A Story in the Three Valleys Universe
The United States settled the Project 1950s as a lifeboat in case of a nuclear war. The founders picked an alternate time line where humanity died out with the Mt. Toba eruption of 75,000 BC. It is currently some 18,000 BCE, and the height of one of the periodic ice ages. Wendy van Veldt is an engineer-in-training. Her plans for the next few years are to start her career, and live happily ever after with her husband and her wife. Things don't quite work out that way.
Our hero, employed as a bodyguard, takes a Caribbean Cruise but when his client fails to show, he takes on a new job. That job turns into more than he planned.
This started out as a mostly true story and then I got carried away. I had fun with it and hope you do too. / (Reviews)
Caroline Lyndsey's Mum plays meticulously planned April Fool tricks on her every year but last year her Mum almost went too far and threatened her daughter with a broken family. So this year Caroline early recognises the set up to make her an April Fool once again. Caroline enlists the help of her older brother, confirmed bachelor, Mason. Can an idea suggested by her FWB of an unlikely engagement for Mason and an unworldly beauty really work to trump her Mum's April Fool?
An explosion and fire leaves Cosette, 10, and her mom Syl in crisis, they stay with their divorced neighbor Julie. But where's Sette's dad (Theo)? At Julie's, her ex-husband and his gorgeous admin (now his 2nd wife) visit often, staying, uh, overnight. Together in her bed. Really? How does that even work? Theo is back; he's studly in bed but unemployed, they're at risk for homelessness. Fond of Sette, Julie worries. What to do? (No under 18 sex.)
An accident leaves six orphans behind, 3 males and 3 females. The oldest male/female pair of step-siblings are 18. They have to act as parents for the other two M/F pairs of step-siblings, aged 15 and 9. Of necessity, the new parents share the big bedroom, and loving shenanigans follow. Each 15 year old finds an outside partner; new irresistible romantic and sexual feelings can't be denied. More passionate adults become active family members. Active with each other?!
Alex Winham, just coming out his shell after the painful end of a 20-year marriage, gets a lesson in trust he didn't know he was looking for. (Sorry, kids, this one's a grown-up story.)