Four Interlocking Stories of Women and their Men. The fourth and final story of the Quartet series. Eleanor is a widow, living alone in her Toronto apartment. She has a niece that needed help and a suitor that needed her.
For centuries a secret cult of women has used the magical properties of an amulet to make themselves beautiful, rich and powerful. When their queen dies, the amulet disappears in its quest to find, or be found by, a new owner. A thousand miles away, a fat, teen nerd finds a shiny bauble lying in some mud.
This fantasy is an homage to someone very dear to me. In it I envision a face-to-face meeting in which I try both to rekindle a relationship we once shared, and to help her rid herself of some of the pain of her past. Through an intense sexual encounter of my own design, I fail at both. My hope with this story is to depict my feelings for a most beautiful, complex and fragile creature whom I have loved. The Black Rose.
Man and his wife sell their respective businesses then they move from LA back to his home town. At his welcome home party he discovers she is a Madam. They divorce and he starts out on a trip around the country trying to forget. Travel with him as he recovers and finds a new love and a new home.
An injured war hero returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. A cop on the wrong side of a bad decision based on lust for another's wife. A beautiful nurse with her own agenda. Sometimes,you don't know what you've got til it's...yours