Includes Cover Illustration: Snowbound, a woman is rescued by the guy who plows the car-park. Kurt parts the snowdrifts, then Lena's legs. She introduces Kurt to her mentally challenged daughter, and Darcy takes an interest. When Kurt moves into the guestroom, Darcy’s newfound determination to master her neuroses and depression is nothing short of miraculous. Lena is thrilled, until she stumbles onto the reason why: She has unleashed a predator into her house.
At the company Christmas party Haas loses track of his wife Amelia, has an embarrassing sexual moment in the bathroom, and soon after finds, if not Amelia, almost certainly the sounds of her orgasm. Illustrated.
A proud and prudish Catholic mom from the suburbs of Pennsylvania, Shawna Lynn McDonnell volunteers to act as a chaperone on the first field trip at her son's new school. But what Shawna doesn't realize is that, on this field trip, she will be the one getting an education; an education in what it means to have power and who, in the new and hellish landscape in which she finds herself, actually has it and whose is just an illusion.