After years of slowly working her way up the ladder, Emily Desjardins is finally poised at the next step?cooking at the kind of restaurant she’d love to one day own.Her new boss is classically trained
Trying to figure out the rules of her first lesbian relationship is a difficult task for Callie Emerson. She and her lover worked long and hard on coming up with a set of rules that both of them coul
Timing is critical in so many of the events that make up our lives. Your dismal scores on the SAT forced you to attend your safety school, but you met the people who formed the peer group that has lov
Opening a new theme park is not for kids. Laurie Nielsen is so overworked and overstressed that she's forced to take a vacation?on one of her companies' kid-centric cruise ships. It's a slow torture,
Change, seismic and universal, infused the country. From San Francisco to Washington, every disenfranchised or marginalized group had simultaneously reached the boiling point. The Viet Nam war was esc
Imagine five days in early March vacationing in Maine’s pristine wilderness. Snow-shoeing, cross-country skiing, even some ice-fishing, all spent in surprisingly pleasant temperate conditions.Now re-i
Cody Keaton truly believes that money doesn't buy happiness. She believes this so strongly that when she hits big in the lottery she considers throwing the ticket away. Once she talks herself off that
Molly Bradley has had a hell of a bad year, but she’s doing everything possible to keep herself from going off the rails.When she joins a new book club, she finds herself using every spare minute to p
It’s easy, not to mention tempting, to blithely commit some serious errors in judgment when you’re young. Most of them become distant memories as the years tick by. But every once in a while a youthfu
Most adult women can manage to wake up on time for work. It turns out that Brooklyn York is extraordinary. Yes, she has to be at work at 6 am, still?when you have to pay a perfect stranger very good m
They say there’s no going back, but Jill Henry gives it a try when she’s invited to a once close friend’s birthday party.The Davises were her family of choice, helping her flourish despite her emotion
Piper Campbell has spent the last fifteen years of her life raising her younger sister. Charlie is now an adult—and on the brink of stardom. This isn’t the life Piper would have chosen for her, but sh
Sometimes you just have to get away.Even the best job can slowly drain your battery. When Gillian Lindsay realizes it’s time for a recharge, she impetuously decides to visit Scotland.Knowing nothing a
Aldo Bagnolesi finally has what he's long wanted. Control of the family winery in Tuscany. The only little detail is that someone has to manage the place for a few years. He's far too involved in his
High school reunions. Nearly everyone is mildly curious about their classmates' fortunes, but for some, the promise of soothing past hurts proves irresistible. Living in her native England, Jemma had
In Washington, DC, a town hungry for gossip, it’s political blogger Kit Travis’s job to feed the beast.A failed relationship with a high-profile politician taught Kit the beast has claws. For self-pre
Plan ahead, work hard, play by the rules, and you’ll be justly rewarded. The maxims that had been drummed into Darcy Morgan were the backbone of her orderly life.But as she stumbled down the streets o
