From a struggling young artist in Paris, France (1875) the impressionist era to a murder committed in Manhattan in the present day. From the roaring 20s Prohibition era to sex in the afternoon in New Orleans; from the making of a would-be starlet in 1941 to an African Safari; from a current New Orleans Brothel to a young boy in London 1877 and the Industrial Revolution; from a neurosurgeon's bitter divorce in Newport, Rhode Island to a winter saga of a photojournalist in Nebraska and a little Cafe' in Marathon Key, Florida that holds a deep, dark secret and everything in between, this book is a "must-read" for all. These 25 stories are all packed with sex, infidelity, deceit, secrecy, sorrow, lust, misery, shock, grief, passion and violence! There are many astonishing surprises from beginning to end. Although most of the stories are a figment of the author's imagination, could she also have incorporated some situations taken from her own life? The reader will need to decide for themselves!