It is 1928, and the glitz and glam of show business in pre-Depression era New York City is in full swing. The lights are bright for the financiers and those who entertain them, and life seems good in the big city. But in one house, a little girl named Samantha is sent away by her cold, ruthless stepmother, and she does not return until it's too late. The market has crashed, her father is gone, and her stepmother is more desperate for wealth and attention...

After Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, the United States joined World War II. And soon after that, young pilots were recruited for a very secret, and very dangerous, raid on Japan. No one in the armed forces had done anything like this raid before, and none of the volunteers expected to escape with their lives.--Provided by the publisher.

Before she became the legendary Mama Cass---one quarter of the mega-huge folk group The Mamas and the Papas---Cass Eliot was a girl from Baltimore trying to make it in the big city.