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Rose McDougal lives in a decrepit apartment, an oven in the summer and an icebox in the winter. She drives an old beater, a vehicle with a seeming contempt for its occupants. She has no man in her life. In fact, she's never had one. Making matters worse, Rose is cursed with a deep-rooted depression, the by-product of an abusive dad. Her professional life is no better. Her quest to fill a full-time teaching position in a Nashua junior high school ends in failure. Making matters worse, she loses her gig as a sub. Jobless and on the fast track to poverty, Rose is desperate. While recovering in a hospital room, an Irish mobster named Patrick Donnelly, a dangerous man who once helped out Rose's dad, pays her a visit. He insists on helping Rose get back on her feet. But as she soon discovers, his motives are purely self-serving. Before long, Rose is drawn into a life of crime and constant danger involving drugs, from delivery to sales and beyond. Gone are any illusions of living a routine, 9-to-5 life in some sheltered suburb. In its place, the possibility of death lay in wait behind every door and around every corner.

It was a hot summers day, the kind of day where the less you do, the better. A nice day for a private detective not to have a case. The note tucked under my door put an end to my idle thoughts. It was from a Maxine Preston and she wanted to hire me to investigate her sister's death. She didn't believe that an accident caused her sister's demise. Seemed lika a simple enough case. I'd do a few interviews, speak to my contacts at the police department, and hopefully alleviate Maxine's doubts. I met up with my new client and began my work. A piece of cake, I thought. Shortly into my investigation I found myself waking from unconsciousness in my car, with two shovels full of horse manure in my back seat. It couldn't get much worse than that. But it did.

Jim Randolph is hired to install high-tech communications equipment in a newly constructed office building. In addition to the enginnering challenge, Jim finds that the building is being constructed by a mob family. He saves a pretty lady, only to find she is related to the mob family, but falls for her nonetheless. Jim faces labor and union issues, including mob violence and intimidation. Even as he grows closer to the lady, he is forced to face the guns and violence from both mob factions and less-than-honest FBI agents. Jim struggles to extricate himself from this snare of danger and malice, even while cultivating his burgeioning romance. This is the fifth novel by prolific writer, Bernie Ziegner. He is hard at work on Bushwacked, his next novel.