Swayed by the tears of a pleading friend, Milton Muzny jammed the casket of a Californian he had never met into the belly of his Piper Cherokee 300 for a burial flight to Texas. A storm forces an early landing to the safety of a place and the company of people he once loved and thought were left behind forever. People root where fate takes them. So it is for Milton, who grows to become a highly successful entrepreneur heading a business empire that includes a chain of small-town airport restaurants, a golf club manufacturing company with a break-through product and an experimental aircraft that is certain to set aviation on its heels. The Attorney General of the State of California is out to prove that the fertilizer of his fortune is murder. No good deed goes unpunished