A Story in the Growing Pains Universe
Teenage mother Annabel Sprott is embroiled with London gangster Tony Radcliff, but as his empire starts to crumble, the violent murderer starts to unleash his violent streak on those closest to home. Can Annabel get her baby to safety with the unreliable George before Tony finds out and what will become of a sleepy Scottish town as she brings a trail of violence to its door. This is a short story.
Duke Gerhardt had a problem - or, rather, the country he ruled had a problem - his solution was not politically correct, and shocked his advisers. If you're used to my writing, this one may shock you, too, so check the codes carefully. Some relate to later chapters. This is not romantic, though there is a little romance here or there.
Five fourteen year old girls who consider themselves plain, unpopular and geeky white girls want to experience giving oral sex, but don't want to get reputations as sluts. So they devise a plan that seems to achieve that goal, but as always Murphy's Law intervenes. Eventually the narrator becomes the main character as the other girls fall to the way side.
When a burglar breaks into a house to steal, he finds that the husband and wife are home. The cowardly husband offers his wife in place of himself when he is threatened and has to suffer the indignity of watching the burglar rape his new wife while she is still wearing her wedding dress.
A simple but lovely flower girl is taken off the East London 1860's street and pressed into Madam Livinia's service. Madam must train her well before she causes trouble.