Four Interlocking Stories of Women and their Men. A widower and a divorcee meet and the sparks immediately fly. He's handsome, well-off, and talented. She's a Viking goddess, barely starting her designing career.
A story in the Immortals Universe
The Immortals of Lynsay Sands fantasy series are "scientific" vampires. The biomolecular nanos in their bodies require human blood as fuel, using it to replicate and repair their host. , an immortal teen arrives at her family lakeshore estate for an impromptu summer retreat. Having been caught in traffic, her nanos are demanding fuel. At the family cottage, she gets careless and is seen feeding by a local teen, her fangs in a bag of blood.
As part of a scam a girl falsely accuses a man of rape. He is convicted and spends years in prison thinking only of revenge. And then he is released. He soon discovers that there is more to life than hate.
I never meant for it to happen. One teasing lap dance at the bachelor party turned into secret texts, desperate hookups, and raw, guilt-soaked nights with my best friend’s wife. Emily swears she still loves Mark… but she keeps coming back for more — in my bed, in the basement while he games upstairs, even on a luxury hotel weekend. Risky creampies, near-misses, and crushing guilt. How long until everything explodes?
Something is deeply wrong on the colony planet, something so badly wrong that the AIs are afraid to investigate. Follow our hero as he confronts what lays in the core of night.
Graphic & Violent
Simone's mom couldn't help the way that her body reacted to her daughter's blossoming sexuality, especially when she was so careless with her clothing, as she so often was. She knew that it was wrong, but it wasn't as if she'd ever let anything happen between them. Then one day she made a careless mistake.
A From the Aether Comes Life, and Love Story Since last summer, 8th Grader Bill could see them. The reason, he assumed, teen boys randomly sported wood: the creatures. Translucent, blue grey creatures, one per boy, silently teasing and tormenting those in the throws of puberty. His own companion appeared to be a girl about his age, with dead eyes and no soul. Until...
Broken Hearts
A moment of clarity is that moment in which you see your life and the truth of it clearly, perhaps for the first time. And afterwards, nothing is ever the same. A husband has a moment in which he realizes thetruth about his dying marriage. This is one of those stories where nobody win.