When she gets a call claiming her eighty-two-year old father is selling drugs to the locals, Iris Lee, an unemployed bank executive, is forced to abandon the real world and return to the land time and style forgot, her hometown. In a quest to uncover the history of an odd broach she finds among her mother's things, Iris is reacquainted with Mt Pleasant, Virginia, and its entertaining, sometimes odd, inhabitants. The mystery of the broach, a plot to take over her father's properties, and a hidden family secret keep Iris pining for the good old, back-stabbing days of her past corporate life....
When she gets a call claiming her eighty-two-year old father is selling drugs to the locals, Iris Lee, an unemployed bank executive, is forced to aban...
Life in Parkland is not always, well, a walk in the park for its residents. It's every animal for himself. Follow the adventures of a quixotic squirrel, a middle-aged deer, a nearsighted owl and others in these tales of life in an overcrowded urban park. For every adult who still likes a grand bedtime story, Parkland Tales, Stories for 3 a.m. Readings is a pleasant distraction on sleepless nights.
Life in Parkland is not always, well, a walk in the park for its residents. It's every animal for himself. Follow the adventures of a quixotic squirre...