If you were to see an unkempt homeless man standing next to a young urban professional, who would you think had the most success in life? If you saw a young urban professional walking an unkempt homeless man on a leash, who would you think was in control? Don't be so sure of your answer.

Creamy Nougat is a novel that deals with the human quest for self-identity and peace of mind amidst physical, racial, and socio-economic tensions. Taking place in a metropolitan area on the east coast of the US, Creamy Nougat is a relatively comic account of issues that are often broached with the utmost seriousness. With shock value very much intact, this "don't judge a book by its cover" tale provides a lightheartedness that may be a way to get more readers thinking about issues that affect so many people in our society.

Ross Mclure, an ambitious and rather cocky graduate student, acquires the chance of a lifetime to do a dream experiment: test the true liberation of the liberal-minded. Answering an ad for a fourth roommate to join a homosexual, a "disabled" woman, and a practitioner of Wicca in an alternative living situation, Ross moves in and decides to be the resident sexually liberated nudist. As his roommates reluctantly accept his lifestyle (lest they be hypocrites), Ross is presented with a homeless man named Maurice and decides to change his experiment a bit, bribing the homeless man with money for drugs in exchange for being his personal minion. As Ross uses Maurice initially for good, and later for evil as he gets drunk with power, Maurice begins to show signs of sophistication and virtue, creating a suspicion, to some, that this downtrodden homeless man is not who he seems to be. In fact, it becomes apparent that, if life is like a box of chocolates, he is the creamy nougat.