South Haven North is an imaginatively recounted adult narrative involving Dagny, Payden and Samantha. Dagny, a gorgeous prepossessing ingenue, is an amalgam of competing emotion, a detonation waiting to happen. Her mother died in childbirth, leaving her to be raised by Doby, her devoted father. She's a bookkeeper by day for US Steel and evenings she performs privately as an exotic dancer at a gentleman's club near the airport in Gary.Her father has been employed as a production assistant in the smelting area of the mill for over twenty years and Dagny is concerned that US Steel is killing her father because the enormous company has known for years that workplace asbestos is slowly poisoning the employees. As a result she is bewildered by her antipathy toward men and has no conscience about cooking the firms books. Along with after hour side gigs at the club, Dagny's embezzlement has netted her such cash reserves that secret accounts had to be established.Not wanting to leave a trace, Dagny changes her identity, leaves Indiana one step ahead of the law in her new Bentley, and relocates to South Haven Michigan, where she purchases a pristine lake shore property with a casita. In the idyllic laid back resort town, a mysterious and beguiling woman who owns a restaurant bar hires Dagny because of her stunning good looks, but she has ulterior motives. Dagny, not needing the money, takes the position for the possibility of meeting people. Samantha, the owner, immediately falls head over heels in love with Dagny, who over time reciprocates, but when Payden, a local gentleman farmer, mostly Alpaca and Llamas, shows interest in Dagny, an explosive triangle plays out.Dagny and Payden, on one of their frequent weekend camping excursions, tangle with three crude rednecks who have sketchy ties to Payden's past. And while Dagny cannot get Samantha's persistent ministrations off her mind, the altercation in the northern Michigan Tavern where they stopped to watch a ball game leads to insults and results in a chase across two counties close to Lake Michigan ending at Payden and Dagny's campsite. The insults and altercation become violent and end in a triple murder but not before the assistance from an armed to the teeth dark shadow figure with motives of her own crashes the party. Dagny learns that fear and eroticism are conjoined emotions cut from the same cloth. Dagny and Payden flee for their lives, board a cross-lake ferry and return to Michigan by driving through Wisconsin, Illinois and parts of Indiana.A lifetime of emotional scarring is sublimated when Dagny and Payden marry and find solace in raising their combined families.
