Once Is Never Enough

Before a Chicago homicide detective can leave the windy city and start a new career with the F.B.I., he's forced to investigate a suicide. With his fortieth birthday looming on the horizon, Homicide Detective Lester Miller yearns for fatherhood and laments the puzzling split with Cara Fleming -the married woman he loved more than any other. Until recently, Lester's only goal was to recapture his love, the strikingly beautiful Cara, who possessed it all: charisma, intelligence, honesty, ambition and commitment to family. He concedes that this love is not to be and forges ahead to move his "colossal fiasco" of a life to a new plateau.Now, his best laid plans to resign from a successful 14-year career with the C.P.D. are severely tested when a longtime friend, retired police commander, Sonny Newsome begs Lester to help to him save his financially wrought, private detective business. This mission hurls Lester back to the people he thought were history, namely his ex-wife Brenda and her new boyfriend, Cecil Hawkins, and precipitates life interrupting and altering circumstances that spiral beyond his control! Skeletons leap out of the closet, buried secrets are exposed and the dark pasts of friends are resurrected while investigating the suicide death of Jennifer Tate. Fate has dealt Cara Fleming another sour hand and tumbles her world upside-down.Once again, Lester is called upon to rescue friends from his life's disasters. Is Cara really a virtuous wife? Is Alderman Bennett a respectable politician? Why is there such a financial screw-up with his Sonny Newsome? Who's really going to severe ties with their personal relationships? Will folk get a chance to pull their relationships together or will someone die trying? Can Lester solve this mystery and still discover and claim what has been missing from his life?