When Noami runs into Keri, an old girlfriend and lover, while running in the park they arrange to get together to catch up. It turns out that Keri has a vacancy at her beauty salon and Noami's daughter Suzie is available. When Suzie finds out that they offer extra services to special clients she jumps at the chance.
A trip to Europe. A mistaken identity. A taboo line crossed. The question facing Pete is not “will they/won’t they?” but “will they do it again?” If you like thoughtful taboo stories, you’ll love the story of Pete and Diane as they explore Europe, where no one knows them at all.
The drugs that they gave fourteen-year-old Ellie, after an allergic reaction to an insect sting, made her sleepy. Very sleepy. At first, when he put his daughter to bed, Robert resisted the temptation to undress her completely. But when he went back to check on her again... She'll never know, he thought.
Amanda is picking up the pieces of her life after an ill-considered marriage, moving across two states back to her girlhood home. Her brother Nick is trying to put his life back together as well, having put everything on hold to care for his dying mother for the last year. Together, they try to find the strength to continue on - and perhaps more.
His widowed mother and her sister ran a dry goods store in 1870. His sister helped out and he did odd jobs to make a little cash. A group of cowboys tried to rape his aunt, and they killed the sheriff when he tried to arrest them. So Bobby put on the sheriff's badge and went after the miscreants. They should have surrendered peaceably. But they didn't.
This is the story of a perfectly normal middle aged bachelor who, quite by accident, discovers a Genie. We discover, along with our hero, what it's like to have a Genie at his beck and call and how owning her changes him, his family and Genie herself.