25 exciting short stories. Sexual content, infidelity, secrecy, sorrow, lust, shock, misery, passion and violence. Stories take place in Paris, France 1875, the Impressionist era and murder in Manhattan; (the present day). In the 1920s Prohibition era and in a New Orleans Brothel and a small boy's dilemma in London 1877, the industrial revolution. A neurosurgeon's bitter divorce in Newport, Rhode Island. The winter saga of a photojournalist in Nebraska and a little Cafe' in Marathon Key, Florida that holds a deep, dark secret. The adventures of a would-be starlet in 1941 Manhattan and an African Safari in search of an unusual pet.