What would you do to protect yourself and the ones you love? Me? I'll shoot you and your wife to stay alive...wait, I've already done that, the Marines gave me a medal. This is another couple of stories about surviving.
In a small Rocky Mountain town, Allen wakes to flames in his bedroom window. Cedar Grove has a brand new 1954-model Fire Truck, but fire destroys his neighbor Kitty's home and business. She's fled to his back door in a flimsy nightgown soaked with icy slush. Within an hour, she's dry, naked, and sharing his bed for, ah, warmth. A romantic story with frequent sex, danger, some military history, and even a surprise pregnancy.
"She felt an arm seize her... Alison knew she was going to die, choked to death as he raped her." It's 1978 and Alison wants to travel, finding good and bad in the world.
Kevin Jones, a new detective, has been assigned to watch over a potential witness to a big case. But when he meets the witness he's to look after, his job takes on a whole new meaning!