A legacy needs an heir and an heir needs an heir apparent. Hal needs one but is shy. Diana is a young grieving widow. Then there are Hector and Lysander.
Shawn was a very curious lad.
The double helix that controlled his growth was unlike anybody before. Perhaps at some time in the future a person like him will be born.
Mel Austin didn't want to be just a farmhand for his brother, so after the Army and World War II, he attended college on the GI Bill. After graduating, a wartime friend asks him to join his ragtag midget auto racing show, Mel figures it's a better job than pumping gas until school starts. In love with the thrills, action, and a chance to see the country, he spends several years vagabonding with the show through the turbulent and now half-forgotten world of the early 1950s.