This is the story of four, lifelong, best friends - Fran, Pearl, Ruby and Violet, who attend the auction of Henry Phillips, the husband of their late-friend, Virginia. Henry, no longer able to take care of himself, is forced to leave the farm life behind and retire to a nursing home. With his unwanted transition, comes the selling of his remaining possessions in a simple country auction. Treasures and heirlooms that his greedy children do not care to inherit. As the sale proceeds, these elderly Southern ladies share with each other the memories and adventures that are connected to many of the...

Nitra Zupan faces the one crisis all writers' fear most, losing their entire hand written manuscript weeks before a looming deadline. Worse, she is unable to recapture the essences of her first page, the one she considers to be the most significant page of the entire book. After losing her manuscript to Mother Nature's wrath, she places an ad in the local newspaper offering a reward to have her pages returned to her. Follow their tense adventure as they encounter the assortment of people who return the pages of her work, only to find them all, except for one. Neither, Nitra nor her house...

With a new job and a new life, middle-aged Izzy Abbott finds herself lonely and terribly bored. Each evening, to spice up her life, she disguises herself in an entirely new identity and visits a different bar, looking for fun, men, and her version of a dirty dry martini - her perfect martini. Even though she is having a blast on her nightly outings, the recent unsolved murder of a woman in the city lingers in her mind while she party's. Should she feel secure or watch out for her safety with a killer on the loose? Meet the quirky patrons and peculiar bartenders she encounters in the eclectic...