It is 1948 and London is recovering from almost a decade of war and only three years of recovery and rebuilding both the physical destruction and restoring society with new-found optimism for a bright new future. Gertie is 17 , nearly 18 and a bright and pretty hat check girl looking after theatregoers’ hats and coats in a lively West End Theatre. One evening, while everyone is watching the third act, a drunken patron attacks her and a dashing captain rescues her … changing her life forever.
A wife and mother develops a secret passion for erotic writing. She finds it so arousing that it has the happy side effect of reigniting her floundering love life with her husband. But it does more than that...
Annie Golden is a sweet naïve woman raised by her grandfather on a dairy farm in North Carolina. While visiting a friend in California she is swept off her feet by a man who turns out to be dangerous and insane. After escaping his abuse, she goes into hiding. But when her grandfather is attacked and needs her, she heads home knowing the danger she faces.
Burnt, broken and bloody was how Jamie Way found Victoria Thatcher in the ditch in her burning car. The accident had happened so fast and he was responsible. With no family of her own, Victoria is forced to recover at the Way Family Ranch with total strangers who quickly become family. But when suspicious accidents start happening near and around Victoria, Jamie must decide what he will risk to keep her safe and with him.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF TRANSGENDER STORY: Software engineer and widower Glenn dates coffee shop owner and single mom Sierra. He meets her 11 year old boy Jack who likes fashion and wearing girls' clothes. Sierra fears he's gay but Glenn, whose cousin is TG, thinks Jack may be transgender. They have him tested and he starts reassignment therapy. This story follows the transition of 11 year old Jack into 18 year old Jackie. Along the way Sierra realizes Glenn may be the man she's been searching for.
A precocious young girl and the nice-guy neighbor have been friends since her family moved in 7 years ago. Now she's older and she's decided that neighbor is going to be her man. A power outage gives her the opportunity to spend a weekend--alone--with him, and she sets out to make her plan happen. And he finds out that she is smart, and funny, and adorable, and loving, and curious, and adventurous--and a bit perverse.