Hot-Walker Life on the Fast Track - sports crime romance novel. The 1960s marked the rise of a new generation, Canadian horse racing and courtroom drama when Hot-Walker Frannie Harrison witnessed the violent murder of her fiance at Woodbine racetrack. She was the youngest child of a wealthy but alcoholic and dysfunctional family who set out to find her own life in the turbulent 1960s. Ultimately, Frannie finds herself in Yorkville, Toronto's hippie community, filled with drop-outs and American draft dodgers. Young and innocent, she falls in love with an ambitious American who works at the racetrack and convinces her to take a job there. Suspecting he is into drug dealing, she is by no means prepared for his death. Grief-stricken, she struggles with denial and complicated relationships before escaping to Europe. When petitioned for trial, Frannie returns to Toronto to deal with the painful ordeal that produces devastating testimonies about life on the fast track, a murder trial that shocks Toronto community.