Ninety Million and Change

NINETY MILLION AND CHANGE (a novel) -A young married couple, struggling to pay their mortgage on two school teachers' salaries, discovers they have the winning ticket in a lottery for nearly ninety million dollars. Quickly, their lives are upended as they learn to deal with suddenly acquired wealth and the challenges, moral and otherwise, of life among the "one percenters." New friends, new experiences, a spectacular mansion, exotic travel and luxury cars all follow. But in the end, not all the changes that come their way prove to be for the better. And in the end, a stock market crash upends their lives once more.

The full review for NINETY MILLION AND CHANGE:

"A powerful story of mystery, love, and a process that takes Karen and Ron LeFrancis far from their difficult yet familiar blue-collar financial struggles into a world of the affluent that they are ill prepared to handle ... Ninety Million and Change isn't just a story of newly acquired fortune: it's a probe into how one struggling couple reassesses their values and purpose in life after it arrives ... Compelling." D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review