In 1962, three intersecting crimes—a patricide, a bank robbery, and a kidnapping—lead to tragedy, secret-sharing, redemption, and a May/September romance in Flyover Country.

In these three moving stories, a daughter learns the truth about her institutionalized mother, a boy’s misunderstanding of basic cosmetic anatomy and his mother’s obliviousness to his plight causes humiliation for them both, and a man's guilt over his daughter's rape causes him to see only malice in the hearts of his fellow man.

What bubbles up in your consciousness when faced with the extremity of death, either yours or others with whom you interact? The theme of the individual in extremis links these three stories, each singular in its account of the moment we all know we have coming.

Bank president Henry Potts has a sweet deal. He is looting his bank under the guise of a cost-cutting “Unbank” marketing campaign concocted by John Jimpson, his son-in-law with a roving eye for bank secretaries. Enter Clydine Clumm, a honky-tonk angel on the rebound, and all hell breaks loose.

Once we learn to read for pleasure, we become "book folk." These three tales point out the humor and the pitfalls of pursuing the literary life. A bookstore coffee klatsch turns into a battle of the sexes, two screenwriters retaliate after a snooty producer high hats them, and D.D.T. Mumford escapes the slush pile at his white shoe New York publishing firm by dumpster diving for a best-seller.

Three stories with three memorably unbalanced narrators. Meet Brose, a professional legal entity for hire, who suddenly finds his lucrative anonymity threatened when a friend buys an RPG for him on Avenue C and 13th Street. Then there's Ophelia, whose fetish is the NFL, and finally you won't forget Ray, whose politically-incorrect father's in the hospital for standing up for his black employees.

Someone is killing young women along Interstate 40, and all the FBI has is a tenuous profile—a religious zealot bent on ritualistic sacrifice. However, when a troubled young vice cop, JOLENE DYKES, narrowly escapes the monster, the Bureau now has an eyewitness who identifies the killer as a polygamist long-haul trucker. Jolene's frustration with the FBI impels her to pursue the killer herself.

Offbeat political suspense for the Tea Party era.

J.D. CROWELL is fired as PRESIDENT ADDISON HUNTINGTON’S campaign manager over a public indiscretion with LIBBY CATTON, a beautiful mixed-race White Houser staffer.

Soon, however, J.D. discovers the real reason for his axing was not his affair with Libby, but rather the fact that her mother was BRIDGET DONOVAN, a Sixties’ radical still wanted for bombing federal buildings. Libby's radical past threatens both the President and MAYNARD KEYNES, the sports-and-entertainment Congressman who appears to be on the cusp of becoming America's the first biracial President.

Fleeing Washington anonymously for the sake of his family and Libby, J.D. finds a way to throw a monkey wrench into the political machinery of the aging President and also unmask the treachery of RASHAAD LEWIS, Keynes's murderous campaign manager.