Ricky, youthful American of Cuban descent loves adventuring in south Florida's Everglade's swamps. Romantically involved with Natalie, a beautiful Caucasian of Irish descent, he is subjected to her controlling father's cultural resentments, and the family will not agree to the couple's engagement. Committed in love and seeking options, the lovers realize that eloping is their only choice.

Novel based on the true tales of a prepubescent immigrant street boy growing up on the tough streets of a metropolitan American city, and his early years of burglaries and thefts. Sex and mischievous misdemeanors into adulthood living the fantasized lifestyle of the community's highly socialized career criminals.

Poems of life lived in love, hate, death, and despair. Topical coincidences humanity enlivens in the journey we deem living a life worth living. Often times it is said that all life is worth living. And frequently people in variable states will agree that is so. But tell that to the lovestruck and broken-hearted and many times we will hear an absolute "No. I will never love another." Imagine history without the Shakespearean genre of love lost, and brief as they often seem to be, periodic tales of vibrant, joyous love gained into eternity. Such as is made quite obvious in the tales of Robin...