Small World Author:Tabitha King Dorothy Hardesty Douglas' world had shrunk steadily since the days is her childhood when she romped with her daddy, the president, through the historic rooms of the White House. Now in middle age and widowhood, she lives within a hermetic bubble of her own devising, obsessively recreating those lost rooms in miniature. The only thing that Doll... more »y's perfect replica of the White House lacks is tenants. Enter Roger Tinker, heretical scientist and sexual blank slate, who just happens to have the power to give Dolly what she wants, and something extra that she thought she could do without. The course of their bizarre love affair includes the looting of a museum, the theft of a national landmark, and the kidnapping and worse of Leyna Shaw, glamorous TV newscaster. Leyna has forgotten why Dolly hates her, but she soon discovers that Dolly's hate is great enough to kill her. Imprisoned in Dolly's miniature White House, Leyna finds that more than her life is in jeopardy. Dolly has one remaining interest in the larger world. Her two grandchildren are in the custody of Dolly's former daughter-in-law, Lucy, and Lucy has the temerity to fall in love with Dolly's former lover, Nick Weiler. Dolly is determined that they too will be prisoners in her small world. Only Roger Tinker has another idea.« less