have the craziest family to ever exist.

We follow Max from age five to twenty-nine. Max desires an extraordinary life. Boarding school. Harvard. Captain of the rowing team. Elite fraternity. Get rich.

But it's that crazy unpredictable family:

A master forger father.

A socialite mother, or as much a socialite as Fair City, Alabama, allows.

A vixen boarding-school sister.

Miami distant-cousin international-criminal Tony.

Conniving Aunt Lynette, Max's first crush.

Quirky Cousin Corky, the love of his life.

All of them, including our narrator Max, exude beauty and charm. The McGuires, other than Max, play anything but fair, even though most of them still live in Fair City. Max dives into phase I of his master plan; the only trouble-Each McGuire executes a secret plan, hidden from Max.

Fate slings Max from Alabama to Ecuador to Miami.

If you like following a good guy, surrounded by quirky characters who don't follow the rule book, this may be the novel for you.

This is the first of two volumes dealing with Max McGuire's life.