Friday, August 15, 1986, Miami, Florida. Emily Calder, AKA K.C. Harrow, best-selling author of the novel After Massaqua Falls, collected her leather suitcase from the carousel. As Emily stepped into Miami International, she left K.C. Harrow behind on a forty-city tour. Twenty weeks that had worn K.C. to the core. Now Emily was tired. She was ready to recharge, needing space from the pressures of being K.C. Harrow. On her...

Business was slow at Howie’s Music. A couple of sixteen-year-old girls, out way too late, were popping bubblegum and looking at the top forty offers. Claire was already sick to death of Duran Duran’s new single A View to a Kill. Having heard enough, Claire dropped the needle on her current favorite track. The distinctive sound of a Yamaha synth cranked up the opening of Just Another Day. The girls left at the change of mu...

Nikki wiped her hands on her shorts, taking a deep breath to calm her nerves. She had stared at the restaurant for 10 minutes. Amanda was in there. Could she really go in? Would they get along as well as they did online? Would reality destroy everything? Inside, Amanda sat, moving her beer in a lazy circle. She glanced up just as Nikki entered. Her breath caught. Nikki’s hair was back to red, short, curled along the jaw o...