O'Conner Ignition is a family run manufacturing business. For three generations, it has competed in a very tough market. But now it's in serous trouble. If James "Oaky" O'Conner can't turn things around soon, it could become just another tragedy of American manufacturing. But faced with high costs, short sighted managers, intrasigent union stewards, and foreign partners who have their own agenda, its going to be a tough fight. But it is just the type of fight for Lyle Black; engineer, adventurer, scoudral, hopeless romantic, and general bender and breaker of rules. Lyle understands industrial strength troubel. But first, what is with the box in the back of the closet, marked Bling Bling? What is the story behind the contents? Samatha Kingston would like to know. And Lyle's first explanation, "All that jusk has history" is not going to satisfy her curiousity.