She’s a small town girl with a big city dream, Gemma Solomon leaving her family, her job in her parents’ diner, her aspiring but directionless musician boyfriend Hunter
In the darkness of her bedroom, Majka is searching for answers on her computer, seeking help, her plea responded to by Father Rogala who invites her to talk
Ember Wyley knows who she is, though there are parts of her past which remain in shadow, the identity of her father, the reason her mother relocated them
It’s the midnight initiation ceremony of new pledges Taffy and Lisa to the Tri-Delta sorority, braced for what they expect will be humiliation at the hands of Babs,
It’s a nightmare she has had for years, two children playing cards as she quietly watches them, empty rocking chairs swaying and the clocks ticking forward towards eternity
A grim and thundery sky hangs over the city of Saint Roma’s Village, investigative journalist Mel Ferd waiting for the arrival of his “inside lady” J J Doherty
Money supposedly can’t buy happiness, nor can it necessarily buy health, but it can buy you friends after a fashion; his father having inherited a summer house following
On a bright desert highway, hot, dry wind in their perfect hair, girlfriends Raquel and June are stranded, their electric blue convertible having broken down on their way