A happily married wife and mother of two teenagers is desperate to find a way to get enough money upon which she and her family can survive after her husband's employer goes bankrupt and he loses his high paying job. At the end of her rope she meets and makes a deal with the devil, a loan shark who offers to loan her a large amount of money. It's the unusual terms of the agreement that lead to trouble...and pleasure.
He'd been shot, and was in a bad way. Her situation was just as bad, if not worse. So he helped her, and then hoped she'd help him. They couldn't speak the same language, but they were all each other had. All things considered, it turned out well.
A Glass Balls Story The parallel adventures of Olivia Wright, art historian and sensuous woman, and Dom, the medieval youth, continue. Livy rediscovers a secret of Italian art and deflowers a young boy, while Dom experiments with gay love before finding two old friends.
Jimmy and his math teacher collide on the stairs one day. As he's picking up the papers that she drops, he accidentally catches a glimpse up her skirt. While he's still reeling over what he sees up there, she rushes off, leaving him to spend the rest of the day panicking over how to play it when he sees her in class. In the end, he decides to deny everything, but Miss Coombe doesn't seem to want to let it go that easily.
In 1857 Georgia, sixteen-year-old Johnny Brighton receives an unconscionable birthday gift — a fifteen-year-old girl named Naomi, given to him as property. But Johnny sees not property. He sees the girl he loves. What follows is a thousand mile trek through enemy territory, hunted by professionals, sustained by an underground network of souls who believe that love and freedom are the same word. Some journeys change everything.