Rin Hoshigumo
The Books
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On the shortest night of the year, Claudia, a beautiful, self-sufficient woman, is unexpectedly dumped by the Julian, love of her life. As she begins to pick up the pieces of her life, an unexpected guest arrives on her doorstep: Gus, Julian's nephew. Gus has come to visit Julian in the house that he shared with Claudia, but Julian appears to have done a runner, so the two are left with each other in his absence.
As the summer progresses, things come to light which cast a shadow over not only the relationship which Claudia and Julian had, but also the one that is burgeoning between Claudia and Gus.
Fourteen-year-old Sarah's world is turned upside down when gorgeous
seventeen-year-old Stee shows up outside her house and turns out to be
her mother's boyfriend, because he's the only man in the whole world whom Sarah really wants. However, Sarah is a practical young woman and realizes the futility of wanting what she can't have. So she finds herself a man whom she doesn't really want, but who can satisfy her sexual desires.
Unfortumately, things end badly with her first boyfriend, and it puts her on a path that will alter the course of her whole life.
Fifteen-year-old Mik lives in the small town of Umberton with her adoptive mother, Illayne, and Illayne's four-year-old son Lucas. Mik has vague plans of working and travelling with her best friend Mike after they have finished school, but everything changes when Mik returns from a school trip to find a strange man wearing Illayne's dressing gown in her home.
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Luke turns out to be Illayne's estranged husband, whom Mik thought was gone for good, and Mik is initially not pleased that she might have to adjust to a new addition to her family. However, Luke returned to end things, not make a fresh start, and in addition to everything that he is, he is also a sexual predator.
Clare Petrarch, a wealthy heiress and resident of the peaceful Sector 12 on the beautiful planet Elyzium, is found brutally murdered in her own home. Ordinarily, a crime such as this would be handled by the sector's authorities. However, the Olympian Federation has an interest in the matter and has assigned Seraphina, a highly skilled telepath from an elite line of clones, to track the murderer down.