Patricia Pearcy

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, unemployed dancer Paula McFadden and her ten-year-old daughter Lucy are forced to live with struggling off-Broadway actor Elliot Garfield, who is subletting their apartment.

In the Deep South, a trainer of fighting cocks takes a vow of silence and gambles his loves and possessions in a bid to win a championship.

A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.