She's twenty-two weeks when Cole comes home for Christmas. Both families at the table — seven chairs, her mom's idea, the gracious thing to do. The house empties the day after. He finishes with both hands flat against her belly, feeling through the skin for what he made. She stays against the counter until his car would be back in two hours. Nate comes by that evening. He doesn't know. *Fifth part of One Shots: Alicia.*
Trust, once lost, often cannot be regained. Beware former friends bearing gifts -- especially the kind that come in vials. Stephanie only thought she and Tony were still friends, but he knew better and was about to do something about it.
Hardoak Junction is the story of Marcella Plummer, a religious woman and her two kids on a search for a new site for the congregation for the First Baptist Church of Mysterious Revelation.
After discovering a dark family curse, the three Laenas siblings' lives are forever changed as they try to start a new life for themselves, but they must learn to control their family curse or be completely consumed by it, leading them down a road of incest, lust, and desire.