The Cash Machine

A Tale of Passion, Persistence & Financial Independence

by Dave & Chana Mason

Can a novel transform your financial destiny? This one can. Get swept into the rollercoaster romance of Amber and Dylan — and learn hundreds of money lessons without ever feeling like you're studying.

4.5 · 480+ reader reviews

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The Story

She thought he was a bum. He was building a fortune.

As the book opens, Amber thinks her finances are under control — until she runs into Dylan, the college flame who dropped out to chase something she'd never heard of: Financial Independence. Seven years on, he lives cheaply, and at first she writes him off.

Then she starts asking questions. The more she learns, the more she sees how calculated his choices really are. He isn't struggling for money — he's building a Cash Machine. And she realizes she can't build a life with him until she builds one of her own. So she asks him to teach her, and you learn every lesson right alongside her.

What you'll learn

Hundreds of money lessons — hidden inside a story.

Written not by finance gurus, but by two people who dug themselves out of debt and mapped the whole way. A few of the areas the novel walks you through:

Credit card hacks — turn the high-interest credit card game in your favor instead of against you.
Stock-market strategies — how to capture the market's returns without letting fees quietly eat your savings.
Real estate — drive your housing cost toward zero and turn it into equity and passive income.
Tax shelters — build wealth faster by earning and growing it tax-free.
Transportation — the single fastest area to gain financial traction, and most people get it backwards.

Why we wrote it

The Cash Machine wasn't written by financial experts. Just the opposite. Before we started it, Chana and I were deep in debt — despite having earned good money in our careers. What we didn't understand about money really was hurting us.

So we did the thing we always do when we want to master something: we researched it relentlessly and wrote a novel about it. The result has more real financial lessons than any money book we've ever read — all taught through a story, so they actually stick. Read it and you'll never look at a paycheck the same way again.

4.5 out of 5 across 480+ reader reviews on Amazon

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