When blonde, vivacious Elizabeth chose to attend college at far off Acadia University in Nova Scotia, it threatened trouble for her home town love, for, as one of her rejected Canadian suitors said, "Most girls are just girls, but you are some chicken!"

 Five years have elapsed since the time of The Sucker Brook System. In this second novel the Lincolns pick up the action in one of the most dramatic periods in the history of Ware, Massachusetts. The long years of grinding depression are now capped by the collapse of the Otis company, the town's leading industry, compounded by a disastrous flood and devastating hurricane. It makes exciting reading as the author struggles to hold his love against the challenge of fun‑loving Eric, while the heroic town fights for its life, attaining national recognition as "The Town that Can't Be Licked."

 "Eric had chosen his time and place well. it was a night for lovers. The moon cast a shimmering, dancing path of gold across the sleeping ocean, which reached languidly up to caress the sand. On such a night it would be easy to abandon herself to the fulfillment of life, to live for this golden evening, f or the moment that had been building slowly but inexorably throughout the entire fall term of ever more friendly hikes on Blomidon and trysts in the apple orchard beyond her dorm.