Once again told in the first person like DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL, THE SECOND TIME AROUND is Mary at her very best, with a family living in the aftermath of disgrace and the national limelight, and a corporate scandal that is straight out of today's headlines. A man who was implicated in a major corporate scandal involving billions of dollars and the bankruptcy of a great American corporation has vanished mysteriously, presumed to have killed himself. Encouraged by her psychiatrist, his widow embarks on her own investigation of the corporate catastrophe. But certain people involved, who have been living on the billions of dollars they made while blaming her husband for everything that happened, are perturbed by her meddling and are desperate to silence her. And in the process, she discovers an even more shocking surprise about her husband...