Melissa takes care of her brother's sore muscles after his track practices. He also has another... problem, and when she offers to help with that too things race forward. But she believes firmly in saying NO and she says it all the way to the finish line. / (Reviews)
The Gathering is continued in a second volume, Book II. Part of the Hartstein universe
John admits to being a sex addict and attends a meeting. He meets Felicia and they get it on. Meanwhile his wife, Argie has a tryst with Milo and decides to try her hand at being a sex therapist, possibly to help her husand cope, partly to see where it takes her sexually.
Losing a loved one to an illness you can't fight is rough. Darkness sets in. People share advice. 'Time heals all', and 'it's always darkest just before the dawn'. Charlie lost Allie. Natalie lost her, too. They found each other and saw the sun rise. When they found Allison, another Allie, in a quirk of fate, there might as well have been two suns. For Charlie, there truly was a Dawn Beyond the Darkness.
This is a side story to the serial The Pool Girl. This takes place during chapter one and focuses on the relationship between Melissa and Lavi before Lavi is introduced into the serial and is the first story not told from Robert's perspective as it focuses on the relationship between Lavi and Melissa during an early part of the story.
Fifteen-year-old Toby was very happy living alone with his mother after his dad left them. He felt conflicted, and even ashamed, when the raging hormones of youth made his feelings for her more... complicated. Then she announced that she was going on a date.
Keira had a crush on her new step-brother Hugh, but like many a horny fourteen-year-old, she had crushes on a few other boys too. But then Hugh proved himself to be far more than just one of the boys.
Orphan Talia meets Paul and two other entering college students (all age 19). All four become roommates/family in Paul’s Victorian nearby. Past neglect and chronic illness have impaired Talia’s physical/social development, but medical help and Paul’s support overcome her deficits and they become lovers and partners. Hot weather means less clothing and more sex. A gorgeous photographer (Sheila) joins the household. In her studio she creates explicit albums of couples making love.