In divided Cold War Europe, a West Berlin-based American journalist and a dissident Czech translator risk everything to communicate across the Iron Curtain. As secret corridors open and collapse, their emerging love collides with surveillance, betrayal, and state power. When a daring escape fails, they must decide: retreat to safety — or defy the system tightening around them.
Halloween 2024
On a band trip to New Orleans he stopped into a hole-in-the-wall shop, where an old woman offered to sell him a little bottle of Love Potion #9. He was a high school student who had a crush on his geometry teacher and, just for fun, at the Halloween dance, he spiked her punch. Except instead of only two drops, as the old woman had instructed him, his nervousness caused him to dump half the bottle. It was the best Halloween night of his life, and October 31st was never the same again.
As the owner of a flourishing construction business, Roy Burke had little time to look for a wife. So his secretary and mother decided to take matters into their own hands. No-one foresaw the chaos that would ensue.
When a Manhattan creative director is wrongly swept into a viral nightclub scandal, his life grinds to a halt. Laying low in Queens, he clashes with a sharp-tongued local woman who sees only the headlines—until forced proximity, hard truths, and slow trust change them both.
He's a nerd who barely registers on the social spectrum, and she's a prep on the school dance team. A chance meeting in an unlikely place changes both their lives.
A very lucky unlucky pilot finds his way into fortune from the wreckage of his downed aircraft. After returning to the civilized world from his nightmare away from home, his good fortune continues, and continues. Some want to stop him, and some want to seek revenge on his friends, but his good fortune holds. Follow Charlie in his adventures as he turns a valley into paradise and makes it his home.