The dark stone changes those that possess it. Just after his eighteenth birthday, Sam finds a strange rock half-buried near some old abandoned train tracks. They were a normal suburban family. When Sam brings the stone home with him, things slowly unravel. His mother finds herself in situations she never imagined. His sister tries to resist her new impulses. Even Sam's married neighbor falls under the stone's spell.
During the COVID lock down Samantha craves physical touch from a lover. Having never been with a man will Samantha has been having feelings she had suppressed toward her long-time friend and roommate. Maybe she has been missing more than just physical intimacy all along.
A couple of normal, if irreverent, middle class guys get the opportunity to answer the age old question: What would you do with your life if money was no object? While on a trip to explore a new city they make a discovery: A community of raging misogynistic 'Alpha' males who behave like frat boys and mistreat their wives. Suddenly they know exactly what their calling in life is.
A collaborative writing project written from multiple character POVs by multiple authors.
Daniel seems to have gotten over the death of his wife to cancer after two years and started to pick up the threads of his political life again, something that once dominated his life to the full. Aunt Marina has just lost her job as a shop assistant, finding that after a lifetime dominated by sibling and sibling offspring care, that she is free to determine her own life, especially when she discovers the person who ruined her is living the good life that she deserved.
Holly, Kim, and Heather are three young girls who make up the Bad Girls Club and try to fight the school system at every turn. They openly flirt with male students and teachers alike and break as many school rules as they can in a day. Until the new principal shows them a different kind of education - one that they can understand and appreciate!