Prominent actress Ava Grant receives bad news. Her latest movie is a flop. Her boyfriend sold pictures of her naked to a celebrity gossip web site and the result is she is let go from her upcoming movie role. Encouraged by her agent, Ava takes a trip to reconnect with a long lost love. Former heart throb Benson Powell can't handle the loss of fame. Down on his luck, he fails to rob a bank. Desperate for money, Benson sets out to hold up a convenience store. Set on a collision course, these two face radical life changes.

A down on his luck mechanic sets out to publish his first novel with guidance from eccentric friends.

Losing his girlfriend and his job in the same day propels Breaker Donovan to Houston to find out why he was named in the will of the recently deceased shoe heiress Mercedes Cosnoski. Along the way Breaker befriends Tiara Jones who decides to come along for the ride. Receiving only a key to a safe deposit box both Mercedes' son Gerald and Tiara want Breaker to find out what mysterious treasure was left to him. Gerald's decides to steal the key while Breaker sleeps. Little does anyone know that Breaker is haunted in his dreams by his demented father. What will Breaker's father tell him to do before he wakes.

A disgraced soldier returns to his bleak Oklahoma hometown, where wind never stops and hope is gone. Murders feel like old debts. The prairie remembers what he buried, and the past waits for him.

An unflattering portrait of Ester Breen is unveiled. Walter, Ester's husband, is pleased with the horror of the guests' responses. Peter, Ester's boyfriend, just wants Ester to leave her husband to be with him. Bluster, the painter, is unhappy he is not revered as an artist. Jonathan Heck, art critic for the city paper, is under pressure to complete a review of the new portrait. No one is happy, someone is going to die. Everyone is enraged, fearful and in love.