Contemporary story about teenagers who experienced a beautiful, almost classic romance--far too brief--and their daughter, who will know her father only from the memories of others.
Erica Liebkind, youngest in a writer-heavy family, goes off to her freshman year in college. With a Pulitzer Prize winner for a father, and a Nobel Prize winner for an uncle, it seems that her future is well-mapped, but life doesn't often work out the way we expect. A sequel of sorts to "A Bettered Life".
When they met, he was almost eight and she was going on seven. After that, no matter what he did, it seemed she was bound to complicate his life and make every day a puzzle that he had to solve.
Supermodel Justine, 26, is feeling jaded until she meets the lusicious up and coming young model, Lucy, 16. They fall deeply and lustfully in love, and it quickly becomes clear that not so innocent Lucy knows much more about extreme sexual practices than Justine could ever have imagined. Young Lucy becomes Justine's mistress, and together, but also with Lucy's friends, they explore the dangerous edge of desire.