Famil;y Matters
Publisher: Light Switch Press
Published: 3/2015
Place of publication: Colorado, USA
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 222
Description: Family Matters is like early episodes of the TV drama Dallas. The plot is fueled by rivalry, jealously, greed and, ultimately, murder. The setting is a stuffy New England town with an economic cast system. We have good guys and bad guys. 
There’s an old saying about how you can’t keep young and old bulls in the same pasture. The same can apply to fathers and sons. At one time or another, most sons feel as if they are in a competition with their fathers. The conflict is not necessarily one side, either. Although most fathers consciously wish the best for their male progeny, often a love/hate even jealous relationship develops between them that is not too difficult to understand.
In Family Matters, the son, Adam Kingston III, had a nurturing experience during his formative years and until his father Adam Kingston II was deemed to be incompetent, there had always been an air of mutual respect. However, once the court appointed the son to be in charge of the business and estate, the son, while assuring that his father was well taken care of, was determined that he would never return the leadership of the family or business to his father. It was one thing to assure that his father would be comfortable for life, but under no circumstances would he ever relinquish the control he now held.
Adding to the internal family conflicts, the Kingston family has run roughshod over neighbors, vendors and customers for three generations. Their influence on the lives of five townspeople is particularly noteworthy. We are introduced to these individuals at various stages of this epoch, with each harboring resentments against the Kingston’s until one of them hires an assassin to kill Adam Kingston III and his father and burn Kingston Manor to the ground.