A story in the The Integration Era Universe
Mira is sixteen and Lattice 14 means the overlay has never gone ambient. She maps everything — rooms, conversations, her boyfriend's intentions before he's finished forming them. Tonight she already knows where things are going, and she already knows her answer. She asks him to slow down. He says something she didn't map. The system flags nothing. It turns out the map has edges.
Diaries and correspondence supplement the chronicle of a young man's summer as he initiates his young cousins, their friend and a schoolteacher by gentle punishment and deception.
Which is stronger, The Hurricane... or the mighty oak tree? Della and Ron may find out. They play a dangerous game of chance with nature. Romantic. Tragic. Sci-fi? You decide.
Karen finds herself in a very sexy relationship with her stepfather. He's just like her father and even though they're not blood relations, they're both quite sure her mother won't find the fact that Karen's father is fucking her very funny.