Non-fiction. HARD SCRABBLE is a true account of male-female friendship and how it endures a difficult medical diagnosis. The author, Mark Tiger Edmonds, speaks candidly about his friendship with Nancy Pacey and her diagnosis of terminal metastatic cancer. A professor at St. Leo's College in Florida, Edmonds has put in over one million miles criss-crossing the United States, and his friend Nancy was an important fixture on his BMW bike. Now writing The Curmudgeon Chronicles, Edmonds is concentrating on American business and education.