Queen Among Monkeys
Resort Town Romance
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About the Book
QUEEN AMONG MONKEYS is a book that brings together a cast of colorful characters living in, and around, a small resort town in Northwest Arkansas.
EDNA is an aging alcoholic who feels she could have been a contender in life. She thrives on the attention of men and shows little regard for others. Love for her father sets the course of her life.
JOE BILL is a Vietnam vet. He moves from Kansas and corn to Arkansas and marijuana. His best friend, Alfano, opens the way for new surroundings.
TRACY is a fun loving woman with an addiction to tranquilizers. Three children and three husbands later, she settles into the hills of Arkansas.
SIMON is an insurance salesman and a local pillar of the community. He was a devoted son and a southern gentleman. A gay man, who falls for a straight man, he suffers the consequences.
Our characters interact with the locals: ERICA travels from Germany to Kansas to give birth to her first child. DAVIE is a florist who is tricked to the altar. ALFANO is a good Catholic boy turned mobster. EUGENE is a roughneck who finds living with Tracy a challenge. MIKE is an exotic dancer. TIM presents Edna with a home and a baby. RAYMOND takes Tracy down a path of true rustic living. DANA is Edna’s daughter, who hopes for a relationship with her mother. JULIE is a sexy young woman with a big secret. DIANE is Tracy’s daughter; she loves the boy next door and motherhood. STEVE runs a successful drug operation and gives Tracy a bed while his true love is on the run. DOYLE drives a truck and comes home to Edna on the weekends. UNCLE MURPHY brings his money and his desires to Arkansas