One of Detroit's biggest auto manufacturers, Champion Motors is a world divided between white collar and blue collar -- and ruled by the law of overtime. Everyone hungers to be a "white collar" worker with more money...someone who can make -- and take -- the most out of life...

-- Thyme Tyler. Educated and ambitious, she is the industry's only female African American plant manager. For her there is no compromise when it comes to her job -- or her love for her white husband, Cy a company executive. But her struggle to gain complete professional parity will reveal the bitterest of betrayals, and force her to risk the one thing she values above all else...

-- Ron Davis. The plant's fiery union leader, he protects his people and stays cool even at ground zero of red-hot labor unrest. Yet his refusal to confront his failings will throw his private life into a firestorm, where the only way out promises heartbreaking loss...

-- Khan Davis. Ron's brilliant, feisty niece, she left college behind for the lure of big money at Champion -- and the temptations of an irresistibly sensual older lover. Fate surprises her, forcing her to decide what matters most -- and what she really needs...

-- R.C. Richardson. Champion's biggest car dealer, he built his fortune and won his spirited Japanese/African American wi