It's 1985 and twenty-five year old singer/songwriter Alexander Drake is riding the rock charts. He has fame, fortune, looks, and talent. He also has Vivian Martin, his manager, who rescued him from the streets when he was homeless at seventeen. As leader of The Alex Drake Band, Alexander calls the shots onstage, but off stage it is Vivian who controls the other aspects of his life. As his surrogate mother, Vivian has cared for and protected him as his own mother never did, but his past will come to haunt him, and Vivian will be unable to protect him from the truths he must learn. When...

The long awaited sequel to Shame's Ballad opens the very next day as 80s rock star Alexander Drake finds himself safe behind the walls of the Drake family estate in Charleston, South Carolina. Struggling to overcome the heroin habit re-inflicted upon him by his abusive stepfather, Alexander must also overcome his dependence on his controlling manager, Vivian Martin, who works the press to her advantage. His father, Alex, finally home with his family after twenty-five years of unjust imprisonment, has his own struggles to overcome. Alexander's childhood sweetheart, Roxanne Evans, the mother of...