My take on the (maybe not so) innocent neighbor girl falling into the clutches of a "dirty old man." This is supposed to be a one-off, but I reserve the right to change my mind on that if more ideas come to me.
Ariel ("A") hated her name, and she didn't fit in at high school. Parentless, her grandmother, Lucy, raised her. A convinced Lucy to date Claudia, but disaster struck when Claudia's ex spirited her daughter to TX, leaving only Ben, her son. A and Lucy supported Claudia & Ben, found them a lawyer, and become their lovers. A intervened in an attempted rape, thwarted by the store clerk, a retired marine. After their junior prom, Ben was kidnapped, with A to the rescue.
Tom keeps going to his local Minit Mart and one young lady keeps treating him with sexy peeks down her top every time he checks out. Tom finally confronts Lana and challenges her to put out. She does.
A Story in the Shiny-verse Universe
An Experiment Gone Horribly Right! This Crichton-esque novel is about genetic manipulation, and how when you alter genes you might alter what it means to be human.
Capitallia - Minds, Markets and Class Privilege.
This is a fantasy of a future society featuring indentured servitude and legalized slavery. It is a story of a man who has devoted his life to the business of enslaving insolvent female debtors, and a young professional woman who struggles to avoid becoming his next victim.