Back to the Garden (Revised)

Discover the delicious lure of a taboo siren call with four stories bundled into a wickedly hot anthology that’s determined to keep it all in the family! When Patrick’s father went off to war in 1944, he told his eighteen-year-old son, you’re the “Man of the House” now. Patrick’s father’s wife has struggled to keep them afloat, and he does what he can to help. He knows she’s tired, sad and very lonely, but when circumstance brings a young woman into their lives for a brief time, it alters everything between he and his father’s wife forever. Will Patrick become the real “man of the house” before his father returns from the war? In “Garden of Eden,” Libby has lived her whole life with Ed, the man who raised her, in a nudist colony. It’s a very open, natural life, and they’ve never had an issue–until Kim, Ed’s ex-wife, re-enters their lives. Kim is appalled by their living and sleeping arrangements and wants to take Libby away from the nudist life. Libby, still devastated by her Kim’s abandonment, wants to have nothing to do with the shopping trips and material things Kim is offering, but the longer Kim stays, the more everything–absolutely everything–becomes a greater temptation. In “Lassoing the Moon,” Leila knows she’s always been closer to her ex-husband’s son, Rich, than most mothers, since Rich’s dad left when he was just a baby. He’s been the man in her life forever–but now he’s really a man, and his coming-of-age is a test for both of them. In “Lost Souls,” Lily, raised by fundamentalist preacher, Adam, isn’t allowed to date or do anything against church “law.” Asked to the Halloween dance by a boy she really likes, Lily defies Adam. But when they are caught in a compromising position by Adam, what will her punishment and repentance be?