Winter Women

When Emma, a young English journalist, is required to babysit in a dark country house on the longest night of the year - the winter solstice, December 21 - she must confront both her fear of the dark and her unresolved grief for her much-loved late great-aunt Sophie. Where will she find the courage she needs to avoid risking an even greater loss?

Friederike, die 1836 in Posen als Tochter jüdischer Eltern geboren wurde und später mit ihren Eltern nach Schlesien übersiedelte, arbeitete als Krankenpflegerin, engagierte sich immer wieder karitativ und verbrachte einen großen Teil ihrer Zeit damit Bittbriefe zu schreiben. Zum Beispiel an Kaiser Wilhelm I., dem sie die Einrichtung von Leichenhäusern vorschlug, damit künftig keine Scheintoten mehr bestattet würden. (Ein Problem, das im 18.und 19. Jh. auch Menschen wie J.W. Goethe oder E. A. Poe sehr erregte).

Mari is having a lot of doubts about her upcoming wedding. It just seems like her fiancé is more interested in partying with his friends, watching sports, and getting drunk every Friday and Saturday night. He’s not any different than before they were engaged, but she kind of thought he’d mellow out as the wedding approaches. One day, when he stands her up for wedding planning, she can’t help herself and breaks down in tears. She can’t help it, even when Daddy arrives. Before she knows it, she can’t help a lot of other things, too.

Paige is tired of feeling like a frumpy, nerdy young girl. She’s tired of being 20 with no experience with men at all. She decides to make a change, and it starts with a very, very sexy Halloween costume. She thinks this Halloween will be the first time anyone will notice her. She’s right, but the man who notices her first is her sexy neighbor, Mr. Raymond. He loves her costume but she loves when he takes it off her! Can her first incredible night of passion lead to more? Is there a sexy forbidden age-gap romance in her future?

She wants to control everyone around her, but this new adult is about to learn her rescuer can’t be controlled. He can most definitely take what he wants from her, and what he wants is all of her!