The Fourth Level - Book One - Hostile Takeover

55-year old eccentric billionaire, Charlemagne de la Cabernet, had thought that he had lived the good life filled with adventures, mystery-solving, innovation, and inventing... until now. At his age, he has found himself stuck in the mud of a deep depression without the will to find, or return, to what had once motivated him. In his last act, he intends to sell off his family's legacy, Cabernet Industries, a multinational billion-dollar conglomerate with stakes in almost every economic sector and roots to the nineteenth century.However, on the day that he intends to finalize the liquidation, Charlemagne finds himself responsible for a fourteen-year old orphan from Harlech, Diana Cambridge, which forces him to delay his plans until Diana can be moved to a foster home. Diana, horrified by Charlemagne's plans to sell the company and its various assets to a group of unreliable, amoral, and malicious multinational corporations, she allies with Charlemagne's brother, Salmar Cabernet, and his own fourteen-year adopted son, Tristan Merrick, to attempt to bring Charlemagne back on his feet.Can the three of them return a smile onto Charlemagne's face? Or will the adventure end before they can even begin?