Everyone's favorite disaffected eccentric uncle honors an old solemn pledge, unloads a domestic burden and finds True Loveâ„¢ all in the course of a rainy afternoon at a garden wedding reception. A quirky romantic reminder that sometimes you do get second chances in life.
The world of Darvin Carpenter, a PI in Albuquerque, NM
Darvin Carpenter reluctantly returns to Red Hawk, OK, where he was once a cop, to serve for a year as the chief of police - and winds up dealing with the first murder the town has had in years.
A Story in the Spider and Fly Universe
A widowed man returns to take a walk along the riverbank, again. A place that's been special to him since his childhood, but he hadn't visited for sometime. Because it is interrupted, the walk that day was to be a little different.
Danny comes home from 'Nam and when he see his buddy's girl he knows she's the one he wants. The fun starts when he tells his friend, "She's the cutest girl I've ever seen, I'll tell you face to face I mean to steal her from you." Joe was not pleased by this.
George is happily divorced and even more happily involved in his prospering business, but his friends think it is long past time for him to get back into the dating game once again. Hilarity and slight misogyny ensures. Adult situations but nothing explicit.
Roxie, has had many men. Cal has never been lucky with women. Roxie says his problem is that "he doesn't know how to howl at the moon". She's from wrong side of the tracks and waitressing at the Bluebird Diner. Cal, a farmer's son, is a lawyer and politician. A bachelor, he often takes his meals there, where small town politics are always on the menu. Their lives intersect amid a struggle against political corruption.