Middle-age divorcee Lan Bellas-Ducharme comes to realize she is not the Plain Jane she had been made to believe she was. Suddenly faced with an abundance of choices, she explores sexuality and comes to realize that her actuality is obscured by the many layers of superficial integrity imposed on her over the years.Eventually, Lan realizes it is not her charge to fit societal norms, and accepts her long-time friend Kate as a loving companion. But Lan needs one more thing to find abso...

Jolene Saint James outshines debutants and geniuses alike, but you won’t find her dancing at a chic nightclub or sipping champagne on a posh veranda. She’s a long-haul trucker and proficient diesel mechanic.When it comes to sex, Jolene doesn’t date or flirt—she hooks up and moves on. She’s used men competing for her favor and warns them ahead of time about the firewall and failsafe protecting her heart. But the unthinkable is about to happen.She meets Jarred McKiernan under...

Soon after my cheating wife gave me the boot, I offered to help my nephew move into his first apartment. I couldn’t keep my eyes off his roommate’s girlfriend, Riley—less than half my age and every middle-age man’s dream. Better sense should have told me to let things be, but I couldn’t help wonder if she might...just maybe...Much to my surprise, she did. Not only did Riley surpass my expectations, she changed my entire outlook on sexuality. I wondered if I could ever forgive my wi...

Max Raines hasn’t been successful in love or careers, but that’s about to change. Each morning, an enchanting goddess waits for the same bus he takes to work. She’s everything he’s ever dreamed of. Unfortunately, she wants nothing to do with him.A local singles club provides Max with easy hookups, but taking advantage of lonely women doesn’t sit well with him. He would stop going, but as luck would have it, the apple of his eye coordinates the club meetings.Max turns on a s...

It’s Christmas Time, and widower Daniel Holquist is struggling to raise his fourteen-year-old daughter Kennedy by himself. He’s peered across the barren dreamscape of loneliness, and found another soul seeking the fulfillment inherent in commitment. Kara Mello has taken over production of the Christmas Pageant at Daniel’s church. She’s found her way to Daniel’s heart, but found a fourteen-year-old sentry jealously guarding it.Kennedy has enshrined her mother’s memory. To make matte...

The height of passion found three times in the summer heat—all by mistake.Hounded by my irritating soon-to-be ex-wife and her latest beau, I went to the North Woods to clean out my dad’s old cabin. That’s when I met a gorgeous young blonde less than half my age who was convinced I was the object of her starstruck desire. To make matters worse—or better—her equally charming brunette friend insisted I was another conquest altogether.Dodging my own scruples and nag-sessions fr...

Detective Vaughn Riegler is facing his first Christmas since Lydia, his wife of twenty-five years, died in a tragic accident. Zenny Stoughton, a vagrant brought in for assaulting Crazy Mary, a local beggar woman.At the behest of his commanding officer, Vaughn attends a Christmas Eve meeting run by Cal Willis, a counselor who won’t take no for an answer. What Cal has in store is no traditional group session. Vaughn finds himself between dimensions at a reunion of the living and the ...

Kate Hallet has found herself. She’s sassy, full of life and oozing erotic desire. She’s also the newest member of a sisterhood predicated on worshiping the wonders of feminine mysticism.When she gives her estranged husband Tom a chance to join her new life, she finds he too has changed in the short time they were apart, becoming a co-conspirator in a deadly and dangerous experiment, using her as a subject without her knowledge.With the help of her best friend and truly uns...

Kristi Chandler comes of age, leaving her adoptive family in search of her birthmother. Ignoring Brett Harper, who recognized her by the beauty of her inherited offset gaze, Kristi finds her identity accidentally after the horrific murder of her best friend.Suddenly thrust into the role of heiress to a fortune, Kristi learns her mother was far more than a beautiful socialite. She was the lead sister—the Ailla of Club Etienne, a well-networked organization of those who share in the ...

In high school, Faith Wyatt was the envy of every girl in town. Reticent, broken and defeated a decade later, she returns to her hometown to confront the specters of days past.Faith’s journey to redemption is announced by a flight attendant when a mysterious traveler offers his first-class seat. It continues in prophesy by an enchanting, almost blind young pledge to Club Etienne named Trinity.Juxtapositions pave the path to Faith’s salvation as Trinity’s foresight leads her...

Madeline Elizabeth Leeds is the genius behind Madeline’s Moods—a line of ladies’ intimate apparel known worldwide for comfort, elegance and price. She built an empire by getting her way, but her tough-as-nails façade gets her nowhere in love, or even satisfaction.When her eccentric sister asks her to visit, Madeline insists her supposedly unadventurous assistant Jill Caswell join her. But Jill is not the meek, mousey girl she appears to be. In fact, she makes Madeline downright jea...

X-ray technologist and College Instructor Meredith “Merry” Ainslie is fast approaching middle age and learning that her passions are not well-served by good decision making. While she struggles to save an already doomed marriage, a series of chance encounters foretell profound changes taking place around and within her. Men are becoming infatuated with her, and she’s inclined to believe something she was told long ago—she may be one of the Goddess Aphrodite’s chosen daughters.Merry...