A story in the Zora's Aurora Universe
A lunar adventure awaits Zora, Sophie and the rest of the gang as they deal with a familiar adversary in a new setting. Note: You should read "Zora's Aurora 1: Glory's Shadow" before reading this one. They're part of a series and meant to be read sequentially.
He isn't meant to be touched. She isn't meant to want him. A quiet night, A touch breaks the rules no one dares to name. A girl, drawn by a pull she doesn't understand and doesn't resist, unleashes something the world wanted buried. As paths revealed, collide, desire blurs into danger. Blood flows, romance turns sharp. Loyalty fractures. Secrets surface. Some connections aren't forbidden because they're wrong, but because they change everything.
Ten years before Karen was a newlywed teacher, Alan a senior in high school. The teenage crush he had for her was obvious to both the bride teacher and her new husband. What was also obvious over the years was that Karen never lost interest in the boy. Her husband wondered, given the chance, what if?
What does it take? A man and a woman, their family, drifting apart. Is even a terrible tragedy enough to restore their love, or have emotions gone too far already?
A successful P.I. has a chance meeting with his high school flame at an impromptu reunion on new year's eve; he helps her through some scary times, and they wind up together.
He was the butt of derogatory jokes related to his physical conditions since puberty. His life was a torment. Then his senior year in high school came and--so did she! Again, story was submitted with appropriate quotation marks. They were apparently lost in the processing after submission.
Jack and Frieda have known each other for two or three months and Jack decides to invite Frieda to spend a night in Brighton and she accepts. Unfortunately, it is 1952 and Frieda's husband is one of the most dangerous bosses of an East End London gang, involved in prostitution, white slavery, bookmakers and extortion. Games are being played for high stakes, do they really know what they are letting themselves in for?