In divided Cold War Europe, a West Berlin-based American journalist and a dissident Czech translator risk everything to communicate across the Iron Curtain. As secret corridors open and collapse, their emerging love collides with surveillance, betrayal, and state power. When a daring escape fails, they must decide: retreat to safety — or defy the system tightening around them.
When a magnetic startup founder and a powerful corporate negotiator collide, their quiet entanglement becomes a study in contrast - power and play, dominance and devotion, chaos and control.
A story in the Lesbian Romances Universe
In a quiet library scented with aged paper and cedar, Susan closes an ancient romance novel, tears in her eyes, only to meet Catherine’s gaze—the librarian who has silently loved her for months. Confessions spill out, leading to a night of raw, tear-streaked passion upstairs. Tender touches, whispered “I love you”s, and shattering climaxes bind them. By morning, two lonely hearts have found home in each other, their story forever written between the pages.
A Jack Pierce Chronicles Story The continuing chronicles of Jack Pierce. Autumn of 1982. The chronicles, in order are: 1. Feasting with a Silver Spoon 2. Summertime and the Livin' is Easy 3. Something Fishy Going On 4. Centerfield 5. Tourist Season 6. Lean on Me They are progressive and not meant to be stand-alone stories.
A Jack Pierce Chronicles Story This story follows immediately after "Something Fishy Going On" and begins with the Spring semester at Porter-Gaud. Olivia Newton John's "Physical" had been on the charts for 18 weeks straight and Hank Aaron was being inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Swimming season was over and baseball season was about to begin.
The yoshi-engumi system allows merchant wealth to buy samurai status—through daughters. Mio is adopted, transformed, married off, and forbidden from ever seeing her birth parents again. One mistake exposing her origins destroys everything. So she performs perfection while secretly wielding the skills that make her valuable: negotiation, strategy, steel. When her new mother-in-law attacks and bandits strike, Mio proves merchant daughters make the most dangerous samurai wives.
A Middletown story
Do people deserve a second chance? Can a girl's mistake be forgiven when it broke her father’s heart? This is a story about second chances and redemption. “This daughter of mine was dead, but has now come back to life.”