The Colton agency is fighting for survival, chasing a lucrative women’s-wear account that could keep the doors open. But the real battle is inside the firm—where desire, jealousy, and ambition burn hotter than any sales pitch.
John Sidney Grahame is a quiet woodsman with a hunter’s instincts, a painter’s eye, and a dangerous sense of justice. One violent night pulls him out of the shadows and into the secrets that Taretown tries to keep buried.
Wanda Lane agrees to take a job in a brothel on Green Street because she thinks it will save her marriage. It doesn’t.
Ronald Summerville retreats to rural Mississippi to forget a war that broke him and a woman who betrayed him. Instead, he meets Ferris Macklin—young, stunning, and starved for affection in a house where tenderness is forbidden. Her innocence is mixed with a disarming boldness, her curiosity with a hunger she barely understands. From the moment Ronald sees her, desire becomes impossible to ignore.
"Shameless Honeymoon" is a brisk, emotionally sharp story of desire, bad decisions, and the moment a young woman stops letting other people steer her life.
Kate wants out—out of her parents’ beatings, out of Newark, out of the gray grind of her teenage life. But freedom comes at a price. Lured by a sleazy truck driver with promises of glamour, she winds up in a rundown motel north of New York—and in the middle of a blackmail and baby-selling racket run by the sinister Mrs. Wembley.