"Welcome to Money and Power" - That is what the highway sign should read as one crosses the city limits into Fort McMurray, Alberta. Home to the infamous Canadian Oil-sand mines, and the many souls they gather, from all over the world. Some with good intentions, others with bad.

Follow along with the next batch of contestants as they travel from far to the land of paved gold streets. They will all come with their five-year-plans. But through the cocktail of bitter-cold, endless nights, greed, addiction love and destruction, each will pay their own personal, Price Per Barrel.

Marc Gregory was born in Saskatchewan and raised in Alberta, where he has enjoyed a successful career, for many years, in the energy industry. He has lived and worked all over Western Canada, and has enjoyed time learning and laughing with many new friends through international travel. No stranger to adversity, he has spent the last 10 years building a career, facing divorce and spending time as a single father. Through all the chaos, he found salvation in a passion, and released 4 well reviewed novels.

All of his work has been produced by his strict belief, that if art fails to stir emotion in its audience, what's the point...

I dedicate this novel to anyone who has braved the darkness, to see the light.