Leo Chase is an orphan, a high-school dropout, and a man the city treats like furniture—wet shoes, shorted paychecks, a rented room that never quite dries. One rain-slick night, a hit-and-run almost erases him. Before the last door closes, a cold presence offers compensation: one wish. It is a Cult Leader System.
A story in the Home Schooling Series Don Bradley is a single parent, loving father of Della. She is young and beautiful, he hasn't been with a woman for four years. Della, at fourteen, is feeling the need to explore her new, untried sexuality. There's her boyfriend, Ronnie, of course, but she thinks there's someone better to show her. He does it so well Della has to be home schooled.
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.
This is fantasy story tells of Heather, a seventeen year old girl who seeks the help of the Dragon Mistress to save her village from the savage attack of trolls. The Dragon Mistress agress to help, but the payment she demands is beyond Heather's wildest dreams. / (Reviews)