After a disastrous first meeting, Morgan, 89, moves in with Dixie, age 79, strictly a business arrangement, both maintain. When a "lost" grandson, bent on vengeance for past wrongs, invades their lives, fear and suspicion threaten to ruin their plans. He becomes a catalyst, eventually bringing the couple the love and pride they'd lost decades before with the loss of their children. Award-winning author Mardo Williams completed the first draft of One Last Dance at age 95. His daughters, honoring their father's wishes, finished the book after his death.

Lee Fairchild has realized every actor's dream-a theater of her own. The dream is about to turn into a nightmare. Who-or what-lives on the third floor? The theater was an abandoned burlesque house where the homeless lived-until Lee and her staff scrub it out. It doesn't matter, she tells herself, that the theater sits in Hell's Kitchen on the seedy fringes of Times Square, that it's under-budgeted and understaffed and that she (as Administrative Director) will play only one role this first season. It's an Equity theater, offering five plays in repertory. Times Square redevelopment makes the...