In his first year of teaching at a small upstate New York college, Frankie DeFrancisco meets beautiful math professor Maisie Montcalm. One of her best friends happens to be Barry Freed. Except that's not his real name. His real name is Abbie Hoffman.
Bernard Notlieb gets the wild idea to hire somebody to talk to. He likes the notion so much, he hires two guys, then gets both of them involved in a murder case. The guys don't exactly appreciate that, so they won't speak to him.
Thistle, a twenty year old graduate student, captures Derek on her mother's strawberry farm. On her planet, Antigone, all men are taken prisoner, but he's from somewhere else.
When Jonathan’s robot is stolen, he has to get a cheap replacement, Reggie, a used LawnMan. Reggie is accident prone, gets in fights, and is nothing but trouble.
When Ruthy has to leave school back east and return to Texas after the death of her parents, she meets Harry Fronctil, a young law student who needs to borrow her father’s law books