A story in the The Fading Stars Universe
Some choices are easy. Either face fifteen years in an off-world prison for trying to steal a military battlecruiser or join a crew of interstellar fixers for a hazardous mission. Rembrandt chose the latter and finds much more than he bargained for.
For Ben, it seemed impossible to put into words what Natalie had meant to him. That one night, that one brief, modestly wicked moment between them, punctuated a lifetime of all but worshiping her.
Hugh Driscott is a young farmer fresh out of university. He inherits a farm and some associated small business near London Ontario. The farmhouse is well supplied with lightning rods because nature wants to burn the house down. A large silver mirror is struck by a bolt and Hugh is like a modern day Alice.
How does one woman get attracted to another? Pheromones play a part perhaps, but circumstances often play their role as well. How do you meet someone if you live in the middle of nowhere? They come to you, of course!
Mark and Julia attend a dinner party and find themselves drawn into an unimaginable realm, one with people of extraordinary strength and mental prowess, where relationship boundaries are fluid and wrong choices can be fatal. A world defined by hidden agendas, shifting alliances, deep intimacy and dangerous liaisons.
Toby Adamson has been best friends with twins Andrew and Natasha Stevenson ever since they met in kindergarten, when they were five years old. Toby was totally in love with Natasha by the time that they reached the age of ten. This part of their story begins in 1966, as the Stevenson family move away from their old home, near Toby's house, to a newly built ranch-style bungalow, near the hamlet of Northolt, in the English Cotswolds. Toby is about to go and spend a few days with the family...