STEPHANIE DANIELS, 28, journalist, asks only for a home, a job, a little fun once in awhile, and someone who truly loves her. Her insensitive boyfriend, Billy, does not. Lately, women have been on her mind, a lot she finally comes to realize. Her editor sends her to the SD Black Hills, where a large number of women have disappeared. Rumor has a lesbian sex slave camp hidden in the forest. After two months, she has no good leads. She's becoming discouraged when future lover Megan appears. Stephanie soon finds herself wondering whether her job still awaits her, as well as being responsible for two pregnant women.
SHEA MCTORY, 31, is way down on his luck. His photography career has fallen to the party scene. For a few years he's been on the street, scratching a living. He gets more than he bargains for when he answers the ad: VOLUNTEERS WANTED, FREE FOOD, PAY . All he wanted was a roof over his head, to earn some money, maybe get some good food. But the food is not tasty. He's locked up with an adolescent-minded ex-sailor and a psychopath. He stumbles across secret, illegal and dangerous research; meets NATALIE, the love of his life. Frustrations build, tempers flare, as love affairs, friendships, and hatreds, develop.
In 2019 many more nations than the superpowers have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them anywhere on Earth. Kirby Yates, 40, ex-Army, has a good job keeping the grounds at the under-construction Energy House Museum at Hammett's Mill, ND, population 240. The town sees only the economic windfall. Kirby suspects that the huge excavation is actually a future bomb shelter. His girlfriend, LISA, is a peace activist. She becomes the museum's curator without knowledge of its true purpose; conflict of interest would cost her her job. When the building of the bomb shelter is confirmed, Kirby also gets charge of defense.
Four years ago, Drago gave up a successful career as an investment banker to publish a chain of small community newspapers in and around the city of Boston. It was the first big active change of his adult life, but there was to be a bigger transition on the horizon. Now turning 40 and finding it impossible to live as part of the yuppie lifestyle that his money granted him access to, Drago becomes disillusioned with himself and the world around him, and opts for a radical change. It's at that moment that he makes the conscious decision to move himself and his Ferrari to the 'hood, selling his posh condo and renting a condemned crack house, which he now calls home. It's there that Drago meets and interacts with a variety of wild, over the top characters, and where he'll ultimately find the one thing that has eluded him his entire life: True love. The Author's email is bermudashorts8661@yahoo.com
