A brother and sister grow up best friends as USMC officer's children, fall in love, get married, and have a family. All this time they are being taught how to become spies for their country.
When a noise wakes him at 2am he goes to investigate only to find his mother's boyfriend passed out on the living room floor and his mother feeling very merry indeed!
In 1986, five people miraculously survived the horrific and near catastrophic loss at sea of an entire cruise ship. For a long time, it would be considered the worst disaster in cruise ship history, rivaling that of the HMS Titanic. While in sheer terms of loss, more people died when the Titanic sank, until their rescue, the tragedy of the Ocean Princess and the loss of all aboard seemed much more horrific. This is the story of those who survived the tragedy at sea and all that followed.
After a devastating accident, Alice’s son Ben awakens from a fourteen-month coma. But his recovery is overshadowed by a single, shocking physical change and a torrent of new, confusing desires that both terrify and consume him. In the quiet of their home, a dangerous new bond forms. How far will a mother's guilt-driven devotion go to save the son she feels she broke? In the hushed stillness of their basement, a dangerous new therapy begins—one where a mother’s touch becomes a son’s deliverance.