Drew loves to fish, but his enjoyment is often spoiled by his best friend Alan's boat breaking down. Now on their present trip poor Alan has been in the engine room all day and Drew reminisces about life in a town they call home that is economically depressed, but where their nearest and dearest, hearts and minds live. Drew has solutions to problems but they are not easy to make where friendships and pride and love are involved. While Alan fixes the boat, Drew hopes to get a bite.... / (Reviews)
One bar. One look. A night neither of them was ready for. In "The Stain We Left", two strangers lock eyes and end up tangled in sweat, wine, and something dangerously close to obsession. Told in raw, unfiltered dual POV, this story doesn’t fade after the last thrust—it drips, aches, and smolders into the next morning. Her thighs are still slick with him. His mouth still tastes like her. And neither of them is done.
The Gathering is continued in a second volume, Book II. (15) Part of the Hartstein universe
John and Argie discuss their apparent conflicts and decide that they love one another, but since John is incorrigible with regard to having sex with many women, Argie, too can have her own affairs. But they will tell one another about them. Argie becomes a sex surragate and John goes to see Felicia whom he met at Sex Addicts Annonymous. She has a friend waiting for him.
Teenage hacker Sam spies on his neighbors' most explicit secrets. But when the manipulative Madison catches him, she doesn't want silence—she wants a show. Now, he's the one on camera, forced to obey her explicit commands and act out her most degrading fantasies. It's a twisted game of psychological torture, and if he doesn't perform, she will burn his entire world to the ground.
A lone widower's adult daughters come home to share his roof - and his bed. When they post their story on the internet, they become role models for other father-daughter and grandfather-granddaughter matches.