We grew up listening to our parents being loud. It wasn't until a post-high school family vacation that my sister posed the question, "Why should they have all the fun?"
A young man on an extended hike on the Appalachian Trail hooks up with a local kid on the run. They learn a lot about each other while crossing several states.
Times are tough at the turn of the 20th Century in the USA, so Aaron is forced to go West to Deadwood where the ground is reputed to be covered with gold just waiting to be picked up. Aaron quickly learns the truth, but manages to survive, and even thrive, in the wilderness of Deadwood, South Dakota, until the big fire. He and his new family decide to head south for Texas. Never did a tenderfoot have to learn the ways of the West so fast! Aaron turns luck and pluck into a winning combination.
Upon discovering their eldest son and daughter are having sex, a couple consults a therapist, who plots to have the whole family, as well as her own, join them.
Malcolm is the closet transvestite Michele who is yearning to come out of the closet and play. He organises the firm's fancy dress Xmas party using the theme "Whores & Pimps". The difference is that the men come as whores and the women as pimps. Michele gets blackmailed, seduced, raped and gang-banged as the night progresses. Then she goes home to tell her sister all about it only to find her sister has a penchant for trannys.
Chronos Chronicles: What has Chronos done this time. When she returns to the Compound, she finds it filled with new faces... and a call to war. She watches in horror and wonder as the chaos around her increases.
This is written as a romantic story! Rachel is a 42 year old widow who's daughter is in college and her son has just finished Marine Corps boot camp and is on his way home. When Rachel pickes him up at the airport he has brought a friend, a Marine who went to boot camp with him, Rick and sparks fly between Rick and Rachel.
Leigh starts a new job working in a warehouse. But in the process she finds that the man that she has been dating isn't the one for her. Is Jason,one of her new co-workers, the right one? He seemed to think so, but is Leigh willing to take the chance again?