14-year-old mixed-race Danny Foster, a free spirit in a Southern town crossed by two rail lines, is burdened by being on the wrong side of too many tracks. Not only is he, along with his single-parent mother, a prostitute to the town's men, but he also risks being swept up in election scandal from his relationship with both candidates. He's about to leave for a free ride to a military academy 25 miles away, but can he get out of town before he's swept off the rails by a sex scandal?
Sarah's boss wanted her body, but he was afraid he might lose her if he made a pass at her. Then Wendy came along, so Sarah was blackmailed into sex with Simon, and some customers, and then sacked at the end of the month.
Kelly graduates from her residency training program, but owes the Navy three years for paying for her medical education. She is shocked to have to report to a ship, not a hospital, but decides to make the best of it. While on board ship she encounters a young woman who wants to know more about women's health and an executive officer/voyeur. Where will this all lead, read and find out more.
"What do you want?" he whimpered. "Shut it," I pushed him stumbling into his living room. "Don't hurt him," his good wife screamed and she when she came to his aid. We had chosen this house with care for it far away off the main track to be isolated. The young couple who lived there weren't rich but they wasn't poor either. We had just walked up to the front door and knocked.
This story is written in three distinct parts. The first two parts of the story deal with the lives of the two main characters up to the point where they are eventually brought together by circumstance, the third part covers the events that happen after that introduction.