Relates the story of the life of Huckleberry Finn's father, detailing his relationships with his dad, brother, and son; affair with an African-American woman; problems with money and drinking; and death.
As a way of coping with the harsh discipline of the Mount Kildare Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland, a group of boys found a club and decide to train for the town's marathon.
After Nick Guest moves in with a member of the English Parliament and his family, he encounters grand parties and hidden alliances. Nick experiences his first romance with a young black clerk and later with a beautiful and wealthy woman who will change his life.
After stumbling into a bear trap surrounding a large marijuana grove on his neighbor's property, Travis Shelton finds himself drawn into a world of subtle evils and danger as he struggles to free himself from his neighbor's influence and protect his close friends from a painful conflict.
When eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant is killed in a bombing, his long-time partner John May finds a clue in his friend's decades-old notes of their very first case and hunts down a murderer who has returned after many years.
Howard Kapostash has maintained a restricted lifestyle since an accident left him with limited communication; however, when old friend Sylvia asks him to care for her nine-year-old son while she went through drug rehab, Howard must risk changes in his routine that could lead to more heartache.
Fifteen-year-old Marcus Oday, sentenced to prison after killing his friend Obie's father for desecrating his own father's grave, is rescued by Mims, an inmate who becomes his guardian, counselor, and friend even after they are released.
