It's 1958 and 17-year-old Alice Chorley's career aspirations are in tatters. She takes a mindless office job where she is drawn into - and colludes with - the mad fantasy world of senior secretary Pearl Taylor. Their 'Game' is played out in counterpoint to Alice's more normal (though unsatisfactory) relationship with her boyfriend, Jack. The fantasies escalate and the tension mounts, leading to an explosive confrontation, a startling revelation and, ultimately, a different life for Alice. -The Game was accomplished with absolutely no physical touching on our part, ever. It would not have made...

"I had a horrible stepfather and he was the reason I ran away from home and ended up with a man I thought could be my father. The only trouble was, it wasn't a daughter he was looking for." After Dad, a coming-of-age tale with a difference, is the story of Ariel's emergence into the world after spending two years as the often-willing abductee of Will, a man who stopped at nothing to fulfill his obsessive fantasy. It is the story of her emotional healing and re-entry into normal life as she absorbs and comes to terms with all that had happened in those two years. Now living with her birth...

10-year-old Jessie Pike sets off to find her father, leaving an uncaring mother and abusive stepfather. She is picked up by Will, a man who will stop at nothing to fulfill a specific fantasy. Will's dream requires Jessie to become someone else, but to what extent is it possible to brainwash a child? And could Jessie's search for a father coincide with Will's fantasy? This novel raises fundamental questions about the adult-child relationship, which will linger in your mind long after you've read the final page. Margaret Pitz has written a unlikely love story - a chilling and challenging read.