Chapters one through seven of the sequel to Pursuit of Happiness. Pursuit didn't have a supernatural element. Tide Rises definitely has! Willy experiences Mommy fantasies come true if not to life! One, his dead mom as a reincarnated ghost!
In Chap 2, negotiation and conflict with the devil!
Chap 3, discovers the Wee folk and makes allies and new Mom-in laws.
Chap four, lotsa sluts.
Chap five revenge and something more.
Chap 6, unexpected developments
Chap 7, Expected. A Monkey Paw Wish?
A young teenager, new to town, plans to throw a rager to make friends with the kids at her school. Things go downhill when she can't get alcohol for the party, resorting to desperate measures that would forever change her life.
Run away wife returns to her husband and daughter. He puts her on probation with them until she has had a doctor's examination including checking for STDs. She was found to have no STDs and he began making love with her again.
At home her mother had made her dress prudently before Gerald returned from Maddison Ave. Her husbands recent interest in the girl bothered her. Her intuition had proven correct. Her slut of a daughter had lured her husband into a ghastly sin.