What Goes Around is the continuation of a previous novel, The Shirt Off His Back. What Goes Around starts by drawing the reader into the progressing lives of Terry and Jackie Winston, and their 5 children. Alisa and Ariana are the twin daughters of Terry and Catherine (a one night stand from college), who have been raised by Terry and Jackie from birth. Catherine, the biological mother, is now in need of a kidney, and has no compunction about going to her daughters to demand one of theirs. She breezes into the lives of the Winston family with the subtlety of a hurricane, and manages to wreak emotional havoc. In the midst of all of this drama, Catherine's castle of corporate cards comes crumbling down around her well pampered feet, with the exposure of illegal activity.