Berkeley House is an exclusive private club in Mayfair that has been at the heart of London’s dotcom scene since day dot (the mid-90s). Its members are the city’s elite venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, blue chip execs, and new media types. Its owner, Daniel Logan, is a wealthy, mysterious businessman who has wired the club for surveillance. From his penthouse, he watches and listens to everything, uses it for his own ends. Insider trading, scandal, extortion, blackmail, bribery—nothing is off limits in his quest for wealth and power.
When Logan learns that Adware, a high-flying dotcom, is gearing up for a billion dollar stock market listing, he decides he wants in. His plan ensnares Mark Haddad, an Adware executive, in a web of extortion, revenge, surveillance, and subterfuge.
Enter Stephanie Turner, venture capitalist, speed freak, hard core surveillance geek, and old friend of Haddad’s. When they set a counter-strategy in motion, no one realizes where it will take them or the dark past it will unearth.
A criminal mastermind makes a bold move against a wealthy client to put himself in a position to retire in comfort. He has no idea what he's up against when a young widow, desperate to make ends meet, sets her eyes on earning the bounty set on his head.
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Newly widowed housewife Melody Scott needs to earn some major cash, fast. When her bright and busy children learn that a priceless ruby bracelet has been stolen and a six-figure reward is being offered, they convince her to try to do what the police, museum security, and the best private investigators have failed to do. Working against them is a notorious thief who has met people from around the world, but who has never once encountered a woman like Melody Scott. When the sweet innocence of the Scott family clashes against criminal forces more dangerous than they ever imagined, Melody is all too aware that a mom's got to do what a mom's got to do to protect her family.
The Widow, Melody Scott is a 2021 Watty Award Winner!
Content Warning: This story does contain depictions of stalking behavior.