Julie is popular, pretty, head cheerleader, and blonde. And, she sounds like a ditz. But she needs to pass math and English so she stops nerd Charley and asks him to come tutor her at her home. Then her sister Lynn barges in on them; she doesn't wear clothes. Charley's sister offers him advice on girls and what they like. He messes up on his first date and must ask his aunt for advice. He's tutoring AND being tutored. Caution: one side character is mentally ill.
Lucien purchases a flute in a pawn shop, and immediately begins playing it. There's more to the flute and Lucien, than meets the eye. He's special, and so is his flute music.
An archaeologist finds a statuette of a Fertility Goddess on a dig and is compelled to smuggle it home, where it causes changes in her, her children, her neighborhood, and more.