[ADVANCE WARNING: this is ALL tease... that's my thing. If that's not your thing, don't read it. Sorry. Thanks.] Carlos's daughters begin an unusual contest, and he's called upon to be the judge. Hijinks ensue.
Honey and Charles are deep in debt to a ruthless loan shark. Honey goes to try to reason with him and he suggests a way she can pay back the loan... by working as a stripper at his club! Will she do it? If not he might send his "goons" to see Charles!
Julie's husband Chris decided to go fishing with his buddies and blow off their anniversary! The fool! Well, Mark, their next-door neighbor is more than willing to step in and fill her... void...
Mark works too hard and his wife wishes she could do something to help him. On his birthday, he is once again at the office when she appears suddenly with a birthday surprise for him...
It's Diana," I corrected him, "just call me Diana." He got his boxes and bags moved into the basement, and then he came up to see the rest of the house. "Where's your husband?" Dion asked. "I wanted to thank him, also." "Oh, he's out of the house," I breezily replied. "He's a senior engineer for an oil company. He's always off setting up new sites, so he's away a lot, sometimes for weeks at a time. He won't be back for at least another week."
A new girl arrives in Susan's school. The new girl is quirky, adventurous, wears Doc Martens and has a bald head.
Susan is fascinated by the new friend, and her home life. They embark on a coming of age story.
For Halloween: Twice yearly in the late 18th century, the choir master of Munich Cathedral, in Bavaria, Otto Strickler, takes a coach up to Castle Ringang in the perpetual shadow of the Alps to collect a large donation from the patron, the forever forty-year-old Baron Derick von Obertstdorf. Each time the baron requires Strickler to bring an unsullied fourteen-year-old boy angel with him for the night. It's handsome, blond, boy treble soloist, and orphan Jan Becker's turn.