Craig M. Nehamen

Benny Wright reasoned that the most critical number was one. It only took one tragic event or one losing ticket at the racetrack to sack a human's will to live. What he didn't know at the time that he had this brilliant insight was that he would have two life-altering events in rapid succession, neither of which he could have seen coming. The man was an artist, musical composer, lyricist and performer. His mission in life was to provide a better lifestyle for the people he loved most, his wife and two children. Yet after repeated setbacks, he concludes that he's failed them. Now he concocts what most would consider an ill-conceived plan to save his family. Desperation is not a friend to love and devotion. If Benny is going to prove that where hope ends, the triumph of the spirit begins, a companion might be just what the doctor orders.

BASEBALL MUSIC ROMANCE Skyler Mills is recognized in college as a mathematics whiz and a true genius. Yet when it comes to sports, she doesn't know the difference between a touchdown and a home run She's the last choice that a sane Major League Baseball owner would hire as their GM. Yet when a fortuitous event lands her in that precise role, this five-foot-two inch dynamo sets out to turn the game of baseball on its head. She has two partners: one a neuroscience freak and the other a musical composer; neither care a wit about the game or the franchise. So can she succeed when the team is a mess, there's little money to fix it, and she's reviled by most all of the players and execs in the male-dominated world of baseball? It would take a miracle. Yet even when the unexpected happens, and it appears she might prove victorious, her secret weapon is stolen by the owner's nemesis, a guy named Thorne. Using the discovery to turn the tables on her, it's time to declare war. This little lady proves to be a street fighter, the type not to be mistaken as fragile.