Matt has to be in Edinburgh the first thing tomorrow morning, but he's afraid of flying. He takes the overnight sleeper, where he meets Rachel, they don't get any sleep...
A club manager meets Carol, a principled small-town waitress who becomes his trusted right hand. Their friendship turns intimate, exploring swinging, coke-fueled fantasies, anal, and gloryhole thrills. Taboo confessions deepen their bond, but life pulls them apart. Years later, he reflects on the trust, sin, and lasting ache she left behind.
Sharon and Mike are now living in Cliff House and find the diaries and writings of Sharon's uncle in a trunk in the attic. This is the story of Uncle Jeremiah, from his birth in 1920's London, through the war, and after, until as an old man he writes it all down in 2000
Emily Thompson grew up under the shadow of her mother Laura, a woman who treated sex as both weapon and inheritance. By college she had claimed that inheritance as her own, wild, public, unapologetic. Then she fell for Jake, the only man who could match her fire. When Laura took him too, the betrayal cut deeper than anything that came before. What followed was not surrender, but a final, brutal reckoning. A dark story of power, desire, maternal damage, and the hard cost of taking your life back