Follow and get involved with the Pickett family of Lexington, Kentucky. The family is an old Lexington family, deeply involved in state politics, coal, money, and oil, with the boisterous Billy Clyde Pickett as its patriarch. The family experiences deception and murder from resentful enemies and a personal tragedy as young Jake Pickett's, Billy's brother's, airplane is lost in the West Virginia Mountains with his son, Michael Pickett, aboard. As the dynasty is threatened, young heirs emerge to save the family from ruin. See how young Michael Pickett keeps it all together as love buds and grows, and the family remains strong after attempts to bring it down. Twists and turns keep the reader enthralled as the exciting unfolding story discloses secrets of the past that have now emerged to help the ensnared family stay united.