Chapter 1

When his neurotic mother reveals (at his father's funeral, of all places) he was adopted at birth, 40-year-old Dorsey Duquesne is left reeling in betrayal. Emotionally adrift, he hires a one-eyed strip-mall detective to find the missing pieces. The trail leads Dorsey to the Black Forest--and straight to a jitterbugging, strudel-baking redhead named Mitzi, who claims to be his birth mother.