The Rental

Al Murphy is a schemer and a scammer, a man of limited intelligence and even less conscience, who becomes a key player in the lives of several disparate and sometimes desperate people.

Although many of the principals involved are from different parts of the country, their destinies and desires eventually lead them to rent one of the two mobile homes Al Murphy constructed on lots that he carved out of the scrub on the Lake Wales Ridge in Highlands County, Florida.

One or the other of these rentals provides a haven for a family in need, a hide away for lovers, a convenience for a drug dealer, a sanctuary for an abused wife, the end of the road for a troubled world famous fashion model, the final resting place for a tyrant, the den of a seductress, and others.

And in the end Al Murphy's sudden death is the catalyst that leads to the preservation of a tract of ancient land with a violent history.