Like many women her age, Miranda Parkes expected to eventually go through a change of life. What what that change would be and where it would lead her was totally unexpected.
An English professor marries a younger instructor later in life. He gains a stepdaughter that he learns may be his own daughter. As he learns to live with them both, he also learns about himself. This is a journey of discovery, played out in a small, but stimulating, world.
This is the story of how my sister and I cooked up a way for us to make a lot of money while still in high school. I pretended to be her sex slave as a selling point to the other girls in the school who were afraid of being intimidated by boys. As her sex slave, I would be assumed to be harmless and a safe first-time sex partner. Our business grew to be a major business in the city, and this is the story of how that happened. 13 chapters. Much sex.
Hath Eyes. Cheryl had had a crush on Jake since he'd been her big sister's boyfriend. Now, that she was trying to afford law school, he saw the worst of her. Contemporary story in 3 chapters, Tues, Fri., Tues.
Dan's sister, Selina, and her teenage daughters, Nat and Roz, are going through an emotional crisis and come round for a visit. The three women are 'drop-dead gorgeous', and Dan isn't made of stone. Neither, it transpires, are they. Their visit just gets longer and longer...
For 2 girls, they remember 1968 quite differently than most of how their age group does. They do not remember it for the "Summer of Love", but for the "Winter of the Drive-In".