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.

T his book consists of eight short stories, three memoirs, and eleven essays written over a period of several years by the author. Some are excerpts from his other books, Hillbilly in the Real Estate Jungle, My Border Patrol Days, Forged in a Country Crucible, NRA, the Inside Story, and Amor in Appalachia. The oldest of seven children, Joe White grew up on a dirt-poor farm in Tennessee during the depression of the 1930s. He was an Army Air Corps pilot during World War II. Later he worked as a real estate salesman, broker, and investor. He was an officer in the US Immigration Service for 21 years, beginning as a GS-6 Trainee and retiring in grade GS-15. After retirement he worked for three and a half years in the executive suite of the National Rifle Association, the last two years as the Deputy Executive Vice President (CEO.) He has written four memoirs and one fi ctional romance novel.

In this comprehensive history of the Appalachian region, Williams weaves social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history together to present a readable narrative that spans four and a half centuries.