When young River is more-or-less forced to invite the new girl at school to her sleepover, she worries it might put a damper on the secret fun she has planned with her best friends... but who knows, maybe they'll find a way to salvage the evening?
An adult brother and sister (with flashbacks to their teen years) and his two teen daughters and their life together, swinging with neighbors, until they come to realize that they are more than just brother and sister. Note there is bisexual male/male sex and some watersports.
Things get complicated when families implode, but Amelia has always known she can count on Coach Tayvon, her father’s best friend. Now, with his marriage kaput, Tayvon finds that he is relying on the girl he’d always called his ‘porcelain-skinned niece’ to be a rock for him as well.
A story in the Tech and State Universe
Christopher "Kit" Wainwright is assigned Nichelle, a black woman, as his lab partner. Hailing from an insular small town, he is uncomfortable interacting with her. As he gets to know her, his queasiness about her race dissipates and he begins respecting her. They become at first friends and then lovers. Kit is unsure how his friends and family will accept Nichelle. In the mean time her history-obsessed mother discovers that his and her families crossed paths over a century earlier. / (Reviews)
Jimmy Scott at 8 years old was the only survivor of a Comanche attack on a wagon train. He was rescued and adopted by a Mescalero warrior. This is Jimmy's story as he learns to be a hunter, warrior, and leader of the Mescalero village. 12 chapters.