Christmas season brings parades and magic. It also brings a poker session with four fine citizens of Woodland Park. Jonas Kirk deals the cards, sees the cheats, lives with the outcome. When one player turns up dead the next day, Kirk has ideas. Devlin not too alarmed, but Kirk's explanation seems to clear things up...and then confuses the issue even more. Devlin is befuddled. Kirk is reconciled. Justice denied?

This mob storybook navigates nostalgia, a blood fight on the dance floor, a future recast, and three characters as they come together to revive a fading star. It’s one of those fiction books that deals with loyalty and betrayal while navigating mob deals. Shontel, a beautiful black woman, realizes her star is fading in the entertainment world. Can a 35th high school reunion and former high school sweethearts reunite to a reimagined career, or will it end in a mobster’s trunk? Once a lover to Trey and then to Bobby, the trio hopes to rejuvenate her fading career and give them all a new focus on life. What they need are a screenplay and money. Trey leverages his experience to provide the first, while Bobby draws upon his expertise to create mob deals to tap some cash. They find a new reality within weeks, discovering that mob money chokes, perhaps more than it provides. They adopt new strategies to create Shontel’s re-entry to fame. For a woman is one of those suspenseful fiction books written in the first person that incorporates interracial relationships and the mob to draw readers in with every turn of the page.