A Denver Associate Professor is assigned a young female graduate student whom he has previously never met. She is brilliant, extremely wealthy, yet appears emotionally unstable. During the following weeks, the professor unravels a plot of intrigue, finding his student using her vast wealth for purposes of political revenge. Under commitment to his university, and pressured by the girl's own father, he agrees to act as guardian, and accompanies his student to Europe. Once there, however, both are placed at risk due to knowledge surfacing about a large manuscript, one with tentacles reaching...

"The Kissing Law" is the epic struggle of Michael Sheppard as he fights to keep a young girl off the streets in Denver, Colorado. He was mowing his lawn when he first met her. She was tall, thin and had short-cropped, blonde hair. At first he thought she was a boy. "I'm Kim," she said walking toward him. She was wearing a Rockies baseball cap, sort of cockeyed, and had a small glove on her left hand. He stopped mowing and looked at her. "Where do you live, Kim?" "In the big house on the hill. I live mostly in the night," she explained. ..".roaming the streets of Denver." He smiled. "Aren't...