All her life Manda has wanted to dance the ballet, but love and fate have placed her in a cold New York City tenement with a practical husband who finds it hard enough to raise them out of poverty, much harder to consider her dreams of the dance. On a snowy, lonely New York morning, Manda learns a lesson much deeper than the stage can teach her. This and more--of love, laughter and suspense in areas as diverse as Las Vegas and the American South-- will keep you on the edge of your chair or send you to the arms of your love. All by prize-winning short story writer b.j. lawry.