A couple reunites to defend their daughter's reputation against an abusive husband who wants custody of their daughter. In the newly prosperous Buffalo Valley, Margaret appears to have found happiness in her marriage to a cowboy. A collection of nine early stories. A World War II veteran is hired to break the hold of a criminal syndicate over the town of Hot Springs, Arkansas. A lonely woman in a small town in Virginia finds excitement in celebrity visitors and a family secret.
Forensic specialists pursue a disturbed teenage boy who abducted two young women.
A television reporter finds herself protecting the runaway teenage daughter of a multimillionaire from Texas. A prehistoric warrior-chief's sons struggle to succeed him. Zuckerman's self-invented neighbor is the victim of academic identity politics. A newly divorced woman attempts to rebuild her life by taking in a series of boarders.