Key West by Three in the Afternoon

Henry Roberts, Florida Keys native and now, local Matecumbe author, has been living an idyllic life for the past three years. He's been reunited with Finee, a Cuban woman he has loved and coveted since childhood and he has found minor success and promise with his first published novel about the struggles of a Conch family trying to keep their head above water as the islands have changed with development and commercialism.

Struggling with finding the big theme for his second novel, Henry wakes up alone, one afternoon, after staying up late celebrating his thirty-fourth birthday with Finee, to someone pounding on his front door. What he finds is a fist to the side of his face thrown by an angry young man in the company of a young woman Henry has never seen before. Corky Roberts, Henry's step-brother storms in the house demanding to know why Henry has never told him who Corky's biological father is and that he lives eighty miles away in Key West. Corky is determined to meet the father he never knew and he wants Henry to drop everything in his life and take him to the southernmost city at the end of U.S. 1.