Needful Things (inspired by Stephen King's story) is in fact three short stories unrelated except they all involve customers of an old antique shop. In the first story, middle-aged Amelia Pennington purchases an ancient love charm. The second features fourteen year old Danny who just wants the funds to take a pretty girl to the cinema but gets a lot more than he expected. In the third story young teacher, Anne Dawkins simply wants to restore order in the classroom.
The Hoyt and Maclaren firm has international product holdings, but under the surface, it also runs male brothels worldwide. Chaz Carlyle, a divinely endowed, mostly dominant manager with a fetish for small-size 14-year-old boys, has successfully opened brothels in Germany specializing in 14, the legal age of consent there. The firm wants Chaz to explore opening the same on the Chinese tourist island of Hainan. Beijing and Hainan colleagues help Chaz decide yes as well as yes to more than that.
It was bad enough that Jack Buckman's date for his sister's wedding cancelled at the last minute, but having to escort an older guest in her place was more than he could stand.
Natural victim Faye Perkins comes to my attention with being bullied. At thirty I'm developing more authority as a teacher, so I step in. She's not used to people paying attention to her, however, and she's remarkably suggestible anyway...
A Samantha Story Mandy is worried that her developing daughter Samantha will end up pregnant if she doesn't take action quickly. She recruits Aaron to teach Samantha a lesson about what teen aged boys want to do to her even though he's an adult now. But what lesson will Aaron teach and what lesson will Samantha learn?
A story in the The Pastor's Wife Universe
Garven Milroy taking piano lessons from Myra Briggs becomes obsessed with her. Since she is married but values her student, Myra sets him up with an older female student of hers to tutor him in the art of sex, which attracts numerous of his female high school classmates. When Myra's husband is killed in the war, she gives way to her original interest in her student.
The wife finds her husband is missing, but things are not as they appear. When her past catches up to her, everything she thought she knew is about to be challenged. This is a 47,000 + word suspense thriller novel. This story follows the themes of redemption, self-growth, and healing. There are some sexually explicit scenes along the way. This is a journey of rising over circumstance and finding your own happiness. A special thanks to pepere and barneyr for their invaluable editing assistance.