The Goldfarb Chronicles

by Wm Hovey Smith

Following a difficult pregnancy, Samantha and Aron Goldfarb move into their Detroit apartment a month early in the midst of the worst snowstorm in decades and are trapped there for four days with both sets of in-laws, a pair of movers, a pregnant dog, and a Syrian refuge family. Aron and his newly married brother-in-law, Larry Austerhouse Jr., go on a survival adventure in West Texas where they are kidnapped by Mexican smugglers to be rescued by a plan originated by Aron's wife, Austerhouse Sr., his health aid Albert, Apache Indians, Caballeros from Mexico, and the county Sherriff. Following the death of a helicopter pilot who was shot down by Albert with the assistance of Larry Austerhouse Sr., they and Samantha are put on trial for Capital Murder in Alpine, Texas, where their fate rest in the hands of speedy justice metered out by a West Texas Judge.