When Mark first pedaled into Kathryn’s life she considered him her big brother’s friend. But then things changed. She started to like him … a lot. His handsome face occupied her mind all the time. She was desperate to make him see her as more t...
Beth was new in town, and Ted was the totally gorgeous track star in a small high school whee everybody knew everybody. Except Beth. And every time Ted smiled, Beth had to keep herself from floating away. That was true love, all right. But there w...
For Charlie, the cold, dark basement is home. Father has kept him locked in there as punishment. Charlie doesn’t intend to leave, but when he is accidentally thrust outside, he awakens to the alien surroundings of a world to which he’s never befo...
It is prior to WW11 and Dorothy unexpectedly meets a young man, called Harry, at the local dance hall. They are instantly attracted and ultimately marry. After the outbreak of war Harry joins the RAF but sadly he is killed in action. Dorothy receives...
Suzie is a dark-eyed twelve-year-old who desperately needs to feel safe and worthy of love. Seeking only to be "good enough," she remains motionless and silent for hours on end, feeling the walls of her psychological prison pressing against her. Ulti...
Family life, for Emily and her mother, means being in the thrall of her domineering father. She is forced to marry a student friend, Howard, but he is too much like her father and the marriage is a disaster. Then she discovers a grandmother, and that...
Fourteen-year-old Joey Campbell knows that he is lucky to be one of the survivors of the school fire. But really, how much luck is involved when he is the lone student to stand up during a fire drill? The only one who insists on getting out of the cl...
On her way home one evening, Liza has to force her way through a group of men in a train underpass. She doesn't think anything of it, but when her mom is shot dead moments later, Liza's world turns upside down. Even worse, Liza was really the target....
Laura, a teenager in the 1960's, thought she knew it all in the permissive society. Married very young, she is soon disillusioned. She has 3 children in quick succession and an abusive marriage. She develops a passion for material possessions beli...
Edith hears her young man has died fighting at the front after their last quarrelsome meeting when she refuses his advances to make love. During her grief she meets Alfred, a passionate man; she's soon pregnant yet unwed. Though a kind man money runs...