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Bill Clark, editor and publisher of the Copper City Chronicles, reluctantly volunteered to sponsor two high school students for a "Day on the Job." A decision he regretted, especially when he discovered one of the students was Eric Carvin, with whom he had not had a good experience with in the past. However, he soon found himself warming to the boy, especially when he introduces him to the local sheriff and begins pursuing a story about a murdered prostitute. Bill encourages a routine story, but young Eric doesn't want to let it go at that. Using less than good judgement, Eric pulls a stunt...

Life is idyllic at the Fifth Sun nudist resort, but the owners become restless and want to take on a new challenge. They decide to incorporate the resort into the first clothing optional town in the United States. The county throws up a roadblock, so co-owner Bill Clark seeks the help of his friend and ex-lover Emily Peterson who is an attorney in Austin. Meanwhile, Eric Carvin, who married Madison Porter, the primary owner of Fifth Sun, discovers his half sister Alicia Martin, who he had banished from the resort, attempted to sneak a drone onto the property. Eric discovers that Alicia is ...

Bob Hellman and his wife decide to take new jobs in the town where their vacation lake house is located. They sell their home and move, but only after inviting Bob's recently divorced brother to come along. Unfortunately, Bob's brother hooks up with his wife's sister, and she ends up at the lake house, too. At first, the adjustment isn't too bad. Lots of lake fun that includes swimming, fishing, drinking, and even a little bit of skinny dipping with the attractive neighbors. One of the neighbors is Jessica, who will be a future colleague, but declares herself a low-budget nudist who ...

Eric Carvin is caught off guard by his father resigning as a pastor and moving the family from Texas to Southwest New Mexico. Eric is not too happy about having to move during the summer before his senior year, but his mother is even more upset. Eric discovers there is a lot of history between his father and his Aunt Penny, his mother's sister. It is all connected to his aunt's next door neighbors, the Martin family. Eric gets immediately smitten by the beguiling Alicia Martin, who loves pranks and getting into trouble. One prank gets out of hand to the point of Eric risking his life and ...

Jeremy Tarkington had successfully advanced from his crummy case manager's job to a slightly less crummy job of training other case managers. It wasn't great, but it meant better pay and less hours, which might afford him an actual social life. He had developed a crush on a woman at his gym, but before he could act upon it, she became one of his trainees. Despite the trouble he would get in with Human Resources, he managed to find himself dating the woman, and bedding her. Then she disappeared. Jeremy soon finds himself involved with another woman who also disappears. The deception from ...

Bill Clark, a small town newspaper publisher, recalls a childhood memory of a young nude girl collapsing on his family's front porch in South Texas. His wife encourages him to go back to his home town to research the story in order to find out what happened to his estranged mother, whom Bill believed to be dead. He solicits the help of a beguiling blonde who is also a small town newspaper publisher. This leads him to uncover other events including, government corruption, kidnapping, and even murder. Everything leads back to a ranch that becomes a church that is turned into a cult, but ...

Twenty years after Bill and Valerie Clark sell their newspaper, the new owner dies in prison and leaves the paper to his daughter. It doesn't go well for her until a high school English teacher takes over. Before that happens the teacher gets fired, accused of murder, and hooks up with a beautiful FBI agent. The newspaper job provides him with some stability and possible reconciliation with his first true love, but only if escapes the threats from his former principal, U.S. Marshals, the local police, and a rich organized crime boss. It doesn't help that his ex-wife shows up.. All this ...