A small engineering workshop is given the contract to refurbish a massive gearbox. See how the workshop expands and its employees develops with it. The title 'River Rat' doesn't become obvious until midway through the story. Not a stroke story / (Reviews)
Two teen-aged lovers who had split on unfriendly terms are re-united after fifteen years when they're stranded together during a violent snowstorm. They come to terms with long-held grievances and misunderstandings to discover the spark they still hold for each other is more like a torrid flame. Each decides to leave their respective spouse and run off together, to discover that dissolving a pair of marriages and forming a new union has challenges of its own. / (Reviews)
Dave has been on his own since his divorce, and since then he has many solitary Christmas's. A young girl in need provides him the means for him to enjoy this Christmas season by helping someone. It is all in the spirit of giving and ultimately receiving. A seasonal read, enjoy.
Allie has rented a beach cottage for her daughter Beth's 18th birthday and invited along her four best girlfriends. Something happens to Allie when Jennifer approaches her in the shower.
Anna is young and attractive but sometimes intimidating. She is comfortable in her role of wife and mother, which she balances against her career as a policewoman. She's also comfortable in her heterosexuality, but her emotional world is upended at a kindergarten barbecue where she encounters Susan, who unearths feelings she never suspected. Anna turns to her journal and tries to pour her confusion onto the page where she hopes to better understand what is happening to her.
Eddie is a widower who meets a battered wife and befriends her. Although he is old enough to be her father, the contrast between him and her abusive husband is immense. They quickly develop a relationship.