Daphne Matson is a young English professor at Westminster College in Ithaca, New York. As she begins to tutor the young and naive college senior Edward Wharton on a special project, she finds that she has fallen in love with him-and he with her. Westminster is a college where men heavily outnumber women, and out of the goodness of her heart Daphne begins giving lessons to other college boys into the mysteries of female desire. In this beautifully written and richly textured novel, we learn of Daphne's prior relationship with an older man, Howard Ashton; Edward's conflicted relationship with...

Mira Hutton, a young professor at the University of Washington, is at an academic conference in Portland, Oregon. She has an unexpected sexual encounter with a science fiction writer, Daniel Martin, and the affair continues as they both return to their homes in Seattle. Mira is filled with guilt, because she feels that she is happily married to an older man, Alan Hutton, a physician in Seattle, whom she genuinely loves. What will she do if Alan finds out about the affair? And what role does Eileen Sherman, Mira's close friend, play in this tangled situation? This novel vividly portrays the...

Heather Conley gets lost in a rural part of central California and stumbles upon the compound of a man named Jonas. She is astounded to discover that he is none other than Jonas Walters, a famously reclusive writer of grim, searing novels of personal conflict and tragedy. Attracted to him almost in spite of herself, she eventually becomes emotionally and sexually involved with him. Along the way we learn the sad tale of Jonas's first wife, Marie. But just as Heather and Jonas's relationship seems to be flowering, they are confronted with a tense situation regarding Heather's friend Suzanne...

Marcus Washington is an African American who grew up in poverty but excelled at football both in college and in the NFL. He then went on to be an actor for several years and then an acclaimed writer of crime novels. Along the way, he established intimate relationships with three important women in his life: Jane, his college sweetheart, from whom he was estranged for many years; Kate, a bisexual professor; and Jenny, a fresh-faced graduate student who met Marcus when he visited her college. How does Marcus manage to keep these three women satisfied? Find out in this novel full of sex, love,...

Tom and Diana Chambers are deeply and passionately in love after six years of marriage. Now, Diana has found what looks to be her dream job: teaching French at St. Augustine College for Girls, a Catholic college in Providence, R.I. But she quickly discovers that many of the girls are aching to be relieved of her tiresome virginity, and she finds the perfect man for the job-her husband Tom. Along the way, Diana meets Gertie, a middle-aged teacher who has spent many years in a convent but who now finds life in the outside world more . . . stimulating. This rollicking sex romp will engage you,...