Bagels and Cream Cheese — Richard Bartlett

Charles is a 54-year-old businessman with offices in Saint Petersburg, Russia and New York. He's the CEO and Owner of Clean Power, inc., a company that drills for and installs Geothermal energy systems. An internal theft of confidential information nearly causes the failure of his company. He is broken emotionally after losing his biological family, and combined with the theft, he's on the verge of a nervous breakdown and suicide.


A 32-year-old driven and successful entrepreneur, Marina, owns Marina's Fashions in chic downtown Saint Petersburg, Russia, next door to Clean Power, Inc. She meets Charles at an office party at Marina's Fashions. They are attracted to each other but after several failed attempts to meet for intimacy, they finally have sex on their third date.


Charles travels to different countries, proposing Geothermal power to private and governmental entities. He meets Marina at romantic getaways as he travels for business. They visit exciting places like the Chichen Itza pyramids in the Yucatan, the Amazon Rainforest, the Caribbean, Egypt, and more. They eat exotic foods indigenous to the cultures they're visiting. He introduces her to Churrasco in the Amazon Rainforest, Mayan food in Chichen Itza, they swim nude in a Cenote. They learn of the medicinal qualities of plants native to the Amazon Rainforest.


Natalia is a beautiful 28-year-old woman who studied to be a nun but decided she wanted to enjoy sex for the first time and to have a family. So she drops her studies to be a nun and goes to nursing school instead.


She is assigned to a remote village in the Urals where CP, Inc. is drilling to install a Geothermal unit. She travels to Saint Petersburg, Russia for a meeting with one of her sponsors and meets Charles in a thunderstorm. They are attracted to each other, and Natalia eventually gives Charles her virginity.