Coming of age. Young man's family move to California. he moves in with his parents friend for the summer, she lost her husband two years earlier she shows him how to be a man. He goes to Vegas meets a woman, older girl that he falls in love with. she becomes a great singer, his sister becomes a actress in a TV series. he also goes to Mexico and helps a very rich man out who gives him Rewards. he also meets an older woman whose husband is dying. he meets another gal while in Vegas who ends up being very very rich, owning Tech stores. she has a roommate that he goes to school with and she's a swimmer but is deaf, she is also a great painter. author has been gone for a few years and just started rewriting a few months ago