Joanne, a bored college security guard, comes across Rebecca, a newly homeless girl on the campus walk. Despite her reservations Joanne takes the girl into her home, where things between them quickly become uncomfortable. The two stumble towards realizing that they both have to take care of each other.
A Story in the Ruby Red Universe
This story will tie together the What and Why the people and organizations in Ruby Red are doing so many strange things. In general, each group have done what they think is best. Li Wu, The Baron and few others know the Earth's fate and have tried to put a course of action in-place. Steve is the missing link that will put religious mantras aside, replaced with solid social actions. Some might call Steve the 'Anti-Christ' but others will follow without derision. It will take a long time.
Steve is dropped into a mess and has to try to make sense of the new life he has thrust upon him. Can a man who is an uneducated laborer make it in the big world of the construction business?
A naive young Indian girl is given by her father in payment of a debt to a rich american businessman. She is to become his lead maid and personal servant.
Erik discovers that Jessica, his sixteen-year-old rebellious daughter, has smoked cigarettes again despite his earlier warnings. He disciplines her, but didn't expect that the girl would take such a liking to her punishment. Erik realizes that, like his deceased wife, his daughter needs a firm hand to guide her. It is the start of their path to depravity, but also the renewal of their kinship. / (Reviews)
A fortysomething divorced man breaks his old habit of dating women closer to his age and strikes up a chat with a younger woman, only to realize that she is his eldest daughter, Angel. What will happen next?