"Just a Girl From the Cornfields," is a "unique, engaging, well written," novel that takes a woman, "staring down the barrel of a loaded gun pointed right at 50," on an incredible journey through love and political intrigue. Viviana Bianchi has come to terms with her life as it is. She owns a successful restaurant on the riverfront in Peoria. Illinois. She travels and has an adult son she adores. She has given up on finding "Mr. Right," and she realizes she may be part of her own problem with men. Her "not exciting, but not boring either" life is all to change one Halloween night. An "Australian god" comes in for dinner, as well, as four men that leave behind a briefcase. As she falls for Lachlan and is trying to figure out how to make a very long distance relationship work with a man fourteen years her junior, the contents of the briefcase become known to her. She sees a complete outline of how a US Senator and his comrades intend on turning our Democracy into a Totalitarian Regime with the help of laws on the books since 9/11.