Once the self-identified big shot of the cul de sac realizes that he will have to run a campaign for President of his neighborhood's Home Owner's Association against his new Black neighbor, a man is forced to prove that he is the leader that his upper middle class community has always needed. Racial tensions, self- doubt, mental breakdowns, and debates about fern height could put everything the residents of Glacier Falls know into a whirlwind of change. But nobody is going to take this away from this man's rightful place as President-not without a fight.

A southern blue collar construction worker has an encounter with a mysterious "being" that he and his family will never forget.

When a psychiatrist discovers that a medication for the treatment of acne is causing teenagers to kill themselves, the pharmaceutical company sets out on a campaign to destroy the source of the threat to their billion-dollar-a-year drug.