This Story is Part of Jake's Universe
How a man who was too old to marry again ended up with a wife and six mistresses and avoided prison. A journal of my later years as edited and corrected from time to time. Of a good man (we hope) and the women and girls who turned his world inside out.
Hollis runs The Emporium, a second- or third- tier antiques shop. His wife is in the state mental hospital suffering from psychosis induced by bad reaction to a prescription drug. Annie is a 10th grade student living in a foster home who Hollis has hired to help at the shop. Events conspire to thrust Hollis and Annie closer together and soon they find themselves lovers. / (Reviews)
Meeting in church two young couples become friends and establish a swinging relationship. While looking for an apartment that will make their relationship sustainable, they meet a widow who was involved in a swinging relationship with one of the wives' parents (See All for One and One for All). On their third Christmas, the couples visit the wife's parents where they pursue a familial swap. Before the holiday is over the widow joins the couples and the parents in a swapping party.
This is a romantic/forgiveness story. Amy is 51 and frumpy and finds out that her husband is having an affair. She goes shopping and by chance meets a young man who finds her attractive. After spending the afternoon in his arms she learns the meaning of true beauty and love.