I was twenty-five, single, and just starting my career when my friend and coworker Jim talked me into coaching his daughter's soccer team. It was an all-star team of high school aged girls who all wanted to play soccer in college. Just me and seventeen outstanding, highly motivated young athletes - what could possibly go wrong? / (Reviews)
Frank Armitage lost his wife to cancer some months ago and his family, especially his elder daughter Caroline, have anxiously been waiting for him to get over the worst of his grief. Caroline, her sister Abby and her daughter Mandy start work to bring new life and vigour into Frank's life.
A Story in The Competition Universe
This story closes Lordshipmayhem's Competition universe. Rebecca and the other students of St. Dunstans's are in their final year of High School. Some will go on to further education, others join the work-force and still others leave town altogether. All of them, however, have been forever changed by that first experience of forced nudity when Diane York imposed nude co-ed swims on the St. Dunstan Swim Team.
Cathy Wilford spent time with Mom and Dad as they faded into old age. They'd taken her in as an orphan and made her a part of the family and almost an "Aunt" to their son Clay. But the accident shattered everything; that moment of unthinking joy riding. She was left with a spinal injury and the prospect of not walking again. But Clay had specialized, through the service, in physical growth and rehab. He took her on as a patient, then as a lover and finally as his wife.