After years of singing and being exploited, by first her father and then her manager, Iris Cooper finds the courage and strength to follow her dreams.

In 1980, country music singer Lillian Waters hits the road for her nationwide farewell tour, during which she recalls the hard choices she’s made and how they shaped her life, and when she reaches her last stop, she finally confronts a betrayal from her past to move forward.

Fifty-seven-year-old Bad Blake, a singer, guitarist, songwriter, alcoholic, womanizer, and all-around charming reprobate, attempts to halt his decline and return to the top of the country-and-western charts.

Kyle Houseman has been through one divorce and has no desire to go through another. He's determined to be extra careful about the next woman he gets involved with, which is why he fights his attraction to the beautiful stranger who rents his farmhouse for the Christmas holiday.

"Carpenter Whitney Whitaker, her cousin Buck, and guard-cat Sawdust just scored a hot property near downtown Nashville in a tax sale. While the Music City Motor Court might not be much to look at now, the two plan to transform the motel's twelve units into six one-bedroom condominiums. But surprises await when Whitney discovers a squatter living in Room 9 and her cat Sawdust uncovers a body in the bed next door"--Back cover.