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A widower has about given up on finding a new partner when the Goth called Lilac turns up on his doorstep... The path of love is not smooth; some tears are involved, too.
Kathryn Gray didn't care what kind of rumors the other women in the office were speading about her friend Yolanda being a lesbian. After all, they were just rumors, or were they?
An explosion and fire leaves Cosette, 10, and her mom Syl in crisis, they stay with their divorced neighbor Julie. But where's Sette's dad (Theo)? At Julie's, her ex-husband and his gorgeous admin (now his 2nd wife) visit often, staying, uh, overnight. Together in her bed. Really? How does that even work? Theo is back; he's studly in bed but unemployed, they're at risk for homelessness. Fond of Sette, Julie worries. What to do? (No under 18 sex.)
Sue is a pretty teenage schoolgirl who, if anyone had asked, would probably have said that she was fairly happy with her life. On her fourteenth birthday, she gets some lovely, thoughtful presents from her family and a surprise gift of lingerie from an unknown benefactor. Things will never be quite the same for Sue again.
The secrets run deeper. The dangers grow darker. Mark thought surviving the first storm was enough. He was wrong. Pulled even further into the hidden world of magic and monsters, Mark finds himself hunted by enemies he can't yet see — and haunted by the one question that refuses to die: Who killed his parents? With new powers awakening and old truths unraveling, every step forward drags him closer to answers... and closer to a war he may not be ready for.