Before Elias Venter ever set foot in the old shopping center, something had already begun beneath it. What looked like a failed commercial property on the edge of decline becomes, in Elias’s hands, something entirely different: a private fortress of walls, gates, surveillance, and silence. Rich beyond public understanding, disciplined, private, and impossible to move once his mind is set, Elias does not buy the building as an investment. He claims it as territory.
An Amy Story This story picks up straight after Amy #4 Take My Hand, but I've switched the first person focus from Gary to Amy. It's time for Amy to meet Gary's mum Annette properly, it didn't go well yesterday, will she have calmed down? Will she go ballistic when she finds out they're moving in together? All the sex is at the end, rest assured there's plenty of it this time.
Driven away by his inability to cope with his wife's cheating and the actions of her new partner a man withdrew from the world becoming the equivalent of a modern day hermit. Then chance brings his family into his life again and he begins to realise what he lost... No sex in the first two chapters.
The violence code does not apply to sexual violence.
A little story set in the old west. Deputy Dan Collins kills a kid while on duty. The kid's sister threatens to kill him. Badge given up, Dan becomes a rancher in Peaceful Valley. It is not always peaceful there at first. Maybe later.
The Undine Chronicles Undine passes to a new owner, one with a dysfunctional family. A long summer voyage leads to rediscovery of familial love, as well as the love between a man and a woman.