Her newest book, Can Can-Kansas City's Last Era of Bets, Babes and Bombs, is the second in a four-part series based on Marie Wakefield's living-on-the-edge reality. Moving from a small Missouri town to work on Kansas City's Mob controlled, 12th Street party strip, required far more than Marie expected. Bikini Go-Go dancing? Sure, no problem. It seemed a timely opportunity for an uneducated twenty-year-old to save enough for a real home in West Palm Beach, Florida. A home where she and her two daughters could make a real start as a family...without interference. Dance until she saved enough...