family-owned business enterprises

Theodore "Mead" Fegley disappoints and surprises everyone when he drops out of his university, and his work on the Riemann Hypothesis, to return home to rural Illinois, where he was known as "the young Fegley genius, " and learns the family business--selling furniture and embalming the dead.

Danny, a Yale junior, uses his spring break to work at his dad's lunch truck in New York and sort out his complicated love life.

Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky knows she has not been accepted by everyone in the Ziplinsky family, but her dedication to the family's candy factory helps her overlook the family's shortcomings, and as she traces the history of the factory, she finds greater respect for her in-laws.

Private investigator Izzy Spellman works in the family business and hobby of invading people's privacy. After her parents hire her sister to get the scoop on Izzy's new boyfriend, though, she decides to get out of the business. Her parents agree as long as she solves one last case.

New York shoemaker Valentine Roncalli is at her grandmother's wedding in Tuscany when she learns that her brother has been made partner with her in the family business. Valentine escapes the drama by re-igniting her relationship with Gianluca. When Valentine takes a business trip to Buenos Aires, she discovers a family secret that threatens to destroy the Roncallis. Valentine struggles to keep the family together while debating her future with Gianluca.

New York shoemaker Valentine Roncalli is at her grandmother's wedding in Tuscany when she learns that her brother has been made partner with her in the family business. Valentine escapes the drama by re-igniting her relationship with Gianluca. When Valentine takes a business trip to Buenos Aires, she discovers a family secret that threatens to destroy the Roncallis. Valentine struggles to keep the family together while debating her future with Gianluca.

Story of the Dombey family and the business they own in nineteenth century England.

Linnet O'Neill finds herself following in her great-grandmother, Emma Hare's, footsteps as she struggles to modernize the family business despite the protests of her mother and the vengeful plans of a family enemy.

The last thing twelve-year-old Christopher "Kip" Campbell wants is to take over the funeral business that has been in his family for generations, but he is the only Campbell heir and seems to have a calling to help the dead and their survivors in a most unusual way.

Thirteen-year-old Colophon Letterford and her cousin Julian continue their quest to uncover their family's treasure as new clues lead them to Oxford, England, seeking to unravel a connection to Christopher Marlowe.