SETTLING IN — Michael J. Cooper

After three failed marriages, Nelson DeMarco figured his chances at love were exhausted. Then a South African sweetheart named Charlotte enters his life. Suddenly his semi-successful law practice begins making profits. Her construction business takes off. All seems to be on the rise. Until Markey re-enters his life. Wife number one. A serious auto accident and she wants Nelson to represent her. Then Nelson's brother, Oliver, shows up at his door owing money from gambling debts...to a local judge no less. The Charlotte's former lover reasserts himself. Then a close friend develops cancer. A mundane, provincial average life suddenly goes haywire as complication compounds complication. Can love survive the stress of events? Can Nelson survive the lure of his gorgeous ex? Can Charlotte forget her past dalliances? Will Oliver resolve his obligations? Will the friend survive? Will there ever be such thing as normal again?