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Dosed up with Ketamine to calm his racing heart, young lawyer Donald Ward wakes up in a squalid New York City tenement in the body of a Black man with an empty bottle of powerful sleeping pills clutched in his hand. Desperately wanting to wake up from this nightmare hallucination, Donald figures out that he must have been dropped into this dead guy's life in order to right a terrible injustice. Lawyers can be pretty awesome at fixing problems, but this one is a real doozy. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian lawyer who took up fiction writing as a retirement hobby in 2009....

For the first time since arriving in the USA in 2011, 300-pound former bodyguard Ty Ward had enjoyed more than a year of peaceful living in northern Kansas. When a motorcycle gang buys up all the other homes in the tiny hamlet, Ty's blessed peace is quickly shattered by a series of violent confrontations. What does a guy have to do to live out his remaining years peacefully? Perhaps the right woman might turn things around. This is the 7th novel in the 10-volume TY WARD ACTION/ADVENTURE SERIES. Please check out the other books in the series, each of which is a stand-alone story. ABOUT THE ...

Just when his life of violence seems behind him and the ordinary life he craves seems within his grasp, Ty Ward loses his job and his apartment on the same day. Opting to drive around the western portion of America while he decides where to live and what to do, Ty stumbles upon a home invasion in progress in extreme southern New Mexico. That incident propels Ty into a kill or be killed war with a ruthless and powerful drug cartel. His longed-for normal life must once again be put on hold while Ty employs every ounce of his cunning and experience to stay alive and exterminate this new enemy....

Disbarred as an attorney in upper New York State, Donald Peter Corbett sneaks off in shame to Bogalusa, Louisiana to start a new life where no one knows about his humiliating past. He befriends Stuart Kidd, a neighbor who is in high school and needs some advice on bullying and girls. One of Stuart's teachers is a dark-haired beauty who seems fascinated by this wise but mysterious stranger who won't disclose any details about his life before he arrived in Louisiana. Romance is a distinct possibility but may be doomed. Past secrets have an uncanny knack of extracting their revenge at the ...

Cursed with a form of Asperger's Syndrome which compels him to repeat ridiculous rituals whenever a pen or an eating utensil is in his hands, newly-minted lawyer Wyatt Mazy can't find a job with any law firm. Forced to open his own legal practice on a shoestring budget, Wyatt attempts to survive among the established shysters of Upper New York State. This is the first in a planned series of novels about Wyatt and his search for acceptance in a brutal profession and his dream of finding a woman who will accept and love him, quirks and all. There are now three books in the series. ABOUT THE ...

This novel is a romantic mystery set in the suburbs of New York City. Suddenly out of a job when the Binghamton, New York law firm where he works declares bankruptcy and closes up shop, Jerome Jarvis dumps his gorgeous girlfriend and heads to New York City to find a new job and a new love. Jerome feels very fortunate when he lands a temporary position to conduct a civil trial even though he has never been to court before. Jerome wouldn't feel so lucky if he could foresee the tidal wave of danger that was about to engulf him. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian ...

Retired Canadian lawyer Donald Desaulniers has recently marked his 50th year since graduating from the University of Western Ontario Law School in 1971. That milestone prompted him to wonder what lessons he had learned over the course of his life that would have been helpful to know when he was in university. This short essay describes three simple lessons that might assist students today in surviving their university years. There is so much negative press about how universities have become indoctrination centers rather than institutes of learning that prospective college students should ...

Ty Ward is a 300 pound retired head of security whose massive size attracts trouble like a sleaze magnet. In DEADLY WITNESS, Ty's pleasant and solitary stay in an isolated cabin on Croton Creek in a remote part of North Texas is violently interrupted by a ruthless pack of criminals who kidnap runaway girls, get them hooked on drugs, rape them repeatedly to get them used to having sex with strangers, and then sell the girls to prostitution rings. Ty reserves his harshest punishment for those who deeply offend his moral code. This is the 4th novel in the 10-volume TY WARD ADVENTURE SERIES ...

Best friends Tom Kennedy and Jim Corbett are wealthy retired lawyers who bicker like teenage brothers. When their apartments are robbed, the crusty old pals are disgusted that the cops seem more interested in eating donuts than solving the crime. Tom and Jim decide to catch the thief themselves. After all, who could possibly outwit two brilliant old lawyers? This is a sequel to THE WRONG LAWYER although both are stand-alone stories. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who lives in the beautiful small city of Belleville, Ontario with his lovely British wife, ...

Retired New York attorney Mick Holland rents a house in Las Vegas next door to a devout Muslim family. Acrimony soon results as their cultural differences clash. Later, while volunteering at a legal clinic, Mick discovers that Muslims are being forced out of their rentals in alarming numbers using "no cause evictions". When he proposes a practical solution to the Muslim community, he is vilified as a bigot and called Satan's spawn. Is it possible for American society and traditional Muslim culture to coexist peacefully? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer ...

Retired Canadian lawyer Curtis Scott chooses assisted suicide on September 12, 2023 to put a dignified end to his loneliness and terminal cancer. Imagine his shock when he emerges a day later on a cliff ledge in Stillwater, Tennessee standing next to a young girl who is about to hurl herself over the cliff. In this first segment of the SECOND LIFE SERIES, Curtis must figure out how to cope with being a 76 year old widower with his lifetime of memories and attitudes intact but now occupying his own 30 year old body. This novel is the first book in a 3-part series. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W....

Curtis Scott, retired Canadian attorney, chose assisted suicide on September 12, 2023 and the procedure went perfectly. A day later Curtis emerges on a cliff ledge in Tennessee as a 30 year old version of himself but with all his 76 years of memories, attitudes and opinions still intact. In this second instalment in the 3-part series, Curtis leaves Tennessee and moves to Corinth, Mississippi in search of some sort of normal life despite his unique impediment of being an old man in a young man's body. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has published more...

Some perfect relationships are doomed. For young Las Vegas attorney Paul Skelding, a chance meeting with lovely Amber Anderson leads to romance and the prospect of an idyllic life of shared love. It truly seems like a match made in Heaven. But even Heaven can be tricked by evil masquerading as pious devotion to God. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 125 novels, all of which are available as E-Books, Audiobooks and in Paperback form.

Mortified by the news from her accountant that her bookstore is failing, Amanda Appledoorn decides to take her own life in order to escape the humiliation that lies ahead. With a bottle containing 58 potent sleeping tablets in front of her, Amanda chooses to make one phone call to a total stranger before knocking back the deadly pills. That choice results in what can only be classified as a "CELESTIAL COINCIDENCE". ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 125 novels exclusively on Amazon. Please check out his Author Page on Amazon (and ...

This is the 2nd novel in the 6-book VANISHING LAWYER SERIES about John Carverton, a retired Canadian lawyer who suddenly found himself plunked into his hometown in a parallel world in which he had never been born. John witnesses a car accident near his dumpy apartment. Someone with both power and money wants John to lie about what he saw. Since lawyers never lie, John is thrown into a complex and dangerous series of events in which he must keep his unique secret hidden from the government and the media. The last thing John wants is to be some sort of circus freak in this alternate realm. ...

This is the 6th and final story in the VANISHING LAWYER SERIES about John Carverton, a retired Canadian attorney who found himself plunked into an alternate world in which he had never been born. In this novel, John remains in deep cover for well over a year before he comes to believe that his services might again be required to protect President Donald Trump from harm. The clues are so murky that John begins to think that he must have misinterpreted them. Nothing could be further from the truth. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has penned more than ...

This novel is set in early 2017 during Donald Trump's first term as President. Utterly confused by the media coverage of President Donald Trump's first hundred days in office, retired Canadian lawyer Don Smith decides to hitchhike through America in an attempt to discover whether the new President is the savior of the USA or the biggest fool ever to hit the White House. Fifty years ago Don Smith had hitchhiked around America as a university student in the Vietnam War era, and now in 2017 he wants to understand why America seems so divided again. Has the USA and the American dream changed ...

Reaching consciousness alone in a dark Tennessee cave with no memory of a previous life but with ample general knowledge, he decides to call himself "Stranger" after being led to civilization by kindly strangers. As Stranger learns about American society, he discovers that he possesses the unique ability to smell both evil people and evil acts about to occur. In this first book of the "STRANGER SERIES" he travels around the southern part of the USA trying to cope with his bizarre situation while he figures out if he is human or robotic and whether he has been created or programmed for any ...

This is the 5th installment of the Ty Ward Adventure Series which is made up of seven separate novels. Each novel is a stand-alone story. This story begins with Ty in prison where he receives an unusual offer of early parole. All Ty has to do is live in a Dallas slum for the remaining seven months of his sentence. While in Dallas, Ty attempts to discover the identity of Mr. J, the leader of the kidnapping and prostitution ring that Ty encountered in "Deadly Witness" which was the 4th book in the series. As usual in Ty's tumultuous life, he wades into the most depraved cesspools of human ...

Jeremy Dunston, a wealthy and sophisticated 66 year old widowed Canadian attorney, loses his fortune and his reputation in the blink of an eye when he is swindled by his young law partner. Jeremy moves to Las Vegas to avoid the humiliation back home and finds a menial job slinging burgers. Does romance forsake a man who has lost it all? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired real estate lawyer from Belleville, Ontario, Canada who operated a one-man law firm in that beautiful city from 1973 until 2009. Still residing in Belleville with his lovely English wife, Jane and their ...