I didn't pay all that much attention to Holly Blake when we were growing up. She was a tomboyish skinny kid that crossed paths with me from time to time but we had nothing in common other than the neighborhood where we lived just outside of Columbia, South Carolina. Everyone knew that her father had died when she was very young and that her mother had never...
Chapter 1. The Emptiness Inside Sally the receptionist/nurse stuck her head round the door and said, "That was the last, Prue." Prudence cleaned down the examination table then washed her hands. A dog with "The Itch," a cat with an aching tooth, a snake that wouldn't eat and a budgerigar in its cage but already dead; that had been the evening's work. She w...
For those who either never took, or saw little value in Geography, Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere - the Antipodes - (i.e. is on the opposite side of the globe to; Canada, Europe, USA, etc.) - and so its seasons are the opposite of those in the Northern Hemisphere. Thus, Christmas falls not in winter, but in summer, and it's hot - in the outback of f...
I checked my watch. I had been waiting for her for almost 20 minutes. I smirked and chuckled to myself. No, I've been waiting longer. I was leaning up against the railing overlooking the square. The air was crisp and cool. It felt good to inhale it deep into my lungs. It had been a mild winter so far. They were only able to open the square's outdoor skating...
Vic's POVAlexandria Safe House As soon as I walked in the door, I smelled sex in the air. I was furious. I knew what instructions Greg received when Beta Coral sent him to protect Heather. Yes, they were pretending to be "Mr. and Mrs. Greg Barks" since that made it more difficult to locate her, but Coral had been specific. "Don't let your proximity lead to...
The Teammates Once upon a time in Maine... As soon as her Econ 101 class was dismissed, Jennifer Faulkner bounded out of her seat, rushed down the hall, took the stairs in leaps, bolted out the door and ran as fast as she could across campus. The team roster had been posted since nine o'clock, but she didn't want to skip class so early in her first semes...
It was a terrible scandal and the talk of their little suburban town. The mayor's wife, a ravishing beauty fifteen years younger than he, had been having a torrid love affair with the handsome, married police chief of an adjacent town for the past five years. The news had just broken into the open, and the tabloid press and social media were awash with lurid...
Bianhua The birth of a rose in bloom Part 4 It had been well after midnight before Alana's parents had allowed me to go home to my place. Each of them had asked a lot of questions to us as a couple. Alana and I politely danced around them by not revealing too much. Not because we did not want them to know everything, but because for now, the timing was...
[Earlier chapters will give you the full SP on the characters in this chapter; Susan first appeared in Entertaining at Home. Thanks again for the comments, suggestions and support which are both welcomed and appreciated.] * A date with someone who previously I had only known as a nude model in a magazine but who had since tripled their body weight, was not...
It started out as a private New Years party at the beachside resort Villa Del Sol involving employees of Artists Unlimited as well as big shots from an important client, Pepsi-Cola. But it had morphed into a scandal that involved high ranking members of Congress and the Senate who also happened to be there, but for different reasons. It wasn't the first scan...