Joey Scalla became a great boxer, the next "great white hope." His career and his love, Katey Endicott, are lost one night when he is shot in the hip by a drug dealer. Unable to compete and in despair he runs away. Six years later he comes back to Detroit in search of Katey, whom he has never quit loving. But, she is married to a rich, possessive entrepreneur. Joey's contact with Katey raises the man's jealous anger. Hospitalized by the man's thugs, Joey discovers that he can get his Mal-joined hip replaced. He can box again and maybe get Katey back Hostilities escalate as the man, Richard...

Love Means Nothing is about Joe Comstock, who fell from social and economic grace and wound up living above a riding stable in Marietta, Georgia. The story is of a life poorly lived and of that moment in time that changes everthing. To have missed that moment would have meant losing something that gave you a life so wonderfully rich that you shudder at the very thought that you might have arrived at that point in the universe just a few miutes too soon or too late. Washed-up tennis pro Joe Comstock finds that moment at age forty-eight when thirteen-year-old Stacey Engleman bums a ride from...