Plagued by thoughts of his dead-end job as a corporate trainer and money troubles, 48-year-old James Horton can't sleep. He begins surfing on the Internet and runs across a lottery ad. While checking his numbers for the New York State lottery, he realizes a dream has come true: He has all the winning numbers. This new novel from Dog Ear Publishing follows the ups and downs of life as a lottery winner.
James and his family go all out on the way to collect their prize. At the end of their trip, they hear troubling news reports about economic disaster, so they head home, driving all night. At the local bank, James gets the worst possible news, and it sends him over the edge. In the span of 36 hours he's gone from being in a luxury hotel suite to sleeping in a jail cell. His few days in jail pale in comparison to the torment he's going through thinking about all the money he's lost, and his actions take a toll on his family. Set in the fall of 2008 in the start of the nation's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, "Pick 6" shines a light on the relationship between money and its role with family life, fate and revenge. Can James recover from his incredible losses, financial and otherwise, or will he go even further over the edge?Videos