, and he must find a way to defeat these forces or face the death of everything he loves.

Jurisdiction Terminated

IAn original crime novel involving the juvenile justice delinquency system from a true insider's viewpoint. The honest private thoughts of an experienced juvenile court judge are revealed, the various participants are exposed, and you'll witness what occurs in actual juvenile court proceedings that are closed to public scrutiny. When the Head of a major Los Angeles County official dies from a methamphetamine overdose, the curiosity of the judge lures him deeper into the maze of intrigue only to discover an insidious North Korean drug cartel's plot to distribute drugs to the young troubled children confined in probation camps and juvenile halls. Along the way the judge and his deputy district attorney, with the help of a tech savvy DEA agent, kidnap and torture a Korean gang member, spy on the cartel, and ultimately discover betrayal at the highest level of our justice system. You're sure to find this book action-packed, eye-opening, thought-provoking, well-written and an enjoyable read while you enter into an arena, juvenile justice, rarely explored in fiction today.

A Pale Moon Was Rising

1944. A German submarine is spotted in Tralee Bay on the West coast of Ireland. Next morning the body of a young man with fatal head injuries is found in the river. He’s wearing a distinctive silver ring. Garda Eamon Foley traces the ring to Paudy Daly, who has been missing for over nine months.

But Paudy’s father, the notorious Mixer Daly, is furious when he sees the body. Because it is not his son. Garda Foley discovers that the body is that of a Polish seaman. So where did he get Paudy’s ring? Then Garda Foley learns that the last time Paudy was seen alive, he was on his way to rob a pig-breeder’s house.

Six Passengers, Five Parachutes (Quintana Adventaures) (Volume 2)

Six Passengers, Five Parachutes (A Hollywood Thriller—Book 2 of The Quintana Adventures)

It's a race from Los Angeles to San Francisco to Hong Kong to Mexico, culminating on a plane flying over the Pacific Ocean.

Army Ranger reconnaissance photographer Stephen Quintana is tracking an international group of investors who create illegal high-end movies of their darkest murder fantasies. They’re the same men who funded the kidnapping and on camera attempted murder of movie star Julia Travers. Luckily for Julia, Stephen made sure he was there to save her before they succeeded.

Ningaloo

Itinerant surfer Marty travels to Coral Bay on the Ningaloo Reef in search of a missing cousin. Everybody knows more than he does but nothing is as it seems. He teams up with English waitress Rose, looking for her backpacker brother. They discover a people smuggling racket but there's something more sinister.

Eliminating Marty becomes top of the smugglers’ agenda but they don’t reckon on a bungarra named Horatio. Marty sees things in a different light during a night dive on the reef.

High Alert (The Project Book 14)

When an American missile submarine is sunk in the Sea of Japan, it's the opening move in a madman's plan to plunge the world into war. A day later the Chinese ambassador to Washington is assassinated. Meanwhile, the unstable leader of North Korea prepares to attack America with a terrible weapon.

The U.S. President calls in the Project, a deep black ops unit that goes places and does things others can't or won't do. They've had tough assignments before: but this time they're up against an unknown enemy, a man bent on vengeance against all of humanity. He won't rest until the world is turned into a radioactive hell… and when it comes to the Project, it's personal.

Chrome Pink (The Leeward Files) (Volume 1)

Rae Lynne Grimes returns to Leeward, North Carolina to care for her dying grandfather. Together, they restore an old Harley and paint it pink for breast cancer awareness. Her grandfather succumbs before seeing it finished. Alone, Rae must face the town of Leeward who blame her for sending her stepbrother to prison, costing their high school football team one of their champions. Now, her fate lays in the hands of the man who orchestrated her rape and shame, former football captain and elected mayor,

Todd Bryant. When she rescues Logan Birdsong from a canal, she starts to believe she can have the fairy tale but when she learns he is working for Todd, she tries to get as far from him as possible.

How the Mighty Fall

Sometimes the victim needs a little killing.

So, who killed media mogul Connie Ross during the party on her yacht?

Find out for yourself in this Global eBook award-winning mystery thriller that is rich in action, drama, and intrigue which will delight fans of high-octane adventure.

Her mysterious disappearance exposes a web of shockingly dark and twisted secrets. Despite their differences, newly partnered Detectives Mirabelli, a missing person’s detective, and Burns, a brilliant, but tormented homicide detective looking to restart his sidelined career, must quickly find a way to work together while walking a political and media tightrope if they ever hope to solve this baffling case.

The Coven (The Crystal Coast Series Book 1)

The future queen awakens…

Newly single mother Stevie Lewis divides her time between raising Charlie, running a store with her best friend, and avoiding the meetings of her mother’s Beaufort Historic Society. Although her life has its challenges, it’s altogether average. Just the way she likes it.

When Vanessa, a ruthless dark witch, launches an attack against young Charlie, Stevie’s simple life derails, and her long-dormant powers awaken. A 300-year-old secret is exposed, revealing her destiny to one day rule the clandestine community of witches who hide in plain sight.

The Touch: A Supernatural Story – Part I

The old beast is up to something out of character here.

Gabriel appears autistic because he hears a voice. The voice is real, but it is a supernatural presence. This voice gives him a power that he can transfer by touch. Gabriel does not trust this presence, though he finds that the wonder of what he is experiencing is far too great for him to resist.

Gabriel's “autism” is really a defense against the weight of the power that has engulfed his heart, mind and soul, from the very beginning. He has no memory of his parents and in actuality, the voice, which causes him so much distress, is the only reality he has ever known. Living in an orphanage in Austin, Texas, all of his life, the voice has shown him more attention and love than any other person.

Before We Die Young Books One – Three

What would you risk to save the animals? Your home? Your future? Your life? 

Michelle dreamed of being a doctor in Paris; Jon – a banker in London. Luna was expected to teach at the Mission; Ngombe – to enter the church.

But when evil swept across the African Savanna, shattering their world, the four friends were forced into life-defining choices: Love or revenge? The real or the magical? Kill or be killed?

And the story of their choices, and their desperate battle to save the animals, still echoes across the great plains of Africa.

The Spirit Trap

When her grandmother's ashes along with a family portrait arrive at her home in England, fourteen-year-old Tatiana finds herself being tormented by supernatural forces.

To free herself from the increasingly persistent hauntings, she has to find and release the ghost of an ancestor caught up in the terror of the French Revolution.

With the aid of her cousin, Marcus, she sets out on a mission, which leads them through the dramas of present-day life in Paris and the frightening upheavals of Revolutionary France.

Golden Legacy: A Jacsen Kidd Adventure/Mystery

It is 1782 as an old woman stumbles through a familiar row of headstones clutching a metal strongbox that holds her diary, coins, a pistol, and a map. She must bury the strongbox in the exact spot she described in a recent letter to her last blood relative. Someday she prays a relative will read the letter, uncover the box, and find their way to the two bags of gold and jewels she and her partner looted from a Spanish ship and buried on an obscure Caribbean island. After she falls to her knees at her father’s headstone and buries the box, the woman lies down and dies.