The Gathering is continued in a second volume, Book II. Part of the Hartstein universe
John Franck, 41, a sex addict, thus far has hidden it from his wife, but his shrink encourages him to make a recording of some of his conquests and Argie, his wife happens on it. What happens after this is the main story of the gathering in Houston.
Helen, Bill and their teenage daughter Becky are going on a vacation to the beach and invite Becky's new boyfriend Josh along. Josh see's an opportunity to seduce the mother and daughter and seizes every opening, finally getting Helen to agree to sleep with him if he just leaves her daughter alone
Somewhere, close to you, is The Learning School for Girls. It is a terrible name for a school. But, it is a school that teaches girls specific talents they could not obtain at a regular school. Explore with us, as we look inside The Learning School for Girls (again, a terrible name for a school), at Ms. Cindy's School for Anilingus, where she teaches a particular talent. I am sure you can guess what it is!
He is an "observer of humanity", detached, impartial, uninvolved--until he takes a journey by train and meets the lovely Megan, and detachment turns to obsession and unexpected pleasure.
You're a woman, alone on an airplane that's about to crash. You have only minutes left to live. And there's a handsome, older man sitting across the aisle, staring at you. What do you do? That's the situation that the beautiful 28 year-old Nancy Tanner finds herself in. What starts out as a bit of last-second flirtation quickly grows into much more, right under the noses of the other doomed passengers.