You probably wouldn't expect the Hochmeyer kids to be anything unusual. They seemed just two more garden-variety suburban baby-boomer bedroom-community kids from Connecticut, fated to grow up to work in the financial district or as a nurse. But then life dealt them a different hand.
Meet David "Lizard" Hochmeyer, former third-string quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, now a wildly successful restaurateur; and his sister Kate, at one time eighteenth-ranked women's tennis player in the world, now a bipolar mess. From the day English rocker Dabney Stryker-Stewart and his ballerina wife, Sylphide, moved into the mansion across the lake from the Hochmeyers' home, the siblings' lives changed forever; changed from ordinary lives to Life Among Giants.
