Stockbroken: A Tale of Financial Collapse
Explore the gripping narrative of market chaos and survival.
The Warning Signs Were Always There
A high-stakes financial thriller where exposing the truth can get you killed.
Bo Parrott has built a career on seeing what others miss. As a veteran investment advisor, he understands that markets don’t crash without reason. They crash because someone profits when they do.
On the verge of retirement, Bo expects a quieter life back home in North Carolina. Instead, a suspicious death and a series of unsettling discoveries pull him into a world where global power brokers manipulate economies the way others move chess pieces.
What Bo uncovers points to a coordinated effort to trigger financial chaos on a massive scale. An elite consortium stands ready to capitalize on panic, and they won’t hesitate to eliminate anyone who threatens their plans.
With time running out and the system stacked against him, Bo faces an impossible choice: protect his family and walk away or expose the truth and risk becoming collateral damage in a global financial war.
Stockbroken is a smart, suspenseful thriller that explores the dark intersection of money, power, and history. Once the first cracks appear, there’s no stopping what comes next.
Meet the Authors
Billy Hemby is a managing director with Level Four Financial, a division of CRI Advisors, PLLC, and has over thirty years of experience in the financial services business. With multiple books in publication, Jan Hemby is an award-winning novelist and regional featured speaker. The two are native North Carolinians with deep roots in Southern culture. Their goal is to bring life money dynamics, global events, and local culture in story form that engages both experienced investment enthusiasts and casual readers alike.
Note To Readers
If you’re drawn to stories like this, you’re probably someone who pays attention. To patterns. To history. To the way large systems quietly shape everyday lives.
Decades of watching markets reveal repeated behaviors that feel uncomfortably familiar once you zoom out far enough. Different headlines. Same rhythms. And time and again, the warnings are dismissed because acknowledging them is inconvenient.
This story grew out of that tension.
We wanted to write a novel for readers who enjoy thinking their way through a story. One that treats history as relevant, not ornamental. One that understands real stakes aren’t always loud or cinematic. Sometimes they’re personal. A marriage. A career. A choice that can’t be walked back.
At its heart, this is a story about the cost of seeing clearly, and what it means to speak up when it would be easier to stay silent.
Thank you for reading.
— Billy and Jan