This non-fiction reference work collects the interviews and submissions of fiction and non-fiction writers who discuss the impact of libraries on their career development. Numerous transcripts, photos, biographies, library quotations, footnotes, a glossary, and an index present the information as a teaching tool for the reader. The contributors cross gender, race, political, philosophical, cultural, subject, and genre lines. Each had something significant to share about the importance of the library to the writer.

A cross-country chase carries Tolly Henry and Scott Windrunner on an adventure from Midwestern rolling prairies to southwestern Rocky Mountains. Roadside motels, truckstops, corn silos, and windmills guide Scott's whirlwind rundown of Tolly amid echoes of past military service, domestic violence, and post-traumatic stress. Only if our two heroes join together to defeat the corrupt forces that pit them against each other will Scott and Tolly have a second chance to reclaim their lives and love for each other.

Stephanie Madison, a pariah to her family, launches a successful suicide attack against her employer, Cadis Industries. After Stephanie dies in the attack, the strange menace that stalked Stephanie's life now targets her niece, Marietta Brazil. Forced to flee her city of birth as well as her adopted home, Marietta finally draws a line in the sand to confront the corrupt forces that destroyed her family. But though she fights the evil outside, can she truly face the darkness within?