In writing The Rise & Fall of Jimmy Wonderboy I hoped to examine my life and why certain things happened. By the end of the book, which I wrote over the course of a year. (One to three pages at a time while I was alone in my cell.) I would sit quietly, and on an old Brother typewriter, let my mind wander. I noticed during rewrites that I used humor to stop the pain of what I was thinkingof what I had done to my loved ones. I truly hope that after you read this book you will come to the conclusion that we need to address this crisis of abuse and quickly. Not necessarily by locking up the person but by helping the person on a mental-health level. It would be a wiser way to spend taxpayer money and keep the family unit together.

Ghastly new home. Potentially adulterous husband…. Not quite the fresh start in the country she was promised. A fixer-upper in the sticks was the last place city girl Ro Skews expected to live. But her husband, Marcus, wants it—and all the arguments are on his side, namely a better life for Tod, their wonderboy, who has developed social problems in London. Of course, the five-year-old has never been the most…conventional child. While Ro (grudgingly) makes a life for herself in stuffy Chetsley (if you can count suffering the side effects of floor sanding and playing Suburban Lawn Warfare with her sexy neighbor as a life), Marcus starts spending more nights in the city with his cell phone switched off. And Tod, whose fascination with mazes seems to have blossomed into a full-blown obsession, treads the worrying line between eccentric and problematic. Ro searches for the right path in a few mazes of her own—her marriage, motherhood, country customs—but when she unearths a shattering secret, more than one truth is revealed and Ro is left wondering: Is the country any place to raise a family?

The Rengadesi family are the sixth main crime family in the city of New York, in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Rengadesi don't play by the rules. They tread on the Rambino (a family member of the New York Crime Commission) too many times and the Godfather of the Rambino crew wants to wipe them out. Caesar Rengadesi's youngest son is murdered by the Rambinos and Caesar's guardian angel advises him to move his family back to their birthplace in Rome, Italy. But not before Caesar arranges for five Bullets to be planted in the head of the New York police chief. All hell breaks loose in New York and on arrival in Rome Caesar's reluctance to get involved with the Roman godfather Julius and his family proves problematic. When Caesar's family become embroiled with the Julius family, Caesar finally has to get involved and by the end of these tales all except one from the Rengadesi and Julius families are on their way to the moon.