"Lady In The Mist" is three short stories. The title story is about a lady who lives in a large city but moves to the suburbs to help her ailing aunt and discovers she may have lived there in another lifetime. "Shadows and Lies" is about a mobster who gets out of the mafia at the risk of his life. He and his family escape and find a new life in Australia. "Mama Loy" is about a woman who lives in the Louisiana bayous and is said to be a witch doctor. She rescues a group of tourists who become stranded during a hurricane.

When young History professor, Toni Sorrentino, crashes her pickup in the Arizona desert a few days after 9/11 and falls into a coma, long-buried secrets are unearthed in her small home town of Sharonville. Most affected is her guardian, binge-eating Italian restaurateur, Uncle Franco, who has to face the lies he's fed Toni her whole life. However, as Franco embarks on a quest to wake Toni from unconsciousness and tell her the truth, many others in Sharonville's close community find their own pasts brought to light in a way which guarantees that they, or the town itself, will never be the same...