Donna Jo Gribble

A young man steals a car and ends up involved in a pedestrian fatality. The only witness is a girl he has just met. He threatens her life if she talks, so when she refuses to tell what she knows, she is sent to reform school.

A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.