It's the early 1970's in Woodstock - four years after the famous Music and Arts Festival of 1969. Jill and Gary, a suburbanite couple, are seeking to invigorate a marriage filled with disillusionment. Enticed by a Village Voice newspaper ad that promises them an 'extraordinary' experience, they visit the Del Prado hotel in Woodstock. The hotel is known for its alternative philosophy and lifestyle, providing a supportive space for experimentation with new lifestyles and practices - in a setting that affords privacy from the outside world. This experimentation includes open sex and drugs as part of the search for self-actualization and fulfillment. As Jill and Gary begin their journey of exploration the tension in their marriage surfaces. Gary is threatened by Jill's new openness while at the same time becoming seduced himself by the sex and drugs. Now unsure of himself, he becomes involved in a shady drug deal with someone he has just met at the hotel. He heads to New York City with this virtual stranger, leaving Jill to fend for herself in this new environment.

Dakota Wilson - Fell in love with a smooth talking fine chocolate brother, who was about his money. After being with him Dakota realized that her smooth talking chocolate man was a drug addict. Dakota finds herself doing things for this man that she would not normally do. Karol Downey - Got married to her first love, first relationship, first everything, Karol loved her husband and stood by his side. They have two children a boy and a girl, they look like the picture prefect family but her husband is beating her on a daily basis and Karol has gotten to the point that she can't take it anymore. Sheka Jackson - She is an albino and very tall, all her life Sheka has had it hard. The kids would talk about her and the adults were just as bad, then Sheka met a beautiful man inside and out. He was fine a knock out and he wanted Sheka; she couldn't believe it until they started dating. Then as usual something went wrong and Sheka was left alone. Neecy Parker - Everybody calls her Kool-Aid, she is cool with everyone in the little part of Hawthorne she live in. Kool-Aid like what she like, when she likes it. Sometimes she like women and sometime she like men. Kool-Aid has a serious decision to make, she thinks she is in love with one person but then another person comes into her life. She does not know how to handle this Mind Blowin Decision.

Demarcus: His quick wit could land him an advertising position anywhere, but eluded him the moment his nostrils caught the scent of lust. Will he straighten out his life or throw it all away? Charles: A damn fool when it comes to women. His motto was every woman was B**** needing to be blessed with his presence and escorted afterwards, to the door by his pitbull Mocha. Will he meet his match? Rhonda: A beautiful woman with more passion than she knows what to do with it. Always itching to be scratched. How will she find her relief? Sonya: A woman that's better left alone. She don't mind going to war for a cause... her cause. Piss her off and you'll end up losing everything you got. Who can tame her wildness?

we all have a story to tell or a poem inside of us that is dying to come out, but for some unknown reason we keep it buried deep inside of us...whether the story or poem is fictional or non-fictional and how badly we would like to tell it to someone, we just don't...LYFE IS a poetry book that talks about what a lot of people may think, but never verbalize to anyone...it covers an array of human feelings and emotions from sin to sanctification, which we all often times struggle with...this is a poetry book where you can just let your mind run free to wander while having an enjoyable time reading it....it may even make you think about some things that has never crossed your mind or enhance a relationship with someone...it could even open up a conversation by just reading the front cover...after all, LYFE consist of many feelings which are contained in this poetry book. so, please relax and enjoy and let your imagination loose on some poems, while others could provoke deep thought and reflection...just put yourself in the place of the poet as if you wrote most or all the poems contain therein...also, you might ask yourself, are these poems based on a true story or a story that exist only in the mind...if you feel the need to laugh or cry or simply say oh my, don't suppress it...that's part of LYFE...

Eric McKade's world crashed the night he broke Stacy's heart when her sister announced she was pregnant with his child. Now, thirteen years later, he must hide his daughter from the faceless stranger who wants to trade her life in for payment of his dead ex-wife's debt. What he didn't expect was to come face to face with Stacy since the night he broke her heart. Somehow, he must learn to accept that Stacy will never forgive him for his night of betrayal, nor can he forget the passion that still remains between them every time he comes near her.

When Stacy first saw Eric, she wanted to kill him? She never forgave him for his night of betrayal nor could she ignore her niece who hated everything about her thanks to the lies told by her sister. She couldn't allow herself to forget what he had done, nor could she forget how her heart melted when he held her in his arms, and how good it felt to be kissed by him. Could she stay tough, even when she learned the truth of what really happened the night that destroyed everything Stacy ever wanted.

Love Notes is a wonderful journal of passion conveyed in texts and emails sent by two lovers crazy about each other. One, a free spirit. The other, soon to be divorced after a miserable 20-year marriage. The two, hungry for each other and the fresh yet rekindled love of their past.

Even though two years have passed since the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dan Jagger is still fraught with grief over the loss of his wife who was killed in the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. Dan buries himself in work, family, and gardening while facing the harsh reality that he may never again experience another love like Alia.

One day Dan receives a phone call from Darlene, his high school sweetheart, whom he hasn't heard from since she broke his heart and sent him into the arms of Alia. Against his better judgment, Dan agrees to meet his former lover for dinner and soon learns that Darlene has lived a sordid life-twice married to a drug dealer and incarcerated herself. Despite all he has learned, Dan becomes involved with Darlene once again, setting in motion a course of events that leaves him vulnerable to danger. As he is unwillingly drawn into life-threatening scenarios executed by Darlene's former husband, an ex-convict focused on revenge, Dan receives the shocking news that his only son, an Army Reservist, has gone missing in Iraq.

As fear, unease, and peril surround Dan, he must act decisively before he loses everything he has ever loved.

In this dramatic rendering, in this fictional portrayal of three central characters lives, we perhaps catch a glimpse, a glimmer of something which conveys the timelessness of truth. At once striking in the intensity of its sweep, illuminated are the supposed oppositions of victim and victimizer alike. One cannot help but observe the aesthetic connotations of the painted canvas versus a virtually textual one as their coupling and separation is explored concurrently within the very fabric of the narrative structure. The tension rendered is at once religious, yet pagan; prosaic, yet poetic; magical yet realistic as this melding of contradiction takes place.

There is hardly one of us who doesn't harbor a deep inner turn-on-a secret desire that, if catered to, can lead to the most intense erotic experience one could ever hope to imagine. It's simply part of the human condition. What's interesting is we're living in the day and age where achieving the ultimate is becoming a constant preoccupation, and we're being continually bombarded with sounds and images that are very carefully and deliberately designed to feed into this obsession and influence our behavior. For some, this might be disconcerting. For others, totally hilarious. Ultimate Climax was written in response to this phenomenon, and perhaps even serves as a rebellion against it. What is the ultimate climax you ask? Simply put--take one guy with a peculiar proclivity, and one gal who shares his turn-on, and wa la. What do you get? You guessed it. This is a story of youth-of boys and girls coming of age, exploring their sexuality-and coming to terms with life's many challenges. Jim Pendergast is a recent college graduate who, while waiting to find work in his chosen field of endeavor, has now chosen to spend his summer working at one of the Midwest's finest resorts. While there, he may have been hoping to fulfill some of his long lost fantasies. But the fantasy he encounters comes in the form of sexy siren Rhonda Pennington, who immediately shows herself to be more than he would ever have bargained for and quickly throws him for the loop of his life. As this cute little coquette plays him again, and again, the crazy escapades that follow force him to reevaluate everything he's become and lead him to come to terms with what it is that can truly make life meaningful. In the process, he may actually discover who he really is and what it is that composes the true ultimate climax-and just maybe, find real love. Enjoy the ride

How does one survive personal loss--divorce, life-threatening illness, separation from a child, and ultimately, the death of those we love? In "Tides and Tears," the creative and well-educated Shane deals with all of these life issues while struggling to complete a new novel in which his main character suffers physical pain and humiliation at the hands of an abusive woman.

In many ways, Shane is defined by the women who occupy his life: Delilah, his selfish ex-wife; Catherine, his adorable young daughter; Ruth, his well-meaning younger sister; and Neena, his new love. With Neena, Shane begins to make sense of his life.