Carl Detroit had the world on a string. He was rich beyond his wildest dreams. He enjoyed the power over others that his riches gave him. That is until trouble visited him-big time.
Siblings Jim and Jen make love for the first time just weeks before Jen's marriage. The story traces the lives of these two lovers and what led up to their ultimate mating.
1880 Philippines. Mia, a merchant's daughter, marries into a brutal plantation dynasty. Alana, an Indio concubine, is given to her husband as property. Expected to be rivals, they choose alliance instead—then love. When violence destroys the patriarchs who owned them, these two women seize an empire through strategy, not rebellion. Pregnant and widowed, they negotiate a hostile takeover that leaves them controlling everything: the land, the shipping, the future. Lock, stock, and barrel
A Gone to the West... Story Leaving her home and family in San Francisco, Sarah and her new husband arrive, in early Spring at the Circle X Ranch located in the wilds of West Texas. Sarah falls in love with the endless prairies, the beautiful bluebonnet flowers that grow everywhere. Though she has never known the land of cattle, Sarah learns to care. Warmly welcomed by her husband's family, will she at last realize her girlhood dream of becoming a Cowboy's Sweetheart? Last Story of Series.
Dark tale of a man when his wife decides that she can have wholesale affairs and he won't divorce her because of the children, and his fight to maintain his dignity / (Reviews)
Can age or social standing deter true love? Read these three short stories and tell me what you think. “Smoking with Miss Franks”: a teacher-student romance. “The Woman Next Door.” She’s divorced, older, and Bill is hopelessly in love. “The Gardener” He’s blue collar, she’s upper crust. (Additional codes are below the story title.)