Never to be Unsung, a rock trilogy Series

The daughter of widowed British shock rocker Eddie "Maddman" Maddox, 17-year-old Ashley, an aspiring musician herself, is desperate to escape her father's roving Rapunzel's tower and come off the road. Determined to experience a normal life before the last of her childhood slips away, she finally snips Eddie's parental puppet strings, leaving him holding an empty line for three days. Citing ancestral ties to the area, she devises a plan to persuade Eddie to plant her in the city of Annapolis, Maryland, in the States. There she finds love and cultivates a circle of best mates, who soon dub her "Moxie", with whom she begins to launch her own music career. Moxie, however, is harboring a fatal flaw, which will shave years off her life. When the inevitable happens at the starting gate of her career, her friends conspire with her closest mate in England to attempt the unheard of: hang her fallen star for the world to see. Slowly, Moxie's earthly allies begin to realize that though everyone must die, not everyone lies down-entirely, that is. Follow this amazing and thought-provoking story as unlikely worlds collide in an effort to hang the grim reaper in effigy on his own front porch.

Despite a Frank Maddox ordered communication blackout between Lisa and the Band, both sides manage to pick up the pieces after the plane crash that took Ashley's life and begin to prepare for a tour de force to win Ashley the fame and recognition which she was denied. Volume 2 follows Lisa's journey from a starry-eyed child prodigy to an adult, battle-scarred, whetstone-sharpened artist in her own right. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Glen and the band shift gears and begin to align themselves with the new direction which Ashley wanted to take upon completion of their ill-fated tour. Just as Lisa prepares to go join them, her dying father, (Frank), tosses one last joker on the table. unaware that Ashley is keeping abreast of his every move. Even as all this is going on, the sound twigs breaking under the feet of Ashley's Aussie mate, Dahlia, can be heard at the edge of the lawn, so to speak. Who exactly is she? And why is she remaining in the shadows?

Following a trail of breadcrumbs that Ashley showed her in a dream, Lisa heads to America to search for Ashley's unpublished missing songs, only to discover that Glen, her allegedly deceased heart-throb, is still alive! However, she's fighting unfounded guilt stemming from the fact that he was Ashley's husband, and tries her best to keep him in the 'friend-zone', (totally unaware that her late cousin sent her to Annapolis for that very purpose).Volume 3 quickly develops into a romantic comedy, as the star-crossed duo keep attempting in vain to keep things platonic. In the midst of trying to maintain her 'make nice, not love' policy with Glen, Lisa joins forces with Glen and the rest of Ashley's former bandmates to try and find that missing music. Even as the search continues, they begin making plans to form a combined musical tour de force to win Ashley the fame and recognition that she was denied due to her untimely end. Meanwhile, more clues concerning the identity and whereabouts of Ashley's mysterious Aussie friend, Dahlia, begin to surface, and Libbet begins to make some progress in her obsession to have a two-way conversation with Ashley in order to get some answers about her still-unsolved murder. Eventually, Glen's taunting message to Moxie's killers, (from the Tarantella concert footage), finally reaches them in New Zealand, and they send someone to Annapolis to look into things. Finally, all the dominos begin to fall when the FBI apprises New Scotland Yard of their presence in Annapolis. Justice proves to own a sense of humor, as the FBI and the Yard set up a sting for the killers, as well as that hangman's noose for the grim reaper, as well...

True to the style of this series, 'Ballad of the Widowmaker' follows a serious story line through a thicket of occasional comedic outbursts and romantic sentiment. The son of the man who sabotaged Eddie's plane, Edgar Tate, who is now running for his life from the very crime syndicate he tried to quit, shows up at Glen and Lisa's door, seeking their scheming talents to escape his former cronies' clutches. Needless to say, Glen and Lisa are less than pleased with this notion. Meanwhile, two of the original members of Wicker Dale show up in London in search of their two recently 'resurrected' band mates. And Libbet plans to record a solo album while the band is on temporary hiatus. While still trying to deal with the whole 'Edgar' situation, Glen and Lisa stumble across a 1963 photograph of their FBI friend, Alvin Torres, wearing a 1980s digital calculator watch! One wild thought leads to another, and before they know it they're imploring his help to pull off the impossible before he soon retires. Torres, however, has his own ideas of how to resolve the matter...