In a world where surrender is freedom, Ruth Copeland inherits her father's secret legacy: the Paradigm, a controversial community where people choose to become owned pets. When a journalist investigating her family's dark past finds himself drawn to the very thing he's trying to destroy, Ruth sees an opportunity to change everything provocative tale of choice, belonging, and the power of being truly seen.
Twelve years after the accident that took her parents, Libby still lives with the only person who never left her, her grandfather. The grief never really went away. It just changed shape. Turned into a constant, shameful ache she only knows how to quiet with her own fingers… and lately, with fantasies she hates herself for having. On the anniversary, the lines between comfort and want finally break. Extremely explicit. Grandfather/granddaughter.
An ongoing account of the various interactions, some natural, some supernatural, some fantastical, all sexual, that occur in a small cottage in the West Riding Yorkshire Dales.
He left Nigeria as a boy. Berlin made him something else. Tolu has always been the golden child—the obedient son, the scholarship winner, the one who made his mother proud. But inside, he's hollow. His father's death left him hungry for something he can't name. Control. Power. Meaning. When his aunt places a leather-bound journal in his hands on the night before his departure, she gives him more than notes on psychology and leverage. She gives him a key to who he could become.
Unlike most stories posted here, though sex may be present, the story's focus is on learning the value of creating and nurturing a special rare connection between 2 caring introverted seniors who have limited their options due to past hurts and disappointments. Seeing beyond expectations and dysfunctional indoctrination of their past, both view what's within their control, believe in themselves and learn what a real relationship is all about.
Being a good counselor taking care of all the various questions and concerns. By taking as many students as I did, I ran late with the last student. I was in my bungalow, and most of the college faculty were already gone for the day.
Peter sells his company to a private equity firm for a high price and exhausted, goes for holidays at the Great Barrier Reef. He meets a young Chinese woman, also tired from last semester studies and stressful work projects. They stay at the same hotel and their conversations become deeply emotional. Peter sees an ad for a show in Brisbane, books a flight and they stay the night. They start to fall in love and after a wonderful night, decide to stay together.