A MAN SEEKING REDEMPTION: Upon learning shy Helen Ableman is pregnant with his child, college-bound jock Ben Smiley takes a soul-searching drive that lands him in the middle of a gunfight between drug lords. As the only reliable witness, he enters the FBI’s Federal Protection Program. Assuming a new identity, Ben pretends Helen and his child never existed. He becomes a successful attorney, yet shame eats at him. Eighteen years after the fact, he risks everything to go home and make things right.

A SINGLE MOM TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET: Abandoned by Ben and disowned by her family, Helen drops out of high school to work at Hot Diggitys, the town’s iconic hotdog-shaped restaurant on the Nalley boardwalk. Struggling but feisty, Helen eventually becomes the upscale, hotdog eatery’s owner. With her son on the brink of manhood, she urges him to go to college. But he refuses to use her meager savings for himself. When Ben reappears from nowhere, and is wealthy and connected, Helen and Theo are faced with choices they’d never imagined.

Suburban and lily-white, Charlotte is a breast-cancer survivor who has written off her sexuality. When an accident brings her face-to-face with her Raymond, her younger, ex-con, black neighbor, Charlotte must confront her feelings of desire.

Together the unlikely pair embark on an erotic journey that will change their lives forever.

With a string of vandalism plaguing the zoo, zookeeper Stephanie Cavanah has her hands full. In line for a promotion, Stephanie is shocked when the job goes to David Westcott, a sexy, smart Conservation Biologist who has friends in high places.

As the attacks on the zoo grow worse, Stephanie and David are forced to work together. It would help their investigation if he didn't have mysterious black outs.

Struggling to keep his super-natural mind from over powering others, David does his best to keep the staff and the animals safe.