Bonnie Pearson has toted her stainless-steel vacuum all over Franklin, from the Falls side's modest bungalows to the mansions of Franklin Heights. She's seen good and bad in the city -- though makes no special claim on telling one from the other. She believes in leaving people to their business. The Glassers are a fun-loving bunch from the Heights, whose carefree lives bear little resemblance to Bonnie's own. When the family's unruly children hatch a plan to sabotage their parents' venture, she faces a decision: use her special access to the household to stop it, or let the Glassers' laissez-faire parenting style run its course? The Cleaner is the first entry in the Franklin saga. --------------- Welcome to Franklin: a city in full. Grace and pettiness, ambition, despair. Threats. Hunger. Heroism. Six sorts of love. More children every day. The NFL's Franklin Federals -- Go Feds! The roaring Shawnee, which never floods Franklin Heights but routinely devastates the Falls side. You've passed through before, reader. Now come a bit farther off the interstate.