The Cocktail Waitress will involve you, and then shock you with an
ending you'll never forget. This is a true rarity: a reader's novel
that's also a literary event. - Stephen King
Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful
young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a
cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining
custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an
interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a
wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a
$50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage...