Food critic Isobel Vane arrives at Lucien Roche’s secret supper with a pen, not an appetite. But as each aphrodisiac course seduces the senses, her control begins to slip. Between whispered rituals and unfolding bodies, the food critic becomes the feast. Feast of Desire is a lush, erotic journey through taste, surrender, and the hunger she never meant to name.
Addison loses her job during the COVID-19 pandemic and needs help from her brother Penn to help her start a new career as a day trader like him. The best way to survive the pandemic was to quarantine themselves together for her training. Their relationship would never be the same.
A stranger wanders Walmart for a couple of ordinary hours. No mission. No miracles. Just aisles of cereal, tired cashiers, small kindnesses, and quiet human truths. A philosophical, gently funny meditation on modern life—where meaning hides in shopping carts, patience, and the unnoticed grace of simply paying attention.
In this third installment, we continue Tom Carter's story of coming to terms with his new-found abilities to influence others, discovering other aspects to these powers, and beginning to understand how he came by them in the first place. He finds that his gifts are the accidental byproduct of failed military experiments to enhance the senses and abilities of soldiers. But even if the failures ruined a lot of lives, the prime movers aren't ready to give up, having come so close to success.
A Story in the Life in the Suburbs Universe
An older man, enjoying the 'flashing' game of some high school seniors, is happy when they allow him to take it a step further. An annoying teenage boy is put in his place when he tries to hassle the girls. This encourages the girls to go much further. Things take an interesting turn when he takes them home, and the developing situation soon involves their sister, mother, and friends. Set in Australia. Unable to change typos due to character ages.
A Google search reveals extensive articles written over many years about a phenomenon called genetic sexual attraction. The reports suggest it has always occurred and that social media and changes in the law allow adoptees to find relatives they usually could not contact. The articles also indicate that in 50% of the cases, an uncontrollable, all-consuming sexual attraction occurs. From their first contact, our protagonists, a mother and the son she gave up for adoption when he was an infant, ar