Unlawful Bonds

By Renée Jones and Nolan Ryan Forbes

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Unlawful Bonds

Mildred, a woman whose life had once been a perfectly ordered symphony of Chardonnay and country club gossip, suddenly finds herself arrested for a litany of bizarre, minor offenses, from an ancient parking ticket to assaulting a police officer after a mix-up over a cab fare.

She is joined in transit by a motley crew of fellow detainees: Kevin, a flamboyant high-speed road-tripper whose "prop money" scheme escalated into a federal case involving a "Trillion-Dollar Note" and a memory foam bath pillow; Bree, a no-nonsense carpenter hauled in on a twenty-seven-year-old, ten-dollar bad check charge; Marvin, a timeshare mogul arrested for a $45 speeding ticket from 1999; Arthur, an attorney arrested for an unpaid toll violation; and Walter, an accountant arrested for a thirty-four-year-old stolen bicycle.

Thrown together by the spectacular absurdity of the bureaucratic machine, their shared ordeal in county jails and on long-haul transport vehicles forges an unbreakable bond. Upon their highly undignified but complete liberation, they refuse to simply return to their former lives. Instead, galvanized by the sheer, magnificent failure of the system that tried to hold them, Mildred, Kevin, Marvin, Bree, Arthur, and Walter join forces to found the Periwinkle-Claxon Collective, a specialized consulting firm built on turning administrative blunders into financial assets. This is the origin story of a legendary partnership born not of a common ideal, but of a shared, triumphant administrative blunder.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FWQZ4VDF
• ISBN13: 9798270315283
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"