Determined to rid corruption from Nanticoke City, the Governor appoints Jim as special DA. His best friend since second grade is Rollo, the city's leading gangster. They both love Hazel. Will Jim arrest Rollo if he has to? Will Rollo let him? Looming over everything is Uncle, the vicious head of organised crime. Will he kill them both?

Davey Bernay retire to Dales Village, Delaware to be with his daughter Darcy. In a store he tries to pick-up Cecily Maleckstein. She rebuffs him. Worse: he accidentally joins her temple add again tried to pick-up her. Again she rebuffs him. Then it gets horrible: she must pretend amity because her son Bennett love his daughter, and she loves him.

Lily Dawson wants Charles Nachtman to marry her sister Mary. Meanwhile Ray Barker and Frank Kolbert also have designs on her. What's a girl to do? She decides to throw her body on them. Additionally, Angelica Sciacci has designs on Charles. Now what's she to do?And who's John Smith, and what've mice got to do with any of this?

When the last lie's peeled away, true love's found. BH&B, a powerhouse equity firm in NYC needs five parcels in Billibud, Delaware; but they can't get them because no one knows who owns them. They send hungrily eager Associate, marvellously beautiful Jennifer Dru to worm out the owner and seduce the parcels away. How she does or does not do it is what this tale's about.

This's what happens when your mom tells you you're going to have a baby - today You get Mary Burkhardt who grows into the loveliest little scamp ever to decorate a book's pages. Volume I covers the years 1970-83, when she turns thirteen. It also tells how her family and everyone associated with her grows. It's heartwarming, delightful and a humorous pleasure to read.