This is a novel about life and romance in the hills of East Tennessee. It features Brian and Rita Taylor, married in 1959, and their three children, Lonzo and Caleb, who are twin boys, and Becky, a daughter. Maureen Kelley, Becky’s cousin, also has a romantic role with the star of the college basketball team. Backy has to contend with her college roommate, Hazel, who is a nymphomanic, and with her English professor who is a sexual predator.The time elapsed is more than forty years, beginning at Brian’s high school graduation in 1955. Enjoy their romances, their happiness, and their successes, along with their sorrows and their problems, financial, physical, sexual, and political. Lonzo is the principal protagonist, and Jim Frazier is a regular customer at Patricia’s Pleasure Palace, a bordello on the outskirts of Knoxville. He is Lonzo’s political enemy and uses his favorite prostitute, Michelle, in an attempt to frame Lonzo with an attempted rape charge and steal his job and his beautiful wife, Cindy. This results in physical violence and an interesting conclusion.