She'd known him practically her entire fourteen years. A friend of her grandparents, the grandfather of her friends at church, he'd often have a camera and by the time she reached puberty realized it may have been trained on her much more than others. Finally she was a fully developed young woman, and wondered what old men actually did with their photographs.
A Cold War and before Story Elise Henderson is parachuted into occupied southern France in May 1944 to report on the movements of the 2nd SS Panzer Division.
What she experiences changes her forever.
Beth Chastain and her son Mark are hiding a burning passion. Usually a quiet, somewhat shy person, Beth has a well-hidden inner slut, the devil inside that created her son in the first place when she was a naive teenager. The slut has been clamoring to get out again, and she's zeroed in on the man Beth loves over all others, behind the closed doors of their small house.
Remember the kid that everyone hated back in school, that answered every question, that blew away the tests? Let's put the shoe on the other foot and inject some whimsy. (The physics and E.M. propagation in the story doesn't really work, but it's fun to think about.)