After twenty-three years of marriage it was a bit of a shock to suddenly find myself on my own, I was a widow at forty, my husband had only been forty-five when he had just keeled over and died, heart attack they had said. Whatever the reason I was alone for the first time in twenty-three years... A lonely woman rediscovers lust from a source she would least have expected.
School teacher Janet Peters hated men after a bad affair years ago. But now she has to take a medicine that is the only one that will clear up the fever she got on her vacation, but it has some side effects, particulary it increases her libido... a lot. Now she has to find a way to restrain herself over the course of treatment.
Driving home from a funeral, Hal stops to get gas, sees his muffler needs attention, decides to give blood while waiting for the repairs, and meets a shy, lovely girl perhaps half his age who is making her first blood donation.
A Slave Girl Story (8) Celia is rescued by Gabe after being beaten and thrown out into the coming snow storm to be eaten alive by the Count's dogs. They spend the storm in the gardener's shack. Gabe turns out to be more than the poor woodsman Celia believed him to be. Celia goes on to be a daughter and mother with many surprises. This is story seven in the Slave Girl series.